Treason
By Mike Whitney
“A nation
can survive its fools, and even the
ambitious. But it cannot survive
treason from within. An enemy at the
gates is less formidable, for he is
known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those
within the gate freely, his sly
whispers rustling through all the
alleys, heard in the very halls of
government itself.”
Marcus
Tullius Cicero
September 17, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
The Transition Integrity Project (TIP)
is a shadowy group of government,
military and media elites who have
concocted a plan to spread mayhem and
disinformation following the November 3
presidential elections. The strategy
takes advantage of the presumed delay in
determining the winner of the upcoming
election. (due to the deluge of mail-in
votes.) The interim period is expected
to intensify partisan warfare creating
the perfect environment for
disseminating propaganda and inciting
street violence. The leaders of TIP
believe that a mass mobilization will
help them to achieve what Russiagate
could not, that is, the removal Donald
Trump via an illicit coup conjured up by
behind-the-scenes powerbrokers and their
Democrat allies. Here’s a little more
background from an article by Chris
Farrell at the Gatestone Institute:
“In one of
the greatest public disinformation
campaigns in American history — the
Left and their NeverTrumper allies
(under the nom de guerre:
“Transition Integrity Project”)
released a 22-page report in August
2020 “war gaming” four election
crisis scenarios:….The outcome of
each TIP scenario results in street
violence and political impasse.
…Is it
possible that the leadership of the
American Left, along with their
NeverTrumper allies, are busy
talking themselves into advocating
and promoting street violence as a
response to a presidential election?
The answer
is: Yes…. expect violence in the
aftermath of the election, because
now that is the new ‘normal.” (“How
to Steal an Election”,
Gatestone Institute)
Farrell is right.
As we can see from the many articles
that have recently popped up in the
media, the American people are being
prepared for a contested election that
will fuel public anxiety and revolt.
This all fits with the overall strategy
of the TIP. Selected journalists will be
used to provide bits of information that
serve the interests of the group while
the people will be told to expect a long
and drawn-out constitutional crisis.
Meanwhile, the media, the Democrat
leadership, trusted elites and elements
in the Intelligence Community will put
pressure on Trump to step down while
firing up their political base to take
to the streets. TIP’s 22-page manifesto
makes it clear that mass mobilization
will be key to any electoral victory.
Here’s an excerpt from the text:
“A show of
numbers in the streets-and actions
in the streets-may be decisive
factors in determining what the
public perceives as a just and
legitimate outcome.” (“Preventing
a Disrupted Presidential Election
and Transition” The
Transition Integrity Project)
In other words,
the authors fully support demonstrations
and political upheaval to achieve their
goal of removing Trump. Clearly, this
scorched earth approach did not
originate with Joe Biden, but with the
cynical and bloodthirsty puppetmasters
who operate behind the curtain and who
will do anything to advance their
agenda. No Advertising - No Government Grants - This Is Independent Media This is a full-blown color revolution authored and supported by the same oligarchs and deep-state honchoes that have opposed Trump from the very beginning. They’re not going to back down or call off the dogs until the job is done and Trump is gone. And when the dust settles, Trump will likely be charged, tried, sentenced and imprisoned. His fortune will be seized, his family will be financially ruined, and his closest advisors and allies will be prosecuted on fabricated charges. There’s not going to be a “graceful transition” of power if Trump loses. He will face the full wrath of the scheming mandarins he has frustrated for the last 4 years. These are the men who applauded when Saddam and Ghaddafi were savagely butchered. Will Trump face the same fate as them?
Trump has less
than two months to rally his supporters,
draw attention to the conspiracy that
has is presently underway, and figure
out a way to defend himself against the
coup plotters. If he is unable to derail
the impending junta, his goose is
cooked.
It’s worth
noting, that the Transition Integrity
Project (TIP) has no legal authority to
meddle in the upcoming election. They
were not appointed by any congressional
committee nor did any government entity
approve their intrusive activities. This
is entirely a “lone wolf” operation
designed to exploit loopholes in
campaign laws in order to undermine
public confidence in our elections and
to express their unbridled hostility
towards Donald Trump. That said, there
analysis will probably influence those
who share their views. In the first page
of their “Executive Summary” they say:
“We assess
with a high degree of likelihood
that November’s elections will be
marked by a chaotic legal and
political landscape. We also
assess that the President Trump is
likely to contest the result by both
legal and extra-legal means, in an
attempt to hold onto power.”
(Ibid)
This short
statement provides the basic
justification for the group’s existence.
