With some firsthand experience with this in real life, and extensive research and communication with others, it looks like the most likely scenario is we have an extra-governmental actor that has penetrated our government so completely it has taken our intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies over, either directly as a non-state group of elites who fund the biggest CIA_like intel op in the world and are taking over governments like we were told our CIA took over central American banana republics, or through China, which they also have penetrated and control, or perhaps most likely through a combination of the two.
Whatever the source, the extent of the sum total of the intel operation targeting American citizens, using our governmental agencies and local informant networks arrrayed everywhere, is astonishing.
There are many NGOs, and they all sprang from academic circles. That’s where we started losing a long time ago: in education. It was cheered in women’s studies classes during the 1980s. No one wanted to listen to those few of us who issued warnings about that. I’ve brought it up many times here over the years. Now, they’ve finally arrived at their last goal for taking over everything: “getting the good ol’ boys.”