I see signs of intelligent control
There is increasingly less chance of chance. This steady drip drip drip has all the signs of a serious - even brilliant - strategy. We KNOW the intelligence community is stirred up and worried. I speculate they're worried on two fronts: sources and methods getting conveyed to the Russians *and* fundamental concern for the country.
But then there is the leakage coming from various agencies. For example, the leaked memo, just today, from DHS about the stupidity of "extreme vetting" when the evidence is crystal clear that radicalization starts here, and starts years after immigrants arrive. Are these agency leaks the result of some staffer who just got fed up? It seems far more likely that they, too, are being controlled for maximum impact, by opening a new hot war front for the WH to fight. By doing so, they dilute even further the tiny staff of insiders at the WH.
We can laugh at the Keystone Kops nature of this sad episode, but the fact is, none of this seems to be happening in unrelated ways. Instead, it has all the earmarks of a centrally controlled campaign.
And THAT in itself is scary. Or it ought to be.
Many have said the election was a slow moving coup. Maybe what we have now is a more skillful version of the same thing.
Yes, some of this is funny. Until it isn't. And, increasingly, it isn't.
My money is on Langley.
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He held a presser that I happened to be watching on TV.
Some reporter asked him a question and he replied, "You don't mess with the Big Boys."
I have always wondered who he meant and I suspect it is our intelligence agencies.
