David Cearley
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

The executive and legislative are directly answerable to the electorate, and the Judicial, indirectly. Who are the intelligence services accountable to? Obama used them to collect intelligence on his political opponents. We’ve had numerous leaks of private conversations, gathered by those intelligence services of Trump team members, and Flynn was fired due to leaks surrounding his private conversations with the Russian ambassador.

I know progressives are quite happy about all that, but what happens when the shoe is on the other foot, when the intelligence services decide to take down a political opponent? What happen when an elected leader wants to pursue a foreign policy path intelligence service operatives are opposed to?