{"id":77026,"date":"2017-01-12T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/12\/une-journee-epique-et-un-combat-de-titans\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T10:56:10","slug":"une-journee-epique-et-un-combat-de-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/12\/une-journee-epique-et-un-combat-de-titans\/","title":{"rendered":"Une journ\u00e9e \u00e9pique et un combat de titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2 class=\"titleset_b.deepblue\" style=\"color:#0f3955; font-size:1.65em; font-variant:small-caps\">Une journ\u00e9e \u00e9pique et un combat de titans<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Nous avons pour habitude de ne pas suivre l&rsquo;actualit\u00e9 quotidienne de la communication dans ses moindres soubresauts, dans une \u00e9poque o&ugrave; la communication domine absolument le champ des affaires publiques et o&ugrave; plus aucune r\u00e9f\u00e9rence (r\u00e9alit\u00e9 pulv\u00e9ris\u00e9e) ne permet de fixer aussit\u00f4t un jugement \u00e0 bonne distance et \u00e0 la fois net et mesur\u00e9, selon nos propres r\u00e9f\u00e9rences que sont nos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/glossairedde-verite-de-situation-verite\">v\u00e9rit\u00e9-de-situation<\/a>. Hier, 11 janvier 2011, fut n\u00e9anmoins si exceptionnel que nous jugeons n\u00e9cessaire d&rsquo;en donner un jugement avec le mat\u00e9riel disponible, notamment quelques r\u00e9actions choisies selon nos r\u00e9f\u00e9rences, et dont nous pensons qu&rsquo;il (ce jugement) est malgr\u00e9 tout \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 bonne distance et \u00e0 la fois net et mesur\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>La folie de communication de cette journ\u00e9e fut d&rsquo;abord une \u00ab\u00a0nouvelle\u00a0\u00bb, c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire une \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9v\u00e9lation anti-Trump\u00a0\u00bb de type-scandaleuse, aussit\u00f4t d\u00e9cortiqu\u00e9e comme un montage grossier r\u00e9alis\u00e9 par une connexion entre des esp\u00e8ces d&rsquo;ex-agents de renseignement britanniques, les habituels mercenaires de l&rsquo;IC (<em>Intelligence Community<\/em>) US notoirement anti-Trump, et le relais absolument d\u00e9cha&icirc;n\u00e9 et hyst\u00e9rique, et aveugle par la m\u00eame occasion, de la presse-Syst\u00e8me US. La folie de la communication se poursuivit par la conf\u00e9rence de presse annonc\u00e9e du pr\u00e9sident-\u00e9lu Trump, qui se d\u00e9roula dans une atmosph\u00e8re d&rsquo;une sauvagerie inou\u00efe (selon le mot de l&rsquo;aviation de combat d\u00e9crivant une duel \u00e0 mort, rapproch\u00e9, tournoyant, entre deux chasseurs ennemis : un <em>dogfight<\/em> [litt\u00e9ralement \u00ab\u00a0combat de chiens\u00a0\u00bb]), o&ugrave; l&rsquo;on put mesurer l&rsquo;extraordinaire animosit\u00e9 entre Trump et la presse-Syst\u00e8me. Il nous semble manifeste qu&rsquo;on ne peut attribuer au hasard la diffusion de la <em>FakeNews<\/em> \u00e0 l&rsquo;heure et au jour o&ugrave; elle eut lieu, et la conf\u00e9rence de presse quelques heures plus tard : l&rsquo;ensemble constituait une <em>kolossal <\/em>finesse des archers des \u00ab\u00a0services\u00a0\u00bb, aussi \u00e9pais du bulbe que peut l&rsquo;\u00eatre un Brennan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Tout cela est d&rsquo;une grossi\u00e8ret\u00e9 rare, mesurant l&rsquo;hyst\u00e9rie compl\u00e8te de l&rsquo;opposition anti-Trump et la tension formidable existant \u00e0 Washington D.C. Par contraste, Trump s&rsquo;est montr\u00e9, lors de sa conf\u00e9rence de presse, \u00e0 la fois d&rsquo;un calme souverain et d&rsquo;une fermet\u00e9 intraitable face \u00e0 ceux qui avaient diffus\u00e9 les <em>FakeNews <\/em>du jour, refusant absolument les questions du repr\u00e9sentant de CNN, l&rsquo;un des deux op\u00e9rateurs de la chose. On trouve les comptes-rendus s\u00e9rieux de ces deux \u00e9v\u00e9nements, dans divers m\u00e9dias (essentiellement antiSyst\u00e8me) et sous diverses plumes que nous jugeons pour notre compte acceptables et de bonne valeur.