{"id":11215,"date":"2018-06-07T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11215"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:57:43","slug":"a-reply-to-ronald-radoshs-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-reply-to-ronald-radoshs-smear\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reply to Ronald Radosh\u2019s Smear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n

In a strange attack on my criticism of former CIA director John Brennan\u2019s lack of veracity, Ron Radosh\u00a0alleges<\/a>\u00a0that I have engaged in a sort of conspiracy theory about the deep state. He quotes me in an article largely devoted to Jerome Corsi\u2019s new book, which I have not read and whom I have never met, under the\u00a0Daily Beast<\/em>\u00a0scare title, \u201cPro-Trump Author Says CIA Has Plan to Kill the President.\u201d<\/p>\n

Radosh apparently puts me in conspiratorial company for believing the following:<\/p>\n

The distinguished historian Victor Davis Hanson,\u00a0writes<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cIf there is such a thing as a dangerous \u2018deep state\u2019 of elite but unelected federal officials who feel that they are untouchable and unaccountable, then John Brennan is the poster boy.\u201d He adds that \u201cBrennan is typical of the careerist deep state.\u201d They operate [sic<\/em>] \u201cthe psychological tactic known as \u2018projection.\u2019 To square their own circles of lying, our so-called best and brightest loudly accuse others of precisely the sins that they themselves commit as a matter of habit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In a strange attack on my criticism of former CIA director John Brennan\u2019s lack of veracity, Ron Radosh\u00a0alleges\u00a0that I have engaged in a sort of conspiracy theory about the deep state. He quotes me in an article largely devoted to Jerome Corsi\u2019s new book, which I have not read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1159,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2UT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11096,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-unelected-officials-distortions\/","url_meta":{"origin":11215,"position":0},"title":"Our Unelected Officials\u2019 Distortions","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review On March 17, former CIA director John Brennan tweeted about the current president of the United States: \u201cWhen the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Samantha Power"","block_context":{"text":"Samantha Power","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/samantha-power\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11713,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/learning-to-love-the-deep-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":11215,"position":1},"title":"Learning to Love the Deep State","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In the 1970s, the military officer corps and the top ranks of the CIA, DOJ, and FBI were, in the eyes of the Left, synonymous with\u00a0Seven Days in May\u2014 and\u00a0Manchurian Candidate\u2013like conspiracies. 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