{"id":24304,"date":"2017-06-09T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T02:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24304"},"modified":"2017-06-09T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T02:01:07","slug":"the-kissinger-backchannel-to-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/06\/09\/the-kissinger-backchannel-to-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kissinger Backchannel to Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Consortium News<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/06\/03\/the-kissinger-backchannel-to-moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Kissinger Backchannel to Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis history of Kissinger\u2019s Soviet backchannel in 1968 reveals Brennan\u2019s breathless alarm about Russian \u201csuborning\u201d Flynn or using the backchannel to manipulate Kushner as unworthy of a serious intelligence professional.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nDemonstrating the intensity of the anti-Trump attitudes among many Obama officials \u2013 both those who have left the government and those who remain as holdovers \u2013 someone with access to the secret report was so determined to expose the Kushner backchannel as to reveal to the Russians what must be one of the most sensitive U.S. intelligence secrets of all \u2013 the U.S. capability to intercept Russia\u2019s diplomatic messages.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not publish news of this kind to prove that Trump is good, or wise, or honest. I do not believe he is any of those things. I do it, to make sure people know how duplicitous the anti-Trump forces are being.  Just because one side seems to be lying to us, we shouldn&#8217;t fall into the automatic trap of believing the other side is telling us the truth.<\/p>\n<p>When you know both sides are lying to you, that should put you on guard to wondering what each side has against the other that does not benefit any of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consortium News has the article The Kissinger Backchannel to Moscow. This history of Kissinger\u2019s Soviet backchannel in 1968 reveals Brennan\u2019s breathless alarm about Russian \u201csuborning\u201d Flynn or using the backchannel to manipulate Kushner as unworthy of a serious intelligence professional. . . . . Demonstrating the intensity of the anti-Trump attitudes among many Obama officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24305,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24304\/revisions\/24305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}