The position of Secretary of State is a unique one. The SOS has a position that is more powerful
than the Vice President as the position is almost a co-presidency. America’s top diplomat advises the president
on issues of foreign policy, but in the end advances the president’s
agenda. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson,
who is not a political insider has been the victim of a concerted effort to
oust him by a consortium Washington elite.
The Deep State is itching for war, and their warmongering
minions, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and
CIA Director Mike Pompeo are now vying for the coveted position of Secretary of
State. After the ouster of President
Trump’s National Security Advisor, General Mike Flynn, his replacement H.R.
McMaster purged the NSA of Flynn’s advisors.
H.R. McMaster has surrounded himself with Obama holdovers whose mission
is to thwart the agenda of the President Trump and the American people. From Miami Herald:
Excerpt:
Washington loves Gen. McMaster, but Trump does not
For the Washington establishment, President Trump’s decision to
make General H.R. McMaster his national
security adviser in February was a masterstroke…
But inside the White House, the
McMaster pick has not gone over well with the one man who matters most. White
House officials tell me Trump himself has clashed with McMaster in front of his
staff. On policy, the faction of the White House loyal to senior strategist
Steve Bannon is convinced McMaster is
trying to trick the president into the kind of nation-building that Trump
campaigned against…
Trump has complained in front of
McMaster in intelligence briefings about “the
general undermining my policy,” according to two White House officials…
The roots of the McMaster-Trump
tensions begin in February, when the general was hired after his first meeting
with the president. McMaster replaced
another general, Michael Flynn. Both Vice President Mike Pence and Priebus
supported getting rid of Flynn. Trump
himself has defended Flynn publicly…
For a president who puts so much
value in personal relationships and loyalty, Flynn’s departure was a blow…
Then Trump’s inner circle began clashing with McMaster over personnel.
This began with Ezra Cohen Watnick, who remains the senior director for intelligence
at the National Security Council. McMaster
initially sided with the CIA and wanted to remove this Flynn appointee
from his position, but eventually McMaster changed his mind…
That dispute was followed by a
bigger one. Bannon and Trump, according to White House officials, pressed McMaster to fire a list of Obama
holdovers at the National Security Council who were suspected of
leaking to the press… The list of
names was compiled by Derek Harvey, a former Defense Intelligence Agency
colonel who was initially hired by Flynn. McMaster balked. He refused to fire anyone…
And finally, the White House chief of staff himself blocked McMaster this month from
hiring Brigadier Gen. Ricky Waddell as
his deputy…
The CIA controlled media has escalated the calls for
Tillerson’s removal citing ANONYMOUS sources in the “Moron-gate”
investigation. Moron-gate is a creation
of Fake News designed to drive a wedge between President Trump and his
pacifistic Secretary of State opening the door for a GOP warmongering insider
to take over. From The Daily Beast:
Excerpt:
White House Aides Wanted Rex Tillerson to Resign for Calling Trump a
‘Fucking Moron’
The Secretary of State has few allies inside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
But he and Trump soldier on in a loveless marriage. As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took to
the microphones Wednesday morning to
address reports that he had called his boss, President Donald Trump, a “fucking moron,” aides in the White
House held out hope that he would offer his resignation.
Tillerson didn’t deny having
questioned the president’s intellectual capacities. But he insisted that he
wasn’t going anywhere either, much to
the chagrin of three White House officials who vented to The Daily Beast in
real time about how they wished he would
“just leave,” as one put it.
“In a perfect world” he would have
quit right then and there, another said.
The wish of certain White
House officials to be rid of Tillerson is
not confined to a select few inside the walls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It
is a sentiment shared among many in senior staff that has been building for
months...
The latest point of tension between the White House and Tillerson came early Wednesday morning, when NBC
News reported that Tillerson had strongly considered resigning over
Trump’s July speech to the annual jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America…
The report also detailed that Tillerson had called Trump a “moron;”
… and that the Secretary of State had questioned U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s
utility in the administration…
According to five senior Trump administration officials, current
and former… it had been gossip within
the White House that Tillerson had called Trump a “moron” or an
“idiot” during an official meeting over the summer. Trump…
tweeted repeatedly that it was a “fake”
story and repeated the claim during a stop in Las Vegas to visit the site
of the country’s deadliest mass shooting in recent history…
Tillerson has also frequently clashed with White House staffers… and
he has butted heads with Stephen Miller,
the conservative senior policy adviser…
Widespread antipathy to Tillerson
in the West Wing represents “a rapid deterioration of [his] relationship with
the White House,” THE EX-OFFICIAL SAID. Just months ago, “Rex was [the] cabinet official you most often saw on
public schedule meetings with the president.”
Unfortunately Steve Bannon is no longer in the White House
as a voice of reason against the Washington war mongering juggernaut. With General Flynn and Steve Bannon ousted
from the Trump White House, President Trump is surrounded by a constant barrage
from the CIA and the Generals. From TheIntercept:
Excerpt:
$21 Trillion Missing – U.S. Government a Criminal Enterprise –
Catherine Austin Fitts
Investment advisor and former
Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts says you can add $21 trillion of missing federal money on top of the $20 trillion U.S.
deficit. It’s all in a new explosive report on Solari.com. Fitts explains, “This is $65,000 for every
man, woman and child resident in America...
