The effort to smear Trump and Russia in the media has
backfired and propelled the president-elect to propose a major housecleaning in
the US intel community - but they aren't taking it lying down
I first wrote in mid-December (here and here) about the campaign orchestrated by elements
of the US intelligence community to accuse Russia of “hacking the US election”
and its likely consequence – that incoming President Trump would deal harshly
with the campaign’s promoters.
The propaganda campaign had two objectives.
First, to delegitimize Donald Trump’s election as president. Second, to box
Trump into a continued policy of antagonism toward Russia upon taking office.
The first objective failed totally on Dec
19th when the electoral college carried out its constitutional duty and
formally elected Trump as President of the United States. The second objective
is in the process of failing right now.
Now it appears mainstream media outlets
have begun to confirm that the thesis of my first article of Dec. 15th is about
to come true.
The New York Post, citing the
Wall Street Journal, reported yesterday that “Trump Wants to Shake Up the CIA“:
Donald Trump is working on a plan that
would restructure the CIA — cutting staff at the agency’s headquarters in
Langley and moving more agents to field posts across the globe, a report says.
“The view from the Trump team is the
intelligence world [is] becoming completely politicized,” a source close to the
President-elect told the Wall Street Journal.
The insider is one of the few people
familiar with Trump’s planning and said his advisers were also working to scale
back the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well.
“They all need to be slimmed down,” the source
said. “The focus will be on restructuring the agencies and how they interact.”
Also according to the Post, Trump’s nominee
for CIA director, Mike Pompeo, and his national security advisor-designate Lt.
Gen. Mike Flynn will spearhead the restructuring plan.
But notably, a statement from one anonymous
inteviewee appeared to contain a veiled threat against the President-elect:
Intelligence officials told the Journal
that they are ultimately disgusted with the President-elect’s social media
behavior and disapproval of the CIA.
“It’s appalling,” one official said. “No
president has ever taken on the CIA and come out looking good.”
This is an incredible statement, and one
which was obviously made to the WSJ very deliberately and conscientiously, a
paper with which the CIA is known to have strong ties.
The neocon rebels in the clandestine
services are not happy that Donald Trump has publicly called them out for their
warmongering Russophobic lies. Now they are sending him a message: “Don’t
cross us. Or you won’t come out good.”
Read between the lines of that statement
and make of it what you will.
It is unlikely that Mr. Trump is intimidated.
He knew what he was getting into when he ran for president. He knew what taking
on the globalist establishment single handedly would entail.
He was not motivated by money or power. He
already had those in abundance. What drove Donald J. Trump was a line made
famous by the 35th US president, which today seems lost on those in Washington:
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your
country.”
Trump set aside part of his victory speech
on election night to specifically thank the US Secret Service.
As the battle lines close leading up to and
beyond inauguration day, the spirit of Trump and his millions of supporters
hoping for a better country and a better world, might just be represented best
by the following meme:
