The Spies Who Hate Us

Brownstone Institute ^ | 25 Dec, 2024 | Jeffrey A. Tucker

[MtnClimber]

More weaponization of government.

[ClearCase_guy]

If we cut the federal budget by 90%, they wouldn’t be doing stuff like this. Probably.

[marktwain]

The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, which enabled the election of Donald Trump, becomes even more important.

[marktwain]

The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, which enabled the election of Donald Trump, becomes even more important.

Musk took control of Twitter on October 27, 2022.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Leaning Right]

The US intelligence agencies are actually doing a good job… if their goal is to be as oppressive as the old East German Stasi. 🕵️

Trump 2.0 will of course try to fix this. It remains to be seen how much ground he will be able to gain against the Deep State.

[FreedomPoster]

Everyone involved should be prosecuted for deprivation of rights under color of law. And fired from their cushy FedGov jobs.

[Bob Ireland]

Merry Christmas, M❗ Quentin says likewise. 😎

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "It's a very strange world these people inhabit. Over time, of course, the agency ended up demonizing much authentic science plus a majority of public opinion. And yet they stayed at it, fully convinced of the rightness of their cause and the justness of their methods. It seems never to have occurred to this agency that we have a First Amendment that is part of our laws. It never enters the discussion at all."

With a retired, high-ranking officer in the conversation, we chatted about the highest rank in government, military as well as political.

The clear answer upon which we agreed: the law-abiding citizen, armed first and foremost with the Declaration of Independece and United States Constitution.

[cutty]

Part of the W. Bush, Tom Daschle, and pals mess created after 9-11 .

[sauropod]

bkmk

[sauropod]

The clear answer upon which we agreed: the law-abiding citizen, armed first and foremost with the Declaration of Independece and United States Constitution.

What was the question?

[13Sisters76]

I was still in college in 2001 and was tasked with writing a paper on the Patriot Act, which I assumed, at the time, that I would absolutely hate. After doing my research, I ended up writing a paper that saw some necessity in forming such an agency to track terrorism on the internet. My professor was as surprised as I was.
Since that time, I have watched what has become of this, once more simple, piece of legislation and how much it has been bastardized and abused.
All to this point- it is time to completely abolish the DHS, the FISA court and any “tie-in” it shares with other agencies. We are often sold garbage by this government of what they tell us increases our security, but only increases their control over US.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "What was the question?"

"Who?"

[cgbg]

How can you deNazifi the intelligence agencies?

Imho it cannot be done—the new administration is going to have the bite the bullet and do what President Kennedy tried to do—shatter them into a million pieces.

“National security” does not cut it as a doctrine when we are deemed the “clear and present danger” to them.

[sgt_lau]

The late George Carlin was way ahead of this when he did a routine about giving up some of our freedom for the “appearance” of “security.”

[BitWielder1]

DHS was supposed to make sure all of our other agencies, federal, state and local, were sharing information.
It was not supposed to be a new super agency, above the others.
They have turned against ordinary Americans, as have FBI.
They are a source of instability in America and abroad, as is CIA.
DHS should be abolished.

[AndyJackson]

I ended up writing a paper that saw some necessity in forming such an agency to track terrorism on the internet

As someone pointed out the problem with the whole picture is that the DOD did such a good job of bombing terrorists over there that not much happened here. But we had these huge newly created domestic counterterrorism orgs which then got turned on conservative "hatemongers."

[BobL]

...and people claim they are against Tulsi because she is ‘not qualified’ for the job.

This report is just one example of the REAL REASON that people in high office are scared Shiiteless of Tulsi - she will put an end to the Stalinist nature of the US Government and likely also lead to at least subduing the Maoist nature of most European governments.