The Intercept: Trump/Deep State battle (update Erik Prince spycraft in the news...)

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unsubstantiated claims

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Eric Prince?

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Have You Heard the One About the Clinton-Soros Plot to Overthrow Trump?

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Across Washington, the sort of theories that once elicited laughs are now finding powerful proponents. Why are Erik Prince and other self-proclaimed “nationalists” in Trump’s orbit so concerned with liberal billionaire George Soros?

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On Monday, The Intercept reported that along with an associate, Prince—the Blackwater founder and all-around international man of intrigue—has been pitching Donald Trump’s White House and the president’s allies on the creation of a private network of spies that would operate outside the normal structure of the CIA. Prince has denied the Intercept story, though CNN, citing an unnamed official, confirmed its broad outlines on Tuesday.

But there’s more. The Intercept reported that Prince’s partner in the venture, a former CIA officer, has been making some mighty wild claims: That White House national-security adviser H.R. McMaster has ordered surveillance of Trump’s family and of Steve Bannon, and that McMaster has “used a burner phone to send information gathered through the surveillance to a facility in Cyprus owned by George Soros.”

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Prince himself recently endorsed a separate jaw-dropping theory about Soros: He suspects the magnate of trying to orchestrate an effort to sabotage the Trump administration through a so-called “Purple Revolution.” This campaign of resistance was purported to have begun in the moments right after the election, spurred along—supposedly—by Hillary Clinton and her husband, who each wore purple on stage as Clinton offered her concession speech in November 2016.

Prince’s suspicions about a “Purple Revolution” offer a window into his worldview and those of his fellow travelers, self-proclaimed upstart “nationalists” who are waging something of a cloak-and-dagger fight to wrest control of U.S. intelligence, national security, and foreign-policy interests from the establishment players they call “globalists.” In the view of these nationalists, they are up against a well-coordinated and ruthless campaign by many of the country’s most powerful people to undo, and if necessary overthrow, Trump’s government. Such threats to democracy, they posit, could justify extreme measures in response.

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But when I pressed him for more information, Prince, who is fond of citing the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, invoked Sun Tzu instead, responding cryptically, “Know your enemy.” Then he quickly corrected himself, amending “enemy” to “opponent.”

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Condé Nast Will Be Anchor of 1 World Trade Center
By CHARLES V. BAGLI MAY 17, 2011

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Erik Prince reveals what in the Weiner Laptop (made with Spreaker)

Former CEO of Blackwater and Navy Seal talks about the Weiner Laptop and what was found on if and why the NYPD haven't charged anyone, this audio has to be posted everywhere

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George Soros

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Mike Pompeo

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The "deep state" are career civil service employees who can not be fired by the President (except under a few very rare cases such as when Reagan fired air traffic controllers who refused an order to return to work)

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Despite Comey Assurances, Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined
Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations - August 23, 2018

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When then-FBI Director James Comey announced he was closing the Hillary Clinton email investigation for a second time just days before the 2016 election, he certified to Congress that his agency had “reviewed all of the communications” discovered on a personal laptop used by Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, and her husband, Anthony Weiner.

At the time, many wondered how investigators managed over the course of one week to read the “hundreds of thousands” of emails residing on the machine, which had been a focus of a sex-crimes investigation of Weiner, a former Congressman.

Comey later told Congress that “thanks to the wizardry of our technology,” the FBI was able to eliminate the vast majority of messages as “duplicates” of emails they’d previously seen. Tireless agents, he claimed, then worked “night after night after night” to scrutinize the remaining material.

But virtually none of his account was true, a growing body of evidence reveals.

In fact, a technical glitch prevented FBI technicians from accurately comparing the new emails with the old emails. Only 3,077 of the 694,000 emails were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a single 12-hour spurt the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal charges.

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One career FBI special agent involved in the case complained to New York colleagues that officials in Washington tried to “bury" the new trove of evidence, which he believed contained the full archive of Clinton's emails — including long-sought missing messages from her first months at the State Department.

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