Booman wrote a post today titled The Russia Investigation. It basically assumes that the Republicans will fight against negatively involving Trump in the outcome; the Democrats will actively seek to take Trump down and there are some so-called “moderates” on the Republican side who might ally themselves with the Democrats.
In point of fact, I think that most people will be taking a wrong position on this development…a position that assumes disagreement between the parties, a position that so far has been fed to them by the interested Deep State-controlled and allied media.
I believe that both parties…in a Permanent Government/Deep State sense…want to get rid of Trump as fast as they can possibly do so without immense negative repercussions, and I further believe that this congressional investigation is the beginning of an endgame towards which the intelligence people have been working since it became even possible that Trump might win the presidency.
He’s going down, one way or another.
Now it’s only a matter of how and when.
This is the neatest, cleanest, least dangerous solution. The old wet work days are far behind us…or so I hope.
Now we have informational assassinations.
Virtual assassinations.
Is all of the “information” necessarily true?
I doubt it.
What we laughingly call “facts” are no longer necessarily true or false. Not on this level.
Why?
How?
Because no one but the spooks and the hackers…if those two groups are not themselves basically identical at some level…are in any position to even begin to verify them.
And life goes on in the digital age.
As it must.
Read on for more.
Karl Rove pinned this system in his little speech to Ron Suskind back in 2002:
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend — but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
The basics of the currently quite effective information/disinformation/misinformation system were well in place fifteen years ago!!!
They’ve only gotten better at it now.
They got caught by a perfect storm with the Trump/Clinton campaign…”The Campaign Of The Deplorables”, I’m calling it. The one who best messaged those “deplorables” that HRC so self-defeatingly mentioned in a public speech got to take home all of the marbles.
Now?
Now the Deep State is in the process of rebuilding its damaged structures.
Watch.
AG
P.S. Remember the totally jive Warren Commission?
Like that, only better.
P.S.S. Can the power of the presidency stand against this kind of bipartisan, collective attack?
It couldn’t in 1974.
Why would one believe that it can do so in 2017?
Trump only has one trump card to play…a sudden “disaster” of some sort, one that requires massive executive action. He cannot create one without the help of the spooks, and the various U.S. spookdoms appear to be totally allied against his presidency. That leaves only the outside chances that:
1- Other spooks will find it in their interest to create such a disaster. Russians, Israelis, the various radical Islamic interests, etc.
or
2-What we also laughingly call “An Act of God” will throw a monkey wrench into the Deep State’s machinations.
Either possibility…or both…could happen.
Watch.
AG
Could be, Arthur. The “spooks” opposition is the only positive I’ve seen about Trump.
“Positive?” Or just another double negative?
Damned if I don’t know…
AG
I’d rather see a Church investigation, personally.
The Church Committee
Yeah.
Right.
40 years later:
Still there through Obama’s entire further tenure. Now a “retired” talking head for the Deep State.
Fat lot of good the Church Committee did us, eh?
AG
There is a reason that Trump is now going around renewing his mandate with his people.
Everyone is waiting to Trump to spring a “Reichtag fire”.
The police state training seems to be going on without massive public outcry.
But does he have the NSA, who did not sign on to the weak-tea IC statement about Flynn and Russia? That can let him know what Congress is saying, if it were used that way.
Bannon’s NSC job was to get Bannon security clearance IMO. NSA could legally carry out tasks ordered from Bannon at NSC. The elite civil war could get nasty.
In BooMan’s front-page story he writes about Team B and the analysis of threats from the Soviet Union. The CIA had always overestimated the might of the Communist republic. The collapse wasn’t prompted by a US led war but was a slow demise of a rotten regime.
Thankful for the Bush Wars on terror and the rise of the price of a barrel of oil to over $100, the wealth was accumulated by all the wrong regimes in the Middle East, Venezuela, Nigeria, Brunei, Russia and its former satellite states bordering the Caspian Sea.
Politizing the CIA has been fulfilled in the 21st century. The Neocon cabal are well settled within the intelligence community and all its roots in fabulous think tanks of America. Some missing links are added by satelite state Great Britain.
Just as well abbreviate the Central Intelligence Agency to C.I.B. – Central Intelligence B-team … Operation Check-mate. The hands of the U.S. President are tied, see the failure on foreign policy during eight years of Obama. I am very surprised he succeeded in the Iran Nuclear Agreement, this to detriment of allies Israel and the KSA. Well, the Saudis were gifted with the War on Yemen and Syria until Putin said it was enough. Israel got Judea and Samaria, Trump has gotten the divine privilege to tell Netanyahu it’s OK. The neocons must be pleased with the fulfillment of PNAC.
Perhaps a good read as well …
○ Brexit: Putin Did It
Tying some dark forces together sauced over with plenty of propaganda so it colors red, as in communist Russia.
Worth bookmarking from Washington’s Blog – Newly-Declassified Documents Show that a Senior CIA Agent and Deputy Director of the Directorate of Intelligence Worked Closely with Owners and Journalists with Many of the Largest Media Outlets.
Nothing new for those that have been around for a while and managed to stay informed. However, having a summary presentation of all of this in one place is handy.