America’s most famous ex-CIA op fears Trump blunder will ignite nuclear war

Posted by | February 21, 2017 15:30 | Filed under: War & Peace

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Valerie Plame speaks:

When the most famous ex-CIA spy alive is concerned about the world blowing up, there’s probably something worrisome in that.

Sure, this is the kind of fretting Valerie Plame Wilson has been doing since her cover was famously blown in 2003 by an operative of President George W. Bush’s administration. But as she dashed through San Francisco last week to speak at a cyberterrorism conference, Plame said she sees the country heading into a dangerously unstable period that just might result in disaster involving her No. 1 concern of the past several years:

Nuclear bombs.

Blame it on President Trump, his reckless ways, and the “low-quality people he surrounds himself with,” she said.

“What I find most concerning about him is his access to the nuclear command and control structure,” Plame said the other day over breakfast at a diner before delivering a speech to the RSA 2017 Conference on international security. “We’re still deciding whether to take Trump literally or seriously. But during the campaign he made comments about ‘So what if Japan gets a nuclear weapon,’ and intimating that a nuclear strike is not out of the question.

“He is so casual and reckless. Impulsive, to say the least. This is a man who gets riled up by a tweet. Is this the guy you want to make nuclear decisions?”

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By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

11 responses to America’s most famous ex-CIA op fears Trump blunder will ignite nuclear war

  1. mea_mark February 21st, 2017 at 15:55

    Someone thinks a bumbling bloviating buffoon might might blunder and start a war … come on, you can almost count on that happening. It’s all just a matter of time. If we don’t want him starting a war, we need to remove him.

    • granpa.usthai February 22nd, 2017 at 01:24

      betcha Russians can’t get around US Secret Service!

      LIAR trump laughs at how stupid the Russians are.

      ‘I’m so smart and they’re (Russians) so dumb quips LIAR trump,
      I beat them every time’.

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  3. Mike N. February 21st, 2017 at 17:58

    Agreed.

  4. Buford2k11 February 22nd, 2017 at 09:17

    Congress are the only ones that can Declare war…they are the ones who fund the wars…trump should not be allowed to write checks our nation cannot/will not cash…War is one of them…trump has put us in this position with his stupidity, and the republicans have allowed and encouraged this…If we survive to this summer, trump will have declared martial law, and declared war on Iran….This is where the First and Second Amendments may be needed….

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