Ruled By Spies, This long and detailed article by "Sundance" follows the development, empowerment, and protection of the "intelligence branch" of government in the post-9/11 US. It is protected from any oversight, including from Congress. It is independent and cannot be overruled by the executive, nor overseen by the Judiciary or Legislative branches. It compartmentalizes all information to prevent members of these other branches from seeing and understanding its decisions and actions in any way which would impede them.
Unaccountable. The movie that best illustrates this “Enemy of the State” with Will Smith.
It’s a very sobering vision of the corruption inside our federal Stasi/KGB
It looks complicated.