Strategic analyst for businesses and government agencies Eric Garland, who has been on top of intelligence drops in the past and has spent 18 years in the business of competitive intelligence and strategy, predicted Saturday, “Our intelligence and law enforcement professionals are about to produce the least convenient facts in American political history.”
Our intelligence and law enforcement professionals are about to produce the least convenient facts in American political history.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 4, 2017
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Garland’s suggestion is more than confirmed by other intelligence community experts, some of whom are going straight for the jugular right now with “crime” and “Russia mafia” references.
Perhaps like this:
If you're a USP calling a legitimate FI target, your passport doesn't give you cover for your crimes. SIGINT 101, folks.
Nobody told POTUS.
— John Schindler (@20committee) March 4, 2017
Garland made a point that I have been trying to get across since the Russia smoke surfaced before the election – this isn’t about Trump, it’s about Putin causing Americans to lose faith in reality and in government:
This is the damage Putin sought to cause us – to make America look just as wretched as his own insane dictatorship over Russia.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 4, 2017
Trump is assisting Putin (inadvertently or not) in the dismantling of American trust:
Trump is leading the way, characterizing the legitimate activities of government that protect us from traitors as a conspiracy against him.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 4, 2017
To get by this, the government will need to present overwhelming evidence of his misdeeds.
I suspect they will do just that.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 4, 2017
In an effort to avoid their own humiliation, they're about to de-legitimize our democracy, government, intel agencies, and rule of law.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 4, 2017
They've been carefully conditioned to reject all inconvenient facts as The Enemy's Conspiracy.
They're about to reject our System.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 4, 2017
This might be what is meant by Trump will put us in a civil war to protect himself:
This will cause the people who put Trump in office to enter the biggest spasm of paranoia we've ever seen to deny their own humiliation.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 4, 2017
Unless the last eight months of signaling – up to this morning – are off base, we're about to learn about treason by a sitting president.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 4, 2017
No one can say what will happen next, even those closest to this explosive scandal, because there are so many moving parts and variables. But one thing is for sure, Donald Trump is surrounded by Russian smoke and the furious rubbing of intelligence sticks around the world seem about to burst into an inextinguishable flame.
Beyond bringing Trump down, Garland brings up the horror that could follow. Trump might have handed this country to Putin on a silver platter, dividing us and causing us to question reality in a way that makes us easy pickings.
Trump might have been the obvious move, but Putin’s plan doesn’t stop with Trump. So even if Trump is brought down, the danger to our democracy will continue.
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