Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said the deep state is exerting power over Congress and keeping information from him regarding the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Paul was discussing the highly anticipated Senate testimony of CIA Director Gina Haspel on “America’s Newsroom” Tuesday and said he and other lawmakers are being kept in the dark by intelligence agencies.
“To my mind this is the very definition of the deep state,” Paul said. (RELATED: Rand Paul Says Congressional Votes Are Rigged: They’re Counting The Votes In Advance)
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“The deep state is that the intelligence agencies do things, conclude things, make conclusions but then the elected officials are prevented from knowing about this.”
Paul said lawmakers can’t exercise oversight if they are kept out of the loop and warned against the growing size and influence of the deep state.
“If we aren’t told about this and I’m not allowed to know about these conclusions, then I can’t have oversight,” he said. “And so then state grows, the intelligence, the deep state grows and has more and more power.”
“I’ve read in the media that the CIA has said with high confidence that the crown prince was involved with killing Khashoggi,” Paul continued. “I have not seen that intelligence nor have I even seen the conclusions. And today there’s yet another briefing and I’m being excluded. So really, this is the deep state at work … that your representatives don’t know what is going on in the intelligence agencies.”
“Trying” to? There’s an archaic police term “on the pad” which referenced those pocket notebooks that were used to determine who got how much in illegal payoffs. I believe 80 plus percent of American politicians at every level are “on the pad”.
The number of honest ones can be counted on your 10 fingers.
I had never heard of that term before, Old Shoe. Thanks for the info.
What do you mean “Trying To?”
WTF nothing constructive / helpful / logical ever gets done. It’s the same status quo bullshit, day-in, day-out.
The people sure ain’t runnin’ the country – the Deep State must be. Unless you want to tell me nobody’s running the country – which could be plausible also.
Next is Khashoggi. Who gives a rats ass about this dude? It’s a non-issue.
One thing stands out to me though. Maybe Rand is upset about this, and maybe some others are upset about this. HOWEVER, Congress holds the purse strings.
Tell you what Rand, you want to get answers from the “deep state”? You, and the other reps that are tired of this, introduce a bill to STOP FUNDING IMMEDIATELY of ANY agency that will not report to congress when requested. Period.
Lets see how fast the “deep state” gets in line when a few reps start threatening their black budgets and bullshit “national security” money…..
Just saying….
the term “you’re going to get Khashoggi-ed” is what really gets Gina excited.
Rumor has it, she whispered this into Rand’s ear.
They are all compromised, and blackmailed, from the very first time they jerked off inside a casket, in the basement of the old skull and bones fraternity, while being filmed by the Bonesmen a/v crew.
these are the creatures that seek money and power in the political theater
Looks like Rand may be risking his life here. Was the attack on Rand by his neighbor a warning?
SamFox
Good question Sam. Why did that guy essentially “walk”?
Kennedy wanted to “scatter them to the wind” and instead his brain got scattered in the wind. Simply disbanding these agencies will NOT be sufficient.
Hey Rand….stir the shit up really good ? Tell them you want all of the members of CONGress to take a tour of Area 51 and you want to audit the books a well. Fuck….you’ll get the CIA guys on the range in no time…or the heart attack gun will be loaded for you…wonder if that thing is a semi-auto ?
Who gives a fuck about a foreign national getting offed by some two bit bunch of ex goat herders . Is anyone going to send their kids over there to fight the Saudi’s over this shit show ?
The CIA and other black ops groups were fine when we were fucking with other countries but now you’re worried they won’t answer you…to fucking funny .
If Rand, like his father, continues asking that the Fed get audited and an inventory of the U.S. gold stores be completed, he may disappear. I like Rand Paul, but I like Ron Paul much better.
Ha ha ha! Trying to? Don’t piss down my neck and tell me it’s raining. These people are beyond stupid.
Rand is no hero.
Why?
Because 25 years from now, he will be saying the same damn things, just like Nutty is still saying “Iran is months away from getting” the bomb 25 years later.
I’m sick of hearing about Jamal Khashoggi and could care less. The media and gov need to move on. Maybe they could go to Mexico next and investigate the journalists being killed there or in Turkey where they’re either killed or jailed. Some deep characters are trying hard to get the U.S. to break ties with the Saudis. I don’t know which side it is. I say break the ties to all of these Muslim states and get out of the wars there.
Edit: And send all the Muslim immigrants back to their own countries. We don’t want them.