The Deep State Danger

A trio of respected journalists, including two self-identified liberals, just released a disturbing report that demands serious attention.

According to their sources, elements of the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, launched a massive international “fishing expedition” into Donald Trump’s campaign in early 2016, well before the FBI began its bogus Russia collusion witch hunt.

But here’s the kicker: The CIA knew it was illegal to spy on domestic candidates, so it got the intelligence agencies of our “Five Eyes” allies – the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – to do their dirty work for them.

The report claims that then-CIA Director John Brennan personally selected as many as 26 individuals on the Trump campaign for foreign surveillance. There were efforts to entrap these individuals into doing or saying things that, at a minimum, could be used to justify “official” investigations.

Some of this information was previously known. But this additional context reveals that the Russian collusion hoax was much bigger than just the Clinton campaign colluding with James Comey’s corrupt FBI, and it went much deeper into the Deep State.

This gets us back to that bizarre White House meeting with Barack Obama, Joe Biden, James Comey and others, where, according to Susan Rice’s infamous memo, Obama insisted that everything was done “by the book.”

It also recalls other disturbing patterns we have seen over and over again: Government agencies increasingly spying on Americans and “subcontracting” to third parties, like Big Tech, to do what they know they are not supposed to do.

This raises the age-old question: Who is watching the watchers? Who is policing the people we have empowered to protect us from our enemies? Increasingly, it seems that no one is watching the watchers and that they see us as the “enemy.”

Whether it’s spying on parents at school board meetings, spying on conservative churches, targeting Americans who buy religious texts and other legal products, or pressuring social media companies to censor free speech and the truth, the Deep State is out of control!

These revelations demand a major investigation and major reforms of these rogue agencies.

Our country will survive occasional riots and crazy left-wing fads. But the greatest danger to democracy is a growing authoritarian surveillance state that recognizes no limits on its power and feels free to manipulate our elections.