{"id":72900,"date":"2019-12-26T08:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72900"},"modified":"2019-12-26T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T14:34:02","slug":"let-bergs-seventh-law-be-your-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72900","title":{"rendered":"Let Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law Be Your Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To jog the memory &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70364\">Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law<\/a> reads &#8220;When a Liberal \/ &#8220;Progressive&#8221; issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; if the Democrats accuse any Republican, especially Trump, of some sort of miscreancy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can count on it being a noise-screen to cover up their own perfidy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/05\/02\/new-york-times-admits-multiple-spies-deployed-against-trump-campaign\/#.XfK-rNucHBs.twitter\">it never really fails<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Following months of angry claims by journalists and Democratic operatives that the Obama administration never spied on Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/politics\/fbi-government-investigator-trump.html#click=https:\/\/t.co\/oHqt5LAdVs\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times admitted<\/a>\u00a0Thursday that multiple overseas intelligence assets were deployed against associates of the Republican nominee. It is not the first time the Times has revealed widespread spying operations against the campaign.<br>In addition to noting that long-time informant Stefan Halper was tasked with collecting intelligence on the Trump campaign, the Times story details how a woman was sent overseas under a fake name and occupation to oversee the spy operation. The woman\u2019s real name is not mentioned in the article, though the Times says she went by \u201cAzra Turk\u201d and has a relationship with an unidentified federal intelligence agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is going to go on a looong time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless the Democrats sweep the White House and Congress in 2020, in which case it&#8217;s going to disappear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To jog the memory &#8211; Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law reads &#8220;When a Liberal \/ &#8220;Progressive&#8221; issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds.&#8221; So &#8211; if the Democrats accuse any Republican, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-72900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72901,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72900\/revisions\/72901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}