{"id":143805,"date":"2021-04-30T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=135329"},"modified":"2021-04-30T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T08:49:13","slug":"the-cia-has-been-taking-over-for-decades-even-former-presidents-tried-to-warn-us-by-moderator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/30\/the-cia-has-been-taking-over-for-decades-even-former-presidents-tried-to-warn-us-by-moderator\/","title":{"rendered":"The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades\u2014Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us BY MODERATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 22, 1963 \u2014 exactly one month after President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, former President Harry S. Truman published an op-ed in the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>that most people, especially our perfumed ruling elite, wanted to ignore.<\/p>\n

Truman, who signed the CIA into existence just after World War II,\u00a0wrote<\/a>, \u201cI think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency\u2014the CIA. [\u2026] For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas. \u2026There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only did that adorn the pages of the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>one month after JFK\u2019s death, Truman hand wrote the first draft just one\u00a0week\u00a0<\/em>after JFK met up with a bunch of bullets in Dallas. Sure, one may wish Harry had sent his thoughts to John a month\u00a0before\u00a0<\/em>the President\u2019s televised execution. Maybe he could\u2019ve sent a singing telegram or something. But let\u2019s at least give Truman partial credit for the belated message.<\/p>\n

Before his death President Kennedy also held no love for the Central Intelligence Agency. Following the calamitous Bay of Pigs invasion,\u00a0Kennedy said<\/a>\u00a0he wanted to \u201csplinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Point being, clearly Truman, who created the CIA, and Kennedy, who met a mysterious untimely end by professional killers, knew the agency had run amok.<\/p>\n

Yet the CIA is still here, bigger and filled with more Bond villains than ever, and now they have a whole cavalcade of other intelligence agencies working with them. The Intelligence Community just recently\u00a0put out a report<\/a>\u00a0that showed that their component agencies are indeed working to surveil, harass, and attack an assortment of U.S. citizens. This particular\u00a0report from the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines<\/a>\u00a0was written in consultation with the CIA, the FBI, the DIA, the DHS, and a partridge in a pear tree. (An evil, kinda dastardly partridge. Not a good partridge at all. Like the kind of partridge that would eat the last pickle and then put the jar back in the fridge, so that later when you\u2019re excited to grab a delicious crispy pickle, there\u2019s nothin\u2019 there but a jar full of pickle urine. So yeah, the\u00a0worst<\/em>\u00a0partridge.)<\/p>\n

The new\u00a0report stated<\/a>, \u201cThe Intelligence Community assesses that domestic violent extremists who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the U.S. pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n

Journalist Glenn Greenwald\u00a0wrote of the report<\/a>, \u201cIt makes clear that its target encompasses a wide range of groups from the left (Antifa, animal rights and environmental activists, pro-choice extremists and anarchists: those who oppose capitalism and all forms of globalization) to those on the right (sovereign citizen movements, anti-abortion activists and those deemed motivated by racial or ethnic hatreds).\u201d<\/p>\n

Leave it to our stellar Intelligence Community to group together animal rights activists \u2014 who have killed essentially\u00a0no one<\/em>\u00a0ever \u2014 with racial hatred extremists \u2014 the perpetrators of just about every mass shooting or American terror attack\u00a0this century<\/em>. Such a comparison is like saying the 15-year-old who puts a thumb tack on his teacher\u2019s chair is the same as a U.S. military drone aircraft in that they\u2019re both trying to cause harm. Ummm, I think one may cause\u00a0slightly\u00a0<\/em>more harm than the other.<\/p>\n

And freeing animals isn\u2019t\u00a0harm<\/em>\u00a0to begin with. What kind of person sees someone release a cow and yells, \u201cWhoa! That\u2019s\u00a0just like<\/em>\u00a0a bomb going off in an elementary school!\u201d<\/p>\n

On top of that, the CIA and their wannabes are surveilling and grouping alongside domestic terrorists anyone who points out capitalism causes\u00a0a lot\u00a0<\/em>of problems. Such an analysis is just, well, fact. Capitalism is an economic system requiring infinite growth on a planet with finite resources \u2014 so at the end of the day, it can\u00a0only\u00a0<\/em>result in epic collapse. That\u2019s not an opinion. That\u2019s just how it is. (Sidenote: It would be totally cool, FBI, if you could stop watching me through my iPhone camera. \u2026How about at least not when I\u2019m on the toilet? \u2026Please?)<\/p>\n

