The attempted Clinton-CIA coup against Donald Trump

[Cliff Varnell]

The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke into Open Warfare

March 10, 2017

Charles Hugh Smith

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar17/deep...r3-17.html

The battle raging in the Deep State isn't just a bureaucratic battle--it's a war for the soul, identity and direction of the nation.

When do the unlimited powers of the Intelligence/Security agencies threaten America's domestic and global national interests? The CIA and its political enablers claim the agency's essentially unlimited powers, partially revealed by Wikileak's Vault 7, pose no threat to America's interests, since they are intended to "defend" American interests.

This is the rationale presented by neocon CIA allies in both political parties: the CIA can't possibly threaten America's interests because the CIA defines America's interests.

This is the wormhole down which civil liberties and democracy have drained. It is an extraordinarily defining moment in American history when the director of the FBI publicly declares that there is no such thing as "absolute privacy" in the U.S.

Charles Hugh Smith is as befuddled as most, so let's help him out.

In effect, privacy is now contingent on the level of interest the Security State has in the private conversation/data. If we read the U.S. Constitution, we do not find such contingencies: civil liberties are absolute. Post-1790 presidents have temporarily mooted civil liberties in time of war, and the CIA-led camp of the Deep State has justified its unlimited powers by effectively declared "a state of war is now permanent and enduring."

So what's left to defend if America has become the enemy of civil liberties and democracy, i.e. become a totalitarian state ruled by Security Services and their political henchmen and apologists?

Answer: internecine warfare within the National Security State.

Peter Dale Scott has nailed it balls to the wall -- the clash of these "power hungry factions" (as Prof. Scott puts it) will weaken them both.

I have long suggested that the tectonic plates of the Deep State are shifting as the ruling consensus has eroded. Some elements of the Deep State--what I call the progressive wing, which is (ironically to some) anchored in the military services-- now view the neocon-CIA (Security State)-Wall Street elements as profoundly dangerous to America's long-term interests, both domestically and globally.

These are not monolithic entities, Mr. Smith. The CIA, the Pentagon, DEA, FBI, NSA, DIA are faction ridden -- both the Globalist Proto-Autocracy and the Dominionist Proto-Autocracy are well represented in all these organs of State Security.

If these agencies war with each other there can be appreciable rollback of the National Security State -- as realized in the 2015 Surveillance State Repeal Act.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-cong...-bill/1466

Is the Deep State Fracturing into Disunity? (March 14, 2014)

I have suggested that this "rogue Deep State" quietly aided Donald Trump (by subtly undermining Hillary Clinton's campaign) as the last best chance to save the nation from the neocon's over-reach that the Establishment's Wall Street-funded leadership (Bush, Clinton, Obama, et al.) has overseen--including granting the CIA and its allies virtually unlimited powers unhindered by any effective oversight.

I suggest Charles Hugh Smith is a fucking moron.

'Nuf said.