Jay Stanley on an American Civil Liberties Union web site, began an article, probably written in 2017, this way -
"President-elect Donald Trump’s criticism of the intelligence community over its reports of Russian hacking during the 2016 election has generated a lot of commentary over what is being described as a “feud” between Trump and the intelligence agencies.
"Beyond all of the questions about the Russians, their relationship with Trump, their role in the election, etc., there is another element of this story that is also raising very frightening questions about the state of our democracy.
""An example of what I’m talking about emerged when Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer was asked by Rachel Maddow about Trump’s spurning of the agencies’ findings. Trump is “taking these shots, this antagonism, this taunting to the intelligence community,” Maddow pointed out. The response by Schumer—who has been in Congress since 1980, and in the Senate leadership for ten years, and presumably knows his way around Washington—should send a chill through the heart of every American:
Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.
"Some may argue that Trump is not serving his country well by not giving more respect to the intelligence community. But whether or not that is true, if it’s really the case that dissing the intelligence community might result in retaliation by that community against a politician, then the lines of power in our political system have become dangerously distorted."
It turns out, the American intel operatives were active in getting the fake Russian collusion story into a FISA court, and soon a Special Council was appointed, one that kept the newly elected Trump Administration on the defensive for its first 2 years in office, though with Speaker of the House Republican Paul Ryan - a hate Trumper, the new Administration would have had difficulty enacting its programs anyway.
Skip to October 2020, shortly before election day .
When the NY Post began its expose of the Hunter Biden laptop, Blinken, then working for the Dems, called some intel friends, and soon 51 US Intel agents signed a LIE TO HELP BIDEN WIN AND TRUMP LOSE THE 2020 ELECTION. These included the head of the CIA, and other leaders from other intel agencies. They had not examined the laptop, but assured the American public that it was Russian disinformation; worse, the intel agents got big tech to squash the story before the Nov. 2020 election. When Hunter finally when to trial some years later, NO ONE QUESTIONED THE VALIDITY OF THE LAPTOP. Let me emphasize, just before election day 2020, the NY Post published a story on parts of the Hunter laptop, that exposed both the corruption of Hunter, and presumably his father Joe Biden, the man then running for President against Trump. Blinken, who was then working for the Democratic Party, asked friends in Intel for help. Without examining the Hunter laptop, they LIED, say it was Russian disinformation, and they pressured the tech stories to censure and ban the story. 51 leaders in American intelligence organizations, including the chief of the CIA, LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN ORDER TO ELECT DEMOCRAT BIDEN AND DEFEAT TRUMP! American Intel purposely denied the American voters vital information that could have swayed the election in favor of Trump. Is this what the Democrats call democracy??? Are our intelligence agencies active in the election contest of today? This election campaign, there have been at least 2 assassins trying to kill Trump. Did they get help from American intel agencies? The agencies do not have to use one of their own for such a job. In the US there are crazies of all beliefs, some on the left, on the right, up or down. The agencies can just let the protection down and let a crazy get through, to shoot and kill. Is this what happened in Butler, PA? Time to open up the assassination files on Pres. John Kennedy. Pompeo, former head of the CIA, pled with Trump not to do so, for it would be a catastrophe, Pompeo said. Trump caved and failed on his promise; Trump did not open all the files. Time to curb govt agencies that have ceased to represent the American people and instead have become the KGB of the Democratic Party. THE ISSUE TODAY IS, WHO RULES AMERICA? THE CITIZENS OR THE UNELECTED INTEL AGENCIES?????
Kamala gave her speech in Washington saying Trump wants to be a dictator and jail his opponents, meanwhile Trump is facing around 700 years in prison with all the Dem. charges against him, while some of his advisors like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon have recently been released from prison while Democrats who faced similar charges never went to jail. Former Mayor of NYC Giuliani faces pauperism thanks to more political trials. The Democrats call Trump a new Hitler and racist. But the Democrats are the party of racism in America. The Democrats were the party of slavery, of the Confederacy, of the Ku Klux Klan, of the "Solid South" (make sure there are no Republicans allowed to take office), the party of segregation. Eventually, the old message failed, but unlike the Republicans who demanded equal rights, the Democrats remained the racist party, THEY SIMPLY CHANGED RACES. To give them more power, they got to determining who was one of the favored races, what percent of advantage they would have, and all other kinds of rewards and punishments, and throw in sex, and trans, and other categories into the pot, and the Democrats, weighing each and how much they should get, becomes ever more powerful, and with INTEL friends, do they really need the votes of deplorables, and what Pres. Biden just called (white trash) "garbage" anymore? The Democrats have Intel, the media, Hollywood, academia, and now, the military-industrial complex, and it's favored races, ethnicities, sexes, and millions of invading illegal aliens, etc. It no longer needs the votes of American citizens to win. Or does it?
If Trump wins, and/or if he is allowed to win, it will be a whole new ball game!!!