The Deep State does not only operate through classified memos and agency leaks. It operates through bylines, cable panels, “former officials,” and prestige-media theater. The formula is always the same: a retired intelligence figure attacks a Trump appointee, warns democracy is in danger, invokes politicized intelligence, and pretends the intelligence community should somehow be independent of the elected president. That is not constitutional government. That is bureaucratic sovereignty. Trump threatens them because he believes the executive branch answers to the elected executive. Declassify. Fire. Downsize. Audit. Expose. And when the Times launders partisans as patriots, read the missing résumé.
That’s why we have to be relentless in exposing people like Sipher, Fauci, Hotez, Gates, etc. while the Left holds them up as the country’s most knowledgeable experts in their respective fields.
Why am I not surprised that Sipher signed the laptop letter? I have been contemptuous of the CIA since I learned of its role in the Afghan-Soviet conflict of 1978. They are a despicable bunch.
They don't have a board. The two founders - Sipher and O'Shea - signed that memo. And one or two of their 11 advisors.
So what? They do podcasts And all they said was that " ... the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belongings to .... has the earmarks of a Russian information operation."
You are correct, they don’t have a board. I was going from memory and conflated advisors. To be precise: Founders Sipher and O’Shea signed the memo, as did four of the seven former CIA listed as advisors (Wise, Polymeropoulos, Wood, and Kolbe). So six of nine former CIA involved with this entertainment production company (not just podcasts) signed the letter. You can parse its meaning all you want, but the intent was obvious (and successful, aided and abetted by talking heads, partisans, and useful idiots).
We are in a power struggle between Constitutional Government with the President leading that side, vs The Institutional government established by FDR and Truman. That is the struggle. In fairness by statute the CIA is an Independent agency- Independent of Elected Constitutional government, however that was a mistake.
They're writing the same sorts of true things. Amuse himself works for the rightwing outrage machine - John Milton Freedom "writing fellowship" for X influencers - 10K/month.
Yes but Amuse declares that on his profile, indeed in every footer in detail. He’s not passing himself off as a concerned retired public servant. The struggle comes to this; Shall we have Constitutional government or Institutional government?
While you're harping about "what the New York Times doesn't tell you," and listing Sipher's "non think-tank" partisan efforts (for shame!), you conveniently ignore that he's been a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council for years.
"Begin with a concept. Call it credential laundering." - At least Sipher and those you rail against have credentials. Hyper-partisan, cedential-free muse casting these aspersions is rich.
"The analogy to money laundering" is how your funding sources are best characterized. That 501c3 funding you is registered at a small suburban house in Fort Worth - taking in less than $50K yearly per IRS filings.
"A reader might reasonably wonder whether the Times would publish a piece attacking a Democratic appointee by a senior adviser to a pro-Trump super PAC while identifying the author only as a retired civil servant."
They certainly did.
Always hypocritical, and misleading at best, amusingly dishonest.
“At least Sipher and those you rail against have credentials.”
His article destroys the value of those credentials, while here YOU are puffing them up again. Why don’t you address the content of what he said instead of trashing his background?
He doesn't, at all. The content of what Sipher wrote is that in no sane universe would Pulte ever be considered appropriate for that position. Muse knows it, you know it, every cultist melting down because their God-Emperor date be questioned knows it. Why don't you address that?
The hubris of the NYT itself is rivaled only by the certainty of its subscribers that they are the erudite, genteel, intelligentsia who singularly know the score.
More Orwellian muse-ings. You're the op-ed machine, Alex. You're regime messaging. And only about 25% of the country still buys this manufactured outrage as distraction.
John Brennan himself said the intelligence and government agencies themselves are still staffed with many loyalists to “the cause”,
the “cause” being the overthrow of the elected government. How much moreso those outside of it who’ve gone on to make careers out of defrauding the public with their veneer of authenticity.
It really is explosive how so, so, so much is being revealed on a more than daily basis in just the last 10 years how subversive, corrupt and traitorous our very foundational government and institutions actually have become. And 99% of it can be traced directly back to the Democrat party.
They are worse than a criminal enterprise. They are a threat to our very national security.
Shall we have Constitutional Government or Institutional Government ? That is the question. The Intelligence Community represent Institutional government, the President Constitutional government. The last President to touch this was Richard Nixon, the other was JFK. We know what happened to them, just as we know what happened to Trump in his first term.
Another ex cia turd floating around and spewing bullshit. The frustrating thing is that they believe they are relevant, and are having no problem finding organizations to sell their bullshit to. I think CIA operatives should have to sign much stricter gag orders than they currently are. It should include everything they ever read, witnessed, or did while working at that festering turd called the CIA. Oh, and I also think they should never be eligible to hold public office of any kind..😉
The Deep State does not only operate through classified memos and agency leaks. It operates through bylines, cable panels, “former officials,” and prestige-media theater. The formula is always the same: a retired intelligence figure attacks a Trump appointee, warns democracy is in danger, invokes politicized intelligence, and pretends the intelligence community should somehow be independent of the elected president. That is not constitutional government. That is bureaucratic sovereignty. Trump threatens them because he believes the executive branch answers to the elected executive. Declassify. Fire. Downsize. Audit. Expose. And when the Times launders partisans as patriots, read the missing résumé.
That’s why we have to be relentless in exposing people like Sipher, Fauci, Hotez, Gates, etc. while the Left holds them up as the country’s most knowledgeable experts in their respective fields.
Excellent comment.
