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CNN: Deep State Bureaucrats Threaten To Sell State Secrets If Trump Isn\u2019t Nice To Them<\/a><\/p>\n

CNN warns that intelligence employees who get the axe are valuable \u2014 and that those same employees will sell national secrets if fired. Which is it?<\/p>\n

Brace yourself as the propaganda press tries to stop President Donald Trump from culling corruption from the deep state. Expect \u201cnews\u201d stories screaming about ordinary budget and staff cuts that would happen in any bloated private business but under Trump will be described as unfair or even dangerous.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, the Feb. 24 number from\u00a0CNN<\/a>, \u201cHow Trump\u2019s government-cutting moves risk exposing the CIA\u2019s secrets.\u201d The short report required four CNN writers, Katie Bo Lillis (who was\u00a0involved<\/a>\u00a0in a story that led to a defamation trial in which a jury\u00a0found<\/a> that CNN was literally fake news), Phil Mattingly, Natasha Bertrand, and Zachary Cohen.<\/p>\n

Exposing CIA secrets? That sounds pretty dangerous. Just how much danger are we in?<\/p>\n

In the piece, CNN warned, \u201cAs the CIA weighs staff cuts, current and former intelligence officials say that mass firings could offer a rich recruitment opportunity for foreign intelligence services \u2014 like China or Russia \u2014 who may seek to exploit financially vulnerable or resentful former employees.\u201d<\/p>\n

The piece goes on.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 on the CIA\u2019s 7th floor \u2014 home to top leadership \u2014 some officers are also quietly discussing how mass firings and the buyouts already offered to staff risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.\u201d (So \u201cquietly,\u201d apparently, that CNN could hear them, as Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway\u00a0pointed out<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Is that a threat from the CIA? Is CNN reporting that Trump should keep everyone employed because, if he doesn\u2019t, former CIA agents will spill U.S. secrets to our enemies? Apparently so.<\/p>\n

But if that\u2019s the case, these are exactly the employees who should be fired. Those with too little integrity to exit with grace should not be employed in jobs with access to sensitive information. The CIA employees CNN describes should not be trusted with any more secrets.<\/p>\n

Within the same piece, CNN ridiculously makes it sound as if valued, model intelligence employees will get the axe \u2014 and that those same employees have loose lips and are ripe for the picking. Which is it, CNN?<\/p>\n

The media want you to be worried because they are worried. If Trump cleans house, it will destroy their business model. CNN and other propagandists have exploited unethical leaking of deep state sources, treating their whispers as gospel, and amplifying their aims through high-profile \u201cnews\u201d stories.<\/p>\n

If Trump fires their sources, it will be harder for the media to collude with the intelligence community to craft propaganda to sell to the public. The connection between CNN and the deep state has been too cozy for too long.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

As Hemingway has\u00a0detailed<\/a>, the CIA and other intelligence agencies\u00a0leaked<\/a>\u00a0information to CNN to advance the Russia collusion hoax. Intelligence agency personnel gave CNN and other outlets bogus news scoops, and they ran with them.<\/p>\n

In 2017, a piece was published by four\u00a0CNN<\/a>\u00a0reporters, Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper, and Carl Bernstein. The piece falsely pushed the narrative that Russian operatives had \u201ccompromising personal and financial information\u201d on Trump. Hemingway called out these intelligence\u00a0leaks<\/a>\u00a0right away.<\/p>\n

Top reporters are sometimes approached by high-level officials with incredible story pitches. The wise reporter independently vets the information and asks himself, \u2018Why is this person or agency pitching this story to me? What is his motivation?\u2019 Using the media as a tool is a tired trick of politicians in large and small media markets, and it\u2019s worth asking whether the CIA is using CNN as a (rather willing) tool in this case.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a closer look at this latest CNN piece by dissecting the following sentence: \u201cThe administration\u2019s efforts to cut the workforce and audit spending at the CIA and elsewhere threaten to jeopardize some of the government\u2019s most sensitive work, current and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything up to the word \u201celsewhere\u201d is true. The Trump administration is trimming the workforce and spending. Everything after that is anonymously sourced speculation, commonly known as propaganda.<\/p>\n

The phrase \u201cthreaten to jeopardize some of the government\u2019s most sensitive work,\u201d is a fantasy \u2014 or a not-so-subtle threat from intelligence community personnel whose partisan loyalties outweigh their love of country. It has not happened yet, but it is packaged here as news. The source of this speculation? \u201cCurrent and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations.\u201d Four CNN reporters can barely find a quotable source. The four reporters attributed information in their propaganda piece to sources 18 times, only once offering a name. Here is a look at every source referenced in the story, in the order they appear:<\/p>\n

\u201ca source familiar with the matter told CNN\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201ccurrent and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations say\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201ca senior career Treasury Department official\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201csome officers\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201csources familiar with the matter said\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cformer intelligence officials said\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201csaid one former CIA officer, speaking hypothetically\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cone of these people said\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cone US official said\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cthis person said\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cformer officials noted\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201ccurrent and former officials familiar with the episode said\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cthe first official said\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother US official sympathetic to Trump\u2019s efforts noted\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201csome current and former officials said\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cone source familiar with the matter told CNN\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cformer Treasury officials said\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoseph Gioeli, the Fiscal Service\u2019s Deputy Commissioner for Transformation and Modernization\u201d<\/p>\n

If CNN has any desire to salvage what remains of its imploding credibility, it would do well to steer clear of stories built on anonymous sources and CIA threats that smack of treason. But at least in this report, one of CNN\u2019s anonymous sources got it right: \u201cThe kind of person who might do such a thing [sell U.S. secrets to a foreign power] is precisely the type the agency should be removing from its ranks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN: Deep State Bureaucrats Threaten To Sell State Secrets If Trump Isn\u2019t Nice To Them CNN warns that intelligence employees who get the axe are valuable \u2014 and that those same employees will sell national secrets if fired. Which is it? Brace yourself as the propaganda press tries to stop President Donald Trump from culling … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-espionage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107846,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107844\/revisions\/107846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}