Verrrry Interesting…But Sickening

Intelligence Inverted

August 28, 2022

Back in the day, I was among many on the Left who were perpetually suspicious about the dealings of the United States intelligence community – FBI, CIA, NSA, and all the other even more secretive organizations whose names were not known – which had a verifiable history of skullduggery at home and abroad. At the root of our suspicions, nay our displeasure, was their mission to protect the wealthy and powerful. Not to mention their penchant for assassination, regime change and corporate subjugation of developing nations. My, how times change…sort of.

On the flip side of this, just as many on the Left are essentially forced to root for Intel community as they fight back white supremacists, white nationalists and would-be theocratic autocrats, maybe the Feds are beginning to miss the good old days when all they had to do was infiltrate Hippies and Yippies.

Unlike today’s malcontents, who are a bunch of twisted neo-fascists, armed to the teeth with military-style weapons, heads full of conspiracy theories, Adderal, oxycontin and if they’ve even read it, a dangerous, twisted interpretation of the Constitution.

There is no reason to doubt that the driving force behind the intel community remains what it has always been. But now it is those on the right who are not merely suspicious, but are threatening violence against the FBI. One lone weasel even attempted to attack FBI headquarters in Ohio; it did no go well for him.

Know What Else Is Verrrry Interesting?

A record number of American intelligence assets around the world have been lost over the past year. A year, might I remind you, that sits smack dab in the middle of the two years, give or take, since disgraced, twice-impeached, ex-one-term-president and failed insurrection leader Donald Judas Trump began stealing classified documents from the White House. Some of the documents he stole contained classified material on human intelligence sources – you know, American spies and foreign nationals who betray their oppressive, murderous governments on behalf of the United States. It was well reported that Trump divulged an unknown number of state secrets while in office – including jeopardizing an ongoing Israeli operation by blabbing intelligence (a word you would otherwise never associate with Trump) to top Russian officials/spies IN THE OVAL OFFICE, after banning American press from the event. 

It seems entirely possible that when a guy like that, who has demonstrated absolutely no allegiance to America, and has never hesitated to throw those loyal to him, or countries that voted for someone else, under the bus or any other convenient vehicle, illegally absconds with sensitive top-secret documents, there might be significant real-life consequences. Maybe it’s just a coincidence.

The Justice Department is in the process of determining exactly how much damage is being done by Trump’s theft and subsequent lax handling of critical documents (i.e., leaving them scattered about at Mor-on-Lardo, where anyone could access them, including in an unlocked basement closet – or as Trump describes it, the most secure place in the entire world).

I. Mangrey reporting. No classified documents were harmed in the making of this post.