Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald Discuss Deep State War Vs. Trump, While Ex-Spook Hints At Assassination

Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is not a fan of President-elect Trump, appeared on Tucker Carlson tonight to discuss the dangerous ongoing effort among powerful anti-Trump factions within the US Government’s “Deep State,” who have collaborated with members of the Democratic Party and the traditionally liberal media to inflict maximum damage on the incoming President. Recall Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s ominous “six ways from Sunday” comment from 10 days ago.

Greenwald, an accomplished litigator, journalist, and author, does a masterful job illustrating the players, motives, and potential fallout from this dangerous effort within the US Government’s intelligence apparatus. Greenwald goes deep, discussing how Trump’s election ruined the plan for regime change in Syria, specifically mentioning, among other things, that the deep state was waiting for Obama to leave office before executing their plan:

The number one foreign policy priority of the CIA over the last four to five years has been the proxy war they’re waging in Syria to remove Bashar Al Assad – and Hillary Clinton was quite critical of Obama for constraining them. She wanted to escalate that war to unleash the CIA, to impose a no-fly zone in Syria to confront Russia, whereas Trump took the exact opposite position. He said we have no business in Syria trying to change the government, we ought to let the Russia and Assad go free and killing ISIS and Al Quaeda and whoever else they want to kill.

He [Trump] was a threat to the CIA’s primary institutional priority of regime change in Syria. Beyond that, Clinton wanted a much more confrontational and belligerent posture towards Moscow, which the CIA has been acrimonious with for decades, whereas Trump wanted better relations. They viewed Trump as a threat to their institutional pre-eminence to their ability to get their agenda imposed on Washington.

What you’re seeing is actually quite dangerous. There really is at this point obvious open warefare between this un-elected, but very powerful faction that resides in Washington and sees Presidents come and go – on the one hand, and the person that the American democracy elected to be elected on the other. There’s clearly extreme conflict and subversion taking place. ‘

This really is a must-watch, and goes hand-in-hand with Tucker’s interview with Dr. Stephen Cohen this week:

Meanwhile ex-spook and security consultant John Schindler – who is very clearly part of the faction to remove Trump by any means, sent out an ominous tweet yesterday which mentioned “taking traitor Trump out now.”

This is overt, and Schindler also just more or less outed Washington Post’s David Ignatius as a CIA mouthpiece (along the same vein as Deep Throat, perhaps we can refer to Ignatius’s source as Golden Shower?).

This cavalier attitude towards assassinating Donald Trump has been supported by social media giant Facebook:

And nothing, to the best of my knowledge, has been done about the multitude of death threats Trump has received – including ones from individuals who have visited the White House and have CIA connections.

Meanwhile 8 years ago, a La Mesa, California man was charged, arrested, and thrown in a halfway house for 60 days for going on a drunken, racist, profanity laced online tirade against President-elect Obama ending in “he will have a 50 cal in the head soon.” – a conviction which was later reversed when the threats were found to be not credible.

Perhaps the secret service is merely spread too thin to investigate these threats, or perhaps President-elect Trump is wise to have his own private security.

Kellyanne Conway went on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night, hours after CNN reporter Aaron Acosta decided to engage in a shouting match with President-elect Donald Trump at a press conference. Acosta was furious after being passed over for another journalist’s question, and when the reporter wouldn’t let it go, Trump branded CNN as “Terrible” and “Fake News” before moving on to other questions – a move which spooked investors in CNN’s parent company, Time Warner ($TWX).

Conway took Anderson Cooper to task over CNN’s decision as the only network to front-run Buzzfeed’s release of the now infamous 35 page private intelligence report containing obscene and unverified claims about Donald Trump and his purported activities in Russia. In an update and follow-up article, CNN revealed that they did in fact release their hoax-dossier story before Buzzfeed, and had reviewed the entire 35 page document before deciding it was newsworthy. As internet sleuths began debunking many of the ridiculous claims in the hoax dossier, and rumors emerged that much of the report was fabricated by members of the 4chan message board and passed to a GOP source, both CNN and Buzzfeed (which coincidentally helped seed the term “fake news” in early 2016 along with the Washington Post) have been under intense fire for their actions.

Hours later on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Kellyanne Conway unleashed hell on the network:

While Conway was wrong on one point regarding whether or not CNN’s initial report linked directly to Buzzfeed or only spotlighted the hoax report, Anderson Cooper spent most of the interview backpedaling for CNN, trying to dodge Kellyanne’s questions on why CNN chose to front-run the Buzzfeed article. Cooper becomes flustered at several points in the segment, and Kellyanne is in fine form.

