Commentary
One wonders how far a modern-day Church Committee could realistically hope to get in reining in a Deep State run as far amok as ours.
For a sobering window into just how systemic and fundamental the rot within our national security and intelligence apparatus is, and therefore how arduous any such effort to reform it would be, look no further than recent revelations from The Intercept about America’s literal Speech Police.
The progressive publication’s reporting on specific elements of the mis-, dis-, and mal-information jihad the U.S. government is executing—integral to its War on Wrongthink—are dire enough in their own right. But what they reveal about the nature of the institutions, and the people who populate them, represents an even deeper and more daunting challenge with which would-be reformers would have to grapple….