If you thought that the neocons were killed off by President Trump's election victory, think again.
US Senator Rand Paul recently urged President Trump not to choose neoconservative Elliott Abrams to serve in the No. 2 spot at the US State Department.
In an op-ed published in the libertarian website Rare, Paul argues…
“Elliott Abrams is a neoconservative too long in the tooth to change his spots, and the president should have no reason to trust that he would carry out a Trump agenda rather than a neocon agenda.”
“Congress has good reason not to trust him — he was convicted of lying to Congress in his previous job.”
Paul added that Abrams’s “neocon agenda trumps his fidelity to the rule of law.”
“He is a loud voice for nation building and when asked about the president’s opposition to nation building, Abrams said that Trump was absolutely wrong; and during the election he was unequivocal in his opposition to Donald Trump, going so far as to say, ‘the chair in which Washington and Lincoln sat, he is not fit to sit.’”
1: a former liberal espousing political conservatism
2: a conservative who advocates the assertive promotion of democracy and U.S. national interest in international affairs including through military means
Here are 8 neocons that are gunning to take Trump down, and force America into more illegal wars and regime change operations.
1. Max Boot – Pushing to create
a Syria “no-fly” zone…
Max Boot is an American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.
He once described his ideas as “American might to promote American ideals.”
Worked as a writer and editor for Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990's.
He is now Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has also authored books of military history.
In September 2012, Boot co-wrote with Brookings Institution senior fellow Michael Doran a New York Times op-ed titled “5 Reasons to Intervene in Syria Now”, advocating U.S military force to create a countrywide no-fly zone reminiscent of NATO’s role in the Kosovo War.
2. Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland –
The family of neocons…
Victoria Nuland was Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, married to the top imperial Neocon Robert Kagan.
Run a neocon family businessthat had Vicky Nuland engineer a hot war in Ukraine, and ramp up Cold War 2.0 with Russia.
Robert Kagan works outside of government lobbying Congress into jacking up military spending so America can meet “Nuland created” security threats.
An inside-outside team that creates the need for more military spending, applies political pressure to ensure higher appropriations, and watches as thankful weapons manufacturers lavish grants on like-minded hawkish Washington think tanks.
The Kagan clan includes Robert’s brother Frederick at the American Enterprise Institute and his wife Kimberly, who runs her own shop called the Institute for the Study of War.
McCain and Graham are lifetime US Senators who sponsor American aggression and interventionism at every turn.
A ‘husband and wife’ team that were leaders in pushing the Iraq WMD invasion on George W. Bush.
Supported the dismemberment and destruction of Libya.
McCain has been photographed meeting with various ISIS and Al Qaeda leaders in the run up to the destabilization of Syria.
Both men worked closely with neo-nazi elements in Ukraine to overthrow the democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych, and place in power a far-right oligarch puppet regime in Ukraine.
Both men are never shyto voice their disdainfor Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He is the founder and editor at large of the political magazine The Weekly Standard and a political commentator on several TV networks.
He was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005.
He co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with Robert Kagan.
He is a member of the board of trustees for the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research,
He is also one of the three board members of Keep America Safe, a think tank co-founded by Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame, and serves on the board of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the Susan B. Anthony List.
Kristol supported the Bush administration’s decision to go to war with Iraq.
In 2003, he and Lawrence Kaplan wrote The War Over Iraq, in which he described reasons for removing Saddam.
Kristol predicted a “two month war, not an eight year war” during a March 28 CSPAN appearance.
In the 2010 affair surrounding the disclosure of U.S. diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, Kristol spoke strongly against the organization and suggested using “our various assets to harass, snatch or neutralize Julian Assange and his collaborators, wherever they are.”
In March 2011, he wrote an editorial in The Weekly Standard arguing that the United States’ military interventions in Muslim countries (including the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War) should not be classified as “invasions”, but rather as “liberations”.
Kristol backed Obama’s decision to intervene in the 2011 Libyan civil war and urged fellow conservatives to support the action.
Politico’s reports that Abrams is meeting with President Trump on Tuesday, and that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson supports him for the job.
His first big job came in the Reagan administration, where he was assistant secretary of state.
The independent counsel investigating the the Iran-Contra affair considered charging Abrams with several felonies, but Abrams agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor cases of withholding evidence. He was later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush.
