Another CIA Face for Anti-Trump Resistance

• By Cliff Kincaid – January 6, 2020

  • A so-called “former CIA analyst” is leading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s effort to stop

    President Trump from taking further military action against Iran’s top terrorist leaders.

    Her name is Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and she says that she “participated in

    countless conversations on how to respond to Qassem Soleimani’s violent campaigns

    across the region.” In other words, she’s all talk, no action.

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    Now that Trump has acted, authorizing the killing of this terror master, the Pelosi

    argument is that Trump must be stopped and Iran’s other top terrorist leaders must be

    saved, so they can scheme against America in comfort and security. Slotkin is the CIA

    face for this effort. Pelosi is counting on people to think the title “CIA analyst” carries

    some credibility.

    This is a twofer for Pelosi. A CIA analyst sparked impeachment, and another CIA

    analyst will now save Iran from Trump.

    Pelosi has announced that a War Powers Resolution in the House to tie Trump’s hands

    will be led by Congresswoman Slotkin, whose bio says, “She was recruited by the

    Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be a Middle East analyst and went on to devote her

    career to protecting the United States from national security threats. In her role at the

    CIA, Rep. Slotkin worked alongside the U.S. military during three tours in Iraq as a

    militia expert.”

    Being an analyst and actually protecting the U.S. from national security threats are two

    different things. Iraq was liberated by American troops but the Bush and Obama

    Administrations looked the other way as Shia Iran expanded into Iraq and took control.

    That, in turn, sparked the creation of ISIS, a Sunni group and al Qaeda off-shoot. That

    is what got us into the current mess. It’s another problem inherited by Trump. He took

    care of ISIS. Now Iran is the main problem.

    Regarding Soleimani (also spelled Suleimani), Slotkin seems to understand what has

    happened. Her Twitter account declares, “I watched friends and colleagues get hurt or

    killed by Iranian rockets, mortars and explosive devices that were provided to Iraqi

    proxies and used against U.S. forces under Soleimani’s guidance. We watched as his

    power increased and he brought strength and capability to groups in Iraq, Syria,

    Lebanon, and Yemen, and to smaller cells around the Middle East and the world, with

    devastating consequences.”

    The operative term is “watched.” Suleimani traveled throughout the region, flying in and

    out of international airports, and the CIA watched. It looks like Trump finally acted on the

    intelligence that the CIA or some other agency had provided about his whereabouts.

    Until Trump, our other leaders just “watched.”

  • This Iranian carried the title of “General” but he was really just a terrorist kingpin, no

    different than the thugs who run Mexican drug cartels and murder anyone who gets in

    their way. He answered to the Iranian Ayatollah, the phony man of God whose religious

    regime took over the country when the pathetic President Jimmy Carter abandoned the

    pro-Western Shah of Iran.

    Slotkin said, “If you worked on the Middle East over the past 20 years, you dealt with

    the growing organization and sophistication of Soleimani’s covert and overt military

    activities, which have contributed to significant destabilization across the region.”

    What she is saying is that CIA paper-pushers and scribblers have been watching this

    develop for 20 years and the threat has grown to the point where Iraq has been lost to

    Iran and the entire region has been destabilized. Along the way the Bush and Barack

    Hussein Obama Administrations did nothing about Iran’s growing power and influence,

    making the one-time “liberation” of Iraq into another debacle that cost our nation trillions

    of dollars and thousands of lives.

    It has been one intelligence and policy failure on top of another.

    Of course, the problem was exacerbated by Obama’s official policy of giving the

    Iranians billions of dollars and lifting sanctions, allowing the regime precious time to

    develop a nuclear weapon. Trump reversed all of this.

    In the words of former Obama CIA Director David Petraeus, “Suleimani was the

    architect and operational commander of the Iranian effort to solidify control of the so-

    called Shia crescent, stretching from Iran to Iraq through Syria into southern Lebanon.

    He is responsible for providing explosives, projectiles, and arms and other munitions

    that killed well over 600 American soldiers and many more of our coalition and Iraqi

    partners just in Iraq, as well as in many other countries such as Syria.”

    Until Trump acted, Slotkin added, “What always kept both Democratic and Republican

    presidents from targeting Soleimani himself was the simple question: Was the strike

    worth the likely retaliation, and the potential to pull us into protracted conflict?” This was

    the rationale for more watching and doing nothing.

    Let’s understand that Iran is waging a war on American troops and the people in the

    region and America’s leaders did nothing about the architect of that mayhem until

    Trump. And because American leaders did nothing, the media now echo the cries of

    analysts that Iran is too powerful to do anything about and that we can still do nothing

    because they promise to hit us. All we can do is wait for their development of an Iranian

    nuclear bomb.

    This is the kind of CIA “analysis” that makes an objective observer wonder if the agency

    is worth saving. Perhaps we need intelligence agencies that act to protect Americans

    rather than sit  back and watch. 

  • Fortunately, America has a friend in the Middle East called Israel and this nation

    understands the threat far better than Slotkin and her fellow CIA analysts because its

    own survival is at stake. The threat grows day by day. Senior Iranian Islamic

    Revolutionary Guards commander Gholamali Abuhamzeh says that “Some 35 U.S.

    targets in the region, as well as Tel Aviv, are within our reach.”

    With Slotkin and the House of Representatives threatening to tie Trump’s hands, it’s

    time for Israel to take the lead. Pelosi’s War Powers Resolution won’t apply to Israel.

    *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. http://www.usasurvival.org

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