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Mark Wauck's avatar

Fr. Hunwicke quotes CSLewis today:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some time be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own consciences."

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Anne Sherman's avatar

I've come to the conclusion that the "Intel Community" is not really a community of equals but a pyramid. It's the CIA at the top, with the other agencies as mere foot soldiers. As the CIA is allegedly forbidden to conduct intel operations within the US, it relies on the FBI, NSA, DHS, State and the other domestic agencies who are empowered to act within the US to carry out its wishes. The CIA's role remains hidden.

Casting its outsized influence further afield, the CIA holds foreign intel operations like the UK's GCHQ in its thrall to do what the CIA cannot under the Constitution. Hence, the ultimate work-around.

I think the General Flynn hoax was a pre-emptive strike to prevent Flynn from taking over the CIA (or becoming the DNI) and cleaning out the Augean CIA stables.

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