Highlights (video below):

Discussing the sequence of events and accountability:

Conway: CNN went first and Buzzfeed went second, and that with the imprimatur of CNN going first and posting this, and making this a huge centerpiece of TV coverage, that then it allowed a news outlet to go ahead and publish “the rest of the story,” and it’s fake news and a political witch hunt.

Cooper: If CNN reports something and people on twitter and shady organizations, or Buzzfeed, or reputable organizations start then reporting other things, you cannot hold CNN responsible for what other people are doing. They’re responsible for what they do, we stand by our reporting 100%

Conway: I can hold CNN accountable for having a screaming headline that he [Trump] was briefed on something that he wasn’t.

Kellyanne starts laying into Anderson at several points:

Conway: What did the president elect say when he was asked [about the two-page summary of the 35-page report”

Cooper: I don’t even know, you tell me?

Conway: Well, then you didn’t pay attention to the press conference. You’re relying on CNN unverified sources.

The conversation then shifts to the relationship between the press and the Trump administration going forward, in which Kellyanne makes some hilarious points about how the press treated President-elect Obama 8 years ago vs. Trump today. Anderson tries to deflect, but Kellyanne isn’t having any of it.

See the full interview here

In Donald Trump’s first press conference since winning the election, the President-elect suggested that by process of elimination, elements within US intelligence – and not a mole amongst his team, had been identified as the source of leaks surrounding his CIA intelligence briefings – implying they may have also leaked the now infamous 35-page #FakeNews dossier on Russian influence.

If you recall, the Washington Post – which was privy to the CIA assessment on Russian hacking for their Trump hit piece on December 9th (10 days before the electoral college vote), also broke the story that the President-elect was skipping his intelligence briefings, according to “U.S. Officials”).

In an effort to try and find the source of the leaks, Trump conducted his own “sting” on intelligence officials by ruling out moles within his own staff – including his personal assistant Rhona Graff, by not telling anyone about an upcoming intelligence briefing. When reports of the meeting later emerged in the press, Trump concluded that the leaks couldn’t have come from anywhere other than the intelligence community:

The meeting was held. They left, and immediately the word got out that I had a meeting. So, I don’t want that. It’s very unfair to the country. It’s very unfair to our country what’s happening…

…I think it’s pretty sad when intelligence reports get leaked out to the press. These are classified meetings and reports.

Trump then finished his point by referring to the 35-page hoax dossier leaked to Buzzfeed:

That report should have never been printed, because it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. Let me tell you, that should never, ever happen.

Prior to this exchange towards the end of the press conference, Trump made clear the “vital” importance of US intelligence – highlighting his recent picks for key positions within intel agencies (Mike Pompeo as director of the CIA and Dan Coats as director of National Intelligence), leaving many to surmise that the President-elect is referring to a specific opposition element within the intelligence community – perhaps tied to the outgoing administration and it’s vast spider web of power.

For those who caught what Dr. Steve Pieczenik said in November (Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Kissinger and several others, expert in foreign policy, international crisis management and psychological warfare, terrorism expert, and guy who helped negotiate US-Soviet Arms deals under Reagan – AKA high level operator and the inspiration for Jack Ryan), perhaps we are witnessing the last act in the Assange-assisted counter-coup in the form of a desperate and reaching 35 page Hail Mary, which included lascivious and obscene tales woven by what may turn out to be the biggest troll the world has ever known.

With eyebrows suspiciously furrowed, Tucker Carlson sat down tonight with NYU Professor of Russian Studies and contributor to The Nation, Stephen Cohen, to discuss the 35 page #FakeNews dossier which has gripped the nation with nightmares of golden showers and other perverted conduct which was supposed to be used by Russia to keep Trump on a leash.

The left leaning Cohen, who holds a Ph.D. in government and Russian studies from Columbia, taught at Princeton for 30 years before moving to NYU. He has spent a lifetime deeply immersed in US-Russian relations, having been both a long standing friend of Mikhail Gorbachev and an advisor to President George H.W. Bush. His wife is also the editor of uber liberal “The Nation,” so it’s safe to assume he’s not shilling for Trump – and Tucker was right to go in with eyebrows guarded. Cohen is a heavyweight in this arena, to say the least.

Cohen, who has been quite vocal against the Russophobic witch hunt gripping the nation, believes that this falsified 35 page report is part of an “endgame” to mortally wound Trump before he even sets foot in the White House, by grasping at straws to paint him as a puppet of the Kremlin. The purpose of these overt attempts to cripple Trump, which have relied on ham-handed intelligence reports that, according to Cohen “even the New York Times referred to as lacking any evidence whatsoever,” is to stop any kind of détente or cooperation with Russia.

