No plan survives contact with the enemy

War is inherently volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. ( Kiesling )

If you do a lot of reading on concepts of war, you will have come across the terms friction in war and the fog of war. Basically, shit happens and you don't know about it.

The purpose of intelligence is to sort out what you don't know, but the speed of events often outpaces what you learn or it's usefulness.

Since Information War is simply war by different means, it is subject to the speed of war. That means events can overtake whichever task you are conducting at the moment.

Heavy.com wiretapping meme coverage

I have been working on an intro guide to OSINT as a tool for Information War activists, but the propaganda thrust and counter thrust of "Russian Influence on the Elections" versus "Obama spied on Trump" should be on every one's attention at the moment.

If Trump has evidence of either illegal surveillance or of the results of that classified surveillance being leaked to media sources, then both the Obama circle and the Hillary circle are in deep trouble legally, and the Constitutional crisis will come into play faster than expected. I say this because I expect partisan Democrat judges to ignore the law in protection of their party members (and their corruptocrat ring).

• Do the line agents in the security community arrest in a highly politicized environment?
• How much interference can Democrats in the Justice Department create to prevent arrests?
• Does Trump have a legal strategy to circumvent anticipated interference?
• How much MORE street violence will the Democrats create?
• What is the end result?

Some conjectures

• Trump has led the media around by the nose for some time now; he and his subordinates have "made" minor gaffes in either grammar or facts that the media screeches long about and hard...but that end up underscoring the point he is making. The brouhaha over Sweden was just the latest example of this.

• It seemed uncharacteristic for Trump to have accepted the 9th Circuit's dishonest and unconstitutional ruling on the travel ban. My expected reaction from Trump was simply that he would issue another Executive Order with different wording...in fact, I expected him to whip it out the next day. That he didn't I took as a sign of weakness.

• There are a great many people that are disappointed that there has been little movement in Draining The Swamp, myself included. That Clinton has not been arrested for a clear breach of classified data security remained to me a sign that the Swamp will not be Drained.

• I do understand, and you should as well, the principle of prepping the battlefield. Having people in the right positions, or knowing what people in key positions will do is crucial.

• The possibility that I am hoping for fits those possibilities: Trump has been showing some signs of weakness intentionally to gain strategic surprise while he preps the battlefield. He understands that he won't be able to prosecute Clinton or Drain the Swamp until the traps obama left behind in the DOJ have been neutralized. By baiting the Democrats and/or the Deep State, he waits until the right moment to strike...when obama himself has been implicated in crime.
  This allows Trump to take decisive and drastic action. I have been arguing for a RICO prosecution of the entire Democrat Party on other sites; there will be enough GOP caught up in that corruption to be bipartisan.

• If this is the case, it will be a Constitutional crisis as the people that are being arrested and/or fired will have legal power to protect themselves and their allies by ignoring the letter of the law and abusing the power of their office. Will members of LE arrest anyone in this case?

Be prepared, and hope this comes off peacefully!

A full analysis and explanation of this situation is to come, but this summary and my guesstimate should give you an idea of the things to research on your own. In the Information War, don't take my (or anyone else's) word at face value. Double-check, research, look at other points of view.

• Events overtake your lines of study or your propaganda efforts
• You may be wrong in your efforts
• This may create feelings of being overwhelmed
• Roll with it. Life happens. BE PREPARED FOR IT.

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