Trump Mulls Creating Private Spy Network

[RandySF]

“The Trump administration is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies,” The Intercept reports.

“The sources say the plans have been pitched to the White House as a means of countering ‘deep state’ enemies in the intelligence community seeking to undermine Trump’s presidency.”

Said one former intelligence official: “Pompeo can’t trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him,”


https://politicalwire.com/2017/12/04/trump-mulls-creating-private-spy-network/

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. What a farking nitemare this has become

[jmowreader]

2. Let's see here

We have a CIA Director who doesn't trust his own agency. Full stop.

[YOHABLO]

3. Time to mobilize folks. This is def fascist shit.

[JDC]

4. His own private SS, paid for by US taxpayers of course

To suggest that the would counter the "deep state" is Orwellian. It gets no more dangerous than this.

On the up side, I am sure would call themselves something catchy, like:

The Bureau of Freedom and Democracy aka: The BFD

<or>

The Free and Fair Intelligence Agency - neither of which it would be.

[Sophia4]

34. It would have to be funded by Congress.

I don't think a private spy service is compatible with our Constitution.

[Achilleaze]

57. You nailed it

The KGOP republican, Inc. Goon Squad against America

[Girard442]

5. Nazis. n/t

[rockfordfile]

44. That's exactly it.

[roamer65]

6. Gun ownership will be the canary in the coal mine.

They will need to end it for a secret police to spread their terror effectively.

Equivalent of Hitler’s “Enabling Act”.

[Mariana]

26. That is probably the ONE thing

maybe the ONLY thing that would make Trump's worshipers turn on him. I think they would, in a heartbeat, if he tried to do that. The gun fetish is just too powerful.

[Honeycombe8]

29. In this case, the gun owners are like his personal militia. Not like Germany, in that sense.

As Trump says, he could shoot someone, and they'd still support him. The gun owners are part of his base. There are some gun owners who are not, but most of them are, I'm pretty sure.

[VOX]

43. Precisely. All Trump has to do is declare them the Home Guard...

And they can play paramilitary dress-up every day.

[brush]

7. Uh-oh. Secret police, Stasi, Gestapo?

[jalan48]

8. Hitler created a parallel court system in Germany because he didn't like the existing and legal one

It is considered one of the important steps in the rise of Fascism in Germany. This ploy sounds eerily familiar.

[lunasun]

13. +1 yes it does unfortunately

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. It IS what we have been warned against.

He is doing an end run against all of our Gov't agencies.

[JustAnotherGen]

52. Yep

This is the breaking point.

[ProudLib72]

9. Imagine Mad Magazine's Spy versus Spy

That, I think, is what these idiots could muster.

[sarcasmo]

10. The madman is going to kill So many people. Save us Mr. Mueller.

[Duppers]

11. This screams illegal Gestapo!!

[SunSeeker]

12. Combine treason, paranoia and fascism, and you get yourself the Trump administration. nt

[dalton99a]

14. Directed by Vladimir Putin, operated by Erik Prince, paid for by U.S. taxpayers

[alfredo]

15. This will be on their letterhead.

[dalton99a]

19. Putin worked with them in Dresden

[alfredo]

59. If this is true, it confirms the worst fears about trump.

[shadowmayor]

16. Smells like

Bannon

[SergeStorms]

46. Oh, this has Bannon writen all over it.

They say Twitler talks to him daily. You know Bannon is getting a little worried about his Master Plan going up in smoke. Mueller is too damned close to breaking up his private Nazi hierarchy. Bannon knows they must move quickly to establish his Waffen-SS before the entire scheme falls apart.

I'm not a religious man.....but God help us.

[GReedDiamond]

17. ...a global, private spy network...

...composed of Putin/Russian operatives.

Count on it.

[dalton99a]

18. It's a given

[GReedDiamond]

21. Yeah, but tell that to Lyin' Ryan and McTurtleman...nt

[madinmaryland]

20. Lee Mercer eye spy national and international. All three. Jeb

Jeb Bush all up in your house with disease.

[dalton99a]

22. Good ol' Lee Mercer was way ahead of Trump

9. To prove that every person in the United States and world is hooked up on an Eye Spy Community-Military Intelligence (All Three) Electronic surveillance hot-wires approved by the United States Congress for the U.S. Government Electronic Surveillance of every citizen in America for government intelligence circumstances will equal to the United States Government’s Technocracy.

10. To prove the United States of America has two Governments and they are Government #1 and Government #2 and I own Government # 1 a Private Ownership named Eye Spy Community-Military Intelligence (All Three) a Government of all the Intelligence agencies in The United States of America and in All International Countries in the World a Nationalization in Business and Commerce Intelligence National and International.

