From The Onion but true about taxpayer funded US intel employees: FBI Warns Memo Could Undermine Faith In Massive, Unaccountable Secret Agencies exempt from consequences, a rogue group of unelected persons carrying out extrajudicial missions for a variety of occasionally personal reasons-The Onion

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2/1/18, "FBI Warns Republican Memo Could Undermine Faith In Massive, Unaccountable Government Secret Agencies," politics.theonion.com, Washington

"Stressing that such an action would be highly reckless, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that releasing the “Nunes Memo” could potentially undermine faith in the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies of the United States.

“Making this memo public will almost certainly impede our ability to conduct clandestine activities operating outside any legal or judicial system on an international scale,” said Wray, noting that it was essential that mutual trust exist between the American people and the vast, mysterious cabal given free rein to use any tactics necessary to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens or subvert religious and political groups. “If we take away the people’s faith in this shadowy monolith exempt from any consequences, all that’s left is an extensive network of rogue, unelected intelligence officers carrying out extrajudicial missions for a variety of subjective, and occasionally personal, reasons.” 

At press time, Wray confirmed the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies were unaware of any wrongdoing for violating constitutional rights."


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