It has been a red letter day in America, is there any tidbit
of Democracy still alive in the experiment called America? We have spy agencies who operate in an extrajudicial
manner answering to no one. This has
been occurring for a very long time in America but what is different now is the
confluence of the two-parties with big media to destroy our freedoms.
The erosion of Democracy began on December 12, 2000 when
five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court overturned the results of the
2000 election and installed George W. Bush as president. Three days later the U.S. Senate voted for The
Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 that deregulated over the counter
derivatives trading. The CFMA was signed
into law December 15, 2000. The first
official action by President Bush was to seal the presidential papers of his
father, George Herbert Walker Bush. From
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:
Excerpt:
Presidential Records Remain Sealed
By Bush
Attempting to place his
gubernatorial records outside the reach of the Texas Public Information Act was
not President George W. Bush's only effort to limit access to executive
records.
On Nov. 1, 2001, Bush signed
Executive Order 13233. Prior to the order, presidential records were sealed for
12 years, after which they were reviewed for release by the National Archives. Under the new order, both the former and
incumbent president must review the records before they are released by the
archives, and either could block
disclosure indefinitely.
A number of Bush's current advisors were also members of Ronald Reagan and George
H.W. Bush's administrations, and their actions could be detailed in the
documents. Reagan's 12-year limit was to expire in 2001…
A coalition of historians and open
government advocates, including The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press and Public Citizen, filed a lawsuit in federal district court in
Washington, D.C., on Nov. 28, 2001. In American Historical Association v.
National Archives and Records Administration, the coalition contends that the executive order illegally circumvents
the Presidential Records Act of 1968 and asks for an injunction preventing
the order from being enforced.
With the judges appointed by George W. Bush presiding over
the case who do you think won? An interesting
thing happened this week. The FreeThought Project is reporting that George Herbert Walker Bush destroyed records
when he headed up the CIA:
Excerpt:
New Docs Expose Bush Sr. Illegally Destroying Evidence of US Crimes
While Head of CIA
Documents recently dredged from the CIA’s massive database expose an effort
by the former director to destroy documents evincing the agency’s illegal
activities and operations. That director
— George H.W. Bush, who served in the role from January 1976 until January 1977
— went on to become the 41st President of the United States…
As Muck Rock reports, “In 1976,
Congresswoman Bella Abzug wrote to CIA Director George H.W. Bush about the
existing moratorium on the destruction of CIA files… In a draft response to the congresswoman, the
agency originally stated, “Destruction
of Agency material will be in accordance with the recommendations of the
President’s Commission on CIA Activities within the United States, Presidential
directives and as permitted by law.”
But edits scribbled on this draft
indicate transparency in procedural
record-keeping not only didn’t matter to the Central Intelligence Agency,
it directly countered Director Bush’s and the agency’s interests… “A decision as to the disposition of those
files concerning activities which the President’s Commission considered illegal
and improper has not been finalized and the moritorium [sic] on destruction is
still in effect…
Remember the CIA’s abhorrently sadistic torture program? You might
— but obtaining the original copy of the report on its nefarious practice won’t
be possible. As The Free Thought Project reported on May 17, 2016, “[T]he CIA inspector general’s office
recently admitted to ‘mistakenly’ destroying their only copy of the classified
report. Although CIA Director John
Brennan possesses another copy of the torture report, he refuses to send a
replacement to the internal watchdog’s office.
“Last summer, the Senate
Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department were privately informed that CIA employees at the inspector general’s
office had both destroyed the disk and deleted the file containing the full
Senate Torture Report. Despite the fact that the Justice Department ordered
all copies of the classified document to be preserved, acting CIA Inspector
General Christopher Sharpley was unable to locate another copy and eventually informed
the Senate Intelligence Committee that his
officers has mistakenly ruined their only copies...”
Oops.
Award-winning investigative
journalist and current editor of Consortiumnews, Robert Parry, penned an
article in 2000 concerning a 1976 car
bombing in Washington, D.C.’s highbrow Embassy Row — about which the agency
created a fake report to throw off the feds and further its own agenda.
“In early fall of 1976,” Parry
wrote, “after a Chilean government assassin had killed a Chilean dissident and
an American woman with a car bomb in Washington, D.C., George H.W. Bush’s CIA leaked a false report clearing Chile’s military
dictatorship and pointing the FBI in the wrong direction…
“In a 21-page report to Congress on
Sept. 18, 2000, the CIA officially acknowledged
for the first time that the mastermind of the terrorist attack, Chilean
intelligence chief Manuel Contreras, was
a paid asset of the CIA...”
