A few people have directed me to this recent podcast by Rich Baris, aka “The People’s Pundit, where he discusses the insufferable theater of republican club politics and how the professionally republican are trying to avoid winning too many seats in the 2022 mid-term election.
Baris accurately notes the battle for candidates inside the club dynamic comes down to people -vs- power. The Republican club, as a professional political system, is more in line with their allies in the Democrat club, than they are with the base of voters who want to see the corrupt DC system challenged and changed. Both wings of the UniParty are aligned to block any voting rebellion, democrat, independent or republican, from Main Street.
In all of these points Baris is correct and he goes into specific races where that dynamic is clear. Baris also notes the republican club generally supports the corrupt candidate who is compromised by some form financial scheme. However, where Baris doesn’t go deep enough, surrounds the issue of the DC apparatus having operational control via their black files on candidates. The perfect candidate, from the perspective of the club, is an insider who is compromised and therefore vulnerable to the influence of the DC system. It’s a long podcast, and he rambles a bit, but the larger message is accurate. {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH (if you have time):
The club dynamic Baris is discussing is accurate, but the origin of the most severe part of the compromise is directly tied to the efforts of Barack Obama. Obama weaponized the surveillance system so that it only targeted one side of the political dynamic. Obama broke with years of prior mutual agreement when he created the modern control mechanisms.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act.
Instead, what Obama and Holder did was to take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people understandably get confused.
In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dept of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of the domestic national security apparatus. However, this new construct would have a targeting mechanism based on political ideology. The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.
We were not sleeping when this happened, we were wide awake. However, we were stunningly distracted by the economic collapse that was taking place in 2006 and 2007 when the engineers behind Obama started to assemble the design. By the time Obama took office in 2009, we sensed something profound was shifting, but we can only see exactly what shifted in the aftermath. The four pillars were put into place, and a new Fourth Branch of Government was quietly created.
As time passed, and the system operators became familiar with their new tools, technology allowed the tentacles of the system to reach out and touch us. That is when we first started to notice that something very disconcerting was happening. Those four pillars are the root of it, and if we take the time to understand how the Fourth Branch originated, questions about this current state of perpetual angst will start to make sense.
Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, and take a walk with me as we outline how this was put together. You might find many of the questions about our current state of political affairs beginning to make a lot more sense.
Remember, it is not my intent to outline the entire history of how we got to this place where the intelligence community now acts as the superseding Fourth Branch of Government. Such an effort would be exhausting and likely take our discussion away from understanding the current dynamic.
History provided enough warnings from Dwight D. Eisenhower (military), to John F. Kennedy (CIA), to Richard Nixon (FBI), to all modern versions of warnings and frustrations from HPSCI Devin Nunes and ODNI Ric Grenell. None of those prior reference points are invalid, and all documented outlines of historic reference are likely true and accurate. However, a generational review is not useful, as the reference impacting us ‘right now‘ gets lost.
Instead, we pick up the expansive and weaponized intelligence system as it manifests after 9/11/01, and my goal is to highlight how the modern version of the total intelligence apparatus has now metastasized into a Fourth Branch of Government. It is this superseding branch that now touches and influences every facet of our life.
If we take the modern construct, originating at the speed of technological change, we can also see how the oversight or “check/balance” in our system of government became functionally obsolescent.
After many years of granular research about the intelligence apparatus inside our government, in the summer of 2020 I visited Washington DC to ask specific questions. My goal was to go where the influence agents within government actually operate, and to discover the people deep inside the institutions no one elected, and few people pay attention to.
It was during this process when I discovered how information is purposefully put into containment silos; essentially a formal process to block the flow of information between agencies and between the original branches. While frustrating to discover, the silo effect was important because understanding the communication between networks leads to our ability to reconcile conflict between what we perceive and what’s actually taking place.
After days of research and meetings in DC during 2020; amid a town that was serendipitously shut down due to COVID-19; I found a letter slid under the door of my room in a nearly empty hotel with an introduction of sorts. The subsequent discussions were perhaps the most important. After many hours of specific questions and answers on specific examples, I realized why our nation is in this mess. That is when I discovered the fourth and superseding branch of government, the Intelligence Branch.
I am going to explain how the Intelligence Branch works: (1) to control every other branch of government; (2) how it functions as an entirely independent branch of government with no oversight; (3) how and why it was created to be independent from oversight; (4) what is the current mission of the IC Branch, and most importantly (5) who operates it.
The Intelligence Branch is an independent functioning branch of government, it is no longer a subsidiary set of agencies within the Executive Branch as most would think. To understand the Intelligence Branch, we need to drop the elementary school civics class lessons about three coequal branches of government and replace that outlook with the modern system that created itself.
The Intelligence Branch functions much like the State Dept, through a unique set of public-private partnerships that support it. Big Tech industry collaboration with intelligence operatives is part of that functioning; almost like an NGO. However, the process is much more important than most think. In this problematic perspective of a corrupt system of government, the process is the flaw – not the outcome.
There are people making decisions inside this little known, unregulated and out-of-control branch of government that impact every facet of our lives.
None of the people operating deep inside the Intelligence Branch were elected; and our elected representative House members genuinely do not know how the system works. I assert this position affirmatively because I have talked to House and Senate staffers, including the chiefs of staff for multiple House & Senate committee seats. They are not malicious people; however, they are genuinely clueless of things that happen outside their silo. That is part of the purpose of me explaining it, with examples, in full detail with sunlight.
We begin….
In April of 2016, the FBI launched a counterintelligence operation against presidential candidate Donald Trump. The questioning about that operation is what New York Representative Elise Stefanik cites in March of 2017, approximately 11 months later (First Two Minutes).
Things to note:
♦ Notice how FBI Director James Comey just matter-of-factly explains no one outside the DOJ was informed about the FBI operation. Why? Because that’s just the way things are done. His justification for unilateral operations was “because of the sensitivity of the matter“, totally ignoring any constitutional or regulatory framework for oversight; because, well, quite simply, there isn’t any. The intelligence apparatus inside the DOJ/FBI can, and does, operate based on their own independent determinations of authority.
♦ Notice also how FBI Director Comey shares his perspective that informing the National Security Council (NSC) is the equivalent of notifying the White House. The FBI leadership expressly believe they bear no responsibility to brief the Chief Executive. As long as they tell some unknown, unelected, bureaucratic entity inside the NSC, their unwritten responsibility to inform the top of their institutional silo is complete. If the IC wants to carve out the Oval Office, they simply plant information inside the NSC and, from their perspective, their civic responsibility to follow checks-and-balances is complete. This is an intentional construct.
♦ Notice how Comey obfuscates notification to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), by avoiding the fact James Clapper was the DNI from outset of the counterintelligence operation throughout the remainder of Obama’s term. When I get deeper into the process, we will understand how the Intelligence Branch has intentionally used the creation of the DNI position (established post 9/11/01) as a method to avoid oversight, not enhance it. Keeping an oblivious doofus like James Clapper in position held strategic value [Doofus Reminder HERE].
That video of James Comey being questioned by Elise Stefanik was the first example given to me by someone who knew the background of everything that was taking place preceding that March 20, 2017, hearing. That FBI reference point is a key to understand how the Intelligence Branch operates with unilateral authority above Congress (legislative branch), above the White House (executive branch), and even above the court system (judicial branch).
Also, watch this short video of James Clapper, because it is likely many readers have forgotten, and likely even more readers have never seen it. Watch closely how then White House national security adviser John Brennan is responding in that video. This is before Brennan became CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars into place. WATCH:
[Sidebar: Every time I post this video it gets scrubbed from YouTube (example), so save it if you ever want to see it again.]
