Glenn Greenwald has a great breakdown of a letter submitted by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) about the political weaponization of the intelligence community. For those who have tracked this issue Greenwald’s article is well worth the read.
GREENWALD – […] “Involvement of the intelligence community in the domestic activities of U.S. citizens is one of the most dangerous breaches of civil liberties and democratic order the U.S. Government can perpetrate. It was after World War II when the CIA, the NSA and other security state agencies that wield immense and unlimited powers in the dark were created in the name of fighting the Cold War.
Legal and institutional prohibitions on wielding that massive machinery against the American public were central to the always-dubious claim that this security behemoth that operates completely in the dark was compatible with democracy. As the ACLU noted, “in its 1947 charter, the CIA was prohibited from spying against Americans, in part because President Truman was afraid that the agency would engage in political abuse.”” (read more)
Where’s Trey Gowdy when you need him? LOL.
Ol’ Roostertail Gowdy…boy howdy, some righteous indignation is in order. “Are you a FACT WITNESS?!”
Where’s Trey Gowdy? Drinking martinis and smoking Tiparillos with RINO Paul “Lyin” Ryan…
FAUX News will have him on the Sean Hannity show. He still fools people. FAUX News may temporarily get more viewers and some great headlines and nothing will happen. it’s all so predictable and disgusting. They think we are dumb.
Sky News and The Epoch Times are much better to name two other sources.
All hat, no cattle, that slicked back RINO ingrate was always a blowhard. All for show, and no go.
I am shocked; SHOCKED, I tell you, at the cynicism in these comments.
/s
(yeah actually I’m right there with y’all)
Did Graham ever get around to issuing those subpoenas?
Miss Lyndsey had them all ready to go, Appleman.
He put them in his “Out” basket and now they’re gone, so, any day now…
Any day.
There was, sadly, a delay because he ran out of ink for his “PRIORITY” rubber stamp…
He’s another mess. He’s all over the place on issues.
He’s another more vocal RINO that FAUX News loves.
Ned, agreed.
Miss Lyndsey specialises in “All over the place”. He’s so busy being “All over the place” he doesn’t get anything done on any particular issue.
The main reason he was installed as “El Hefe” over at that one outfit, you know, The Senate Intelligence ? Cabal, uhhh, you know the thing… was because by doing so there was an absolute guarantee nothing would ever get done. Especially to Miss Lyndsey.
Have you seen his latest blockbuster of an interview with Maria Bartiromo? The one where he lambasted JoeBama for putting the border invaders up in hotels, getting them 3 squares a day, medical care…
Even tucking them in at night in MONTANA, while LEAVING American citizens sleeping in tents, boarded up doorways (that used to be their house) and under stairs … with no food, no medical care and no hope??
Me neither
It’s 2021 and nobody cares if miss Lindsey is a homo.
Come out of the closet and just be miss Lindsey already.
His out basket was cleaned out last night at 1am by Senor Raul Ortega Ruiz Castillo, he arrived in DC around 4pm from Texas and they put him right to work.
Lindsey’s current concern is the border which he and a group of his Senate colleagues are going to tour; and, if there’s not transparency, Lindsey has sworn to shut down the Senate; but Lindsey has rose-tinted glasses, he’ll see what he wants to see, reality be damned.
Miss Lyndsey later today on Faux:
“I swear, if others don’t go on tv waving their fingers demanding action, well, I’ll have to go on tv more, wave my finger and demand action. We need more wavy fingers and stern scolding of those not waving fingers. I tell you, how un-American of my colleagues not to wave their fingers sternly at this issue…..it’s a travesty <waves finger violently> and I need more waving their fingers. Tomorrow I will visit the border- I will wag my finger at border patrol live and in their face if they don’t have transparency…I will wag it hard at them!!!”
What are these clowns bleating about now?
Not worth paying attention to thier concerns
Methinks they postureth too much.
The humor is unbearably good today
So the UniParty grandees are scolding their Admin State Intelligence minions for acting in the best interests of the UniParty.
There will be much sniggering around the next CIA HSPI briefing table.
If they had typed it in ALL CAPS, the DNI would have been way more worried and responded quicker….
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”–Pres. Harry S Truman
One month to the day after Pres. Kennedy’s assassination, Pres. Truman wrote a letter to The Washington Post:
The Washington Post (December 22, 1963)
“Limit CIA Role To Intelligence” by Harry S Truman
“INDEPENDENCE, MO., Dec. 21 — I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President.
