.
John Brennan and Samantha Power certainly believe in a powerful unelected entity, whether a Deep State or "iron triangle" as NY Times happily describes it:
3/19/18, "Former CIA Chief Brennan Running Scared," Consortium News, Ray McGovern
"With former CIA Director John Brennan accusing President Donald Trump of “moral turpitude” for his “scapegoating” of Andy McCabe, it remains to be seen whether a constitutional crisis will be averted, writes Ray McGovern."
"What prompted former CIA Director John Brennan on Saturday to accuse President Donald Trump of “moral turpitude” and to predict, with an alliterative flourish, that Trump will end up “as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history”? The answer shines through the next sentence in Brennan’s threatening tweet: “You may scapegoat Andy McCabe [former FBI Deputy Director fired Friday night] but you will not destroy America…America will triumph over you.”...
Deep State Intimidation
Back to John Brennan’s bizarre tweet Saturday telling the President, “You may scapegoat Andy McCabe but you will not destroy America … America will triumph over you.” Unmasking the word “America,” so to speak, one can readily discern the name “Brennan” underneath. Brennan’s words and attitude are a not-so-subtle reminder of the heavy influence and confidence of the deep state, including the media — exercised to a fare-thee-well over the past two years.
Later on Saturday, Samantha Power, with similar equities at stake, put an exclamation point behind what Brennan had tweeted earlier in the day. Power also saw fit to remind Trump where the power lies, so to speak. She warned him publicly that it is “not a good idea to piss off John Brennan.”
Meanwhile, the Washington Post is dutifully playing its part in the deep-state game of intimidation. The following excerpt from Sunday’s lead article conveys the intended message: “Some Trump allies say they worry he is playing with fire by taunting the FBI. ‘This is open, all-out war. And guess what? The FBI’s going to win,’ said one ally, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid. ‘You can’t fight the FBI. They’re going to torch him.’” [sic]
The Post, incidentally, waited until paragraph 41 of 44 to inform readers that it was the FBI’s own Office of Professional Responsibility [headed by Eric Holder appointee Robin Ashton] and the Inspector General of the Department of Justice [Obama appointee Michael Horowitz] that found McCabe guilty, and that the charge was against McCabe, not the FBI. A quite different impression was conveyed by the large headline “Trump escalates attacks on FBI” as well as the first 40 paragraphs of Sunday’s lead article.
Putting Down a Marker
It isn’t as though Donald Trump wasn’t warned, as are all incoming presidents, of the power of the Deep State that he needs to play ball with--or else. ["Trump “is being force-fed lessons all presidents eventually learn–that the iron triangle of the Washington press corps, West Wing staff and federal bureaucracy is simply too powerful to bully.”" 3/1/2017, Daniel Lazare] Recall
that just three days before President-elect Trump was visited by
National Intelligence Director James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey,
CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Michael Rogers, Trump was put on notice by none other than the Minority Leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer. Schumer has been around and knows the ropes; he is a veteran of 18 years in the House, and is in his 20th year in the Senate.
On Jan. 3, 2017 Schumer said it all, when he told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, that President-elect Trump is “being really dumb” by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities:
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,”
Schumer told Maddow. “So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed
businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.” Did Maddow ask Schumer
if he was saying President of the United States should be afraid of the
intelligence community? No, she let Schumer’s theorem stand.
With gauntlets now thrown down by both
sides, we may not have to wait very long to see if Schumer is correct in
his blithe prediction as to how the present constitutional crisis will
be resolved....
As a Reminder
None of the leaking, unmasking, surveillance, or other activities directed against the Trump campaign can be properly understood, if one does not bear in mind that it was considered a sure thing that Secretary Clinton would become President, at which point illegal and extralegal activities undertaken to help her win would garner praise, not prison.
But she lost.... “The reason Congress exists is to oversee these agencies that we created.”...[said Rep. Devin Nunes]"....
..............
"Ray McGovern works for Tell the Word, a
publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city
Washington. He served as a CIA analyst under seven Presidents and nine
CIA directors and is now on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)."
.......................
Added: NY Times happily refers to an "iron triangle," a permanent political class that controls all presidents: "Washington press corps, West Wing staff and federal bureaucracy."
3/1/17, "How the Press Serves the Deep State," Consortium News, Daniel Lazare
"Exclusive: Mainstream
U.S. media is proud to be the Deep State’s tip of the spear pinning
President Trump to the wall over unproven allegations about Russia and
his calls for detente, a rare point where he makes sense, notes Daniel Lazare."
"The New York Times has made it official. In a Sunday front-page article entitled “Trump Ruled the Tabloid Media. Washington Is a Different Story,” the paper gloats that Donald Trump has proved powerless to stop a flood of leaks threatening to capsize his administration.