The video of James Clapper highlights how the ODNI position (created with good national security intention) ended up becoming the fulcrum for modern weaponization, and is now an office manipulated by agencies with a vested interest in retaining power. The Intelligence Branch holds power over the ODNI through their influence and partnership with the body that authorizes the power within it, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
Factually, the modern intelligence apparatus uses checks and balances in their favor. The checks create silos of proprietary information, classified information, vaults of information that work around oversight issues. The silos are part of the problem.
Ironically, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created in the aftermath of 9/11/01 expressly to eliminate the silos of information which they felt led to a domestic terrorist attack that could have been prevented. The ODNI was created specifically upon the recommendation of the 9/11 commission.
The intent was to create a central hub of intelligence information, inside the Executive Branch, where the CIA, NSA, DoD, DoS, and DIA could deposit their unique intelligence products and a repository would be created so that domestic intelligence operations, like the DOJ and FBI could access them when needed to analyze threats to the U.S. This, they hoped, would ensure the obvious flags missed in the 9/11 attacks would not be missed again.
The DNI office created a problem for those who operate in the shadows of proprietary information. You’ll see how it was critical to install a person uniquely skilled in being an idiot, James Clapper, into that willfully blind role while intelligence operatives worked around the office to assemble the Intelligence Branch of Government.
• The last federal budget that flowed through the traditional budgetary process was signed into law in September of 2007 for fiscal year 2008 by George W. Bush. Every budget since then has been a fragmented process of continuing resolutions and individual spending bills.
Why does this matter? Because many people think defunding the Intelligence Community is a solution; it is not…. at least, not yet. Worse yet, the corrupt divisions deep inside the U.S. intelligence system can now fund themselves from multinational private sector partnerships (banks, corporations and foreign entities).
• When Democrats took over the House of Representatives in January 2007, they took office with a plan. Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, and Democrats controlled the Senate where Harry Reid was Majority Leader. Barack Obama was a junior senator from Illinois.
Pelosi and Reid intentionally did not advance a budget in 2008 (for fiscal year 2009) because their plan included installing Barack Obama (and all that came with him) with an open checkbook made even more lucrative by a worsening financial crisis and a process called baseline budgeting. Baseline budgeting means the prior fiscal year budget is accepted as the starting point for the next year budget. All previous expenditures are baked into the cake within baseline budgeting.
Massive bailouts preceded Obama’s installation due to U.S. economic collapse, and massive bailouts continued after his installation. This is the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ aspect. TARP (Troubled Asset Recovery Program), auto bailouts (GM), and the massive stimulus spending bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, ie. those shovel ready jobs) were all part of the non-budget spending. The federal reserve assisted with Quantitative Easing (QE1 and QE2) as congress passed various Porkulous spending bills further spending and replacing the formal budget process.
Note: There has never been a budget passed in the normal/traditional process since September of 2007.
• While Obama’s radical ‘transformation‘ was triggered across a broad range of government institutions, simultaneously spending on the U.S. military was cut, but spending on the intelligence apparatus expanded. We were all distracted by Obamacare, and the Republican Party wanted to keep us that way. However, in the background there was a process of transformation taking place that included very specific action by Eric Holder and targeted effort toward the newest executive agency the ODNI.
The people behind Obama, those same people now behind Joe Biden, knew from years of strategic planning that ‘radical transformation’ would require control over specific elements inside the U.S. government. Eric Holder played a key role in his position as U.S. Attorney General in the DOJ.
AG Holder recruited ideologically aligned political operatives who were aware of the larger institutional objectives. One of those objectives was weaponizing the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) a division inside the DOJ that had no inspector general oversight. For most people the DOJ-NSD weaponization surfaced with a hindsight awakening of the DOJ-NSD targeting candidate Donald Trump many years later. However, by then the Holder crew had executed almost eight full years of background work.
• The second larger Obama/Holder objective was control over the FBI. Why was that important? Because the FBI does the domestic investigative work on anyone who needs or holds a security clearance. The removal of security clearances could be used as a filter to further build the internal ideological army they were assembling. Additionally, with new power in the ODNI created as a downstream consequence of the Patriot Act, new protocols for U.S. security clearances were easy to justify.
Carefully selecting fellow ideological travelers was facilitated by this filtration within the security clearance process. How does that issue later manifest? Just look around at how politicized every intelligence agency has become, specifically including the FBI.
• At the exact same time this new background security clearance process was ongoing, again everyone distracted by the fight over Obamacare, inside the Department of State (Secretary Hillary Clinton) a political alignment making room for the next phase was being assembled. Names like Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton were familiar on television while Lisa Monaco worked as a legal liaison between the Obama White House and Clinton State Department.
Through the Dept of State (DoS) the intelligence apparatus began working on their first steps to align Big Tech with a larger domestic institutional objective. Those of you who remember the “Arab Spring”, some say “Islamist Spring”, will remember it was triggered by Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo – his first foreign trip. The State Department worked with grassroots organizers (mostly Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar and Libya. Obama leaned heavily on the organizational network of Turkish President Recep Erdogan for contacts and support.
Why does this aspect matter to us? Well, you might remember how much effort the Obama administration put into recruiting Facebook and Twitter as resources for the various mideast rebellions the White House and DoS supported. This was the point of modern merge between the U.S. intelligence community and Big Tech social media.
In many ways, the coordinated political outcomes in Libya and Egypt were the beta test for the coordinated domestic political outcomes we saw in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The U.S. intelligence community working with social media platforms and political operatives.
Overlaying all of that background activity was also a new alignment of the Obama-era intelligence apparatus with ideological federal “contractors“. Where does this contractor activity manifest? In the FISA Court opinion of Rosemary Collyer who cited the “interagency memorandum of understanding”, or MOU.
Hopefully, you can see a small part of how tentacled the system to organize/weaponize the intelligence apparatus was. None of this was accidental, all of this was by design, and the United States Senate was responsible for intentionally allowing most of this to take place.
That’s the 30,000/ft level backdrop history of what was happening as the modern IC was created. Next, we will go into how all these various intelligence networks began working in unison and how they currently control all of the other DC institutions under them; including how they can carve out the President from knowing their activity.
♦ When Barack Obama was installed in January 2009, the Democrats held a 60 seat majority in the U.S. Senate. As the people behind the Obama installation began executing their longer-term plan, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was a tool to create the Intelligence Branch; it was not an unintentional series of events.
When Obama was installed, Dianne Feinstein was the Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and Democrat operative Dan Jones was her lead staffer. Feinstein was completely controlled by those around her including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The CIA was in the process of turning over personnel following the Bush era, and as a result of a massive multi-year narrative of diminished credibility (Iraq WMD), a deep purge was underway. Obama/Holder were in the process of shifting intelligence alignment and the intensely political Democrat Leader Harry Reid was a key participant.
THE TRAP – Many people say that Congress is the solution to eliminating the Fourth and superseding Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. This is an exercise in futility because the Legislative Branch, specifically the SSCI, facilitated the creation of the Intelligence Branch. The SSCI cannot put the genie they created back in the bottle without admitting they too are corrupt; and the background story of their corruption is way too intense to be exposed now.
Every member of the SSCI is compromised in some controlling manner. Those Senators who disliked the control over them; specifically disliked because the risk of sunlight was tenuous and, well, possible; have either left completely or stepped down from the committee. None of the SSCI members past or present would ever contemplate saying openly what their tenure involved.