When Bush’s son became president eight years later, he appointed Abrams deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser, supervising U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Abrams was a supporter of the Iraq war and took a lead on Israeli-Palestinian issues.
He’s now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and writes for a variety of outlets, including items posted on The Atlantic.
6. Michael Weiss –
The next generation, hipster, neocon…
Weiss has served as co-chair of the Russia Studies Center at the Henry Jackson Society (HJS).
Weiss currently serves as the editor-in-chief for the online magazine Interpreter, which translates and analyzes Russian news.
He is also senior editor of The Daily Beast, a regular columnist for Foreign Policy magazine.
In 2015, he co-wrote the book ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror with Hassan Hassan.
In November 2014, Weiss published a special report in his online magazine the Interpreter that accused Russia of waging “propaganda and disinformation” campaigns.
Advocatesplacing “small but effective U.S. garrisons indefinitely in eastern and northeastern Syria and western Iraq.”
7. Eliot Cohen – First neocon to advocate
for war against Iran and Iraq…
Eliot Asher Cohen was a counselor in the United States Department of State under Condoleezza Rice from 2007 to 2009.
Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.
He is a specialist in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms control, and NATO.
Cohen was one of the first neoconservatives to publicly advocate war against Iran and Iraq.
Cohen wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post on 3 March 2014, between the ousting of Viktor Yanukovich on 22 February and the Crimean referendum on 16 March. In it, he maintains that “Putin is indeed a brutal Great Russian nationalist who understands that Russia without a belt of subservient client states is not merely a very weak power but also vulnerable to the kind of upheaval that toppled Yanukovych’s corrupt and oppressive regime.”
Several neoconservatives have spent years admiring Hillary Clinton’s penchant for supporting every foreign war or military escalation in the last decade.
Kagan said in 2014: “I feel comfortable with her on foreign policy…If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue, it’s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else.”
Hillary Clinton has consistently sought to demonize and isolate Russia, blaming the Ukraine crisis on “Putin’s imperialism” and endlessly justifying Washington’s relentless provocation of Russia.
Hillary’s close ally is top neocon insider and Ukraine coup architect, Victoria Nuland.
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3 man I.T. SPY ring busted in Congress & GOOGLE IT BOSS FIRED FROM WHITE HOUSE! Maria Bartiromo goes Ballistic - UPDATED TRUMP MAFIA
February 9, 2017
Chiefs of staff for dozens of Democratic lawmakers who employed the four were informed last week that a criminal probe was underway into their use of congressional information technology systems, including the existence of an external server to which House data was being funneled, and into the theft of and over-billing for computer equipment.
Brothers Imran, Abid, and Jamal Awan and Hina Alvi, Imran's wife, each made $160,000 a year as information technology workers for the House. Their salaries and time were shared among dozens of Democratic members, including former Democratic National Committee Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. The lawmakers also include members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Despite the generous salaries, the four were involved in multiple suspicious mortgage transfers and a debt-evading bankruptcy. Abid had more than $1 million in debts following a failed business called Cars International that he ran in Falls Church, Va., from November 2009 to September 2010. Business associates said in court documents that Abid had stolen money and vehicles from them.
It's unclear how Abid found time to run an automotive business while working full-time for Congress. He had been on the congressional payroll since 2005. A congressional credit union repossessed two of his personal cars before the business folded.
A vendor who supplied Abid’s business with cars said that he had not paid for the vehicles and wouldn’t return them, either. “The consignment agreements state it clearly that either Mr. Awan sells the cars for the agreed price no less $62,200 or return my cars back,” he wrote.
On a car record showing the title had been released to Abid, the vendor said “this is no authorize [sic] also I have no information about this car bought by defendant under my company business buy and sale no authorize [sic].”
Abid filed for bankruptcy in 2012, but somehow managed to keep ownership of two houses while telling the bankruptcy court and creditors that he had no assets with which to pay them. He signed a sworn statement that he and his wife, Natalia Soba, were living apart and needed separate residences.
“My spouse and I are legally separated under applicable non-bankruptcy law or my spouse and I are living apart other than for the purpose of evading the requirements of § 707(b)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code,” Abid claimed in bankruptcy documents. But both houses had been in the family for years.