Perhaps it should be asked, what
else could George Herbert Walker Bush — and the CIA — be hiding?
It’s been my experience that when you make a mistake the
benefits yourself you’re likely to make that mistake over again. Under the direction of John Brennan those
torture reports were “mistakenly” eliminated.
Odd isn’t it? The transition from
the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration was seamless. Obama kept a lot of the same people in the
intelligence agencies, State Department and Defense Department from the
Bushes.
Both Administrations hated the Clintons as well as Donald
Trump, so is it any wonder that both Hillary and Donald were surveilled by the
Obama Administration? Today it was
revealed that the Trump transition team was under surveillance by the Obama
Administration and information gleaned from that investigation was illegally
disseminated across the intelligence apparatus. From The Daily Mail:
Excerpt:
I've been 'somewhat' vindicated
says Trump as Republican intel committee chair says Obama administration WAS
eavesdropping - and may even have picked up his personal calls
The U.S. Intelligence Community collected 'incidental' information about
President Donald Trump' and his transition team during the three months
following the 2016 election, House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes
today revealed.
Nunes told reporters on Capitol
Hill that the information collected was
'legally collected' pursuant to a warrant issued by a FISA judge in a
federal court, and concerned 'foreign' surveillance - before he went to the
White House to tell the president.
He said 'it's possible' that the
now-president's personal communications were among those which were part of the
'incidental' collection - but did not say definitively if that was the
case. But that 'did not involve Russia or any discussions with Russians,' Nunes
said, adding that he was 'alarmed'
to learn what he did.
The surveillance would have
occurred while Obama was still president. Nunes said he could not rule out the involvement of senior Obama administration
officials. Standing in front of the
White House, the Republican lawmaker told reporters: 'This is information that
was brought to me that I thought the president needed to know about incidental
collection where the president himself and others in the Trump transition team
were clearly put into intelligence
reports that ended up at this White House and across a whole bunch of other
agencies, and I thought it was important for the president to know…'
So disturbed was the House intel
chairman by the reports he says he saw, he came to the White House straight
away to brief the president - after first holding a news conference on Capitol
Hill with reporters. 'What I have read
bothers me, and I think it should bother the president himself and his team because I think some of it
seems to be inappropriate,' Nunes said after his sit-down with Trump.
The statement was in response to a
question about the nature of the surveillance. Nunes said it had 'nothing to do' with Russia or the FBI's Russian
investigation, prompting an inquiry as to whether he thought it was
politically motivated. He did not answer in the affirmative, yet he did not bat
the suggestion down.
So the surveillance had “nothing to do with Russia or the
FBI’s Russian investigation” then why were the names of individuals in the
Trump transition team “unmasked” and disseminated across the intelligence
apparatus?” Why did James Comey deny any
surveillance took place and who is James Comey anyway? From Common Sense:
Excerpt:
Comey Oversaw Drug Cartel Money Laundering
Operations As a Top Executive At HSBC Bank
My best insider source states that FBI Director James Comey has absolutely no
law enforcement background, and is not qualified to run the FBI. To add
insult to injury, the FBI Director held an executive position at HSBC Bank,
while extreme money laundering operations where being carried out by the
Mexican Drug Cartel and their terrorist allies with the direct assistance of
HSBC banking officials. I asked my source if Comey would have known, and he
replied “he would have to have been
drunk 24/7 to not know what was going on”.
Comey did not just work at HSBC
bank as his resume indicates (see below). He
was on the Executive Board at the very time the HSBC scandal was breaking. There
is no way he did not know as he looked the other way. And when he was vetted
for his job as FBI Director, they knew then, he was in a key position of an
organization that was caught laundering Mexican drug cartel money for the
Sinoloas, the Los Zetas and their terrorist allies.
