The website Just Security, author former CIA operative Douglas Johnson, is very concerned about the House Subcommittee on Federal Government Weaponization. [SEE ARTICLE HERE} The concern is clouded under the auspices of fearing politicization by questioning the intelligence community about weaponized government.
The article is a mainstream bureaucratic outlook where the professional intelligence apparatus views themselves as beyond being accountable to the elected public officials, specifically the House members of the committee. The permanent unelected officials have a self-perception above the reach of the elected officials.
In essence, there is no public accountability model within their view of their operation. There can only be concealment, secret briefings, darkness and ‘trust us’ type reviews of their authorities. It’s quite a remarkable thing to read.
Just Security […] that’s oversight, a bipartisan endeavor conducted in the interest of all Americans, regardless of political affiliation. The oversight structure that came from the Church Committee investigations adopted legal and sensible rules of the road and protections for all stakeholders. Such supervision is conducted in controlled settings, shielded from public exposure, in a way that promotes candor and trust among both the auditors and the audited, facilitating transparency.
Note: How has that worked out for the American people?
[…] Jordan’s committee will not be oversight. Rather, it promises to be the very politicized weapon it claims interest in exposing. The body’s spectacle and powers pose dangerous implications for the ability of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement communities to effectively conduct their mission.
[…] The greatest danger, though, is the impact on these communities’ protection from political pressure. Professionals dedicated to national service will have to assess the risks of telling it like it is and speaking truth to power. Even those at the bottom of the professional ladder might find themselves having to lawyer up and consider the prospect of subsequent purges depending on who is in office. (read full)
Why would the CIA, FBI or any Intelligence Community member, who works for the American taxpayer, need to “lawyer up” if they are doing nothing unlawful, unconstitutional, or illegal against the interests of the taxpayers who fund them?
REMINDER – Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. What Obama and Holder did was 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.
Elevator Speech:
(1) The Patriot Act turned the intel surveillance radar from foreign searches for terrorists to domestic searches for terrorists.
(2) Obama/Biden then redefined what is a “terrorist” to include their political opposition.
DEEP DIVE:
Twitter is to the U.S. government as TikTok is to China. The overarching dynamic is the need to control public perceptions and opinions.
DHS has been in ever increasing control of Twitter since the public-private partnership was formed in 2011/2012. However, it’s not just Twitter. The same fundamental relationships are now at work within Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
With all the shiny things surfacing from the Twitter Files, few are looking at the origin of what the government is trying to keep hidden….
In the era shortly after 9/11 the DC national security apparatus, instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney, 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.
After 9/11/01, the electronic surveillance system that was originally created to monitor threats from abroad was retooled to monitor threats inside our country. That is when all of our electronic ‘metadata’ came under federal surveillance.
That inflection point, and the process that followed, was exactly what Edward Snowden tried to point out.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their political opposition became the target of this new national security system.
The problems we face now as a country are directly an outcome of two very distinct points that were merged by Barack Obama. (1) The post 9/11 monitoring of electronic communication of American citizens, and (2) Obama’s team creating a fine-tuning knob that it focused on the politics of the targets. 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. The Department of Homeland Security came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was formed.
When President Barack Obama and Attorney General 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: a domestic surveillance state. 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.
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 metastasized into a Fourth Branch of Government. It is this superseding branch that now touches and influences every facet of our life. We The People are under surveillance.
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 and 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, which include the exploitation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court, or FISC) 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.
However, the creation of the DNI office also created an unconstitutional surveillance system of the American people. The DNI office became the tool to take massive amounts of data and use it to target specific Americans. Weaponizing the DNI office for political targeting is now the purpose of the DNI office as it exists.
The illegal and unlawful nature of the surveillance creates a need for careful protection amid the group who operate in the shadows of electronic information and domestic surveillance. You will 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. The tools the government used to monitor threats were now being used to monitor every American. WE THE PEOPLE were now the threat the national security system was monitoring.
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 prior intelligence conduct. Immediately Senator Dianne Feinstein stepped down from the SSCI, 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 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 arm’s 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 unavoidable implication and James Comey admission that everyone just brushed aside, was that President Obama’s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, was 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 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 then specifically included 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.
