What Is Going On With The CIA?

[SamuelTheThird]

Wyden Expresses “Deep Concerns about CIA Activities” in Classified Letter

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, the longest-serving member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today transmitted a classified letter to CIA Director John Ratcliffe regarding CIA activities.

“I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today, in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities,” Wyden wrote in an unclassified letter to Ratcliffe.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

1. There was more about this at Wonkette today,

"Something Bad Is Afoot"
https://www.wonkette.com/p/something-bad-is-afoot

[Dan]

2. Another part of the Trump plan to neuter the US of A to the benefit of Trump's master Putin.

[rubbersole]

3. Tulsi has Vlad on speed dial.

[erronis]

6. Actually, Vlad has Tulsi on "instant death" if she doesn't carry out his wishes.

All the (r)epublicons know that their real master is in the Kremlin. And many believe that he has the power to cause misery and worse. The propaganda works on the lame brains.

[Iggo]

7. I knew she was an agent. But I didn't really think she was a spy.

Until now.

[rubbersole]

8. Malcolm Nance classifies her as an asset.

Same as donnie.

[TygrBright]

4. The entire national security infrastructure is going to have to be trashed and rebuilt after [Redacted] croaks. n/t

[iemanja]

5. My guess

They are being used domestically.

[erronis]

9. Do you think they are under the GRU or FSB?

Maybe we can find the payment trail to Gabbard. That trail is already public knowledge for the peeResident, et. al.

[thought crime]

10. Turning government institutions into a "Dark State"

At the least, the Trump administration is causing long term damage to the government. At worst, it is infiltrating the government with far right ideologues who could cause problems lasting very far into the future.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. Follow up story:

https://www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-only-talks-like-this-when-the-spies-do-something-real-bad/

The vaguer Ron Wyden is, the worse things are. And yesterday, Wyden released maybe the vaguest warning I've ever seen him release.

It's a short letter. It's a letter about a letter. Specifically, it's a letter to CIA Director John Ratcliffe to alert Ratcliffe to a classified letter Wyden also sent. Now, that's not quite right. It's not really a letter to Ratcliffe. It's a public record that can be released to you, via reporters like me, noting that Wyden sent a classified letter to the CIA director about the "deep concerns [he has] about CIA activities."

That is (a) exceptionally vague and (b) concerns CIA activities, plural.

-snip-

All I can tell you is that Wyden's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. Never once in the many years I have been reporting on Wyden have I ever encountered a warning of his to be hyperbolic, let alone baseless. Wyden is the only senator on the intelligence committee I have consistently found trustworthy and appropriately focused, even when I disagree with him. Whatever he means here may not be known for years. But I have never known Wyden to point to smoke that doesn't emerge from a five-alarm fire.