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Nous citeront notamment, parmi beaucoup d&rsquo;autres des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences habituelles que nous utilisons, Alexander Mercouris sur son site <em><a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/\">TheDuran.com<\/a><\/em>, dans divers articles hier soir (<a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/trump-news-conference-how-trump-dossier-helps-donald-trump\/\">dont celui<\/a> que nous reprenons ci-dessous) ; un <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/01\/11\/the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claims-as-dems-cheer\/\">formidable article<\/a> de Glenn Greenwald (que Mercouris cite et que nous citons \u00e9galement) qui d\u00e9monte compl\u00e8tement, avec une documentation remarquable pour le temps font il disposait, la grossi\u00e8re <em>FakeNews<\/em> du jour ; un passage (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-11\/trump-slams-cnn-reporter-you-are-fake-news-calls-buzzfeed-failing-pile-garbage\">ZeroHedge.com<\/a><\/em>), qui devrait devenir fameux de la conf\u00e9rence de presse o&ugrave; Trump refuse obstin\u00e9ment une question de Jim Acosta, de CNN (&laquo; <em>Not you,\u00a0\u00bb Trump said. \u00ab\u00a0<strong>Your organization is terrible!\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> &raquo;) ; enfin <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2017\/01\/at-news-conference-trump-owns-the-press.html\">un article<\/a> du <em>New York Magazine<\/em> (r\u00e9glementairement anti-Trump, puisque de presse-Syst\u00e8me) cit\u00e9 \u00e9galement par <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-journalism\/2017\/01\/11\/ny-magazine-trump-owns-press-first-press-conference\/\">Breitbart.News<\/a><\/em>, qui \u00e9value le r\u00e9sultat de cette bataille&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Attachons-nous d&rsquo;abord au dernier cit\u00e9&#8230; Son verdict est int\u00e9ressant puisqu&rsquo;il tente de rester critique comme il se doit en s\u00e9parant le domaine habituellement rationnel du fond (la \u00ab\u00a0politique\u00a0\u00bb pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e lors de la conf\u00e9rence de presse), du domaine habituellement futile de la forme (<strong>la communication elle-m\u00eame<\/strong> qu&rsquo;a repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e cette conf\u00e9rence), &ndash; alors que, dans cette \u00e9poque d&rsquo;inversion et de pulv\u00e9risation de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 voulues par le syst\u00e8me dont la plupart des anti-Trump subissent l&rsquo;\u00e9crasante influence, <strong>c&rsquo;est la forme dans ce cas qui a une r\u00e9elle subsistance, qui est le v\u00e9ritable fondement de l&rsquo;\u00e9v\u00e9nement<\/strong>. (Le fond, lui, celui qui pla&icirc;t \u00e0 la presse-Syst\u00e8me parce qu&rsquo;il fait si \u00ab\u00a0s\u00e9rieux\u00a0\u00bb, c&rsquo;est l&rsquo;exercice presque aussi courant que ses parties de golf, d&rsquo;autosatisfaction et de d\u00e9tachement suffisant et arrogant des discours du pr\u00e9sident-partant, l&rsquo;homme qui sait si parfaitement exprimer avec \u00e9l\u00e9gance et subtilit\u00e9 le vide catastrophique de la politique d&rsquo;entropisation \u00e0 laquelle il s&rsquo;est soumis pendant huit ans.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&laquo; <em>Trump being Trump, he didn&rsquo;t show any interest in directly answering questions. He opened with a rambling monologue that included the pronouncement: \u00ab\u00a0I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created.\u00a0\u00bb When asked by a reporter if Russia aided his win, Trump said, \u00ab\u00a0Well, if Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset.\u00a0\u00bb  Questioned whether the American people wanted him to finally release his tax returns, he replied, \u00ab\u00a0No, I don&rsquo;t think they care at all.\u00a0\u00bb Challenged on the potential conflicts of interest for his cabinet appointees, Trump explained that Rex Tillerson and Jeff Sessions were \u00ab\u00a0brilliant.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>Judged on a policy basis, <strong>it was a disaster<\/strong>. Trump came across as just as unprepared and unfocused as he did during his shambolic campaign<\/em>. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>But observed as spectacle, Trump came away with <strong>a resounding victory<\/strong>. That&rsquo;s because Trump won even before he stepped before the microphone, by making the media the story. Last night, BuzzFeed published a salacious 35-page oppo-research dossier on Trump that alleged Russia possessed sexual and financial dirt on Trump that could be used to blackmail him. BuzzFeed justified reporting the unverified oppo-research document &mdash; which had been compiled during the presidential campaign by a political operative working for Trump&rsquo;s Republican rivals &mdash; by stating that intelligence agencies had briefed Trump on a summary of the findings last week. But BuzzFeed&rsquo;s article boomeranged back on the website as journalists were quick to denounce its decision to publish unconfirmed claims and errors. (CNN broke news of the intelligence briefing, but did not print the sensational details.