https://politics.theonion.com/fbi-wa...ass-1822639681
The release:
WASHINGTON—Stressing that such an action would be highly reckless, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that releasing the “Nunes Memo” could potentially undermine faith in the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies of the United States. “Making this memo public will almost certainly impede our ability to conduct clandestine activities operating outside any legal or judicial system on an international scale,” said Wray, noting that it was essential that mutual trust exist between the American people and the vast, mysterious cabal given free rein to use any tactics necessary to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens or subvert religious and political groups. “If we take away the people’s faith in this shadowy monolith exempt from any consequences, all that’s left is an extensive network of rogue, unelected intelligence officers carrying out extrajudicial missions for a variety of subjective, and occasionally personal, reasons.” At press time, Wray confirmed the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies were unaware of any wrongdoing for violating constitutional rights.
Well said Onion. Well played indeed.
The same agency that is now worried about the release of any information by Congress is the same one that REFUSED to provide information to the legitimate oversight committees in Congress until they were finally on the cusp of contempt charges, and there is still a vast number of documents that have been withheld. They have systematically refused oversight, and thanks to Watergate there is this notion that basically NO ELECTED official has review of their actions. they say they don't answer to the President and they refuse to answer to Congress. Who the hell do they answer to then?
We've built an entity within the US government, DOJ and the FBI and Intelligence apparatus, that appears to actually not answer to anyone. Sort of like the Federal Reserve but with the power to violate the rights of any American if so inclined. They're a bizarre 4th branch of government and seem to clearly think they have no obligation to let anyone in elected office know what they are doing.
Yeah, these are the people I trust to tell us what we need to know. This bodes so very well for liberty.
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