The politicization of American intelligence by the left is dangerous and will have very serious consequences for American national interests. Politicization also destroys trust and relations between policymakers and the intelligence community.When Donald Trump said he did not trust the U.S intelligence community, his concerns were well founded. Politicization of America’s intelligence agencies by the left was worse during the Obama administration; that is why Russia took charge in Syria and the Middle East. Now Democrats with their left wing fake news alongside of some of the intelligence officers are accusing Donald Trump of disclosing highly classified information about planned Islamic State operations to the Russian foreign minister during their meeting last week. Actually to keep charging Russia and Putin with interference into the American political system shows a decline of American values, an emphasis on American weaknesses, and the strength of Russia. Actually, Donald Trump was the one who has plans to destroy the ISIS, and he is the one who calculated that Obama created ISIS by not removing Assad on time and not putting troops on the ground, but allowing Russia to come in to be in charge of Syria and the Middle East. The Democratic leadership are cowards and had no guts to go after the ISIS. In the case of FBI former director James Comey, intelligence agencies that affiliate with the Democrat and wished that Hilary had become President deliberately altered the assessment to support the policy outcomes. Policy makers use this process and procedural rules to influence output intelligence work. As a clear example of this, when Trump’s former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, resigned from the post, first the intelligence community leaked the information, even forged the information, and repeated negative reactions to Michael Flynn. The case of firing former FBI Director James Comey is a clear example of cherry picking or subjectively choosing among competing assessments to further their policy agendas and to mitigate dissenting views. Before the former Director Comey got fired, they were calling on him to resign, but when he got fired, they started to defend him not because they cared or had respect for the American Constitution, but because they just wanted to politicize the issue. Donald Trump wanted to fix the intelligence community to get objective, accurate information so he could make decisions for the interest of the United States.
There is no doubt that President Donald Trump has made serious enemies out of the upper management, but it was the right decisions to fire the FBI director who politicized the agency. I would not be surprised if some of intelligence officers use their skills with the goal of bringing down President Donald Trump. I repeat again the left-wing media and the intelligence community of a “deep state” will do anything to bring down Trump and to remove him from his office. Intelligence officers have information and information is power. The FBI already has a really long history of leaking to various outlets so that it could advance their own bureaucratic interests. We will see many leaks happening soon.
The most famous leaker in US history was a deep throat who gave the sensitive information on the Nixon administration to a news media outlet in 1972 during the Watergate scandal. They later revealed it was Mark Felt, the FBI director at the time, who was disclosing the details because Nixon had named a different FBI director; thus, he was leaking for his own interest.
Russia did not influence or change the election results in the USA. But according to US intelligence agencies, Russia has done hacking activities on the Democratic Party organization and leaders, but they did so to undermine the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. It is a big lie by the left media and politicized intelligent officers who do not like Donald Trump because he tried to go after them. BBC Trending reported in April 2017, “Since the US election presidential race, fact checking websites report what seems like an increase in anti-Trump, 'liberal fake news. “The intelligence community and left liberal media are trying their utmost to leak the sensitive information and withhold the intelligence information to the President, but this undertaking is a grave danger, not helping America but helping the enemy.
Our world is in transition and facing so many problems from terrorism, famine, ethnic conflict, and nuclear war, so that it needs a determined leader to solve the problems. Spending all its energy on criticizing Donald Trump’s Presidency will make it very hard for America to remain a super power while under constant attack by its own intelligence community and left liberal media’s fake news. Other countries such as Russia, China, Iran, and Turkey are rushing to take advantage of what is going on in the United States’ intelligence community and biased news outlets. Russia sees as enormous opportunity to cast itself as the responsible global leader on current issues that our world is dealing with, such as nuclear testing by North Korea, conflict in the Middle East, global trade, and the Eastern part of Europe.
The European Union is trying to replace the United States as a moral leader on diplomacy, human rights, and multiculturalism. It is as if America has begun showing signs of weakness and the enemies, as well as some allies, are carving up the corpse. The Russians and Chinese are not just grabbing the land and the seas, but they are also grabbing America’s political, economical, and military capital too. Hillary Clinton should be in jail for carelessly handling the classified information as Secretary of State, even sharing classified intelligence with people who had no security clearance. Donald Trump should hire someone who understands America’s intelligence agencies, so they do not seek their own interests or those of their party in Congress, or of the foreign policy establishment. They should go after Hillary Clinton to learn exactly what exactly happened in Benghazi that led to the killing of the American ambassador. How was the attack initially reported as a “spontaneous mob” reacting to a film and later confirmed to be a “terrorist attack”? The polarization of news continues to have grave effects, both immediate and long-term ones.
Dr. Aland Mizell is President of the MCI and a regular contributor to Mindanao Times. You may email the author at:aland_mizell2@hotmail.com
