Counterpunch | We may not know all the details yet, but it seems fairly obvious from
the amount of leaks from the Trump White House that classified
information is being routinely gathered by operatives within the
government itself and deliberately leaked to the media in order to
inflict maximum damage on the administration. In other words, there are
elements operating within the intelligence community that are using
their power to incriminate a sitting president and remove him from
office. Simply put, the intel agencies have ‘gone rogue’ and now pose a
real and present danger to the republic itself. And while no one really
knows how much Obama knew about this massive domestic spying operation
that was going on right beneath his nose, we DO know that the collection
of information on private citizens greatly accelerated on his watch.
(“Circa has reported that there was a three-fold increase in NSA data
searches about Americans and a rise in the unmasking of U.S. person’s
identities in intelligence reports after Obama loosened the privacy
rules in 2011.”) It’s worth noting, that the ultimate goal of these
massive domestic-surveillance programs is to create a lock-down society
where the behavior of every citizen can be completely monitored and
controlled.
Trump may be a rotten president but, in the big scheme of things,
he’s just small potatoes. What we need to know is whether a shadow
government –staffed by the intel agents and political meatpuppets– now
controls the levers of state power, a hidden government that might be
planning to oust the president or –god help us–launch a war on Russia.
The only way to get to the bottom of this is by investigating the man
who appears to be at the very center of the action, John Brennan. If
anyone knows how the system really works, it’s Brennan.
