At war with the "Deep State"
Left-of-center journalist Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept calls the faction that is out to destroy Trump "the deep state," which is defined as "the permanent government embedded within the bureaucracy and military that wields power no matter who is nominally the president."
Greenwald says the American Deep State has gone to war with Trump:
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...
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.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Fox Wednesday night that he hopes Dan Coats, Trump's nominee for the director of National Intelligence, will "bring in a couple of outsiders and really dig through how politicized, how intellectually corrupt, how dishonest the senior levels of the intelligence community have become." He called the two-page memo Trump reportedly received on the allegations "pure garbage."
The Kremlin, meanwhile, is insisting that the dossier is a complete fabrication and also denied it had information on Hillary Clinton.
Via the UK Sun:
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, spoke to reporters on a conference call and called the dossier a ‘fake’ and ‘fiction’ which had been dreamt up to further damage US-Russia relations.
He stated unequivocally: “The Kremlin does not have compromising information on Trump
