The CIA—is the juice worth the squeeze any longer?
The CIA was chartered solely for foreign intelligence, yet for 78 years it has operated as America’s most powerful, least accountable institution:
1. $101.1 billion secret budget in 2025 alone, more than the entire State Department and USAID combined
2. Zero public line-item disclosure
3. Documented history of abuse of power
No republic in history has survived when a permanent, unelected bureaucracy wields this much money and secrecy while answering to no one.
We can have world-class intelligence without sacrificing the Constitution. Effective oversight, strict statutory firewalls against domestic operations, and complete transparency about historical abuses are radical only to those who profit from the shadows.
If we do not bring the intelligence community under constitutional control now, we will not have a constitutional republic left to defend. It is time to realize the juice is sour and we the people are the ones being squeezed.
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