On 2/15/20, Robert Hettinga <hettinga@gmail.com> wrote:
The President of the United States should control Intelligence by the very means by which he controls all other parts of the National Security establishment: The National Security Council. That is, assuming that he controls it, and not the other way around.
The US President does control many such things, including the entire DOJ, military, CIA, NSA, FBI, perhaps most other departments and Executive functions not otherwise stipulated in faux Legislative law actually usurped by untested Constitutional Law... Treasury, IRS, etc... you decide the undecided. Whether they wisely assume all such designed authority, with cojones, is another issue entirely. Most do not posess such a bag. Trump is an interesting recent foray, yet not yet particularly definitive. A more independant and libertarian candidate may test demonstrative, and be greatly needed. Or simply route around the FUD, to rightful anarchia. (Censored, thus undeserving, Perry Metzger Dowdeswell LLC list... deleted.)