Over this past few weeks the Mueller investigation has accelerated with unexpected veracity and with pointed impact placing another key member of the Trump World into the
Special Council's witness cooperation program. Within this flurry of never-ending BREAKING NEWS [and Twitter BOOMS] the overarching information is still muted
as to fully informing the general public as to what actually happened in 2015-'16-'17. What I am going to say is the last couple of years this Trump Russia thing is actually an extension of
what has been going over last two decades exposed now as the culmination of a "Spy War". Before I go forward with this extended post, let me quote a periodic tweet meme that started with Sen. Harris when she originally
tweeted it in Feb 2017 and now expanded and paraphrased by a number twitter posts to its present version :
“If you've
wondered what you would've done during slavery, the Holocaust, or
Civil Rights movement...you're doing it now.”
I can only speak for myself, like any other conscience reader of history, as to wonder how one would have reacted in these touch tone moments in our human history. I will take it back further, let us say 240 years to the dawn of our republic and the American Revolution? Would you be a revolutionary or a tory? As I have delved deeper into my ancestry's history in the Balkans where we can authoritatively claim a genealogy that dates back to the 1400's and conceivably, all the way to back to 500 AD, I can see how those ancestors reacted to their perilous threats to not only their immediate families as well as their clan, but to the larger world events overarching their very existence. The problem for many in making decisions, as to what to do, is whether they have or perceive true information as to what is actually going on, even as it is being purposely obscured or institutionally hidden. That is what this blog post attempts to assist.
Last week following the commencement of the
Munich Security Conference, two patriot friends
whom I have become connected to over the last 15 months or so, and who among many, are described as voices in the online movement called #resistence, brought to me information as to what this Trump-Russia is all about. Both of them are steeped in what is called the “Intelligence Community” (IC). One who was a true spook who elevated his career to a status of senior line management and an academic, the other, a career strategic security analyst and consultant for many international corporations, they are truly connected and have been important providing a chain of truthful information regarding the Trump-Russia. They have been attacked unmercilessly by Russian trolls, bots, domestic partners to Russian disinformation and other deza actors, but they remain standing tall as the actual facts continue to trickle out from the Special Counsel and other investigative reports that are substantiated confirming their earlier statements. The timing of what I am going to tell you is connected to the the Munich Security Conference as to the scope and existential threat the Russians and Trump Russia poses to the West and Western values. To give context for the importance of the Munich Security Conference bringing western intel professionals together this is how it describes itself:
"[T]he major global forum for the discussion of
security policy for the last 50 years. It brings together more than
450 senior decision-makers from around the world, including
heads-of-state, ministers, leading personalities of international and
non-governmental organizations, as well as high ranking
representatives of industry, media, academia, and civil society, to
engage in an intensive debate on current and future security
challenges.”
The IC community of current and former spooks,
intelligence analysts, military strategists, government officials, private individuals who
are professionally associated in that craft congregate in and around the conference for off site private gatherings and meetings. A few of them whom I now have been introduced were there or met with participates before or afterward.
This is the summary of what was told me about the big picture that is now being revealed and will work itself out as the Mueller investigation unfolds with more of its findings.
1.) Regarding the
Trump-Russia Special Counsel Investigation they are investigating the final
chapters in what is described to be part of a very long “Spy War”. This hidden global war between covert actors which the primary combatants are Russian and NATO intelligence operations.
This “Spy War” predates all of our lives, including my
father and father-n-law, both born before the 1929 Stock Market Crash. This chapter of the "Spy War" primarily began in 2000, when Putin, a former KGB Lt. Colonel, and then Russia's acting President and Prime Minister, was first elected President. Since that time Russia has been engaged in what the Russians describe as
"Full-Spectrum"
warfare, expressed by Valery Gerasimov. (You can read about that
here, authored by one of the fine reporters at Politico it is highly suggested).
In short, this "Full Spectrum" warfare approach is an extension of war tactics that dates back to the original Cheka's. Cheka are the
original Soviet secret political police that began in 1917, where they controlled all
spheres of Russian, then Soviet society. Officially the organizational name is "The All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage". The infamous KGB was the succeeding organization of the original Chekas whose mantra was to attack via sabotage,
propaganda, terror, subversion, conventional warfare: the works. It was how the Leninists secured Russia and then how Stalin installed his own brand of totalitarianism. Since 2000 the professional holiday of the old and the modern Russian security services on the anniversary of the creation of the Cheka, has been resurrected by the Presidents of Russia since Yelstin, led by Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer.