Oh, goodness I guess the main qualification to head up the
FBI is a tawdry background that insures that your employer HSBC gets away with
just a fine for blatant criminality including money laundering and terrorist
financing. From Rolling Stone:
Excerpt:
The deal was announced quietly,
just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too
busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians,
lawyers and investigators all over the world, the U.S. Justice Department granted a total walk to executives of the
British-based bank HSBC for the largest drug-and-terrorism money-laundering
case ever. Yes, they issued a fine – $1.9 billion, or about five weeks' profit – but they didn't extract so much
as one dollar or one day in jail from any individual, despite a decade of
stupefying abuses…
For at least half a decade, the
storied British colonial banking power
helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars for drug mobs, including
Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, suspected in tens of thousands of murders just in
the past 10 years…
The bank also moved money for
organizations linked to Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, and for Russian gangsters;
helped countries like Iran, the Sudan and North Korea evade sanctions; and, in
between helping murderers and terrorists
and rogue states, aided countless common tax cheats in hiding their cash…
That nobody from the bank went to jail or paid a dollar in individual
fines is nothing new in this era of financial crisis…
Don’t forget it was Comey who ensured a Hillary Clinton
defeat by announcing he had reopened his investigation into her ten days before
the election. Hillary Clinton had
planned to restructure the Federal Reserve Bank, something the banking cartels
didn’t want. But there’s more news. Former Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort
has been accused of working for Vladimir Putin.
This is not a new allegation, I wrote about it in my blog last August.
Excerpt:
Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chief who worked with the ELECTED
Ukrainian president prior to the CIA coup, is viciously attacked by media.
Veep Joe Biden campaigning for
Hillary Clinton proclaimed “Donald Trump cannot be given the nuclear
codes!” PNAC member Biden a self-proclaimed
Zionist, was up to his ears in the coup in Ukraine. Biden’s son Hunter and John Kerry’s stepson
Chris Heinz are collecting million dollar salaries at the CIA’s Ukrainian
energy company Burisma Holdings.
In 2013 after a failed CIA coup against elected President Viktor Yanukovych,
the CIA set up a tent city in Maidan Square equipped with first-aid stations
and canteens. Enraged by Yanukovych’s
snub of the EU trade deal in favor Vladimir Putin’s, the demonstrators demanded
Yanukovych’s ouster. The CIA backed “color revolution” was
part of PNAC’s "eastern neighborhood policy" introduced in 2005 by W.
Bush…
The CIA controlled American media
is touting “handwritten” ledgers showing $12.7 million in so-called undisclosed
cash payments Manafort received from Yanukovych from 2007 to 2012. The documents were provided by the “newly
formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau” in
Poroshenko’s Ukraine.
While the “handwritten” ledgers are not official government documents,
they are being used to accuse Manafort of being a Russian backed evil doer,
proof the Trump campaign is backed by Russia. Charge up the batteries on your “bullshit”
detectors America because you are going to need them.
The allegations are coming from an official from Ukraine’s illegitimate
government that was installed by Washington after a CIA backed coup removed
their democratically elected President Yanukovych. Ten years ago, Paul Manafort worked for the
Ukrainian government.
Yes these bogus charges are nothing new, the only thing new
is that candidate Trump is now President Trump.
But the neoliberal Tom Friedman and the Democrats are now calling for a
“Palace Coup” against Donald Trump. From
World Socialist Website:
Excerpt:
Democratic Party floats proposal for a palace coup
On Wednesday, New York Times
columnist Thomas Friedman addressed an
open letter to a group of generals, deep state operatives and a corporate
executive in President Trump’s cabinet, effectively calling on them to organize a palace coup.
The recipients of Friedman’s
letter, code-named “Calling On a Few Good Men,” are three generals—Secretary of Defense James Mattis, National Security
Adviser H. R. McMaster and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly—along with
CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the former oil tycoon and current Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson.
Using the language of a political toady, Friedman’s column
begins: “Dear Sirs, I am writing you today as the five adults with the most
integrity in the Trump administration. Mattis, McMaster and Kelly, you all
served our nation as generals in battle. Pompeo, you graduated first in your
class at West Point and served as a cavalry officer.”
He continues, “I am writing you
directly because I believe you are the last ‘few good men’ who can stand up” to
Trump. Referring to the impeachment of Richard Nixon, Friedman declares, “The last time our country faced such a
cancer on the presidency, the Republican Party’s leadership stood up and put
country before party to get to the truth.” But today’s Republican Party has
“declared moral bankruptcy” and “abdicated its responsibility.”
Combining flattery with
self-abasement, he continues, “I ask those of you who honored our country as
military officers how you would have reacted if your commanding officer had charged his predecessor with a high
crime that violated his constitutional oath…
Friedman gives voice to tendencies in and around the Democratic
Party that are prepared, in pursuit of
their McCarthyite-style demonization of Russia, to welcome a palace coup
that would impose a military/intelligence/corporate junta on the American
people. The wealthy and corrupt social
layers for whom the millionaire columnist speaks are motivated by two
primary concerns.
