The Intelligence Community is Deadly Serious

[sheshe2]

The Intelligence Community is Deadly Serious

by BooMan
Sat May 27th, 2017 at 10:03:31 AM EST


My internet is down and will be down according to Verizon until late this afternoon. It crashed at the exact same time as every Russian story in the universe hit the webs last night. So, I’m using my phone’s hotspot to connect and that’s a little expensive. As a result, I’ll keep this shorter than I otherwise would.

One way I can tell the Intelligence Community is loaded for bear and deadly serious about taking the Trump administration down is that former high-and-low ranking officers are coming out of the woodwork to shovel dirt on The Donald.


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“But I can’t keep out of my mind the thought that, if an American intelligence officer had done anything like this, we’d consider it espionage.”

But I have a simpler way of gauging this. When the Allies cracked the Nazi’s ENIGMA encryption during World War Two they allowed people to march into certain death rather than risk revealing that they could read the Germans’ internal communications. But the fact that we intercepted the Russian ambassador’s communications with the Kremlin was just presented as the evidence for Jared Kushner wanting to set up a private network with Moscow. That should be the most closely guarded secret we have, or close to it. So, to just go ahead and risk losing that capability is an indication of how serious of a risk they think Trump represents.

They would never reveal that information unless they thought removing Trump from power was a higher priority and that this information could lead to that outcome.

Read More:http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2017/5/27/10331/3082

Looks like Donnie has F**Ked with the wrong people.

[hlthe2b]

1. with re: to your last paragraph, perhaps it is Russia that secreted this info to WaPo?

If, intelligence did leak it, then yes, it is astounding because of what it reveals in terms of our capabilities, but maybe it was Putin's crew....?

[ProudLib72]

2. Not disagreeing it could have come from outside

But it might be from an ally, too. There are some ally countries sitting on major intel. They see that the WH is setting up a war room to combat the Russia probe and figure that the American public will resist if they are made aware of some of the juicier bits. It might very well be blowback from tRump leaking their intel over the last few weeks.

[hlthe2b]

5. yes, indeed.

[sheshe2]

8. yes...indeed.

[WinkyDink]

3. To what end? Ruining a good thing?

[hlthe2b]

6. If anyone is capable of 3 dimensional chess, I'd say it is Putin.

I'd bet that he is more than willing to both hurt and help his little Trump puppet, to keep him in line.

[WinkyDink]

15. Devious for sure, but his control of the US is at stake.

[William Seger]

26. if (isChaos(WesternWorld)) Russia++;

(That's a coded message.)

[lastlib]

31. (understood)

[wishstar]

11. Wash. Post says leaks came from US Govt officials who were briefed on the intelligence

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Probably IC knows that Russian already knows that we intercepted those communications. . . .nt

[Turbineguy]

39. It could very well be.

Putin might be cutting his losses and shutting down this operation. It has not gone well because his partner Trump fucked it up with his big mouth. After all, he could have negotiated something with President Hillary Clinton.

It could be that the biggest Russian intelligence operation since "The Trust" is ending.

[JohnQFunk]

40. Possible, but more likely someone like, say, Christopher Steele

One can only hope the "pee video" turns up.

[uponit7771]

4. Looks like the Intel community is screaming as loud as possible

[HipChick]

7. Ickle little Donnie 2 Scoops press briefings are being replaced

with Breaking News IC leaks...

I'll take the latter for truth...the entire WH is compromised...

[sheshe2]

10. Yes they are all compromised.

How sick is that.

[WinkyDink]

16. OMG, GREAT Mob name! "Little Donnie Two-Scoops"! Bwahaha!

[malaise]

9. Yep

and all for greed and power - he will learn

[sheshe2]

27. Yea...greed and power.

That is what the GOP have done to America, treasonous bastards.

[brush]

12. For allegedly smart people how dumb can they get not to know the Russian ambassador's...

communications would be monitored by our intel community.

They learned of Kushner's attempt to set up a back channel of communication to the Kremlin this way.

This a-hole should be charged with treason for this.

[Stuart G]

14. Donnie does not know..

The intelligence community will bring him down

"Looks like Donnie has F**Ked with the wrong people"..... YEP

....No truer words have ever been spoken....

...Donnie does not know...
...Donnie will be the show
IC will take him down,
Because he is a stupid clown.....

.

[WinkyDink]

17. Yeah, he's not really up on the "I" part of "IC."

And

[Stuart G]

18. OUtstanding....."he's not really up on the "I" part of the "IC"

.......... Yes you totally correct................. to you

[Mountain Mule]

35. HA-HA! So true!

If the intelligence community is after him, it will be like shooting fish in a barrel.

[LiberalArkie]

23. The current administration does not realize that it is not out of the realm of possibility that

a foreign fighter might be borrowed and the Air Force 1 might be shot down to end the madness.

