Re:You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible,...
by guelo on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:04PM
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Intelligent services have been abused by presidents many times but there is no credible evidence that they act in opposition to a sitting president. Obama's FBI issued the Trump campaign FISA warrants but Trump installed his own people at the CIA/DOJ/FBI etc. The closest rogue agents against Trump were the whistleblowers like Colonel Vindman that were mostly rooted out and attacked relentlessly to discredit them.
The intelligence services are rogue in the sense they violate our rights, lie to Congress without punishment, and have zero effective oversight. Common people don't control the intelligence services, the legislative branch doesn't, the executive branch doesn't (unless Trump's plan was to make himself look bad), and the intelligence services have their own secret courts. There is no sense in which they aren't rogue. They don't even explain how they spend their budgets
They also have the power to take out a democratically elected president. For instance, they could've published the information they had linking Trump to Putin. They could've convinced the House and the Senate to impeach or Trump's cabinet to remove him.
The intelligence services are a perfect example of the unbelievable malfunction of our government. They are evil, in the sense of being torturers and murders who violate American rights and ignore the law. They are incompetent in the sense that they fail in spectacular and embarrassing ways even against adversaries that they outmatch on paper.