Posted on 09/21/2017 7:56:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is easily the read of the day. Sharyl Attkisson is the bravest reporter of her generation, so much of a threat to people with access to the capabilities of our intel agencies that she was spied upon and worse. Today she faces the ugly truth about what recent reports (if true) reveal:
Nobody wants our intel agencies to be used like the Stasi in East Germany; the secret police spying on its own citizens for political purposes. The prospect of our own NSA, CIA and FBI becoming politically weaponized has been shrouded by untruths, accusations and justifications.
She goes on to review a number of instances of us being lied to about spying, about spying on journalists, and then gets to her personal experience in fighting back against an actual hack she experienced while at CBS News:
I have spent more than two years litigating against the Department of Justice for the computer intrusions. Forensics have revealed dates, times and methods of some of the illegal activities. The software used was proprietary to a federal intel agency. The intruders deployed a keystroke monitoring program, accessed the CBS News corporate computer system, listened in on my conversations by activating the computer's microphone and used Skype to exfiltrate files.
We survived the government's latest attempt to dismiss my lawsuit. There's another hearing Friday. To date, the Trump Department of Justice – like the Obama Department of Justice – is fighting me in court and working to keep hidden the identities of those who accessed a government internet protocol address found in my computers.
Sharyl is fighting back, and is not shying away from what she sees, though she wisely avoids terms like "Deep State" and "establishment." She is reporting:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We are governed , our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
This is not anyone’s DOJ or intelligence agency; it’s Hollywood, Facebook, Snapchat and instagram. Today’s social media is beyond Goebbels’ wildest dreams.
So far, the behavior of the Trump Administration is an invitation to the federal bureaucracy to engage in partisan, criminal activity without consequence. Why would anyone be surprised when bureaucrats accept that invitation?
Very, very insightful. These are calculated pressure groups whose only purpose is to ride the US gravy train. Assorted catastrophes are threatened if they don't get what they want. Sums up the burdens taxpayers suffer from:
<><>Pay-Me-I'm-a-Victim types,
<><> color-based victimhood,
<><> hyphenates of all denominations,
<><> economic refugees, immigrants, border-jumpers,
<><> corrupt foreign aid greedsters demanding billions of our tax dollars.
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Another despical Me-First breed inhaling our tax dollars:
<><> multiple color/ethnic-based Capitol Hill Caucuses,
<><> ex-pols exploiting their elected offices like the Clintons and Obama,
<><> pols using govt inside data to profit themselves,
<><> eternal bureaucrats cashing govt checks long after you think they're gone.
My opinion is that the Constitution died about ten years earlier, on Feb. 12, 1999.
That was the date the Senate failed to convict the impeached President Clinton over his very real crimes.
Since then, the Constitution has suffered a slow but steady degradation.
There is no doubt that the Usurper’s main goal in his 8 years was to make the Constitution a quaint piece of history and not the law of the land.
Please step forward, Mr. Mueller.
Actually, I believe that the politicization/weaponization of the CIA/FBI/NSA/IRS began with the Clintons, faded into the background & sort of went into a hiatus during the Bush 43 years, and really ramped up during the Ophonybama years.
Ophonybama and his LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist/Communist minions spent 8 years politicizing/weaponizing every bit of the FEDGOV they could get their greasy hands on, which was most of it.
We elected Donald J. Trump to drain the swamp, which means that he must de-politicize and de-weaponize the FEDGOV if the USA is to survive as a FRee country.
The jury is still out as to whether the Deep State will allow itself to be defenestrated by President Trump.
I am hoping and praying that we did the right thing by electing him and that he will do the right thing for America!
I’m absolutely certain that Fedzilla has no intention of allowing Trump or anyone else to rein it in.
We did the right thing in electing him and if he does the right thing by us, we need to step up and remove the weasels from both houses of Congress.
Well, somehow, someway We the People have to figure out a way to help President Trump drain the swamp.
It galls me to have to say this, but in 2018 we’ll find out if we can.
The non-state GOVERNMENT makes the Mafia look like pan handlers.
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