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*Dept. of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence  

*Dept. of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence  

Critics sometimes refer to elements of the [[Deep State]] residing in the Intelligence Community. The [[Edward Snowden|Snowden revelations]] uncovered massive illegal abuses, [[4th Amendment]] violations, and unaccountability to [[Congress]], the [[Supreme Court]], and the [[White House]].<ref>https://www.dni.gov/index.php/ctiic-who-we-are/deputy-director-ctiic/239-about/organization/review-group/955-comments-submitted-to-the-review-group</ref> Since the CIA demotion as the central collector of intelligence,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=U2yUAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189&dq=CIA+demotion+as+the+central+collector+of+intelligence,&source=bl&ots=1xgvL7EHSI&sig=IoVlUkIOD1XHm_hkwMLPumvwG_c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi03_z21aHUAhWL5IMKHfYZBrcQ6AEIJjAD#v=onepage&q=CIA%20demotion%20as%20the%20central%20collector%20of%20intelligence%2C&f=false]</ref> the CIA has become even more unhinged in its involvement in sparking the [[Libyan War]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CQHnDTx0AcMC&pg=PT247&lpg=PT247&dq=cia+paramilitary+libya&source=bl&ots=O_TxHbV37V&sig=Xkf9_qAZRRTAU36q_CXBC9ucjgg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiliJfy86HUAhUl2oMKHfK5Af8Q6AEIbjAS#v=onepage&q=cia%20paramilitary%20libya&f=false]</ref> training and equipping the [[Islamic State]],<ref>'''21 June 2012.''' <font color="brown">''New York Times'' reports "C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government...[weapons] are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar."</font> The recipients of these weapons became the [[Islamic State]].<br>*http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html<br>*http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/25/world/middleeast/an-arms-pipeline-to-the-syrian-rebels.html?_r=0 </ref><ref>http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis.html</ref> starting the [[Syrian War]] with its resultant [[European migrant crisis]],<ref>http://ahtribune.com/opinion/741-cia-fsa.html</ref> arranging the purchase of the ''[[Washington Post]]'' through [[Amazon.com]] as a [[front organization|front]] to influence US domestic policy, politics, and public opinion,<ref>http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-cias-war-on-trump/</ref> and the manufactured Trump-Russia scare to seize control of the [[foreign policy]] prerogative of the [[president]] and dictate it themselves,<ref>http://www.newstarget.com/2017-04-21-proof-ex-cia-director-brennan-worked-directly-with-foreign-spies-to-keep-trump-out-of-the-oval-office.html</ref> unelected, unaccountable to no one,<ref>*[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/15/cia-insults-trump/ The CIA’s affront to Trump:] Withholding a security clearance is a means of challenging presidential policy, ''[[Washington Times]]'', February 15, 2016</ref> with the ability to [[blackmail]] anyone, including Members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices,<ref><small>[[Daniel Ellsberg]], in responding to a question about why should people care, said: "Do they really believe that real [[democracy]] is viable, when one branch of government, the Executive, knows or can know every detail of every private communication (or credit card transaction, or movement) of: every journalist; every source to every journalist; every member of Congress and their staffs; every judge, at every level up to the Supreme Court? Do they think that every one of these people "has nothing to hide," nothing that could be used to blackmail them or manipulate them, or neutralize their dissent to Executive policies, or influence voting behavior? Is investigative journalism, or aggressive Congressional investigation of the Executive, or court restraints on Executive practices, really possible with that amount of transparency to the Executive of their private and professional lives and associations? And without any of those checks, the kind of democracy you have is that of the German Democratic Republic in [[East Germany]], with its [[Stasi]] (which had a miniscule fraction of the surveillance capability the NSA has now, but enough to turn a fraction of the population of East Germany into secret Stasi informants)."</small>

