Friday, November 22, 2019

Rethinking National Security: CIA and FBI Are Corrupt, But What About Congress?

The developing story about how the US intelligence and national security agencies may have conspired to influence and possibly even reverse the results of the 2016 presidential election is compelling, even if one is disinclined to believe that such a plot would be possible to execute.

Colonel Pat Lang, a colleague and friend who directed the Defense Intelligence Agency HUMINT program after years spent on the ground in special ops and foreign liaison, thinks that strong medicine is needed and has initiated a discussion based on the premise that the FBI and CIA are dysfunctional relics that should be dismantled, as he puts it "Burned to the ground," so that the federal government can start over again and come up with something better.

On the domestic front, he cites his personal observation of efforts by the Department of Justice and the FBI to corruptly "Frame" people tried in federal courts on national security issues as well as the intelligence/law enforcement community conspiracy to "Get Trump."

Many believe that the FBI and CIA have grown too large and have been asked to do too many things unrelated to national security, so there should be a major reduction-in-force followed by the compulsory retirement of senior officers who have become too cozy with and obligated to politicians.

The FBI should provide only police services that are national in nature and that are not covered by the state and local jurisdictions.

Another former intelligence community friend Ray McGovern has constructed a time line of developments in Ukraine which demolishes the establishment view on display in Congress relating to the alleged Russian threat.

The national security state should actually be engaged in national security.


http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/november/21/rethinking-national-security-cia-and-fbi-are-corrupt-but-what-about-congress/

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