I said nothing contradictory. There is no secret autonomous organization as Newsweak suggests. What is the track record of the Pentagon keeping anything a secret of this magnitude? Yeah. I worked there and the joke was, if it is classified SECRET it will be on CNN in three days.
But the capabilities are real, and they were built gradually. In 2005 there was a significant event in defense intelligence, of which I was a part of. It was instrumental in what Newsweak thinks it is seeing.
In 2011, I’m in the Pentagon taking part in some of the capabilities being put together. What did NOT happen, was a standard Joint Staff action process to build something. As I said, it naturally progressed as it matured. That is why no one heard anything.
Newsweak is clickbait.
The most dangerous threat to the republic isn’t a shadow army. It’s the stupidity of the electorate. If you vote communism, you get communism.
I suppose the gaslight operation of the American people was really a protection operation.
Are you trying to tell me that Donald John Trump is a communist?
Are you telling me that I am too stupid to see what is really going on?
I question who the heck you really are, Salvavida. Who exactly are you a lifeguard/lifesaver for?
No, a private Army is not a benign entity to a Republic. It is a dangerous one. It mat start out benign, but with the wrong person in control, you know someone like Barak Hussein Obama & others in the democrat Party who have all exhibited support for communists like John Brennon did, and what was once benign turns against the nation that he hates.
FISA is the prefect example that was started to take down foreign combatants, but was turned into something quite different when it was aimed at the political candidate DJT, or are you another ""patriot" that suffers from TDS?
It is precisely this attitude that I worry about. People creating mechanisms to get around "the stupidity of the electorate", mechanisms and groups which then get used by tyrants.