[Note: You might remember when Vice Chairman Mark Warner’s text messages surfaced, there was a controlled Republican SSCI member who came to his defense in February of 2018. It was not accidental that exact Senator later became the chair of the SSCI himself. That Republican Senator is Marco Rubio, now vice-chair since the Senate re-flipped back to the optics of Democrat control in 2021.]
All of President Obama’s 2009 intelligence appointments required confirmation from the Senate. The nominees had to first pass through the Democrat controlled SSCI, and then to a full Senate vote where Democrats held a 60 vote majority. Essentially, Obama got everyone he wanted in place easily. Rahm Emmanuel was Obama’s Chief of Staff, and Valerie Jarrett was Senior Advisor.
Tim Geithner was Treasury Secretary in 2010 when the joint DOJ/FBI and IRS operation to target the Tea Party took place after the midterm “shellacking” caused by the Obamacare backlash. Mitch McConnell was Minority Leader in the Senate but supported the targeting of the Tea Party as his Senate colleagues were getting primaried by an angry and effective grassroots campaign. McConnell’s friend, Senator Bob Bennett, getting beaten in Utah was the final straw.
Dirty Harry and Mitch McConnell saw the TEA Party through the same prism. The TEA Party took Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts (Scott Brown); Sharon Angle was about to take out Harry Reid in Nevada; Arlen Spector was taken down in Pennsylvania; Senator Robert Byrd died; Senator Lisa Murkowski lost her primary to Joe Miller in Alaska; McConnell’s nominee Mike Castle lost to Christine O’Donnell in Delaware; Rand Paul won in Kentucky. This is the background. The peasants were revolting…. and visibly angry Mitch McConnell desperately made a deal with the devil to protect himself.
In many ways, the TEA Party movement was/is very similar to the MAGA movement. The difference in 2010 was the absence of a head of the movement, in 2015 Donald Trump became that head figure who benefited from the TEA Party energy. Trump came into office in 2017 with the same congressional opposition as the successful TEA Party candidates in 2011.
Republicans took control of the Senate following the 2014 mid-terms. Republicans took control of the SSCI in January 2015. Senator Richard Burr became chairman of the SSCI, and Dianne Feinstein shifted to Vice-Chair. Dirty Harry Reid left the Senate, and Mitch McConnell took power again.
Republicans were in control of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2015 when the Intelligence Branch operation against candidate Donald Trump was underway. [Feinstein’s staffer, Dan Jones, left the SSCI so he could act as a liaison and political operative between private-sector efforts (Fusion GPS, Chris Steele) and the SSCI.] The SSCI was a participant in that Fusion GPS/Chris Steele operation, and as a direct consequence Republicans were inherently tied to the problem with President Trump taking office in January of 2017. Indiana Republican Senator Dan Coats was a member of the SSCI.
Bottom line…. When it came to the intelligence system targeting Donald Trump during the 2015/2016 primary, the GOP was just as much at risk as their Democrat counterparts.
When Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election, the SSCI was shocked more than most. They knew countermeasures would need to be deployed to protect themselves from any exposure of their intelligence conduct. Dianne Feinstein stepped down, and Senator Mark Warner was elevated to Vice Chairman.
Indiana’s own Mike Pence, now Vice President, recommended fellow Hoosier, SSCI Senator Dan Coats, to become President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). [Apply hindsight here]
• To give an idea of the Intelligence Branch power dynamic, remind yourself how House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Chairman Devin Nunes, tried to get access to the DOJ/FBI records of the FISA application used against the Trump campaign via Carter Page.
Remember, Devin Nunes only saw a portion of the FISA trail from his review of a Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) previously given to President Obama. Chairman Nunes had to review the PDB at the White House SCIF due to compartmented intelligence, another example of the silo benefit.
Remember the massive stonewalling and blocking of the DOJ/FBI toward Nunes? Remember the back and forth battle over declassification surrounding the Nunes memo?
Remember, after Nunes went directly to House Speaker Paul Ryan for help (didn’t get any), the DOJ only permitted two members from each party within the HPSCI to review the documents, and only at the DOJ offices of main justice?
Contrast that amount of House Intel Committee railroading and blocking by intelligence operatives in the DOJ, DOJ-NSD and FBI, with the simple request by Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner asking to see the Carter Page FISA application and immediately a copy being delivered to him on March 17th 2017.
Can you see which intelligence committee is aligned with the deepest part of the deep state?
Oh, how quickly we forget:
The contrast of ideological alignment between the House, Senate and Intelligence Branch is crystal clear when viewed through the prism of cooperation. You can see which legislative committee holds the power and support of the Intelligence Branch. The Senate Intel Committee facilitates the corrupt existence of the IC Branch, so the IC Branch only cooperates with the Senate Intel Committee. It really is that simple.
• The Intelligence Branch carefully selects its own members by controlling how security clearances are investigated and allowed (FBI). The Intelligence Branch also uses compartmentalization of intelligence as a way to keep each agency, and each downstream branch of government (executive, legislative and judicial), at arms length as a method to stop anyone from seeing the larger picture of their activity. I call this the “silo effect“, and it is done by design.
I have looked at stunned faces when I presented declassified silo product from one agency to the silo customers of another. You would be astonished at what they don’t know because it is not in their ‘silo’.
Through the advice and consent rules, the Intelligence Branch uses the SSCI to keep out people they consider dangerous to their ongoing operations. Any appointee to the intelligence community must first pass through the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, before they get a full Senate vote. If the SSCI rejects the candidate, they simply refuse to take up the nomination. The president is then blocked from that appointment. This is what happened with President Trump over and over again.
• Additionally, the Intelligence Branch protects itself, and its facilitating allies through the formal classification process. The Intelligence Branch gets to decide unilaterally what information will be released and what information will be kept secret. There is no entity outside the Intelligence Branch, and yes that includes the President of the United States, who can supersede the classification authority of the Intelligence Branch. {Go Deep} and {Go Deep} This is something 99.9% of the people on our side get totally and frustratingly wrong.
No one can declassify, or make public, anything the Intelligence Branch will not agree to. Doubt this? Ask Ric Grenell, John Ratcliffe, or even President Trump himself.
• The classification process is determined inside the Intelligence Branch, all by themselves. They get to choose what rank of classification exists on any work product they create; and they get to decide what the classification status is of any work product that is created by anyone else. The Intelligence Branch has full control over what is considered classified information and what is not. The Intelligence Branch defines what is a “national security interest” and what is not. A great technique for hiding fingerprints of corrupt and illegal activity.
[For familiar reference see the redactions to Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages. The Intelligence Branch does all redactions.]
• Similarly, the declassification process is a request by an agency, even a traditionally superior agency like the President of the United States, to the Intelligence Branch asking for them to release the information. The Intelligence Branch again holds full unilateral control. If the head of the CIA refuses to comply with the declassification instruction of the President, what can the president do except fire him/her? {Again, GO DEEP} How does the President replace the non-compliant cabinet member? They have to go through the SSCI confirmation. See the problem?
Yes, there are ways to break up the Intelligence Branch, but they do not start with any congressional effort. As you can see above, the process is the flaw – not the solution. Most conservative pundits have their emphasis on the wrong syllable. Their cornerstone is false.
For their own self-preservation, the Intelligence Branch has been interfering in our elections for years. The way to tear this apart begins with STATE LEVEL election reform that blocks the Legislative Branch from coordinating with the Intelligence Branch.
The extreme federalism approach is critical and also explains why Joe Biden has instructed Attorney General Merrick Garland to use the full power of the DOJ to stop state level election reform efforts. The worry of successful state level election control is also why the Intelligence Branch now needs to support the federal takeover of elections.