[world wide wally]

25. The most overused phrase being heard constantly at the a White House:

"We'll tell them............ Blah blah blah"

[sheshe2]

28. Yor ditty is so true, Stuart.

[keithbvadu2]

19. Trump told where our submarines are and how many - usually above Top Secret.

Trump told where our submarines are and how many - usually above Top Secret.

Have you heard Putin and China bragging such info?

[Stuart G]

20. Good Point....He is not too smart....

He is not too smart.
He has no heart
There is no brain to be found
Even if one looks around
....................................................................oh my
..........................................that one is not so good.........

[sheshe2]

29. Ha!

[kairos12]

21. Problem is impeachment is a political process. The Intell

community has no votes in Congress. The Reich Wing will never, ever remove Drumpt.

[Stuart G]

22. It does look that way...but stranger things have happened in politics.

and indeed, this show is one of the stranger things.....

[sheshe2]

30. There will come a point...not sure when,

that they will have to fold. The longer they wait the higher price they will pay. I think a lot of them are shitting their pants now. Clock is ticking.

[BigmanPigman]

32. They are patriots and this is how they are "resisting", now it's your turn and mine.

We can't wait for 2018. We must spread the word that an INDEPENDANT INVESTIGATION MUST BEGIN NOW! Call congress [phone] to pass the bill introduced by house dems calling for an independant commission. Nothing will happen unless this gets done immediately. #Marchfortruth rallies next weekend in 110+ cities and Wash DC. Right now Bannon and the Donald's family(meeting with GOP) are working hard to crush this and they will succeed unless we speak up!

[mercuryblues]

24. They have had this

info for months. That they have released it now makes me think there is something bigger coming down. They are also leaking it to make sure this doesn't get covered up. They are daring the republicans to do something. The more the russublicans ignore this, more gets leaked, the wider the net.

McConnell has a choice. Go down with the rats or jump ship and rat them out to save his cheese. Of course he will have to retire from public office, but with his millions he won't be hurting.

[sandensea]

33. I should hope so!

These are agencies created FOR THE VERY PURPOSE for monitoring and preventing attempts by foreign powers - particularly of the Soviet/Russian kind - to influence or subvert our government.

I don't know how many more shoes have to drop for our Intelligence services to see that we're here folks.

[bucolic_frolic]

34. I'm not sure I agree

It could be as stated by the article

But also, it is not news that perhaps ALL governments listen to each other, or
have the capacity to listen to each other. This has been going on a long time,
so we're not revealing much by confirming to Russia that we have ears.

[american_ideals]

36. This is exactly right. Also, IC has a PR strategy.

In addition to the government being willing to burn sources (which will harm America now and in future) to get this ruling family into jail, the government has a PR strategy.

There are a few articles every day. They are letting the story come out slowly, to let Americans wrap their heads around this story, which is the biggest scandal in American history with just what we know now.

[Marie Marie]

37. That's our President...

Making friends with our enemies and making enemies with our allies. But screwing with our intelligence agencies just goes to show how STUPID this jerk is.

[enid602]

38. Fox

I hope your internet outage was not intentional. We may see more soon. I'm at an LA Fitness in Phoenix, and all 14 TV's upstairs are on Fox. I complained vociferously, but management did not change them.

[byronius]

41. Seriously apt reasoning here.

Rings true.

[yallerdawg]

42. American patriots cannot stand by and watch...

this traitorous criminal enterprise destroy our country.

[OldRedneck]

43. It's about our institutions

In the wake of Trump's firing of James Comey, and now, with the latest revelations about the Trump family trying to set up secret communications with Russia, we now hear calls to "trust our institutions." Such calls are rooted in the belief that the institutions formed by our Constitution, laws and history are strong enough to withstand the occasional attack.

Not so.

In his recent work "On Tyranny," Yale historian Timothy Snyder examines twenty characteristics of the tyrannies that swept away democratic republics in Europe after both world wars. Snyder writes: " We tend to assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks." He then describes how Hitler and the Russian Bolsheviks destroyed institutions by depriving them of legitimacy.

Trump's senior advisor, Steve Bannon, describes our institutions, not as something to be protected and cherished, but as the "deep state," which is to be rooted out and destroyed.

Now we see that Trump himself is directly attacking our institutions. He fired and has not replaced every US attorney. Although he ha filled his cabinet secretary positions, he refuses to nominate people to the deputy, assistant, and deputy assistant secretary positions. Trump claims one of our most important institutions -- the free press -- is "the enemy of the American people." Now we learn that he so hates the institutions he is attempting to circumvent those institutions to talk directly with our most dangerous adversary.

Justice William Douglas warned us: “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”

Trump is well on his way to destroying the very institutions that have protected us from tyranny; night is falling.

[Ligyron]

44. It's not out of the realm of possibilities that the Russians KNOW we are listening

and could feed us bogus info to steer the American conversation.

We do realize this, right?