“I never would have
agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in
forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.”― President
Harry Truman
“Let me tell you, you
take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting
back at you,” – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
As mostly but not exclusively Democrats clutch their pearls
and head for the fainting couches over the revoking of ex-CIA Director John
Brennan’s security clearance, it becomes more evident every day that all the
ex-spooks should have their security clearance revoked and reinstated on a
need-to-know basis. This courtesy perk
was never meant to enhance the monetary benefits of ex-CIA directors as they
become politically motivated cable news commentators hell-bent on destroying an
elected president.
There are inherent dangers posed by allowing the
availability of America’s most guarded secrets to political hacks that have a
proven record of lying under oath, colluding with foreign intelligence to
overthrow an elected president and tawdry history of dirty tricks, illegal
espionage against the United States Senate as well as illegal spying on
American citizens. One must turn a wary
eye toward any retired or active spook who would defend the spooks gone wild
who conspired with British Intelligence to throw the American election and
enthrone their preordained presidential candidate. What insanity has overtaken America?
There is incontrovertible evidence that those in the highest
echelons of the FBI, CIA, State Department and Executive Branch of the American
government under the Obama Administration presented unproven, unsubstantiated “evidence”
of Russian collusion before the FISA court in order to obtain search warrants
to entrap members of Donald Trump’s campaign and destroy Trump’s run for the
Presidency. In the event that their plot to destroy the
presidency of Trump failed they devised a secret “insurance policy” as their
back-up. From Sharyl Attkisson:
Excerpt:
What would the intelligence community's 'insurance policy' against
Trump look like?
Let’s begin in the realm of the
fanciful. Assume, for the sake of
argument, that powerful, connected
people in the intelligence community and in politics worried that a
wildcard Trump presidency, unlike another Clinton or Bush, might expose a decade-plus of questionable practices. Disrupt
long-established money channels. Reveal secret machinations that could arguably
land some people in prison.
What exactly might an “insurance
policy” against Donald Trump look like?
He would have to be marginalized at
every turn. Strategies would encompass politics, the courts, opposition
research and the media. He’d have to become mired in lawsuits, distracted by
allegations, riddled with calls for impeachment, hounded by investigations. His election must be portrayed as the
illegitimate result of a criminal or un-American conspiracy.
To accomplish this, bad actors in
the intel community could step up use of surveillance tools as a weapon to look
for dirt on Trump before his inauguration. They
could rely on dubious political opposition research to secretly argue for
wiretaps, plant one or more spies in the Trump campaign, then leak to the
press a mix of true and false stories to create a sense of chaos.
Once Trump is in office, a good insurance
policy would call for neutralizing the advisers seen as most threatening,
including his attorney general. The
reigning FBI director could privately send the implicit message that as long as
Trump minds his own business, he won’t be named as a target…
All would be well unless the
president removes the FBI director. Then, a rider on the insurance policy would
kick in. After months of assuring
Trump he’s not under investigation, he must now become a focus to keep him away
from the Justice Department and the FBI; once an investigation opens, all of Trump’s attempts to affect policy
or to dig into allegations against the intelligence community could be
portrayed as obstruction of justice.
How to open an investigation after
all these months? Appoint a special counsel. (Easy to get the right one, with
Trump’s attorney general out of the way.)…
The chosen special counsel should
be an insider with his own legacy to protect. Anti-Trump FBI officials who
secretly vowed to “stop” Trump could be assigned to the investigation.
As crazy as it all sounds, it
becomes slightly more plausible when we examine the record and find
self-described conspiracies to develop “insurance policies.” On Aug. 15, 2016, after FBI counterespionage
chief Peter Strzok and his FBI girlfriend Lisa Page met with Deputy FBI
Director Andrew McCabe, Strzok texted
Page that they couldn’t take the risk of Trump getting elected without having
“an insurance policy” in place.
Another figure, Benjamin Wittes,
chose the same phrase. In October 2016, in his Lawfare blog, Wittes wrote:
“What if Trump wins? We need an
insurance policy against the unthinkable: Donald Trump’s actually winning the
Presidency.”
As it happens, Wittes has
acknowledged being a good friend of fired FBI Director James Comey... Wittes
spoke to a New York Times reporter about Comey's interactions with President
Trump, right after Robert Mueller's appointment as special counsel… In his 2016 blog post, Wittes wrote that his
vision of an “insurance policy” against
Trump would rely on a “Coalition of All Democratic Forces” to challenge and
obstruct Trump, using the courts as a
“tool” and Congress as “a partner or tool…”
If there really were an insurance
policy against Trump, it might include
having ex-intel officials getting hired at national news outlets where they’d
monitor and influence news organizations, and be invited to give daily spin
on controversies surrounding their own actions.