Our elections have been usurped by the Intelligence Branch. Start with honest elections and we will see just how much Democrat AND Republican corruption is dependent on manipulated election results. Start at the state level. Start there…. everything else is downstream.
♦ COLLAPSED OVERSIGHT – The modern system to ‘check’ the Executive Branch was the creation of the legislative “Gang of Eight,” a legislative oversight mechanism intended to provide a bridge of oversight between the authority of the intelligence community within the Executive Branch.
The Go8 construct was designed to allow the President authority to carry out intelligence operations and provide the most sensitive notifications to a select group within Congress.
The Go8 oversight is directed to the position, not the person, and consists of: (1) The Speaker of the House; (2) The Minority Leader of the House; (3) The Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, HPSCI; (4) The Ranking Member (minority) of the HPSCI; (5) The Leader of the Senate; (6) The Minority Leader of the Senate; (7) The Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, SSCI; and finally (8) the Vice-Chair of the SSCI.
Example: When the Chief Executive (the President) initiates an intelligence operation on behalf of the United States, the President triggers a “finding memo.” In essence, the instruction to the intel agency or agencies to authorize a covert operation. When that process takes place, the Go8 are the first people notified. Depending on the sensitivity of the operation, sometimes the G08 are notified immediately after the operation is conducted. The notification can be a phone call or an in-person briefing.
Because of the sensitivity of their intelligence information, the Gang of Eight hold security clearances that permit them to receive and review all intelligence operations. The intelligence community are also responsible for briefing the Go8 with the same information they use to brief the President.
~ 2021 Gang of Eight ~
The Go8 design is intended to put intelligence oversight upon both political parties in Congress; it is designed that way by informing the minority leaders of both the House and Senate as well as the ranking minority members of the SSCI and HPSCI. Under the concept, the President cannot conduct an intelligence operation; and the intelligence community cannot carry out intelligence gathering operations without the majority and minority parties knowing about it.
The modern design of this oversight system was done to keep rogue and/or corrupt intelligence operations from happening. However, as we shared in the preview to this entire discussion, the process was usurped during the Obama era. {GO DEEP}
Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, that the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, DOJ and DOJ-National Security Division, together with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA, had been conducting independent investigations of Donald Trump for over a year without informing the Go8. Comey justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “because of the sensitivity of the matter.”
Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue. The arrogance was astounding, and the acceptance by Congress was infuriating. However, that specific example highlighted just how politically corrupt the system had become. In essence, Team Obama usurped the entire design of congressional oversight…. and Congress just brushed it off.
Keep in mind, Comey did not say the White House was unaware; in fact he said exactly the opposite, he said, “The White House was informed through the National Security Council,” (the NSC). The implication, the very direct and specific implication; the unavoidable implication and James Comey admission that everyone just brushed aside, was that President Obama’s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, was totally informed of the intelligence operation(s) against Donald Trump. After all, the NSC reports to the National Security Advisor.
Does the January 20, 2017, Susan Rice memo look different now?
Again, no one saw the immediate issue. What Comey just described on that March day in 2017 was the total usurpation of the entire reason the Gang of Eight exists; to eliminate the potential for political weaponization of the Intelligence Community by the executive branch. The G08 notifications to the majority and minority are specifically designed to make sure what James Comey admitted to doing was never supposed to happen.
Team Obama carried out a political operation using the intelligence community and the checks-and-balances in the system were intentionally usurped. This is an indisputable fact.
Worse still, the entire legislative branch of Congress, which specifically includes the Republicans that now controlled the House and Senate, did nothing. They just ignored what was admitted. The usurpation was willfully ignored. The mechanism of the G08 was bypassed without a twitch of condemnation or investigation…. because the common enemy was Donald Trump.
This example highlights the collapse of the system. Obama, the Executive Branch, collapsed the system by usurping the process; in essence the process became the bigger issue, and the lack of immediate Legislative Branch reaction became evidence of open acceptance. The outcomes of the usurpation played out over the next four years, Donald J. Trump was kneecapped and lost his presidency because of it. However, the bigger issue of the collapse still exists.
The downstream consequence of the Legislative Branch accepting the Executive Branch usurpation meant both intelligence committees were compromised. Additionally, the leadership of both the House and Senate were complicit. Think about this carefully. The Legislative Branch allowance of the intelligence usurpation meant the Legislative Branch was now subservient to the Intelligence Branch.
That’s where we are.
Right now.
That’s where we are.
Term-3 Obama is now back in the White House with Joe Biden.
Term-1 and Term-2 Obama usurped the ‘check and balance‘ within the system and weaponized the intelligence apparatus. During Trump’s term that weaponization was covered up by a compliant congress, and not a single member of the oversight called it out. Now, Term-3 Obama steps back in to continue the cover up and continue the weaponization.
Hopefully, you can now see the scale of the problem that surrounds us with specific citation for what has taken place. What I just explained to you above is not conspiracy theory, it is admitted fact that anyone can look upon. Yet….
Have you seen this mentioned anywhere? Have you seen this called out by anyone in Congress? Have you seen anyone in media (ally or adversary) call this out? Have you seen any member of the Judicial Branch stand up and say wait, what is taking place is not okay? Have you seen a single candidate for elected office point this out? Have you seen anyone advising a candidate to point this out?
This is our current status. It is not deniable. The truth exists regardless of our comfort.
Not a single person in power will say openly what has taken place. They are scared of the Fourth Branch. The evidence of what has taken place is right there in front of our face. The words, actions and activities of those who participated in this process are not deniable.
There are only two members of the Gang of Eight who have existed in place from January 2007 (the real beginning of Obama’s term, two years before he took office when the Congress flipped). Only two members of the G08 have been consistently in place from January of 2007 to right now, today. All the others came and went, but two members of the Gang of Eight have been part of that failed and collapsed oversight throughout the past 15 years, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell.
♦ TECHNOLOGY – On a global scale – the modern intelligence gathering networks are now dependent on data collection to execute their intelligence missions. In the digital age nations have been executing various methods to gather that data. Digital surveillance has replaced other methods of interception. Those surveillance efforts have resulted in a coalescing of regional data networks based on historic multi-national relationships.
We have a recent frame of reference for the “U.S. data collection network” within the NSA. Through the allied process the Five Eyes nations all rely on the NSA surveillance database (U.K, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and U.S.) The NSA database provides the digital baseline for intelligence operations in defense of our allies. The portals into the NSA database are essentially an assembly of allies in like-minded ideological connection to the United States.
Unfortunately, there have been some revelations about the NSA database being used to monitor our allies, like in the example of Germany and surveillance on Angela Merkel’s phone. As long as “the good guys” are operating honorably, allies of the United States can feel confident about having protection from the NSA surveillance of global digital data. We warn our friends if we detect something dangerous etc.
The U.S. has nodes on communication pipelines to intercept and extract data. We have also launched hundreds, perhaps thousands, of satellites to conduct surveillance and gather up data. All of this data is fed into the NSA database where it is monitored (presumably) as a national security mechanism, and in defense of our allies.
However, what about data collection or data networks that are outside the NSA database? What do our enemies do? The NSA database is just one intelligence operation of digital surveillance amid the entire world, and we do not allow access by adversaries we are monitoring. So what do they do? What do our allies do who might not trust the United States due to past inconsistencies, ie. the Middle East?
The answers to those questions highlight other data collection networks. So, a brief review of the major players is needed.
♦ CHINA – China operates their own database. They, like the NSA, scoop up data for their system. Like us, China launches satellites and deploys other electronic data collection methods to download into their database. This is why the issues of electronic devices manufactured in China becomes problematic. Part of the Chinese data collection system involves the use of spyware, hacking and extraction.
