Money and power

The Bureau of Investigations was started in 1908 to protect the country from major crimes including terrorism. In 1935 J Edger Hoover took over and changed the name to the Federal Bureau of Investigation which we know today as the FBI. During the 1920's the Bureau developed a symbiotic relationship with organized crime and the two units helped one another in their own ways. During WW2 this relationship grew and the Mafia helped uncover spies and saboteurs. Early on the mob became aware that Hoover was bi sexual and they used to maintain power over him. Hoover realizing how effective this blackmail scheme was began himself to collect embarrassing information on various groups. This led over time to collecting discrediting items on thousands of people citizens and non citizens. Soon this type of activity found its way to other government agencies in particular the CIA. Periodically illegal activities would rise to the surface and require investigation by congress. Action would be taken and soon after the same type of activity would spring up under a different name. One of the more infamous was the 1975 Senate Church Committee investigation. The committee faced a formidable task: to conduct a wide-ranging investigation of the nation’s most secret agencies and programs, and based on those findings, write a detailed report including legislative recommendations. The result was  “intelligence excesses, at home and abroad,” were not the “product of any single party, administration, or man,” but had developed as America rose to a become a superpower during a global Cold War. The subterfuge went underground but continues to this day. A recent example is Jeffrey Epstein a man accused of sex trafficking minors but he was also involved in a giant Ponzi scheme where thousands of investors were bilked out of hundreds of millions. Much of this money was put in the hands of politicians who used it to finance reelections. It was the same old ploy of using sex to blackmail and then paying politicians for protection. Epstein's partner went to jail but he did not. In the 1980's the government secretly formed an alliance with Silicone Valley much like they had with organized crime and this partnership exist today. The connection between government, social media, industry and politics is well established and is designed to concentrate money and power at the expense of the taxpayers.