Thread by @Peoples_Pundit

"For some time I have been disturbed by the way @CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government."

Former President Harry S. Truman, The Washington Post
December 22, 1963 - Page A11

@CIA "I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations."

Former President Harry S. Truman, The Washington Post
December 22, 1963 - Page A11

@CIA "I, therefore, would like to see the @CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President... and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere."

Fmr President Harry S. Truman, The Washington Post
December 22, 1963 - Page A11

@CIA "We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the @CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it."

@CIA Addressing the above concerns, which were raised by Harry S. Truman among many others, is the proper and true role of the House and Senate Intel/OS Committees.

They're not supposed to collaborate w/ @CIA or other intel agency schemes.

They're supposed to protect us from them.

@CIA When elected officials are in bed with, or terrified of, these unelected yet immensely powerful agencies, there can be no self-governance.

In case no one noticed, we missed the peaceful transition of power this time. The parties in the system matter not if the system is broken.