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>Trump exploited this wedge. From the outset, he worked to isolate BuzzFeed and CNN. \u00ab\u00a0I want to thank a lot of the news organizations for some of whom have not treated me very well over the years &mdash; a couple in particular &mdash; and they came out so strongly against that fake news and the fact that it was written about by primarily one group and one television station,\u00a0\u00bb he said. Trump also deflected attention from the urgent questions at hand by taking aim at the intelligence agencies, which he accused &mdash; without proof &mdash; of the leak. \u00ab\u00a0It was disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out<\/em> &hellip; [T]<em>hat&rsquo;s something that Nazi Germany would have done, and did do.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>For the most part, Trump remained calm and jocular (except when he refused to call on CNN reporter Jim Acosta, yelling \u00ab\u00a0You are fake news!\u00a0\u00bb). He invited reporters to the White House the week after his inauguration. He left the bad-cop routine to his press secretary, Sean Spicer, who called BuzzFeed \u00ab\u00a0a left-wing blog\u00a0\u00bb and said the decision to publish was \u00ab\u00a0outrageous and highly irresponsible.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>The cumulative result is that Trump turned what should have been a serious examination of his incoming administration into a debate over journalistic practices and Michael Cohen&rsquo;s travel itinerary. BuzzFeed deserves some of the blame for this. Journalists receive oppo research frequently during political campaigns, but publish only what they can verify. By amending this standard for Trump, BuzzFeed handed him an opening to play the victim. Trump thrives in a world where facts are fungible. As the journalist Masha Gessen, who&rsquo;s covered Putin&rsquo;s Russia for years, tweeted: \u00ab\u00a0We are now fully immersed in the anonymous, the unverified, and the unverifiable. And he hasn&rsquo;t even taken office. Trumpism sure is fast.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> [&#8230;] &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Nous comprenons bien la critique du <em>New York Magazine<\/em> sur l&rsquo;aspect \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9sastreux\u00a0\u00bb du fond et sur \u00ab\u00a0la victoire \u00e9clatante\u00a0\u00bb de Trump sur la forme ; <strong>mais qui l&rsquo;a fait roi dans ce cas <\/strong>? Qui a institu\u00e9 la \u00ab\u00a0soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du spectacle\u00a0\u00bb (Debord n&rsquo;avait pas pr\u00e9vu Trump qui excelle justement dans cette \u00ab\u00a0soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du spectacle\u00a0\u00bb), pour mieux appliquer <strong>une entreprise totalitaire de subversion totale, de destruction de l&rsquo;esp\u00e8ce et du monde<\/strong>, essentiellement par la communication (la forme), sinon pour le r\u00f4le d&rsquo;instrument-producteur en bonne partie cette presse-Syst\u00e8me qui g\u00e9mit aujourd&rsquo;hui parce que Trump ne r\u00e9pond pas \u00e0 ses questions, d&rsquo;ailleurs totalement faussaires, ou lui r\u00e9pond \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9, histoire de lui faire un \u00ab\u00a0bras d&rsquo;honneur de communication\u00a0\u00bb en passant, pour <strong>se jouer d&rsquo;elle et encore plus mettre en \u00e9vidence sa vanit\u00e9 et son imposture \u00e0 elle<\/strong> ? &#8230; Encore que, enfin, il y ait beaucoup \u00e0 dire sur le \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9sastre\u00a0\u00bb de la politique-Trump, et l&rsquo;on verra ce qu&rsquo;il en sera  ; en attendant, la presse-Syst\u00e8me ne m\u00e9rite pas plus que ces non-r\u00e9ponses ou ces r\u00e9ponses \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, lorsqu&rsquo;on voit la fa\u00e7on dont elle \u00e9volue, v\u00e9ritable zombie au service du Syst\u00e8me : elle ne m\u00e9rite donc ni plus ni mieux que ce que Trump lui donne et les bras d&rsquo;honneur qu&rsquo;il lui fait.