Spy verses spy type shit is going on here.
Spy verses spy type shit is going on here. harodominguez/gettyimages.com

The best summary of the last seven days of Trump’s maddening presidency was posted by Foreign Policy. It’s called “Trump Knows the Feds Are Closing In on Him.” It points out that whenever the Russian issue gains momentum in the press, Trump does his nutty Twitter thing. So, after delivering a speech to Congress, on February 28, that the press and the public said nice things about, Trump went all quiet. He did not tweet. He basked in the presidential sun. Then, on March 2, it was revealed that Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath. Then, on March 3, Sessions recused himself from the investigation of a Russian matter that will not die. Then, on March 4, Trump went back to nutty and claimed Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential race. He offered no evidence for this claim. And then on Monday, March 6, there was mounting pressure by the press and politicians on both the right and left to back up this claim with evidence. This is where the Foreign Policy post ends.

What happened next?

This morning, March 7, Wikileaks dumped a bunch of documents that described “the sophisticated software tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency to break into smartphones, computers and even Internet-connected televisions” (New York Times). No intelligence organization worth its two cents will believe this is a coincidence. Wikileaks, which repeatedly dumped documents about Hillary Clinton during her presidential campaign, has now dumped documents that are favorable to a fantastic claim made by Trump, documents that allegedly contain the top secrets of a major US military organization, the CIA. (These documents may or may not be authentic.)Everything here is pointing to the Kremlin, to the KGB, to Putin.

What will happen next?

Stay tuned.

7 replies on “New CIA Leak Reveals that Wikileaks Could Be a Department of the KGB”

  1. Haha, seriously? The NSA already taps every phone and records every email. What would any of this stuff released matter to the concept?

    Irresponsible headline.

  3. Yeah, this headline is ridiculously irresponsible. With all the battles we have to fight against Trump, it’s infuriating to watch so-called progressives apparently slavering at the bit for a new Cold War. The Trump government is attacking immigrants & refugees, healthcare, environmental protection – basically attacking everything that represents opposition to the complete social & economic dominance of rich white reactionaries – and our response is to hug & kiss the CIA, the same CIA that lied to get us into Iraq, because they don’t like Trump either, and the enemy of our enemy is our friend?

    I’m resisting Trump because I believe in fighting bigotry and working for a humane, tolerant, equitable society. Not because I want to go to the mat for NATO geopolitical dominance, and saber-rattle against another nuclear armed power over Eastern Ukraine and Syria.

  4. I don’t want geopolitical dominance – neither do I want Russia to interfere in my elections. And I expect the officials in my country to act appropriately if proof if found.

  5. Agreed, but it’s important not to get untethered from the actual issues, which are:

    a.) The Russian government was likely involved in leaking emails from the DNC and John Podesta. The intelligence agencies still haven’t actually released their evidence of this, but it’s certainly plausible (and after all, the U.S. proudly does similar things in other nations).

    b.) Multiple Trump appointees have gotten caught blatantly & stupidly lying about whether they met with Russian diplomats prior to the election.

    Those issues should be rigorously investigated, but for me it’s depressing to watch the matter expand into a substance-less soup of goofy nationalist rhetoric where ostensible leftists are imagining KGB plants and Putin stooges in every dark corner. Doubly so when a story like this one, about the incredible extent of the surveillance state’s activities, which would’ve been taken very seriously a few years ago, instead just serves as a springboard for more Russia scaremongering, on the basis of zero evidence except for “hey, curious timing, am I right? wink wink nudge nudge”

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