It would be hard to come up with a sentence more opposite to objective reality than, “the function of the intelligence community is to speak truth to power.” https://t.co/6z8Do4qHaF

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 17, 2020

This is not quite at the level of, “The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,” but it is close.