"The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer "

[Allan Balliett]

As my childish brain was reeling last night with the thought that a man who
hires prostitutes to pee on private property could never be inaugurated
POTUS, the pit of my stomach was telling me that the "information" that lit
up Twitterville very obviously lacked the vital root of verification.

Pulitzer Prize winning Investigative journalist and Chelsea Manning
advocate Glenn Greenwald (http://tinyurl.com/zt7y3b2) shared some thoughts
overnight  about the dangers of attacking the opposition with 'facts' you
cannot substantiate:


The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims,
as Democrats Cheer

http://tinyurl.com/zqo6wbz

There are solutions to Trump. They involve reasoned strategizing and
patient focus on issues people actually care about. Whatever those
solutions are, venerating the intelligence community, begging for its
intervention, and equating their dark and dirty assertions as Truth are
most certainly not among them. Doing that cannot possibly achieve any good,
and is already doing much harm.

...

But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the
U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected President
is both warped and self-destructive. Empowering the very entities that have
produced the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six
decades is desperation of the worst kind. Demanding that evidence-free,
anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth – despite emanating
from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie – is an assault on
journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding
domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal
foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those
doing it.

Allan in WV, who thinks that we have to make sure Trump knows it isn't just
reporters who want to see his tax returns
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