Opinion: Chris Miller, Kash Patel, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, Anthony Tata, Michael Ellis, Michael Flynn + family, and Devin Nunes tried to overthrow the USG, less than three weeks ago...

Now they are deploying a host of resources from their network — lawyers, ex-spooks, writers — to scramble the narratives and create FUD about their involvement, and to inject plausible deniability. This is a disinfo campaign.

Various analysts and journalists have picked up on the deception and know what this is. Had things gone differently... <waves hands> these folks would be at the center of power; they thought.

Now, they are scurrying like rats to plant stories and cause confusion. Of course, they would have to be at the center of any even halfway decent investigation. And they know this. So they are trying to get ahead of it and litigate this in the court of public opinion.

They will do their best, once again, to leverage Americans’ naïveté and misplaced credulity to try to slither out of this bind. I hope the effort does not succeed, but I fear it will. And we can measure the accuracy of this assessment by the ad hominem attacks it generates.

I will repeat, this is my assessment and opinion. It is based on knowledge of the situation and of lies being advanced by the perpetrators. Take it or leave it as just one person’s assessment.

But I don’t make this statement lightly or without consideration.

I fully expect that if we are able to push aside the smokescreen being advanced by these career psychological operations practitioners, we will find that these people were at the heart of a very rotten plan. Let’s see if that turns out to be right.