Reprinted in full from behind the author's subscription wall, with permission. We consider Wayne Madsen to be one of the few great investigative journalists of our time, along with Seymour Hersh, David Kaplan, Robert Parry, and John Pilger.
January 6-8, 2017 — Unprecedented: CIA attempting to undermine president-elect
Although the Central Intelligence Agency has had a long history of undermining presidents-elect and prime ministers-elect in other countries, the United States has never witnessed the intelligence agency so blatantly attempting to politically weaken a U.S. president-elect just a few weeks prior to the inauguration. What the CIA is doing in forcing Donald Trump into shifting from his campaign promise of restoring good relations with Russia to one of outright hostility to Moscow — favored by the CIA, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and the neo-conservatives within the Republican and Democratic party establishments — is nothing less than an overt threat to American democracy.
