Their investment in the myth is just too huge.<\/strong><\/p>\nFor Clinton and her campaign, it is the only way to explain how they booted away a presidential election even Trump thought he had lost in November. To the mainstream media, this is the smoking gun in their Acela Corridor conspiracy to delegitimize Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n
Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sees Russian hacking as a way to put a cloud over the administration before it begins. But it is the uber-hawks hereabouts who are after the really big game.<\/p>\n
They seek to demonize Putin as the saboteur of democracy<\/strong> \u2014 someone who corrupted an American presidential election to bring about victory for a \u201cuseful idiot\u201d whom Clinton called Putin\u2019s \u201cpuppet.\u201d<\/p>\nIf the War Party can convert this \u201cfake story\u201d into the real story of 2016, then they can scuttle any Trump effort to attain the rapprochement with Russia that Trump promised to try to achieve.<\/p>\n
If they can stigmatize Trump as \u201cPutin\u2019s president\u201d and Putin as America\u2019s implacable enemy, then the Russophobes are back in business.<\/strong><\/p>\nNor is the War Party disguising its goal.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, Sen. John McCain called for a congressional select committee to investigate Russian hacking into the Clinton campaign. The purpose of the investigations, said Sen. Lindsey Graham, \u201cis to put on President Trump\u2019s desk crippling sanctions against Russia.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThey need to pay a price,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Graham chortled on Twitter.<\/p>\n\u201cCrippling sanctions\u201d <\/strong><\/em>would abort any modus vivendi, any deal with Russia, before Trump could negotiate one. Trump would have to refuse to impose them \u2014 and face the firestorm to follow. The War Party is out to dynamite any detente with Russia before it begins.<\/p>\nAmong the reasons Trump won is that he promised to end U.S. involvement in the costly, bloody and interminable wars in the Middle East the Bushites and President Barack Obama brought us \u2014 and the neocons relish \u2014 and to reach a new understanding with Russia and Putin.<\/p>\n
But to some in Washington, beating up on Russia is a conditioned reflex dating to the Cold War.<\/strong> For others in the media and the front groups called think tanks, Russophobia is in their DNA.<\/p>\nThough Julian Assange says WikiLeaks did not get the emails from Russia, this has to be investigated. Did Russia hack the DNC\u2019s email system and John Podesta\u2019s email account? Did Putin direct that the emails be provided to WikiLeaks to disrupt democracy or defeat Clinton?<\/p>\n
Clinton says Putin has had it in for her because he believes she was behind the anti-Putin demonstrations in Moscow in 2011.<\/p>\n
But if there is to be an investigation of clandestine interference in the politics and elections of foreign nations, let\u2019s get it all out onto the table.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe CIA director and his deputies should be made to testify under oath, not only as to what they know about Russia\u2019s role in the WikiLeaks email dumps but also about who inside the agency is behind the leaks to The Washington Post designed to put a cloud over the Trump presidency before it begins.<\/p>\n
Agents and operatives of the CIA should be subjected to lie detector tests to learn who is leaking to the anti-Trump press.<\/strong><\/p>\nBefore any congressional investigation, President-elect Trump should call in his new director of the CIA, Rep. Mike Pompeo, and tell him to run down and remove, for criminal misconduct, any CIA agents or operatives leaking secrets to discredit his election.<\/p>\n
Putin, after all, is not an American. The CIA saboteurs of the Trump presidency are. Will the media investigate the leakers? Not likely, for they are the beneficiaries of the leaks and co-conspirators of the leakers.<\/p>\n
The top officials of the CIA and Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, should be called to testify under oath. Were they behind anti-Putin demonstrations during the Russian elections of 2011?<\/em><\/p>\nDid the CIA or NED have a role in the \u201ccolor-coded\u201d revolutions to dump over pro-Russian governments in Moscow\u2019s \u201cnear abroad\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\nIf Russia did intrude in our election, was it payback for our intrusions to bring about regime change in its neighborhood?<\/em><\/p>\nWhat role did the CIA, the NED and John McCain play in the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014? <\/strong>McCain was seen cheering on the crowds in Independence Square in Kiev.<\/p>\nTrump has promised a more hopeful foreign policy than that of the Republicans he denounced and is succeeding. No more wars where vital interests are not imperiled. No more U.S. troops arriving as first responders for freeloading allies.<\/p>\n
The real saboteurs of his new foreign policy may not be inside the Ring Road in Moscow; rather, they may be inside the Beltway around D.C.<\/p>\n
The real danger may be that a new Trump foreign policy could be hijacked or scuttled by anti-Trump Republicans, not only on Capitol Hill but inside the executive branch itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n___
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