Regarding the news of the Spy State’s continued explosion, Ron Paul writes:

In 2010, I said in a speech that there had been a CIA coup in this country. The CIA runs the military, the drone program, and they are in drug trafficking. The CIA is a secretive government unto itself. Now we are told that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is to be radically expanded overseas to rival the CIA in size.

Thousands of new DIA spies are to be hired and placed undercover to help foment ever more covert wars and coups in foreign lands. Where will it all end?

Here, by the way, is the clip from that speech: