Ponder this fact. Fact, not fiction...although it sounds like fiction.
The Central Intelligence Agency has been operating at least one funded program with people in its employment for six months now without the knowledge of the President of the United States.
Forget about the fact that Leon Panetta, the Director of the CIA itself did not know about this illegal enterprise, and rather focus on this:
1.) a former Vice President, Dick Cheney, an outspoken critic, if not enemy, of our current democratically elected president, left behind a rogue element within the CIA operating with Cheney's secret knowledge since January (that would now be 13% of President Obama's entire first term as President).
2.) Cheney's "stay behind" clandestine CIA structure was ordered by Cheney to be kept secret from the U.S. Congress and, apparently kept it secret from President Obama, too.
So,
That's a conspiracy.
That's a CIA conspiracy.
That's an illegal CIA conspiracy and it is a "high crime" if there ever was one.
Many of us who believe that the evidence of a CIA rogue element planning and executing the murder of President John F. Kennedy have been mocked with the catch-all "conspiracy nut" perfunctory dismissal of the facts that still support that belief.
The charge against us was always: "How could a rogue element of CIA operatives possibly be acting without the knowledge of a newly elected President?" "Why, that's incredulous. It can't happen here," we've been told with smug mocking.
Well, maybe those who mock might want to mock a little quieter these days. You think?
If it can happen in 2009, you still want to tell me that it couldn't have happened back in 1963?
Because I love this President, I worry about him.
Here's hoping that Attorney General Eric Holder will immediately launch his own full-throttle investigations with all hands on deck into this high crime...and treason.