NOTE: Former Obama National Security aide and counsel to the President, Lisa Monaco, is in her current position as Deputy Attorney General, specifically to make sure all of these revelations do not become a legal risk to Barack Obama and the people who created them. The SSCI confirmed Monaco for this purpose because the Senate is just as much at risk.
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, complicit senate intelligence committee, 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, in fact most of it is on record.
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.
From that point it is then critical to understand that domestic intelligence operations are underway to monitor the electronic communication of American citizens inside our own country. YOU are under surveillance. The parents who confront school boards are under surveillance. The political operatives inside the FBI are monitoring everyone who comes onto the radar, that is why the National School Boards Association asked the White House, then the DOJ, to have the FBI start targeting parents. Are things making sense now?
♦ 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.
[The Intercept] – […] Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.” (read more)
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 against domestic enemies.
[…] The extent to which the DHS initiatives affect Americans’ daily social feeds is unclear. During the 2020 election, the government flagged numerous posts as suspicious, many of which were then taken down, documents cited in the Missouri attorney general’s lawsuit disclosed. And a 2021 report by the Election Integrity Partnership at Stanford University found that of nearly 4,800 flagged items, technology platforms took action on 35 percent — either removing, labeling, or soft-blocking speech, meaning the users were only able to view content after bypassing a warning screen. The research was done “in consultation with CISA,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI, CISA, and other government representatives. According to NBC News, the meetings were part of an initiative, still ongoing, between the private sector and government to discuss how firms would handle misinformation during the election. (keep reading)
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. Simultaneously the mission of the intelligence community now encompassed monitoring domestic threats as defined by the people who operate the surveillance system.
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 network of President Barack Obama did.
The Obama network took preassembled intelligence weapons (we should never have allowed to be created) and turned those FBI, DOJ-NSD, DHS and ODNI 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 and a massive nationwide surveillance state. 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. Preserving this surveillance system, a public-private partnership, is also what removing Donald Trump was all about. The targeting of President Trump in order to preserve the system; the system that was weaponized during the Obama administration, is what the actions of the DOJ, FBI and DHS are all about.
What would powerful people in DC do to stop the American people from finding this out?
A controlled 2020 election? An increased censorship in the aftermath? A raid on Mar-a-Lago?
…The need for control is a reaction to fear.
If only people understood how accurate this really is.
(1) The Patriot Act turned the intel surveillance radar from foreign searches for terrorists to domestic searches for terrorists.
(2) Obama/Biden then redefined what is a "terrorist" to include their political opposition. https://t.co/EW43WmpeaT
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) October 14, 2022
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They are worried? Excellent.
No. They are not.
They are activating their defenses. These are the ground rules they wish to dictate via media, Democrats, and Republicans.
“Such supervision is conducted in controlled settings, shielded from public exposure, in a way that promotes candor and trust among both the auditors and the audited, facilitating transparency.”
The alphabet agencies are no different to the police who feel entitled to beat up and kill anyone they choose. The only way they differ is, the police actually get caught, and the public fight back. Do that to the alphabets, and you’ll be swinging like Epstein with no questions asked!
The one thing you don’t want is FEDERALIZED police! That is mainly the goal of “defund the police” so we will beg for brown shirts! I understand what you are saying, but why not line item alphabet agencies expenses and withhold funds?
My take on the corrupt government’s plan for us:
The feds send their minions in the form of Antifa to cause mayhem by rioting, burning
and looting. They get paid through one of the dems backdoor organizations such
as George Soros, etc.
This behavior escalates throughout the country, mainly in large democrat run cities.
The feds form a federal police force a/k/a Nazi SS brown shirts to effect law and order.
They hire the former Antifa members.
Here’s a compilation of just some of the hard-core violent criminals that the criminals in robes and their co-conspirators in lawyer costumes are sending out to prey on us. The curricula vitae of these animals (who are being put right back on the street) proves that there is nothing accidental about this.
The link will take you to about 70 examples.
Or locked up and left to rot in a DC jail without constitutional protections.
I saw someone had posted a reference to the Stanford Prison Study (SPE).
I believe that study taken in conjunction with the Milgram experiment are more likely the explanation for not only Police/Military behavior worldwide during Covid.
Those two studies shed light onto the behavior of the “alphabet agencies” since 911 and the OSS/CIA since WWII.
In each instance the bureaucrat “prison guards” sees themself as the trusted agents and must “follow orders” even to the detriment of the subject of their oversight.