Multiple small businesses and individuals went unpaid as a result of the 2012 bankruptcy. Abid also had an unpaid line of credit of $10,000 with the congressional credit union at the time of bankruptcy.
Abid’s record includes numerous driving- and alcohol-related legal problems, including driving with a suspended or revoked license, court records show. He was found guilty of drunk driving a month before he started at the House, and was arrested for public intoxication a month after his first day.
Cars were a family passion, and Imran has also been convicted of driving offenses serious enough to rise to the level of criminal misdemeanors, as well as using an illegal radar detector and driving an unregistered vehicle.
But unusual real estate deals were the more notable bond among the four.
Hina Alvi, Imran’s wife, bought two homes in Lorton in 2008, including one that all the brothers have been associated with at one time. In November 2016, Alvi sold that home to the youngest brother, Jamal, who is only 22 years of age, for $620,000. The criminal investigation began in late 2016.
The transaction capitalized on increasing Washington, D.C., real estate appraisals, netting her $150,000, while almost all the cost was incurred to the bank; Jamal put almost no money down.
Alvi’s husband, Imran, also owned a house in Springfield, which he put in his father’s name in 2008. Abid later claimed in bankruptcy that the house was his.
A spokesman for Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas told The DCNF Friday that Jamal’s “employment with our office has been terminated.”
Hilarie Chambers, a spokeswoman for Rep. Sandy Levin — who employed Abid — told TheDCNF that “after being notified by the House Administration Committee, this individual was removed from our payroll. We are confident that everything in our office is secure.”
But some Democrats have not terminated their connection with the four, including Wasserman Schultz, who employs Imran and who resigned from her DNC post last year after a computer hack revealed embarrassing emails.Derrick Robinson, spokesman for California Rep. Karen Bass, refused to comment on Alvi’s employment status.
Jack Langer, spokesman for the intelligence committee, said the committee office has its own IT staff and security measures and classified information from the panel is not allowed to be sent to members’ personal offices.
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removes Google chief cybersecurity officer. Saboteur? Phone Call Leaker?
White House abruptly removes Google chief cybersecurity officer. Saboteur? Phone Call Leaker?
Ex-Google shill employee hired by Obama in 2016 White House suddenly removes chief cybersecurity officer
By Eric Lieberman
Cory Louie, the White House's now former chief cybersecurity officer, was reportedly removed from his position.
Louie "was forced to resign," according to an editor at The Atlantic, who was the first to report his exit, despite initiallysaying that he was a member of the Secret Service. The story was apparentlycorroborated by ZDNet, who spoke to unnamed sources on the matter.
When the Trump administration took office, Louie remained at his post, despite several other senior cybersecurity officials resigning.
The White House has not commented on the abrupt and surreptitious purge of Louie. Remaining staff members have stayed quiet (for the most part) because they feel as if they have "targets on their back," one source told ZDNet.
Former President Barack Obama created the role of Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in 2016 as part of his cybersecurity national action plan. The CISO is tasked with protecting the White House's staff from virtual threats, while also driving "cybersecurity policy, planning and implementation across the Government."
A leaked memo provided an example of Louie's responsibilities as CISO, which in one instance was to give Obama technical guidance on his communications and ensure that his devices were secure before traveling to Cuba in March of last year.
Prior to working in the White House, Louie worked at Google and Dropbox, a popular file-hosting service, according to ZDNet.
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During the 2016 presidential campaign, the MSM made no secret of their partiality for Hillary Clinton.
Relations between Trump and the media came to a head yesterday, over aCNN report that the Russian government has "compromising" information on Trump – information that is detailed in a "classified" 35-page dossier, a synopsis of which was handed to Trump when he met last week with four top intelligence officials (Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers).
The dossier allegedly had been compiled by a former British intelligence (MI6) official for Trump's GOP primary campaign opponents, and later for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Another media outlet, BuzzFeed, published the dossier, including the salacious allegation only a pimply-faced teenager living in his mom's basement would conjure: that Trump, during a visit to Moscow, had hired hookers to urinate on a bed Obama had slept in.
The CNN report completely fell apart less than 24 hours after it was published:
• Trump denounced it as "fake news" and a "political witch hunt". In his press conference yesterday morning, Trump called CNN "fake news," and BuzzFeed a "failing pile of garbage".