Greenwald said<\/a>, \u201cTo the Department of Homeland Security, an \u2018extremist\u2019 is anyone who opposes the current prevailing ruling class and system for distributing power. Anyone they believe is prepared to use violence, intimidation or coercion in pursuit of these causes then becomes a \u2018domestic violent extremist,\u2019 subject to a vast array of surveillance, monitoring and other forms of legal restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coercion? Well, shit \u2014\u00a0I\u2019m<\/em>\u00a0willing to use coercion to change our class structure! I think I almost named my TV show\u00a0Coercion to Bring Down the Class Structure with Lee Camp<\/em>. I guess that makes me a\u00a0domestic violent extremist?!<\/em>\u00a0How\u2019s this for irony: you could be named a domestic violent extremist for\u00a0non-violently<\/em>\u00a0protesting to\u00a0end war.<\/em>\u00a0That\u2019s like being called an\u00a0addict<\/em>\u00a0for watching too many \u201cSay No To Drugs\u201d commercials.<\/p>\n

But the larger point here \u2014 which the mainstream media intentionally avoids discussing \u2014 is that the CIA is expressly forbidden from operating domestically. It\u2019s not supposed to be in\u00a0our<\/em>\u00a0living rooms. It\u2019s supposed to be in\u00a0their<\/em>\u00a0living rooms! (You can\u2019t see it, but I\u2019m pointing furiously in the other direction, clearly implying the living rooms of other countries. If you were in my living room as I type this, you\u2019d understand. \u2026I don\u2019t know why you\u2019d be here. That would be weird since I don\u2019t know you. But, as long as you\u2019re here, can you take out the trash?)<\/p>\n

The only people in Congress voicing concerns about this latest report are ten Republicans, which is pathetic for many reasons, not least of which being that Republicans haven\u2019t gotten anything right since before\u2026 ummm\u2026 Wow, this is their first time. Good for you guys. Even a blind squirrel finds your nuts sometimes! \u2026Or wait, not\u00a0your\u00a0<\/em>nuts. Someone else\u2019s nuts. \u2026Don\u2019t quote me on that.<\/p>\n

Greenwald\u00a0pointed out<\/a>\u00a0how nefarious things are getting. \u201cThe Biden administration, along with leading Democrats such as Adam Schiff, have been stating explicitly that one of their top priorities is the adoption of new laws designed to import the Bush\/Cheney\/Obama War on Terror onto U.S. soil for domestic purposes. As recently as February 14, The Washington Post published an article titled \u2018The agency founded because of 9\/11 is shifting to face the threat of domestic terrorism.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

I know it might be easy to read that and think, \u201cGood! They\u2019re going to arrest those damn domestic terrorists.\u201d But \u2014 and I can\u2019t stress this enough \u2014 we need another \u201cwar on terror\u201d about as much as we need a hole in the head, or a venereal disease, or another Sarah Palin. The War on Terror has been an utter disaster for any country on the ass end of it. So why would any American want our own citizens to be on the ass end of the next one?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing like bringing overseas disasters back home. While we\u2019re at it, let\u2019s build some Fukushima-style nuclear plants on the coast of California.<\/p>\n

Point being, violence is\u00a0already illegal<\/em>. Planning to harm people is\u00a0already illegal<\/em>. Hence, domestic terrorism is\u00a0already illegal<\/em>. The Intelligence Community already has loads of power and money and weapons and people. They don\u2019t need\u00a0more<\/em>. They already violate our rights and our privacy and our freedom on a regular basis. They don\u2019t need to do it\u00a0more<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Remember, fascism will come to America wrapped in an American flag, holding a cross, dressed in a skimpy outfit, cradling a bucket of KFC fried chicken, and giving out free handies. Or, as\u00a0Greenwald put it<\/a>, \u201cThere are few dangers more acute than the weaponization of these security-state-instruments against U.S. citizens for political ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

For generations the Intelligence Community has been a runaway truck \u2014 crushing everything in its path, creating coups around the world, killing thousands, and intruding on the lives of average citizens. As I already mentioned, even the president who created the CIA and dropped atomic bombs on people \u2014 even\u00a0that guy<\/em>\u00a0felt the CIA was a grave danger to the American experiment. Those concerns started just after he saw a president get whacked live on prime time. I wonder why.<\/p>\n

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December 22, 1963 \u2014 exactly one month after President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, former President Harry S. Truman published an op-ed in the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0that most people, especially our perfumed ruling elite, wanted to ignore. Truman, who signed the CIA into existence just after World War II,\u00a0wrote, \u201cI think it has become necessary to More<\/a><\/p>\n

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