Several intelligence insiders have come
forward over the past few days to describe a “shadow government” of Barack Obama DEEP STATE radical holdovers leaking information to derail the Trump presidency, with National
Security Adviser Mike Flynn’s resignation their first great success. These radical progressive socialists inside the present day government of President Donald Trump have a serious problem, they don't have a lot of friends and Trump will did them out, root them out and make soup of them.
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John Brennan
Jim Clapper
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Hillary Clinton
Vladimir Putin
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President Donald Trump
There are even allegations that former
President Barack Obama himself is actively involved, citing his establishment
of a command center in Washington and continuing involvement with activist
organizations. A shadow government is like those bad kids in high school hiding behind the gym and smoking their cigarettes. They really don't have anything to do before they drop out so they start trouble until the Principle catches them. The losers inside the Shadow Government of Barack Obama have lost the majority of their power and influence just like their radical leader Barack Obama, the dope smoker that struck it big in the progressive negro minority open border stop all the wars period in America.
Retired Lt. Colonel Tony Schaffer, formerly a
CIA-trained defense intelligence officer, said in a Fox Business appearance on
Wednesday: “I put this right at the feet of John Brennan, and Jim Clapper, and
I would even go so far as to say the White House was directly involved before
they left.” He also mentioned Ben Rhodes: We know that Brennan, Clapper and Rhodes only held power if they followed all the Obama rules of world order. Brennan, Clapper and maybe Rhodes could find themselves in federal prison as President Donald Trump rounds up the sneaky dirty rats that have been selling out America.
Schaffer said it was clear that sensitive
information that could compromise U.S. intelligence-gathering methods was
divulged to the media as part of the campaign to bring down Flynn, by people
who had access to beyond Top Secret material. That should narrow the list of
suspects considerably. Don't get too worried about Flynn but do consider taking direct actions against the leakers. Spies are often put against the wall and shot by the state and shoved into an electric chair.
The Washington Free Beacon quoted “multiple
sources in and out of the White House” on Tuesday to describe a “secret,
months-long campaign by former Obama administration confidantes to handicap
President Donald Trump’s national security apparatus and preserve the nuclear
deal with Iran.”
Since all news coverage is now driven by leaks
of dubious accuracy from anonymous sources seemingly above evaluation, it seems
only fair to entertain some insiders who wish to leak on the leakers.
According to the Free Beacon’s sources, the
Obama loyalists are highly organized, under the direction of former Deputy
National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, famed for his ability to sell false
narratives about Iran to credulous reporters. His critique of media types as
young “know nothings” whose only experience “consists of being around political
campaigns” would seem validated by a press corps that eagerly runs with just
about anything an anonymous source hostile to Trump feeds them.
Rhodes shoveled a lot of manure to cultivate
the Iran nuclear deal, and he is not going to let it go without a fight.
According to the Free Beacon’s sources – one of whom is identified as a
“veteran foreign policy insider who is close to Flynn and the White House” –
Flynn was targeted because he was preparing to “publicize many of the details
about the nuclear deal that had been intentionally hidden by the Obama
administration as part of its effort to garner support for the deal.”
Another official who purportedly sits on the
National Security Council said “the drumbeat of leaks of sensitive material
related to General Flynn has been building since he was named to his position,”
and his resignation was “not the result of a series of random events.”
“Last night’s resignation was their first
major win, but unless the Trump people get serious about cleaning house, it won’t
be the last,” warned a third source, suggesting these Obama loyalists are just
getting warmed up.
The American people don’t get to vote on
shadow governments or Deep State hierarchies, we don’t get to evaluate their
credibility, and we don’t get to ask them follow-up questions. A good follow-up
question for the Free Beacon’s unnamed sources would be how knocking out Flynn
could guarantee the continuing secrecy of the damaging Iran deal information he
was intent on divulging. Won’t the next National Security Adviser, or maybe
President Trump himself, spill those beans if rolling back the Iran deal is
still a presidential priority? Or is Flynn’s demise supposed to intimidate
others from messing with the Iran deal?
Appearing on Breitbart News Daily Wednesday
morning, retired Lt. General William “Jerry” Boykin said he didn’t think a
“coup” from the Deep State was in progress, but he was quite comfortable with
the idea of an organized group of Obama holdovers working to undermine the new
administration. He suggested the actions that led to President Trump firing
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates were part of the “setup.”
Boykin said it was not surprising that
officials left over from a prior administration would be “up to no good,” and
would work “preserve the legacy of the last president” by making trouble. Like
the Washington Free Beacon’s sources, he thought Flynn’s resignation was just
the beginning of their efforts unless President Trump weeds them out.
The difference between Boykin’s view of nearly
inevitable mischief from holdovers, and the WFB’s more conspiratorial account
of an aggressive cell of saboteurs, boils down to organization and scope. It’s
the difference between a few relics of the past presidency who will be gone
soon, and a persistent shadow government with designs on anything from
advancing a few policy preferences to destroying the legitimacy of the new
administration.
It’s easy to imagine players in a shadow
government sticking together, imagining themselves as brave resistance fighters
against the Trump tyranny, which only exists because Russia stole the election
from Hillary Clinton. That’s a fantasy that has become absolutely pervasive in
left-wing culture today.
Furthermore, these are holdovers from an
administration that believed it was on a messianic mission to “fundamentally
transform America,” as the former president famously put it. They can easily
make common cause with longtime bureaucrats who disdain “populist” crusades
against unaccountable Big Government. Very little sinister collusion is
necessary when everyone is already on the same page.
