CIA all the way
Posted on 05/02/2025 2:30:11 PM PDT by cgbg
The military should be perfectly capable (and in fact is perfectly capable) of conducting paramilitary operations with solid security.
Intelligence agencies should not be in that business.
This was the view of JFK—but unfortunately the CIA exercised their veto power.
Start with 87,000 IRS agents. You can redefine their jobs to fraud detection and repayment.
Spooks will just spook for the highest bidder
“With AI, foreign color revolutions and domestic election interference schemes can now be conducted with half the staff....”
Bingo... Along with taking over the domestic surveillance on citizens.
This is VERY good news.. and so far he’s done what he said he was going to do.
Well played.
Union Workers who have watched thousands of their members lose their jobs to foreign manufacturing are happy.
Deep State cuts are exactly why the rest of us will thrive.
More winning, Mr President. Thank you!
“Federal Judge Injunction” in 3-2-1….
“Deep State will not like that.”
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A humoristic note:
The meaning of the term “deep state” depends on who holds power in the shadows. When Democrats dominated key positions in government agencies, we Republicans viewed them as a shadowy bureaucracy working against the Republican agenda. Now, with Trump installing his own Republican loyalists in those same roles, it’s the Democrats who will raise alarms about a so-called “deep-state”.
In the end, “deep-state” may simply be shorthand for “the other side’s people in charge.”
Here come da Judge...
With your constant NeverTrump posts, you are the one who is deep state.
Wow! Haven’t heard this insane lie for a couple decades now.
I think you (and the Democrats) are muddying the waters here.
The “Deep State” are folks who are not normally political appointees.
They are career employees or may be consultants, lobbyists, major contributors to both parties of some sort.
The key point is we don’t get to vote them out—they stick around for decades wielding power behind the scenes.
Nuke everyone of them that were involved in every event against Trump. Arrest them. Try them. Jail them. Throw the key in the Pacific Ocean, that deepest trench!
Why do we have so many spy agencies? Most external stuff should be under the military. Most internal stuff should be under police jurisdictions, not a separate agency. FBI should be primarily at the use of lower agencies (eg city, county) who request help, or assisting cross-State multi-jurisdictional investigations. International crimes. Federal crimes should be minimal - counterfeiting, on Fed property, not much more.
You’ll have to either kill the spooks you fire, or give them make work.
Americans are getting tired of being spied upon by the spooks. Meanwhile, 20 million foreign invaders just waltz across the Rio Grande and start killing, raping and pillaging America and giving all of the RATS in Congress a severe case of the “hots”.
Answer: an intelligence agency out of control; worse, but not by much.
The conundrum: how do we control an agency that by its very mission must remain secret? How do we audit the budget of such an agency? Who can we trust to poke into the darkest secrets of the CIA motivated only to identify corruption, misfeasance, or subversion?
We know that the CIA acted corruptly and in violation of its charter when it acted domestically to undermine president Donald Trump. We conservatives are fully aware of this betrayal and, importantly, we are aware of other overreaches and failures of the CIA. The mass of the American electorate, however, is probably only vaguely familiar with these deficiencies and real risks to our Bill of Rights.
It is important that this housecleaning at the CIA be presented to the public not as cold revenge by Donald Trump for his personal treatment, but fully necessary for the proper management of our nation's intelligence needs.
We react with a mixture of grim humor and distain to the exposure by DOGE of the mindless expenditures around the world by USAID. Unfortunately, we do not know what portion of the expenditures by USAID were for woke nonsense and what were carefully calculated funded programs to advance America's interests abroad. Not all USAID money was spent like a wet dream of ladies on The View. Our general population may or may not be aware of the danger of eliminating foreign programs that for very good reasons are not what they appear to be.
So, the budget of the CIA is larger and even less transparent than that of USAID and potentially far more valuable to our nation or potentially far more dangerous. We don't even know what the programs are, much less whether they succeeded or failed or were counterproductive.
Trump's EO firing a relatively small number of CIA employees is long overdue. It sends the right signal. But the proper signal is not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, the proper goal is to find a way to actually oversee our intelligence agencies while maintaining secrecy.
The mission of intelligence makes oversight incompatible and risky but recent history leaves us in no doubt that it must be done.
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