Former Intelligence officer Malcolm Nance is quickly becoming one of my favorite commentators. Friday’s panel discussion on Bill Maher was it’s usual back and forth with people talking over one another, and some raised voices… Toward the end of the heated discussion, the subject turned to Stephen Miller. Mr. Nance casually joined the discussion about Mr. Miller and in amongst the chaos he referred to Miller as “baby Goebbels”. I immediately fell out of my chair laughing!
The only place I could find a description of the event, believe it or not, was Breitbart.
After Nance and Maher mocked and criticized Miller on the show, Nance compared the adviser to Nazi Germany propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
Nance also branded President Trump’s alleged ties with Russia as “the greatest scandal in presidential history,” ... before claiming President Trump “disparages” intelligence services on “day to day” basis.
“They are now in an act of self defense for the nation,” declared Nance, seemingly encouraging action against the president. “They are loyal to the constitution, not the man.”
I’ll take the CNN approach to pathetic Journalism and present both sides and let the audience decide.
Here are some other things from Malcolm Nance.
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“These people need to start getting lawyers and cutting deals because when we have both sides of the conversation, you are gonna get caught.”
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But, more noteworthy, to those of us in the intelligence community, when you call a foreign power on the day we are kicking out not 35 diplomats; signals-intelligence collectors and human intelligence officers, out of our country, and you're going back-channel to the ambassador of that nation? It doesn't just bring, you know, a hmm to our face, it brings to our mind, WHAT are you doing? Are you in collusion with them? Are you coordinating that you may reverse the kicking out of the spies? Do you work for them?
In case you didn’t read the entire tweet:
This is going to be the greatest scandal in American history. This is Benedict Arnold territory right now.
Malcolm Nance is saying stuff like this all the time. He’s not going to hold back, he’s a patriot who knows one of our last best hopes for saving our democracy is the people in our intelligence community who do the hard work to protect us from threats from both the outside and the inside. Trump is trying to label them as illegal leakers, when in reality they are patriotic whistleblowers. And yes, we’re going to have some pretty big disagreements with previous actions of some of these agencies, but now is not the time to be applying purity tests. The GOP/Trump regime is the biggest threat to our country and the world today, and we need to support those trying to save our democracy and save the disagreements for later.
Trump has declared war on our Intelligence community and Mr. Nance has knowledge of what it’s like on the inside. You might want to pay attention to what he says if you want to really know what they might be doing at the ground level.
RESIST!