We know that the U.S. government
has been run like a criminal enterprise from a financial standpoint…”
The missing money is called “undocumentable adjustments,” but that
may just be a polite name for theft, fraud and crime against “We the
People…” They have done that by
basically hijacking the federal credit and using it to help centralize power
under them.
So, we have to reverse that, and the Constitution is the tool to
hold them accountable. All their arguments just fall down when you
realize they have just stolen an
enormous amount of money from the federal government outside the law. . . .
The U.S. Federal government doesn’t have information sovereignty, and it
doesn’t have financial sovereignty. So,
we have to return it to that, and we
have to keep that mechanism open long enough to get this money back.”
Fitts contends the Deep State swamp creatures do not want to
give the money back and want to tear up the U.S. Constitution in order to keep
all those trillions of stolen dollars… “You
want to preserve the Constitution because you want to have individual
sovereignty, and you want your taxes to
only go into things that have financial and national sovereignty…
They say we have $20 trillion in debt, and there is no money. It’s a very different policy discussion if I
can say, wait a minute, there’s $20 trillion in debt, but you stole $21 trillion . . . and we’re putting that back on the
table for purposes of this policy discussion.”
In other words, “We the People” could pay off the entire federal deficit with the
money that was stolen and still have $1 trillion left over.
Fitts also says, “Here’s the magic
trick. You don’t need everybody to change this.
It only takes 5% to 10% of the population to completely turn this
around. It doesn’t take everybody, and
that is one of the things that has got them so scared. . . . We don’t need to
implode the federal government. We need to take it back, clean it up and
get it to run according to the law.”
So where did the $21
trillion congress stole go? Into the
shadow government set up after the 911 attacks.
Sure the shadow government existed before, but in 2000 during the
recount of the Presidential election, the US Senate deregulated the insurance
industry and derivatives trading causing the 2008 banking meltdown and the
transfer of trillions of dollars from the Federal Reserve into the shadow
government. From Vanity Fair:
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON’S $8 BILLION SHADOW
Mega-contractors such as
Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most
powerful of the “body shops”—SAIC, which
employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower,
including a lot of the “expertise”
behind the Iraq war…
… the largest government contractor you’ve never heard of: a company
known simply by the nondescript initials SAIC (for Science Applications
International Corporation)… SAIC maintains
its headquarters in San Diego, but its
center of gravity is in Washington, D.C.
With a workforce of 44,000, it is
the size of a full-fledged government agency—in fact, it is larger than the departments of Labor, Energy, and Housing
and Urban Development combined.
Its anonymous glass-and-steel
Washington office—a gleaming corporate box like any other—lies in northern
Virginia, not far from the headquarters
of the C.I.A., whose byways it knows quite well… SAIC has been awarded more individual government
contracts than any other private company in America.
The contracts number… in the thousands: SAIC currently holds some
9,000 active federal contracts in all. More than a hundred of them are worth
upwards of $10 million apiece. Two of
them are worth more than $1 billion.
The company’s annual revenues, almost all of which come from the federal government, approached $8
billion in the 2006 fiscal year, and they are continuing to climb. SAIC’s goal
is to reach as much as $12 billion in revenues by 2008. As for the financial
yardstick that really gets Wall Street’s attention—profitability—SAIC beats the S&P 500 average…
To get some idea of the scale: contractors absorb the taxes paid by
everyone in America with incomes under $100,000. In other words, more than
90 percent of all taxpayers might as well remit everything they owe directly to
SAIC or some other contractor rather than to the IRS…
An SAIC executive once gave a press
interview and referred to the enterprise as
a “stealth company,” a characterization that is accurate and that has
stuck. “Nobody knows who they are…”
Which is all the more remarkable in
light of two developments. The first is
a mounting collection of government audits and lawsuits brought by former
employees for a variety of reasons, some of them personal and some coming under
federal whistle-blower statutes…
The second development is that
several of SAIC’s biggest projects have
turned out to be colossal failures… One
involves the National Security Agency, America’s intelligence-gathering
“electronic ear” and for many years SAIC’s biggest customer… Four years and more than a billion dollars
later, the effort has been abandoned…
Happily for SAIC… The company has
been awarded the contract for a revised Trailblazer… The contract is worth $361 million.
Another failed effort involves the F.B.I., which paid SAIC $124 million
to bring the bureau, whose computer systems are among the most primitive in
American law enforcement, into at least the late 20th century… Three years and a million lines of garbled
computer code later, V.C.F. has been written off by a global publication for
technology professionals as “the most
highly publicized software failure in history…”
Much to the embarrassment of a company entrusted with some of the
nation’s most precious secrets, its San Diego offices were mysteriously
burgled in January of 2005… burglars managed to break into SAIC’s headquarters,
pry open 13 private offices, and walk out with one desktop-computer hard drive
and four laptops.
