Posted on 01/12/2017 8:49:54 PM PST by Whenifhow
While it might be disconcerting for some, and Glenn Greenwald is not a political ally, we hold no reservations about exposing the UniParty’s connections to Deep State constructs whenever it surfaces.
Fox host Tucker Carlson invites The Intercept’s Glen Greenwald to discuss why the intelligence agencies appear to be in conflict with President Elect Donald Trump. Glenn Greenwald breaks down how the recently leaked 35-page-dossier could have only been injected into the media narrative from one of the intel agencies at odds with, and at risk from, President Trump. WATCH:
Video 6:30 Minutes Greenwald: Shadowy foes at war with Trump as Dems cheer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VciUsx0YVUI
Mounting evidence supports the ongoing thesis the Department of Defense has actually seceded from the political elites; and with the election of President Donald Trump, they are poised on the horizon to reconstruct a nationalist-minded defense, intelligence and security apparatus.
This is the fundamental paradigm shift many have discussed, yet few imagined possible.
With General Mattis as Secretary of Defense, Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor, General John Kelly the Department of Homeland Security, a top-of-class West Point graduate in Mike Pompeo brought in to take over and undoubtedly purge the CIA, and a lame duck struggle breaking out over NSA with Admiral Mike Rogers, the implications are pretty obvious.
[…] The white hats we have needed within the national security and intelligence departments are responding from a very select group within the Defense Department. (more)
Understanding The UniParty “DEEP STATE” – During the time in 2011 when political warfare over the debt ceiling was beginning to paralyze the business of governance in Washington, the United States government somehow summoned the resources to overthrow Muammar Ghaddafi’s regime in Libya, and, when the instability created by that coup spilled over into Mali, provide overt and covert assistance to French intervention there.
At a time when there was heated debate about continuing meat inspections and civilian air traffic control because of the budget crisis, our government was somehow able to commit $115 million to keeping a civil war going in Syria and to pay at least £100m to the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters to buy influence over and access to that country’s intelligence.
Since 2007, two bridges carrying interstate highways have collapsed due to inadequate maintenance of infrastructure, one killing 13 people. During that same period of time, the government spent $1.7 billion constructing a building in Utah that is the size of 17 football fields.
This mammoth structure is intended to allow the National Security Agency to store a yottabyte of information, the largest numerical designator computer scientists have coined. A yottabyte is equal to 500 quintillion pages of text. Yes, they need that much storage to archive every single trace of your electronic life.
Yes, there is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose.
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[…] The Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street. All these agencies are coordinated by the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council.
Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Manhattan, where sensitive proceedings in national security cases are conducted.
The final government component (and possibly last in precedence among the formal branches of government established by the Constitution) is a kind of rump Congress consisting of the congressional leadership and some (but not all) of the members of the defense and intelligence committees.
The rest of Congress, normally so fractious and partisan, is mostly only intermittently aware of the Deep State and when required usually submits to a few well-chosen words from the State’s emissaries.
[T]he Deep State does not consist only of government agencies. What is euphemistically called “private enterprise” is an integral part of its operations. In a special series in The Washington Post called “Top Secret America,” Dana Priest and William K. Arkin described the scope of the privatized Deep State and the degree to which it has metastasized after the September 11 attacks.
There are now 854,000 contract personnel with top-secret clearances — a number greater than that of top-secret-cleared civilian employees of the government. While they work throughout the country and the world, their heavy concentration in and around the Washington suburbs is unmistakable: Since 9/11, 33 facilities for top-secret intelligence have been built or are under construction. Combined, they occupy the floor space of almost three Pentagons — about 17 million square feet.
Seventy percent of the intelligence community’s budget goes to paying contracts. And the membrane between government and industry is highly permeable: The Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, is a former executive of Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the government’s largest intelligence contractors. His predecessor as director, Admiral Mike McConnell, is the current vice chairman of the same company; Booz Allen is 99 percent dependent on government business.
These contractors now set the political and social tone of Washington, just as they are increasingly setting the direction of the country, but they are doing it quietly, their doings unrecorded in the Congressional Record or the Federal Register, and are rarely subject to congressional hearings.
Washington is the most important node of the Deep State that has taken over America, but it is not the only one. Invisible threads of money and ambition connect the town to other nodes. One is Wall Street, which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater.
Should the politicians forget their lines and threaten the status quo, Wall Street floods the town with cash and lawyers to help the hired hands remember their own best interests. The executives of the financial giants even have de facto criminal immunity.
On March 6, 2013, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder stated the following: “I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.”
