[PieterCasparzen]

I wonder when our defensive military will be ordered home to defend our borders.

Our elites believe that if they're in the US their purpose is to enforce the elites' suppression of American citizens.

NSA, which spies on all communication foreign and domestic, but worries most about spying on the domestic, is part of the military.

Phone tapping en masse is, therefore, a national security military operation.

Clandestine CIA operations that carry on foreign covert paramilitary operations - they report up directly to the President, a civilian, and are not part of the military.

This avoids any unseemliness of any personnel involved getting confused, thinking they are doing something "military", like having a war, and accidentally wondering about needing something silly like a declaration of war.

Generally the opposite of what makes sense for liberty and security is they way things are set up.

The think tanks advise our elected officials to ensure that the policy continues.

[Rashputin]

The NSA is actually an entity that doesn't particularly like the military. You can bet the information used to purge the military of late was presented to King Barry on a silver platter by the NSA. They also don't much care for the DIA and have tried on several occasions to have both the DIA and Naval Intelligence eliminated.

People who deal in secrets like to be the only ones who control access to those secrets.