Who Reports to Who?

By Robin Itzler

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Following the attempted assassination of President Trump on July 13, it was announced that Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice (DOJ) and Christopher Wray’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would be investigating what happened. Both the DOJ and FBI have committed lawfare multiple times against President Trump and now they will investigate his attempted murder?

Let’s review government agencies and who they report to: 

Federal Intelligence Community:

Directorate of National Intelligence, under the President.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), under the President.

Under the Department of Defense (DOD):  

National Security Agency
Defense Intelligence Agency
Army Military Intelligence Corps
Office of Naval Intelligence
Marine Corps Intelligence
Air Force Intelligence
National Reconnaissance Office [satellites]
National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Office
Space Force Intelligence Center

Separate Departments with Intelligence Agencies:

Under the Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Drug Enforcement Agency Intelligence

Under Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Coast Guard Intelligence
Office of Intelligence and Analysis

Under Department of State

Intelligence and Research

Under Department of Energy

Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

Under Department of the Treasury

Office of Intelligence and Analysis

Babylon Bee Headlines:

• Democrats Order Flags To Be Flown At Half-Staff As Trump Still Alive
• Secret Service Beefs Up Trump’s Security With Squad Of Blind Midgets
• Secret Service Vows To Find Out What Went Wrong At The Trump Rally As - Soon As They Figure Out Who Left Cocaine In The White House
• Biden Tells Americans That We Must Eliminate Political Violence And Also Donald Trump

With Biden as President does it matter who reports to who?  Every time Joe Biden speaks, especially without a teleprompter, he shows his mental acuity issues. On July 15, he was interviewed by Lester Holt of NBC News.

HOLT: Is it acceptable that you still have not heard, at least publicly, from the Secret Service director?
BIDEN: Oh, I've heard from him. I've...(inaudible)

The Kimberly Cheatle, Director of the United States Secret Service, is a woman, but let's not be too picky.  Joe Biden is a Democrat, and like Ketanji Brown Jackson, he's not a biologist, so can't tell the difference.  But he needs to start watching those pronouns.  The first thing you know people might start thinking there really are only two genders. Imagine that!