Figures such as former Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper, former Comey aide Josh Campbell and others
could get hired by CNN; former CIA
Director John Brennan and ex-Mueller/Comey aide Chuck Rosenberg could get hired
by NBC and MSNBC.
President Trump vowed to drain the swamp when he was elected
president. I guess when you drain the
swamp, the swamp creatures end up flopping and snapping on the shore lashing
out for one last gasp of the putrid, rancid waters they rely on to
survive. These despicable swamp
creatures have been navigating the polluted waters of Washington and London for
a long time. From LaRouche pub:
Excerpt:
Fish Stinks from the Head Down: An Update on the Mueller Inquisition
Aug. 9—The question to be answered
here is, to which “head” do we refer, when citing this ancient cross-cultural
metaphor in our headline? We have insisted, since we began covering the
continuing regime change operation in the United States, that the “head” is the Anglo-Dutch imperial
system, whose capital is the City of London and whose leading colonial
administrators here in the United States, were led most recently by Barack
Obama and those he chose to run his intelligence agencies: John Brennan,
James Comey, and James Clapper.
The torso associated with this
“head” here in the United States
includes the establishment wing of the Republican Party and the
neo-conservatives, who, through such institutions as the American Enterprise
Institute and the Koch Brothers, are fonts of British geopolitical schemes. The
Anglo-Dutch Empire is the entity which has dedicated its intelligence agencies,
its controlled media, its think tanks and foundations, Hollywood and all of its
other institutions engaged in manipulating mass popular opinion, and its
bought-and-paid-for Senators and Congressmen, to removing Donald Trump from the
Presidency, by whatever means necessary.
Trump has completely and repeatedly enraged them by laughing off their
power and taking his case directly to the people, ridiculing these “elites”
publicly in front of mass audiences, and by threatening to produce a world in which China, Russia, the United
States, and similar rational populations fully develop the economies of the
world.
According to reliable reporting, the President is also engaged in serious
discussions with Vladimir Putin about eliminating nuclear weapons, while
maintaining the technological capacities of both Russia and the United States.
This is a policy… which the British view as a mortal threat to the financial
containment, regime change, and information warfare operations by which they
maintain their power.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is simply the designated
amoral legal assassin for this imperial entity, the blunt instrument by
which Donald Trump is to be delivered for impeachment, if all goes as planned,
at the conclusion of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.
Trump has been so mercilessly
targeted because he threatens to end the decades-long reign of terror, poverty,
and endless war emanating from the
deliberate destruction of Franklin Roosevelt’s Bretton Woods system in August
1971, and the founding of the new speculative Anglo-Dutch Empire on its
ruins…
The physical hollowing out of the
United States economy, the outsourcing of our productive economy to China,
Mexico, and other countries whose economies we attempted to freeze in cheap
labor manufacturing, raw materials extraction, or worse—all of these horrors flow from the system which Donald Trump now
threatens to overthrow…
To put a fine point on how public
relations bilge conceals and confuses, hiding the actual essence of people and
institutions from those without the time to study them—in July 2018, the supposedly “right wing” and
“pro-business” American Enterprise Institute and John Podesta’s “left wing”
“cradle of the Resistance,” Center for American Progress, merged programs to
unite against a common target—the “authoritarian populism” they ascribe to
President Donald Trump…
Happily, new and explosive revelations in the last few weeks about the British
and American actors in this coup, have brought us ever closer to exposing
the “head” here, and beginning wholesale dismantlement.
These include the revelation that
Christopher Steele, the MI6 author of the anti-Trump dirty information warfare
dossier financed by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, and a major long-term asset of the Empire,
was working as a human source for the FBI as of February 2016, if not earlier,
well before the launch of the “official” FBI counterintelligence investigation
of the Trump Campaign in late July 2016, and that Steele was in a back
channel relationship with the number four official at the U.S. Department of
Justice, Bruce Ohr, long after Steele was fired by the FBI in late October
2016, for his leaks to the news media.
The Steele/Ohr relationship lasted
through May 2017 or later, according to documents recently obtained by
Congress. After Donald Trump’s election,
Steele’s work was funded, to the tune of $50 million, by George Soros, and by
Tom Steyer and other Silicon Valley billionaires. These funders were
seeking the President’s impeachment. Christopher Steele and his British masters
wanted Trump’s impeachment also, but they had two motives.
