We Were Warned About the Deep State, but
Refused to Listen
By Larry C Johnson
January 02, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -Many of the critical tools employed in
the coup to paint Donald Trump as a tool
of the Russians and to manufacture a
pretext for removing him from office,
were created more than twenty years ago.
I am talking about the surveillance
state that the American electorate has
ignorantly accepted as necessary in
order to keep us safe from terrorists.
Despite previous warning from
whistleblowers like Russ Tice, Bill
Binney, Ed Loomis and Kird Wiebe, no
action to rein in the surveillance
monster was taken until Edward Snowden
absconded with the documents exposing
the vast amount spying that the U.S.
Government is doing to its own citizens.
But even those weak efforts to
supposedly rein in the NSA proved to be
nothing more than mere window dressing.
The spying got worse. Just ask Donald
Trump and the members of his campaign
that were targeted first by the CIA and
NSA and then by the FBI. Fundamental
civil rights were trampled.
The real irony in all of this is that
Barack Obama, as President, took credit
for helping revise the laws in order to
prevent the spying exposed by Edward
Snowden. But under the Obama
Administration, spying on political
opponents--both real and
perceived--escalated. We know for a fact
that journalists, such as James Rosen
and Sheryl Atkinson, were targets and
their communications and computers
attacked by the U.S. Government.
We know, thanks to a memo released by
Judge Rosemary Collyer, that "FBI
consultants" were making illegal
searches of NSA material using the names
of Donald Trump, his family and members
of his campaign staff.
Are You Tired Of
The Lies And
Non-Stop Propaganda?
Some of this NSA material came courtesy
of the Brits and their collection on
U.S. targets. Some of this material came
from the NSA's own collection and
storage of all electronic communications
and was obtained using a nifty NSA tool
called XKEYSCORE. Listen to Ed Snowden's
description. Also, take time to
appreciate the irony that CNN and other
journalists were actually trying to
report real news. Now they are full
blown apologists for the abuse of the
intelligence collection tools.
Six years ago,
former NSA Technical Director for
Military and Geopolitical Issues, Bill
Binney, and Russ Tice, a former NSA
analyst, appeared on the PBS News Hour.
Once again, they make very clear the
enormous nature to the threat to our
civil liberties.
Too bad Donald
Trump did not listen to their warning.
Given the robust, wide ranging
ability of the NSA to probe all
communications by any person in the
United States, it is remarkable that no
real dirt on Donald Trump was ever
uncovered. Had such information existed,
it would be in the NSA's storage vaults
in Utah and crooked CIA analysts under
Brennan's direction would have found it
and used it. But that did not happed.
The best the intel folks could fabricate
were the salacious claims attributed to
reports ostensibly created by former
British spy, Christopher Steele. Turns
out that the titillating account that
Trump hired hookers to perform
coprophilia (could of been worse,
coprophagia) was nothing more than idle
bar talk.
What has happened to Donald Trump can
happen to any of us. It is time to take
this threat seriously and put the intel
agencies back into a properly monitored
corral. Otherwise, we will lose this
Republic.
Mr. Johnson, worked
previously with the Central Intelligence
Agency and U.S. State Department’s
Office of Counter Terrorism, is a
recognized expert in the fields of
terrorism, aviation security, crisis and
risk management.
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