• The Kremlin denies having a "compromising" dossier on Trumpand calls the intelligence report a "complete fabrication".
• A poster on 4chan claims to have concocted the Trump "golden showers" story, which he sent toRick Wilson– the GOP consultant who called for assassinating Trump – who sent it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election. (Zero Hedge)
• Carl Bernstein, who co-wrote the CNN report, said theMI6 spook,Chris Steele,had given the dossier of memos to Sen. John McCain(R-AZ), whois overtly anti-Trump. McCain, in turn, handed it to the FBI. (New York Post)
• In a phone conversation with Trump yesterday (Jan. 11) evening,Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called the 35-page dossier "a private security company document" that "is not a U.S. Intelligence Community product". Clappersaid the intelligence community (IC) "has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable, and we did not rely upon it in any way for our conclusions". He also said he does not believe the leaks came from within the I.C.(DNI Clapper Statement on Conversation with President-elect Trump)
Despite Clapper's "make nice" phone call to Trump, it's no secret that the intelligence agencies of the Obama administration, with their allegations of Russia hacking and intervening in the election to favor Trump, are hell-bent on subverting the November 8 election.
Trump, for his part, has said that he will reform the intelligence agencies, beginning with the CIA.
On January 3, 2017, responding toMSNBC's Rachel Maddow's description of Trump as "taking these shots, antagonisms, taunting the intelligence community", Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) saidsomething quite ominous:
"Let me tell you,you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this."
Is that a threat?
Former Senator Ron Paul(R) thinks so.
In the Liberty Report on January 5, 2017, Paul had an interesting exchange withDaniel McAdams, Executive Directive of the Ron Paul Institutefor Peace and Prosperity.
9:28 mark: McAdams saysChuck Schumer is "plugged in pretty well to the deep state", then quotes what Schumer said on MSNBC, that Trump is "really dumb" to take on the intelligence community because the latter "have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you".
McAdams observes, "That is very chilling", and asks Paul if what Schumer said is "a threat" at Donald Trump.
Paul: "This is not a lie.I think he [Schumer] is speaking the truth there – better watch out. I think Trump knows about it. That's why he has private security."
Can Trump Rein in the CIA?
Paul also had plenty of other interesting things to say about the CIA:
"They've gotten us into so much trouble. The evidence is so overwhelming that they've been involved in many assassinations, not only… the Kennedy assassination, maybe both Kennedys' for all we know."
Paul said the CIA is so secretive that "even as a member of Congress", he couldn't find out "what was really going on and sometimes I don't even know what was going on…. I don't think they give us information. They hide information from us… and they mislead us." So Paul applauds Trump's plan to look into and shrink the intelligence agencies. But he warns that Trump's reform will be met with "great resistance".
McAdams said something that I've read on other blogs and sites: that there are factions within the intelligence agencies. McAdams said thatparts of the CIA "have been in open warfare against Trumpthrough the campaign. So many 'anonymous' leaks from intelligence officials." Implying that Trump knows what he's up against, McAdams noted that Trumphas "surrounded himself very closely with military types, military officers", and that there's an "ongoing tension between Pentagon intelligence analysis and what the CIA does", as in Syria "where the CIA troops are fighting the Pentagon troops on the ground".
Paul said there are 17 intelligence agencies altogether and that "the deep state is involved". Paul also said that he does not believe the Obama administration's claims that Russia hacked and intervened in the 2016 election: "I don't think they have the evidence." He points out that it is the U.S. government and the CIA that repeatedly intervene in other countries' elections – as many as 81 elections since WWII and 50 assassinations.
McAdams points out the hypocrisy of John McCain accusing Russia of intervening in our election when McCain "went to Ukraine and actually participated in the overthrow of an elected government" and "did the same thing and went into Syria and met with a bunch of terrorists" because McCain wants to overthrow the Assad government.
8:45 mark: Paul said Trump "will have problems achieving" reform of the intelligence agencies "because there's so many obstacles and he won't know who really represents the CIA unless he is well attuned to the deep state because the real orders and assassinations" are given to the CIA by the deep state.