Publicly questioning their actions could open the eyes of “prison guards” to their hand in the brutality and then topple the hierarchy that has been established those with authority.
Once the eyes of the “prison guards” are opened to their involvement in the scheme we then know of these people as WHISTLEBLOWERS.
They are likely guilty of some role of the very actions they are reporting. Only they have become self aware of their part in the scheme and must seek societal cleansing of their own guilt.
Those prison guards are on a spectrum that includes every petty store manager and clerk who enforced face diaper diktats and gleefully withheld participation in society from anyone who would not bend the knee at the altar of “Science”.
Amen Joe, Democrats and Republicans.
This site should strike the use of these terms as they possess minimal explanatory power outside the mediated sphere.
The UniParty IS the cave. While Red and Blue are merely the patternings on the cave wall.
Then again, the preponderance of CTH posts these days tend toward media critiques and narrative exposés.
For better or worse, I’m not sure.
As this is TV Sunday, there’ll be a lot if Watch This and Thats.
Once you see it’s the unitary blob called TV, you can never unsee it.
Please don’t assume that some reaction to fear is in any way an indication that the compartmentalized factions are weaker in any way, shape, or form. The weaker links are cracking so they are being left behind. That is all. Focus on the next stage, level and efforts.. This is not a time for victory laps.. It’s a time to press them everywhere. Just like yesterday and the day before and every day onward from now.
Some of the Orcs must feel that Sauron has left them exposed…..
They are not protected by the leader themselves, but by the minions placed within our judiciary. The penance they pay is like a badge of honor for them. Where we seek peace and good times with family and friends they are in every way inverse to our wants and joys.
Good thesis on Orcs. Even Orcs initially think that Sauron has their backs but alas for them , evil never protects evil.
This is correct. Unconstitutional power grabs by agencies in the Executive Branch who declare themselves unaccountable to Congress oversight are only effective until they’re shot down by a new law passed by Congress that specifically prevents agencies from avoiding oversight. If challenged, the law must be upheld by a high court ruling. But that court ruling must come as judgement to a case brought by a congressional member and backed by a significant number of representatives, as well as carry the weight of popular public support because the public has been made fully aware of the deception.
Unfortunately Congress has been quietly and gradually ceding authority to the Administrative State (via legislation tacked onto big bills or artfully and deceptively misnamed) over several decades in order to avoid political decisions that will jeopardize big donations. The Patriot Act was just one of those cowardly moves; others revolve around emergency powers that can be enacted almost arbitrarily at will by the Executive.
And we all know full well that between Congress and the corporate media, the majority of the American public are anything BUT fully aware of exactly how much power and authority has been transferred from Congress to unelected bureaucracy in the Administrative (Deep) State for a long time.
IMHO rigged elections have enabled this gradual unconstitutional transfer of power and our stopping the fraudulent election apparatchiks on a state by state basis is the key to reversing this entire problem.
In just three sentences you summed it up perfectly.
“All we ever wanted was to be left alone”
Welp! They didn’t and now once again We The People are going to clean up and clean out the trash… 😉
May God have mercy on their souls.
My legacy was going to be to leave three awesome God fearing humans to this Big Beautiful Planet. Unfortunately, I like most God fearing America loving parents refuse to leave this 🤡 show for them to sort out.
WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE OUR WAY OUT OF THIS MESS…
I know this sounds down, but I do wonder if its too late.
I have seen so many headlines and posts like this for many years now, yet it seems they have only gained power.
Back in the 90’s and early 2000’s I felt as you did. But now I know there are 50-70 million unvaccinated American patriots and a lot of them appear to be Treepers or at least lurkers here…
Keep your head up. It’s only the beginning and it’s always dark in the beginning.. If we want what we had before, we are going to have to rebuild it ourselves.
Yes, and millions here in Canada too.
We are switched on now!!
President Trump and the subsequent fraud of 2020 and Arizona.
Coupled with our tyrant Trudeau’s fascist rule over us here in Canada has enraged many.
Hate is not strong enough a word.
Sans a compliant media a revolution may have already occurred.
Cheers!
I live in the mists of a bunch of great Christian Un-Vaxed Patriotic Armed South Dakotan Americans.
Politics might be getting crazy here, but majority of the people are good.
Did you mean “in the ‘midst’ ?
