Posted on 11/08/2024 3:42:14 AM PST by MtnClimber
Once you start digging into the Deep State, what you discover is remarkable continuity when it comes to attacking Republican presidents over the last many decades.
One of the happy unintended consequences of the Russia Hoax of 2016 was that it exposed Americans to the mendacity, amorality, and chicanery of our Deep State and Intel Community (“IC”). Another was learning about the Falstaffian character Stefan Halper. Halper’s role in the hoax—the FBI used him to surreptitiously question Page, Papadopoulos, other others—sent me down a rabbit hole leading to Carter, Nixon, and JFK.
Stefan Halper was a legacy hire: the nephew of a CIA operative and the son-in-law of a giant figure in the agency’s history, Ray Cline. Cline had begun at the OSS, then segued to a role as a sort of historian of the CIA. He moved up and up, including a stint as head of the Taiwan station in the late 50s, and had a starring role at a famous meeting in 1962 where Cline deciphered for President Kennedy the U2 plane’s photos of Russia’s missile sites in Cuba.
Cline lost his run for CIA director to his frenemy Richard Helms, so he transitioned to a different posting in a different IC agency. Technically, that new, non-agency post would prove important in the Watergate investigation, for it gave Helms plausibility when he denied CIA involvement in Watergate when there were many indications that Cline may have directed the Watergate bungled burglary, the subsequent bungled coverup, and Nixon’s not-bungled forced resignation.
As many experts, such as Deep Throat’s attorney John O’Connor, have posited, the entire Watergate burglary operation seems to have been a purposeful “own goal.” From taping the door locks, which inevitably drew a security guard’s attention, to Bob Woodward’s curious lies to John Dean’s strange conduct...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And now the Deep State has metastasized to all of government.
I have not read that reference. Yet.
wary inkterestink trip down deep rabbit hole
BTTT
‘The Watergate Amendement’ on Amazone by John Fitzgerald, All you need to know about the 25th Amendment.
They tried to "Nixon" Trump, but Trump fought back harder than Nixon did.
There are corrupt behind the scenes powers in Washington DC that need to be exposed and eliminated. We as a nation should not tolerate a corrupt shadow government thwarting our will.
It was that during the Cuba event till today. No break in its influence.
It was that during the Cuba event till today. No break in its influence.
Now Trump knows what to expect, and who to trust - trust NOBODY!
I read something the other day that gave me the impression that Trump fully understands this. That’s why his team is all outsiders rather than Washington DC snakes.
And Hillary Clinton was part of the effort. She worked for the Inquiry Committee Staff on the Judiciary Committee. No doubt she became partners with the Deep State operatives of the three letter agencies (CIA, FBI, etc.), and learned how to do a ‘color revolution’, which Watergate was.
Yes, he will base his picks on competency and loyalty to ‘America First’, not necessarily personal loyalty. He will not have Bolton or Milley types..or Bushites.
And she lied to the Federal judge oversseing this thing. She should have gone to prison back in 1975, and because she didn't, she just kept breaking the law ever since.
Trump would have saved us and the world a lot of trouble if he had just thrown that corrupt bitch in prison.
This article has some important information on Halper and CIA, but doesn’t offer much detail on Watergate or its connection to Russiagate beyond noting who knew who. A stronger connection can be drawn by exploring the roles of Bernstein, Woodward, and Dean in promoting Russiagate. Bernstein helped CNN promote the earliest stages of the Russiagate hoax, and Woodward and Dean soon chimed in. Geoff Shepard’s work highlights Ted Kennedy’s role in manipulating the Watergate prosecution and pressuring Dean to support it. Watergate served as a template for Kennedy and his allies in the Democratic Party to go after other political opponents such as Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, etc. The Republicans borrowed this M.O. against Clinton during Whitewater/Lewinsky (not saying Clinton didn’t deserve prosecution for those scandals, but it was a Watergate-style attack in any case). Hillary recognized this because she had been part of the Watergate team to get Nixon, recruited through her Yale contacts with the Kennedy family. The Clintons wanted revenge against the GOP for Lewinsky, and they took it out on Trump, using a game plan they learned from Ted Kennedy, Biden’s Senate buddy.
Halper ping.
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