After several rather lame false starts, the
Neocons have now taken a step which can only be called a declaration of war
against Donald Trump.
It all began with CNN published an article
entitled “Intel chiefs presented Trump with
claims of Russian efforts to compromise him” which claimed that:
Classified documents presented last week to
President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian
operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about
Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell
CNN. The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to
a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The allegations came, in part, from memos
compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work US
intelligence officials consider credible (…) The two-page synopsis also
included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during
the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian
government, according to two national security officials.
BuzzFeed then published the full
document. Here it is in full. (Link below)
When I first read the document my intention
was to debunk it sentence by sentence. However, I don’t have the time for
that and, frankly, there is no need for it. I will just provide you here
with enough simple straightforward evidence that this is a fake. Here are
just a few elements of proof:
- The document has no letterhead, no
identification, no date, no nothing. For many good technical and
even legal reasons, sensitive intelligence documents are created with
plenty of tracking and identification information. For example, such
a document would typically have a reference to the unit which produced it
or an number-letter combination indicating the reliability of the source
and of the information it contains.
- The classification
CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE is a joke. If this was a true document its
level of classification would be much, much higher than “confidential” and
since most intelligence documents come from sensitive sources there is no
need to specify that.
- The allegation that “The
dossier is controlled by Kremlin spokesman, PESKOV, directly on PUTIN’S
orders” is beyond laughable. Clearly the author of this fake has no
idea how the Russian intelligence and security services work (hint: the
Presidential spokesman has no involvement in that whatsoever.)
- On page 2 there is this other
hilarious sentence “exploit TRUMP’s personal obsession and sexual
perversion in order to obtain suitable ‘kompromat’ (compromising material)
on him.” Nobody in a real intelligence document would bother to
clarify what the word “kompromat” means since both in Russian and in
English it is obviously the combination of the words “compromising” and
“materials”. Any western intelligence officer, even a very junior
one, would know that word, if only because of the many Cold War era
espionage books written about the KGB entrapment techniques.
- The document speaks of “source A”,
“source B” and further down the alphabet. Now ask yourself a simple
question: what happens after “source Z” is used? Can any
intelligence agency work with a potential pool of sources limited to 26?
Obviously, this is not how intelligence agencies classify their sources.
I will stop here and submit that there is
ample evidence that this is a crude fake produced by amateurs who have no idea
of what they are talking about. This does not make this document any less
dangerous, however.
First, and this is the really crucial part,
there is more than enough here to impeach Trump on numerous grounds both
political and legal. Let me repeat again – this is an attempt at
removing Donald Trump from the White House. This is a political coup d’etat.
Second, this documents smears everybody
involved: Trump himself, of course, but also the evil Russians and their ugly
Machiavellian techniques. Trump is thereby “confirmed” as a sexual
pervert who likes to hire prostitutes to urinate on him. As for the Russians,
they are basically accused of trying to recruit the President of the United
States as an agent of their security services. That would make Trump a
traitor, by the way.
Third, within one short week we went from
allegations of “Russian hacking” to “having a traitor sitting in the White
House”. We can only expect a further Tsunami of such allegations to continue
and get worse and worse every day.
It is interesting that BuzzFeed has already
preempted the accusation of this being a smear and demonization campaign
against Trump by writing that “Now BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that
Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the
president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.”
as if most Americans had the expertise to immediately detect that this document
is a crude forgery!
Fourth, unless all the officials who
briefed Trump come out and deny that this fake was part of their briefing with
Trump, it will appear that this document has the official imprimatur of
the senior US intelligence officials and that would give them a legal,
probatory, authority. This de-facto means that the “experts” have
evaluated that document and have certified it as “credible” even before any
legal proceedings in court or, worse, in Congress.
I sure hope that Trump had the foresight to
audio and video record his meeting with the intelligence chiefs and that he is
now able to threaten them with legal action if they now act in a way
contradicting their behavior before him.
