Gilbert Doctorow — The Trump Presidency: Time to act on the threat to our national security from within

By weeding saboteurs out of the intelligence agencies, State and the Pentagon, Trump will merely be undoing the enormous damage done to our national security by a purge of the same bodies undertaken under the guidance of Vice President Dick Cheney following 9/11…

Much will depend on the actions that President Trump takes right now. He cannot win the battle over direction of our foreign policy, and he possibly cannot even hold onto power, if he fails to rein in the intelligence services, meaning the FBI, the CIA and the NSA, who are behind the leaks that are daily contributing to the feeding frenzy in the media. Possibilities for insubordination to the Chief Executive at the Pentagon and at the State Department must also be nipped in the bud through personnel changes....

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The Trump Presidency: Time to act on the threat to our national security from within
Gilbert Doctorow | European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd.

Pat Buchanan — The Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump

Pat Buchanan lays it out.

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The Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump

Patrick J. Buchanan

Washington's Blog — Top NSA Whistleblower: Intelligence Agencies DID Spy On Trump

William Binney dishes.

Washington's Blog
Top NSA Whistleblower: Intelligence Agencies DID Spy On Trump

See also
George W. Bush’s Former AG: Trump ‘Right’ There Was Surveillance on Trump Tower

My guess is that it's likely an insider spilled the beans to Trump.

Robert Parry — Official Washington Tips into Madness

Robert Parry recounts the unfolding this madness.

Even one of the top advocates feeding this Russia frenzy, New York Times correspondent Thomas L. Friedman, acknowledged on Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “I agree, there is no evidence,” but then added: “which is why we need a special prosecutor or an independent commission to get to the bottom of it.”

But that is not how investigations are supposed to work. You’re supposed to have evidence of wrongdoing and then examine it in the investigative phase to see if the evidence withstands scrutiny. What Friedman is suggesting is more like a “fishing expedition” or a “witch hunt.”…

Even one of the top advocates feeding this Russia frenzy, New York Times correspondent Thomas L. Friedman, acknowledged on Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “I agree, there is no evidence,” but then added: “which is why we need a special prosecutor or an independent commission to get to the bottom of it.”

But that is not how investigations are supposed to work. You’re supposed to have evidence of wrongdoing and then examine it in the investigative phase to see if the evidence withstands scrutiny. What Friedman is suggesting is more like a “fishing expedition” or a “witch hunt.” …

Same old, same old.

In many ways, what is happening now to Trump reminds me of the situation in 1992-93 at the start of Bill Clinton’s presidency when Republicans were furious that they had lost the White House after 12 years of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. They considered Clinton an unworthy interloper and sought to cripple his presidency from the outset by pursuing one investigation after another.

During the campaign, President Bush and his team even suggested that the Arkansas governor may have been a KGB mole because of a student trip to Moscow in 1970. The idea was to portray the trip to the Soviet Union as prima facie evidence of Clinton’s disloyalty even though there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by Clinton....

Consortium News
Official Washington Tips into Madness

Robert Parry

John Hayward — DeepStateGate: Trump Ends the Wiretapping Innuendo Game by Dealing Himself In

The White House statement on “DeepStateGate” — President Donald Trump’s allegations that former President Barack Obama ordered surveillance on him during his 2016 presidential campaign — has the feel of cards and chips thumping down on the table....

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DeepStateGate: Trump Ends the Wiretapping Innuendo Game by Dealing Himself In
John Hayward

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New York Times Trashes Its Own Reporting on Obama Admin Wiretapping
Ezra Dulis