First, Pat Caddell, who as a young man fresh out of Harvard where he studied southern politics, and went on to advise an unknown governor from Georgia named James Earl Carter and steered him through the minefield of American politics to the presidency, died at the age of 68 today.
PUTIN'S GAMEPLAN
For those of us trained in international relations in the 1960's- 1970's where the main adversary of the West was the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's game plan with a malleable, inexperienced, dimwitted Donald Trump is obvious.
It is the James Jesus Angleton operation all over again.
James Jesus Angleton was the legendary CIA counter-intelligence chief from 1954-1975. His main job was to catch Soviet spies, and especially unearth double agents the Soviets had placed in the CIA. In the late 1950's CIA double-agent Anatoily Golitsyn (A Soviet spy that the CIA thought it had turned to a CIA spy) began to tell Angleton that the CIA had been compromised by Russian spies. The allegation was more believable based on the recent revelation that the British spy service MI6 had been compromised by Kim Philby, a British agent, and others, who had been turned by the Soviets during WWII. Philby was both a close friend and associate of Angleton, and the revelation he was a Soviet spy rocked Angleton. That set Angleton off on a twenty-five year chase of shadows for the top-level CIA agent who was a Soviet spy. Along the way Angleton ruined the careers of dozens of top level CIA employees that fell (wrongfully) under his suspicion. Without ever having placed a Soviet spy in the CIA, the Soviets were able to cause more damage in the CIA then if they had actually placed a spy. Angleton who was a brilliant analyst, was driven mad by the chase and he retired from the CIA in 1975 a broken man, still firm in his belief that there was a spy he had missed.
Trump is not a Russian agent. He has not been compromised by the Russians. He does not need to be. All that needs to happen -which has happened- is that the Russians are making the FBI and the CIA THINK that Trump has been compromised. This has caused Trump to lash out at the FBI and CIA. He has wrecked the career of top FBI agents and he is outspoken in his belief that the CIA analysts are wrong about important issues like the effectiveness of North Korean missiles because Putin has told him otherwise.
Putin is doing to Trump and the United Stated what his predecessors did to James Jesus Angleton and the CIA. And it's working.
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6 comments:
This is a brilliant observation worthy of either the NY Times and a CIA analysis. Well done Rumpole. I am impressed.
Thank you Mr. Vice President
Excellent work Rumpole! I just wish Trump would stop acting like a man compromised by Putin. He is his own worse enemy.
Rump -
Perhaps a post on the systemic problem of failure to return phone calls/emails within the State Attorney's Office.
I know that it's always been a problem but now it seems to be more prevalent than ever before.
I would guess that at least half of my day is spent trying to track down prosecutors, usually for a simple matter like setting a civilian deposition or trying to work out a plea. For a generation that has so much access to communication, the failure to exercise basic professionalism with a simple email or call back is unacceptable.
I feel like in some cases, the only chance I get to speak to the prosecutor is before a sounding, in which case it's too late to iron out anything and I end up having to continue the case. I know the judges do not appreciate these unnecessary delays.
I hope that some of our robed readers can stress to their divisions - hell, make it an order - to return calls/emails to defense attorneys within 24 hours. I guarantee that it will reduce caseloads dramatically.
Your thoughts?
What do you expect of the low hanging fruit who cannot get a job in private practice or with the feds,and make about 40k a year.
5:01
You sound ridiculous!
Being a prosecutor, or public defender, is a prominent and desirable job that is hardly easy to come by. Thousands of applicants vie for just a few slots. It's among the best training ground experiences for new lawyers. Many of these "low hanging" pieces of "fruit" will become successful lawyers, mover & shakers and influential members of the community.
You shouldn't work in private practice until you can bring something to the table (experience) and working for the feds is hardly a dream job
I believe not answering the phone (which makes me so angry) is a generational thing. Miami is far better than Broward (where I don't even know why they have a phone system since it is hardly used)
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