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Que la premi\u00e8re conf\u00e9rence de presse de Trump ait \u00e9t\u00e9 un succ\u00e8s (pour Trump), Alexander Mercouris n&rsquo;en doute pas une seconde. Mercouris examine la situation de Trump, sa position tactique d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, notamment par rapport \u00e0 l&rsquo;IC, enfin l&rsquo;effet du \u00ab\u00a0dossier Trump\u00a0\u00bb (le dernier <em>FakeNews<\/em> en date, sortie pour la conf\u00e9rence de presse), notamment pour la conf\u00e9rence de presse&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&laquo; <strong><em>The claims of the &lsquo;Trump dossier&rsquo; are so bizarre and so obvious false that its publication is working to Donald Trump&rsquo;s advantage, as he showed in his news conference. <\/em><\/strong><em>That the &lsquo;Trump dossier&rsquo; is working to Donald Trump&rsquo;s advantage, and that he is a far more skilful politician than some people suppose him to be, found confirmation from his press conference today.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>The ODNI report which was published on Friday proved to be so empty of evidence that in my opinion it did more long term harm to the reputation of the US intelligence community than it did to Donald Trump&rsquo;s legitimacy, or to his policy of detente with Russia. However the very vagueness of the ODNI report also meant that it is next to impossible to prove its claims untrue.  It is notoriously difficult to prove a negative, making it difficult for both Trump and the Russians to refute claims that it was Russian intelligence which was behind the Clinton leaks, especially given the almost complete media blackout on <a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/russia-not-behind-clinton-leaks-conclusive-evidence-emerges-work-washington-insider\/\">Craig Murray&rsquo;s revelations<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>However the &lsquo;Trump dossier&rsquo; is a different matter.  Its contents are so lurid and improbable, and many of its factual assertions are so demonstrably false, that <a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/trump-dossier-a-clever-fabrication\/\">it is easy to deny and take apart<\/a>. That is precisely what Donald Trump did in his <a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/what-you-need-to-know-from-donald-trumps-news-conference\/\">press conference<\/a>.  Wisely he focused on denouncing the &lsquo;Trump dossier&rsquo; as &lsquo;fake news&rsquo;, whilst casually saying that the Russians probably did hack the DNC though pointing out other states have hacked the US also.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>This appears now to be the agreed line within the Trump team.  An early <a href=\"https:\/\/theduran.com\/trump-chief-of-staff-reince-priebus-folds-to-fox-news-and-says-russia-is-behind-election-fake-news-hack\/\">though unfortunately somewhat garbled version of it was expressed by Reince Priebus<\/a> a few days ago, and variations of it are now being repeated by Trump&rsquo;s picks for cabinet posts including Rex Tillerson, Trump&rsquo;s nominee for Secretary of State, in his Senate confirmation hearing today.  This approach avoids a head on clash with the US intelligence community, whilst downplaying the significance of the whole issue.  It is consistent with <a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/donald-trump-calls-us-deep-state-bluff\/\">the line Trump took in his statement on Friday<\/a>, which whilst conciliatory towards the US intelligence community, admitted nothing of substance.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>One other effect of the &lsquo;Trump dossier&rsquo; is that it has finally convinced many skeptics that the US intelligence community and the CIA especially are indeed engaged in an attempt to delegitimse and box in Donald Trump.  