The Post 9/11 Weaponization of The U.S. Govt

 The Department of Homeland Security came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was formed.

The Intelligence Branch holds power over the ODNI through their influence and partnership with the body that authorizes the power within it, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

You will see how it was critical to install a person uniquely skilled in being an idiot, James Clapper, into that willfully blind role while intelligence operatives worked around the office to assemble the Intelligence Branch of Government.

There is no entity outside the Intelligence Branch, and yes that includes the President of the United States, who can supersede the classification authority of the Intelligence Branch.

The Go8 oversight is directed to the position, not the person, and consists of: The Speaker of the House; The Minority Leader of the House; The Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, HPSCI; The Ranking Member of the HPSCI; The Leader of the Senate; The Minority Leader of the Senate; The Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, SSCI; and finally the Vice-Chair of the SSCI. Example: When the Chief Executive initiates an intelligence operation on behalf of the United States, the President triggers a "Finding memo." In essence, the instruction to the intel agency or agencies to authorize a covert operation.

Because of the sensitivity of their intelligence information, the Gang of Eight hold security clearances that permit them to receive and review all intelligence operations.

2021 Gang of Eight ~ The Go8 design is intended to put intelligence oversight upon both political parties in Congress; it is designed that way by informing the minority leaders of both the House and Senate as well as the ranking minority members of the SSCI and HPSCI. Under the concept, the President cannot conduct an intelligence operation; and the intelligence community cannot carry out intelligence gathering operations without the majority and minority parties knowing about it.

TECHNOLOGY - On a global scale - the modern intelligence gathering networks are now dependent on data collection to execute their intelligence missions.

Once you accept the digital-era intelligence apparatus of China, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, The United States and Israel, are now the primary national security mechanisms for stabilization of government; then you accept the importance of those intelligence operations.

Once you understand how foundational those modern intelligence operations have become for the stability and continuity of those governments then you begin to understand just how the United States intelligence community became more important than the government that created it.

The biggest names in Big Tech announced in June their partnership with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: monitor all activity in their platforms; identify extremist content; look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism; and then, put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies can access it. 

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