I like “in the mists.” It has a mysterious and foreboding quality about it.
Retired Magistrate here: The majority of people in the 13 colonies did not want to break away from Britain; the minority did. It took time and a lot of bloodshed but the minority won. Getting our country back is not going to happen overnight; it took years to get us where we are now and it will take time to get this country back to its founding principles.
Giving up hope and becoming despondent never solved anything. Treat each day as a day to make a difference where you live. Think local; what can you do to make your home, local community, township and county a better place to live. Start small and work up. There are a lot of like minded people out there who are fighting; just below the radar.
“They” have gained great cheat capabilities … so it appears there are more of them than us.
How do we change the perception that so many believe is reality?
Question … did the bushCARTEL bring in Clinton & Obama … or … vise versa ?
Does it matter? Aren’t they the same?
McCarthyism Redux 😱
REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!11!
McCarthy was right.
Beleaguered Americans, having suffered through a Great Depression and two world wars at that point, were in no mood for further drama. Instead of pulling out this communist rot by the roots, we looked the other way.
The ENEmedia has directed the entire show. I just wish entire generations weren’t so bedazzled and transfixed by the Telly and Hollyweird. We’ve endured a century of gaslighting and brainwashing already.
The awakening will not come easily. There is only one way out of this ungodly mess. WHAT will it take for our nation under God, to LOOK UP?
I don’t know why they would worry. At the end of the day, UniParty swine run the Republican Party. The Department of “Justice” is run by the traitorous Fellow Travelers led by Garland. The few honest voices in the Republican Party will be stifled before any true blows are landed.
This is no mass attack with fire and sword, as should be. It is a show-time production which will yield a lot of breathless commentary but little to no actual progress.
There is no mass attack with fire and sword, true. But the drip drip of exposure that President Trump started has certainly picked up a head of steam. The edifice, as is currently constructed, looks more and more top heavy, and increasingly complex and ungodly expensive to keep standing. And it’s mostly run by morons. They will overstep. It’s inevitable.
Clapper in ABC interview: ‘Terrorist arrests in London this morning…
I never heard about that.’ 🙂
True, Starfker. Evil always sews the seeds of its own destruction. Always. Count on it, Treepers. This comes from direct observation of Nature, ie: God’s Creation. Don’t lose Heart! Keep fighting.
Hubris runs deep in those morons. That will be their undoing?
“We can do no wrong and we are always correct”?
Just ask HER> is she wiped her server with whole-cloth or a dust-cloth?
She probably doesn’t know the difference?
Agreed! “the professional intelligence apparatus views themselves as beyond being accountable ” and it is true; THEY ARE! President Trump would have been all in the right to act when he had the chance; but he didn’t! Maybe he was overwhelmed with not having the support. The Marines would have done his bidding, as well as Law Enforcement; but being surrounded by cowards and compromised traitors, what could he really have done different, and still keep his family safe? Personally, I think he should have gone ahead and done it, called in the Marines, and put the whole lot of them on lock-down! But now we have what we have, and only the Lord knows if Trump will have a second chance, and if he has the stomach for the terrible opposition he will face. I will sure vote for him, and keep praying.
Who knows what will happen in the short term though; maybe Kevin McCarthy will be the President.
We don’t have enough information to second-guess Trump.
There is a term that applies here…Critical Mass!
The selection of FJB, added 74 million people to that mass?
Add a few more million because of the ’22 Red Trickle?
When you build a house, there are times when the work has a big impact.
Like a new foundation, when the framing goes up, and when the drywall goes in?
There are days, weeks, and months in between these very visible changes.
All the while, wiring, plumbing and HVAC are being installed without much visible impact.
When the Pentagon Papers came out in 1971, I was forced to contemplate whether to go to Viet Nam or Canada, if I was drafted the next year. That was an eye-opening event for millions. I still think about which I would have chosen, Nixon ended the draft and ended the war, so.
Assange and Snowden were other major events. So were Newt’s Contract for America in ’94 and the 2010 midterms. But, they were absorbed into the swamp? And not much changed? For the better?
One step forward, two steps back?
They can all rot in hell as far as I am concerned.
You’re far more generous than I would be….
I feel confident that they will
The alphabet agencies need to be disbanded, and all those guilty of crimes should be jailed. They shouldn’t be treated differently to anyone else, they are not above the law, but increasingly it seems they are.