Consider what Glen Greenwald has said about the conduct of the CIA in his <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/0the%20d\/11\/the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claims-as-dems-cheer\/\">exceptionally fine article<\/a> about the &lsquo;Trump dossier&rsquo; today&#8230;<\/em> &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Ces derniers mots nous invitent donc \u00e0 lire l&rsquo;article de Greenwald, effectivement remarquable selon plusieurs aspects. Le premier tient bien entendu dans la d\u00e9monstration, l&rsquo;abondante documentation soutenant cette d\u00e9monstration, selon l&rsquo;habitude de Greenwald. Le second aspect est que Greenwald est un progressiste, voire un progressiste-soci\u00e9tal (il est lui-m\u00eame homosexuel), et par cons\u00e9quent, &ndash; para&icirc;t-il, selon les anath\u00e8mes qu&rsquo;on lance contre Trump, &ndash; un adversaire affirm\u00e9 de Trump selon ce que Trump est cens\u00e9 \u00eatre. Greenwald ne le cache nullement dans son article, en rappelant et en soulignant sa position de principe (&laquo; <em>The serious dangers posed by a Trump presidency are numerous and manifest<\/em>&#8230; &raquo;). A c\u00f4t\u00e9 de cela, il fait remarquablement la part des choses, n&rsquo;oublie pas ce qui s&rsquo;est pass\u00e9 depuis 2001, ne se trompe pas une seconde sur le d\u00e9sastre-Syst\u00e8me qu&rsquo;a \u00e9t\u00e9 la pr\u00e9sidence Obama, et prend comme ligne de r\u00e9flexion et de d\u00e9veloppement de son article<strong> que Trump est la victime d&rsquo;une attaque furieuse et sans aucun frein de ce qu&rsquo;on nomme \u00ab\u00a0l&rsquo;&Eacute;tat profond\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>. Cela figure d&rsquo;ailleurs dans le titre, en m\u00eame temps qu&rsquo;il remet les d\u00e9mocrates \u00e0 leur v\u00e9ritable niveau de bassesse et de corruption tant v\u00e9nale que psychologique : &laquo; <em>The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer<\/em> &raquo;).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On reprendra ci-dessous l&rsquo;extrait cit\u00e9 par Mercouris lui-m\u00eame (le d\u00e9but \u00e0 trois paragraphes pr\u00e8s de l&rsquo;article), suivi d&rsquo;un autre extrait, le dernier de l&rsquo;article et sa conclusion, &ndash; le reste constituant les d\u00e9monstrations techniques et la documentation qui va avec. L&rsquo;int\u00e9r\u00eat du texte de Greenwald est bien qu&rsquo;il donne une assise tr\u00e8s solide, technique et \u00e9thique \u00e0 la fois, \u00e0 la perception d&rsquo;une attaque concert\u00e9e de l&rsquo;<em>establishment<\/em>, ou bien de l'\u00a0\u00bb&Eacute;tat profond\u00a0\u00bb contre Trump (ou bien, du complexe militaro-industriel [la mention du discours d&rsquo;Eisenhower de 1961 commence le texte de l&rsquo;article : &laquo; <em>In january, 1961, Dwight Eisenhower delivered <a href=\"http:\/\/coursesa.matrix.msu.edu\/~hst306\/documents\/indust.html\">his farewell address<\/a> after serving two terms as U.S. president; the five-star general chose to warn Americans of this specific threat to democracy: \u00ab\u00a0In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> &raquo;]).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Voici les extraits du texte de Greenwald du <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/01\/11\/the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claims-as-dems-cheer\/\">11 janvier 2016<\/a>, dans <em>The Intercept<\/em> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&laquo; <em>The serious dangers posed by a Trump presidency are numerous and manifest. There are a wide array of legitimate and effective tactics for combatting those threats: from bipartisan congressional coalitions and constitutional legal challenges to citizen uprisings and sustained and aggressive civil disobedience. All of those strategies have periodically proven themselves effective in times of political crisis or authoritarian overreach.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive. Empowering the very entities that have produced the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six decades is desperation of the worst kind. Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth &mdash; despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie &mdash; is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>Beyond all that, there is no bigger favor that Trump opponents can do for him than attacking him with such lowly, shabby, obvious shams, recruiting large media outlets to lead the way. When it comes time to expose actual Trump corruption and criminality, who is going to believe the people and institutions who have demonstrated they are willing to endorse any assertions no matter how factually baseless, who deploy any journalistic tactic no matter how unreliable and removed from basic means of ensuring accuracy?