Cohen believes that these dangerous accusations attempting to brand a US President as a puppet of a foreign government constitute a “grave American national security threat.”

At the very end of the interview, Tucker’s very un-furrowed eyebrows agreed.

See below:

The identity of the British intelligence officer responsible for preparing and delivering the now infamous 35 page hoax has been revealed as Christopher Steele, courtesy of the Wall St. Journal. If you want to dig into his profile, click here.

As people piece together this rapidly unfolding quagmire – which will be in the history books, it’s important to address as many facets as possible in order to avoid perpetuating #FakeNews. As Oliver Stone said, more or less, the MSM is biased – and alternative news has the real deal, so let’s discuss.

A friend pointed this out earlier:

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It has come out that the dossier and supporting documentation were fabricated by an anonymous 4Chan user, who sent the hoax to a RINO named Rick Wilson back in the Fall of last year.  Rick Wilson is (in)famous for his description of Trump supporters as “single white males who masturbate to anime”.  The 4Chan user wanted to embarrass Rick Wilson, who apparently tried to shop the fabrication to MSM without success (cuz they couldn’t “source” it, given that the entire documentation is a fake).

The alleged origination of a British agent as the source can be considered a “trap for the unwary,” which would easily demonstrate the documentation was an obvious forgery because the UK does not use the “Confidential” designation, although US intelligence agencies do.  In the US, classified information is designated as “Confidential”, “Secret” and “Top Secret” (along with a whole host of other designations for more highly sensitive information such as nuclear weapons designs).  The British use “Official”, “Secret” and “Top Secret”.   Anyone who checked on the story would instantly recognize this defect if they knew (or discovered) anything about British classification schemes, but if someone didn’t check they’d simply assume the British uses the same classification designations as the US.

[let’s take a look]

US Designations:

UK Designations

HOAX Dossier:

Apparently, Wilson also sent the falsified documentation to the CIA and they may, or may not have, bought it. The CIA subsequently “leaked” it to various news agencies, and both CNN and Buzz Feed bought the CIA leak. The CIA also admitted to briefing both Obama & Trump on the false documentation, but now claim they only cited it as an example of “disinformation” that’s floating around out there.  Seemingly, whomever at the CIA leaked this story and its documentation to CNN and Buzz Feed didn’t identify it as “disinformation”.  For extra brownie points McCain claims he received a classified briefing on the bed wetting episode in December and asked FBI’s head Comey to investigate!  It should be obvious McCain would not have done so had the CIA had told him the information was known to be fake.

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Now, it’s possible that Steele – an ex-UK intelligence officer in private practice, simply used the US designation for the convenience of US intel (or to mask the origination) – BUT, we’re also talking about the same guy who bought the #GoldenShower story that several journalists and news outlets wouldn’t touch.

So, by the transitive properties of “the guy who bought the 4chan hoax,” I think we can assume Steele would have defaulted to a career-long habit of using the UK designation on this 35 page dossier he cobbled together.

On the other side of the pond, what are we left to assume? Let’s ignore the classification thing for a moment. For one, the CIA could have easily looked into Michael Cohen’s travel records (the Trump lawyer the dossier accuses of going to Prague to meet with Russians) and ruled that out – immediately discrediting the document. Second, Trump is apparently a bit of a germaphobe. I don’t blame him, people are filthy. Shouldn’t the CIA know something that obvious about such a well known figure?

We are left to conclude:

The CIA figured out this was a hoax and just let McCain, CNN, and Buzzfeed make McAss. That’s an interesting conversation, if so.

The CIA didn’t know – as in, nobody who handled this document knew or checked into why a doc from a Brit would have US classification markings, or the Prague visit, or Golden Showers. A frightening thought.

Steele didn’t prepare the report.

What say you?

 “Not you. Your organisation’s terrible. I’m not going to give you a question. You are fake news.”

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages – step right up. Today’s feature is sure to ASTOUND, DELIGHT, and STUN you into questioning your reality. Is this real life?

During a press conference today, the President-elect delivered his second bitchslap heard around the world within 60 days.  His first was legendary.

Trump took to Twitter earlier today to address the steaming pile of horseshit #FakeNews “dossier” hoax which included completely fabricated accounts of degenerate and lascivious acts by the President-elect. If you want to see how it happened, read Fly’s post from earlier today.