People no longer feel safe about their supposed protection of the country. They have become a Fascist, Orwellian boot!
The alphabet agencies are willing to kill in the most gruesome ways imaginable and then “suicide” the investigators. They are evil incarnate. It will take the Lord’s grace to even challenge them.
What is the answer to stop all this?
Constant, unyielding pressure on every front, over time. Throw sand in the gears every chance you get.
Look at January 6th. Really bad day for a lot of people. Unjust, no question. I generally don’t comment on that because I see two sides. And that would not be a popular opinion around here. Look at Dennis Byrd. If you are tasked with defending the Capitol against a mob, what is your job? I’m not saying that it’s right that he shot Ashli Babbitt. But certainly that situation might have exploded into failure to do his job in a matter of seconds. And then what? Keep your cool. Keep up the pressure. Don’t cooperate with the unreasonable. There are hundreds of millions more of us then there are of them.
That Pelosi rent-a-cop, Byrd, was not the only armed LEO at the capitol that day.
He WAS, however, the only one who shot point-blank at an unarmed woman.
Stone cold murder is what it was. Really no use pretending otherwise.
Really? Obviously the decision had been made that those particular doors were the line in the sand that would be defended. You would agree that at some point if your job was to defend a particular position, you either have to use force or your position is going to be overrun, right? How is that different than, say, a home invasion? Ever hear of castle doctrine ? The capital police serve as the bodyguards for all of our Congressman of both parties. In your opinion, what should they do if the joint is getting overrun? What if that were antifa smashing the window and hopping through the door? I think it should have at least gone to a grand jury, but I also think Mr Byrd has a better legal case than you might think
Castle doctrine? You mean opening doors and inviting people in?
No. I’m being very specific. The set of doors breached by Ashli Babbitt.
that WAS antifa (and several other 3 letter organizations) a trap planned out and executed by DC
Byrd should be facing the same charges the cops in Memphis have been given
Starfcker makes some valid points in my opinion. This whole incident should have been investigated more thoroughly.
“And that would not be a popular opinion around here.”
Did you campaign for Most Popular in high school?
Not an advocate for Mr Byrd. See if you can answer my questions above.
It was a highly assisted, if not actively courted, ‘insurrection’, starfcker.
That Dennis Byrd was, to some degree, an adrenalized and unwitting pawn in a larger conspiracy to facilitate the storming of the Capitol is not beyond the pale.
So I sorta get your point.
I appreciate that, and I agree with your other facts. And again, not making any excuses for Mr Byrd. The entire day was a tragedy that was set up by some really evil people that need to pay a really high price for what they’ve done to both the people protesting and our country as a whole. I don’t want to see more people put themselves in the position to be abused that those people were. We have seen how dirty the enemy fights. Just don’t be a sucker
A “trained” officer would NOT have shot an unarmed person… and this yokel was obviously not ‘trained’, so why was he hired?
That’s not always true. I don’t know if you’ve been around here long enough to know this, but this used to be a crime blog. Look up the case of Michael Brown. He was unarmed. Sundance put together an incredibly airtight (and unpopular with the mainstream media) case that Officer Darren Wilson was innocent of any wrongdoing. And eventually the Department of Justice agreed. No charges were filed
hired due to affirmative action/equity
As I see it those “two sides” are freedom or oppression. Byrd and I are on totally opposite sides. As an innocent woman is still dead.
if you saw the video you would think differently
I saw it. And my heart breaks for Ashli Babbitt. But I’m giving you a dispassionate view of the situation
The House of Representatives can defund the agencies, generally or specifically. That would appear to be the only actual power that the public has.
The CIA is largely self-funded by its drug running and other (mis) adventures. Any taxpayer money is merely a bonus.
Daylight. Lots of daylight will be a start.
Make Lamp Post Ornaments Great Again!
Amen!
For starters, get rid of the so-called patriot act, and every organization in the US government that is not SPECIFICALLY called for in the US Constitution.
Most importantly, go to Church, at least every Sunday. Pray EVERY day and fast. ALL this is DEMONIC. Christ told us that certain demons are ONLY removed with prayer and fasting!!!!
Fix the broken election apparatus in enough states to get real representatives of the people back in Congress and then pass Constitutional laws that prevent executive agencies from exercising any authority without transparency and publicly visible legislative branch oversight.