In its post, "The Final Takedown of Trump Begins in Earnest,"State of the Nationconcludes:
"There can be only one reason for the fake dossier that was fabricated by rogue elements within the U.S. intelligence community. To use it as a pretext to delegitimize the presidency of Donald Trump by traitors within the Obama Administration and DNC, as well as rogue intelligence agencies.
That this unvetted fraud was then quickly disseminated throughout the global MSM provides further evidence of a highly organized coup against the president-elect. […]
Make no mistake about it: from now until Inauguration Day will be the most dangerous times for Donald Trump and his transition team. The very future of the United States of America now hangs in the balance as never before."
CNN Fake News: U.S. intelligence memo says Russia has "compromising" information on Trump
This is breaking news, for which there's no verification other than what CNN claims to be true. Bear in mind that CNN is totally biased in favor of Hillary Clinton. See:
If this is true, the implications are very serious. It will give the Democrats the weapon for which they've been desperately searching to scuttle Trump's presidency before he's even inaugurated. What will happen after that is anyone's guess because the resulting Constitutional crisis will be something America has never encountered.
Here's the story.
This afternoon, a CNN report by Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein alleges that last week when Trump met with U.S. intelligence chiefs* for a briefing on Russia's hacking and intervention in the November 8 presidential election, among the classified documents presented to Trump was a hitherto undisclosed2-page memo that the Russian government has compromising information of a personal and financial nature on Trump.
* The intelligence chiefs who briefed Trump are Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.
While the CNN report does not say it, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to draw out the implications of this bombshell if it is true – which is that Moscow can use the compromising information to blackmail a President Trump. In fact, CNN claims that Russia has damaging information on both Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, and on Trump and the GOP, but chose to reveal only the information on Hillary & Dems while withholding Trump's because Moscow meant to harm Hillary's candidacy and help Trump's.
The 2-page memo is a synopsis of 35 pages of memos that "originated as opposition research, first commissioned by anti-Trump Republicans, and later by Democrats".
How does CNN know this?
1. CNN was told this by unnamed "multiple high ranking intelligence, administration, congressional and law enforcement officials, as well as foreign officials and others in the private sector with direct knowledge of the memos."
2. CNN claims to have actually "reviewed" the 35-page compilation of memos from which the 2-page synopsis was drawn. Paraodoxically, despite having "reviewed" the memos, CNN does not disclose what is contained in those memos.
Here is what CNN says about the synopsis and the source memos:
• The 2-page synopsis was not an "official part" of the intelligence report about Russian hacks because it "was considered so sensitive", but was "only shared at the most senior levels of the government" – President Obama, President-elect Trump, and eight Congressional leaders, including Harry Reid and John McCain.
• At the same time, just about anyone of importance in D.C. already knows "some of the allegations" that "are circulating among intelligence agencies, senior members of Congress and other government officials in Washington".
• In addition to compromising information on Trump, the synopsis also includes "allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government".
• Some of the allegations made in the source memos are from an unnamed "former British intelligence operative" – "a former MI6 agent, who was posted in Russia in the 1990s and now runs a private intelligence gathering firm". The man and "his vast [intelligence] network throughout Europe" were checked out by US intelligence agencies and found "to be credible enough". Initially, the British spook's investigations related to Trump were funded by groups and donors supporting Trump's GOP primary campaign opponents. Once Trump became the nominee, the spook's further investigation was funded by groups and donors supporting Hillary Clinton.
• Some of the allegations were first reported publicly in Mother Jones one week before the election.
So what did Mother Jones report one week before the election?
"In late October, Mother Jones' David Corn first reported that a former Western counterintelligence official [who asked not to be identified] with nearly two decades of experience on 'Russian intelligence matters' had been assigned the task of looking into Trump's dealings with Russia as part of an opposition research effort initially funded by a Republican donor. This official was so alarmed by what he discovered that he passed the intelligence to the FBI."
What did this unnamed "former Western counterintelligence official" discover which he judged to be "sufficiently serious" to share with the FBI?
• The Russian government "has been cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump for at least 5 years", all "endorsed by Putin", in order "to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance".
• Trump "and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals."
• Russian intelligence "compromised" Trump during his visits to Moscow and could "blackmail him".
• Russian intelligence had also compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on "bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls".
According to a Huffingon Post reporter named Andrea Chalupa in a tweet on Oct. 31, 2016, intelligence circles say Russia's FSB (Federal Security Service) "filmed Trump in an orgy" when he was in Russia.