Issues with Chinese communication company Huawei take on an added dimension when you consider the goal of the Chinese government to conduct surveillance and assemble a network of data to compete with the United States via the NSA. Other Chinese methods of surveillance and data-collection are less subversive, as in the examples of TicTok and WeChat. These are Chinese social media companies that are scraping data just like the NSA scrapes data from Facebook, Twitter and other Silicon Valley tech companies. [ Remember, the Intelligence Branch is a public-private partnership. ]
♦ RUSSIA – It is very likely that Russia operates their own database. We know Russia launches satellites, just like China and the USA, for the same purposes. Russia is also very proficient at hacking into other databases and extracting information to store and utilize in their own network. The difference between the U.S., China and Russia is likely that Russia spends more time on the hacking aspect because they do not generate actual technology systems as rapidly as the U.S. and China.
The most recent database creation is an outcome of an ally having to take action because they cannot rely on the ideology of the United States remaining consistent, as the administrations ping-pong based on ideology.
♦ SAUDI ARABIA – Yes, in 2016 we discovered that Saudi Arabia was now operating their own intelligence data-gathering operation. It would make sense, given the nature of the Middle East and the constant fluctuations in political support from the United States. It is a lesson the allied Arab community and Gulf Cooperation Council learned quickly when President Obama went to Cairo in 2009 and launched the Islamist Spring (Arab Spring) upon them.
I have no doubt the creation of the Saudi intelligence network was specifically because the Obama administration started supporting radical Islamists within the Muslim Brotherhood and threw fuel on the fires of extremism all over the Arab world.
Think about it., What would you do if you were Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, Jordan, Oman or Yemen and you knew the United States could just trigger an internal uprising of al-Qaeda, ISIS and the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood to seek your destruction?
Without a doubt, those urgent lessons from 2009, 2010, 2011 triggered the formation of the Arab Intelligence Network as a network to defend itself with consistency. They assembled the network and activated it in 2017 as pictured above.
♦ Israel – Along a similar outlook to the Arab network, no doubt Israel operates an independent data collection system as a method of protecting itself from ever-changing U.S. politics amid a region that is extremely hostile to its very existence. Like the others, Israel launches proprietary satellites, and we can be sure they use covert methods to gather electronic data just like the U.S. and China.
As we have recently seen in the Pegasus story, Israel creates spyware programs that are able to track and monitor cell phone communications of targets. The spyware would not work unless Israel had access to some network where the phone meta-data was actually stored. So yeah, it makes sense for Israel to operate an independent intelligence database.
♦ Summary: As we understand the United States Intelligence Branch of government as the superseding entity that controls the internal politics of our nation, we also must consider that multiple nations have the same issue. There are major intelligence networks around the world beside the NSA “Five-Eyes” database. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Israel all operate proprietary databases deploying the same tools and techniques for assembly.
The geopolitical conflict that has always existed has now shifted into a digital battle-space. The Intelligence Agencies from these regions are now operating as the backbone of the government that uses them, and has become dependent on them. [<- Reread that].
Once you accept the digital-era intelligence apparatus of China, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, The United States and Israel, are now the primary national security mechanisms for stabilization of government; then you accept the importance of those intelligence operations.
Once you understand how foundational those modern intelligence operations have become for the stability and continuity of those governments…… then you begin to understand just how the United States intelligence community became more important than the government that created it.
♦ Public Private Partnership – The modern Fourth Branch of Government is only possible because of a Public-Private partnership with the intelligence apparatus. You do not have to take my word for it, the partnership is so brazened they have made public admissions.
The biggest names in Big Tech announced in June their partnership with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: (1) monitor all activity in their platforms; (2) identify extremist content; (3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE); and then, (4) put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies (U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) can access it.
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all partnering with the intelligence apparatus. It might be difficult to fathom how openly they admit this, but they do. Look at this sentence in the press release (emphasis mine):
[…] “The Group will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”
Think about that sentence structure very carefully. They are “adding to” the preexisting list…. admitting the group (aka Big Tech) already have access to the the intelligence-sharing database… and also admitting there is a preexisting list created by the Five Eyes consortium.
Obviously, who and what is defined as “extremist content” will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch from any oversight.
When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against problems due to the Constitution of the United States. They get around those legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual data mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the central database.
The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th amendment issue) without a warrant; however, private individuals can search and report back as long as they have access. What is being admitted is exactly that preexisting partnership. The difference is that Big Tech will flag the content from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to exploit.
The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.
Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.
What was announced in June 2021 is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.
July 26 (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)
The influence of the Intelligence Branch now reaches into our lives, our personal lives. In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the installation of Barack Obama was all about.
The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons (we should never have allowed to be created) and turned those weapons into political tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation.
Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.
This is the scale of corrupt political compromise on both sides of the DC dynamic that we are up against.
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rehash of many articles over the last several years but is informative and necessary for newly activated Treehouse Denizens….Thank you for all the work you do on our behalf SD
Where is your Medal of Freedom, Sundance.
Because I believe you above any who have received it, deserve it without doubt.
You’ve served your country well. And I truly salute you, sir.
Given the current state of affairs, the more Sundance deserves the Medal of Freedom, the less likely it will be t he gets it.
The value of what has been laid out here as elsewhere has no price.
Amen, Betsy Jones. If awarded here, it would put but back some meaning into a medal which has been sullied by Obama and Biden. Their presentations to trash has put the medal in the category of the meaningless Pulitzer, Nobel and as of a few days ago, the Israeli Medal of Honor.
Indeed it would. Value restored completely.
So in lieu of a Medal of Freedom, I just click the Donate button every month… 😉
Perfect.
‘The love of money is the root of all evil.’ = A money quote from this excellent The Conservative Treehouse article. =
“When Democrats took over the House of Representatives in January 2007, they took office with a plan. Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, and Democrats controlled the Senate where Harry Reid was Majority Leader. Barack Obama was a junior senator from Illinois.
Pelosi and Reid intentionally did not advance a budget in 2008 (for fiscal year 2009) because their plan included installing Barack Obama (and all that came with him) with an ~open checkbook~ made even more lucrative by a worsening financial crisis and a process called baseline budgeting. Baseline budgeting means the prior fiscal year budget is accepted as the starting point for the next year budget. All previous expenditures are baked into the cake within baseline budgeting.
Massive bailouts preceded Obama’s installation due to U.S. economic collapse, and massive bailouts continued after his installation. This is the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ aspect. TARP (Troubled Asset Recovery Program), auto bailouts (GM), and the massive stimulus spending bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, ie. those shovel ready jobs) were all part of the non-budget spending. The federal reserve assisted with Quantitative Easing (QE1 and QE2) as congress passed various Porkulous spending bills further spending and replacing the formal budget process.
Note: There has never been a budget passed in the normal/traditional process since September of 2007.”
Because we’re insolvent and they’re counting on The Great Reset.
Because we’re insolvent and they don’t intend to pay off our massive debt with printed “US Dollars”.
If they were going to print and pay back they could of, on any day.
Pushing numbers, and buttons to transfer the numbers, is cheap, overnight, and nothing is needed to back up the “numbers”. Heck, nothing backs up paper money now.
Nothing changes except you won’t see “currency”, green backs. You and Government will move numbers instead of paper and coin. Only your value to Government will back the numbers. Not gold, not silver, not oil.
Governments that loaned us gold backed money but won’t take mere digital numbers in return for what they loaned will decide the success or failure of the contrived economic ruse of the Reset.
