It was revealed last week that President Trump intends to significantly downsize the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with 1,200 deep-staters reportedly losing their jobs.
"These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the agency with renewed energy, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and better position the CIA to deliver on its mission," the CIA said after news of the firings became public.
Additionally, the National Security Agency (NSA) will lose thousands of jobs as more career bureaucrats hit the unemployment line, and the Republican Party that supported a massive expansion of the federal bureaucracy after the Sept. 11 attacks is put down for good. The CIA's actions have been especially egregious over the years, with many of the federal government's most embarrassing and counterproductive blunders taking place at their behest.
In the 1950s, the CIA facilitated a coup d'etat in Iran that replaced democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh with the brutal Shah of Iran because the Shah was more amenable to corporate interests involved in the oil trade. After the Iranian public rose to overthrow the Shah, they replaced him with an Islamic theocracy that continues to give the U.S. and the state of Israel major problems to this day.
The CIA's fingerprints were all over the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, when it is widely believed that the Agency facilitated drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan Contras that fueled the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. Intrepid reporting by renegade reporter Gary Webb substantiated these claims before his reputation was systematically destroyed by the mainstream media, ending with his eventual "suicide."
The CIA has been hard at work in the Middle East in recent years. During the Obama regime, the CIA was giving weapons to extremist groups to overthrow regimes in Libya and Syria. Because of a lack of appropriate oversight or perhaps nefarious motives, these weapons frequently ended up in the hands of ISIS and precipitated their brutal rise in the region. When Trump became President, he promptly ended the CIA's program to give weapons to terrorists, and ISIS practically disappeared immediately.
Only a sliver of the CIA's behavior is known to the public. It continues to exert influence in many unforeseen ways over political affairs, domestic and abroad. After it became clear immediately during his first presidential term that Trump was no deep state pawn, Sen. Chuck Schumer once ominously stated that when "you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you, so even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman [like Trump], he's being dumb to do this."
President Trump has paid a significant cost for being an independent leader unwilling to be cowed by shadowy forces within the deep state. Trump was the victim of multiple assassination attempts on the campaign trail, with the possibility that there is more to what occurred than the typical "lone gunman" story. The last President to be assassinated, John F. Kennedy., reportedly stated his intent to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds" shortly before his head exploded on Dealey Plaza in Dallas by what government investigators determined to be a magic bullet.
President Trump has shown an almost superhuman knack for being unthwarted by the CIA and other tendrils of the federal cthulhu. Trump has emerged from the worst they could throw at him with a mandate to take a wrecking ball to the entire rotten system. The firing of thousands of bureaucrats is just the beginning of a gargantuan task that will restore the rule of law to the Republic. Frequently called the destroyer of democracy by confused propagandized liberals, Trump will ultimately be the redeemer of democracy by shuttering the permanent state that lurks perpetually in the shadows.
There cannot be a real democracy when every elected official is held hostage to a secret government that has zero accountability, operates with extreme recklessness, and demonstrates a gleeful willingness to crush or dominate its enemies. The notion that entities like the CIA exist to protect American national security is false. They are why enmity builds abroad against the U.S. They are why America has growing national strife and disunity. They are the cancer that must be cut out of this country and deserve to be the first alphabet-soup bureaucracy dismantled by the Trump administration.
