Posted on 04/05/2017 5:06:46 PM PDT by markomalley
Some have stated that Trump could declare a state of government emergency and clean house. I’m starting to think that it’s the only way. Like a fumigation tent over a house.
I’ll take this being in The Hill as a positive, but notice that it starts off spinning the notion that the Intelligence Community was a dupe of nasty politicians, rather than willing participants or instigators.
The intelligence community “...has been used, or perhaps allowed itself to be used, as a tool of political destruction...”
The I.C. “allowed itself to be used” by itself.
The NSA and FBI might have collected raw intel without knowing its fate, and some lower level analysts might have just done what they were told. But it seems darned unlikely that mundane anti-Trump intel would have reached the NSC for Rice to promulgate without active participation by DNI Clapper and CIA Director Brennan. People under their command had to have been ordered to vacuum up data that touched on Trump and his associates, and to move it up the pipeline. The top dogs have to have approved sending the White House data that would be insignificant in national security terms, but very useful for domestic politics and smear campaigns.
Our intelligence agencies are totally controlled by the Democrat Party and America is in danger!
I can’t imagine how hard these past several weeks have been for you. You spent ***countless*** hours, spread over many years, defending Obama—time you will never recoup. Yet now, with him not even three mos out of office, your entire view of him has been destroyed. It turns out he’s not merely as bad as his critics claimed; he’s far worse.
You must be devastated. Still, knowing the truth is better than believing a lie. Consider yourself fortunate that the truth surfaced so quickly and conclusively.
Fogbow must be on suicide watch. And it will only get worse; there is more truth to come—much more.
Great job as always Liz
The author is correct,this stuff goes on all over the place but when it goes internal trust is lost.
When means and methods and trust are compromised we’re ****ed
There is such an internal fight they are revealing means and methods to the public in order to prove guilt.
Somethings are sacrosanct.
Good men swear an oath on the constitution
It could all be a ruse, but I do not like it at all.
In earlier times, such a gambit would have failed; CIA leadership famously stood up to the Nixon administration when asked to domestically spy on Justice during Watergate, for example.Only because Nixon was a Republican.It seems that today we lack the character and the competence to ensure that the intelligence community honors the trust of the American people.
Poor chuckleheads at my level get polygraphs.
You think Obama ever got a polygraph?
Well there is the rub my friend.
Some 2nd class Petty officer gets 5 years in Leavenworth for taking a selfie on a submarine but Hillary roams free
Amen
I sure as hell do
“Long a technique in the developing world — a tactic I often witnessed as a CIA station chief working abroad — the Third World has come to roost in the United States.”
Years ago I was talking to some Korean guy about the olympics and he said something about how Korea’s guy on the committee to that picks the cities is always the most recently retired head of the secret police, so he can get all those juicy bribes as reward for keeping what he knows to himself. This Korean guy casually explained that is how most countries do things. I called BS on him. I went on the internet and found the list of the current committee members and guess what. Yep, around half of them were retired heads of the secret police.
Our first Indonesian president certainly taught us about diversity.
True.
Politicians get their “security vetting” by winning elections. If you don’t think they are responsible enough to be “security vetted” don’t vote for them!
Unfortunately a majority of voters don’t think that way.
you know there are people who want to kill us ... oh isis. last eight years of letting the bad guys go crazy really worked well/
He could have done that on day one.
Libs do
That my friend is because half this country like all of europe and the world are IDIOTS
Any organization large enough that it could be turned into a political weapon against an American candidate for office (of either party), without neglecting its primary mission, is too large. The intel agencies that were weaponized need to be cut by at least 20% each. Then decide if they should be cut even more.
Excellent article the truth shall set you free
Hi Liz Red Light Story just up at Drudge that Bannon has threatened/is threatening to quit over turf battle.
I don’t know how to post new stories so am giving you a heads-up.
Part of the problem is that the intel community swelled under GWB and Obama stuffed all the new agency’s with fresh meat.
Trump gave the IRS the power to hire collection agency’s today.
Yeah we need unaccountable IRS agents
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