Critique of Intelligence Oversight in Congress

You don't get on the intel committee, for the most part,

unless you're an apologist for the intel community and you're unconcerned with

Americans' privacy and unconcerned with abuses of power.

So this is perpetuated generation after generation.

There's only eight people in Congress who have any idea

what the CIA is doing or the FBI. Everyone else is kept in the dark.

So when you talk about a deep state,

there's a deep state within the deep state.

Eight people in Congress, they're the elite eight.

They're the chairman and ranking member of the intel committees in the House

and Senate and the leader,

the speaker and the leader on both sides.

Those are the people that get informed and get real briefings. I've never been to

a classified briefing where they really gave any classified material.

Most of them are window service and they're sort of dog and pony shows to

promote one aspect of an idea,

but they're not very revealing as to truly what our agencies are doing.