via Peter Speckmayer

via Peter Speckmayer

Originally shared by David Brin

If even a quarter of this is true, it demonstrates just how confident the top confederate plantation lords are, that they’ll be able to pretty much cancel or over-ride the American tradition of rule-of-law. Former Blackwater head (and Trump cabinet-brother) Erik Prince is apparently setting up - with Oliver North and financed by Trumpist oligarchs - a secret and private intelligence agency, intended to supply both information and ‘operations’ independent from our sworn officers in accountable agencies like the CIA and FBI. Those officers are deemed too much part of the reviled “deep state”… code for fact-users who are answerable to laws and Congressional oversight and a free citizenry, and not to deep-pocket oligarchs. Horrors. Can’t have that.

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/04/trump-white-house-weighing-plans-for-private-spies-to-counter-deep-state-enemies/

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/04/trump-white-house-weighing-plans-for-private-spies-to-counter-deep-state-enemies/