General Michael Flynn may or may not have deserved to be
ousted from his job as national security adviser. I don’t know, as I am not
privy to all the details involving what he did or didn’t do. What is troubling,
beyond question, is the way it occurred. As others have pointed out, Flynn was
the victim of a political assassination, a soft coup, likely executed by a
cadre of anonymous bureaucrats in the intelligence community, leftover from the
Obama administration and opposed to everything President Trump plans to do.
As
theweek.com’s Damon Linker put it, “The whole episode is evidence of the
precipitous and ongoing collapse of America’s democratic institutions.” Which
itself is evidence of the precipitous and ongoing collapse of America’s morals
and culture, political and otherwise. Linker is certainly not anyone’s
definition of a conservative, but he gets it exactly right when he states that
unelected intelligence analysts are supposed to work for the president, not the
other way around, and that far too many Trump critics don’t care about the
sensitive information leaked to the press by the “deep state” in this instance
because of their hatred for Trump. Of course, had it been the Obama
administration that was the victim of the plot, the Trump critics would’ve gone
ballistic. In damning the leakers and in support of Obama.
It is
Congress’ role to conduct public investigations of alleged wrongdoing by public
officials, if and when necessary. It is decidedly not the purview of these unelected, anonymous bureaucrats to
secretly feed clandestinely gathered classified information to reporters in
order to damage a President by taking out one of the members of his cabinet.
As
Linker concluded: “Selectively disclosing details of private conversations
monitored by the FBI or NSA gives the permanent state the power to destroy
reputations from the cloak of anonymity. This is what police states do. Down
that path lies the end of democracy in America.”
Sadly,
to the most ardent leftists, destroying America while deposing Trump is not a
tragedy, but a twofer.
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