It presents the participants as
impartial observers performing their
civic duty by objectively analyzing
exercises (war games?) that indicate
that Trump will challenge the election
results in a desperate attempt to hold
on to power. Not surprisingly, the group
provides no evidence that the president
would react the way they think he would.
In fact, their hypothesis seems
extremely far-fetched given the fact
that Trump has no militia, no private
army, and very few allies among the
political class, the Intelligence
Community, the FBI, the military or the
deep state. Who exactly does the group
think would help Trump hold on to power:
Bill Barr, Larry Kudlow, Melania??
There is nothing
“impartial” about this analysis. It is
partisan gibberish aimed at discrediting
Trump while creating a pretext for
launching a coup against him. Here is
another sample of TIP’s “objective
analysis” from page 1 of the manuscript:
“The
Transition Integrity Project (TIP)
was launched in late 2019 out of
concern that the Trump
Administration may seek to
manipulate, ignore, undermine or
disrupt the 2020 presidential
election and transition process.
TIP takes no position on how
Americans should cast their votes,
or on the likely winner of the
upcoming election; either major
party candidate could prevail at the
polls in November without resorting
to “dirty tricks.” However, the
administration of President
Donald Trump has steadily undermined
core norms of democracy and the rule
of law and embraced numerous corrupt
and authoritarian practices.
This presents a profound challenge
for those –from either party –who
are committed to ensuring free and
fair elections, peaceful transitions
of power, and stable administrative
continuity in the United States.”
(Ibid)
Got that? In
other words (to paraphrase) “Trump is a
corrupt dictator who hates democracy and
the rule of law, but that is just our
unbiased opinion. Please, don’t let that
influence your vote. We just want to
make sure the election goes smoothly.”
As we noted, the
hatred for Trump permeates the entire
22-page document and that, in turn,
undermines the credibility of the author
to portray his project as an impartial
examination of potential problems in the
upcoming election. There is nothing
evenhanded in the approach to these
issues or in the remedies that are
recommended. This is a partisan project
concocted by malicious elites who
despise Trump and who plan to remove him
from office by hook or crook.
So, do we know
who the leaders of this (TIP) group are?
Well, we know who
their two main spokesmen are: Rosa
Brooks– Georgetown law professor and
co-founder of the Transition Integrity
Project, and Ret. Col. Lawrence
Wilkerson, Distinguished Adjunct
Professor of Government and Public
Policy at the College of William & Mary,
and chief of staff to former Secretary
of State Colin Powell. According to an
article by Whitney Webb:
“(Rosa)
Brooks… was an advisor to the
Pentagon and the Hillary Clinton-led
State Department during the Obama
administration. She was also
previously the general counsel to
the President of the Open Society
Institute, part of the Open Society
Foundations (OSF), a controversial
organization funded by billionaire
George Soros. Zoe Hudson, who
is TIP’s director, is also a former
top figure at OSF, serving as senior
policy analyst and liaison between
the foundations and the U.S.
government for 11 years.
OSF ties to
the TIP are a red flag for a number
of reasons, namely due to the fact
that OSF and other Soros-funded
organizations played a critical role
in fomenting so-called “color
revolutions” to overthrow
non-aligned governments,
particularly during the Obama
administration. Examples of OSF’s
ties to these manufactured
“revolutions” include Ukraine in
2014 and the “Arab Spring”…..
In addition
to her ties to the Obama
administration and OSF, Brooks is
currently a scholar at West Point’s
Modern War Institute, where she
focuses on “the relationship between
the military and domestic policing”
and also Georgetown’s Innovative
Policing Program. She is a
currently a key player in the
documented OSF-led push to
“capitalize” off of legitimate calls
for police reform to justify the
creation of a federalized police
force under the guise of defunding
and/or eliminating local police
departments. Brooks’ interest in
the “blurring line” between military
and police is notable given her past
advocacy of a military coup to
remove Trump from office and the
TIP’s subsequent conclusion that the
military “may” have to step in if
Trump manages to win the 2020
election, per the group’s “war
games” described above.
Brooks is
also a senior fellow at the think
tank New America. New America’s
mission statement notes that the
organization is focused on “honestly
confronting the challenges caused by
rapid technological and social
change, and seizing the
opportunities those changes create.”