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>All of these toxic ingredients were on full display yesterday as the Deep State unleashed its tawdriest and most aggressive assault yet on Trump: vesting credibility in and then causing the public disclosure of a completely unvetted and unverified document, compiled by a paid, anonymous operative while he was working for both GOP and Democratic opponents of Trump, accusing Trump of a wide range of crimes, corrupt acts and salacious private conduct. The reaction to all of this illustrates that while the Trump presidency poses grave dangers, so, too, do those who are increasingly unhinged in their flailing, slapdash, and destructive attempts to undermine it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>For months the CIA, with unprecedented clarity, overtly threw its weight behind Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s candidacy and sought to defeat Donald Trump. In August, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/05\/opinion\/campaign-stops\/i-ran-the-cia-now-im-endorsing-hillary-clinton.html\">announced his endorsement of Clinton in the New York Times<\/a><\/em><em> and claimed that \u00ab\u00a0Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.\u00a0\u00bb The CIA and NSA director under George W. Bush, Gen. Michael Hayden, also endorsed Clinton, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/former-cia-chief-trump-is-russias-useful-fool\/2016\/11\/03\/cda42ffe-a1d5-11e6-8d63-3e0a660f1f04_story.html?utm_term=.771eff2c3b02\">went to the Washington Post to warn<\/a><\/em><em>, in the week before the election, that \u00ab\u00a0Donald Trump really does sound a lot like Vladimir Putin,\u00a0\u00bb adding that Trump is \u00ab\u00a0the useful fool, some naif, manipulated by Moscow, secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted and exploited.\u00a0\u00bb&#8230; <\/em>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>There is a real danger here that this maneuver <\/em>[<em>against Trump<\/em>]<em> can harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this \u00ab\u00a0dossier\u00a0\u00bb turn out to be provably false &mdash; such as Cohen&rsquo;s trip to Prague &mdash; many people will conclude, with Trump&rsquo;s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying \u00ab\u00a0Fake News\u00a0\u00bb to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that will forever discredit &mdash; render impotent &mdash; future journalistic expos\u00e9s that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>Beyond that, the threat posed by submitting ourselves to the CIA and empowering it to reign supreme outside of the democratic process is &mdash; as Eisenhower warned &mdash; an even more severe danger. The threat of being ruled by unaccountable and unelected entities is self-evident and grave. That&rsquo;s especially true when the entity behind which so many are rallying is one with a long and deliberate history of lying, propaganda, war crimes, torture, and the worst atrocities imaginable.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>All of the claims about Russia&rsquo;s interference in U.S. elections and ties to Trump should be fully investigated by a credible body, and the evidence publicly disclosed to the fullest extent possible. As my colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/01\/06\/underwhelming-intel-report-shows-need-for-congressional-investigation-of-dnc-hack\/\">Sam Biddle argued<\/a> last week after disclosure of the farcical intelligence community report on Russia hacking &mdash; one which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/09\/russia-trump-election-flawed-intelligence\/\">even Putin&rsquo;s foes<\/a> mocked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2017\/01\/06\/u-s-spy-report-blames-putin-for-hacks-but-doesn-t-back-it-up.html\">as a bad joke<\/a> &mdash; the utter lack of evidence for these allegations means \u00ab\u00a0we need an independent, resolute inquiry.\u00a0\u00bb But until then, assertions that are unaccompanied by evidence and disseminated anonymously should be treated with the utmost skepticism &mdash; not lavished with convenience-driven gullibility.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>Most important of all, the legitimate and effective tactics for opposing Trump are being utterly drowned by these irrational, desperate, ad hoc crusades that have no cogent strategy and make his opponents appear increasingly devoid of reason and gravity. Right now, Trump&rsquo;s opponents are behaving as media critic Adam Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamjohnsonNYC\/status\/806206076286799872\">described<\/a>: as ideological jelly fish, floating around aimlessly and lost, desperately latching on to whatever barge randomly passes by.