What's at the core of this is an effort by some in the intelligence community to upend any positive relationship between the U.S. and Russia. And I tell you there's a marching band and Chowder Society out there. There's gold in them there hills. There are people trying to separate the U.S. and Russia so that this military industrial intel axis can cash in.
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The American people have to know that there's a game going on inside the intelligence community... at the bottom of all this is the fact that there are those that seek to separate US from Russia to reignite the cold war... that's what's at the bottom of all this .... Wake up America!!
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What's going on in the intelligence community with this new president is unprecedented. They're making every effort trying to upend him.
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It's not just this administration. I want to remind the views and all those who are on the panel that in the closing months of the Obama administration, they put together a deal with Russia to create peace in Syria. A few days later, a military strike in Syria killed a hundred Syrian soldiers and that ended the agreement. What happened is inside the intelligence and the Pentagon there was a deliberate effort to sabotage an agreement the White House made.
Similarly, Pulitzer prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald said today:
The deep state, although there's no precise or scientific definition, generally refers to the agencies in Washington that are permanent power factions. They stay and exercise power even as presidents who are elected come and go. They typically exercise their power in secret, in the dark, and so they're barely subject to democratic accountability, if they're subject to it at all. It's agencies like the CIA, the NSA and the other intelligence agencies, that are essentially designed to disseminate disinformation and deceit and propaganda, and have a long history of doing not only that, but also have a long history of the world's worst war crimes, atrocities and death squads. This is who not just people like Bill Kristol, but lots of Democrats are placing their faith in, are trying to empower, are cheering for as they exert power separate and apart from—in fact, in opposition to—the political officials to whom they're supposed to be subordinate.
And you go—this is not just about Russia. You go all the way back to the campaign, and what you saw was that leading members of the intelligence community, including Mike Morell, who was the acting CIA chief under President Obama, and Michael Hayden, who ran both the CIA and the NSA under George W. Bush, were very outspoken supporters of Hillary Clinton. In fact, Michael Morell went to The New York Times, and Michael Hayden went to The Washington Post, during the campaign to praise Hillary Clinton and to say that Donald Trump had become a recruit of Russia. The CIA and the intelligence community were vehemently in support of Clinton and vehemently opposed to Trump, from the beginning. And the reason was, was because they liked Hillary Clinton's policies better than they liked Donald Trump's. One of the main priorities of the CIA for the last five years has been a proxy war in Syria, designed to achieve regime change with the Assad regime. Hillary Clinton was not only for that, she was critical of Obama for not allowing it to go further, and wanted to impose a no-fly zone in Syria and confront the Russians. Donald Trump took exactly the opposite view. He said we shouldn't care who rules Syria; we should allow the Russians, and even help the Russians, kill ISIS and al-Qaeda and other people in Syria. So, Trump's agenda that he ran on was completely antithetical to what the CIA wanted. Clinton's was exactly what the CIA wanted, and so they were behind her. And so, they've been trying to undermine Trump for many months throughout the election. And now that he won, they are not just undermining him with leaks, but actively subverting him. There's claims that they're withholding information from him, on the grounds that they don't think he should have it and can be trusted with it. They are empowering themselves to enact policy.
Now, I happen to think that the Trump presidency is extremely dangerous.
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And it is important to resist them. And there are lots of really great ways to resist them, such as getting courts to restrain them, citizen activism and, most important of all, having the Democratic Party engage in self-critique to ask itself how it can be a more effective political force in the United States after it has collapsed on all levels. That isn't what this resistance is now doing. What they're doing instead is trying to take maybe the only faction worse than Donald Trump, which is the deep state, the CIA, with its histories of atrocities, and say they ought to almost engage in like a soft coup, where they take the elected president and prevent him from enacting his policies. And I think it is extremely dangerous to do that. Even if you're somebody who believes that both the CIA and the deep state, on the one hand, and the Trump presidency, on the other, are extremely dangerous, as I do, there's a huge difference between the two, which is that Trump was democratically elected and is subject to democratic controls, as these courts just demonstrated and as the media is showing, as citizens are proving. But on the other hand, the CIA was elected by nobody. They're barely subject to democratic controls at all. And so, to urge that the CIA and the intelligence community empower itself to undermine the elected branches of government is insanity. That is a prescription for destroying democracy overnight in the name of saving it. And yet that's what so many, not just neocons, but the neocons' allies in the Democratic Party, are now urging and cheering. And it's incredibly warped and dangerous to watch them do that.
