under control of the few elite

Imperial Rome had its elite praetorian guard to protect and serve its emperors. The CIA here works the same way as a private army for the President that in the end will go his way as it did producing phony intelligence the Bush administration used to justify war with Iraq. It has secret units and mercenaries operating in countries around the world including Iran AND it's not alone.

Last year the Pentagon took a super-secret spy unit at Fort Belvoir, Va., from the Army and put it under direct control of the Pentagon. The unit, code–named Task Force Orange and now under the Pentagon specializes in infiltrating foreign countries, tailing people and intercepting communications. Operatives have dug up fiber-optic telephone lines overseas and attached a listening device for the National Security Agency.

The task force features veteran warriors, intelligence officers and technical wizards who use electronic devices in innovative ways. It maintains its own fleet of airplanes at a Washington-area