But first Dump America’s C.E.O.
By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, April 3, 2026 – Her republican form of government is what propelled America to the pinnacle of nations in 1945, the year before the C.I.A. was established. The deployment of nuclear bombs was a demonstration of her great power, but it did not reveal the source of it. Only in the world of savages does might make right. America got so strong because she did the right things at the right time for the right reasons.
America’s righteousness stems from being founded for the express purpose of securing the inalienable human right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, free from the dictates of monarchs, parliaments, theocrats, commies, socialists, and the like.
America grew into greatness because her founding documents disperse power among executive, judicial, and legislative branches, for it to be deployed equitably between and among co-equals. But, since the introduction of an espionage agency answerable first to the president, we have seen American strength atrophy and her global reputation practically evaporate.
The National Security Act of 1947 added an intelligence-gathering espionage agency to the executive branch, which destroyed the republican ideal of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. When one branch knows more than the other two, then it becomes superior to the other two, no longer co-equal.
If the American people deem such an agency to be an essential addition to the republic founded in 1776, then it belongs in the legislative branch, which represents all the people, not in the executive branch, which doesn’t. Comprised of 535 election winners, Congress will always be more representative of the American people than any chief executive. That is why America’s founders gave Congress the power to declare war along with the power to raise and appropriate taxpayer money.
We learned in 2016 how vulnerable the Electoral College vote is to foreign manipulation. That that vulnerability has not been corrected ten years later is not a good sign. If one party is pro-vulnerability, then the other party is negligent in failing to alert their voters to that treasonous position.
The co-equal separation of powers is what made America great, while the imperial presidency established via the C.I.A. is what drains America of greatness. The imperial presidency is exemplified in Teddy Roosevelt’s grandson handing out C.I.A. cash to enemies of democracy in Iran in 1953. Kermit Roosevelt returned the Shah to power, against the will of the Iranian people who had elected someone else. American blood and treasure are wasted there today at the rate of about one billion dollars a day.
After Iran, the Agency went on to meddle in the internal affairs of several foreign lands, as if their mission was to subject every nation to American rule. Under *Ronald Reagan, they raised money in the illegal drug market, which they gave to Middle Eastern terrorists in exchange for weapons used to meddle in Latin American politics. In the savage, anti-intellectual world inhabited by Reagan and his enablers, lethal force is all the justification they can muster.
As a tiny group of civilians from Saudi Arabia and environs demonstrated on 9/11, the C.I.A. is even worse at defense than it is on offense.
Since we know the devastation caused by chief executives with neither felonies nor insurrections on their resumes, then why are we playing Russian roulette with one who does?
*As Governor of California, Reagan auditioned for the role of Commander-in-Chief by dropping tear gas bombs from State police helicopters on college students demonstrating for peace with honor in Vietnam.
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