A MUST READ link
Very good remarks about the money that’s planned for us. First sentence of 2nd para. says it well:
” They (people) just assume that the money they have will be as useful tomorrow as it is today. They also assume that money will never change in a dramatic way.
This lack of interest in how money works is likely due to the fact that people are not taught how their money is created. It’s not discussed in schools, the truth is avoided in colleges and the mainstream news rarely mentions it. People think our government and treasury handles all of that, but the reality is that our government does NOT create our money; at least, it’s not in charge of the process. Central bankers are, and they operate from a “quasi-independent” position.
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan once openly admitted that the central bank “answers to no one” and does not follow orders from the government. They do what they want when they want.”……
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/central-bank-digital-currencies-are-coming-what-will-consequences-be?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=788
Proper quote is “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil”. There’s a difference there that’s not subtle. Plenty of evil sins that have nothing to do with money….
In depth!
Kroesus said: “rehash of many articles over the last several years but is informative and necessary for newly activated Treehouse Denizens”
I suspect an auxiliary purpose for Sundance to post these comprehensive reviews is to create ever-new opportunities for decision-makers to come across them, either themselves or referred from staff (“Hey, you should see this”) … anyone who might have an iota of ability to do anything about it, or at least be aware
Plus, he updates with new material, refines – an ongoing re-working towards a definitive work product, a topical position paper or research paper, if you will. To me, these articles reflect his work method, method of the man.
Some people often say “you should write a book”, but Treehouse is his book.
In this modern era of electronic publishing, “a book” is almost an outdated concept, it’ll be obsolete by the time printed (as evident by his ongoing revision/expansion of the articles here) and wouldn’t guarantee any wider distribution than he gets here.
I think highly enough of them that I copy them to a file called “Treehouse special papers” … the comprehensive and important ones that stand out from the day-to-day articles (not that they’re not great too, many of them go into topical files)
God bless Sundance and his natural talents and nearly boundless work ethic
The first thing that came to my mind is Milquetoast Mitt who (as pathetic as he is) was in a position of trouncing the eminently beatable and thoroughly corrupt 0bama in ‘12 , but rolled over and played dead as if by command.
Along with his Robin, Paulie Numnuts Ryano, losing a debate to a less demented, at the time, Biden.
😂 “Nimnuts.” Perfect!
Considering all the ongoing election fraud, Mittens probably did win. At that point, many Americans had seen enough of Barry Hussein.
The fix was already in. Oblowme stole 2012 and and the shrew was up next but they didn’t steal enough to beat Trump.
I remember there was a stopping of the vote counting in 2016 too, don’t you remember that?
Yes, because they had the Burisma goods on him!
It’s obvious that “elections” aren’t the solution to anything.
There is only one way to clean house and fumigate it. That is to surround the whole area and open the jail cells for all the newcomers rounded up. Then start all over with the original Constitution & Bill of Rights that our founders signed and agreed to. Omit all other nonsense. At least that is my humble opinion.
Hopefully, there is an Orkin man out there ready to do his thing.
No, there are TWO: Stay home and let the dims win. The eventual conclusion is the same, but it will arrive much faster making it more difficult for them to remove all existing countermeasures with more unconstitutional laws.
Exactly. We are kidding ourselves if we think otherwise.
No matter who’s in office, anywhere, the fourth branch of non-elected individuals are still in control. That’s not going to change at the ballot box.
The GOP are tying to “Tea Party” us again. I have more respect for the Demoncrats aka “Pathocrats”.. At least they have enough synthetic testosterone in their system from various transitions to tell us how they feel. The GOP are sinister eunuchs, keeping the sharpest knives for their constituents. If Florida weren’t a closed primary, I would not be registered R.
So this all explains the statement from Schumer to Trump about the IC having six ways from Sunday to get you if you tangle with them. Schumer admitted he knew of the corruption and that he had no intention to ever deal with it. Sickening.
Yep.
Although I’ve read this in the past, it is so complex that review is very helpful. How quickly we forget!
Thank you for sharing the People’s Pundit. Interesting.
Although the odds are against us, I honestly believe that we can throw all the bums out and restructure the government so that it serves us once again.
Thank you so much for your excellent analysis and information sharing, Sundance.
SF-86. Application for security clearance. Where do the results of federal background checks go after they are completed?
To the nearest Charmin factory.
Likely not before the local embedded CCP agent(s) gets a copy for thier bosses.
Along with finger prints, palm print, plus all of your relatives, foreign friends etc.
Including addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers plus than some.
We should not be serving THEM!!
“Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act.
Instead, what Obama and Holder did was to take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people understandably get confused.”
Sean Hannity certainly is confused.
He thinks this is all only at the very top with his ‘99% of all FBI Agents are wonderful men and women protecting us 24×7’ (or some such blather) , when any and all honest FBI Agents and DOJ Lawyers would have left quite some time ago not wanting to be part of any criminal and terrorist organization..
As the DOD more and more follows in the footsteps of the FBI and DOJ, especially if the American People get “too uppity” at their masters, he will likely make the very same kind of grave mistake.
Shannity is not “confused”…he is intentionally passing disinformation…he is comfortable in his $millions/year propaganda gig so happily passes off what is considered “conservative news”
Hannity would would be at the bus station with a Dixie cup half full of change and a cardboard sign reading “Anything will Help” if “conservatives” turned that BS off.
29 million a year
Hannity is on a leash and is bought. I laugh everytime I hear him say he is completely independent and untold what he can preach. I especially giggle at the look on Hannity’s face when he has to do a beginning of a show handoff with Tucker, right after Tucker has castigated Lindsey for the phony that he is.
You still listen to that pumpkin-headed narcissist? I never understood what anyone saw in that buffoon – comic relief, maybe.
I’m interested in the financial scheme/corruption tie to picking candidates, as well as the notion from McGregor, who said a few months ago that the banks own all of the politicians in DC. This, at least at first glance, is the tie that binds everything together. What is that tie? How do we break that tie? What will breaking the tie do? Is there anyone trying to break it, or has tried to break it in the past? It seems obvious that whatever we choose, if we can choose, we’re in for a lot of pain.
He correctly mocks the idea of voting for someone just because they’re more “electable”, but then he proceeds to say that Oz was the better choice because Kathy Barnette was unelectable.
As a longtime reader and listener of Richard’s, HE IS ALWAYS SPOT ON. THE BEST POLLSTER. The problems with Barnett are many. Fetterman would have taken her apart and it has NOTHING to do with Hannity. Richard has details. Honestly, Hack Poso and the rest of the Oz haters who won’t move on, deserve Fetterman. Who cares where Oz used to live? Fetterman locked PA up and fled to the Jersey shore. Is that okay? McCormick would have been a vote for Mitch and that is a line that can’t be crossed again.
What I think is irrelevant because I can’t vote in Pennsylvania. I’m just pointing out how quickly Baris transitioned from mocking people who would vote for someone in a primary just because they’re more electable to saying that Oz was the better choice because he’s more electable.
THIS is why this is our last stand. Bury those rifles wherever you need to.
If a rifle is not at hand it is of little use.
Egomaniacal maxine let the true 0bama slip out back in 2013. Sadly no one paid attention to the evil that is BHO.
It’s very POWERFUL what he’s leaving in place.”
Voting isn’t fixing this mess
That explains why Marjorie Taylor Green is anathema to the Republican club. Sarah Palin would be another one. Anyone who is for the people is isolated, derided, and has a hard time getting anything done.
