CGI's oldmaninthedesert:

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Two more chapters from Douglas Valentine's work, The CIA as organized Crime, and I am very grateful for the information contained within its pages, however I have to note, that I personally sensed a bias that I had not seen in the previous chapters. It is just my opinion but I feel a person is cheating themselves if they cannot stay center of either the information they are producing on the one hand, or reading on the other. Now on the DHS...

....The DHS executive management team operates like the Phoenix Directorate, overseeing a jerry-rigged labyrinth of overlapping offices and directorates most Congresspersons can’t unravel. Put another way, central power is held by the senior bureaucrats who run federal agencies. The bureaucrats in Washington are held in check by the states, which, as part of a republic, traditionally resist federal intrusion. As a result, the bureaucrats running the DHS (and their White House and Congressional sponsors) are constantly suborning acquisitive state legislators, governors and business leaders with federal pork.

....The DHS has over 250,000 employees, including detectives it deploys within its own departments, every agency it coordinates, and every branch of the military. These DHS employees have vast discretionary powers, including the authority to open mail coming to US citizens from foreign nations whenever it’s deemed necessary – another internal security measure once considered illegal.

....The DHS has its very own counter terrorism unit, and a war crimes unit that assiduously avoids the CIA. When an Italian court indicted a group of CIA officers for kidnapping an innocent man in Milan and sending him to Egypt to be tortured, DHS agents looked away. Like FBI agents, DHS agents have no authority over the CIA, which is free to terrorize anyone, anywhere.

Last but not least, the DHS has fusion centers which operate in every state and major city, just like Phoenix intelligence and operations coordinating centers were set up in Vietnam. Every law enforcement entity in a state or city sends a representative to the local fusion center, which tries to anticipate threats through analysis of shared intelligence. State and local police provide space and resources (including snitches) for the majority of the fusion centers. There is even a fusion center in Mexico City. [Hmmm ...fusion centers...where have those fit in the narrative of the last 3 years....]

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/part-10-cia-as-organized-crimemgeneral.html