Posted on 12/07/2017 9:04:34 AM PST by davikkm
I wouldn’t trust Eric Prince or Ollie North as far as I could throw them. Blackwater is a bunch of thugs for hire and Ollie North already got his hand caught in the cookie jar a long time ago for being involved in going above the law. These two should not be counseling Trump.
This is just a shot across Mueller’s bow.
Not new. Pinkerton men worked for Abe Lincoln and General McClellan.
Phoenix the CIA and FBI and likely some of the other 15 agencies of the IC. They are still in coup mode.
Can you say "Brownshirt"? 'Cause that's what you'll be hearing 24/7
Yep...and if Trump pays them out of his own pocket there’s no Constitutional implications...until the Swamp makes some up!
You may well be right.
FAKE NEWS
I was just going to say, “I wonder if Pinkerton still exists?”
I’ve told you before regarding this story.
The President is the CIC. He will gain control over the 14 intelligence agencies using an iron fist and velvet glove.
Nothing is easy, and might take a lot of time...which the President doesn’t have much.
5.56mm
I have meet many in the Intelligence Community and many of them are extremely partisan and openly express it.
JoMa
Abolishing by combining the cia and fbi would be an excellent start. Siezing the opportunity to create a non partisan intelligence bureau by extreme vetting ex employees of the two extinct organizations,
He can rely on private consultants and contractors as much as he chooses
In this case it serves all of us
As much as I support Trump, and recognize that the government spy agencies are out to get him, allowing the President to create his own private spy agency is a bad precedent to set.
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I agree. Tyrants like Hillary would love it.
Sounds like a highly flawed assertion.
Given the level of corruption in our current treasonous, weaponized agencies and the limited options in fixing them.
Does not Trump still have the executive power to FIRE FBI, CIA, NSA managers as he sees fit?
Historical study of Rome, China, and others have taught me that new emperors or kings will often start competing government agencies rather than take on old, established ones, so I know it happens in large governments/bureaucracies. If the USA is at that point, the Republic is dead.
It just frees them up to deal with thugs
I don't see that treating ISIS ,al Qaeda and the Taliban like honorable rational adversaries with hands bound by Obama’s ROE and a National Security Adviso, Pentagon and military service staffs, and even a SecDef who can't bring themselves to says “Islamist terrorism” has worked so well, so let Blackwater have a swing at them. I bet Erik Prince { does not have to hire transgenders and lactating women to get a govt contract to kill the enemy.
As for Ollie North -well GOD BLESS HIM
He did the right thing for America's long term interests and paid a heavy political price for it
Who didn't cheer when he used our military to force down that Egyptian plane carrying murdering terrorist scum to secret asylum?
And when Congress wouldn't authorize funding to anti-communist fighters in Central America, Ollie found a way. Some spare parts to a decrepit Iranian regime (to the one branch of the Shah's surviving military that still had some western ties and sympathies) did not change the course of the war against our interests in that region
Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich on the other hand, and Rich setting up the Clinton foundation with money from selling the Ayatollah Khomeini's Iranian oil..well, that did change a lot of things and got Americans killed by Iranian state sponsored terror over the course of time
I’d trust Ollie North with my life and the lives of all my children and grandchildren....I was active duty when “his hand was in the cookie jar” and he was/is/will always be a true patriot.
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