The John Batchelor Show

Thursday April 20, 2017

Air Date: 
April 20, 2017

Photo: Left: DPRK military parade of its mobile launcher TELs.
 
Hour One: Mary Kissel; Debra Saunders; David Davenport; Thaddeus McCotter.
Allegation DCI Brennan launched disinformation campaign to unleash Comey FBI and Rice NSC to undermine Trump. @MaryKissel @ThadMcCotter
An article in the Guardian last week provides more confirmation that John Brennan was the American progenitor of political espionage aimed at defeating Donald Trump. One side did collude with foreign powers to tip the election — Hillary’s.
Seeking to retain his position as CIA director under Hillary, Brennan teamed up with British spies and Estonian spies to cripple Trump’s candidacy. He used their phony intelligence as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into Trump, which led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to Trump Tower and gave cover to Susan Rice, among other Hillary supporters, to spy on Trump and his people.
John Brennan’s CIA operated like a branch office of the Hillary campaign, leaking out mentions of this bogus investigation to the press in the hopes of inflicting maximum political damage on Trump. An official in the intelligence community tells TAS that Brennan’s retinue of political radicals didn’t even bother to hide their activism, decorating offices with “Hillary for president cups” and other campaign paraphernalia.
A supporter of the American Communist Party at the height of the Cold War, Brennan brought into the CIA a raft of subversives and gave them plum positions from which to gather and leak political espionage on Trump. He bastardized standards so that these left-wing activists could burrow in and take career positions. Under the patina of that phony professionalism, they could then present their politicized judgments as “non-partisan.”
The Guardian story is written in a style designed to flatter its sources (they are cast as high-minded whistleblowers), but the upshot of it is devastating for them, nonetheless, and explains why all the criminal leaks against Trump first originated in the British press. According to the story, Brennan got his anti-Trump tips primarily from British spies but also Estonian spies and others. The story confirms that the seed of the espionage into Trump was planted by Estonia. The BBC’s Paul Wood reported last year that the intelligence agency of an unnamed Baltic State had tipped Brennan off in April 2016 to a conversation purporting to show that the Kremlin was funneling cash into the Trump campaign.
https://spectator.org/confirmed-john-brennan-colluded-with-foreign-spies...
Hour Two: Malcolm Hoenlein; Sebastian Gorka; Andrew Tabler; Emmanuele Ottolenghi; Anthony Ruggerio.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/BeyondIslamist...
·         http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/altering-assads-...
·         https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-defense-officia...
·         https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/world/middleeast/syria-aleppo-car-bom...
·         https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/world/middleeast/syria-bashar-al-assa...
·         http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/behnam-ben-taleblu-reading-iran...
   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10233/north-korea-iran
·         http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article145120329.html
·         http://thediplomat.com/2016/04/the-iran-north-korea-connection/
·         https://www.nknews.org/2017/04/n-korea-showcases-probable-intercontinent...
·         https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/north-korea-parade-missile...
Hour Three: Michael Pregent; Aykan Erdemir. Gordon Chang; Arthur Waldron.
·         https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkish-referendum-turning-po...
·         https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkey-divided-stand/
·         http://www.aei.org/publication/more-turkey-referendum-fraud-exposed/?utm...
·         http://www.aei.org/publication/will-erdogan-lash-out-in-europe/
·         http://www.aei.org/publication/fraud-in-turkeys-referendum-means-renewed...
·         http://www.aei.org/publication/turkeys-fraudulent-coup-prosecutions/
·         http://www.aei.org/publication/how-did-fraud-occur-in-the-turkish-refere...
·         https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/strategic-view/turkeys-ties-west-a...
 
Hour Four: Joseph Wheelan; Richard Epstein.
 
The Syrian government launched a chemical weapons attack against the town of Khan Sheikhoun earlier this month, killing more than 80 people, many of them children, and leaving hundreds more injured and in distress. Most people expected the United States to sit idly by, but that expectation was upended with President Donald Trump’s decision to launch 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria. Little more than a week later, the United States dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan, reportedly killing at least 94 ISIS fighters hidden in caves and tunnels. These two decisions mark a major, and positive, change in foreign policy for the United States…http://www.hoover.org/research/trumps-forceful-syrian-gambit