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Former top spy rethinks: Maybe we shouldn't have attacked a new president
Washington Examiner ^ | Dec 12, 2017 | Byron York

Posted on 12/11/2017 11:22:55 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

Edited on 12/12/2017 1:21:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

"Mr. Trump continues to exhibit paranoia about American intelligence agencies," wrote the NeverTrump conservative Max Boot in the New York Times a week or so before the president took office.

"Consumed by his paranoia about the deep state, Donald Trump has disappeared into the fog of his own conspiracy theories," declared the Times' Maureen Dowd.


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To: DesertRhino

They are now using regular analog radios for conversations within the deep state instead of cell phones, land lines, voice mails, emails, text messages, and such that are data mined and unsafe because that is what they do to us! They never thought they could be caught in their own bear traps. Amazing.


21 posted on 12/12/2017 3:10:37 AM PST by blackdog
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To: vpintheak

“Spineless pukes. A disgrace to America.”

Indeed they are. Each one a political appointee. How low a scum do you have to be to endorse Hillary Clinton? Too damn bad the AG has neither the zeal nor guts to round these bastards up at 3am.


22 posted on 12/12/2017 3:25:54 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: Ann Archy

“Mike Morrell is an IDIOT if he didn’t know what they were doing!!”

These types are all political hacks and know basically zilch about intelligence.The real genuine pros are there several layers down and you never hear their names.


23 posted on 12/12/2017 3:31:43 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The Mueller investigation now has several prominent Democrats in their sights. This is why the left is trying to backtrack and stop the Mueller investigation. Gone The Podesta Group, more to follow.


24 posted on 12/12/2017 3:37:37 AM PST by stockpirate (REPRESSION BREEDS VIOLENCE)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Michael Morell admits he went after the new president without even considering what that might mean . . . "So, if I could have thought of that, would I have ended up in a different place? I don't know. But it's something I didn't think about."

I assumed they thought it through and either didn't care or decided it was worth the risk, but these career intelligence professionals are even less competent than I assumed. How could they not even consider how their opposition (an American president who supports America) would respond to their treason? Is that how they think when evaluating other professional decisions? "We'll act, and the other side won't respond, so our plan will work."

25 posted on 12/12/2017 4:08:12 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
"I was so deeply concerned about what a Trump presidency might look like from a national security perspective, and believed that there was such a gap between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump with regard to how well they would protect the country, that I thought it extremely important to come out and say that," Morell told Glasser.

Words matter and this clymer still refers to Her Heinous as Secretary Clinton, but the President only as Donald Trump in every instance. The media play a similar game in labeling Republican Presidents as former President the second their successor puts his hand on the Bible while continuing to call Democrat Presidents as President for the rest of their lives.

26 posted on 12/12/2017 4:08:51 AM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: Dahoser

Sad that someone in intelligence had so little of it.


27 posted on 12/12/2017 4:27:06 AM PST by PSUGOP
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To: Herakles

Famous But Incompetent.


28 posted on 12/12/2017 5:34:09 AM PST by OKSooner (Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life! - POTUS Donald J. Trump)
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To: DesertRhino

And what is going to be divulged in a short time is all the names in this story who came out for Clinton did so for self preservation. My bet is they all worked for Fusion GPS and a Trump win would have outed every one of them. Funny because that seems to be what is going on.


29 posted on 12/12/2017 5:45:47 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (We're CNN. We're not lying, we're just incompetent!)
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To: DesertRhino

“Time for the Marines to seize Langley and FBI HQ.”

I agree. Declare the CIA and FBI in insurrection and order martial law against both agencies. Set up a military court to judge the treasonous ringleaders.


30 posted on 12/12/2017 6:03:44 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: sergeantdave
There was a rumor several weeks ago that the Marines had actually landed helicopters with armed Marines at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. This rumor did not reach even the leading alt-news sites like Breitbart or Infowars, much less conventional conservative sites. Why did this story pop up? Was it disinformation, or possibly a warning to the Deep State that the military could seize Langley and the J. Edgar Hoover building under martial law.

Keep in mind that in the latter days of the Watergate crisis, Defense Secretary Schlesinger and Secretary of State Kissinger kept President Nixon from direct access to the military, especially the Marines, whose commandant was sympathetic to the President's plight. By that time, however, Nixon had lost most of his confidants like Haldemann and Erlichman, was depressed, and drinking heavily. It is unlikely Trump has Nixon's problems, but would Defense Secretary Mattis do what Schlesinger and Kissinger did 42 years ago, thus blocking Trump from using the military to decapitate the hostile Federal spy and law enforcement agencies?

31 posted on 12/12/2017 6:22:59 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Herakles
FBI, Federal Bureau of Ignorance

More like:

Federal Bureau of Insurrection.

32 posted on 12/12/2017 6:26:33 AM PST by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: Billthedrill

The FBI now have a counterintel task assigned to them so they are now a deep imbed in the IC. And are largely still out to Get Trump!


33 posted on 12/12/2017 6:34:00 AM PST by Paladin2 (There is no credible evidence that 0sama is a NBC.)
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To: Paladin2

I would love to see convicted traitors dangling from light poles and trees along the WDC Mall until their bones disintegrated. That would send a message to such slimeballs.


34 posted on 12/12/2017 6:57:32 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Wallace T.

“...possibly a warning to the Deep State that the military could seize Langley and the J. Edgar Hoover building under martial law.”

I offer no proof but lean towards that theory. Also, consider me a biased observer of these organizations.

Long ago, the CIA dumped one of their operatives into our unit. After we determined that he was a nitwit and might be detrimental to the mission, the gunny called the local mama-san. She took him in hand to the local village where he drank himself silly and probably contracted a half-dozen different social diseases over a period of several months.


35 posted on 12/12/2017 7:07:41 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Oshkalaboomboom; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

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36 posted on 12/12/2017 8:04:05 AM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: DesertRhino

Exactly right
CIA is the root of evil.


37 posted on 12/12/2017 8:18:32 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: KavMan; LucyT; bitt

See post 12


38 posted on 12/12/2017 8:20:34 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: DesertRhino

Exactly right
CIA is the root of evil.


39 posted on 12/12/2017 8:26:38 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I think there was a significant downside to those of us who became political,” he told Glasser. “So, if I could have thought of that, would I have ended up in a different place? I don’t know. But it’s something I didn’t think about.”

they thought about it but never thought Trump would win and be so smart. They are being outed and are now starting to beg forgiveness for treason...


40 posted on 12/12/2017 9:00:44 AM PST by rolling_stone
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