Posted on 02/16/2022 6:12:08 AM PST by Kaslin
Donald Trump warned Americans about the Deep State. Instead of listening, Democrats (the Party of yore that actually cared about abusive government power) and their cronies in the Mainstream Media mocked him for peddling an “Alt-Right conspiracy.”
Not only do we now have more than sufficient proof that the Deep State exists, but clear evidence it has grown stronger, bolder, and more dangerous. In just the past week, two shocking reports have come to light that detail the extent to which the Deep State has flourished in the shadows.
The first comes from Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, who, in a just-declassified letter to the country’s top Foreign Intelligence officials, called for full disclosure of a previously classified, April 2021 report by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). That report details how the CIA “secretly conducted its own bulk program…entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection, and without any of the judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight…”
The second example of Deep State growth comes in a public filing just last week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, by Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed by President Trump in 2019 to investigate FBI wrongdoing. The document details what amounts to a clear conspiracy to infiltrate the office of candidate Trump, President-elect Trump, and then President Trump; not only unlawfully gathering information on him, but feeding it back to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.
One of these allegations alone is enough to make the hair on the back of one’s neck stand on end. Together, and just from what we know publicly (usually the tip of the proverbial iceberg), it shows the Deep State is completely out of control, and nothing – not even the office of the President of the United States – is off-limits to its probing, partisan tentacles.
I worked at the CIA in the 1970s, and actually helped draft legislation that established congressional oversight committees in both the House and the Senate, supposed to guard against precisely the types of intelligence-agency abuses we now are witnessing.
There was at the time a bipartisan and media-supported understanding that the Agency’s mission was to protect the national security interests of the country and not a partisan agenda, particularly one that endorsed warrantless, bulk collection of information on American citizen in their own country. Clearly this loyalty to the Constitution and the law has frayed considerably in recent years.
The Deep State has assumed virtually unlimited powers to surveil and collect data on anyone it chooses, to be used at any time if the political need presents itself. Stopping Donald Trump from becoming -- or continuing – to serve as President is just one example.
Rather than take seriously the information leaked to the public by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden almost a decade ago, Congress, under both Republican and Democrat leadership, ignored opportunities to rein in illegal spying by intelligence agencies; opting instead to repeatedly reauthorize powers to agencies it knew were abusing those very tools.
This is not a matter of Congress claiming it did not know what was going on; it knew but did not care, apparently believing that the Frankenstein monster it created and allowed to roam free, could be controlled. The question now is, who is controlling who?
The allegations in Durham’s report constitute a damning indictment of Hillary Clinton, the Democrat Party, and allied private organizations. In today’s hyper-partisan climate, however, we are unlikely to see any meaningful response from the Biden Administration or from either the House or the Senate, insofar as both remain under Democrat control.
Thus, in the current political situation, and with a largely somnambulant Mainstream Media, Americans for now can only pin their hopes for accountability on whatever additional indictments are issued by Durham’s office.
If Republicans retake the House and Senate in November, they will be – or should be – poised to hold congressional hearings and pass meaningful legislation that includes razor-sharp teeth to hold all components of our Foreign Intelligence establishment truly accountable to the citizenry and the Constitution. If Biden were to refuse to sign such legislation, that failure alone should be a primary issue for the 2024 Republican platform and nominee.
Sadly, however, many Americans, I included, have learned the hard way not to hold our breath waiting for such action by the Congress.
The system is corrupt beyond repair.
The bigger the government gets the more intractable the problem becomes.
We would have to elect people who would put Fedzilla back into its cage and that ain’t gonna happen any time soon, if ever.
Big overbearing government, with all its attendant corruption, greed and malfeasance, looks like its here to stay.
France had the answer at one time.
This speaks volumes about our Congress and DOJ. This is corruption on steroids. And yet these people will keep getting elected by the folks who are getting screwed. It is mass hypnosis.
For many years any FReeper who quoted Barr was called a tin-foil kook. Any FReeper who pointed out the Bush family’s barbarism was called a traitor. Now that we’ve all been proven right it’s time to stand up and fight. Or are you all still going to sip your coffee and wave away us “conspiracy nuts?” If the deep state wins it’s your fault. Period.
Its the money that talks. Always has been.
Our Nation is suffering from a lack of morality... The stinking politicians (DC lawyers) have been compromised by their own misdeeds, and the deep state (more DC lawyers) use that to corrupt the filthy creatures..
We, as a Nation, would be better off if we burned DC to the ground and opened a NEW Capital in....Nebraska.?
Who controls WHOM!
The CIA, William Donovan’s gift that keeps on giving.
It is mass hypnosis.
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Enabled by mass weakness, ignorance, and apathy.
Most people are easily misled. They just go with the flow and don’t ask any questions. Even when its obvious that they should.
Many congresscritters are part of the deep state. More to the point a lot of the staff are card carrying members of the deepstate, either becomming staffers because they are part of the deepstate or taking staff jobs as an entre to card carrying membership.
Its the money that talks. Always has been.
Those with power can get money.
Those with money can, sometimes, get power.
Power trumps money.
If Republicans retake the House and Senate in November, they will be - or should be - poised to hold congressional hearings and pass meaningful legislation that includes razor-sharp teeth to hold all components of our Foreign Intelligence establishment truly accountable to the citizenry and the Constitution.
ROTFL. See Church Commission, FISA, Keith Case, and so on.
Pass more laws and have more accountability. Yeah, that works.
Failed institutions. Failed country, basically. FED is far out of its constitutional bounds, in fact, but by its own power and say so, it is in bounds.
In a just world, the public would refer to the Declaration of Independence and abolish the government, erecting a new one in its stead.
“Awan Bros IT Scandal”
Think hard.
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“This speaks volumes about our Congress and DOJ. This is corruption on steroids. And yet these people will keep getting elected by the folks who are getting screwed.“
Because they now own the game. Little by little, we’ve allowed them more and more power - mostly because we’ve had our lives to live - and they know that.
So now, we get to “vote”, but again, it’s entirely THEIR game. THEY give us the options to vote for; THEY count the votes; THEY tell us who wins..
Our founded American government is the finest the earth has ever seen. It’s just been infested through and through by evil, corrupt lunatics who have been installing a bureaucracy so big we could never vote our way out in a million years.
Yes, indeed.
Short of that, we will all become slaves to the state much quicker than anyone realizes. -Hello Canada!…
With the state of our world you would think everyone would be informed just BECAUSE of the state of our world. There’s too much going on to not stay informed. I would think Covid would have taught everyone that. I guess I am wrong.
All deep state operatives should be “Epsteined”.
Obviously UNELECTED autocrats and bureaucrats!
It sure as hell aint the resident and kamalatoe!
“The system is corrupt beyond repair.”
Correct.
It’s time to consider burning it to the ground.
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