The
Russiagate Stakes Are Extreme
By Paul
Craig Roberts
January
25, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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The
Republicans’ delay in releasing the summary of
the House Intelligence Committee’s Russiagate
investigation is giving weight to the
presstitutes’ claim that the report is not being
released, because it is a hack attempt at a
Trump coverup that is not believable. Only
Republicans are stupid enough to put themselves
in such a situation.
Readers
ask me why the summary memo is not released if
it is real. There must be some reasons besides
the stupidity of Republicans. Yes, that is so.
Among the many reasons that might be blocking
release are:
1)
Republicans are very national security
conscious. They don’t want to provide precedents
for the release of classified information.
2) Many Republican congressional districts host
installations of the military/security complex.
Upsetting a large employer and directing
campaign financing to a challenger is a big
consideration.
3) The George W. Bush/Dick Cheney regime was a
neoconservative regime. One consequence is that
Republicans are influenced by neoconservatives
who stress the alleged “Russian threat.”
4) The Israel Lobby can unseat any member of the
House and Senate. The Israel Lobby is allied
with the neoconservatives and this alliance
intends to keep the US militarily active against
perceived threats to Israel’s hegemony in the
Middle East and against Russia, which supports
Syria and Iran, countries perceived as threats
by Israel.
5) Many Republicans are themselves invested in
false Russiagate allegations against Trump and
would like to replace him with Pence. Other
Republicans believe that Trump is undermining
Washington’s expensively-purchased foreign
alliances and, thereby, undermining US power.
Many
Americans do not seem to understand what is at
stake. What America is confronted with is a coup
conspiracy organized by top officials of the
Obama Justice Department, FBI, CIA, the Hillary
DNC, and the presstitute media to overturn the
result of a democratic election and remove the
president from office. The basis of the coup is
a fake dossier purchased for money that consists
of unsupported allegations against Trump and
that was used to obtain warrants from the FISA
count to spy on Trump and various associates
hoping to find something that can be used
against Trump. Regardless, the false allegations
could be fed to the CIA’s media assets and used
to create a scandal requiring a special
prosecutor to investigate Russiagate. Once the
investigation was under way, the presstitutes
kept the scandal alive hoping to convince enough
Americans that Trump must have done
something—“where there is smoke, there is
fire”—that justifies his removal. It worked
against Richard Nixon, but not against Ronald
Reagan, and Trump is no Reagan.
If the
highest reaches of the police state agencies can
get away with an attempted or successful coup
against the president of the United States, then
that is the complete end of democracy and all
accountability in government. The House, Senate,
and judiciary will become as powerless as the
Roman senate under the caesars. We will live
under a dictatorship ruled by police state
agencies.
Many
Americans say they don’t need the House
Intelligence Report, because they don’t believe
the Russiagate BS in the first place. They miss
the point. They need the report, because those
responsible for this attempt at a coup must be
identified, charged, and prosecuted for their
act of high treason.
This is
not minor stuff. This goes to the heart of
whether any form of liberty will exist. We all
know that the ability of the people to hold
government accountable is not assured by
democracy. However, there is no prospect of
holding government accountable if it is a police
state, a road that the US has been going down
for some time. The audacious coup attempt
against President Trump is our opportunity to
stop the momentum to a police state.
Despite my recent postings, many people do not
understand that the somewhat redacted FISA court
document that has been declassified and released
and explained by myself, William Binney, and
former US Attorney Joe di Genova (see:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/22/here-are-all-the-facts-about-russiagate/
) contains admissions by the FBI and DOJ that
they improperty spied and obtained warrants from
the court under false pretenses. In other words,
we have it on the authority of the FISA court
itself that the FBI and DOJ have admitted to the
court their transgressions. When Department of
Justice (sic) congressional liaison Stephen Boyd
says the DOJ is “unaware of any wrongdoing,” he
is lying through his teeth. The DOJ has already
confessed its wrongdoing to the FISA court.
(See Lendman on
Boyd’s claim that releasing the memo would
harm national security and ongoing
investigations. This is always the claim
made when government has to cover up its
crimes.
http://stephenlendman.org/2018/01/memo-detailing-russiagate-abuses-names-high-level-us-officials/
)
When
Admiral Rodgers, director of the National
Security Agency, discovered that the FBI and DOJ
were misusing the spy system for partisan
political reasons, he let it be known that he
was going to inform the FISA court. This caused
the FBI and DOJ to rush to the court in advance
and confess to “mistakes” and to promise to
tighten up procedures so as not to make mistakes
in the future. It is these “mistakes” and
corrections that the FISA court document
reveals.
In
other words, the information already exists in
the pubic domain that proves that Russiagate was
a conspiracy organized for the purpose of
bringing down the elected president of the
United States.
A case
can be made that it would be just as well if the
coup succeeds as it would bring an end to
Washington’s cover as the government of a great
democracy with liberty and justice for all. Most
other governments, and one would hope certainly
the Russian and Chinese governments, would see
the coup as America’s final transition into a
police state and give up their utopian ideas of
reaching accommodation with Washington. The
constraints on Washington’s ability to bully the
world would be greatly strengthened by the
universal perception that the government of the
United States had devolved into a police state.
Dr.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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