{"id":32266,"date":"2017-12-28T20:44:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T01:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32266"},"modified":"2017-12-28T20:44:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T01:44:32","slug":"we-seem-to-have-a-problem-with-our-intelligence-community-understanding-that-it-is-supposed-to-work-within-the-constraints-of-our-representative-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32266","title":{"rendered":"We Seem To Have A Problem With Our Intelligence Community Understanding That It Is Supposed To Work Within The Constraints Of Our Representative Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Townhall<\/a> posted an article today by Sharyl Attkisson<\/a> about misconduct by the intelligence community of our government.<\/p>\n

The article lists ten examples of the intelligence community running amok:<\/p>\n

Telecom takeover<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joe Nacchio<\/a>, CEO of telecom giant Qwest, said that after he refused to spy on his customers for the National Security Agency (NSA)<\/a> without a warrant in February of 2001, the government retaliated by yanking a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars and filing an insider trading case against him. He went to prison. The government denied charges of retaliation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Olympic spying<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2002, the NSA reportedly engaged in \u201cblanket surveillance\u201d of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah<\/a>, collecting and storing \u201cvirtually all electronic communications going into or out of the Salt Lake City area, including \u2026 emails and text messages\u201d to \u201cexperiment with and fine tune a new scale of mass surveillance.\u201d NSA officials had denied such a program existed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spying on Congress<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2005 intel officials intercepted and recorded phone conversations between then-Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-Calif.) \u00a0and pro-Israel lobbyists who were under investigation for espionage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Journalist “witch hunts”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Internal emails from a \u201cglobal intelligence company\u201d executive in 2010 stated: \u201cBrennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Misleading on mass spying<\/strong><\/p>\n

On March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence<\/a> James Clapper told Congress that intel officials were not collecting mass data on tens of millions of Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n

More spying on Congress<\/strong><\/p>\n

CIA<\/a> officials improperly accessed Senate Intelligence Committee<\/a> computers, according to an Inspector General report in July 2014, contradicting denials by then-CIA Director Brennan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n

NSA privacy violations<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fall 2016, the government confessed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court<\/a> \u201csignificant non-compliance\u201d of crucial procedures designed to protect privacy rights of U.S. citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Intel mutiny?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Government requests to see or \u201cunmask\u201d names of Americans whose communications are \u201cincidentally\u201d captured during national security surveillance are supposed to be rare and justified.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Politically motivated press leak<\/strong><\/p>\n

In May 2017, former FBI Director James Comey secretly orchestrated a \u201cleak\u201d to The New York Times of negative memos he said he wrote contemporaneously about President Trump, with the motive of spurring the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the president\u2019s alleged Russia ties.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conflicted investigators<\/strong><\/p>\n

One purpose of special counsel investigations, such as the Russia investigation being led by former FBI Director Mueller, is to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest. But multiple investigators working on Mueller\u2019s team have been removed after being caught in compromising positions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The swamp has been operating successfully for a number of years. It is time for the leadership in the intelligence community to resign. The intelligence community needs to go back to doing their job of protecting Americans–not spying on people who disagree with their political philosophy.<\/p>\n

The article reminds us:<\/p>\n

This issue has special meaning to the former CBS reporter, who alleges she was spied on<\/a> by the Obama administration. She\u2019s documented the reported Obama surveillance timeline<\/a> on her website as well. Even left leaning journalists, like Glenn Greenwald<\/a> of The Intercept, said the leaks from the intelligence community are a prescription to the destruction of our government<\/a>. Granted, Greenwald\u2019s publication is set up as a safe space for leakers, and to protect them, as they disseminate information relating to government corruption or wrongdoing. Leaking because Hillary Clinton<\/a> lost isn\u2019t any of those things. Now, Greenwald fears both the deep state and the Trump White House, but noted the former doesn\u2019t have the institutional constraints to keep their power in check.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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