Their other motive was to mobilize U.S. public opinion to support the ongoing
British destabilization and regime change operation against Vladimir Putin,
in which Steele had been a major and continuous player since at least 2006. These new revelations, and others, show that,
by no later than late 2015, British intelligence was operating against the
Trump campaign, feeding information to a
task force convened by John Brennan at the CIA, and to Victoria Nuland and
Jonathan Winer at the Department of State.
Peter Strzok, the now notorious and
biased lead FBI case agent on Russiagate, was the FBI’s liaison to John
Brennan, generally, and to John Brennan’s anti-Trump task force specifically. John Brennan, of course, didn’t blow his
nose without reporting it to President Barack Obama…
Given what we now know about
Steele, and the dodgy, completely fake
British intelligence dossier used to conduct a new British insurrection against
the United States, why should the President tolerate the sanctions imposed
by his State Department and manufactured by the same group of people who have
tried to destroy him?
It is really now time to take up
LaRouche PAC’s call, Mr. President: End the Special Relationship and Declassify
All British-Spawned Documents Concerning Your 2016 Campaign. Fish really does stink from the head down.
Ahh, the best laid plans of mice and men. President Trump has really kicked up a shit
storm in revoking CIA spook John Brennan’s security clearance. How is Brennan supposed to further the
attacks on President Trump over at Trump-hating CNN if he doesn’t have access
to the latest information on how close Trump is to exposing the treasonous
cabal that seeks to destroy him?
CNN and MSNBC as well as the other CIA trumpets are bleating
out the meme that Brennan’s free speech rights are being violated because his
ability to sell his wares is severely affected by his loss of security
clearance. As if his security clearance
is an inalienable right. Well Brennan
has more to worry about than loss of his security clearance. From Ray McGovern at Lew Rockwell:
Excerpt:
Trump Strikes Back at ‘Ringleader’ Brennan
There’s more than meets the eye to
President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke the security clearances that ex-CIA
Director John Brennan enjoyed as a courtesy customarily afforded former
directors. The President’s move is the
second major sign that Brennan is about to be hoisted on his own petard. It
is one embroidered with rhetoric charging Trump with treason and, far more
important, with documents now in the hands of congressional investigators
showing Brennan’s ringleader role in the so-far unsuccessful attempts to derail
Trump both before and after the 2016 election.
Brennan will fight hard to avoid being put on trial but will need united support from his Deep State
co-conspirators–a dubious proposition. One of Brennan’s major concerns at
this point has to be whether the “honor-among-thieves” ethos will prevail, or
whether some or all of his former partners in crime will latch onto the
opportunity to “confess” to investigators: “Brennan made me do it.”
Well before Monday night, when
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani let a small bomb drop on Brennan, there was strong evidence that Brennan had
been quarterbacking illegal operations against Trump. Giuliani added fuel to the fire when he told
Sean Hannity of Fox news:
“I’m going to tell you who orchestrated,
who was the quarterback for all this. … The guy running it is Brennan, and he should be in front of a
grand jury. Brennan took … a
dossier that, unless he’s the biggest idiot intelligence agent that ever lived
… it’s false; you can look at it and laugh at it. And he peddled it to [then
Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid, and that led to the request for the
investigation. So you take a false
dossier, get senators involved, and you get a couple of Republican senators,
and they demand an investigation—a totally phony investigation.”
The Fix Brennan Finds Himself In
After eight years of enjoying
President Barack Obama’s solid support and defense to do pretty much anything
he chose—including hacking into the
computers of the Senate Intelligence Committee—Brennan now lacks what, here
in Washington, we refer to as a “Rabbi” with strong incentive to advance and
protect you…
So, unlike his predecessors, most
of whom also left under a dark cloud, Brennan
is bereft of anyone to protect him. He lacks even a PR person to help him
avoid holding himself up to ridicule—and now retaliation—for unprecedentedly
hostile tweets and other gaffes. Brennan’s mentor, ex-CIA Director George
Tenet, for example, had powerful Rabbis in President George W. Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney, as well as a bizarrely empathetic establishment media,
when Tenet quit in disgrace 2004.
The main question now is whether
the chairs of the House oversight committees will chose to face down the Deep
State. They almost never do, and the smart money says that, if they do, they
will lose—largely because of the
virtually total support of the establishment media for the Deep State. This
often takes bizarre forms. The title of a recent column by Washington Post
“liberal” commentator Eugene Robinson speaks volumes: “God Bless the Deep State…”
Unfortunately Ray McGovern is probably right, if the House
Oversight Committee does take on the Deep State they will probably lose because
the media and our bought and paid for congress completely supports the Deep
State Swamp. They have become wealthy
beyond imagination by doing so. If
Brennan goes down it would be the undoing of all of them and they know it. From The American Conservative:
Excerpt:
John Brennan, Melting Down and Covering Up
He accuses Trump of treason. But
what's his bluster really about?