I think it is fairly obvious that by and large a President’s performance in office is as effective as the information he has and the information he gets. That is to say, that assuming the President himself possesses a knowledge of our history, a sensitive understanding of our institutions, and an insight into the needs and aspirations of the people, he needs to have available to him the most accurate and up-to-the-minute information on what is going on everywhere in the world, and particularly of the trends and developments in all the danger spots in the contest between East and West. This is an immense task and requires a special kind of an intelligence facility.
Of course, every President has available to him all the information gathered by the many intelligence agencies already in existence. The Departments of State, Defense, Commerce, Interior and others are constantly engaged in extensive information gathering and have done excellent work.
But their collective information reached the President all too frequently in conflicting conclusions. At times, the intelligence reports tended to be slanted to conform to established positions of a given department. This becomes confusing and what’s worse, such intelligence is of little use to a President in reaching the right decisions.
Therefore, I decided to set up a special organization charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every available source, and to have those reports reach me as President without department “treatment” or interpretations.
I wanted and needed the information in its “natural raw” state and in as comprehensive a volume as it was practical for me to make full use of it. But the most important thing about this move was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions—and I thought it was necessary that the President do his own thinking and evaluating.
Since the responsibility for decision making was his—then he had to be sure that no information is kept from him for whatever reason at the discretion of any one department or agency, or that unpleasant facts be kept from him. There are always those who would want to shield a President from bad news or misjudgments to spare him from being “upset.”
For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.
I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda.
With all the nonsense put out by Communist propaganda about “Yankee imperialism,” “exploitive capitalism,” “war-mongering,” “monopolists,” in their name-calling assault on the West, the last thing we needed was for the CIA to be seized upon as something akin to a subverting influence in the affairs of other people.
I well knew the first temporary director of the CIA, Adm. Souers, and the later permanent directors of the CIA, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg and Allen Dulles. These were men of the highest character, patriotism and integrity—and I assume this is true of all those who continue in charge.
But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere.
We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”…….
Pres. Truman spoke truly when JFK was removed from office–and it’s just as true today when Actual PDT was removed from office too.
BTW, Pres. Truman changed his mind about the “high character” of Allen Dulles:
JFK Facts » 17) After JFK was killed, ex-president Harry Truman called for CIA abolition:
“Former CIA director Allen Dulles tried and failed to change Truman’s story
Four months later, former CIA director Allen Dulles paid Truman a visit. Dulles tried to get Truman to retract what he had written in the Post.
“No dice, said Truman,” according to McGovern/Marcus.
But four days later, in a formal memo for Lawrence Houston, the CIA’s general counsel, Dulles fabricated a retraction. He claimed that Truman told him the Washington Post article was “all wrong,” and that Truman “seemed quite astounded at {Dulles’ lies].”
Truman denied it. In a June 10, 1964, letter to Look magazine, Truman restated his critique of covert action, emphasizing that he never intended the CIA to get involved in “strange activities.”
As the country grieved JFK’s death and suspicions of conspiracy mounted, many current and former U.S. officials publicly rallied around the official story that Oswald had killed JFK alone and unaided.
But privately many people familiar with the workings of the CIA had their doubts. Truman’s article was one of the earliest expression of those doubts. Others would follow.”…….
Did you ever ask yourself how a Marine sharp-shooter was able to defect to Russia, marry a Russian wife, re-defect back to the US with his new wife, all at the very height of the Cold War?
YMMV, but I think the Deep State removed both presidents; one by murder and the other by a Color Revolution Election Fraud Coup. And now our spy agencies want to treat Americans like foreign enemies and spy on them–openly.
Glenn Greenwald is right; this is as dangerous–and un-American–as it gets.
Sounds like Nazi Germany. Or the Democrats America. About the same I guess.
Nice
When bush 41 got REAGAN to sign E.O.12.333 it solidified the cia’s power to subvert the constitution, and the end of democracy.
“Did you ever ask yourself how a Marine sharp-shooter was able to defect to Russia, marry a Russian wife, re-defect back to the US with his new wife, all at the very height of the Cold War?”
My exact questions for decades … I believe Oswald was the patsy cover for the CIA assassination of JFK … and is the real untold story.
Before his military “career” Oswald passed out Castro-friendly flyers on New Orleans street corners … while his mama was friendly with Mafia Boss Carlos Marcello.