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo; <em>There are solutions to Trump. They involve reasoned strategizing and patient focus on issues people actually care about. Whatever those solutions are, venerating the intelligence community, begging for its intervention, and equating their dark and dirty assertions as Truth are most certainly not among them. Doing that cannot possibly achieve any good, and is already doing much harm<\/em>. &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p>Laissons Greenwald \u00e0 sa d\u00e9solation de voir son camp (anti-Trump) se ranger derri\u00e8re toutes les manigances du syst\u00e8me, de la CIA type-<em>Murder Inc.<\/em> \u00e0 l&rsquo;extr\u00eame de la presse-Syst\u00e8me productrice de <em>FakeNews<\/em> comme dans un \u00e9tat diarrh\u00e9ique. Le vrai est que, dans la situation pr\u00e9sente de l&rsquo;\u00e9tat catastrophique du monde, <strong>il faut savoir distinguer entre l&rsquo;essentiel et l&rsquo;accessoire, &ndash; le danger essentiel (en essence) que pose le Syst\u00e8me, et le danger que rec\u00e8le une pr\u00e9sidence Trump selon certains, qui n&rsquo;est qu&rsquo;accessoire et qui, en s&rsquo;opposant au Syst\u00e8me pour s&rsquo;affirmer, devient dans un impeccable retournement, une inversion vertueuse, compl\u00e8tement antiSyst\u00e8me<\/strong>. Nous connaissons cette \u00e9vidence depuis longtemps et n&rsquo;avons jamais fait de Trump le Messie qui nous sauvera, mais nous savons distinguer l'\u00a0\u00bbennemi principal\u00a0\u00bb de celui qui, malgr\u00e9 ses avatars personnels et autres, <strong>devient n\u00e9cessairement et essentiellement (en essence) notre alli\u00e9 dans la bataille antiSyst\u00e8me qui est essentiellement (en essence) la n\u00f4tre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>Il reste de cet \u00e9pisode absolument \u00e9chevel\u00e9, <strong>presque magique (magie noire et magie tout court) dans son \u00e9normit\u00e9 et dans sa fabuleuse r\u00e9sonnance de communication<\/strong>, que Trump est pour l&rsquo;instant ce fantastique obstacle pos\u00e9 devant la surpuissance du Syst\u00e8me, et qui, \u00e0 cause de la pression qui est exerc\u00e9e sur lui, est conduit \u00e0 radicaliser sa position de communication dans une mesure qui fait de lui-m\u00eame un non moins fantastique antiSyst\u00e8me. Tout cela ne nous promet rien d&rsquo;assur\u00e9 sur les posiutions des uns et des autre mais beaucoup dans le champ de l&rsquo;agitation extr\u00eame et paroxystique. Nous avons donc bien compris qu&rsquo;avec USA-2016, d\u00e9j\u00e0 soign\u00e9 aux petits oignons, nous n&rsquo;avons encore rien vu ; USA-2017 nous en r\u00e9serve de bien plus extraordinaires, comme un bouquet d&rsquo;une dur\u00e9e consid\u00e9rable succ\u00e8de au feu d&rsquo;artifice, avec comme probabilit\u00e9 du diagnostic <strong>l&rsquo;entr\u00e9e dans leur crise d&rsquo;agonie des USA am\u00e9ricanistes, c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire le moteur et le c&oelig;ur grondant du Syst\u00e8me, c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire le Syst\u00e8me lui-m\u00eame<\/strong>&#8230; &laquo;<em> Vous avez aim\u00e9 USA-2016 ? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/vous-avez-aime-2016-vous-adorerez-2017\">Vous adorerez USA-2017<\/a>&#8230;<\/em> &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Mis en ligne le 11 janvier 2017 \u00e0 10H55<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Une journ\u00e9e \u00e9pique et un combat de titans Nous avons pour habitude de ne pas suivre l&rsquo;actualit\u00e9 quotidienne de la communication dans ses moindres soubresauts, dans une \u00e9poque o&ugrave; la communication domine absolument le champ des affaires publiques et o&ugrave; plus aucune r\u00e9f\u00e9rence (r\u00e9alit\u00e9 pulv\u00e9ris\u00e9e) ne permet de fixer aussit\u00f4t un jugement \u00e0 bonne distance&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3642,2679,2631,12666,6944,4005,2667,3256,3364,4741,2639,3257],"class_list":["post-77026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-cnn","tag-conference","tag-de","tag-fakenews","tag-greenwald","tag-magazine","tag-mercouris","tag-new","tag-presse","tag-presse-systeme","tag-trump","tag-york"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}