Fifth, the fact that CNN got involved in
all this is a critical factor. Some of us, including yours truly, were
shocked and disgusted when the WaPo posted a list of 200 websites denounced as
“fake news” and “Russian propaganda”, but what CNN did by posting this article
is infinitely worse: it is a direct smear and political attack on the President
Elect on a worldwide level (the BBC and others are already posting the same
crap). This again confirms that the gloves are off and that the Ziomedia is in
full state of war against Donald Trump.
All of the above further confirms to me
what I have been saying over the past weeks: if Trump ever makes it into the
White House (I write ‘if’ because I think that the Neocons are perfectly
capable of assassinating him), his first priority should be to ruthlessly crack
down as hard as he legally can against those in the US “deep state” (which very
much includes the media) who have now declared war on him. I am sorry to
say that, but it will be either him or them – one of the parties here will be
crushed.
Sidebar: to those who wonder what I mean by
“crackdown” I will summarize here what I wrote elsewhere: the best way to do
that is to nominate a hyper-loyal and determined FBI director and instruct him
to go after all the enemies of Trump by investigating them on charge of
corruption, abuse of power, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and all the
other types of behavior which have gone on forever in Congress, the
intelligence community, the banking world and the media.
Deal with the Neocons like Putin did with
the Russian oligarchs or how the USA dealt with Al Capone – get them on tax
evasion. There is no need to open Gulags or shoot people when you can get
them all on what is their normal daily behavior.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong, and I
admit that I might be, but I don’t have the gut feeling that Trump has what it
takes to hit hard enough at those who are using any and every ugly method
imaginable to prevent him from ever making it into the White House or to have
him impeached if he tries to deliver on his campaign promises. I cannot blame him
for that either: the enemy has infiltrated all the level of power in the US
polity and there are strong signs that they are even represented in Trump’s
immediate entourage.
Putin could do what he did because he was
an iron-willed and highly trained intelligence officer. Trump is just a
businessman whose best “training” to deal with such people would probably be
his exposure to the mob in New York. Will that be enough to allow him to
prevail against the Neocons? I doubt it, but I sure hope so.
As I predicted it before the election,
the USA are about to enter the worst crisis in their history. We are entering
extraordinarily dangerous times. If the danger of a thermonuclear war
between Russia and the USA had dramatically receded with the election of Trump,
the Neocon total war on Trump put the United States at very grave risk,
including civil war (should the Neocon controlled Congress impeach Trump I
believe that uprisings will spontaneously happen, especially in the South, and
especially in Florida and Texas).
At the risk of sounding over the top, I
will say that what is happening now is putting the very existence of the United
States in danger almost regardless of what Trump will personally do.
Whatever we may think of Trump as a person and about his potential as a
President, what is certain is that millions of American patriots have voted for
him to “drain the swamp”, give the boot to the Washington-based plutocracy and
restore what they see as fundamental American values.
If the Neocons now manage to stage a coup
d’etat against Trump, I predict that these millions of American will turn to
violence to protect what they see as their way of life, their values and their
country. In spite of the image which Hollywood likes to give of them, most
Americans are peaceful and non-violent people, but if they are pushed too far
they will not hesitate and grab their guns to defend themselves, especially if
they lose all hopes in their democracy.
And I am not talking only about gun-toting
hillbillies here, I am talking about the local, state and county authorities,
who often care much more about what their local constituents think and say than
what the politicians are up to in DC.
If a coup is staged against Trump and some
wannabe President à la Hillary or McCain gives the order to the National
Guard or even the US Army to put down a local insurrection, we could see what
we saw in Russia in 1991: a categorical refusal of the security services to
shoot at their own people.
That is the biggest and ultimate danger for
the Neocons: the risk that if they give the order to crack down on the
population the police, security and military services might simply refuse to
take action. If that could happen in the “KGB-controlled country” (to use
a Cold War cliché) this can also happen in the USA.
I sure hope that I am wrong and that this
latest attack against Trump is the Neocon’s last “hurray” before they finally
give up and leave. I hope that all of the above is my paranoia
speaking. But, as they say, “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean
that they are not after you”.
So please tell me I am wrong!