{"id":41588,"date":"2018-12-13T08:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41588"},"modified":"2018-12-13T08:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:45:32","slug":"yes-virginia-there-is-a-deep-state-and-bob-parry-exposed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41588","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Virginia, There Is a Deep State and Bob Parry Exposed It"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/12\/13\/yes-virginia-there-is-a-deep-state-and-bob-parry-exposed-it\/\">Yes, Virginia, There Is a Deep State and Bob Parry Exposed It<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In his efforts to uncover the Iran-Contra plot and the machinations surrounding Russia-gate, Bob Parry was in the forefront of journalists exposing the inner workings of the Deep State, recalls Ray McGovern during our Winter Fund Drive.<span id=\"more-31702\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/raymcgovern_face0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2305\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/raymcgovern_face0-150x150.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/raymcgovern_face0-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/raymcgovern_face0.jpg 185w\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a>A year ago yesterday, it became fully clear what was behind the feverish attempt by our intelligence agencies and their mainstream media accomplices to emasculate President Donald Trump with the Russia-gate trope.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">It turned out that the objective was not only to delegitimize Trump and make it impossible for him to move toward a more decent relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">On December 12, 2017, it became manifestly clear that it was not only\u00a0the usual suspects \u2014 the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank Complex, namely, the Boeings, Lockheeds, and Raytheons profiteering on high tension with Russia; not only greedy members of Congress upon whom defense contractors lavish some of their profits; not only the TV corporations controlled by those same contractors; and not only the\u00a0Democrats desperately searching for a way to explain how Hillary Clinton could have lost to the buffoon we now have in the White House.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">No, it was deeper than that. It turns out a huge part of the motivation behind Russia-gate was to hide how the Department of Justice, FBI, and CIA (affectionately known as the Deep State) \u2014 with their co-opted \u201cassets\u201d in the media \u2014 interfered in the 2016 election in a gross attempt to make sure Trump did not win.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><b>Russia-gate: <\/b><i><b>Cui Bono<\/b><\/i><b>?<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">This would become crystal clear, even to cub reporters, when the text exchanges between senior FBI officials Peter Strzok and girlfriend Lisa Page were released exactly a year ago. Typically, readers of <i>The New York Times<\/i> the following day would altogether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-mueller-russia-republican-campaign.html\">miss<\/a> the importance of the text-exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Virginia, There Is a Deep State and Bob Parry Exposed It In his efforts to uncover the Iran-Contra plot and the machinations surrounding Russia-gate, Bob Parry was in the forefront of journalists exposing the inner workings of the Deep State, recalls Ray McGovern during our Winter Fund Drive. A year ago yesterday, it became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23465,6963,23467,199,23466,7000,15282,827],"class_list":["post-41588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bob-parry","tag-consortium-news","tag-cui-bono","tag-deep-state","tag-iran-contra-plot","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-russiagate","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41589,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41588\/revisions\/41589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}