At a press conference today, moments after calling Buzzfeed a “steaming pile of garbage,” Trump made an off the cuff remark – sending CNN’s Jim Acosta to wherever cucks go when they die. Witness greatness and note the applause. The tide is turning.

I think it’s safe to assume that from this point forward, the Russian conspiracy theory proffered by CIA and Dept. of Homeland Security – all of it; hacking, “directing the hacks,” influencing the election, no matter how legit anything else is – is dead. It’s gone. Thanks to Buzzfeed, CNN, and John “Golden Shower” McCain.

The entire Russian Hacking narrative may have just been destroyed by hilarious internet trolls, after the 35 page hoax dossier on Trump’s relationship with Russia was leaked by Buzzfeed today after being heavily fluffed by CNN.

If you’re not up to speed on the 35 page report released today, and it’s intra-day dismantling, below is a recap straight from ZeroHedge since they’ve been all over this thing (if you’re up to speed already, scroll down for 4chan proof).

First, CNN put out new Anti-Trump hit piece today alleging that a former British Spy compiled and delivered a 35 page report tciao US Intelligence.

In a report that will likely set much of the liberal media on fire in the coming days, CNN reports, citing “multiple US officials”, that top intelligence officials last week briefed President-elect Donald Trump about Russian operatives’ claims that they have compromised Trump’s personal and financial information. The two-page document which was presented to Trump as an appendix to last week’s briefing on alleged Russian interference in the presidential election, also noted allegations that there was an exchange of information between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government during the campaign. –ZeroHedge

Then, Buzzfeed published the entire 35 page report – which began to unravel immediately: Note that Buzzfeed was one of the early adopters of the phrase “Fake News, in April” parroting the newly minted phrase” days after the Washington Post used it to discredit Trump supporters).

As reported moments ago, CNN is leading with a story about a 35-page dossier compiled by a former member of British intelligence, which had been distilled into a 2-page appendix presented to Trump last Friday by the US intel community, and which contains “explosive, but unverified, allegations” that the Russian government has been “cultivating, supporting and assisting” President-elect Donald Trump for at least 5 years and “endorsed by Putin” gained compromising information about him, with the aim of “encouraging splits and divisions in the western alliance.” –ZeroHedge

The memo has allegedly been circulating among elected officials, intelligence agents, and journalists for weeks.

Trump chimed in, calling it FAKE NEWS:

FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017

As the lascivious details and inconsistencies in the report began to emerge, Buzzfeed editor in chief Ben Smith distanced himself – citing “clear errors”

And in a bizarre twist, a 4chan user claims to have fabricated the claims in the 35 page report (via ZeroHedge):

In a story that is getting more surreal by the minute, a post on 4Chan now claims that the infamous “golden showers” scene in the unverified 35-page dossier, allegedly compiled by a British intelligence officer, was a hoax and fabricated by a member of the chatboard as “fanfiction”, then sent to Rick Wilson, who proceeded to send it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election.

Here is 4Chan’s explanation of how the story came to light:

>/pol/acks mailed fanfiction to anti-trump pundit Rick Wilson about trump making people piss on a bed obama slept in

>he thought it was real and gave it to the CIA

>the central intelligence agency of the united states of america put this in their official classified intelligence report on russian involvement in the election

>donald trump and obama have both read this pol/acks fanfiction

>the cia has concluded that the russian plans to blackmail trump with this story we made up

just let that sink in what we have become.

Ok, so some guy just said  that, but where’s the proof?

RIGHT HERE, thanks to the 4chan archive of the original post from November 1st, talking about the whole plan to give the #FakeNews to Rick Wilson.

First post:

Replies:

These 4chan users had clearly discussed OP giving Rick Wilson fake information prior to November 1st, which was partially or entirely included in the 35 page report linking Trump directly to Russia.

From here on out, assuming this is all true – it doesn’t matter how “legit” any report, document, or declaration is from any agency regarding Russian involvement in the US Elections. Even if there were credible evidence in the case (there’s not), it simply won’t matter after today.

Look at that – a week after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a constitutional amendment on congressional term limits, he’s co-sponsoring a bill to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps as terrorist groups.

You know, the same Muslim Brotherhood Huma Abedin is allegedly tied to.

Read below:

Proud to introduce Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act w @MarioDB. It's time to call the enemy by its name https://t.co/0V7Psi2jC1 pic.twitter.com/YPM47AQjNH

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) January 10, 2017

Wholly cucked MTV, which used to play music – and green lighted an incredibly racist video a few weeks ago, is caught in another controversy. This time, their “culture writer” Ira Madison III, who I’m sure is making Ira Madison I and II proud, decided to opine on Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing in a series of now deleted tweets about Sessions’ Asian Granddaughter – calling her a “prop” meant to send an “I’m not racist” message.

