‘Thank God for Deep State’, ex-CIA boss says
Still think it’s a conspiracy theory?
By RT
November 01, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" - In just a few short months, the US political
establishment has gone from denying the
existence of the ‘Deep State’ and calling it a
conspiracy theory, to praising it as the bulwark
of the Republic against President Donald Trump.
“Thank God for the ‘Deep State,’”
declared former CIA director John E. McLaughlin
at an event this week, describing the diplomats
and intelligence officers testifying before the
congressional impeachment inquiry as
“people
who are doing their duty or responding to a
higher call.”Lavishing praise on the
‘whistleblower’ intelligence officer whose
complaint about Trump’s phone call launched the
impeachment probe, McLaughlin said the
intelligence community is “institutionally
committed to objectivity and telling the truth.”
One would think this might be a bit rich, coming
from the former deputy director of the CIA at the
time of the infamous ‘Iraqi WMDs’ fiasco – and
acting director for a time in 2004 – but
McLaughlin’s comments were met with applause by the
crowd at George Mason University’s Schar School of
Policy and Government.
He wasn’t the only one to praise the Deep State
either. Sitting right next to him was John Brennan,
the CIA director under President Barack Obama, whose
fingerprints are all over the so-called ‘Steele
dossier’ and ‘Russiagate’, and who is now enjoying a
rewarding career as a TV pundit accusing Trump of
treason.
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Brennan argued that the reason Trump “has a
contentious relationship with the Deep State people…
is because they tell the truth,” and praised
the unelected intelligence and law enforcement
officials for continuing to “do their work
irrespective of what he’s going to do or say.”
Under normal circumstances, these admissions
would be rather earth-shattering. It isn’t every day
that former bosses of the intelligence apparatus
basically admit that yes, they are meddling in the
country’s politics, because they feel they have a
“higher loyalty” – to borrow a phrase from
ex-FBI boss James Comey, another member of this
merry cabal – than to the chief executive elected by
the American people.
Yet the response has been muted at best, with a
silent shrug and the implicit “nothing to see
here, move along” from the major outlets.
That’s not particularly surprising, given the
media’s role in the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy. Why,
just a couple weeks ago, the New York Times
published an opinion piece praising the Deep State
along the very same lines Brennan and McLaughlin
would.
When Trump and his defenders talked about the
Deep State during the ‘Russiagate’ hysteria, the
very same outlets pooh-poohed them as insane,
paranoid, and delusional. Now they say the Deep
State is real, it’s always been real, and it’s
acting in the best interests of the American
Republic – and if you don’t believe it, you’re the
one who’s insane, paranoid and delusional. Sense a
pattern?
Whatever one may think of Trump, it beggars
belief that the very people who cry the loudest
about “our democracy” are elevating an
unelected bureaucracy, spies and counter-spies as
the arbiters of it. It almost makes you think the
people responsible for pushing the ‘Russian
meddling’ conspiracy theory may have done it as a
smokescreen for their own (mis)deeds.
This article was originally published by "RT"
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