I read today that Mr. Pompeo feels that a certain (in)famous leak site is an enemy of the state.
I believe very strongly that sites like Wikileaks, and people like Snowden, serve a role. It's a shitty role. Don't get me wrong, it's not getting them anything but grief. But we need them to balance out the people we've put in charge of our intelligence concerns because those folks WILL, and I mean absolutely 100% WILL, abuse their power some percentage of the time. Not all the time. I like to hope not most of the time, but they will.
Let me elaborate. They've got power. Lot's of power. I expect they exercise it about 40% of the time to protect the country in general, you know, to actually protect the citizens of the United States. About 30% of the time their efforts are directly related to protect the powers that run this country, as opposed to it's citizenry. I mean VIPs, companies, senators, etc. However, about 20% of their time, they are engaged in activities to further the goals of the entrenched. What they have lately come to call the "deepstate". Those people that are not elected, very loyal to themselves and very willing to use their capabilities to further their agenda and maintain their grip on the American citizenry...global citizenry.
What to remember at this point, now that we've got it out on the table, is that we expect this. I have to assume the founding fathers not only expected power plays and shadow groups, they themselves were plotting their own methods of power grabbing early on. So what? Welcome to the real world where every person on the planet is trying to get a leg up. Get over it.
What is important is how you deal with such a fact. Do you try and pretend it's not happening? Do you let those intelligence organizations go hunt down these awesome 3rd party auditors? Hell NO! You support that third party. Keep up the good work! Give em a grant. Then you go back and you kick the ASS of the intelligence community for getting caught!You fire some mother fuckers and let the next round of leadership know you ARE watching and they need to use the whistleblowers to root out bullshit, not BE part of the bullshit.
It's that easy Mr. Pompeo. You are the most well funded of the bunch, they shouldn't get in. They shouldn't catch you at your games. You SHOULDN'T be playing shitty GAMES! Reign your people in and focus on bringing that 40% up to 60%. You are effectively being audited by the best available and they are dinging you right and left. Don't complain about the auditors that caught you sleepin. Don't go on a killing spree. Fix...your...shit.
Tank
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