By
George Sontag
Since
the election last November, there has been a sustained, coordinated
attack on President Trump's legitimacy following his victory in a
free and fair election. Within
24 hours of Clinton's concession speech, campaign Manager Robby Mook
and John Podesta had assembled her communications team at the
Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn't
entirely on the up and up. The DNC had engineered the primaries to
ensure a Clinton victory and her defeat was unimaginable. For a
number of hours they went over the script they would pitch to the
press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece
of the argument.
The
Clinton campaign had cozy, unethical relations with members of the
mainstream media and it's embedded CIA operatives. A compliant media
responded to the Clinton campaign's blame Russia strategy by pushing
stories alleging wrongdoing by Russia. Not since the days of
McCarthyism have so many in Washington been accused of consorting
with Russians who wish to undermine American democracy. This had the
potential to cause far more lasting damage to America than Trump's controversial style.
The
“Deep State” was not happy with his victory. They
wanted his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton to prevail. For one urgent
reason, that she was willing to pursue a more confrontational foreign
policy toward Russia. Trump’s oft-repeated desire to normalize
US-Russia relations runs counter
to their vested interests.
It
is not surprising that after the election President-elect Trump began
surrounding himself with military leaders as
he hinted that he would take up President Kennedy's mantel of
dis-mantling and revising the agencies. Some in his campaign
thought an assassination was a real possibility. Surrounding himself
with the military to stymie the undercover agencies was a means of
protection that has so far, worked.
Former
CIA chief George W. Bush's speechwriter and current never-Trump
activist David Frum echoed the CIA message to Trump; “you mess with
us, get ready for a leak storm of Biblical proportions.”
Shockingly, intelligence agencies were being publicly encouraged to
abuse their power to stop Trump at all costs before he had even
assumed office. After placing the military around him and giving them
anything they wanted there was a change a plan from physical
assassination to a political one. An avalanche of leaks and so-called
“fake news” began to hit the American people.
On
June 8, 2017, former FBI Director Comey acknowledged that he had a
secret relationship with at least one newspaper with whom he shared
classified or proprietary government information that advanced
articles critical of the president. In
testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee former FBI
director, James Comey admitted under oath that his leaks to the New
York Times were designed to force the hiring of the special
prosecutor.
Subsequent
analysis showed that the former director might have been engaged in
this covert media operation for far longer and in many more press
placements than he has acknowledged to date. Comey admitted to having
the motivation, access, and ability to conduct what would effectively
be a covert influence operation designed to damage the president.
This
has been only the beginning.
The
unprecedented level of unauthorized media leaks aimed at damaging
president Donald Trump over the past
year is an issue that goes way beyond freedom of press rights. It’s
proof of the existence of the “Deep State” and confirms how
powerful, secretive forces within
the US state want this president ousted. To
date, the only crime a related to the Trump/Russia investigation is
the criminal leaking of classified information by
U.S. intelligence officials.
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