What an asshole…

Lackey of the left John Harwood couldn’t even spin this one:

disgusting https://t.co/peA9mkcddu

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 10, 2017

JFC that's his OWN GRANDDAUGHTER you're referring to, you useless smug social media controversialist. https://t.co/PpCyDtRV2D

— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) January 10, 2017

This is why you leave kids/grandkids out of political fights. No matter what side you're on it makes you look like an asshole. https://t.co/8N54I1hpDM

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 10, 2017

Actor / Activist / Mensa member James Woods is PISSED OFF at the whole thing and has issued a call to action:

It looks like the propaganda wing of the establishment has decided to pull the plug on the whole “Fake News” thing they worked so hard on. Apparently their carefully crafted psychological priming mechanism designed to scatter Orwellian seeds of doubt regarding non-approved news agencies has gone awry – their own invention turned against them. Hmm. I wonder how that happened? It’s as if the left and their minions have a credibility problem or something.

Media columnist Margaret Sullivan writes:

…though the term hasn’t been around long, its meaning already is lost. Faster than you could say “Pizzagate,” the label has been co-opted to mean any number of completely different things: Liberal claptrap. Or opinion from left-of-center. Or simply anything in the realm of news that the observer doesn’t like to hear. –WaPo

Sorry Washington Post, you had really bad material to work with but you tried your best. Not only did you dutifully participate in bashing President-elect Trump the entire election while downplaying Hillary’s record, you were the first ones to the punchbowl to let America know (right before the Electoral College voted) about the CIA’s evidence-thin conclusions in the Russian hacking scandal. You also tried to sell us on that whole “Russia hacked the electrical grid” thing, only to have to issue two retractions.

It should also be noted that the Washington Post was instrumental in planting the phrase “Fake News” – along with Buzzfeed, factcheck.org, and The Guardian. Once it gained momentum throughout 2016, Facebook’s new fact checkers Snopes and Politifact, along with Vanity Fair, helped push the phrase into unaware and compliant minds towards the end of October.

Take a look at this google trends search:

Given that the inflection point where “Fake News” skyrockets is approximately the last week in October (into the first week in November), let’s look at which major outlets had been using the phrase “Fake News” earlier in the year.

April 2nd, 2016: A search for “Fake News” sorted by relevance (Google’s default) for results prior to 10/29/0216.  What do we have here? Oh my, if it isn’t the CIA’s trusted source for leaking national security rumors, Jeff Bezos‘ Washington Post:

Searching for “Fake News” by date vs. relevance:

April 11th, liberal propaganda site Buzzfeed stokes the fire by following up on Facebook’s commitment to eliminate hoaxes.

September 2nd, factcheck.org uses the phrase “Fake News”

October 5th, The Guardian reports that Buzzfeed was allegedly hacked on October 5th by a Saudi teen named Ahmad Makki, who defaced the Buzzfeed website with a message that read “Don’t share fake news about us.” Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was hacked by the same “Fake News” hackers.

In fact, a whole bunch of tech CEO’s and celebrities were apparently hacked by “fake news” Ahmad Makki, who conspicuously shares the same name as a famous Pro-Assad blogger who was [nsfw] murdered brought to justice by the Free Syrian Army (the jihadist rebels Hillary planned to support in toppling Assad).

October 7th, two days after The Guardian story, buzzfeed turns around and posts a story about a “Fake Hillary Clinton Speech Transcript” emanating from a “fake news” website.

October 8th, Snopes gets in on the Fake News action:

 October 13th, liberal Vanity Fair rehashes the Facebook “Fake News” story, which Facebook later put together a new and improved “task force” to deal with:

October 19th, our old friends at the Washington Post jump into the fray once again:

Closer to the election – Facebook Fact Checker Politifact uses the phrase “FAKE NEWS” in an October 23rd piece:  (click to enlarge):

After the election, Google and Facebook (re?)-declare WAR on Fake News!

November 17th, WaPo publishes a story from a “Facebook fake-news writer” who thinks he got Trump elected.

December 9th, Hillary Clinton gives her “Fake News” speech in her most victimy purple outfit, the same day propaganda seed-planting Buzzfeed was caught citing fake data in their fake news story.

So there you have it – the carefully woven phrase “Fake News” was trotted out by the MSM to try and discredit non-approved sources of information, only to collapse under the weight of their inability to lie to the general public.