If this scares you it should! If you recognize some of those aforementioned tactics originally employed by Cheka's seemingly happening here in the U.S., ranging from domestic terror attacks in our schools, at concerts, or within theaters, etc., plus the ascent of domestic right wing authoritarian movements like the rise of the neo-KKK and other RW hate groups, this is not merely coincidental events carried out by mentally
deranged individuals. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....These events are no accident. Neither is the extreme partisan discourse that has arisen since 2000. Even though there were hyperbolic partisan elements that grew organically within the U.S. dating back into the 70's and growing more into 90's. Yet someone or something has thrown gasoline on this extreme partisanship in the U.S. that has now polarized entire American body politic. This is no accident.
2) Prior to the “Fall of the USSR" and its Soviet System, then
accelerated afterward, the current generation of Chekists added a new arm to their diabolical arsenal; the Russian Mob. The
merger of the Chekists now known as the FSB, with the Russian
Organized Crime Syndicates brought about the rise of Russia's
Oligarchs where Putin is at its top. What was characterized as “liberalizing” the
Russian economic system actually became weaponized into a new form of
economic warfare. Following the full ascent of the Russian oligarch
system with the election of Putin the full spectrum attack onto the
West commenced. This attack, especially against the U.S came under
the noses of all those experts within government and
international business affairs who then naively believed that the world was now mono-polar.
Remember when the
biggest threat was terrorism following 9/11? This confused many except a
few in the IC world, including a few who might be reading this blog. I
seem to recall one local retired military IC officer talking with two
other colleagues who I was in their social company, they suddenly speaking in private code, how after 9/11 his
particular secret signals intelligence focus turned inward [into the U.S.] and not
outward. Now when I re-approached him reminding him of that seemingly incidental conversation of almost a dozen years ago, I asked: That signals intelligence you headed was not about primarily finding sleeper
terrorists but was more about the Russia's "Full Spectrum" attack that was
still masked? He nodded and then said you know I can't comment on any of that work.
3) Now let me fast forward to
2016. This attack by the Russians is revealed and all about their mantra,
full scale, ruthlessness in its effect, seemingly from another primal age where tactics are best described as barbaric. They seek to peel back almost a thousand years of social and government development that emerged in the West. It is because they never ascribed to
reciprocity, except temporarily, when it suits their long purpose. Their barbaric nature is to attack the core of modern Western values seeking to degenerate democracy, and simultaneously engaging in primitive acts like human sex trafficking as a weapon, no different than Barbary Pirates or Turkish Sultans. In their wake they are practiced in subverting free speech and independent journalism, corrupting and
manipulating capital markets, independent law enforcement, any form of truth all aimed at the foundations of democracy, even the concept of individualism. Everything
the West has built since the Magna Carta.
Their tactics include the fostering and support of domestic and
international terrorists and authoritarian partners provoking all forms of violence and discord between
ethnic groups, stoking racial and religious hate, using all forms of
disinformation like employing competing and conflicting narratives by veiled by witting cut outs or best, by unwitting surrogates. If this sounds like the words and deeds emulating out of White House you are beginning to wake up. This degeneration of Western values includes devaluing even the idea hard work, while also enslaving people in various economic schemes, using torture and if need be, resorting to open assassinations of their most threatening opponents. This is the world of Russian oligarchs.
4) Have some of you become aware of this,? Even in bits and pieces? So near the end of my conversations I again inquired why am I am included in this early Intel before it appears in MSM? One friend says, you have a voice and this needs to get out and begin preparing America for how huge and disabling the attack was. It will include household names as witting surrogates for whatever reason or justification. Major media personalities and organizations, corporate players and companies, politicians at almost every level. People will initially not want to believe they were so duped. Then he added, in part he described that at the moment when courage and patriotism
was asked of you, you recognized it, stepped when few others. We cheered and supported you and now you need to continue informing ordinary citizens to step up is our only real defense. He then reminded me, remember the thousand people who stuffed your state capitol on Electoral College Day they were there looking at your courage. [“If you've
wondered what you would've done during slavery, the Holocaust, or
Civil Rights movement...you're doing it now.”]
The problem for most
is not understanding the nature of counter intelligence. When espionage is
discovered that involves criminal activity the investigators must keep the investigation going instead
of leaping into prosecution. Imperfect and costly it is only way to
fully get at it. Thus both those foreign espionage criminals along with our domestic partnered traitors and criminals got away with much—seemingly to themselves, as counter intelligence was investigating this grand conspiracy.
This all leads to
Trump-Russia. Mueller was the FBI Director from a few day before 9/11
to 2013 the first year of the Obama Administration. He not only investigated and prosecuted 9/11 but also was at
the helm of FBI counterintelligence division where he undoubtedly witnessed this Russian attack emerging throughout the years. Most likely they had to forestall a
multitude of domestic prosecutions because they had to hand it all over to counter
intelligence, because that is about national security. But now those
stories and prosecutions must be told and made public, that is our new calling in national security. We are seeing that
with these early indictments and guilty plea's. The 13 Russians
revealed much in counterintelligence sources and methods as having all the reported physical evidence about the internal Russian bot farm and financial activities. The Russians are capable of re-engineering how the intel was made and address their own weaknesses. When the Dutch intelligence revealed that they had live
cameras inside the Russian hacking operations it was because the sources and methods was already compromised.
