The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims

Delirium Tremens said:
[h=1]The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer[/h][FONT=TIActuBetaMono-Regular_web]Glenn Greenwald
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IN JANUARY, 1961, Dwight Eisenhower delivered his farewell address after serving two terms as U.S. president; the five-star general chose to warn Americans of this specific threat to democracy: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” That warning was issued prior to the decadelong escalation of the Vietnam War, three more decades of Cold War mania, and the post-9/11 era, all of which radically expanded that unelected faction’s power even further.

This is the faction that is now engaged in open warfare against the duly elected and already widely disliked president-elect, Donald Trump. They are using classic Cold War dirty tactics and the defining ingredients of what has until recently been denounced as “Fake News.”
Their most valuable instrument is the U.S. media, much of which reflexively reveres, serves, believes, and sides with hidden intelligence officials. And Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss as well as a systemic collapse of their party, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing — eager — to embrace any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry and damaging those behaviors might be.

The serious dangers posed by a Trump presidency are numerous and manifest. There are a wide array of legitimate and effective tactics for combatting those threats: from bipartisan congressional coalitions and constitutional legal challenges to citizen uprisings and sustained and aggressive civil disobedience. All of those strategies have periodically proven themselves effective in times of political crisis or authoritarian overreach.

But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive. Empowering the very entities that have produced the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six decades is desperation of the worst kind. Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth — despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie — is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.

Beyond all that, there is no bigger favor that Trump opponents can do for him than attacking him with such lowly, shabby, obvious shams, recruiting large media outlets to lead the way. When it comes time to expose actual Trump corruption and criminality, who is going to believe the people and institutions who have demonstrated they are willing to endorse any assertions no matter how factually baseless, who deploy any journalistic tactic no matter how unreliable and removed from basic means of ensuring accuracy?
All of these toxic ingredients were on full display yesterday as the Deep State unleashed its tawdriest and most aggressive assault yet on Trump: vesting credibility in and then causing the public disclosure of a completely unvetted and unverified document, compiled by a paid, anonymous operative while he was working for both GOP and Democratic opponents of Trump, accusing Trump of a wide range of crimes, corrupt acts and salacious private conduct. The reaction to all of this illustrates that while the Trump presidency poses grave dangers, so, too, do those who are increasingly unhinged in their flailing, slapdash, and destructive attempts to undermine it.

FOR MONTHS, the CIA, with unprecedented clarity, overtly threw its weight behind Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and sought to defeat Donald Trump. In August, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell announced his endorsement of Clinton in the New York Times and claimed that “Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” The CIA and NSA director under George W. Bush, Gen. Michael Hayden, also endorsed Clinton, and went to the Washington Post to warn, in the week before the election, that “Donald Trump really does sound a lot like Vladimir Putin,” adding that Trump is “the useful fool, some naif, manipulated by Moscow, secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted and exploited.”

It is not hard to understand why the CIA preferred Clinton over Trump. Clinton was critical of Obama for restraining the CIA’s proxy war in Syria and was eager to expand that war, while Trump denounced it. Clinton clearly wanted a harder line than Obama took against the CIA’s long-standing foes in Moscow, while Trump wanted improved relations and greater cooperation. In general, Clinton defended and intended to extend the decadeslong international military order on which the CIA and Pentagon’s preeminence depends, while Trump — through a still-uncertain mix of instability and extremist conviction — posed a threat to it.

Whatever one’s views are on those debates, it is the democratic framework — the presidential election, the confirmation process, congressional leaders, judicial proceedings, citizen activism and protest, civil disobedience — that should determine how they are resolved. All of those policy disputes were debated out in the open; the public heard them; and Trump won. Nobody should crave the rule of Deep State overlords.

Yet craving Deep State rule is exactly what prominent Democratic operatives and media figures are doing. Any doubt about that is now dispelled. Just last week, Chuck Schumer issued a warning to Trump, telling Rachel Maddow that Trump was being “really dumb” by challenging the unelected intelligence community because of all the ways they possess to destroy those who dare to stand up to them

And last night, many Democrats openly embraced and celebrated what was, so plainly, an attempt by the Deep State to sabotage an elected official who had defied it: ironically, its own form of blackmail.


read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/01/11/the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claims-as-dems-cheer/

Awesome article calling all you pathetic idiots out on your bullshit.
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Excellent article!
 
Nomad said:
No she doesn't.

She looks a lot like Hillary looked when she was young.

None of slump's kids look like him either.

More of a resemblance to Putin.
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Especially Eric. And I think it's creepy how Melania's plastic surgery makes her resemble Ivanka. Melania had a completely different look at one time.

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Midas Whale67 said:
Sure glad this doesn't "get to" T1 much...:whoa:
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When have I pretended that the election of Donald Trump as our next President hasn't gotten to me?

It's absolutely horrific, and I'm definitely as mortified as I could be. And I've lived through a fair # of elections. Bush was pretty brutal - especially the way it went down - but my level of angst about it was nothing like this.

I still can't believe this dude is going to be our President. I think deep down, even a lot of his supporters get that. At best, this is an incredibly surreal time in our history.
 
I will grant you on the surreal thing. I love it though. It is a bit of a weird feeling. It's throwing us into the rabbit hole and redefining reality. It's a societal realignment about what is expected, what is attainable, what is real. The very nature of existence is being re-written. A complete reality shift. Like going into another dimension. Embrace it thing1. The future is an exciting place.
 
Delirium Tremens said:
I will grant you on the surreal thing. I love it though. It is a bit of a weird feeling. It's throwing us into the rabbit hole and redefining reality. It's a societal realignment about what is expected, what is attainable, what is real. The very nature of existence is being re-written. A complete reality shift. Like going into another dimension. Embrace it thing1. The future is an exciting place.
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I don't necessarily mind upheaval. I know a lot of 20-somethings, and they love the whole idea of tearing everything down. I get it. I'm not a big proponent of the status quo in general.

But I can't stand the leader that has been chosen for that kind of shift. At his core, he deals in hate, division & exclusion. He's a very old school, narrow-minded guy to choose for a push forward into the unknown. I can't embrace it under his leadership. I can't stand his rhetoric.
 
Remember when Hillary, in the debate said Trump was Putins puppet? Trumps response was essentially, I know you are but what am I? He interrupted her and said, no, you're the puppet. He said it twice.

That is some serious immaturity and one of my biggest concerns with him being president and pulling that crap in international relations.
 
Thing1 said:
Every rightie acts like the cat who ate the canary. Trump? Who? Was he really a birther guy?
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I seriously do not know how many times you have to be told this, there were only two realistic choices on offer and both deeply flawed. Trump is a protest against politics as usual, he may be brilliant or maybe not. However many people are willing to give him a chance, you of course, have chosen to whinge and whine constantly.

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