James Fallows, Uri Friedman, and Atlantic readers discuss the ramifications of a Trump presidency when it comes to the U.S.’s complicated relationship with China.
Phi Beta Iota: The article is excellent in relation to the complexity of dealing with China, and worthless in relation to dealing with the complexity of Trump — these people are not stupid, merely oblivious.
Important change: PedoGate instead of PizzaGate. A very interesting interview that might be deleted by YouTube but has been posted elsewhere. The citizen investigation continues.
Assuming these “rogue-Electors” from the Electoral College get a briefing on the “Russian election-hack” from the CIA, and assuming the Electors have a few working brain cells, and assuming they care, here are the top 11 questions they should ask the CIA presenter:
With its latest attempt to de-rail the accidental but never-the-less legitimate election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America, CIA — John Brennan specifically and every senior executive not speaking up now to disown Brennan — has crossed the line into indictable treason. There is every reason now to close down both CIA and NSA — each has spied with impunity on US politicians and judges and others for decades, each has blackmailed US politicians with impunity for decades.
The real story has five parts.
Part I: Treason by CIA & NSA. This is the part CIA and NSA want to obscure, their decades of unconstitutional surveillance of and blackmail of US politicians. Russia did not hack the election. This is a blatant lie. [NOTE: President's Daily Brief is crap — secret sources and methods provided General Tony Zinni with less than 4% of what he needed as CINCENT — and nothing for everyone else. The IC is a spending cesspool that is worthless in supporting Whole of Government strategy, policy, operations, and acquisition.]
One of my contributing editors keeps sending me bits from The Cipher Brief — I have tended to ignore them, but the recent two pieces, one by Mike Hayden and the other by Michael Morell, are such utter crap that I feel compelled to address them. I cannot say this any more clearly. Mike Hayden is a traitor who approved warrantless wiretapping at NSA and rendition and torture at CIA. He is also the D/CIA who allowed the complete destruction of the OSINT discipline as pioneered by General Peter Schoomaker at SOCOM. Michael Morell is simply a shill — he may not realize he is lying, in which case this simply displays his lack of intelligence and integrity. From where I sit, the secret world is worthless in large part because the good people trapped in this bad system are overseen by politically-appointed pimps who could care less about producing decision-support in the public interest. Following the two links below I offer a very concise commentary on the secret world (dysfunctional waste of no value to the President, the Cabinet, or Congress) and my own Philosophy of Intelligence. The reader can decide between the two.