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    Bringing Down a President

    written by philip giraldi thursday september 13, 2018



    If anyone doubted that the top level of the intelligence agencies in Washington have dedicated themselves to ousting President Donald Trump, the past two weeks should have demonstrated precisely how such a plan of action is being executed. First came the leaked accounts of chaos in the Trump Administration derived from the Bob Woodward book Fear: Trump in the White House.

    Then a New York Times op-ed entitled “I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration” written by one Anonymous who claimed to be a senior official in the White House, exploded on the scene, describing how top officials were deliberately sabotaging Trump’s policies to protect the country.
    Finally, another another op-ed “Why so many former intelligence officers are speaking out” by former CIA Acting Director John McLaughlin appeared, providing a rationale for intelligence officers to speak up against the White House.

    There has been considerable chatter in the media regarding the Woodward book and the Anonymous op-ed, but relatively little concerning McLaughlin, who arguably has made the most serious case for pushback against Donald Trump from within the intelligence community. To sum up the op-ed, McLaughlin wrote that many former intelligence officers are beginning to speak out against the foreign policy of the Trump Administration because America’s institutions are being seriously damaged by an “extraordinarily unprecedented context” of threats emerging from both inside and outside the country due to a “president’s dangerous behavior.”

    McLaughlin claims that “failure to warn is the ultimate sin in the intelligence world” and that is precisely why he and his colleagues now speak out. In particular, and perhaps inevitably, he cites the “refus[al] to combat a well-documented covert foreign attack on U.S. elections — in the process weakening efforts by others to do so and encouraging Russia to keep it up.”

    McLaughlin also addresses the issue of the credibility of the intelligence community after Trump, i.e. will the public and many policymakers henceforth believe that the national security team is in fact politically biased, tainting the judgments that it makes when delivering its intelligence product. He argues somewhat evasively and not altogether clearly that “…we have to hope most people will understand why we reject silence: It’s because this is a threat that we cannot combat silently, as we have been able to do with foreign threats — overseas and out of the public’s eye.”

    McLaughlin is praising himself and friends as constituting some kind of loyal opposition consisting of the good guys driven to protect “American values” and “American institutions” from Trump and his “deplorables.” His argument is carefully framed but ultimately self-serving. Witness his own career as Deputy Director of CIA under George Tenet, who famously sat in the United Nations sagaciously nodding to validate the argument that Saddam Hussein threatened the world with weapons of mass destruction and terrorist support. It was all a lie, leading to America’s greatest foreign policy disaster and McLaughlin was complicit. Did he ever apologize for what he did? No. He was also around when the CIA was “renditioning” people by snatching them off the streets and sending them to foreign lands to be tortured. Did he ever consider how that damaged America’s rule of law? And then there were the torture prisons. Again, silence from the suddenly-found-Jesus John McLaughlin.

    And since that time, where was McLaughlin’s conscience when Barack Obama was sitting down with his intelligence advisor John Brennan and making up lists of American citizens to be killed by drone? Or planning the destruction of Libya? Apparently, the only threats that matter are those presumably generated by Donald Trump, who is particularly reviled because he has spoken of bettering relations with Russia. And when McLaughlin inevitably cites the threat from Moscow, he ignores the fact that the United States has been arming Ukraine while at the same time conducting military exercises right on Russia’s border.

    continued..http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arch...n-a-president/
    "The Patriarch"



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    who is particularly reviled because he has spoken of bettering relations with Russia
    Talk is cheap, I am still waiting for some actions from the so called Putin puppet. Because so far, he has been the most anti Russia president in my life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    McLaughlin claims that “failure to warn is the ultimate sin in the intelligence world” and that is precisely why he and his colleagues now speak out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by juleswin View Post
    Talk is cheap, I am still waiting for some actions from the so called Putin puppet. Because so far, he has been the most anti Russia president in my life.
    Seems some in the IC got triggered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by juleswin View Post
    Talk is cheap, I am still waiting for some actions from the so called Putin puppet. Because so far, he has been the most anti Russia president in my life.
    I guess you were born after Obama.
    "The Patriarch"

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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    Seems some in the IC got triggered.
    Triggered? not really but I am not ashamed to say that quite a few things trigger me. Stupidity, vulgar gay posts and lack of common sense tops the list

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    Quote Originally Posted by juleswin View Post
    Triggered? not really but I am not ashamed to say that quite a few things trigger me. Stupidity, vulgar gay posts and lack of common sense tops the list
    You are changing the subject.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    McLaughlin claims that “failure to warn is the ultimate sin in the intelligence world” and that is precisely why he and his colleagues now speak out.
    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    “Warn” is the key weasel word. Glaringly absent is the word “act”.

    “Look at page 538 of this report. We warned about this. Job well done!”
    "Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
    "Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
    "Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    “Warn” is the key weasel word. Glaringly absent is the word “act”.

    “Look at page 538 of this report. We warned about this. Job well done!”
    Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_La...o_Strike_in_US


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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_La...o_Strike_in_US

    Perfect. What was Comey really thinking about when he said that?
    "Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
    "Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
    "Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul

    Proponent of real science.
    The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own, and do not represent this forum or any other entities or persons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    Perfect. What was Comey really thinking about when he said that?
    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post



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