This, from the chief law enforcement officer of a justice system that has practically abolished the constitutional right to trial for poorer defendants charged with certain crimes. It is not too much to say that Wall Street may be the ultimate owner of the Deep State and its strategies, if for no other reason than that it has the money to reward government operatives with a second career that is lucrative beyond the dreams of avarice — certainly beyond the dreams of a salaried government employee.
The corridor between Manhattan and Washington is a well trodden highway for the personalities we have all gotten to know in the period since the massive deregulation of Wall Street: Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner and many others.
Not all the traffic involves persons connected with the purely financial operations of the government: In 2013, General David Petraeus joined KKR (formerly Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) of 9 West 57th Street, New York, a private equity firm with $62.3 billion in assets. KKR specializes in management buyouts and leveraged finance. General Petraeus’ expertise in these areas is unclear. His ability to peddle influence, however, is a known and valued commodity.
Unlike Cincinnatus, the military commanders of the Deep State do not take up the plow once they lay down the sword. Petraeus also obtained a sinecure as a non-resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. The Ivy League is, of course, the preferred bleaching tub and charm school of the American oligarchy.
Petraeus and most of the avatars of the Deep State — the White House advisers who urged Obama not to impose compensation limits on Wall Street CEOs, the contractor-connected think tank experts who besought us to “stay the course” in Iraq, the economic gurus who perpetually demonstrate that globalization and deregulation are a blessing that makes us all better off in the long run — are careful to pretend that they have no ideology.
Their preferred pose is that of the politically neutral technocrat offering well considered advice based on profound expertise. That is nonsense. They are deeply dyed in the hue of the official ideology of the governing class, an ideology that is neither specifically Democrat nor Republican.
Domestically, whatever they might privately believe about essentially diversionary social issues such as abortion or gay marriage, they almost invariably believe in the “Washington Consensus”: financialization, outsourcing, privatization, deregulation and the commodifying of labor. Internationally, they espouse 21st-century “American Exceptionalism”: the right and duty of the United States to meddle in every region of the world with coercive diplomacy and boots on the ground (keep reading).
This, dear friends, is yet only part of what President Donald Trump is up against… ….there are trillions of dollars at stake.
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This makes me want to wrap my whole house in tinfoil.
Selling to Amazon = selling to Bezos, owner of the Washington comPost. Rather sell it to Foxconn which wants to build a LCD factory in the USA.
That was an excellent interview last night. The things we’re learning about the US Government are chilling.
I don’t get your statement. Did beethovenfan say something untrue?
Trump ain’t Jesus, by any stretch, but I sincerely hope and pray that he can help the Lord with the exposure of some of the graft and corruption endemic in Washington DC.
Appears to be. He's also apparently homosexual. Neither of these potential disqualifiers change the fact that he's on the right side of history in all these interviews that I've watched recently. He is. Let's just not get carried away and start to believe that because he's quite clearly correct in his area of expertise, and is also now apparently on the run for taking a brave and risky stand, that he's going to be right in all areas. He won't be. Credit and support where credit and support is due. Know that he'll be in opposition to us at some point also, though. Sort of like how I view Putin.
This certainly sheds some light on what we are seeing play out before our very eyes.
The Dems pushing this Russia theme to the point of absurdity, as well as traitors like John McCain and Lindsay Graham joining the amen chorus, is showing us that there is entrenched opposition to Trump in the very halls of our own government.
The destruction of the Democrats as a political party, and the reining in of the financial and intelligence communities, which have been corrupted almost beyond redemption by the Dems, is of paramount importance for the
Trump movement to save America to succeed.
Even more clear, thanks to Trump, is that our nation has been sold out by both parties since 1/20/89.
Bush,Clinton,Bush,Obama=28 years of subversion and manipulation, and the systemic looting of America’s wealth and will.
It is time for the reign of terror to end, and for the people to become the masters of their own country.
We must pray for Trump and his Administration.
The power and money that is at stake is unimaginable.
And the American people are in no mood to tolerate it the outright treason and sedition any longer.
By the looks of it, a bunch of lampposts in DC may be needed for secondary duty.
I said nothing to disqualify his discussion. But right out the 'gate' it was seemingly important to qualify this person as, NOT a Trump supporter. Naturally, at least for me, my first question is who does he support. Ol Bernie obviously really did not believe what he campaign on, else he would not as Trump said 'sold his soul to the devil'.
I actually like Bernie Sanders, he’s that rarest of creatures, an honest leftist. He sees the same big problems with our governance that we do. He just goes totally off the rails as to just how those problems should be addressed and corrected.
Seriously? Bernie sold his so called 'honesty' for a 6 figure check. He is a lazy play actor who never did an honest day of work in his life.
He made a weird show of that lake house, “look at me, I’m a sellout.” Sackcloth and ashes for a guy like him.
I think he was threatened.
Bernie Sanders is not an honest leftist.
