Posted on 10/16/2021 4:23:30 PM PDT by RandFan
A major untold story of the Trump era has been the political comeback of the CIA, NSA, and FBI, who thanks to an ingenious marketing campaign now enjoy widespread support among young liberals
On The Young Turks the other night, during a segment called — this is not a joke — “RebelHQ,” commentator Ben Carollo extolled the virtues of the CIA. In one section, he described how intelligence officials responded to “Donald Trump trying to plan some ridiculous scheme to maintain himself as president”:
It’s not a conspiracy theory to say that these government officials wanted to listen to congress and cared about Democratic norms and respected the constitutional structure of the way the United States is today.
When I first heard Carollo talking about the desire of intelligence officials to “listen to congress,” I thought he was being literal.
Maybe, I thought, he meant that time in 2014, when the CIA spied on the the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into its torture program, wiring up Senate computers and reading staffers’ emails. Or perhaps he meant that time in 2015, when the Obama administration was using the NSA to listen to Israeli critics of his Iran deal, and ended…
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However, he makes an interesting point does he not?
Dismantle them all I say. Their unconstitutional anyway and only revered on the right by Hannity, Mark Levin and some other crackpots (perhaps on here who knows!)
DHS is about to go 1984
DHS = Bush creation.
One of the many things you can thank him for ....
Taibbi, like Greenwald is usually spot on.
DHS Goes Full-Orwell, Seeks Biometric and ‘Psychosocial Information’ Tracking for All Government Employees
It STARTS with gov’t employees but rarely ends there!
DHS, the manpower of the USMC, and twice the budget. Creepy 3rd Reich sounding name.
GWB Expanding government like no other
And the rest of the GOP funding it, etc. for eternity
Taibibi had a revelation that he needed to stay principled.
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