Well said and absolutely true. Now I almost wish I could read his article in the NYT so I could have a good chuckle.
The Constitution vs the Institutions.
Why am I not surprised that Sipher signed the laptop letter? I have been contemptuous of the CIA since I learned of its role in the Afghan-Soviet conflict of 1978. They are a despicable bunch.
Sipher also founded https://spycraftentertainment.com which counts several signatories to the Russian Disinformation memo among its board members.
They don't have a board. The two founders - Sipher and O'Shea - signed that memo. And one or two of their 11 advisors.
So what? They do podcasts And all they said was that " ... the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belongings to .... has the earmarks of a Russian information operation."
It did.
You are correct, they don’t have a board. I was going from memory and conflated advisors. To be precise: Founders Sipher and O’Shea signed the memo, as did four of the seven former CIA listed as advisors (Wise, Polymeropoulos, Wood, and Kolbe). So six of nine former CIA involved with this entertainment production company (not just podcasts) signed the letter. You can parse its meaning all you want, but the intent was obvious (and successful, aided and abetted by talking heads, partisans, and useful idiots).
What omission from what statement?
Muse omitted Sipher's longtime Atlantic Council position and stated he had no think-tank affiliation. That's more of an outright lie.
What side of the Inversion are you on?
We are in a power struggle between Constitutional Government with the President leading that side, vs The Institutional government established by FDR and Truman. That is the struggle. In fairness by statute the CIA is an Independent agency- Independent of Elected Constitutional government, however that was a mistake.
Thank you for that diaper load.
Mumbo more jumbo. Your King and his cabal are trampling the Constitution.
They're writing the same sorts of true things. Amuse himself works for the rightwing outrage machine - John Milton Freedom "writing fellowship" for X influencers - 10K/month.
Yes but Amuse declares that on his profile, indeed in every footer in detail. He’s not passing himself off as a concerned retired public servant. The struggle comes to this; Shall we have Constitutional government or Institutional government?
Why isn’t this surprising? Slop slop more slop!
While you're harping about "what the New York Times doesn't tell you," and listing Sipher's "non think-tank" partisan efforts (for shame!), you conveniently ignore that he's been a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council for years.
"Begin with a concept. Call it credential laundering." - At least Sipher and those you rail against have credentials. Hyper-partisan, cedential-free muse casting these aspersions is rich.
"The analogy to money laundering" is how your funding sources are best characterized. That 501c3 funding you is registered at a small suburban house in Fort Worth - taking in less than $50K yearly per IRS filings.
"A reader might reasonably wonder whether the Times would publish a piece attacking a Democratic appointee by a senior adviser to a pro-Trump super PAC while identifying the author only as a retired civil servant."
They certainly did.
Always hypocritical, and misleading at best, amusingly dishonest.
“At least Sipher and those you rail against have credentials.”
His article destroys the value of those credentials, while here YOU are puffing them up again. Why don’t you address the content of what he said instead of trashing his background?
He doesn't, at all. The content of what Sipher wrote is that in no sane universe would Pulte ever be considered appropriate for that position. Muse knows it, you know it, every cultist melting down because their God-Emperor date be questioned knows it. Why don't you address that?
The hubris of the NYT itself is rivaled only by the certainty of its subscribers that they are the erudite, genteel, intelligentsia who singularly know the score.
This has run through my mind a million times and you have encapsulated it perfectly!
BINGO!
More Orwellian muse-ings. You're the op-ed machine, Alex. You're regime messaging. And only about 25% of the country still buys this manufactured outrage as distraction.
Great article, makes you wonder just how much these people hide in plain site?
Pulte is a perfect choice! Builders know how to build and get things completed!
God doesn’t choose perfect men(remember King David?) only men perfect for the job!
"Credential laundering" : great term.
Some other short-hand laundering jobs are "the widely respected" and "award-winning."
In general, when you say something appeared in the NYT, you've done reverse credential laundering for me! Call it "credential-fouling."
What? What are you trying to say?
He did say "Begin with a concept. Call it credential laundering. The analogy to money laundering is exact and worth spelling out. "
what an asshole you are. Buh-bye.
John Brennan himself said the intelligence and government agencies themselves are still staffed with many loyalists to “the cause”,
the “cause” being the overthrow of the elected government. How much moreso those outside of it who’ve gone on to make careers out of defrauding the public with their veneer of authenticity.
It really is explosive how so, so, so much is being revealed on a more than daily basis in just the last 10 years how subversive, corrupt and traitorous our very foundational government and institutions actually have become. And 99% of it can be traced directly back to the Democrat party.
They are worse than a criminal enterprise. They are a threat to our very national security.
Shall we have Constitutional Government or Institutional Government ? That is the question. The Intelligence Community represent Institutional government, the President Constitutional government. The last President to touch this was Richard Nixon, the other was JFK. We know what happened to them, just as we know what happened to Trump in his first term.
How will we rid ourselves of these propagandists and the stupid people manipulated by them? It’s a problem.
First, delete muse and 90% of these commenters. You'll swallow anything - https://substack.com/@jarthur1945/likes
Great job clearing away the obfuscation of woefully incomplete vetting of an opinion writer. Thank you.
Another ex cia turd floating around and spewing bullshit. The frustrating thing is that they believe they are relevant, and are having no problem finding organizations to sell their bullshit to. I think CIA operatives should have to sign much stricter gag orders than they currently are. It should include everything they ever read, witnessed, or did while working at that festering turd called the CIA. Oh, and I also think they should never be eligible to hold public office of any kind..😉