The Blue Pill.

[Ninurta]

Cheers Ninurta, it's just that if any of the reports that come to light occasionally are true, then who were
the agency actually trying to benefit? Is it spying on US citizens or is that just collateral damage of something
unsaid?

What I'm aiming at is are these agencies serving their country and just sometimes, a slain person or explosion
is mere fallout of the greater-good...? or is it more about improving their own private collective because of
a 'bigger' agenda?!

Well, this is my best guess, but only a guess -

Some, those of the better sort, or lower ranks, or brand new fodder, actually believe they are working for me, my wife, the neighbor, the grocer (and the bag-boy at the grocery store), the guy who changes my tires and fixes my brakes, etc - in short, they believe they are working for "The People", and act accordingly.

The further one rises in the ranks, the more that changes. They seem to go through a period where they are working for their own agency (against all comers, some times), and on past that for "the gummint" (but AGAINST "The People", seemingly they've forgotten who owns "the gummint" in theory, so they tend to separate the two into two distinct, and opposed, entities), and beyond that, it gets... murky.

Add into that mix the "many headed hydra" I mentioned above, and soon you will come to the conclusion that even THEY don't really know "who they're working for".

Now, when you mention "their own private collective", and you're not wrong there, it becomes a matter of identifying just what that collective encompasses, in each individual case. Some do appear to be being directed by "a bigger agenda", as you aptly observe, but there isn't just one agenda, and some times (most times), those agendas are at cross-purposes.

This is, in part, why I found it hilarious when news agencies were reporting that "17 separate US intelligence agencies" ALL came to the conclusion that Russia had hacked the US elections. First, I do not even know of 17 separate US intelligence agencies, and second, I would find it amazing, and not just a little suspicious, if any TWO of them came to agreement on anything at all, including what to have for lunch.

That sparked my interest, enough to get hold of the intelligence report and read it, which is when I found out it said no such thing, nor did it include "17 separate US intelligence agencies". THAT led me in another direction... if these agencies were not saying what was being claimed they said, then WHO was the actual source?

I submit that when you find that out, you will be a lot closer to determining "who they are working for", at least in the popular imagination.

I believe, personally, that none of the intelligence agencies - however many there may be - are the problem. I believe that the problem stems from the so-called "Deep State" and their "information dissemination organs". You see, no matter the source of an item of "information", or even the content of that item, whatever the masses can be made to BELIEVE is what rules their emotions... and THAT is governed by how and when the story, official or not, TRUE or not, is fed to said masses. "Getting it out there" bypasses intelligence agencies altogether - they are irrelevant to the mechanism.

To find the Puppet Masters, and their bigger agenda, don't wasted time looking at a few infighting intelligence agencies - that is just a smoke screen, a means of distracting attention from the real shakers and movers, and their real and verified (enough for me, anyhow) assaults on the populace.

James Clapper is a dick. Worse, he is a has-been dick. He's just a dick in search of Viagra to "replace" a potency he never had in the first place. He is a mouth-piece for the Movers and Shakers, someone they can use as a convenient "source" to get their misinformation out into the public via their controlled "news" agencies.

Clapper is no more than a tool, a crowbar to be brandished by Those Who Move Behind the Scenes when they need a new bit of "data", designed and created to support the narrative they want to create, "released" to John Q. Public (whenever they can't get any actual intel people to play ball). His ONLY value to them is that he was, once upon a time, DCI. They simply use that to tie him to "intelligence agencies" to promote the narrative that somehow, these "intelligence agencies" have concluded whatever Clapper is told to say that they've concluded. Who would know better than a DCI?

And so it goes. Ignore the little man behind the curtain.


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