Critics sometimes refer to elements of the [[Deep State]] residing in the Intelligence Community. The [[Edward Snowden|Snowden revelations]] uncovered massive illegal abuses, [[4th Amendment]] violations, and unaccountability to [[Congress]], the [[Supreme Court]], and the [[White House]].<ref>https://www.dni.gov/index.php/ctiic-who-we-are/deputy-director-ctiic/239-about/organization/review-group/955-comments-submitted-to-the-review-group</ref> Since the CIA demotion as the central collector of intelligence,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=U2yUAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189&dq=CIA+demotion+as+the+central+collector+of+intelligence,&source=bl&ots=1xgvL7EHSI&sig=IoVlUkIOD1XHm_hkwMLPumvwG_c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi03_z21aHUAhWL5IMKHfYZBrcQ6AEIJjAD#v=onepage&q=CIA%20demotion%20as%20the%20central%20collector%20of%20intelligence%2C&f=false]</ref> the CIA has become even more unhinged in its involvement in sparking the [[Libyan War]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CQHnDTx0AcMC&pg=PT247&lpg=PT247&dq=cia+paramilitary+libya&source=bl&ots=O_TxHbV37V&sig=Xkf9_qAZRRTAU36q_CXBC9ucjgg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiliJfy86HUAhUl2oMKHfK5Af8Q6AEIbjAS#v=onepage&q=cia%20paramilitary%20libya&f=false]</ref> training and equipping the [[Islamic State]],<ref>'''21 June 2012.''' <font color="brown">''New York Times'' reports "C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government...[weapons] are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar."</font> The recipients of these weapons became the [[Islamic State]].<br>*https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html<br>*https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/25/world/middleeast/an-arms-pipeline-to-the-syrian-rebels.html?_r=0 </ref><ref>http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis.html</ref> starting the [[Syrian War]] with its resultant [[European migrant crisis]],<ref>http://ahtribune.com/opinion/741-cia-fsa.html</ref> arranging the purchase of the ''[[Washington Post]]'' through [[Amazon.com]] as a [[front organization|front]] to influence US domestic policy, politics, and public opinion,<ref>http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-cias-war-on-trump/</ref> and the manufactured Trump-Russia scare to seize control of the [[foreign policy]] prerogative of the [[president]] and dictate it themselves,<ref>http://www.newstarget.com/2017-04-21-proof-ex-cia-director-brennan-worked-directly-with-foreign-spies-to-keep-trump-out-of-the-oval-office.html</ref> unelected, unaccountable to no one,<ref>*[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/15/cia-insults-trump/ The CIA’s affront to Trump:] Withholding a security clearance is a means of challenging presidential policy, ''[[Washington Times]]'', February 15, 2016</ref> with the ability to [[blackmail]] anyone, including Members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices,<ref><small>[[Daniel Ellsberg]], in responding to a question about why should people care, said: "Do they really believe that real [[democracy]] is viable, when one branch of government, the Executive, knows or can know every detail of every private communication (or credit card transaction, or movement) of: every journalist; every source to every journalist; every member of Congress and their staffs; every judge, at every level up to the Supreme Court? Do they think that every one of these people "has nothing to hide," nothing that could be used to blackmail them or manipulate them, or neutralize their dissent to Executive policies, or influence voting behavior? Is investigative journalism, or aggressive Congressional investigation of the Executive, or court restraints on Executive practices, really possible with that amount of transparency to the Executive of their private and professional lives and associations? And without any of those checks, the kind of democracy you have is that of the German Democratic Republic in [[East Germany]], with its [[Stasi]] (which had a miniscule fraction of the surveillance capability the NSA has now, but enough to turn a fraction of the population of East Germany into secret Stasi informants)."</small>

https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/highlights-from-daniel-ellsbergas-reddit-ama-on-edward-snowden-and-nsa-surveillance/</ref>  Presidents and their staff with IC's unlimited electronic surveillance capabilities.<ref>https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/how-spy-president</ref>

https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/highlights-from-daniel-ellsbergas-reddit-ama-on-edward-snowden-and-nsa-surveillance/</ref>  Presidents and their staff with IC's unlimited electronic surveillance capabilities.<ref>https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/how-spy-president</ref>