As senators roll up their sleeves to get to work on drastic revisions, or even abolishment, of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, other security abuses also must be addressed.
For example, the security system sent agents provocateur among Trump campaign aides in order to entrap them into doing or saying something that would justify federal espionage against a rival political campaign.
In addition, FBI and intelligence agency people have been misusing the media in order to push through slyly spun stories that only later turn out to have been overstated. That is, news people have acted as though they are taking direction from security agencies in a campaign to subvert Donald Trump's presidency.
Then there is the matter of cooked intelligence that was used to justify a Tomahawk missile strike against Syria along with intelligence system pressure to have a UN monitoring agency issue a fake report exonerating the spies.
In addition, we have the specter of Red China working with U.S. cyber firms as it institutes draconian anti-freedom surveillance controls on its populace. How soon will it be before the loss of privacy and fourth amendment protections already experienced by Americans balloons into the horror show looming in China?
The time has arrived for a top-to-bottom rethink of America's security system, and security problems, both inside and outside government.
As a number of GOP politicians have said of the current national security scandal, "This can never be allowed to happen again."
For example, the security system sent agents provocateur among Trump campaign aides in order to entrap them into doing or saying something that would justify federal espionage against a rival political campaign.
In addition, FBI and intelligence agency people have been misusing the media in order to push through slyly spun stories that only later turn out to have been overstated. That is, news people have acted as though they are taking direction from security agencies in a campaign to subvert Donald Trump's presidency.
Then there is the matter of cooked intelligence that was used to justify a Tomahawk missile strike against Syria along with intelligence system pressure to have a UN monitoring agency issue a fake report exonerating the spies.
In addition, we have the specter of Red China working with U.S. cyber firms as it institutes draconian anti-freedom surveillance controls on its populace. How soon will it be before the loss of privacy and fourth amendment protections already experienced by Americans balloons into the horror show looming in China?
The time has arrived for a top-to-bottom rethink of America's security system, and security problems, both inside and outside government.
As a number of GOP politicians have said of the current national security scandal, "This can never be allowed to happen again."
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