It isn’t a pretty face, but one
scarred from a dark past, repackaged now by the frenzy of “resistance.” Accusing Donald Trump recklessly, implying
he knows more than he lets on, promising redemption: John Brennan is the face
of American politics in 2018.
But before all that, Brennan lived
in a hole about as far down into the deep state as one can dwell while still
having eyes that work in the sunlight. He was director of the Central
Intelligence Agency. He was Obama’s counterterrorism
advisor, helping the president decide who to kill every week, including
American citizens.
He spent 25 years at the CIA, and helped shape the violent policies of the
post-9/11 Bush era. He was a fan of torture and extrajudicial killing to the
point that a 2012 profile of him was entitled, “The Seven Deadly Sins of John
Brennan...”
On Twitter this week, Brennan cartoonishly declaimed, “Donald
Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to and exceeds the
threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors. It was nothing short of
treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the
pocket of Putin.”
Because it is 2018, Brennan was never asked to explain
exactly how a press conference exceeds the threshold of high crimes and
misdemeanors the Constitution sets for impeachment, nor was he asked to lay
a few cards on the table showing what Putin has on Trump. No, Brennan is a man
of his times, all bluster and noise, knowing that so long as he says what a
significant part of the country apparently believes—that the president of the
United States is under the control of the Kremlin—he will never be challenged…
Brennan’s bleating has the
interesting side effect of directing
attention away from who was watching the front door as the Russians walked in
to cause what one MSNBC analyst described as a mix of Pearl Harbor and
Kristallnacht. During the 2016 election, Brennan was head of the CIA.
His evil twin, James Clapper, who also coughs up Trump attacks for
nickels these days, was director of national intelligence. James Comey
headed the FBI, following Robert Mueller into the job. Yet the noise from that
crowd has become so loud as to drown out any questions about where they were
when they had the duty to stop the Russians in the first place…
Only after Clinton lost did it
become necessary to create a crisis that might yet be inflated (it wasn’t just
the Russians, as originally thought, it was Trump working with them) to justify
impeachment. Absent that need, Brennan would have disappeared alongside other
former CIA directors into academia or the lucrative consulting industry. Instead he’s a public figure with a big
mouth because he has to be. That mouth has to cover his ass.
Brennan is part of the
whole-of-government effort to overturn the election… On cue, leaks poured out
implying the Trump campaign worked with the Russian government. It is now a
rare day when the top stories are not apocalyptic, rocketed from Raw Story to
the Huffington Post to the New York Times. Brennan,
meanwhile, fans the media’s flames with a knowing wink that says “You wait and
see. Soon it’s Mueller time.”
Yet despite all the hard evidence
of treason that only Brennan and his supine journalists seem to see, everyone
appears resigned to have a colluding Russian agent running the United States.
You’d think it would be urgent to close this case. Instead, Brennan admonishes us to wait out an investigative process
that’s been underway now through two administrations…
If Trump is under Russian
influence, he is the most dangerous man in American history. So why isn’t
Washington on fire? Why hasn’t Mueller
indicted someone for treason? If this is Pearl Harbor, why is the
investigation moving at the pace of a mortgage application? Why is everyone
allowing a Russian asset placed in charge of the American nuclear arsenal to
stay in power even one more minute?
Treason, traitor, coup, the empire
striking back—those are just words, Third World stuff, clickbait, right? So the
more pedestrian answer must then be correct. The lessons of Whitewater and
Benghazi learned, maybe the point is not
to build an atmosphere of crisis leading to something undemocratic, but just to
have a perpetual investigation, tickled to life as needed politically.
Because, maybe, deep down, Brennan
(Clapper, Hayden, Comey, and Mueller) really do know that this is all like
flying saucers and cell phone cameras. At some point, the whole alien
conspiracy meme fell apart because somehow when everyone had a camera with them
24/7/365, there were no more sightings and we
had to admit that our fears had gotten the best of us. The threat was inside us
all along. It is now, too.
So as the politicians and media go shrilly screaming
clutching their pearls and heading for the fainting couches, desperately trying
to drag the public along with them, deep inside they know the gig is up. The Blue Wave the Democrats are desperately
trying to convince America is coming will turn out to be a “wave goodbye”,
adios, sayonara, Auf Wiedersehen. The
party of FDR and JFK is no more, what is left is a party of self-serving,
egomaniacal war mongers. Good
Riddance. And all it took was a brunch
of half-rate spooks gone wild, in an unprecedented US/UK conspiracy to destroy
a presidency.
By Patricia Baeten
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