Matt Tadlock

Since its birth in 1947, the CIA has overthrown dozens of governments abroad and, starting in 2016, tried to do here. It spied illegally, manipulated intel, and spread incriminating disinfo to frame President @realDonaldTrump as guilty of treason. Many other bad actors were involved, including the FBI, Justice Department, and DHS, but the CIA was foundational to the coordinated effort to remove a democratically-elected American president from power. Unfortunately, the means with which the CIA was able to do what it did remain firmly in place. And, worse, rather than take seriously a modest and reasonable reform proposal offered by one of its own most trusted senior analysts, the CIA has, in response to our reporting, apparently decided to, in the words of a former director, "Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counteraccusations." Any American who wishes to live as a free person and not as a slave to an illegal secret government must want CIA reform. The problem isn't just that the CIA actively undermined American democracy. It's also that it has repeatedly failed to do its main job of preventing attacks on Americans. For 60 years, the CIA has successfully resisted Congressional reforms aimed at improving its intelligence gathering and analytical function, and preventing abuses of power, like the kinds behind the Russia Hoax. The difference today is that the US has a president with a personal interest in preventing the CIA from ever undermining democracy again.