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Watergate Redux or āDeep Stateā Coup?
May 10, 2017
Watergate Redux or 'Deep State' Coup?
Exclusive: Official Washington is abuzz, comparing President Trumpās ouster of FBI Director Comey to President Nixonās Watergate cover-up, but there is a darker ādeep stateā interpretation of these events, says Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
President Trumpās firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday reflected a growing concern inside the White House that the long-rumored scheme by ādeep stateā operatives to overturn the results of the 2016 election may have been more than just rumors.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (right) talks with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, with John Brennan and other national security aides present. (Photo credit: Office of Director of National Intelligence)
The fear grew that Comey and other senior officials in the U.S. intelligence community had concluded last year that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump was a suitable future president, albeit for different reasons. Iām told that Clinton was seen as dangerously hawkish and Trump as dangerously unqualified, opinions privately shared by then-President Barack Obama.
So, according to this account, plans were made last summer to damage both Clinton and Trump, with the hope of putting a more stable and less risky person in the Oval Office ā with key roles in this scheme played by Comey, CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
When I first heard about this supposed cabal in the middle of last year, I dismissed it as something more fitting a Jason Bourne movie than the real world. But ā to my amazement ā the U.S. intelligence community then began intervening in the presidential campaign in unprecedented ways.
On July 5, 2016, Director Comey dealt a severe blow to Clinton by holding a press conference to denounce her use of a private email server while Secretary of State as āextremely careless,ā yet he announced that no legal action would follow, opening her to a damaging line of attack that she jeopardized national security but that her political status gave her special protection. . .
Watergate Redux or āDeep Stateā Coup?
May 10, 2017
Watergate Redux or 'Deep State' Coup?
Exclusive: Official Washington is abuzz, comparing President Trumpās ouster of FBI Director Comey to President Nixonās Watergate cover-up, but there is a darker ādeep stateā interpretation of these events, says Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
President Trumpās firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday reflected a growing concern inside the White House that the long-rumored scheme by ādeep stateā operatives to overturn the results of the 2016 election may have been more than just rumors.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (right) talks with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, with John Brennan and other national security aides present. (Photo credit: Office of Director of National Intelligence)
The fear grew that Comey and other senior officials in the U.S. intelligence community had concluded last year that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump was a suitable future president, albeit for different reasons. Iām told that Clinton was seen as dangerously hawkish and Trump as dangerously unqualified, opinions privately shared by then-President Barack Obama.
So, according to this account, plans were made last summer to damage both Clinton and Trump, with the hope of putting a more stable and less risky person in the Oval Office ā with key roles in this scheme played by Comey, CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
When I first heard about this supposed cabal in the middle of last year, I dismissed it as something more fitting a Jason Bourne movie than the real world. But ā to my amazement ā the U.S. intelligence community then began intervening in the presidential campaign in unprecedented ways.
On July 5, 2016, Director Comey dealt a severe blow to Clinton by holding a press conference to denounce her use of a private email server while Secretary of State as āextremely careless,ā yet he announced that no legal action would follow, opening her to a damaging line of attack that she jeopardized national security but that her political status gave her special protection. . .
