When I read Trump’s defenders, such as
Daniel Lazare, having to balance their defense with denunciations of Trump, I
think the CIA’s propaganda is working. In his article, Lazare asks the
rhetorical question, “Is a military coup in the works?” He then goes on to
describe the CIA and presstitute coup against Trump
unfolding before our eyes.
Having described the unprecedented frame-up
of the president-elect of the United States by the CIA and the Western media,
Lazare has to square himself with those doing the frame-up:“This is not to say
that the so-called President-elect’s legitimacy is not open to question. . . .
Trump is a rightwing blowhard whose absurd babblings about Saudi Arabia, Iran
and Yemen reveal a man who is dangerously ignorant about how the world works.”
Note that Lazare goes beyond the CIA and
the presstitutes by elevating Trump from someone not sufficiently suspicious of
Vladimir Putin to “dangerously ignorant.” I suppose Lazare means dangerously
ignorant like Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama. If this is
what Lazare means, why is Trump any less qualified to be president than his
three most recent predecessors and his opponent in the election?
Of course, Lazare has no idea what he
means. He is simply afraid he will be called a “Trump deplorable,” and he stuck
in some denunciatory words to ward off his dismissal as just another Russian
agent.
At other times I conclude that the CIA is
discrediting itself with its fierce and transparently false attack on the
president-elect. The attack on Trump from the CIA and its media agents at the
New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, the network TV channels, the BBC, the
Guardian, and every other Western print and TV source with the exception of Fox
News, is based on no evidence whatsoever. None of the US 16 intelligence
agencies can produce a tiny scrap of evidence. The evidence consists of nothing
but constant repetitions of blatant lies fed into the presstitute media by the
CIA.
We have witnessed this so many times
before: “Tonkin Gulf,” “Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction,” “Iranian
nukes,” “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,” “Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
General Smedley Butler, the most decorated
Marine in the history of the US military said that he and the US Marines spent
their lives defending the interests of the United Fruit Company and some lousy
investment of the banks in Latin America. That’s all the attack on Trump is
about. Trump is saying that “America first” doesn’t mean a license for America
to rape and plunder other countries.
Normalized relations with Russia removes
the orchestrated “Russian threat” justification for the $1,000 billion taxpayer
dollars taken annually from ordinary Americans and given to the
military/security complex via the federal budget.
Trump’s question about the relevance of
NATO 25 years after the collapse of NATO’s purpose—the Soviet Union—threatens
the power and position not only of the US military/security complex but also of
Washington’s European vassals who live high in money and prestige as
Washington’s servants. All European governments consist of Washington’s
vassals. They are accustomed to supporting Washington’s foreign policy, not
having had a policy of their own since World War II.
Trump is taking on a policy world long
under the influence of the CIA. Little wonder WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange and a
number of other clued-in people say that the CIA will assassinate Trump if he
cannot be brought into line with a Western alliance organized for the power and
profit of the few.
So what is Trump to do?
There are various alternatives. Trump could
fire CIA director John Brennan, have the Attorney General indict him for
treason, have the FBI locate all participants in the intelligence agencies and
presstitute media who aided and abetted the attempted frame-up of the
president-elect of the United States and put them all on trial. This would be
the best and surest way for Trump to clean out the snakepit that is Washington,
D.C. To call a snakepit a “swamp” is to use a euphemism.
Another alternative is for Trump to make
the obvious point that despite the allegations of the CIA and the presstitutes,
any hacking that occurred was not the fault of Trump and Russia, but the
fault of the US intelligence agencies who were too incompetent to prevent it.
Trump’s trump question to the CIA, NSA, FBI is: So, you know the Russians
hacked us and you did not prevent it? If you repeat your incompetence, I am
going to fire every one of you incompetents.
The same goes for terror attacks. Trump
should ask the intelligence agencies: “How were you so totally incompetent that
a handful of Saudi Arabians who could not fly airplanes brought down three WTC
skyscrapers and destroyed part of the Pentagon, humiliating the world’s sole
superpower in the eyes of the world?”
Trump should make the point that the huge
amount of money spent on security does not produce security. The massive
security budget cannot prevent hacking of an American election and it cannot
prevent humiliating attacks on the SuperPower by a handful of Saudi Arabians
operating independently of any intelligence service.
Trump should raise the obvious question:
Has the Saudi’s oil trillions purchased the CIA and the presstitutes so that
the CIA and the corrupt Western media now serve foreign interests against the
United States? The story is being established that the Saudis are responsible
or 9/11 and nothing is done about it. Instead, the Saudis are supplied with
more weapons with which to murder women and children in Yemen.
All of the CIA’s propaganda can be turned
against the agency. 9/11 was due to CIA failure, and to nothing else. Putin’s
theft of the US presidential election was due to CIA failure, and to nothing
else. All the bombings in France, UK, and Germany are due to intelligence
failings, and to nothing else, as is the Boston Marathon bombing and every
other alleged “terror event.”
I mean, really, the CIA is a sitting duck
for Trump. He has every reason to abolish the agency that has traditionally operated
in behalf of narrow interests. In his book, The Brothers, Stephen Kinzer
documents the use of the CIA and State Department in behalf of the clients of
the Dulles brothers’ law firm’s clients. The CIA serves no American
purpose, only the private purposes of the ruling elites, who are the real
deplorables who have used corrupt Western governments to solidify all income
and wealth in a few greedy hands.
There is no reason for Trump to tolerate
spurious charges against him by the CIA. At best the CIA is incompetent. At
worst the agency is complicit in, or organizer of, terrorist events.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been
reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition
of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored
with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the
protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.