Other common theories say the leaks came from
career intelligence officials who believe Trump is dangerous and must be
undermined to protect national security, or the entrenched bureuacrats of a
“Deep State” protecting their turf from Trump’s “Drain the Swamp” agenda. Those
theories could be true as well. Rogue intel officers and Deep State warriors
would be natural allies for the Obama holdovers.
Paul Sperry at the New York Post takes the
shadow government idea even further and suggests Barack Obama himself is still
actively running the show, which includes not just whisper campaigns in
Washington, but street theater across the nation:
When former President Barack Obama said he was
“heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his
troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than
30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic
presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from
the White House.
In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual
post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working
behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not
only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration
and its popular “America First” agenda.
He’s doing it through a network of leftist
nonprofits led by Organizing for Action. Normally you’d expect an organization
set up to support a politician and his agenda to close up shop after that
candidate leaves office, but not Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s gearing up for
battle, with a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country.
Sperry points out that Obama is still very
actively involved in OFA, which has piled up $40 million in contributions since
it formally ceased to be “Obama for America” in 2013 – and it’s just one of a
network of Obama organizations.
It doesn’t take a lot of manpower to keep the
Beltway leak machine running. News coverage leading up to Flynn’s resignation
referred to anonymous sources dozens of times, but it is likely the same people
were leaking to multiple news organizations. We’re probably looking at a fairly
small group of highly motivated loyalists with extensive media connections.
Their work is made far easier by active
collusion from Big Media, of course. One of the most curious details about the
final round of anti-Flynn stories is that much of what they revealed was old
news, and the material tucked away deep inside the stories helped Flynn’s
cause, no matter what the alarming headlines said.
A few people tried to point this out on social
media, but their voices were drowned out by the deafening stampede to destroy
Flynn and smear the rest of the Trump administration:
President Donald Trump’s first solo press
conference at the White House on Thursday. They are complaining, almost in
unison, that it was “unhinged” — and, worse, that Trump’s combative style, and
practice of calling on non-traditional news outlets, threatens
the First Amendment.
Perhaps the mainstream
media Brahmins have short memories — or selective memories. Because when
President Barack Obama took direct aim at the media and press freedom, few
complained. And when they did, the media soon went back to giving him fawning
coverage.
Here
are 11 moments Obama abused the press:
1. Campaign plane “hijacking” journalists. In 2008, the Obama campaign flew 25 members of the media
to Chicago — without telling them then-Sen. Obama was not, in fact, on board.
CNN reported: “[T]he press was
essentially held hostage with no candidate and no choice but to fly to Chicago
on a chartered plane.”
2. Closing White House events to all but the official
photographer. Obama barred the
media from events — including, ironically, an award ceremony where he was
recognized for “transparency” — and often restricted photographers’ access, only releasing images taken by the official White
House photographer.
3. Trying to shut out Fox News. The Obama administration targeted Fox News for isolation
and marginalization, arguing that it was not a legitimate news organization
but “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.” That
served as a warning to other potentially critical outlets.
4. Stonewalling FOIA requests. The Obama administration “set a record” for failing to provide information requested by
the press and the public under the Freedom of Information Act. The low point
was Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, where tens of thousands of emails were
hidden on a private server and deleted.
5. Prosecuting journalists and their sources. The Obama administration pursued Fox News reporter James Rosen’s private emails —
then misled Congress about it. CNN’s Jake Tapper — to his credit — pointed out that
Obama had used the Espionage Act against leakers more than all of his
predecessors combined.
6. Wiretapping the Associated Press. After the Obama administration’s snooping on the
AP was exposed in 2013, a senior NBC correspondent excused President
Obama on the grounds that he would not have been nasty enough to alienate
“one of the president’s most important constituencies, the press.”
7. Refusing to hold press conferences. For long stretches of his presidency, Obama refused to hold
press conferences at all, going 10 months without a formal press conference in a critical
stretch from 2009 to 2010. He heeled the lowest average annual number of press conferences of any
president since Ronald Reagan.
8. Filibustering at press conferences. When Obama did, finally, hold press conference, he often
limited the number of questions by delivering long, rambling, often
condescending answers. He “wastes reporters’ time by refraining from answering
questions with any candor,” Jack Shafer complained in Politico in 2016.
9. Attacking tough questions. When a Major Garrett of CBS actually asked a tough
question — about why the administration seemed not to be trying
hard to free Americans held by Iran, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian —
Obama scolded him: “Major, that’s nonsense, and you should know better.”
10. Appearing on fringe outlets. While media elites gripe about conservative
journalists being given a chance, Obama often restricted his appearances to
fringe media: Inside Edition; Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns (which
was then nominated for an Emmy); YouTube stars; and a radio show called “Pimp with a Limp.”
11. Iran deal “echo chamber.” The Obama administration created “fake news” to support the
Iran deal, setting up what it later boasted was an “echo chamber”
of “experts” who would comment in the media to support the White House
narrative on the negotiations. Meanwhile, key details were hidden from the
public.
Through it all, President Obama regarded himself as a champion of press freedom, having
run the “most transparent administration ever.”
Many
mainstream media journalists ignored the Obama administration’s abuses. A
few spoke out against them. But most of them continued to paint him
in glowing terms, regardless.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He
was named one of the “most influential”
people in news media in 2016. His new book, How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is
available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
