I have an obligation to open up with some kind of disclaimer.

A loyal reader knows my inner disgust with Donald Trump, whose ideas of governance are driven to a large extent by fighting spirit and revenge. Therefore, the crux of this column should not be interpreted as recognition or rich praise.

Despite this, there is one aspect of Trump's straightforward and arbitrary determination to wield fiscal deforestation to the federal government, and I think, I dare say, I make sense so much that other presidents and prime ministers should be thinking about it late.

For most of my time as an investigative journalist, I trained an undoubted eye on the unlimited capabilities and unlimited resources of so-called “smart” services, which rarely (if any) (if any) suffered catastrophic consequences and suffered catastrophic mistakes and weird, shocking, oath-taking over-damaging.

Often, these mistakes and oversights have profound and lasting strategic and human consequences, but the spies they work for and shrouded in secret institutions that are not needed are always rewarded with more resources than being restricted or sanctioned.

Instead, Republican and Democratic presidents have long helped promote security without hesitation or pause.

Intelligence agencies have long been operating within the states, free from scrutiny of national security pretended and scrutiny of complicitly. They are impunity. They selectively leaked to taming journalists in situations that suit them. They destroyed their lives with convenient "top secrets" covers.

Supervision has long been a priority. Accountability is for whistleblowers who are hunted, imprisoned or exiled.

Trump did Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s work in his own clumsy, unstable way, unable to do or fail to surrender: He was crashing on an out-of-control train.

Trump's qualified insurgency should be worthy of attention. It’s not because he is a principled reformer, but because he is not. But, by instinct or malice, he threatens to earn and deserve the sanctity of the institution that decades have.

In this case, I welcome the White House decision to begin pruning the nationwide national security nation in the United States. This is a promising start.

I suspect in early May, two announcements trembled through the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and met "cutters" in the media and filled the scope of "cutters" in the media and triggered many people in the media and triggered "trap" and triggered the security of "cutters" and triggered "stumbling" and put it into practice.

The Trump team is reportedly ready to ask Congress to prune the DEA, the FBI and other Justice Department law enforcement offices to budget $585 million in 2026.

The warning of apocalypse is as stupid as the ventilated puppets issued, as these agencies will retain much of their multi-billion dollar vaults to “fight” crime and terrorism – native or otherwise.

Even modest tailoring is a welcome sign that the increase in De Rigueur's annual budget may have ended - last.

Given that Trump believes that the FBI, in particular, has created a ruling for the many tectonic legal troubles caused by the many tectonic legal troubles he granted the president’s approval in the Supreme Court, it should be reassured that the cuts will not be more in-depth and broader.

Despite its narrow motivation and its limited scope, the proposed FBI cut of additional cash boxes is a necessary first step to cut down on the swelling national security bureaucracy in the United States.

To this end, Trump and the company also plan to lay off thousands of jobs across the "intelligence community" throughout the United States, including 1,200 positions at the CIA in the coming years.

At the prompt, news of the layoffs has sparked a hysterical how-called between Democrats and former members of the "intelligence community" who have used the CNN and "experts" as national security "advisors" or "experts" and are respected by CNN and MSNBC owners.

The illuminating irony, of course, is that the Congressional Democrats once presided over committee hearings that exposed the wanton disregard for the Constitution and the so-called divine rights of Americans.

Those responsible days are absolutely over.

The “Progressive” journalist of the “Progressive” TV News Network and the “Progressive” editorial pages of the “Progressive” Times and the Washington Post are now eager to defend the ghost and its indispensable duties, from the retribution rogue presidential intuition put the CIA on a rash diet.

Oh, how times and attitudes change.

Obviously, liberal intellectuals lacking in thought need to remind the CIA to deceive politicians and journalists as standard protocols. It has subverted democratic countries abroad, from San Diego to Guatemala City and beyond, its secrets and bloody designs are remembered.

Watching professional Democrats is an excitement - they spend most of their time in the bushes, denying illegal eavesdropping and black ruins - performing horror manifestations of horror, that the CIA and its brethren have become too powerful, too arrogant, too dangerous.

And the FBI? The temple of J Edgar Hoover? Oh my god. These are the same ego, buttoned agents who attempt to destroy Martin Luther King Jr, who infiltrated the peace movement, who spied on Muslims after 9/11.

Their asylum defenders in the newsroom seem to have buried the blatant fact that the agency only gained a halo when it was politically entitled to use it as a bastion against Trumpism.

This is the hypocritical secret of liberal institutions: they love order more than justice, and have more power than truth. As long as the right people hold guns and surveillance keys, they will cheer on.

The status quo of politicians in Ottawa, London and Canberra is friendly and stable, even those engaged in transparency and reform, once they enter the palace. They began to disguise briefings and interject terms to justify surveillance. The machinery is too big, too opaque, too rooted.

In this important situation, Trump's obvious ugliness and corrosive shortcomings also shocked the stubborn orthodoxy.

There may be layoffs on police and spies. But this requires, addressing and understanding that their authority is maintained by myths - necessary, permanent myths and their powers are natural or inevitable tricks.

It can and must be controversial.

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