This is delusional. There's no evidence "that Russia sought to recruit Americans." None. This is pure speculation based on the fearmongering blabber of a former CIA Director whose credibility is on a par with Bernie Madoff. We're not talking about "honest" Abe Lincoln here. We're talking about the former head of the most diabolical organization in history, an organization that, since its inception in 1949, has engaged in all manner of demonic behavior including torture, death squads, rendition, black sites, kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking, regime change and, of course, the arming, training and funding of Islamic extremists which is the source of the current terrorist plague that has engulfed the planet. It all started with the CIA. The idea that people take the specious palavering of this man at face value, is beyond belief. The truth is, Brennan's appearance on the Hill was a thoroughly-rehearsed performance that was concocted to advance the geopolitical agenda of his paymasters, an agenda that, in all probability, involves a war with Russia. Isn't that the real objective?
It is.
In the last week the media has been stumbling over themselves to report on the "new developments" in the investigation. As it happens, those new developments involve Trump's son in law and chief adviser, Jared Kushner, who has been identified as a "person of interest."
Think about that for a minute. After a 10-month-long investigation involving all 14 US Intelligence agencies, the best they can come up with is a person of interest? It's an admission that they have nothing. Here's a clip from the New York Times that helps to put the Kushner matter into perspective:
"...responding to questions from The Times about the meetings with Mr. Kislyak and Mr. Gorkov, Ms. Hicks said the meetings were part of an effort by Mr. Kushner to improve relations between the United States and Russia, and to identify areas of possible cooperation.
"But the Trump transition was unique in its unwillingness to use the government's communications lines and briefing material for its dealings with many foreign governments, partly because of concern that Obama administration officials might be monitoring the calls." ("Investigation Turns to Kushner's Motives in Meeting With a Putin Ally," New York Times)
Horrors! So the Trump team actually wanted to improve relations with Russia. How could they dream of such a thing? (sarcasm) And, at the same time, they wanted to keep their contacts under wraps because they knew the Obama's Stasi had them under surveillance. Is that a crime or is the real crime the fact that Susan Rice had been unmasking the names of people in the new administration and delivering them to the intelligence agencies so they dig up dirt on them and leak it to the media? Who's the real criminal here? Take a look at this revealing clip from CNN:
"Russian government officials discussed having potentially 'derogatory' information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides in conversations intercepted by US intelligence during the 2016 election, according to two former intelligence officials and a congressional source.
"One source described the information as financial in nature and said the discussion centered on whether the Russians had leverage over Trump's inner circle. The source said the intercepted communications suggested to US intelligence that Russians believed 'they had the ability to influence the administration through the derogatory information.'" (CNN)
If Trump or his people are in cahoots with Moscow, then they should be charged with a crime. No one objects to that. But the American people also deserve to know whether the Intelligence agencies were bugging the Trump campaign and what justification they had for conducting that investigation. After all, what is the greater danger to democracy: The prospect that some foreign country might have extracted a few emails from unprotected servers at the DNC or that rogue spymasters operating in the interests of god-knows-who are scooping up everything they can on the opposition party so they can drag them through the mud, undermine their campaign, and sabotage their political agenda?
That's a no brainer, isn't it?
Have you read about the recent ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that proves that the NSA has been illegally surveilling innocent American citizens for years? Here's an excerpt from an article at Motherboard:
"Thursday, the Department of Justice released the 99-page court opinion from last month that ordered the National Security Agency to delete much of its surveillance on American people, which was collected improperly and in potential violation of the Fourth Amendment. The DOJ released the opinion as part of a 2015 plan to be more transparent...The court order triggered the surprise announcement two weeks ago that the agency would be severely scaling back its domestic surveillance and destroying previously collected data on Americans...
"According to the opinion -- parts of which are redacted -- the NSA improperly collected untold numbers of 'multi-communications transactions' (MCTs) as they were in transit around the internet. The NSA is intentionally vague about what MCTs are, but they are believed to be groups of emails, metadata, screenshots of your inbox, and still-classified types of digital information (here's the best primer explaining MCTs). ("This Is the Secret Court Order That Forced the NSA to Delete the Data It Collected About You," Motherboard)
Can you appreciate the danger that these massive information dragnets pose to democracy? It has nothing to do with whether "I have nothing to hide" or not. That's completely irrelevant. The Fourth amendment doesn't merely protect one's own personal privacy, it prevents the state from acquiring coercive surveillance powers that pave the way for police state tyranny. Can't you see that?
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.
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