Andrew Napolitano speaking to Glenn Dixon yesterday about the power and independence of the CIA

Former Judge Andrew Napolitano speaking to Glenn Dixon yesterday explained that the CIA is running a foreign policy effectively separate from that of Donald Trump. This is what I suspect and makes perfectly perfect sense when I think of what the Americans have been doing in Serbia. 

The intelligence community is out of control, Glenn, and it has been for many, many years. The president of the United States—a reprehensible person in my view, who created the intelligence agency, reprehensible because he dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan—Harry Truman, before he died, denounced the agency that he created when he learned that they were not just spying but they were engaged in covert action.
And you and I mentioned earlier in this interview the fact that while the US is buying oil from Russia, the CIA is showing the Ukrainians how to kill Russian people and destroy Russian assets. The CIA is an entity unto itself. It has sources of revenue outside the budget of the federal government, which makes that illegal and unconstitutional. Directly on point, federal law prohibits this very thing—people who work for the government taking funds from sources other than the government to do government work, or to do work in the name of the government. They are a private army. They are deeply invested with MI6 in Ukraine, and Trump can do very, very little to stop them.
If he really tries to stop them, he probably doesn't even know how. He would have to fire the senior level of CIA officials and the level below them. Firing the head of the CIA won't change anything...

.....Unless you're George H.W. Bush, who once ran the CIA, knew all these senior people, knew everything they did, knew who to fire and who to keep on, and knew who to call on the phone—unless you have that level of familiarity with the intelligence community, which no American president except for George H.W. Bush has ever had, and which Donald Trump has less of than any other American president because he doesn't like to read and he doesn't like to listen to briefings—they're not going to be stopped.


Now, if Congress defunds them, that would be a very serious crisis for them, but I don't know that that would happen because the intelligence community has a lot of dirt on a lot of members of Congress, which is why they keep getting more and more money, and it's unaccountable and unconstitutional. I say unconstitutional because the American Constitution says no money shall be spent from the public treasury except that which is recorded in a public journal. Where's the journal that records what the CIA spends? If it exists, it's under lock and key somewhere, and the president doesn't have the key.

Besides the CIA, though, is it a problem that the permanent national security establishment has essentially developed institutional and economic interests in sustaining military confrontation? Even if it wasn't Trump, it must be difficult to be a peace president if you have that much economic interest built up around intelligence arrangements and, of course, war. People often point to Eisenhower's farewell speech about the military-industrial complex, but even George Kennan in his book—I think it came out in 1987—was essentially arguing that even if the Soviet Union were to sink into the sea tomorrow, we would have to invent a new enemy very quickly because so much of the economy is tied up in this.
Yes, you're 100% correct. And a lot of this is an amalgamation of the intelligence community and the military-industrial complex. They feed off each other. And it's not just the CIA. There are 17 known, authorized, and statutorily created intelligence agencies. There probably are others that we don't know about, but it's not just the CIA. There are other intelligence agencies that are at fault in this respect as well.
And they are tied up with foreign intelligence agencies. The CIA and MI6 work hand-in-glove, and the CIA often works hand-in-glove with the Mossad, and MI6 often works hand-in-glove with the Mossad. Then there's the Five Eyes, which is the English-speaking countries—the US, Great Britain, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia—which by statute share their intelligence information. That creates another level of amalgamation with other intel agencies. It is a vast, unaccountable, underground government within a government.