{"id":28580,"date":"2017-12-05T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28580"},"modified":"2017-12-05T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:00:43","slug":"trump-white-house-weighing-plans-for-private-spies-to-counter-deep-state-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28580","title":{"rendered":"Trump White House Weighing Plans For Private Spies to Counter “Deep State” Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WEIGHING PLANS FOR PRIVATE SPIES TO COUNTER \u201cDEEP STATE\u201d ENEMIES<\/a><\/h3>\n
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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION<\/u> is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a\u00a0retired CIA officer \u2014 with assistance from Oliver North, a\u00a0key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal \u2014 to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials and others familiar with the proposals. The sources say the plans have been pitched to the White House as a means of countering\u00a0\u201cdeep state\u201d enemies in the intelligence community seeking to undermine Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n

The creation of such a program raises the possibility that the effort would be used to create an intelligence apparatus to justify the Trump administration\u2019s political agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cPompeo can\u2019t trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him,\u201d said a former senior U.S. intelligence official with\u00a0firsthand knowledge of the proposals, in describing White House discussions. \u201cIt is a direct-action arm, totally off the books,\u201d this person said, meaning the intelligence collected would not be shared with the rest of the CIA or the larger intelligence community. \u201cThe whole point is this is supposed to report to the president and Pompeo directly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver North, who appears frequently on Trump\u2019s favorite TV network, Fox News,\u00a0was enlisted to help sell the effort to the administration. He was the \u201cideological leader\u201d brought in to lend\u00a0credibility, said the former senior intelligence official.<\/p>\n

Some of the individuals involved with the proposals secretly met with major Trump donors asking them to help finance operations before any official contracts were signed.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Jacquelyn Martin\/AP TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WEIGHING PLANS FOR PRIVATE SPIES TO COUNTER \u201cDEEP STATE\u201d ENEMIES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a\u00a0retired CIA officer \u2014 with assistance from Oliver North, a\u00a0key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal \u2014 to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81,135,199,7844,17353,17351,17350,15128,17354,17352,877],"class_list":["post-28580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-blackwater","tag-cia","tag-deep-state","tag-donald-trump","tag-erik-prince","tag-jeremy-swahili","tag-matthew-cole","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-oliver-north","tag-spies","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28581,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580\/revisions\/28581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}