by Harley Schlanger, Rogue Money:

Although RogueMoney has spent a lot of time covering this topic, we believe it’s important to shine a light on the very real power struggle underway in Washington, even as much of the world seeks to move away from the dying petrodollar and war driven paradigm. This week’s Washington Post (aka the CIA’s favorite mouthpiece newspaper)’s 8,000 word Ben Rhodes and Thomas Donilon sourced ‘story’ about Obama’s alleged weakness in the face of Russia ‘hacking the election’ and Langley’s supposed smoking gun proof that Vladimir Putin gave direct orders to damage Hillary Clinton’s electoral prospects would be worthy of a spy movie farce if it weren’t so dangerous.

As V the Guerrilla Economist likes to say desperate people do desperate, stupid things and the stakes for various deep state players — especially the deep state front men troika of ISIS-USUS/AlCIAeda arming former CIA Director John Brennan, the fanatical Russophobe and perjurer before Congress about NSA mass surveillance Jim Clapper, and the Clinton crime family accomplice and now New York Times visiting fired-by-Trump FBI Director James Comey. — JWS

Spoiler: It's the soon-approaching Trump-Putin summit, because they are terribly frightened of what may happen there.https://t.co/4jjPoPfuqi

— Lyndon LaRouche PAC (@larouchepac) June 23, 2017

There is an old joke, often repeated by leaders of South and Central American nations facing regime change threats from U.S. intelligence agencies, as to why there have been no coups in the United States: “Because,” they quip, “there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington, D.C.!”

With the continuing, escalating drive to remove President Trump, it has become clear that, as long as the intelligence agencies of the “Deep State” are operating under the direction of their partners in British intelligence networks, with the full backing of the major U.S. “news” media, it is not necessary to have a U.S. Embassy in Washington, to pull off a coup. What is underway is a coup-in-the- open, as demonstrated by recent statements and testimony from three of the leaders of the coup, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former FBI Director James Comey. While each asserted their certainty that Trump has engaged in illegal and potentially impeachable acts, they all admitted they have “no evidence” to prove it.

Further, in their elaboration, they demonstrated that the real issue in the efforts to remove Trump is their complete opposition to the strategic direction taken by Trump, especially regarding his commitment to establish a working partnership with Russia. Brennan stated, in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on May 23, that he was concerned about any contacts of Trump officials with Russians, “because of known Russian efforts to suborn such individuals,” adding that those “on a treasonous path (that is, who speak with Russian officials!) don’t realize they’re on that path until it is too late.” In other words, exchanging a few words with the Russian ambassador can turn one into a spy or a mole, without one even being aware of it!

Brennan admitted that he became aware of “suspicious interactions” between Russian officials and Trump campaign figures from a briefing by Robert Hannigan, the chief of Britain’s central spy agency, the GCHQ, which had been monitoring Trump’s activities since at least the summer of 2015, before he had announced his candidacy. By the summer of 2016, as a result of reports from the Brits, Brennan established a “counterintelligence task force,” including the CIA, NSA Director Rogers, Comey of the FBI, and Clapper. In comments made in Australia, the self-admitted liar Clapper sounded the same anti-Russian theme. Accusing Russia and Trump of engaging in an “assault on our institutions,” he said what Russia did in “meddling” in the 2016 election “was unprecedented in its directness and aggressiveness…The Russians are not our friends,” he added, saying it is in “Russia’s genes to be opposed, diametrically opposed, to the U.S. and western democracies.”

In attacking Trump’s efforts for collaboration with Putin, Clapper dismissed the likelihood that this could succeed, asserting there are “irreconcilable differences” between the U.S. and Russia. When pressed on whether there is evidence of collusion, he said, “Is there a smoking gun with all the smoke? I don’t know the answer to that.” Clapper said that Trump’s firing of Comey is “egregious and inexcusable,” describing his co-conspirator as a “personal friend and a personal hero of mine.” After the most recent ejaculation of this nonsense, with Comey’s lying testimony in Senate hearings on June 8 — which included his own Cold War-style anti-Russian diatribes, reminiscent of former disgraced FBI Director and committed Russophobe J. Edgar Hoover — senior American statesman Lyndon LaRouche issued a call for a decisive response from the American people. He said on June 9 that “it is time for the people to speak and end this disruptive and highly dangerous attempted coup. It is also time for the coup plotters to be investigated, including the treasonous news media.”

PHONY “OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE” CHARGES

The attempt by Democratic Senators on June 13, to trap Attorney General Sessions into an inadvertent admission that Trump was engaged in a cover-up, fell flat, as former Reagan administration official David Stockman described it as producing a “nothing burger.” On the morning of the Sessions’ testimony, the anti-Trump media escalated, reporting that Trump might fire the special counsel, former FBI Director and Comey intimate Robert Mueller, based on the usual anonymous sources. This was followed on June 15 by a front-page headline in The Washington Post, “Trump’s Actions Now a Focus of Mueller Inquiry,” which asserted — based again, on anonymous sources — that the Special Counsel was looking into whether Trump was “obstructing” the investigation into alleged collusion with Russia.

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