@snoopydawg

is that people like them have been scaring the crap out of me and everyone else with their talk about how evil and dangerous RUSSIA! is since I was a little kid. Hiding under my desk praying that the RUSSIANS! didn’t blow us to smithereens. Some kids cried. That shit was horrible to live through. And they’re still pulling that same old shit. I’m tired of it and I’m really really pissed about the mess they’ve created for our kids and grandkids.

Lucky for me that I came of age (16) during the Vietnam war. I saw that it wasn’t RUSSIA! that was so scary, I saw that it was US screwing everything and everybody. People I knew were very smart. They explained how we’d overturn every country that didn’t dance to our tune. And we’ve damn well tried. What the School of the Americas did was a gross obscenity. I am so thankful that I’ve had so many people in my life to teach me these things about this country.

Since 1946, the SOA has trained over 64,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins.

http://www.soaw.org/about-the-soawhinsec/what-is-the-soawhinsec

It’s amazing how many people don’t know about that. I can’t figure out if they’re woefully uninformed or willfully ignorant.

The Atlantic which is the mouthpiece for the Atlantic Council has an article about Trump pulling Brennan's SC. They are saying that he did that just to distract people from Omarosa Manigault-Newman's book. Wagging the security clearances?

This week, beset by bad news about Omarosa Manigault-Newman, President Donald Trump decided to launch a war of choice. The White House announced Wednesday that he had revoked security clearance for John Brennan, who was the CIA director under Barack Obama and has since become a leading Trump critic. Trump also threatened to take clearance away from a slew of other critics.

But wars, once started, don’t always unfold the way you intend. In Trump’s case, a host of prominent retired military and intelligence leaders have entered the fray opposing him. First, retired Navy Admiral William McRaven wrote an open letter to the president in The Washington Post on Thursday criticizing the revocation of Brennan’s clearance and asking to join him: “I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.”

Later on Thursday, another 13 former generals and spy chiefs signed a letter in support of Brennan. Some of them have already been visible Trump critics, including the former NSA chief Michael Hayden and the former CIA deputy chief John McLaughlin, but others have been less outspoken, such as Porter Goss, the CIA director under George W. Bush. The real surprises are Robert Gates, a former CIA director and defense secretary, and David Petraeus, who also led the CIA.

Let's talk about David Petraeus shall we? David was charged or should have been charged under the espionage act for leaking classified information to his girlfriend. I'm not sure ... So she could write a book! His sentence? He paid a$100,000 fine and got two years probation. Every one else Obama charged went to prison!

Petraeus was also a war hero, (barf) leading U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming the CIA director. He was eventually forced to step down for sharing classified information with a woman with whom he was having an affair, but he’s retained a sheen of respect and credibility in national-security circles. He has gone out of his way to avoid criticizing the president, and was considered as secretary of state at the outset of the Trump administration.
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The second is that it keeps Trump on the back foot, always playing defense against critics. The president views the security clearances as a useful tool for distraction. He first floated the idea in late July, amidst backlash to his disastrous meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. He then revoked Brennan’s clearance in the midst of another firestorm, over Manigault-Newman’s dishy book about the administration. When the White House first announced the Brennan move, they initially failed to scrub the date on the announcement: July 26, 2018. The revocations are entirely symbolic, too. Though there are several reasons former officials typically keep their clearances, Trump is not endangering the livelihood or careers of any of them. (A threat to revoke the clearance of the Justice Department official Bruce Ohr is different.)

If the goal was to distract, it didn’t work. The president’s war of choice against the intelligence community has spiraled out of his control, yet at the same time, Manigault-Newman stayed firmly lodged in the headlines. On Thursday, she released yet another clandestine recording, this one capturing the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump offering her a $15,000 a month job in return for silence. (Spies are not the only ones skilled in spycraft, it seems.)

No president in history has had to deal with a hostile press and environment like Trump has. I guess "respecting the office of the president' only happens when the ones who play the games win. Or maybe it's when people aren't trying to say that you are not the duly elected president. Trump didn't have to cheat to win the primary like Herheinous did. He won it the old fashioned way. Like him or not he was elected fairly. The democrats have spent two years now on this false pretense that he wouldn't have beaten 'thee most qualified woman ever' if it wasn't for outside interference.

lol