As reporters Glenn Thrush and Michael M. Grynbaum put it: “This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps: believing
he can master an entrenched political press corps with far deeper
connections to the permanent government of federal law enforcement and
executive department officials than he has.”
Thrush and Grynbaum add a few paragraphs later that Trump “is being force-fed lessons all presidents eventually learn – that the iron triangle of the Washington press corps, West Wing staff and federal bureaucracy is simply too powerful to bully.”
Iron triangle? Permanent government?
In its tale of how Trump went from being a favorite of the New York
Post and Daily News to fodder for the big-time Washington news media,
the Times seems to be going out of its way to confirm dark paranoid
fears of a “deep state” lurking behind the scenes and dictating what
political leaders can and cannot do. “Too powerful to bully” by a “write-your-own-rules president” is another way of saying that the permanent government wants to do things its way and will not put up with a president telling it to take a different approach.
Entrenched interests are nothing new, of course. But a major news outlet bragging about collaborating with such elements in order to cripple a legally established government is. The Times was beside itself with outrage when top White House adviser Steve Bannon described the media as “the opposition party.” But one can’t help but wonder what all the fuss is about since an alliance aimed at hamstringing a presidency is nothing if not oppositional.
If so, a few things are worth keeping in mind. One is that Trump was elected, even if only by an Eighteenth-Century relic known as the Electoral College, whereas the deep state, permanent government, or whatever else you want to call it was not. Where Trump gave speeches, kissed babies, and otherwise sought out the vote, the deep state did nothing. To
the degree this country is still a democracy, that must count for
something. So if the conflict between president and the deep state ever comes down to a question of legitimacy, there is no doubt who will come out ahead: The Donald....
If
the Washington Post and the Times do not agree that bogus assertions
about unauthorized contacts with Russia are not poisoning
the atmosphere, they should explain very clearly why not. They
should also explain what they hope to accomplish with a showdown with
Russia and why it will not be a step toward World War III.
But
they won’t, of course. The media (with encouragement from parts of the
U.S. government) are working themselves into a fit of outrage
against Vladimir Putin just as, in past years, they did against Daniel
Ortega, Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam
Hussein (again), Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad, and Viktor
Yanukovych. In each instance, the outcome has been war, and so far the present episode shows all signs of heading in the same direction as well.
Reporters
may be clueless, but working-class Americans aren’t. They don’t want a
war because they’re the ones who would have to fight it. So they’re not unsympathetic to Trump and all the more inclined to give the yapping media short shrift."...
.....................
Added: As portrayed by former Senator and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller [D-WVa], the
political class wants you to think an unelected "intelligence
community" is the most powerful entity in the US and that it answers to
no one. Meaning US taxpayers are slaves:
April 2007
4/24/2007, "Amazing Statement Of Congressional Impotence By Senate Intelligence Chairman Jay Rockefeller [D-WVa]," tinyrevolution.com
"Charles Davis, a freelance reporter, briefly interviewed Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) last Wednesday [April 2007]. Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, made this startling statement about how the U.S. government really functions:
DAVIS (Reporter): I wonder if you've heard some of these news reports that the Bush administration is backing extremist groups in Pakistan to launch attacks against Iran? Are you familiar with those news reports?
ROCKEFELLER (Sen.): I've seen no intelligence that would verify that.
DAVIS: Reports quote administration officials as saying this is going on and it's
being done in a way to avoid oversight of the Intelligence
Committee...Is there anything you could do in your position as Chairman
of the Intelligence Committee to find answers about this, if it is in fact going on?
ROCKEFELLER: Don't you understand the way Intelligence works? Do you think that because I'm Chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say I want it, and they give it to me? They control it. All of it. All of it. All of the time. I only get, and my committee only gets, what they want to give me....
DAVIS: Well, what do you think about these allegations?
ROCKEFELLER: I'm not—I don't comment on allegations. I can't. I can't afford to.
DAVIS: Okay. Thank you."
..................
Added:
John "Jay" "Rockefeller, a Democrat, was a senator from West Virginia from 1985 to 2014." He was Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee from 2007 to 2009.
.........
Above via 11/2/2015, "A New Biography Traces the Pathology of Allen Dulles and His Appalling Cabal," The Intercept, Jon Schwarz
"The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government," published in Oct. 2015 by Salon founder David Talbot. JFK fired CIA chief Allen Dulles, a holdover from Eisenhower, after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion."
...................
Comment: The globalist US political
class prefers unelected power so that annoying elections can't change
anything. Elections, if they must exist, are Communist style with a
choice of two virtually identical candidates, such as Hillary and Jeb
Bush. Both open borders, extreme globalists, endless foreign wars funded
by US taxpayers, massive free trade deals governed by global courts. US
taxpayers, if they must exist, are slaves.
...................
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment