TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WEIGHING PLANS FOR PRIVATE SPIES TO COUNTER DEEP STATE ENEMIES

[Skidmore]

Want to fight something besides allies? Start making noise. This evil is reported in Newsweek as well.

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/04/trump-white-house-weighing-plans-for-private-spies-to-counter-deep-state-enemies/

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials and others familiar with the proposals. The sources say the plans have been pitched to the White House as a means of countering “deep state” enemies in the intelligence community seeking to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency.

The creation of such a program raises the possibility that the effort would be used to create an intelligence apparatus to justify the Trump administration’s political agenda.

“Pompeo can’t trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him,” said a former senior U.S. intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of the proposals, in describing White House discussions. “It is a direct-action arm, totally off the books,” this person said, meaning the intelligence collected would not be shared with the rest of the CIA or the larger intelligence community. “The whole point is this is supposed to report to the president and Pompeo directly.”

North, who appears frequently on Trump’s favorite TV network, Fox News, was enlisted to help sell the effort to the administration. He was the “ideological leader” brought in to lend credibility, said the former senior intelligence official...more

[get the red out]

1. My God

They would probably spy more inside the US than outside it, as well as a litany of other horrors this would usher in.

[lindysalsagal]

2. "circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies, " means, what?

He's publicly, systematically, intentionally undermining U.S. intelligence agency work?

And this isn't considered treason?????

[Skidmore]

3. I think it is and we

should start making noise. Congress needs to hear from us.

[VOX]

4. Trumps own Gestapo and SS in the making.

This is the way democracy dies, folks— not a bang but a whimper. And the whimpering is happening.

[Skidmore]

5. Yup. While we all

fight each other and allow trolls to divide us.

[HopeAgain]

6. Don't be surprised if his political foes start disappearing

He wants to be a dictator with his own secret police.

[roamer65]

15. Dont be surprised if his secret police start disappearing.

[global1]

7. Would This Be Supported Financially By Us Taxpayers?.....

Wouldn't this need to be approved by Congress?

Now does anyone out there in DU land start to believe me when I say we experienced a coup d'atat back in November 2016?

[edhopper]

18. There are billions in dark money

that the CIA Director has at his disposal.

[onetexan]

8. Isn't this against the law?

[Skidmore]

9. We ned to find out

the extent of executive power and how funds are allocated in this area. Asking questions loudly is a good place to start.

[honest.abe]

10. This is shocking.

How can anyone in congress Dem or Repub sit by and let this happen?

[whathehell]

11. This can NOT happen..

This is madness..I don't believe Congress -- even this lousy one -- would allow this.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Correct.

Congress CREATES and funds agencies. However we need to watch for some traitorous bastard in Congress sticking something like this on a must-pass bill as a "hidden" rider.

[whathehell]

23. Yes..

We must be vigilant...I'm in my sixties, and this is the STRANGEST political atmosphere I've ever lived through.

[infullview]

12. Hitler's SS

All over again. This guy is a serious threat to freedom.

[Maggiemayhem]

13. I am not so sure we should get worked up about a single source article

This was republished on right wing sites and then Daily Kos and now all over the internet and Facebook. If you read the entire article, some of it sounds bizarre. Why would intelligence be sent to Soros? I don’t doubt that Prince would try to turn our military into paid mercenaries, but intelligence services being left out of the loop? If this is being published, then their Alt Intelligence sucks. The article seems almost satirical to me but Glenn Greenwood doesn’t do satire.

[crazylikafox]

17. I think that Prince has already admitted that he had discussed it with someone in Trump's circle

he didn't admit that it was actually going to happen.

[Tavarious Jackson]

16. So he's hiring Alex Jones? nt

[Javaman]

21. are you kidding, he will be one of their first targets.

the orange asshole uses people then tosses them aside when he's done with them.

he's done with jones.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. As long as not one penny of taxpayer money pays for your PRIVATE agents.

[Javaman]

20. stazi, gestapo, NKVD

call it what you will but that's basically what this will be.

[dalton99a]

22. A network controlled by Vladimir Putin, operated by Erik Prince, paid for by U.S. taxpayers