Calling Trump and the Republican Party traitors to Russia, Colin Taylor of the rabid Occupy Democrats blog gets on his moral high horse and hysterically declares:
"Trump is unqualified to lead this nation and has done nothing since his victory to show us otherwise, or to even indicate that he intends to govern at all. Now that we know he has been compromised by a foreign government, we cannot allow him to be sworn in."
Here are my observations:
1. CNN says that the Trump transition team, FBI spokespeople, and the Director of National Intelligence all declined to comment. Furthermore, the officials who spoke to CNN "declined to do so on the record", i.e., reveal their names, because of "the classified nature of the material". All of which means that unless the parties who have direct knowledge of the memos talk, at this point we only have CNN's wordno and we all know how reliable and believable CNN is. [sarc]
2.Why is the information contained in the 2-page synopsis so much more "sensitive" and "classified" that the synopsis was not an "official part" of the intelligence reports that have been published and publicized, and must remain so secret that the "multiple intelligence officials" who spoke about this to CNN refuse to be named?
3. Since the information about Trump had been discovered months ago by the unnamed former British spook, and conveyed to Trump's GOP primary opponents, Hillary Clinton and her campaign officials, the FBI, and even Mother Jones, and given how "compromising" and "damaging" the information is to Trump, why didn't all those people, especially Hillary, reveal the information to the public?
4. Since the allegations contained in the damning memos are "widely circulated" in D.C. and known to Obama and Congressional leaders including Harry Reid, why did they wait till now to "leak" the memos to CNN?
5. If the "compromising information of a personal nature" about Trump is a sex tape of him in an orgy, why would this disqualify him from the presidency when President Bill Clinton's oral sex with and shoving a cigar up the anus of a White House intern in the Oval Office didn't disqualify him?
When I began writing this post hours ago, there was nothing about this on Trump's Twitter feed. I just checked it again. Trump is calling the CNN report "unverifiable" "fake news" and "a total political witch hunt".
Until we are shown the actual 2-page synopsis as well as the 35 pages of source memos, I call this B.S. – yet another desperate ploy of the Obama administration and the complicit "fake news" MSM to subvert the 2016 election.
In addition to CNN's obvious partisan bias, the network also has a track record of deception and fake news.
Here's a link to the 35-page dossier from which the 2-page synopsis was generated, which BuzzFeed irresponsibly published even though the document is totally unverified. WikiLeaks observes that it "is not an intelligence report. Style, facts & dates show no credibility".
A poster on the online chat forum 4chan, which deletes the chatter after a day, claims that the infamous "golden showers" scene (that Trump made people urinate on a bed Obama slept in) in the 35-page source memo dossier allegedly compiled by a British intelligence officer from which the 2-page synopsis was drawn, was a hoax and fabricated by a member of the chatboard as "fanfiction", then sent to Rick Wilson, who sent it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election. (Zero Hedge)
In other words, what CNN reports to be Russia's "compromising information" on Trump is a HOAX.
Shame on CNN! Shame on the CIA and other U.S. intelligence organizations! And shame on the Four Stooges: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.
This CNN fake news incident reveals, once and for all, how utterly corrupt and incompetent U.S. intelligence agencies have become under Obama. They have lost all credibility. Trump already has said he'll reform the agencies, beginning with the CIA.
9 more days until inauguration…. Please pray for Trump's safety. Please pray for America.
UPDATE 2 (Jan. 11, 2017):
UPDATE 3 (Jan. 11, 2017):
WSJ (via Zero Hedge) says the name of the mysterious former MI6 spook is Chris Steele, 52. His LinkedInpage, which is now scrubbed, said he's currently Director at Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd., London, UK.
WSJ asked Andrew Wordsworth, co-founder of London-based investigations firm Raedas, who often works on Russian issues, if the 35-page Trump dossier is credible. Wordsworth said the memos in the Trump dossier were "not convincing at all. It's just way too good. If the head of the CIA were to declare he got information of this quality, you wouldn't believe it." Wordsworth said it wouldn't make sense for Russian intelligence officials to expose state secrets to a former MI6 officer because "Russians believe once you are an agent, you're an agent forever."
