Post by the Scribe on Mar 30, 2020 23:08:00 GMT
Nov 5, 2016 9:13:11 GMT @ronstadtfanaz said:
I think we have a problem in this country with politics in our intelligence agencies. Not that it is anything new but once again they are back to their own tricks and messing with our politics as seen with the FBI's partisan October Surprise.. Our only saving grace in this election MIGHT (not guaranteed) be our Electoral College however all that needs to get things switched is to have one or two electoral states be convincingly flipped to give the election to Trump. The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and national security of the United States. Member organizations of the IC include intelligence agencies, military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments. The IC is headed by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who reports to the President of the United States.
Among their varied responsibilities, the members of the Community collect and produce foreign and domestic intelligence, contribute to military planning, and perform espionage. The IC was established by Executive Order 12333, signed on December 4, 1981, by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.[1]
The Washington Post reported in 2010 that there were 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States that are working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence, and that the intelligence community as a whole includes 854,000 people holding top-secret clearances.[2] According to a 2008 study by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, private contractors make up 29% of the workforce in the U.S. intelligence community and account for 49% of their personnel budgets.
Among their varied responsibilities, the members of the Community collect and produce foreign and domestic intelligence, contribute to military planning, and perform espionage. The IC was established by Executive Order 12333, signed on December 4, 1981, by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.[1]
The Washington Post reported in 2010 that there were 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States that are working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence, and that the intelligence community as a whole includes 854,000 people holding top-secret clearances.[2] According to a 2008 study by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, private contractors make up 29% of the workforce in the U.S. intelligence community and account for 49% of their personnel budgets.
Is all this talk about Russian interference and hacking into our elections a great excuse for Republican loving intelligence agencies to take control of our elections and change the results towards their favored candidate? Our voting machinery is easily hacked into and tallies changed. It happened with ease in 2004 in Bush's favor. To make it believable and easy to switch ALL THAT HAS TO BE DONE IS HAVE THE POLLING SHOW A RAZOR CLOSE ELECTION WITHIN THE 3% MARGIN and Americans will accept the results.
It is a well known fact how a large number of those in these agencies hate the Clintons, especially Hillary...a woman.
And it is not just the intelligence agencies. We have a very real problem in our military with CHRISTIAN SUPREMECY. AntiMUSLIM CHRISTIAN SUPREMECY.
I no longer recognize the Air Force Academy as the institution I attended almost four decades earlier. At that point, I had no idea how invasive this extreme evangelical "cancer" had become throughout the entire military, that what I had witnessed was far from an isolated case of a few religious zealots. www.alternet.org/story/67385/the_evangelical_christian_takeover_of_the_military
The Christian Taliban
March 28, 2004, By Stephen Pizzo, AlterNet www.theocracywatch.org/bush2.htm
During the Taliban rule of Afghanistan the world got a good look at what happens when religious zealots gain control of a government. Television images of women being beaten forced to wear burkas and banned from schools and the workplace helped build strong public support for the President's decision to invade Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11.
But even as President George W. Bush denounced the brutal Islamic fundamentalist regime in Kabul, he was quietly laying the foundations for his own fundamentalist regime at home. For the first time far right Christian fundamentalists had one of their own in the White House and the opportunity to begin rolling back decades of health and family planning programs they saw as un-Christian, if not downright sinful.
Since 2001 dozens of far-right Christian fundamentalists have been quietly installed in key positions within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Drug Administration and on commissions and advisory committees where they have made serious progress. Three years later this administration has established one of the most rigid sexual health agendas in the Western world.
March 28, 2004, By Stephen Pizzo, AlterNet www.theocracywatch.org/bush2.htm
During the Taliban rule of Afghanistan the world got a good look at what happens when religious zealots gain control of a government. Television images of women being beaten forced to wear burkas and banned from schools and the workplace helped build strong public support for the President's decision to invade Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11.
But even as President George W. Bush denounced the brutal Islamic fundamentalist regime in Kabul, he was quietly laying the foundations for his own fundamentalist regime at home. For the first time far right Christian fundamentalists had one of their own in the White House and the opportunity to begin rolling back decades of health and family planning programs they saw as un-Christian, if not downright sinful.
Since 2001 dozens of far-right Christian fundamentalists have been quietly installed in key positions within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Drug Administration and on commissions and advisory committees where they have made serious progress. Three years later this administration has established one of the most rigid sexual health agendas in the Western world.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/politics/ohio-pennsylvania-election-2016-hack/