11. To prove the United States of America has two Presidents and I am one of them Jurisdiction in Eye Spy Community-Military Intelligence (All Three) Government # 1 in Business and Commerce Intelligence National and International.

[MarcA]

24. More of the Privatizing of the democratic government

More opposition and civil disobedience in order.

[Solly Mack]

25. SMH

[Honeycombe8]

27. I wonder what SMH means. nt

[Solly Mack]

33. It means shaking my head.

Wonder no more.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

48. SMH means Shaking My Head, while SMDH means...

Shaking My DAMN Head..

[Honeycombe8]

28. This is anti-American and hostile to the country. OMG. nt

[dchill]

30. Who will rid me of this flammable Reichstag?

[Kablooie]

31. Sounds like he's building up capabilities for a coup!

They wouldn't be bound by law the way the government agencies are.

Shades of Hitler!

[Eyeball_Kid]

41. The coup has already taken place.

A privatized spy network would be designed to MAINTAIN the coup.

[VOX]

45. Agreed. Despite growing resistance, 45 & Co. are still holding the reins.

Anyone who doesn’t take seriously the existential threat to the country that this mis-administration poses, is sadly under-informed.

[JustAnotherGen]

53. Plus 1000000 n/t

[stevenleser]

32. Someone better tell Sarandon, Greenwald and all the other

“Hillary would be just as bad as Trump” folks that they just enabled the Gestapo to be created in the US

Well done morons

[JustAnotherGen]

54. I don't disagree but . . .

The situation we find ourselves in now? I can't be bothered by them.

This is now the righteous and loyal Americans against an enemy from within.

Laser focus on the enemies, we can get loyalty from the others later.

[iluvtennis]

35. We gotta protest this nonsense. We already have well qualified intelligence agencies, just

another way for this rich crooks to steal money from the US taxpayers.

[stevenleser]

39. If this entity comes into being I would be happy if stealing our money

was all that they did.

[JohnnyRingo]

36. Describes the SS pretty well.

The Fuhrer's personal enforcement division.
Figures Ollie North's involved. Somebody stop this cretin.

[workinclasszero]

37. Hey they could give it a snappy name like..oh..the SS!

Yeah that's the ticket.


And some scary symbols to terrorize enemies of the fuhrer...er...Trump I mean.

[stevenleser]

38. This is officially the most frightening thing a US President has ever publicly contemplated

Nothing else is really close.

[Mr. Evil]

40. Ladies and Gentlemen...

We are now witnessing the death of the United States of America. If Robert Mueller doesn't step it up and if the NSA and FBI don't step up to release whatever they may have on Trump and his minions/owners, all will be lost. We can no longer rely on corporate media. If there are any people of principle left in this country they need to speak up now.

[SergeStorms]

42. What the .....

Sure, let's have this administration have it's own spy agency/police force. You know, kind of a like the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany. No harm in that, right? For those of you who didn't get the gist of my message....

[Ezior]

47. Warning: Post Contains Netflix Show Spoilers! Spoiler Alert!! ("Berlin Station" Season 2)

This sounds like someone in the administration likes "Berlin Station" season 2 and is using it as a playbook. The US administration in that Netflix Show also installs their own intelligence service.

EVEN MORE SPOILERS: the new (unnamed) US administration in that show sounds like a nightmare. Among other things, they sabotage the CIA in Berlin, and they meddle in German elections to support a far-right politician, while the CIA suspects that politician to be an actual right-wing terrorist supporter.

[Buns_of_Fire]

49. He's gonna make us love him...

[democratisphere]

50. Erik Prince is a dangerous character.

[JustAnotherGen]

51. This is not normal

It's not right.
It's unAmerican.

And people get upset when I say when all is said and done - a huac isn't a bad thing.

[TDale313]

55. Oh, its pretty normal...

For fascist dictators.

[TDale313]

56. How legit is this?

And no, it would not surprise me. If accurate, this is terrifying.

[Blue_Tires]

58. The Putincept can chew on it for all I fucking care...

They wanted that batshit insane son of a bitch to win the election (Because, you know, *ANYBODY BUT HILLARY*, amirite?) And now they can sack up and live with the goddamned consequences...

Too many sycophants, quislings and traitors in our ranks...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

60. How Nixonian

And how suicidal if he dare try

[AntiFascist]

61. There's too much cash to be had in the Middle East...

involving LNG gas / oil fields, pipelines through Syria....Iran versus Qatar, etc. Trump already has a great working relationship with Putin and he needs his backchannels to keep everyone out of his corrupt business dealings.

[Martin Eden]

62. Instead of the Brown Shirts they will be the Orange Shirts

Then Trump and his minions can quickly change into orange jump suits when the time comes.