That is why Thom Tillis and Richard Burr of NC show no caring for the people who elected them. They are part of the club and must be receiving great benefits from it. They have voted with the Democrats on infrastructure, Covid Relief, raising the debt ceiling, $40 billion for Ukraine. They claim they are right to support these things and back those up with faulty figures and excuses. Please God may Ted Budd win Burr’s seat and that he will prove to be more responsive.
Here’s another I’d include with Green and Palin
Travelled to the border wall to carry a cardboard cutout of Ka-MAH-la to make a point
Ballsy chick, from what I can see
Yep, and she’s from Rifle, CO!
Amen, as I view the corrupt Republican landscape in NC.
The Republican Club members will rue the day they sat idly by as the Obama administration destroyed the TEA Party.
This is why Trump Republicans must begin at the local level and systematically evict the RINOs and rebuild the party and let THEM create a third party or become full fledged Democrats.
We have to clean our house first. Precinctstrategy.com
Thank you Sundance for all of your amazing hard work and analytical skills in this discovery. God bless you Sundance.
Great article!
I would love to see it re-titled for the purpose of future reference and to be forwarded to some Useful Idiots that may be open to being enlightened to something like ‘A summary of a corrupt and post-Constitutional Republic and those who control the levers of power’.
Nothing stops you from “printing” it into a PDF to save on your computer. That way you have it 24/7 for reference.
Which I have done MANY MANY times.
Thank you.
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Baris is good at what he does. Been watching/listening when I can over the past year or two. Always interesting tidbits. Helps to watch after the show so you can speed it up. I listen to everything as fast as it allows now because so little time and chit chat is distracting.
BTW, Baris has been doing a book club for the subscribers on locals and has covered some excellent poli sci books.
And some say Ukraine is the most corrupt nation on earth.
Looks like Ukraine is number two and maybe not even a close number two.
Think that Ukraine is the clearing house for the money movement. The main branch,🤔🤔 hard to say. Definitely in the top three places.
Yes and they are literally pouring the Red meat to motivate voting by and for Democrats.
Like Republicans are considering laws to restrict the movement of pregnant women. Mitch mentioned ahead of time he would back a law federally banning abortion.
It’s all very fine but the timing on all of this is an obvious ploy to get people in their lanes.
Divide, divide, and more divisions, have the plebiscite in separate silos.
Keep the plebs arguing about some minor issues. Sad thing is that the plebs probably would agree on 85%, Have discussion on 10%, and never agree on 5%. Have a major disagreement on a nickel and a discussion on a dime. Out of a dollar, boy the populace is really brainwashed into one or two issues, being important.
Thank you Sundance, etal for showing the mariotte strings, Now can’t unsee them. Thank you, fellow Treepers for other insights with what is going on locally, Worldwide. Thank you for this Refuge.
What kind of a life
can be lived; by anyone, —-including the demented scumbags,
in the twisted world
all those scumbags are creating ???
The very things and ways of living that allowed them to get where they are, have what they have … live as they have
is all that they want to become extinct.
—That’s what,
“Yes WE Can “
meant.
They cannot succeed
– Nope! They must not.
I’m old so don’t laugh, but this guy totally gets it!
Yes Tom MacDonald is pretty amazing. Listen to “Straight White Male and White Boy.” He’s a fair dude and his weapon….Divine truth.
I listened to a Ukrainian woman a few weeks ago that brought the problem to light. When Ukraine exited the Russian communist system the people who controlled the country were similar to the 4th estate discussed in ths article. What followed was these communist officials just moved to the so-called private sector but still maintained the power. If we can successfully dislodge these corrupted officials we need to purge the entire house. Leaving any cancer it will just re-emerge.
It was obvious at the start of FJB’s term it was Obie actually in control. I had mistakenly put aside SD’s series on the fourth branch (set aside but saved). Time to make time and go back. An excellent rundown on where we are at. Relate this to the actions of the WEF and there will be conflict for control.
SD’s posting should be reprinted verbatim in EVERY newspapers and magazine in the country.
To much enlightenment for the populace, Will never be done willing.
ha!
Maybe we can post in the obituaries section if newspapers still have those…
“Recently passed” – The United States of America, of intentionally sinister causes after a failed fundamental transformation … was not able to be built back better …
ha!
When Obama ran for election and won, I knew things would never be the same. Everything in my core told me he was deceptive. I just didn’t think the crazy would exasperate so quickly.
Damn I gotta read through all of this. The video is long am about 20min in. I remember this guy Baris did a fantastic job at reading the polls. Always though he was an older dude until this video. Thanks for posting this SD. Baris should be followed. He gets it and these are the people I look to learn from. I don’t trust many talk radio shows anymore. I like Beck because I believe he’s following his heart. Used to get so pissed off at him in 2016. WTF Glenn do you want HRC in if we have a chance to steal this election? We indeed stole it as it wasn’t supposed to happen but we did it honorably. But I also understood his concerns at the time. He thought DT was going to be heavy handed on the Constitution. I believed it was a possibility as well but we had to take that chance. I digress, this Baris guy should be an excellent source of information and love listening to him already.
we didn’t “stole” it
we seized it
(because differences)
And if the Republican’s so bad you have to sit out – you might as well vote for the democrat and double your leverage.
And don’t apologize to anyone, the old-timers did it all the time. It’s another way of holding a politician’s feet to the fire.
Sundance, can you tell us if you have sent this post to people in seats of power, people like McCarthy, Stephanik, even people like Turtle, so he knows we know, etc?
Trump? Or Grenell? etc?
Sundance,
Do you think the CIA actually manipulated vote totals from some CIA post out of the country in the 2020 election?
I’ll hope Sundance answers that question, howard
But one opinion I hold is that they may not have needed to (manipulate votes electronically)
I think they may have thrown elections in several states the old-fashioned way
BALLOT-BOX STUFFING
— the 3am ballot dumps
— white van pulls up to the loading dock in back of the election center
— 18-wheeler tractor trailer transports ballots (pre-filled-out?) into Pennsylvania from a New York printing center
(mid-evening … too late to be voted legitimately but still in time to be counted overnight)
— rolling suitcases full of ballots are pulled from under tables to be counted after counting is “halted for the night”
Remember, Dems control the election process and staff in many states
Including the voter rolls
— which notoriously contain many deceased former voters
— and people who have moved away
— and people who are registered in a mass way by motor-voter registration
— but may have never voted
— and people who don’t always vote or have stopped voting (identifiable just by looking at their voting record or lack thereof)
Dems can print out ballots for ALL those kinds of *registered* voters
And then vote those ballots Dem and include them with others to be counted
With little repercussion or accountability
Maybe the occasional “I’m sorry, Sir, but you’ve ALREADY voted, apparently”
I’m not saying tinkering electronically doesn’t happen
Just that old-fashioned ballot-box-stuffing via control of the voter rolls probably goes a long way
What I was thinking was that the “old-fashioned way” has been successful for Dems for a very long time. They don’t need the CIA for THAT.
I’m thinking the CIA is necessary when the above cannot supply the voluminous numbers needed OR when the old-fashioned way cannot predict where the votes need to come from, what precincts in what states.
I live in SE Asia and US Intel is centered close to what’s called the “Golden Triangle”, it’s where Laos, Thailand and Myanmar ( formerly Burma ) all come together, huge heroin producing region.
CIA and the UK’s MI5/MI6 are in or around a city called Udon Thani, use to be a fighter base during the Vietnam War. The NSA operates a listening station out of one of two cities in the NE, it’s either called Kalisin or Khon Kaen, both are in close proximity to Udon Thani. They collect everything going between the US and Thailand, and other countries as well.
