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To be clear, I don't think America is a police state...yet.
But Obama attempted to (secretly) use the powers of the FBI and the (Secret) FISA court ... not too mention the eavesdropping powers of the NSA, the covert powers of the CIA (Brennan, Nellie Ohr, Clapper etc.) and the financial powers of the IRS ... to quash political opposition.
Hence, he used these agencies as Hitler used the Gestapo or Stalin the NKVD.
The communist Obama and those he intended to follow him (including HRC) were moving as fast as they could to remake the U.S. intelligence community into a modern-era NKVD.
Agreed, though it could be argued that when every utterance anyone near a phone makes is picked up recorded and analyzed, that’s a power like, like has never been seen. I was just being cute. The phrase could be read both ways! (:=