Kari is the test case here?
If she loses, things will continue as they are…And getting worse!
If she wins, it will still get ugly?
They aren’t going down without a fight!
According to John Adams the “answer to stop all this” would be a willingness on the part of our domestic enemies to become “moral and religious”.
You need a civil society.
I sure hope they are not as worried as they were about JFK.
They just might be. They were worried that JFK would end involvement in Viet Nam. Trump will put an end to Ukraine the minute after he is sworn in.
Basically the Administrative State has become self-aware and is now clearly positioning itself to defend its turf which seems to be somewhere above the three branches of government created by the Constitution.
It would be nice if the members of this committee, both Republican and Democrat party members, would put aside their partisan cloaks and actually do the work necessary to ensure the removal this parasitic creature the Church committee created when they established secret courts and unaccountable search warrants.
or we can kiss this 200+ year experiment goodbye.
Thank you Sundance for putting this all together, showing us the strings, most importantly showing us it’s okay to stop pretending.
Their “partisan cloaks” are standard UniParty issue.
Are you pointing out the fact that the cloaks come in two colors? Cuz that’s the false duopoly part.
The red capes are lined in blue and the blue capes are lined in red?
All of the capes are reversible!
lol
You have it the wrong way round.
It has been this way for decades, it is only now YOU are getting to see the edges of it.
The curtain decorated with pictures of politicians and laws that you have mistaken for reality is getting threadbare and you can see through bits of it.
Its the same in every western country. The IAs = WEF = globalist = the uniparty.
They were taken over by a secret world wide joined up organization pretending to be national agencies under cover of law and no one noticed.
Well, should we start placing bets on who they will get a back door FISA warrant on so they can do their patented 3 hop wiretaps to listen in? I’m with MTG! They will find some phony baloney on her.
Speaking of the Twitter files, Has Musk ever released the Foochi Files yet?
Musk said, free speech is “the bedrock of a functioning democracy.”
What he didn’t tell you is sure you get to tweet again but only he will choose what gets exposed via Twitter so I guess transparency has no place in a democracy.
Hey Elon how’s you jab injury going as you ignore these files and possibly the largest crimes committed against humanity that could far exceed the Holocaust rages on.
Why do the words, two faced, MF come to mind right now?
Those few words have been in my mind all along!
Good things have happened since Musk took over twitter. I think it helped turn the general outlook.
Does it mean we are going to “win”?
Maybe not, but has certainly helped our cause.
It is our current flying wedge, along with Treehouse
Against the Orcs and flying monkees (Nancy’s favorite). But in the extended metaphor. the good guys won, even C.S. Lewis saw some goodness (Godliness) out there.
However, in my reading during Jr High it was Orwell and Bradbury who intrigued me the most. I was into the existentialist negative utopia thinking. Guess what? now I believe that both exist, and age and optimism motivate me now!
That is right: no trust accorded to a BAAL worshiper.
To justify a police State, the Deep State know they need America to exist in a condition of war or near war (The Cold War).
China has thoroughly infiltrated and subjugated our ruling class, so they won’t do, as a putative enemy.
That leaves Russia, only Russia. And the CIA still has lots of analysts and agents (spies) trained in the Russian language. All dressed up and nowhere to go?
You mean this?
“In yet another instance of Goebbelian misdirection, the Democrats’ Russian collusion narrative is all about neutering Trump for the greater good of China and its stateside patron, Wall Street. Russia is but an expedient globalist cudgel to be wielded against MAGA comeuppance. Democratic leaders only ask that you not examine the collusion narrative’s internal contradictions too closely as the whole gravy train could come crashing down in a cloud of sedition and jaw-dropping hypocrisy.” –2018
https://thesaker.is/pinning-the-trail-on-the-donkey/
Back in my native Scotland ( around 1985) I met a female U.S. Marine at a local military base.
A base with a large compliment of U.S. military.
The female was around my age at the time ( mid twenties) If I remember correctly she was from Wisconsin.
She spoke fluent Russian, and that was why she was stationed at that base.
The Russia thing sure goes back along way.
Interesting to me that Vancouver B.C. hosted Expo 86 and shortly thereafter Chinese interests bought up nearly the entire site ( prime downtown waterfront) for relative peanuts. Hmmm..
Russia always bad, China always “ shrug”
Cheers!
