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turbinetree

(27,735 posts)
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:20 AM Dec 2017

TRUMP IS LOOKING AT PLANS FOR A GLOBAL NETWORK OF PRIVATE SPIES

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Source: Vice News

By David Gilbert Dec 5, 2017
The White House is reportedly looking at a proposal to create a ghost network of private spies in hostile countries a way of bypassing the intelligence communitys deep state, which Donald Trump believes is a threat to his administration.

The network would report directly to the president and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and would be developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to multiple current and former officials speaking to The Intercept.

Pompeo cant trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him, a former senior U.S. intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of the proposals told the website.

Read more: https://news.vice.com/story/trump-network-private-spies



Erik Prince is a traitor,

Mike Pompeo is also a traitor

Oliver North is also a fucking traitor


This is just fucked up, that these people are that fucking paranoid and in power

2018 can't get here fast enough






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TRUMP IS LOOKING AT PLANS FOR A GLOBAL NETWORK OF PRIVATE SPIES (Original Post) turbinetree Dec 2017 OP
Oh yeah, Eric Prince is such a gem isn't he. YOHABLO Dec 2017 #1
If these spies are like the other people in this administration, we are Sneederbunk Dec 2017 #2
He's also looking at his shriveled dick ... NanceGreggs Dec 2017 #3
Trump spies would dig the dirt on anyone who criticizes him, like a true fascist, aided by Doodley Dec 2017 #4
Exactly. Like the STASI or KGB, pangaia Dec 2017 #10
I'm reminded of . . . Sam McGee Dec 2017 #5
fox propoganda spy network democratisphere Dec 2017 #6
How about no elections. Try that one on. Doitnow Dec 2017 #13
Didn't Hitler pull this same shit back in the 1930s? Botany Dec 2017 #7
Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, all the way to Putin. MAO to Xi.... pangaia Dec 2017 #11
336 Days MFM008 Dec 2017 #8
Please send Erik Prince into North Korea. nt NCjack Dec 2017 #9
Sounds to me like an excuse----really a network to spy on AMERICANS Doitnow Dec 2017 #12
Locking - duplicate thread muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #14
 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
1. Oh yeah, Eric Prince is such a gem isn't he.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:27 AM
Dec 2017

Sneederbunk

(17,640 posts)
2. If these spies are like the other people in this administration, we are
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:28 AM
Dec 2017

going to have a lot of Clouseaus.

NanceGreggs

(27,835 posts)
3. He's also looking at his shriveled dick ...
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:29 AM
Dec 2017

... while looking into plans to make it normal sized.

What he's proposing is unconstitutional.

Doodley

(12,079 posts)
4. Trump spies would dig the dirt on anyone who criticizes him, like a true fascist, aided by
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:35 AM
Dec 2017

the CIA director to use the CIA as a political weapon and run by Erik Prince who would be the de facto leader of what would be the most corrupt intelligence service in the western world and in American history.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
10. Exactly. Like the STASI or KGB,
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:47 AM
Dec 2017

This, like everything else, is no laughing matter.

 

Sam McGee

(347 posts)
5. I'm reminded of . . .
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:35 AM
Dec 2017

Eric Prince and Mike Pompeo will set up a private intelligence network.

Reminds me of an old-time radio show: "The Original Amateur Hour."

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
6. fox propoganda spy network
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:41 AM
Dec 2017

What's next? drumpf rewriting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by executive order.

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)
13. How about no elections. Try that one on.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 01:26 AM
Dec 2017

Botany

(77,863 posts)
7. Didn't Hitler pull this same shit back in the 1930s?
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:42 AM
Dec 2017

"deep state" = bigfoot

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
11. Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, all the way to Putin. MAO to Xi....
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:49 AM
Dec 2017

It is what authoritarian dictators do.

MFM008

(20,042 posts)
8. 336 Days
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:44 AM
Dec 2017

Until the 2018 elections...........................................................................................

to decide the fate of the maggot and his minions.

NCjack

(10,297 posts)
9. Please send Erik Prince into North Korea. nt
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:45 AM
Dec 2017

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)
12. Sounds to me like an excuse----really a network to spy on AMERICANS
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 01:24 AM
Dec 2017

who oppose Trump. He wants an enemies list for here first.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,599 posts)
14. Locking - duplicate thread
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 05:16 AM
Dec 2017

of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141926661 . Please continue discussion there. Thanks.

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