The Manchurian Magistrates

OK, now this is just plain scary.  When people who are demonstrably spies not only dare to surface, but do so right in the middle of the very government they attempted to undermine, you have a very big problem.  You have an enormous problem when they have lawful authority to intimidate the news media and opposition politicians. 
 
This is starting to look like a paranoid John Birch conspiracy come to life.  And after all, even paranoid people have enemies . . . .