NBC News: "CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia"

[David Guyatt]

[quote=David Guyatt]

The reality is that you can't investigate something diligently if you already know who was responsible but can't state your findings publicly, for fear of losing your job when Hilary becomes the White House Dominatrix-in-chief.

I don't know, especially with Republican oversight. The 1990s were full of Clinton investigations when they were in office.

I think the elephant in the room in regard to your argument here, John, is that above and beyond all the usual partisan playground knockabout politics, resides the deep state where the real decisions are taken and the real long-term foreign strategy developed and put into effect.

That is why it really doesn't matter what party controls the political machinery during any given administration. Political point scoring is not only permitted but encouraged because it helps to bolster the fairy story that the US is an exceptional democracy.

The truth, however, is quite different - and was glimpsed in last year's Princeton study that concluded the US is, today, an oligarchy.

For example, name me any president who has ever openly and publicly stated the central aims of the so called Wolfowitz Doctrine - which largely remains the guiding foreign policy goal of the US?

And yet everyone who is anyone in the US knows what these aims and goals are. But, the vast number of ordinary Americans have no idea about it at all.

The observable consequence of this is that you have a political shadow play in operation every moment of every day that says one thing but usually does another. The idea is to keep the American public fast asleep.

And sadly, it's very effective.