First, that Trump is threatening US imperialist interests around
the world by backing away from the Obama administration’s war-mongering
policies toward Russia, and at the same time undermining the image of the US
internationally with his overt lying and bullying of Washington’s allies…
He cites US imperialist strategist Richard Haass, president of the Council
on Foreign Relations, who warns that
without an urgent course correction, the US could find itself “not with
America first, but with America alone.”
The second major concern is that Trump is stoking popular discontent at home
that could spiral out of control and threaten the entire economic and political
system… the Democratic Party is fixated on avoiding at all costs the
emergence of a movement of the working masses. That is why it
appeals to the military/intelligence apparatus and the corporate aristocracy in
its struggle with the faction of the ruling class represented by Trump.
Yes, that’s the new Democratic Party brought to
you by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer and the late Teddy Kennedy. A party of neo-Fascist millionaires hell bent
on avoiding at all costs the “emergence of a movement of working masses”, you
know the people who voted for Donald Trump.
This is the confluence of the GOP/DNC/big media at its worst, for they
serve only the Deep State. From Glen
Ford at Black Agenda Report:
Excerpt:
The U.S. Deep State Rules – On Behalf of
the Ruling Class
“The U.S. Deep State is unlike any other, in
that there is no other global superpower bent on world domination.”
The Deep State is busy denying that it exists, even as it savages a sitting president and brutally
bitch-slaps its host society, demanding the nation embrace its role as global
psycho thug and kick some Russian ass. The New York Times, always available
to divert attention from the essential facts of who rules America, points to
Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan as the natural habitats of Deep States. Apparently,
Deep State-infected countries tend to be nations with majority Muslim
populations, whose military-intelligence apparatus hovers over society and
periodically seizes control of the civil government.
The Times quoted high-ranking operatives of the Deep State to prove
that such structures are alien to the U.S. Michael V. Hayden, who ran the
CIA under Democratic President Obama and Republican George Bush, recoiled at
the term. He “would never use” the words
Deep State in connection with his own country. “That’s a phrase we’ve used
for Turkey and other countries like that, but not the American republic…”
Loren DeJonge Schulman, a former
Obama National Security Council official, claimed to be repelled by the very
idea of an American Deep State. “A deep state, when you’re talking about Turkey
or Egypt or other countries, that’s part of government or people
outside of government that are literally controlling the direction of the
country no matter who’s actually in charge, and probably engaging in murder and
other corrupt practices,” she said…
Apparently, Ms. Schulman did not consider it murder when Obama and his top national
security advisors met every Tuesday at the White House to decide who would be
assassinated by drone or other means. But she is “shocked” to hear “that
kind of [Deep State-phobic] thinking from” President Trump “or the people
closest to him.”
In reality, the U.S. Deep State is by far the world’s biggest and most dangerous
version of the phenomenon; a monstrous and not-so subterranean “web of
common and nefarious purpose” that is, by definition, truly global, since its
goal is to rule the planet…
The best way to describe the
imperial Deep State is: those
individuals and institutions that are tasked with establishing the global
supremacy of the corporate ruling class. Such activities must be masked,
since they clash with the ideological position of the ruling class, which is
that the bourgeois electoral system of the United States is the world’s freest
and fairest…
The truth is that an oligarchy
rules, and makes war on whomever it chooses -- internationally and domestically
-- for the benefit of corporate capital…
The Deep State is where corporate power achieves its class aims outside
the public processes of government. It’s
where the most vicious class warfare takes place, whether on a foreign killing
field, or in the corporate newsroom that erases or misrepresents what
happened on that battlefield.
The ruling class and its War Party, now consolidated within the
Democratic Party and regrouping among Republicans, have effectively neutralized a sitting president whose party controls
both Houses of Congress, less than two months into his term.
Only a Deep State could pull that off.
Yes indeed, it has been a red letter day in America, the
Deep State rules this country. The GOP
is now rewriting Obama Care to clear a path from the American Treasury directly
into the coffers of the Medical Industrial Complex and Big Pharma. But the main goal of the Deep State is to
remove Donald Trump from the Presidency.
While Big Media ridicules Donald Trump for continuing to
take his case to the American worker, Donald Trump is outsmarting the Deep
State. Trump has continued to win, win,
win and thus the Deep State is calling on the Generals to oust our elected
President and lock down the state to ensure there is no emergence of a movement
of the working masses. Hopefully they
are too late.
By Patricia Baeten
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