Ever the voice of the financial Establishment, on Jan. 31 the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy article by their Chief European Political Correspondent Bojan Pancevski, which made no effort to hide what Wall Street and the City of London most fear about the nominations of Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel to the posts of DNI and FBI director, respectively. President Trump may be planning to take down the infamous Five Eyes intelligence-sharing pact among U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as a centerpiece of his promise to dismantle what he calls the “Deep State” running American domestic and foreign policy for decades.
EIR and The LaRouche Organization have repeatedly emphasized that this is one of the central issues in the entire Gabbard-Patel matter, as was stated in “The Liars’Bureau” fact sheet, which is now widely circulating on Capitol Hill.
“Will Trump Blow Up America’s Most Effective Spying Alliance?” the Wall Street Journal headline asks. “For decades, the Five Eyes pact has allowed the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to share intelligence,” Pancevski wrote. “Now experts and spymasters are worried about its future.”
Trump has pledged “to curb the `Deep State’ by overhauling America’s vast intelligence apparatus,” the article continued. “Trump left the Five Eyes alone during his first term and hasn’t named it as a target for his second, but his deep mistrust of U.S. intelligence agencies has security officials worried.… ‘Our allies are now sitting back and wondering because of the rhetoric coming out of Washington,’ said David P. Oakley, a former senior CIA official.”
Trump’s nominations of Gabbard and Patel “has sent shock waves through the U.S. security establishment and its Five Eyes partners. ‘During the first Trump administration the relationship within the Five Eyes endured the strain, but there is a lot of anxiety now in the community that the alliance could suffer permanent damage in his second term,’ said Richard Kerbaj, the author of The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network, a seminal history of the alliance, published last month in the U.S. and Canada.… Patel and Gabbard are expected to push for a robust reform of U.S. intelligence agencies.…
“Kerbaj agrees that U.S. security supremacy cannot be maintained without the Five Eyes.… [His book] reveals in great detail how the U.S. intelligence community closed ranks during Trump’s first term in office.” Author Pancevski added that “sometimes this meant ignoring directions from the White House,” a pretty open call for the threatened intelligence community to simply disobey their Commander in Chief, if need be.