Jan. 11 2017 Heads up: Golden shower gaffe put Trump in danger
Here's why: The corrupt leadership in the intelligence agencies has done everything possible to stop Trump, including going along with this hoax and saying it is real. This got shut down so fast despite them saying it was real that it no doubt made many heads spin. And I believe that from this point on, they are going to be truly dangerous. Here is the procedure:
1. First, when someone you don't like is rising in power, you ignore that individual. You subvert all efforts by silencing and censoring them. Trump blindsided them, so they missed this step.
2. If step 1 fails, you resort to slander. That failed miserably, because Trump simply had no dirt that could be exploited convincingly.
3. If step 2 fails, you issue death threats, and repeat step 2. This has happened in abundance against Trump.
4. If step 3 fails, you then resort to killing. This is where they are at now, after the golden shower flop.
They are under extreme pressure to kill Trump. If they fail, they are going to jail and at the very least will lose their jobs. The worst agencies the world has ever known (other than perhaps peak cold war evil in communist Russia as a possible match) are under threat from Trump. Add to that the most despicable monsters, like Soros, Rockefeller, and Rothschild, are also under serious threat from Trump. And what about the Clinton death machine? None of these are going to go down without a fight.
And that fight is going to take the form of either 1. attempting to kill Trump, or 2. attempting to prevent Trump from taking office via war with Russia, even if in the final midnight hour they have to go nuclear because Russia did not play.
Turbulence ahead.
Trump's golden shower was a 4chan hoax (and McCain took the bait)
Though Drudge pinned this on McCain, who probably had a lot to do with it getting huge exposure, I am not backing off on the alt media/4chan "exploit" because McCain would simply have been the one to fall for it. Someone had to, and McCain was it. This hoax was posted to 4chan on Nov 1. There is no conceivable way that McCain would have tried this out of the blue; he probably thought it was real.
Trump is a grandmaster of political chess, despite what CNN says. I would not be one bit surprised if Trump set this up to see exactly who fell for it, so they could be rightfully fried and eaten somewhere in the proximity of January 20. If he did not do this, it was an obvious gift from God that will make it possible to take out a huge pile of trash on day 1.
Last November, right in the middle of the attack on the alt media, when liberals were writing countless fake news stories to trip alt media up, someone in alt media fired back with a fake intelligence report about Trump getting golden showers from prostitutes in a Moscow hotel and posted it to 4chan. This "hotel event" was "recorded by Russian intelligence, that had the hotel room rigged with cameras" and was presented as a "34-page intelligence report produced by America's intelligence agencies, and proof that Russia had the means to blackmail Trump". It was done very convincingly. As it turns out, McCain was the one who took the bait and dropped it in the spotlight.
Well, that fake report sat on 4chan since Nov. 1, and was the exact same type of exciting headline that the liberal scum was using against alt media, to get their phony stories to go viral, AND THE ENTIRE MSM FELL FOR IT HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER.
So they posted this hoax all over the place. Here is Newsweek's version, and they embellished it beyond belief; every word of this Newsweek report is FAKE NEWS. JUSTICE SERVED. I'M LAUGHING AT THESE FOOLS!
As you can see, Newsweek and the rest of the MSM fell for this hoax completely.
So this morning, Russia stood up and said "We have no compromising information on Trump, the report is a total bluff." They then followed up with this quote: "The Kremlin has no compromising information on Trump. This report does not correspond to reality and is nothing but an absolute fiction." THAT is how viral this went: it went SO VIRAL in the real fake media (which happens to be mainstream fake) that Russia had to issue an official statement saying the whole thing is false!
OK, so now that you know this, GO BACK AND READ THAT NEWSWEEK REPORT, AND HOW THEY SPUN THIS. THE ENTIRE THING IS FALSE, yet they have in their report Trump getting briefed, Obama getting briefed, the "story making the rounds at Washington dinner plates last summer", the WHOLE 9 YARDS. If you have any subscriptions to Newsweek or anyone else who parroted this crap, I suggest canceling because they just proved beyond all question that they are as FAKE AS FAKE GETS. HA HA HA HA: A GREAT STRATEGY TO DESTROY MSM CREDIBILITY BY SOMEONE IN ALT MEDIA! I wish I could say I was the one who triggered it. Whoever did this deserves some sort of national medal of honor.