His diatribe yesterday on the Senate floor against the GOP for trying to fix the failing healthcare system is more proof of what an utter Communist tool this fraud has been for fifty years.
He never even fought for his own “principles” when it was shown that Hillary and the DNC colluded against him.
In addition to his three homes, his Congressional salary and Rolls Royce healthcare plan, and his remaining $9 million in campaign funds, he has shown an amazing ability to become rich while espousing the benefits of the collective.
An utter, contemptible fraud on all levels.
That so many Americans were taken in by him is quite a confirmation of P.T. Barnum’s most famous maxim.
Of course he believes the GOP is taking the wrong tack on healthcare, he’s an avowed socialist. That he just faded into the background after Clinton and DNC collusion reinforces to me that he was threatened. What seems like wealth to just regular people is actually quite paltry by DC standards. He believes what he says, wrongheaded though it obviously is to those of us on the right. I still maintain that he’s one of the rare ones, an honest leftist.
Bernie learned early in his life how to get somebody to pay for his lifestyle... Particularly 'tax payers', and he in our face has demonstrated what 'socialism' literally is... He is representative of the characters of Animal Farm... (name of a book I read back in the 70's) Unfortunately his total lie about 'free' college catfished millions of debt ridden college students, and those that face a lifetime of debt for a piece of paper not worth a junk bond.
We disagree on him, then.
His beliefs are anathema to the Constitution, which he has never championed unless it furthered Communist goals in America.
DC should be a reflection of us, not a collection of rich oligarchs who lord over us, winning power and wealth on our backs.
Sanders showed his was a fake, a fraud, a man totally devoid of core principles.
I have my doubts that he ever believed any of his own BS, and that he was totally and willingly used to be a foil to Clinton to give the appearance of opposition to her in the race.
If he was threatened, you better believe Trump has been threatened.
The difference in response by these two men could bot be more stark.
Well, he was quite literally screwed out of the nomination by Hillary Clinton, who then attempted to coattail her sorry, corrupt, lying self onto his college plan. Wasn’t enough to get her elected, that and all the fraud the Democrat machine was capable of mustering, so it’s a moot point now. We on the right are fortunate that the DNC and Clinton colluded. I’m of the opinion that we’d have had a much tougher row to hoe, had Sanders won. They’re just as determined to upend the dysfunctional, corrupt and overreaching system as we are. They’re totally deluded as to what the solutions should be, though.
I know-a big house of tinfoil. LOL Two years ago I would have busted a gut laughing. That was before I did some serious research, including things like Operation Mockingbird, Operation Northwood, Mongoose, etc. etc.
Of course I had known about the Bilderberger group, because Phyllis Schlafly exposed them in her book A CHOICE NOT AN ECHO. At one time that was debunked as a total fiction, as was the plan for World Government.
However, the Bilderberger’s were real, and in spite of the high profile of the people attending, no mention in the media, other than an occasional blurb from the Guardian or a local paper. Contrast that to the other meetings of World Leaders.
Then there’s the CFR, Hillary said she just had to go ask them what to do and it was nice that they were located close to her. Then the Trilateral Commission. Then I find out that indeed the CIA did a lot of stuff on mind control experiments, LSD experiments, and other creepy stuff.
Prior to the millennium, I went to the UN website and noticed that they had a plan for World Government. I went back 6 months later to print it, and it had been taken down, but also with the EU and the North Am. Security Agreement, and the planned superhighway, the open borders, doing nothing to prevent our jobs going to China etc. It was becoming clear that there was some sort of plan.
Now I think that our Politicians could definitely use a few more IQ points and some common sense, but come one, no one could be so stupid, if they really wanted to serve this country and keep us strong.
I guess for me, the real nail in the coffin was the Operation Northwood. A plan to have a false flag against Americans to have an excuse to invade Cuba, and the Joint Chief of Staff signed off on it. Kennedy vetoed it and fired the man. He also fired CIA chief Allen Dulles, but the CIA went right ahead with other plans to get Castro after the Bay of Pigs-apparently out of control.
So I have to understand that we sometimes have bad people in our Government that have nefarious intentions, and little to no scruples, and the CIA really doesn’t have much in the way of checks on what they do. And we have 17 Intelligence Agencies now. Ike warned against it, and Kennedy spoke of the monolith, and others through the years have tried to blow the whistle.
Bottom line is I don’t trust the media, politicians, or the CIA. Someone once said that there is nothing new under the sun - so there you go. History repeats itself.
A resounding, historical "someone" of Biblical proportions. Solomon. The Book of Ecclesiastes, written in his old age. Quite the bleak and depressing book, but also very wise and breathtakingly beautiful at times, too. It's especially compelling in the King James translation.
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