Intelligence community. Cia, dia, nsaitibir and over 1,000 other affiliated Government Agencies with even more obscure acronyms. By the time your Intelligence Bureau get big enough to be a, quote, community, you may have a problem. Insofar as most of us ever think about intelligence agents we think of 007, ie, its supposed to be a very low number, which suggests that this is an elite activity for a small number of persons. When you have, as america does, some 5 Million people with a security clearance, thats equivalent to the entire population of immediately to all running around thinking they are james bond. You have a dark, bloated bureaucracy with massive powers to violate the privacy of anyone they want to. They should be using this against foreigners, the massive expansion of 24 7 Surveillance State since 9 11 has done nothing for Americas Position in the world. We know so little about afghan adversaries that we have taken 20 years to lose the goat heads with fertilizing. China kn
President biden rejected the premise that a Taliban Takeover Of Afghanistan is inevitable as a thai group makes rapid advances amid the u. S. And now also british withdrawal. I will not send another generation of americans to War In Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome. The u. S. Mission in afghanistan will end august 31st, 12 days sooner than the 20th anniversary of 9 11. President bidens first deadline. Biden says he trusts the Afghan Military can defend itself from the threat of a taliban takeover and at this stage its the responsibility of the afghan people, not the u. S. , to nationbuild. They have the capacity. They have the forces. They have the equipment. The question is will they do it . The president highlighted the strengths of 300,000 afghan troops versus some 75,000 taliban. But brittled at this question. You trust the taliban, sir . Is that a serious question . Followed by a fuller answer. Do i trust the taliban . No. But i trust the
dangerous. i hope that as a nation watches, that we put this light on this to say that this should sound the alarm across the nation, that we are entering into very dangerous territory. one of the two democrats in tennessee expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse we re going to have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill, one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena for the this isn t going to work well for jim jordan the prosecutor is going to explain why he wrote a book saying that, actually, d.a. bragg didn t go after donald trump aggressively enough. but, you know, if you have them, smoke em, jimmy. yeah. this could backfire on jim jordan we ll explain. and we ll dig into the bombshell report exposing lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor. boy, willie, the clarence thomas stuff keeps coming out
law enforcement preparing for a possible trump indictment. agencies looking at this, several taking steps in case an indictment comes down. who is involved?n new york rath say, georgia the agencies include people and police that protect the new york court buildings, nypd and then this most interestingly, the u.s. secret service is involved in these preparations they protect former presidents, no matter he s what s happening they are discussing these plans. all of this is a response to the reports we have seen, like that new york times bombshell about a likely indictment. it s a response to the way trump s team has prepared for charges, attacking the d.a donald trump s lawyer is saying he will follow normal procedures if they get to the point of surrendering there will be no standoff at mar-a-lago here is what this means. the u.s. government is preparing for the possibility of the first indictment of a former president, a step that wasn t taken after the accusations that
hbo original series, real time with bill i all right all right. well, thank you very much thank you. very much. read this three that i think we ve gotten know why you re excited today. the supreme court has made a ruling, a good ruling. hey, i got one right. i said if you like your abortion pills, you can keep your abortion pills that s right we re talking about talking about the morning after pill actually there i guess somebody was it s considering actually getting rid of that, but no, they said, look, we took away roe versus wade, but we obviously need something where we can abort a child and when they said that they were looking directly at lauren bowlby means i course there was a dissenting opinion on the court. it was delivered in the customary, usual way. judge alito s wife made a flag about it i grim pride. yeah. so they got one, right. that s good. but then the same day we find out clarence thomas have been following this story. clarence thomas takes a lot of gif