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2020-10-07 -Land of the Free

Only Full Transparency Will Save CIA, FBI Now

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Posted by Clem 2020-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Excellent post. I believe we're at a turning point. Either we have a legitimate representative form of government based on the Constitution of we have a Shadow Government, run by moneyed oligarchs and entrenched bureaucrats.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-07 02:05|| 2020-10-07 02:05|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ I'll take "Moneyed oligarchs and entrenched bureaucrats" for $800, Alex.

Posted by Jusogum Ebbusoque3456 2020-10-07 02:12|| 2020-10-07 02:12|| Front Page Top

#3 The transparency and reform bridges were burned 3.5 years ago.

Posted by Chesing Slavinter3713 2020-10-07 02:45|| 2020-10-07 02:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Related: CIA Director Gina Haspel And The British Role In The Anti-Trump Plot

Excerpt: Concurrent with the FBI's anti-Trump foreign counterintelligence operation, launched from the United Kingdom (with Haspel's affirmative "coordination"), keep in mind that the UK's version of the National Security Agency -- the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) -- was engaged in an aggressive Signals Intelligence campaign later codified in UK law as the Investigatory Powers Act (and referred to colloquially as the "Snoopers' Charter"). Having the British run an aggressive intelligence collection operation against Team Trump targets, bypassing US legal prohibitions, and then laundering the intelligence "take" back to US officials via the UK-US liaison relationship is precisely something an "honorary UK desk officer" might be good and adept at accomplishing.

Certainly, these subjects and questions deserve closer examination, without the phony prophylactic defense of grave warnings about "sources and methods." No one examining the coup against President Trump is seriously interested in the precise technical collection techniques of GCHQ -- they just want to know if the Brits were involved in an attempt to subvert a presidential campaign and then overturn the results of an election. CIA Director Gina Haspel can answer all of those questions, and she does not even have to touch upon classified information to do so. The American public is due her answers.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-07 02:57|| 2020-10-07 02:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Enlisting foreign agents to spy on US persons fits the statutory definition of treason, does it not?

Posted by Huposing Phose3250 2020-10-07 03:29|| 2020-10-07 03:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Especially to try and change the outcome of elections, not that the UK establishment puts much effort into following the instructions of the electorate...

But they probably will have to soon.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-07 04:05|| 2020-10-07 04:05|| Front Page Top

#7 is there any reason to save them?

burning down and starting over would probably be more effective

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-10-07 07:39|| 2020-10-07 07:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Save the rotting fish heads? How many more decades must we suffer these criminal conspiracies and national embarrassments.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-07 08:44|| 2020-10-07 08:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Unfortunately, government has become the last refuge of scoundrels.

Criminality hides behind secrecy, classification and redactions. Full transparency, "Yes", let's see who the scoundrels are and what they did. Have faith and trust in Americans to do the right thing.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-10-07 09:48|| 2020-10-07 09:48|| Front Page Top

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