Changes

Gradually the CIA gained certain authority to conduct operations in the United States, such as training anti-[[Castro]] [[Cuba]]ns for the [[Bay of Pigs]] operation or the [[Mena Arkansas]] gun-running scheme. Likewise the FBI has been tasked to investigate roadside IED attacks in [[Iraq]], such as prevented a possible "Bowling Green Massacre" or the 1998 embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.

Gradually the CIA gained certain authority to conduct operations in the United States, such as training anti-[[Castro]] [[Cuba]]ns for the [[Bay of Pigs]] operation or the [[Mena Arkansas]] gun-running scheme. Likewise the FBI has been tasked to investigate roadside IED attacks in [[Iraq]], such as prevented a possible "Bowling Green Massacre" or the 1998 embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.

But [[Progressive]] [[Democrat]]s came closest to realizing their age old dream of marshalling the [[police]] powers of the state, not for any legitimate counterintelligence or criminal prosecution, but political and ideological reasons against their imaginary enemies and fellow citizens under President Barack Obama.

But [[Progressive]] [[Democrat]]s came closest to realizing their age old dream of marshalling the [[police]] powers of the state, not for any legitimate counterintelligence or criminal prosecution, but for political and ideological reasons against their imaginary enemies and fellow citizens under President Barack Obama.

Liza Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice explains the legal avenues under which the Obama administration pursued wiretaps on American citizens:<ref>https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/how-spy-president</ref>

Liza Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice explains the legal avenues under which the Obama administration pursued wiretaps on American citizens:<ref>https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/how-spy-president</ref>