{"id":109917,"date":"2018-12-04T18:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=109917"},"modified":"2018-12-04T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:26:48","slug":"its-about-time-u-s-senator-nails-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=109917","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s about time: U.S Senator nails <i>Deep State<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rand Paul Rages: &#8220;The Deep State Is Trying To Run Congress&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-04_10-01-35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109918\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-04_10-01-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-04_10-01-35.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-04_10-01-35-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed leaders of multiple Senate committees Tuesday about the October murder of Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While I will not discuss the content of the Haspel briefing, it reinforced the need for a strong response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. CIA Director Haspel should brief the full Senate without delay.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1070049496065892352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But Senator Rand\u00a0<strong>Paul believes Haspel should share the CIA&#8217;s findings with all members of Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, exclaimed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cTo my mind this is the very definition of the deep state&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThe deep state is that the intelligence agencies do things, conclude things, make conclusions but then the elected officials are prevented from knowing about this.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Senator Rand Paul Demands Briefing from CIA Director\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZD-opMMWic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paul argued that if lawmakers aren&#8217;t allowed to have access to the intelligence community&#8217;s conclusions, then they can&#8217;t provide oversight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cIf we aren\u2019t told about this and I\u2019m not allowed to know about these conclusions, then I can\u2019t have oversight,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so then state grows, the intelligence,\u00a0<strong>the deep state grows and has more and more power.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019ve read in the media that the CIA has said with high confidence that the crown prince was involved with killing Khashoggi,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Paul continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not seen that intelligence nor have I even seen the conclusions. And today there\u2019s yet another briefing and I\u2019m being excluded.<strong>\u00a0So really, this is the deep state at work \u2026 that your representatives don\u2019t know what is going on in the intelligence agencies<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We would be watching our back a little more than normal Senator Paul &#8211; truth like this is not acceptable in today&#8217;s America.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-12-04\/rand-paul-rages-deep-state-trying-run-congress\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-12-04\/rand-paul-rages-deep-state-trying-run-congress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Paul Rages: &#8220;The Deep State Is Trying To Run Congress&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}