Thomas Friedman asks, "Can anyone identify a single U.S. diplomat in Moscow or C.I.A. analyst who is advising [U.S. chief negotiator Steve] Witkoff and Trump today? My bet is there are none, because no serious analyst or expert on Russia would tell them: “We have concluded that you are right and all of us have been wrong: Putin is not a bad guy, he just wants a just peace with Ukraine — and when he tells you he went to church and prayed for President Trump, you should believe him."
Why wouldn’t Trump want a CIA analyst stapled to his side at all times? That’s a tough one.
Can we make a list of possible reasons?
Before Trump was even a Republican nominee, a CIA Director relayed “concerns” to the FBI that “served as the basis” for years of grueling investigation that would paralyze his presidency;
after his election, as we’ve learned all summer, CIA then cooked up a bogus intelligence report saying Trump won with Russian help;
CIA leaked its balls off to papers like the New York Times about how Moscow worked to “install” Trump in the White House;
CIA helped topple Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn by telling every reporter on earth he was a “clown” who said mean things about the CIA and secretly conspired with Russia;
CIA warned foreign countries not to share intelligence with Trump because Russia held “leverages of pressure” on him;
CIA stuck fictional campaign research about “compromising personal and financial information” Russia had in a report that was leaked to CNN in less time than it takes for fleas to mate;
CIA got Trump impeached;
CIA leaked stories that Trump let Russians kill Americans for sport;
CIA banded together to call a true Hunter Biden story a Russian influence operation;
CIA spent the last half-century overturning foreign governments and in this one is trying do the same at home, in such blatant violation of its charter that 77 million people last year voted to have it shot like a lame horse…
But sure, yes, let’s make sure the CIA is at the President’s side when we’re trying to negotiate a peace settlement.
What could go wrong?
1 comment:
They are not a fourth branch of government - albeit they consider themselves as such. They are a civilian agency under the Chain of Command of the CinC. Oathkeepers? yes. Drivers of policy? No. That is not in their mission platform. It belongs to DepState.
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