After denouncing the USA and surrendering his passport to the Soviet Communists … the marine sharpshooter married the niece of a KGB Officer … and then – like nothing happened – waltzed out of the USSR with a pregnant soviet wife and baby – and back to the USA … all during the nuclear charged Cold War … spy? double agent?
Maria – his widow – and his 2 children remain silent to this day.
I applaud Greenwald, a patriot from the left, for calling out the present danger of domestic surveillance.
Why didn’t House Republicans write a letter to Mitch McConnell about their disapproval of Senate Republicans confirming Merrick Garland as Attorney General?
0bama say everything fine… Why would he lie?
Always thanks to Sundance for bringing these things to light, but, frankly, why care? Nothing, absolutely nothing, will get done on this. Or on any of the things that the R’s show “concern” over, or consternation, or even genuine horror. NOTHING gets stopped now. Not even a lunatic trans weirdo nominated for Assistant HHS that promotes little children being destroyed in the name of sexual identification when they barely understand who they are yet.
THIS is the disaster we are living in. It is a nightmare. I just looked at the often sensationalized Gateway Pundit….just read half the titles of these articles, and convince me we are still in a world that isn’t dead.
ONLY when a massive number of people are as repulsed as we are can we hope to regain the controls of a airliner left in a steep dive. And that will NOT happen if they get HB1 passed. It truly is the legislation that kills our Republic as surely as their assassins smothered a SCOTUS justice in his bed.
A tweet from Greenwald I also saw today:
“If you think the real power centers in the US are the Proud Boys, 4Chan & Boogaloos rather than the CIA, FBI, NSA, Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and spend most of your time battling the former while serving the latter as stenographers, your journalism is definitionally shit.” – Glenn Greenwald
The jig is up, the Boneless Turkey Party is exposed for being frauds. Give us the House.Give us the Senate.Give us the White House.We’ll fix things. Yeah let’s give them the boot. Not a dime to the RNC. Not a cent to any Boneless Turkey that confirmed this fraudulent election. Dont vote for them,dont contribute to them, don’t campaign for them.Dont feed Lucifers Children.
Greenwald is one of the few remaining true journalists. He calls out Big Tech & the msm on their propaganda, lies and assaults on our Constitution. And as they always do, the left seeks to shut down the platform he is on (Substack) to silence him.
You are right again Sundance. It was a good read. Cold Anger.
Albert Einstein said “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Today he would say “Two things are infinite: the universe and the Democrats lust for Totalitarian Power; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
The Uniparty(r) are ‘DEEPLY’ concerned. What a freaking joke. Oh… and ‘INTELLIGENCE” committee? Really. More like “WHERE’S MY 10 PERCENT” committee.
The words intelligence and Republican DO NOT belong in the same sentence.
Vote all incumbent so-called Republicans out…….in both the House and Senate.
Time to start from scratch.
Nice strongly-worded letter they got there…
A letter? The GOP is filled with lazy and weak and infantile losers. The Dems would have been on the steps of the Capitol Building every day of the “Presidency.” You never hear a true peep out of them. They need wet nurses because they are such babies.
It’s a little late for this concern, isn’t it?
The politicization of the intelligence community?
Don’t they remember JAMES WOLF? Leaking the unredacted copy of the fisa, to screw TRUMP.
Pushing the russia hoax.
Having bullshit hearings to continue the narrative the media wanted to promote.
Not one hearing to investigate the ELECTION FRAUD! Etc. Etc. Etc.
I HATE THESE PEOPLE!!!
I was lucky enough to have lived when America was the GREATEST place on GOD’S GREEN EARTH.
It’s all over now!
And when we are all dead.
Nobody will remember just what the hell it was all about.
WWPD What would Putin Do?????
NSSherlock. Where have the RINOs been? Play fighting as usual. The G. Opportunist Party has been only about opportunism since T. Dewey and the boys of ’48. Yes, and that includes Eisenhower. No, when they can do nothing about it it is safe to wright a letter. BS hip. Every libertarian and Conservative in the country has been screaming about this for the past 40 years. But the RINOcerous just got it? The Grand Opportunist Party is broken. It cant, no more, be fixed (I know what I said). There are third parties extant and they must be grabbed and occupied by true libertarian and conservative patriots. We must hurry.
Decepticons at work. Uniparty tactics will prevail no matter which party has majority.
more DEM voters (open borders and sex trafficking) and appeasing business with cheap labor
“Gravely concerned.” Oh, my. Now something will happen, for sure.