By SAIC’s account, the computers contained personal data on
thousands of present and past employees, presumably including the company’s
many former C.I.A. operatives, N.S.A.
executives, and Pentagon officials. To date, the burglary remains unsolved.
With all the war mongering and money making there is one
faction that the neocons and neoliberals just don’t care about, that is our
military members and their families.
From Geopolitics:
Excerpt:
No Wonder US Forces in Morale
Crisis
The spate of deadly US Navy collisions is a symptom of a wider
morale crisis among American military forces. Part of the reason is that American troops are simply exhausted from
being abused by political masters in Washington.
“Over-stretch” is one way of
putting it. American forces continue to
be assigned in overseas wars and operations around the globe with no end in
sight. And for no credible purpose either.
This is not just a Navy problem. It
affects all other branches of the US military: Army, Air Force, the Marines and
National Guard. When President Donald Trump announced his
brazen U-turn sending more American
troops back to Afghanistan, the move had the backing of the Pentagon’s top
brass. No doubt stock prices for US arms
manufacturers spiked.
But what about ordinary American soldiers? One can imagine renewed
Afghan missions are not welcome, given that the US has been fighting its
longest war – 16 years – in that country known as the “Graveyard of
Empires.”
Any army is only as good as the
morale among soldiers. Morale depends on
having a respected leadership and a credible just cause. In America’s case,
there are neither of these attributes, therefore it is no surprise that morale
diminishes, as does fighting effectiveness. Look at the appalling record of US military defeats or failures…
American troops no doubt know
what’s going down on the ground. They
will know that the Pentagon and CIA are arming and training terrorist death
squads in Syria, Iraq, and, yes, Afghanistan.
I would like to tell our military members that help is on
the way but I can’t. The Deep State is
itching for war, and if successful in strong arming Tillerson out as Secretary
of State war is inevitable. CIA Director
Pompeo is the popular choice among the CIA controlled media. Pompeo is the ideal choice for the Deep State,
given his views Pompeo will be more than happy to scratch that itch. From Stephen Lendman:
Excerpt:
Neocon CIA Director Pompeo’s Venom
The agency operates unaccountably,
its diabolical agenda incompatible with democratic values and rule of law
principles. It’s mostly a global Mafia hit squad. Its unchecked power threatens
everyone. As long as it exists, no one anywhere is safe.
Imperialism is tyranny by another name. The CIA acts as its enforcer. America is the United States of
Amnesia, learning nothing from its imperial history, repeating the same
mistakes, ordinary people at home and abroad suffering most.
Pompeo is the latest in a long line of rogue CIA directors. At an
Aspen, Colorado security summit last week, he substituted venom and fiction for
truth-telling.
Pompeo: “ The agency, along with our great partners from DOD and
foreign partners are working diligently to defeat ISIS in” the Middle East.
Fact: Washington created and supports
ISIS and likeminded terrorist groups, using them as imperial foot soldiers,
the CIA heavily involved in arming,
funding, training and directing their fighters.
Pompeo: “Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, and
they now have a significant foothold in Syria.”
Fact: Iran is the region’s leading proponent of peace and
stability. It’s aiding its Syria ally
combat the scourge of US-supported terrorism…
Pompeo: “America’s interests (involve) providing the conditions
(for) a more stable Middle East.”
Fact: America pursues its “interests” by raping and destroying one country after another in the region and
elsewhere.
Pompeo: “Assad is not a stabilizing influence in Syria…(I)t is
difficult to imagine a stable Syria that still has (him) in power.” “He is a puppet of the Iranians and therefore
it seems an unlikely situation where Assad will be sitting on the throne and
America’s interests will be well served.”
Fact: Assad is
overwhelmingly supported by Syrians, wanting no one else leading them.
Pompeo: Russia’s interest in Syria is to have “a warm water naval
port, and they love to stick it to America.”
Fact: Russian/Syrian relations go back decades. They “stick it” to
no other country. America “stick(s) it”
to everybody everywhere.
Pompeo: Asked if Russia pursues a serious anti-ISIS strategy,
Pompeo said “(no).”
Fact: Russia is smashing
ISIS, driving Pompeo and other neocons in Washington nuts for defeating its
imperial agenda in Syria.
Pompeo: “…America has an obligation to push back against” Russia.
Fact: America represents the greatest threat to world peace, Russia
and China the best hope to preserve it.
Let’s hope President Trump doesn’t cave to the barrage of
CIA controlled media reporting an “irreparable schism” between the president
and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson over Fake News’ fabricated “Moron-gate.” The Deep State is itching for war and ready
to go, the only thing in their way is Secretary of State Tillerson. With General Kelly guarding access to the
president and the CIA’s Mike Pompeo, personally handfeeding Trump the CIA’s
propaganda laced pap in the Daily Briefing, God knows what will happen. Hopefully Trump will hold strong.
By Patricia Baeten
