01/08/18 Overnight links

Breitbart: CIA Director: “There is no ‘Deep State’ at the CIA”.  How. Stupid. Do they think we are.

And The Hill: Pompeo rejects notion of ‘Deep State’ at the CIA

Jeff Tucker on who the ‘Deep State’ is from FEE: What About the Unelected?

PJmedia: Another ‘oops’ from the intelligence community

Salon: U.S. police killed 1,129 people in 2017, but that’s not the full body count

Activist Post: New Hampshire law bans warrantless Stingray spying

National Review: The FBI’s dubious probe of Hillary’s emails. “The FBI did everything but drive Hillary’s getaway car”

Washington Times: Trump must cut intelligence spending, which topped $73 billion in 2017

New York Times: Jeff Sessions’ endless war on marijuana

Antiwar.com: A Trump judicial nominee wrote one of the infamous Bush-era ‘torture memos’

Washington Examiner: Can the Pentagon actually figure out how it spends its money?

Laredo Morning Times: In China, facial recognition is sharp end of a drive for total surveillance

ZDnet: Privacy Foundation: Trusting government with open data ‘a recipe for pain’

Wired: Facebook bug could let advertisers get your phone number

Author: S. Smith