{"id":32680,"date":"2018-03-22T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32680"},"modified":"2018-03-22T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:37:09","slug":"rand-paul-deep-state-exists-uses-intelligence-for-political-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32680","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington, D.C.\u2014 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Tuesday during an appearance on The Laura Ingraham Show podcast that the term \u201cdeep state\u201d accurately describes how an unelected bureaucracy of national security officials in positions of power exert influence without Congressional oversight.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely, there is a deep state, because the deep state is the intelligence agencies that do not have oversight,\u201d he said. \u201cOnly eight people in Congress know what they\u2019re doing, and traditionally, those eight people have been a rubber stamp to let the intelligence communities do whatever they want. There is no skeptic among the eight people that are supposedly overseeing the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cGang of Eight\u201d \u00a0that Paul referenced is made up of the majority and minority leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate, along with the chairmen and ranking members of the two intelligence committees, and are the select few members of Congress with real-time access to America\u2019s most sensitive intelligence.<\/p>\n

Paul pointed out that he believed Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others used intelligence collected \u201cwithout any judicial warrants\u201d for political purposes, in addition to \u201ctry to bring Trump down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Brennan and James Clapper were doing whatever the hell they wanted, without any judicial warrants, and I think there were numerous people in the Obama administration who were using intelligence \u2014 one, to try to bring Trump down; but two, also, they were using it for political purposes,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd this is very, very worrisome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul evidenced his point by noting Brennan\u2019s politicized tweet over the weekend calling Trump a corrupt demagogue, and promising that America would \u201ctriumph\u201d over him.<\/p>\n

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Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes Washington, D.C.\u2014 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Tuesday during an appearance on The Laura Ingraham Show podcast that the term \u201cdeep state\u201d accurately describes how an unelected bureaucracy of national security officials in positions of power exert influence without Congressional oversight. \u201cAbsolutely, there is a […]<\/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":[4102,135,199,19399,19398,19396,19397,4885,18637,2305,18640,827,1796,5906],"class_list":["post-32680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-deep-state","tag-director-of-national-intelligence","tag-dni","tag-gang-of-eight","tag-james-brennan","tag-james-clapper","tag-jay-syrmopoulos","tag-rand-paul","tag-truth-in-media","tag-united-states","tag-us-congress","tag-us-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32680","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=32680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32682,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32680\/revisions\/32682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}