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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRand Paul Torches the 'Deep State' Over His Exclusion from CIA Saudi Briefing: The Intel Community..
Rand Paul Torches the Deep State Over His Exclusion from CIA Saudi Briefing: The Intel Community is an Oligarchyby Ken Meyer | Dec 4th, 2018, 12:42 pm
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is railing against the deep state over the limitations on CIA Director Gina Haspels briefing to lawmakers on Saudi Arabia.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Paul ranted about being denied a briefing with Haspel on the latest developments in the investigation of Jamal Khashoggis death. Haspel was conspicuously absent from last weeks briefing on the matter to the entire Senate, and today, Paul said that intelligence officials withholding information from Congress is the very definition of the deep state.
Paul made his point by saying Congress has to know if the reports are true about the CIAs high confidence assessment on the Saudi Royal Familys involvement in Khashoggis murder. When Paul was asked if he blames the White House at all for supposedly restricting Haspel, he continued to blast the intelligence community by comparing them to an oligarchy.
The definition of the deep state is when intelligence communities have so much power that theres no oversight, Paul said. There are eight people in congress who get briefings on intelligence. Thats not democracy.
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Rand Paul Torches the 'Deep State' Over His Exclusion from CIA Saudi Briefing: The Intel Community.. (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2018
OP
Maybe I missed something, but wasn't Haspel not allowed to brief the entire Senate?
dameatball
Dec 2018
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Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)1. Go kiss a freaking lawnmower
Can't stand that goof.
dameatball
(7,399 posts)2. Maybe I missed something, but wasn't Haspel not allowed to brief the entire Senate?
If so, what is he bitching about? McConnell controls the Senate, not the CIA.
Celerity
(43,462 posts)8. No, she refused to brief the whole Senate. She only briefed a small group
today.
dameatball
(7,399 posts)11. Okay, thanks.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)3. Can't diss Dear Leader for blocking the briefing by his lackey Haspel...
so blame the imaginary and paranoiac conspiracy for your hurt feeweeings.
chillfactor
(7,578 posts)4. Cry baby!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)5. Buy a home in Russia.
pecosbob
(7,542 posts)6. So now, at least in Rand Paul's mind, Trump is Deep State...
Just a reminder Rand...Haspel works for Gump.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)7. Okay Rand, then change the rules
What an impotent little crybaby.
2naSalit
(86,715 posts)9. Hahahahaha!!!
Serves you right, you little traitor.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)10. Rand "I'd Rather Be a Russian than a Democrat" Paul?
Rand Paul Continues His One-Man Détente With Russia, This Time in Moscow
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/us/politics/rand-paul-moscow-russia.html
Guess no one trusts the traitor.