We need to understand, and so does
President Trump, that the hoax “war on terror” was used to transform
intelligence agencies, such as the NSA and CIA, and criminal investigative
agencies, such as the FBI, into Gestapo secret police agencies. Trump is now
threatened by these agencies because he rejects the neoconservative’s agenda of
US world hegemony that supports the gigantic military/security annual budget.
Our secret police agencies are busy at work
planting “intelligence” among the presstitute media that Trump is compromised
by “Russian connections” and is a security threat to the United States. The
plan is to make a case in the media, as was done against President Nixon, and
to force Trump from office. To openly take on a newly elected president is an
act of extraordinary audacity that implies enormous confidence, or else
desperation, on the part of the police state agencies.
Here you can see CNN openly cooperating with
the CIA in treating wild and irresponsible speculation that Trump is under
Russian influence as if it is an established fact. The “evidence” provided by
CNN and the CIA is a “report” by the New York Times that, with little doubt,
was planted in the NYT by the CIA.
This is so obvious that it is clear that
CNN and the CIA regard the American people as so gullible as to be completely
stupid.
Glenn Greenwald explains to Amy Goodman
that the CIA is after Trump because Trump’s announced policy of reducing the dangerous
tensions with Russia conflicts with the military/security complex’s need for a
major enemy.
“The
deep state, although there’s no precise or scientific definition, generally
refers to the agencies in Washington that are permanent power factions. They
stay and exercise power even as presidents who are elected come and go. They
typically exercise their power in secret, in the dark, and so they’re barely
subject to democratic accountability if they’re subject to it at all. It’s
agencies like the CIA, the NSA, and the other intelligence agencies, that are
essentially designed to disseminate disinformation and deceit and propaganda,
and have a long history of doing not only that but also have a long history of
the world’s worst war crimes, atrocities and death squads. This is who not just
people like Bill Kristol, but lots of Democrats are placing their faith in, are
trying to empower, are cheering for as they exert power separate and apart
from—in fact, in opposition to—the political officials to whom they’re supposed
to be subordinate.
“And you go—this is not just about Russia.
You go all the way back to the campaign, and what you saw was that leading
members of the intelligence community, including Mike Morell, who was the
acting CIA chief under President Obama, and Michael Hayden, who ran both the
CIA and the NSA under George W. Bush, were very outspoken supporters of Hillary
Clinton. In fact, Michael Morell went to The New York Times, and Michael Hayden
went to The Washington Post, during the campaign to praise Hillary Clinton and
to say that Donald Trump had become a recruit of Russia. The CIA and the
intelligence community were vehemently in support of Clinton and vehemently
opposed to Trump, from the beginning. And the reason was, was because they
liked Hillary Clinton’s policies better than they liked Donald Trump’s. One of
the main priorities of the CIA for the last five years has been a proxy war in
Syria, designed to achieve regime change with the Assad regime. Hillary Clinton
was not only for that, she was critical of Obama for not allowing it to go
further, and wanted to impose a no-fly zone in Syria and confront the Russians.
Donald Trump took exactly the opposite view. He said we shouldn’t care who
rules Syria; we should allow the Russians, and even help the Russians, kill
ISIS and al-Qaeda and other people in Syria. So, Trump’s agenda that he ran on
was completely antithetical to what the CIA wanted. Clinton’s was exactly what
the CIA wanted, and so they were behind her. And so, they’ve been trying to
undermine Trump for many months throughout the election. And now that he won,
they are not just undermining him with leaks, but actively subverting him.
There’s claims that they’re withholding information from him, on the grounds
that they don’t think he should have it and can be trusted with it. They are
empowering themselves to enact policy.
“Now, I happen to think that the Trump
presidency is extremely dangerous. You just listed off in your news—in your
newscast that led the show, many reasons. They want to dismantle the
environment. They want to eliminate the safety net. They want to empower
billionaires. They want to enact bigoted policies against Muslims and
immigrants and so many others. And it is important to resist them. And there
are lots of really great ways to resist them, such as getting courts to
restrain them, citizen activism and, most important of all, having the Democratic
Party engage in self-critique to ask itself how it can be a more effective
political force in the United States after it has collapsed on all levels. That
isn’t what this resistance is now doing. What they’re doing instead is trying
to take maybe the only faction worse than Donald Trump, which is the deep
state, the CIA, with its histories of atrocities, and say they ought to almost
engage in like a soft coup, where they take the elected president and prevent
him from enacting his policies. And I think it is extremely dangerous to do
that. Even if you’re somebody who believes that both the CIA and the deep
state, on the one hand, and the Trump presidency, on the other, are extremely
dangerous, as I do, there’s a huge difference between the two, which is that
Trump was democratically elected and is subject to democratic
controls, as these courts just demonstrated and as the media is showing, as
citizens are proving. But on the other hand, the CIA was elected by nobody.
They’re barely subject to democratic controls at all. And so, to urge that the
CIA and the intelligence community empower itself to undermine the elected
branches of government is insanity. That is a prescription for destroying
democracy overnight in the name of saving it. And yet that’s what so many, not
just neocons, but the neocons’ allies in the Democratic Party, are now urging
and cheering. And it’s incredibly warped and dangerous to watch them do
that.”
The United States is now in the
extraordinary situation that the liberal/progressive/left is allied with the
deep state against democracy. The liberal/progressive/left are lobbying for the
impeachment of a president who has committed no impeachable offense. The
neoconservatives have stated their preference for a deep state coup against
democracy. The media obliges with a constant barrage of lies, innuendos, and
disinformation. The insouciant American public sits there sucking its thumb.
What can Trump do? He can clean out the intelligence
agencies and terminate their license granted by Bush and Obama to conduct
unconstitutional activities. He can use anti-trust to break up the media
conglomerates that Clinton allowed to form. If Bush and Obama can on their own
authority subject US citizens to indefinite detention without due process and
if Obama can murder suspect US citizens without due process of law, Trump can
use anti-trust law to break up the media conglomerates that speak with one
voice against him.
At this point, Trump has no alternative but
to fight. He can take down the secret police agencies and the presstitute media
conglomerates, or they will take him down. Dismissing Flynn was the worse thing
to do. He should have kept Flynn and fired the “leakers” who are actively using
disinformation against him. The NSA would have to know who the leakers are.
Trump should clean out the corrupt NSA management and install officials who
will identify the leakers. Then Trump should prosecute the leakers to the full
extent of the law.
No president can survive secret police
agencies determined to destroy him. If Trump’s advisers don’t know this, Trump
desperately needs new advisers.
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.
