If you or I were Anthony Blinken, John Brennan, James Clapper, Peter Strzok, or any of a number of other prominent Democrats, we would be in jail. Lying to Congress, to the FISA court, to federal investigators, or to law enforcement officials generally is tough on your bank account and employment prospects, and in most cases would require us to delay our vacation plans.

If you are a Democrat it generally means better job prospects, a bump in salary, and free trips to Epstein Island.

Blinken’s guilt of perjury is abundantly clear, although, unlike James Clapper’s lies to Congress, they didn’t take place live and in color on national TV. Still, the transcripts are there and the evidence both that he lied and of why he lied is damning.

At issue is testimony Blinken gave before he was confirmed as Secretary of State. In an interview, he was asked about, among other things, his correspondence with Hunter Biden while Blinken was Assistant Secretary of State in the Obama Administration.

The issue was germane, of course, because of Biden’s relationship with Burisma and Blinken’s efforts on behalf of the company in 2015. Blinken assured the Senate that he didn’t even know that Biden was on the Board of Burisma and that he hadn’t communicated with Biden during that time.

Those statements are all false, and in making them he committed perjury. Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley lay out the facts in their letter to Blinken demanding all his records relating to his relationship with Hunter Biden. I linked the letter because at 6 pages quoting it in full would be tedious for both you and me.

Suffice it to say that it makes clear that the case for perjury is pretty open and shut. They have some of the receipts and are demanding the rest of them.

Because your testimony is inaccurate, Congress and the public must rely on your records as the source for information about your dealings with Hunter Biden. As such, you must preserve and provide all records, referring or relating to Hunter Biden, his business dealings, or his family’s business dealings, including but not limited to correspondence sent or received from your personal email accounts and phones, to include those of Ms. Ryan.

These records will help provide the public a complete picture and understanding of the extent of your apparent deceptions. We request you and Ms. Ryan produce these records no later than May 15, 2023.

Blinken, you may have noticed, was just revealed to have been a key player and perhaps the instigator of the letter from 51 intelligence officials that claimed, falsely, that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. He denies that, but given that one of the main authors of the letter has testified that a call from Blinken got the ball rolling, it seems likely that he is lying about this too.

“We’ve caught [Secretary Blinken] in a bold-faced lie.”

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In a just world, Blinken would pay a big price for his lies, but we live in a fallen world. We rely on fallible and venal men to enforce justice, and in this case, justice will not be and could not be done.

Blinken has the second-most desirable job in the United States. I actually know more people who would love to be Secretary of State than President. Almost as much power and much less hassle, and almost as good an income potential.

When James Clapper lied to the Senate about the massive operation to collect data on American citizens–a program that was itself likely illegal–there were no consequences at all. The President defended him, Clapper is a well-paid commentator on TV making bank, and he emerged as a critic of Trump who the media put forward as a truth-teller.

Here is Obama on Clapper’s lie:

Regarding Brennan’s evil deeds, even the Washington Post cared enough to call for him to be fired, but of course, nothing happened and he has gone on to be a prominent media figure whose attacks on Republicans are gleefully repeated by the media.

Brennan’s crimes were even worse than Clapper’s, as laid out by the Post:

In March, at the Council on Foreign Relations, CIA Director John Brennan was asked by NBC’s Andrea Mitchell whether the CIA had illegally accessed Senate Intelligence Committee staff computers “to thwart an investigation by the committee into” the agency’s past interrogation techniques. The accusation had been made earlier that day by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who said the CIA had “violated the separation-of-powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution.” Brennan answered:

As far as the allegations of, you know, CIA hacking into, you know, Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. I mean, we wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s — that’s just beyond the — you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do. {…}

And, you know, when the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.

Now we know that the truth was far different. The Post’s Greg Miller reports:

CIA Director John O. Brennan has apologized to leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee after an agency investigation determined that its employees improperly searched computers used by committee staff to review classified files on interrogations of prisoners. {…} A statement released by the CIA on Tuesday acknowledged that agency employees had searched areas of that computer network that were supposed to be accessible only to committee investigators. Agency employees were attempting to discover how congressional aides had obtained a secret CIA internal report on the interrogation program.

“Some employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached” between the CIA and lawmakers in 2009, when the committee investigation was launched, according to the agency statement, which cited a review by the CIA’s inspector general. The CIA statement was first reported by McClatchy.

That committee’s investigation is said to be sharply critical of the CIA, finding that it exaggerated the effectiveness of harsh interrogation measures and repeatedly misled members of Congress and the executive branch. The findings are expected to be released publicly within weeks.

After briefing committee leaders, Brennan “apologized to them for such actions by CIA officers as described in the [inspector general] report,” the agency statement said. Brennan also ordered the creation of an internal personnel board, led by former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), to review the agency employees’ conduct and determine “potential disciplinary measures.”

The Post’s piece goes on to detail other examples of illegal acts and lies to the Congress and public.

Not a single one of these flagrant violations of the law mattered a bit.

The level of contempt for ordinary Americans and their representatives is stunning. Government officials of all parties do this sort of thing, of course, but the Democrats have made it an open practice because there is never any consequence for it.

In both the case of Brennan and Clapper the lies they told were to Democrats, not Republicans, and still it didn’t matter. In fact, it was profitable.

Blinken’s lies have been similarly profitable, both for Hunter and Joe Biden. In the case of the laptop scandal, Blinken may have secured Joe Biden a term as president, and obviously, this has been very good indeed for the Secretary of State.

Our government is broken. Our elites are corrupt. The few representatives we have who retain integrity are nearly powerless.

We will get the satisfaction of having been proven right, but in the process, we also suffer the insult of it not mattering a damn that we were.