America's rogue intelligent agencies

 Since the Church Committee (Frank Church, Idaho Senator) findings in the 1970s, America's 666 intelligence agencies have one gotten even more intrusive, secretive and indefensible.

Just for the hell of it I did some digging on the findings of The Church Committee (Conservatives LOVED the CIA back in the day) and I came across the sworn testimony of this arrogant SOB, Richard Helms, who destroyed evidence of the CIA's mind control program among other nefarious deeds.

He belonged in the slammer.

During the recent debate in the House of Representatives on the publication of the CIA's budget Congressman Koch described an encounter with DCI Helms, in which Congressman Koch asked about the size of the CIA budget and the number of CIA employees, questions that DCI Helms told Congressman Koch "we don't answer." 

As Congressman Koch described it, he then asked Mr. Helms "Are you telling me that I, a Member of Congress, do not have the right to know what the budget is, so that when I vote, I do not know what I am voting on?" DCI Helms said, "Yes . . . The item is placed in some other larger item, and you do not know." 

Congressman Koch then asked, "Do you mean that it might be included under Social Security?", to which DCI Helms replied, "We have not used that one yet, but that is not a bad idea." 

Cong. Rec. H9359, daily ed., 10/1/75, remarks of Rep., Koch.)

When you hear members of The GOP on Tucker Carlson complaining abut the Deep State and the putative illegal actions of the intelligence agencies check to see if that elected official voted for re-authorisation of The Patriot Act.