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The idea that Donald Trump is some kind of an agent or a spy of Russia, or that he is being blackmailed by Russia and is going to pass secret information to the Kremlin and endanger American agents on purpose, is an incredibly crazy claim that has been nowhere proven to be true. It reminds me of the kind of things Glenn Beck used to say about Obama while he stood at his chalkboard and drew those—those unstable charts that he drew, these wild conspiracy theories that are without evidence.
We ought to have a serious, sober, structured investigation of the claims that Russia hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails and that there were improper ties between Donald Trump and the Russians, and that ought to be made public so that we can see the information. But this constant media obsession of leaking whatever someone whispers to them about Donald Trump and Russia, because they know it will get their reporters huge numbers of retweets on Twitter and tons of traffic by people who are being fed what they want to hear, is really feeding into the worst kind of hysteria and even fake news that the media says they're trying to combat. These are really serious claims that merit serious investigation, and that's exactly what we're not getting.
Reader Comments
The information found on Anthony Weiner's laptop, Comet Pizza, and the very disturbing information and videos of John Podesta are just the tip of the iceberg. Jeffrey Epstein's (Mossad operative) pedo island resort was rigged with hidden recording devices that taped prominent world figures in comprising and humiliating positions. If these ever see the light of day, not only are the politicians ruined, but the extortion game is over, and the influence the CIA and Mossad wield over Washington also ends. Exposing #PizzaGate is Donald Trump's legacy to Presidential greatness, and if it happens, it will be unlike anything we have ever seen.
Pizzagate is deeply, deeply, disturbing and I wonder how many Americans have the stomach for it. I hesitated when I first began looking into it because it's so damn sick, but when the understanding of what's really happening hits you, there can be no turning back. It's time for all of us to muster all of our moral courage and put an end to this horrific nightmare.
@Amazed by the Lunacy:
Damn sick is damn right.
I am sick but I am sick OF them and not sick LIKE them. I hate them even though it makes me sick (including right now, in the early morning hours before sun-up and before I go out to work on our small farm) and filled often with near total despair and disgust. By the end of each and every day I am always soooooooo tired. So damn tired.
Cultivate this difference in 'sickness'. Be sick, get tired and worn-out, but don't be afraid, be courageous. Be who you really are.
Thanks, everybody. Everybody who is sick OF them.
ned, out
A while ago James Corbett did an open source investigation on the whole subject. That link is here: [Link] It's well worth checking out if you have the stomach for it.
I think this does need to be uncovered. People need to know who and what goes on in the political sphere. It's far past time the people put an end to such practices. The Lamestream media won't cover this. Where they aren't involved, they are being coopted by project mockingbird type tactics. It's up to the people to carry this through. We might have help by the few honest politicians. But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting.
Resisting the deep state means not playing the usual and by now very well established and completely and totally psychotic mind games of business, organization, religion, science and politics--blah, blah, blah. By not being a part of the technical/technological hierarchy and advancing mind control.
But this will make you very poor and you will have try to live in a local community somewhere that is also very poor (in the modern, technical sense) and that is based on trust and personal, individual responsibility for your behavior, as well as a kind of utilitarian simplicity of a sort, RATHER than greed, annihilation/war and exploitation.
You will have to live something like the animals do (albeit with a unique human element) and we already know what 'deep state hierarchical' humans do everywhere and at all times to animals and all other imagined inferiors; as well as to 'inferior and primitive' humans who would choose to live something like the animals, except with this slight human element, which is to say the desire to understand or to attempt to understand what life is about and how it works and what it is--WITHOUT exploiting it and annihilating it and destroying it in the process.
So good luck with that.
But I still suggest that you try with all your might.
Why???
Well, let me just say that you are going to have to provide your own answer to that.
Hint: It is YOUR future and YOUR truth, that you will be deciding, after all.
DUH.
DOUBLE DUH.
Btw: Fuck Kucinich and Greenwald (as well as Trump). They are all deep state, imo. So fuck 'em.....
ned, OUT