5) So now it is
starting. More indictments will come fast and furious. Mueller and his team clearly knows where their investigation is headed as he and his crack team meticulously builds their cases stone by stone. Reviewing the first series of indictments; Manafort, Gates, and Papadopoulas, there Mueller firmly established that Trump and his campaign had lied through their green teeth about its contacts with the Russians. The second wave of indictments that included a guilty plea by General Flynn, established that the Trump team lying extended to people within the White House and the lying pertained directly to the Russians. The third segment over the last two weeks now establishes that Russians and its Internet Research Agency was directly involved in the campaign to undermine the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, owing to a criminal conspiracy that leads to Russian government officials. Any and all Americans who knowingly were involved in this grand global conspiracy are now targets for prosecution, especially those who hold or held public trusts and not withstanding those acting privately. They all better seek expensive legal representation and come clean.
Ultimately, another friend who is highly respected in the CI community maintains that the heart of the Trump-Russia scheme was and is, all about
money laundering, on historic levels. The Russian Oligarchs are nothing but modern mobsters who have boatloads of Russian Rubles but can't get that money out of Russia
clean. They are stealing the Russian people blind but are trapped in
their own criminal opulence. It was the Obama era sanctions that seriously hurt them. Trump
was to relieve that. Thing is Trump promised this but almost everyone
including the Trump Team thought they were going to lose and all these deals were to be forgotten. But Russia now seems to have had other ideas. They wanted Trump to win
and he did, yes by hook by crook he did.
“If you've
wondered what you would've done during slavery, the Holocaust, or
Civil Rights movement...you're doing it now.”
6) This is the big picture as it is perceived now. But it is now not a spectator sport. Unlike competitive sports enthusiasts this is not about tribal warfare either. It is about living in democracy where every person and every vote is sacrosanct, if democracy lives. Only democracy allows you to be free. Only a functioning republic elected in a true democracy allows for the rule of law to remain in place. Only an alive democracy allows for a constitutional republic to thrive and be responsive to its citizens grievances and be trusted with its general welfare. Thus more than merely being partisan, be about democracy and support these patriots in our justice system defending our nation.
What I am reminded is that in our constitutional government, there are three co-equal branches of government, the principle of separation of powers. It is now apparent that the executive branch has been compromised by a foreign adversary, an enemy of Western values and also it appears through domestic partnering with the same adversary has compromised to a degree the legislative branch. But what remains is an independent judiciary. Trump is quite vocal about this independence and separation of power that checks some of his efforts to divide our nation. But what is not apparent to many is that the US Attorney's, the state's Attorney General's and the many lawyers who practice under the Federal Bar are actually members of the Judiciary Branch as officers of the court. They are not loyal to their administrators in the executive branch, they are loyal to the law and beholden to the courts which they serve.
7) My final question to these IC professionals is where do you see this going? It seems apparent that Manafort is the ultimate target for the next wave as one cannot be the primary driver for a Ukrainian-Russian henchman for over a decade, also be a primary conduit for Russian money laundering schemes, without knowing too much. His installation into the Trump campaign was just too obvious. That and other indictments of Trump confidants like Sater and Cohen will finish off the main actors in the conspirators who are on the outside. Mueller's team will have to deliver persons who can tell the story and confirm the voluminous physical evidence of their electronic communication and tracks in the money trails. SIGNET counterintelligence cannot be used as evidence but it can hold an indicted defendant in place as to determine if they are giving it all up in a plea deal. That is how they got Gates cold, he lied which they knew from an intercept. Ultimately with all the henchmen and women secured and safe from Russian assassinations Mueller will have to force a constitutional crisis by indicting a sitting President and his Administration. This will invoke the Supreme Court and lead us up to the mid-term elections. Ultimately the question will be what James Risen asked a few weeks back; is Trump a traitor? You can watch the old IC author on MSNBC here. Only the Congress can remove a sitting President who does not resign. Therefore this will be role of the American voter to remove a complicit Republican majority and install those who will be willing to impeach the president.
From there we will have to go through a 21st Century reconstruction period, identifying traitors who were part of the great conspiracy and rebuild our democracy and republic. Simultaneously we will have to respond smartly and in kind to the Russian Chekists. They will have to be destroyed like the Nazi's of Germany. But in meantime, ask yourself what are you going to do when America faced a existential threat to its democracy and constitutional republic?
