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2017-09-16 Home Front: Politix

High-Ranking CIA Agent Blows Whistle On The Deep State And Shadow Government

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-16 01:10|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 I realize there is some hesitancy with regard to posting ZH material, but I thought this one was well worth the read.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-16 08:06|| 2017-09-16 08:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Mr. B. I understand and share your hesitancy. In this country these days free speech is under attack. I have seen this when speaking to others from other parts of the world, "Oh, we can't say that in my country", look at Germany now. Then of course our Universities like Berkley.

Posted by Dale 2017-09-16 08:35|| 2017-09-16 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 To paraphrase a headline from somewhere else on today's 'Burg:
"Dear Electorate -- we don't care what you think!"

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-16 12:40|| 2017-09-16 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 The political impetus -- there were other, non-political, ones -- of the "60s protests" was this sense of power not being where it was supposed to be, what and where we were taught it was supposed to be and could see, as if through a mirror dimly, that it wasn't.

The political impetus of the Tea Party Movement / Trump Movement is essentially the same and just as justified.

If that is true, there is ground for expecting success from auspicious developments.

Posted by TopRev 2017-09-16 17:07|| 2017-09-16 17:07|| Front Page Top

#5 ... as if through a glass dimly ...

Posted by TopRev 2017-09-16 17:08|| 2017-09-16 17:08|| Front Page Top

#6 "Shipp also disclosed that the agency known as the Joint Special Ops Command (JSOC) is the "president’s secret army" which he can use for secret assassinations, overturning governments and things the American people don’t know about."

That is the pot (CIA) calling the kettle (DoD) black, which itself is a false equivalence. An unworthy, fear-mongering and rather gorgeous bit of CIA misdirection, but not surprising.

Still, Democratic Administrations do tend to have high domestic body counts, all unsolved, and somebody has to be ordering that and somebody has to be making it happen.

Posted by TopRev 2017-09-16 17:16|| 2017-09-16 17:16|| Front Page Top

#7 seems that JSOC would side with the Plebs and not the Hillary's and Sotoros of the swamp

Posted by 746 2017-09-16 17:25|| 2017-09-16 17:25|| Front Page Top

#8 The Goldwater-Nichols act, October 4, 1986 Pub.L. 99–433 took Special Operations Forces (SOF) funding away from the 'Big Army' and gave SOF their own budget. Pals before, SOF now became the dedicated handmaiden of an agency with a secret and by some accounts, unlimited budget. You lose funding, you lose control.
The rest is history.

The part about SOF being a private army of the president is hokum. The president is the Commander in Chief of the entire military. The relationship of SOF and the Klingon's solidified with Goldwater-Nichols.

My opinion anyway.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-16 17:32|| 2017-09-16 17:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Once SOC was exposed to the public eye, they began to fall under the undiscriminating scrunity of the money handlers, thus lost their unaffiliated status.

JSOC operators are the best Americans I have known.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-16 20:09|| 2017-09-16 20:09|| Front Page Top

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