Left unmentioned in this is that the Secretary of State through this truly lamentable Arab Spring was one Hillary Rodham Clinton, the most corrupt and bribe-able senior government official we've had in decades and possibly ever. That, in no small measure, provides an additional motivation for this domestic intelligence effort. In the Presidency she would have protected everybody's money pipeline and siphoned off enough to pad the Clinton personal fortune to unprecedented levels. And if the successive disasters in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Libya again, Iraq, and Syria showed anything, it was that U.S. foreign policy was for sale to the highest bidder.
Organized crime has placed an iron grip on national resources and will defend the possession of that power desperately. And if the testimony of these criminals before Congress resembles that of the Mafia dons, it isn't accidental.