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

[Gary Webb]

I 100% agree. I don't think Intelligence Community is interfering. I think leaks are part of an ongoing investigation. And I the broad scope of them turns out to be true, i.e.  that Vlad and crew meddled in US election, and most importantly that Trump campaign was party to the meddling, then they have no more recourse. We are at the mercy of Congress. 



> On Jan 11, 2017, at 12:11 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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: 
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> The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer 
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> http://tinyurl.com/zqo6wbz
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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