I'm going to stay on the smile.

All right, gents, well, we thought we'd start today

with a discussion of a piece we just put up on the American mind, a very important

piece from our own senior fellow long-time contributor both to the Claremont Review

books and now the American mind, Angelo Cotevilla.

The essay is called Abolish CIA and FISA, How to Defend the Republic against the Deep State.

And this is an interesting piece.

It's sort of in a theme of Angelos.

He's written before for the Claremont Review books

about the political nature and misconceived origins of the CIA and the need for real reform of the

intelligence community with the CIA sort of at the center of that. But this new piece is more comprehensive in a way and gets into issues of FBI malfeasance and

really the odd and disconcerting coalescence of the politicalness of both a good portion of the

FBI and the CIA. Angela's main point has been for a long time that these are not just neutral experts in national security.

They're in fact in many ways partisan actors and that's a that's a bad and unwelcome development especially for a

self-governing republic. James, what do you think about all this? You've certainly

written on the intelligence community before both here at home

and then it's octopus like nexus

as it spreads across five eyes, et cetera.

Well, that's right.

So, you know, the Steelman version of the deep state is good argument is is simply

that you know if things go off the rails because democracy actually sucks and is an unreliable

form of government,

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