It is largely funded by Silicon
Valley billionaires, including Bill
Gates (Microsoft), Eric Schmidt
(Google), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn),
Jeffrey Skoll and Pierre Omidyar
(eBay). In addition, it has
received millions directly from the
U.S. State Department to research
“ranking digital rights.” Notably,
of these funders, Reid Hoffman was
caught “meddling” in the most recent
Democratic primary to undercut
Bernie Sanders’ candidacy during the
Iowa caucus and while others, such
as Eric Schmidt and Pierre Omidyar,
are known for their cozy ties to the
Clinton family and even ties to
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.” (““Bipartisan”
Washington Insiders Reveal Their
Plan for Chaos if Trump Wins the
Election“, Unlimited Hangout)
Is it safe to say
that Rosa Brooks is a Soros stooge
overseeing a color revolution in the
United States aimed at toppling Trump
and replacing him with a
dementia-addled, meat-puppet named Joe
Biden?
Political analyst
Paul Craig Roberts seems to think so.
Here’s what he said in a recent post at
his website:
“I have
provided evidence that the
military/security complex, using the
media and the Democrats, intends to
turn the November election into a
color revolution… The evidence
of a color revolution in the works
is abundantly supplied by CNN,
MSNBC, New York Times, NPR,
Washington Post and numerous
Internet sites funded by the CIA and
the foundations and corporations
through which it operates.. … All of
these media organizations are
establishing the story in the mind
of Americans that Trump will not
leave office when he loses or steals
the election and must be driven out.
…With Antifa
and Black Lives Matter now
experienced in violent protests,
they will be unleashed anew on
American cities when there is news
of a Trump election victory. The
media will explain the violence as
necessary to free us from a tyrant
and egg on the violence, as will the
Democrat Party. The CIA will be
certain that the violence is well
funded….
… What is a
reelected President Trump going to
do when the Secret Service refuses
to repel Antifa and Black Lives
Matter when they breach White House
Security? …
American
Democracy is on the verge of being
ended for all times, and the world
media will herald the event as the
successful overthrowing of a
tyrant.” (“America’s
Color Revolution”, Paul
Craig Roberts)
Another of the
leading spokesmen for TIP is Retired
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson who made
this revealing statement in a recent
interview:
“Let me just
say some of the things that we’re
putting out there. Among those
things, one that is very important
is the media, particularly the
mainstream media. They cannot act as
they usually act with regard to
elections. They have to play a coup
on election night. They can’t be
declaring some state like
Pennsylvania for one candidate or
the other. When Pennsylvania
probably has thousands upon
thousands of votes yet to come in
and count. So, the media has to
get its act in order and it has to
act very differently than it
normally does.”
(NOTE: In other
words, Wilkerson does not want the media
to follow the normal protocols for
covering an election, but to adjust
their reporting to accommodate the aims
of the coup-plotters. Does that sound
like someone who is committed to
evenhanded coverage of events, or
someone who wants reporters to shape the
news to meet the specifications of his
own particular agenda? Here’s more from
Wilkerson:)
“Second, ….we
also have learned that poll
workers have to be younger. And
we’ve started a movement all across
the country to train young people.
And we’ve had really good luck with
the volunteers to do so, to be
poll workers. Because we found out
in Wisconsin, for example, poll
workers are mostly over 60. And many
of them didn’t show up because they
were afraid of COVID-19. And so
Wisconsin went from about one 188
polling places, to about 15. That’s
disastrous.” (“This
‘War Game’ Maps out what happens if
the President contests the Election”,
WBUR)
Why is Wilkerson
so encouraged by the young people he’s
trained to act as poll workers? Doesn’t
that sound a bit fishy, especially from
a dyed-in-the-wool partisan who’s mixed
up with a group whose sole aim is to
beat Trump? And why are the authors of
the TIP manifesto so eager to reveal
their true intentions. Take a look:
“There will
likely not be an “election night”
this year; unprecedented numbers of
voters are expected to use mail-in
ballots, which will almost certainly
delay the certified result for days
or weeks. A delay provides a
window for campaigns, the media, and
others to cast doubt on the
integrity of the process and for
escalating tensions between
competing camps. As a legal matter,
a candidate unwilling to concede can
contest the election into January.…..”(Ibid)
So, that’s the
GamePlan, eh? The coup plotters want a
contested election that drags on for
weeks, deepens divisions among the
population, undermines confidence in the
electoral system, instigates ferocious
street fighting in cities across the
country, and gives the Biden camp time
to mobilize its political resources in
Congress to mount a Constitutional
attack on Trump.
Can we at least
call this treachery by its proper name:
Treason– “the crime of betraying one’s
country by trying to overthrow the
government?”
If the shoe
fits….. Mike lives in Washington state. He can
be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com
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