content: However, in reality these are rouge, independent organizations that are not beholden to bodies like congress.  They pull back the curtain of secrecy for the Congressional intelligence committees. Historically Congress has been impressed enough to back a dump truck full of Benjamins up to the spook agencies after every demo.  They have all the dirt and influence on the politicians.   Alternatively, they pack the intelligence committees with squeaky clean patriots who believe in evil, and play back the committee member's wholesome conversations. Just think, Senator, what we can do to the people who are trying to blow up your constituents. They shine in foreign wars. If an enemy leader or a close associate so much as talks near an open mic, the air strikes are not far behind. From the Viet Cong to Osama bin Laden, the NSA has reduced one enemy leader after another to motorcycle couriers as their most high-tech means of communication. Against ISIS, the NSA and CIA have gone even further, but it is not wise to speculate how in a public forum. If you want to worry about suppression of domestic dissidents, worry about the Code of Federal Regulations and the army of cowardly bureaucrats who enforce it. They do not need exotic intel techniques to defeat you. They just need to convict you of unlicensed pollution under a Wickard v. Filburn theory. P.S. It is rogue, not rouge