- “Pompeo can’t trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him,” said a former senior U.S. intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of the proposals, in describing White House discussions. “It is a direct-action arm, totally off the books,” this person said, meaning the intelligence collected would not be shared with the rest of the CIA or the larger intelligence community. “The whole point is this is supposed to report to the president and Pompeo directly.”
What could go wrong?!..(?@?!?@?#$*@#!?!)
I almost tagged this #startworkingoutsoyoucanfuckshitup
Only to spend the time and energy to come to the conclusion that Trump is most at fault for sabotaging the legitimacy of his presidency. I've actually seen the very same behaviors in some of my hyper-emotional, hormone-impaired eighth graders I teach each day.
Jeeeeeezus. And the Amyntor Group named in the article is based out of Whitefish, Montana. The same small town that is home to Whitefish Energy, who was the one awarded the fishy contract for rebuilding Puerto Rico's power grid. What the hell is going on in that town? Why does this feel like a Tom Clancy novel? In a 2007 email, with the subject “Possible Opportunity in DEA—READ AND DELETE,” Prado sought to pitch the network to the Drug Enforcement Administration, bragging that Blackwater had developed “a rapidly growing, worldwide network of folks that can do everything from surveillance to ground truth to disruption operations.” He added, “These are all foreign nationals (except for a few cases where US persons are the conduit but no longer ‘play’ on the street), so deniability is built in and should be a big plus.”