Heck, even Trumps former director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, ran what’s called a “Black Site” in that area here in Thailand, it’s easily verifiable just doing a Google search.
I can’t say much more about it, everything I’ve said is verifiable on the internet so I’m not disclosing any secrets.
Point is, everyone ( all the ‘brown people ), knows what’s going on, they just don’t say anything.
Some countries in the region are turning to China ( Cambodia and Myanmar ), using the lesser of two evils strategy, but like I said before, you do that and in the end you are still choosing evil.
The Thai people feel bad for America because they see what’s coming, the Euro’s and sexpats from the UK and Australia they don’t have much sympathy for. But for some reason they still love the American people and hope everything works out for the better. They treat Americans very good here, others, not so much.
thx, Gabriel, that’s an interesting slice of the mosaic
Everyone welcome. Sundance exposed this long ago. The platform has grown enormously. Most everyone here has like minds. We are light years ahead of most of the crowd because we read it here first.
This stuff goes back to Teddy Roosevelt. He disrespected the Constitution and advocated for our modern bureaucracy. He was a scumbag who started the decline of this country.
Go back further. Jackson did kill the central bank, but Lincoln really strengthened the Leviathon and sent the military to stop a people’s self-determination.
out of the ashes of the “Civil War” a corporate UNITED STATES of America was created centralizing power in DC…..they also morphed the amendment process of the US Constitution…..Lincoln had contended the Southern states could NOT legally leave the Union without the permission of the federal government, yet as a precondition to reestablishing their full powers as established in the US Constitution the Southern states were extorted to passing the 13-15th Amendments before they could reseat their duly elected representatives in Congress
He’s right about one thing, if Trump announces before midterms the GOP will blame him for the loss they’re working so hard for. It’s wise to let them fail on their own without any scapegoat.
I’ve heard the establishment pundits throwing out number like 30, 20, and even as few as 7 to 13 seats won in November, meanwhile MAGA is saying 80 to 100 seats. They are trying to throw this election because they don’t want MAGA candidates with a workable mandate in DC.
The UniParty foul, [fowl] both wings will be kicking and screaming as sunlight is upon them. As the populace realizes what they have been doing.
The attitudes and values of Jack Reacher and Bob Swaggart are sorely needed in DC.
Sundance, I’m afraid they’re just smarter than us
(these anti-American communists and fundamental transformationists)
Or – maybe not smarter, but diabolically without ethics and absolutely sinister
But maybe smarter too
It’s discouraging, the picture you’ve painted
But I don’t doubt a word of it
Excellent work as always SD. This reinforces what we need to focus on. Thank you!
Richard at his best, great podcast.
I’ve read the hard work Sundance has accomplished and recommend this very recurrent and growing thread as why we are where we are at.
OBTW just under Doofus reminder the YouTube link has been removed: “This video isn’t available anymore”.
𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱-𝐂𝐈𝐀 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤’𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲
“What is new (or at least newly known to us!) is that now these professionals are being sought after by social media companies like Facebook, Google and others who are now heavily into monitoring, surveilling, and censoring content, and then sharing data about users with U.S. government entities.”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebook-content-policy/281307/
I recommend sharing this thread with all contacts, prefaced with a request to take time to read and digest everything (and the warning that it is DEEP and LONG and VITAL to understanding where we are and how we got here. The Baris video I’ll watch sometime…the broad intel Sundance shares is most important.
How can we hope to recover and fix this? Agree that local and state elections are the only hope. Monitor and assure fair elections, candidates who follow Consitutional conservative principles and freedom. Overwhelm with this, and we just might get our country back. Power is required to topple such entrenched demagoguery. It’s better than trying to take out the evil ones one by one. Turtle defeated in any manner only allows the next one to take his place. Same with Piglosi. But send enough true conservatives from retaken states, and the powerful can throw out the compromised.
We have some already there (like MTG). Must add many more or this nation is toast.
A patriot has a great chance in taking a primary. Join your local tea party if you have one. Form a local taxpayer watch group if you do not have one. Film their meetings, ask great questions, and start a website having the info on what your local criminal government is doing. Run as a DINO if you are in a Democrat controlled cesspool. This is the premise of “devolution” which Patel Patriot and Man In America run videos about. We have to collectively work together, we cannot wait for someone to rescue us, we have to do it themselves.
I highly suggest watching those videos if you have time.
Baris had noted in an interview with Jack Posobeic (filling in for Bannon) mentioned in a sidenote of a question that Kevin McCarthy would support a Dem Rep in a race against a GOP challenger if McCarthy knew he could rely on getting a vote from the Dem Rep vs not getting the vote from the potential GOP challenger. He would do this through negative ads through some pac against the GOP challenger. See, McCarthy is just counting votes for his speakership when considering who to support through the NRCC. I know that Trump has endorsed McCarthy but that is just for congressional election. I wonder how Trump will proceed for the speakership if the GOP takes control of the House?
I’m going to repeat a personal story that I have about fake Republicans vs fake Democrats. A registered Democrat challenged the ballot signatures for a House Congressional race in NJ. The judge threw out the “established” Democrat candidate and the ballot challenger became the democrat candidate. There was a panic amongst the NJ political theater and a full on Alinsky campaign began. The best part was the owners of the Republican party ordered their puppets to assist their Democrat puppets against him.
Sometimes they even do deals were they promise not run puppets against each other in certain races so they can bank their campaign money. Watch local/county/state races especially for these theatrics
GOP should throw the McCarthy race to get him out of Congress.
Fake Right vs Fake Left:
also called “The Totalitarian Shuffle”
When the wall came down in Berlin I said to my wife: “All those cold-war bureaucrats that were watching Russia are gonna start watching us. Nobody gets let go, everybody is re-purposed.”
I couldn’t tell how or when it would happen until GWB and Dick Cheney started pushing for the Patriot Act. Then, when the Chicago Communist Cartel got Obama in place, one of the first moves made by the cartel was to make it legally O.K. for U.S. government (city-county-state-federal) to use unmanned aerial vehicles in their routine operations. All of these monsters are under Satan’s thumb.
Note: Jesus, the Christ of God, does not dispute Satan’s claims of temporal dominion:
LUKE 4:5-8 Again, Satan took him up into a high mountain and showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And Satan said unto him, All this power and glory will I give to you, for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will, I give it. If you therefore will worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
80+ years of Republican exceptionalisum continues with “Obama did it” thrown in for good measure.
As long as conservatives keep falling for this nothing changes.
You don’t out-elect where we are.
Sundance seems to have forgotten that Rich Baris is a pollster by profession. His podcasts are a mix of his take on affairs of the state, politically and economically and going over the numbers of various polls. He and Sundance see eye to eye on virtually every issue.
Reading through this most exhaustive work, is frighteningly enlightening.
But at the same time it is also like putting something you suspected into sharp relief you knew was there all along but couldn’t quite put your finger on.
Perhaps the most disheartening thing is how willfully and energetically persons in power of both parties throughout the government hold absolutely zero allegiance to the Constitution or the Rule of Law. They are both poseurs and insurrectionists.
And even more worrisome is the global-interconnectedness of it all.
We can and must work to disrupt and dismantle it, but make no mistake how fiercesome that battle will be.
It is good to keep reminding of this. I first saw this last August and a more detailed series in July. Thanks Sundance
It started with at least Clinton. Remember the raw FBI files her henchman Craig Livingstone had stashed in the WH. Maybe even George H W Bush who was head of CIA. Kennedy said he would redo the CIA in his second term. He didn’t get a second term. Reagan came in guns ablazing until he was nearly assassinated. Nixon was run out of office by the media as was Trump.