Telling it like it is, for those with eyes to see. Shame on the rest of
you. Hate serves no one, certainly not We the People. Please, listen and
learn! ~PB
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I Know Who the “Senior Official” Is
Who Wrote the NY Times Op-Ed
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
I know who wrote the anonymous “senior Trump official” op-ed in the New York Times.
The New York Times wrote it.
The op-ed (
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50194.htm)
is an obvious forgery. As a former senior official in a presidential
administration, I can state with certainty that no senior official would
express disagreement anonymously.
Anonymous dissent has no credibility. Moreover, the dishonor of it undermines the character of the writer.
A real dissenter would use his reputation and the status of his high position to lend weight to his dissent.
The New York Times’ claim to have vetted the writer also lacks
credibility, as the New York Times has consistently printed extreme
accusations against Trump and against Vladimir Putin without supplying a
bit of evidence. The New York Times has consistently misrepresented
unsubstantiated allegations as proven fact. There is no reason
whatsoever to believe the New York Times about anything.
Consider also whether a member of a conspiracy working “diligently”
inside the administration with “many of the senior officials” to
“preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting” Trump’s “worst
inclinations” would
thwart his and his fellow co-conspirators’ plot by revealing it!
This forgery is an attempt to break up the Trump administration
by creating suspicion throughout the senior level. If Trump falls for
the New York Times’ deception, a house cleaning is likely to take place
wherever suspicion falls. A government full of mutual suspicion cannot
function.
The fake op-ed serves to validate from within the Trump
administration the false reporting by the New York Times that serves the
interests of the military/security complex to hold on to enemies with
whom Trump prefers to make peace. For example, the alleged “senior
official” misrepresents, as does the New York Times, President Trump’s
efforts to reduce dangerous tensions with North Korea and Russia as
President Trump’s “preference for autocrats and dictators, such as
President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim
Jong-un” over America’s “allied, like-minded nations.” This is the same
non-sequitur that the New York Times has expressed endlessly.
Why is resolving dangerous tensions a “preference for dictators” and not a preference for peace? The New York Times has never explained, and neither does the “senior official.”
How is it that Putin, elected three times by majorities that no US
president has ever received, is a dictator? Putin stepped down after
serving the permitted two consecutive terms and was again elected after
being out of office for a term. Do dictators step down and sit out for 6
years?
The “senior official” also endorses as proven fact the alleged...Skripal poisoning by a “deadly Russian nerve agent,” an event for
which not one scrap of evidence exists. Neither has anyone explained
why the “deadly nerve agent” wasn’t deadly. The entire Skripal event
rests only on assertions. The purpose of the Skripal hoax was precisely
what President Trump said it was: to box him into further confrontation
with Russia and prevent a reduction in tensions.
If the “senior official” is really so uninformed as to believe that
Putin is a dictator who attacked the Skripals with a deadly nerve agent
and elected Trump president, the “senior official” is too dangerously
ignorant and gullible to be a senior official in any administration.
These are the New York Times’ beliefs or professed beliefs as the New
York Times does everything the organization can do to protect the
military/security complex’s budget from any reduction in the “enemy
threat.”
Do you remember when Condoleezza Rice prepared the way for the US
illegal invasion of Iraq with her imagery of “a mushroom cloud going up
over an American city”? Iraq had no nuclear weapons, and everyone in
the government knew it. There was no prospect of such an event.
However, there is a very real prospect of mushroom clouds going up over
many American and European cities if the crazed Russiaphobia of the New
York Times and the other presstitutes along with the Democratic Party
and the security elements of the deep state continue to pile lie after
lie, provocation after provocation on Russia’s patience. At some point,
the only logical conclusion that the Russian government can reach is
that Washington is preparing Americans and Europeans for an attack on
Russia. Propaganda vilifying and demonizing the enemy precedes military
attacks.
The New York Times’ other attack on President Trump—that he is
unstable and unfit for office—is reproduced in the fake op-ed: “Given
the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the
cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex
process for removing the president,” writes the invented and
non-existent “senior official.”
Americans are an insouciant people. But are any so insouciant that
they really think that a senior official would write that the members of
President Trump’s cabinet have considered removing him from office?
What is this statement other than a deliberate effort to produce a
constitutional crisis—the precise aim of John Brennan, James Comey, Rod
Rosenstein, the DNC, and the New York Times. A constitutional crisis is
what the hoax of Russiagate is all about.
The level of mendacity and evil in this plot against Trump is
unequaled in history. Have any of these conspirators given a moment’s
thought to the consequences of
removing a president for his unwillingness to worsen the dangerously high tensions between nuclear powers?
The next president would have to adopt a Russophobic stance and do
nothing to reduce the tensions that can break out in nuclear war or
himself be accused of “coddling the Russian dictator and putting America
at risk.”
The reason that America is at risk is that the CIA and the
presstitute media have put America—and Europe—at risk by frustrating
President Trump’s intention to reduce the dangerous level of tensions
between the two major nuclear powers. Professor Steven Cohen, America’s
premier Russian expert, says that never during the Cold War were
tensions as high as they are at this present time. As a former member
of The Committee on the Present Danger, I myself am a former Cold
Warrior, and I know for a fact that Professor Cohen is correct.
In America today, and in Europe, people are living in a situation in
which the liberal-progressive-left’s blind hatred of Donald Trump,
together with the self-interested power and profit of the military
security complex and election hopes of the Democratic Party, are
recklessly and irresponsibly risking nuclear Armageddon for no other
reason than to act out their hate and further their own nest.
This plot against Trump is dangerous to life on earth and demands
that the governments and peoples of the world act now to expose this
plot and to bring it to an end before it kills us all.
Source: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/06/i-know-who-the-senior-official-is-who-wrote-the-ny-times-op-ed/
