Posted on 04/22/2018 8:13:34 PM PDT by Hojczyk
First, Goldsmith should know. He was a high ranking Justice Department official — head the Office of Legal Counsel — during part of the George W. Bush administration. This placed him in the middle of issues regarding national security, electronic surveillance, and the like. He also worked closely with James Comey, including during the famous incident at Attorney General Ashcroft’s hospital bed that made Comey famous (or at least a legend in his own mind).
At any rate, Goldsmith has this to say about the deep state and Donald Trump:
America doesn’t have coups or tanks in the street. But a deep state of sorts exists here and it includes national security bureaucrats who use secretly collected information to shape or curb the actions of elected officials. . . .
The deep state has been blamed for many things since Donald Trump became president, including by the president himself. Trump defenders have used the term promiscuously to include not just intelligence bureaucrats but a broader array of connected players in other administrative bureaucracies, in private industry, and in the media.
But even if we focus narrowly on the intelligence bureaucracies that conduct and use information collected secretly in the homeland, including the FBI, National Security Agency (NSA), and National Security Council, there is significant evidence that the deep state has used secretly collected information opportunistically and illegally to sabotage the president and his senior officials – either as part of a concerted movement or via individuals acting more or less independently. . . .
Since Trump was elected, unusually sensitive leaks of intelligence information designed to discredit him and his senior leadership have poured forth from current and former intelligence officials in the deep state.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
We have to FIGHT to make sure these plotters are charged, arrested and tried.
The United States already had a “silent coup” to replace an american president. We called it Watergate. It was a coup by the Progressive media.
What is being attempted against Trump is a similar coup, but with any illegal activity being created out of process crimes by the Mueller investigation.
Fortunately, conservatives now have a little alternate media to expose the coup.
That did not happen with President Nixon.
The Progressive media overlooked far worse crimes by Wilson, Roosevelt, and Johnson.
More public talk about this being a coup d’etat by the deep state against Trump....by a never trump leftist no less.
If only Sessions knew! Then it would certainly be fixed!
“America doesn’t have coups or tanks in the street.”
JFK and Bobby Kennedy disagree and say we do indeed have coups. And Reagan somewhere is still a little puzzled that a friend of the Bush family shot him. /s
Sessions is controlled by the deep state.
The coup happened on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.
The Constitution was violated with the complete cooperation of BOTH parties.
Barack Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
What is going on now is the struggle to re-establish the Constitution and restore the rule of law.
The outcome is still unclear.
including the FBI, National Security Agency (NSA), and National Security Council,
there is significant evidence that the deep state has used secretly collected information opportunistically and illegally to sabotage the president and his senior officials ...
Walks like a coup d'etat, Quacks like a coup d'etat... What part of illegal and overt seizure does the 'deep state' not understand?
The Bush family was no stranger to assassinations, ask Kennedy or Reagan. They also were no stranger to craven attempts at building a fortune while supplying the funds to build our enemies arms and armies.
I should say the Leftist’s coup is still in progress, but Phase 1 failed.
MidTerms may cheer them up. An impeachment process is much noisier than a “silent coup”.
Unnerving, this foot dragging by the Establishment R’s, who do NOT want to win in November. Otherwise, all of the Senate and all of the House Republicans would be banging on Sessions door.
“used secretly collected information opportunistically and illegally to sabotage the president and his senior officials”
I’ll say it again: SEDITION
I should say the Leftist’s coup is still in progress, but Phase 1 failed.
MidTerms may cheer them up. An impeachment process is much noisier than a “silent coup”.
Unnerving, this foot dragging by the Establishment R’s, who do NOT want to win in November. Otherwise, all of the Senate and all of the House Republicans would be banging on Sessions door.
Did y’all already forget the Muslim Coup?
bmp
Good read. Thanks for posting.
Sally Yates was worried about Flynn? No one worried about zero’s comment to the Russians on a live microphone!!
If there was a breaking of the honor code, believe me, it was done FIRST against the deplorables during the last administration and now they fear it will happen to them. Thing is, they did it, patriots know it, and have the proof, and hopefully the remnant of true historic constitution loving lawyers and judges will hang the traitors. That’s about the only thing that might keep the deep state from being so sloppy and spilling the beans.
This author is no patriot; he’s just training the underlings squirming for food in the swamp universities.
Jack Goldsmith is a deep state apologist and bureaucrap justifier:
The ‘deep state’ is real. But are its leaks against Trump justified?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/22/leaks-trump-deep-state-fbi-cia-michael-flynn
>>If only Sessions knew! Then it would certainly be fixed!<<
Of course, Sleepy does know, which is precisely why it is not being fixed.
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