One of the theories for why they invented Russian collusion, out of thin air, to attack Trump, was the rump group of Russian experts who populate our bureaucracies.
Evelyn Farkas was the supposed Russian expert who went on MSNBC in March of 2017 and insisted that the American State had huge evidence of Russian collusion.
In June of 2017, Evelyn admitted, under oath, that she just made it up.
Makes sense. They make everything else up!
Cheers!
The base near St. Andrews, Dekester, Leuchers AFB?
Leuchers AFB?
Close, Leuchars is in Fife, the base we visited was in the county next door, Angus.
R.A.F. Condor was where this group was stationed.
It was the British Marines Commandos 45 th group home base at the time. ( maybe still is)
If I remember correctly Americans were also stationed at a village “just up the road “called Edzell, also in Angus.
Cheers!
The three powers: Oceana, Asia Minor and one other (I forgot, lol) with skirmishes ongoing for the benefit of big brother.
When the Cold War ended a lot of people’s jobs became unnecessary. No one wants to lose that nice salary and pension. So you need to find something to justify your existence. The people at the CIA, U.S. State Department and NATO did. Everyone just operated as if Russia and the Soviet Union were one and the same. The problem of job security was solved. Job preservation is one of the primary goals of any bureaucracy, whether public or private. Not all of these people are evil. Most just want to keep their cushy job and retirement benefits. This is at the core, much of what we are/will be fighting against.
John 3:19-20
“And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.”
Take a look at what Castro Jr’s fascist totalitarian government is up to. This ties in neatly with Sundance’s detailed explanations.
If these bills go through Canada’s parliament and are signed into law, every Canadian will be silenced or punished for speaking against the state.
I have no doubt those in the US ruling class are aiming for exactly the same thing here.
The pot we are all in is heading to boiling point, one degree at a time.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canadas-bill-c-26-yet-another-government-power-grab
Justin Trudeau is becoming very unpopular among the ordinary people. He can go very few places where he is not booed.
The problem is that their conservatives are more Uniparty than they are answerable to the people. And there is no leader of the opposition.
True, however Poilievre ( Conservative Leader) has a winning hand here…and although obviously a politician.
My gut tells me he will be a massive improvement over the Turdough.
Cheers!
Hopefully enough people will agree with you and future elections will be honest and fair.
Now this does in fact cheer me, Dekester. I find myself more impressed with Poilievre every time I hear him. Very.
Good grief.
Well, isn’t he?
I also like to refer to him as Justine Castreaux.
He is the spit of his father…to use a vulgar term. But the shoe here fits in every way, GRM
Very true Betsy.
However we shall see..the peasants are truly revolting and should this come to pass I for one will be gaoled for speaking out.
Stronger and more virulent folks than me will be with me..such as the family of those that have died or been maimed by the pox mandate.
Trudeau is a “deadman walking”
Never has a politician in Canada been more despised.
However he is a Narcissistic Sociopath ( like his mum) and they don’t go before causing mayhem.
His mum was…how can I can put this…not particularly choosy.
Remembering Monty Python (wasn’t it?)…Trudeau it is clear finds the peasants revolting. After his failed and nearly catastrophic attempt to gut the truckers through the banking system which he saw as his personal Gestapo, it seems his and that horror Freeland’s megalomania has reached psychopathic levels.
Praying without cessation for an Intervening Hand for us all, Dekester, to walk us back from the edge of their madness.
Hi Betsy,
Hundreds were in Ottawa yesterday braving the freezing cold in commemoration of the courageous truckers.
Folks the world over are still talking about that display of what freedom means to folks.
Trudeau and Dog Meat Singh overplayed their hand.
Cheers to you!
I was wondering where you were today … keep checking for articles.
Now, I know! Excellent
Ironic coincidence that oversight has two nearly contradictory meanings.
They should be fearing the people more.
Makes you think this is just more distraction.
I think we vastly overestimate how scary we are.
I wish Garrison would learn that the point of editorial cartoons is caricature. His stuff isn’t funny because he makes his subjects look like his subjects.
THIS is how proper editorial cartoons are constructed:
A cornered beast becomes a very dangerous beast. What will they cook up and spring on us next?
what’s the plan
Stay safe.
Sundance on the money with the lead off article from Just Security. The back-up chapters still being modified as you go are so important to the patriots who seek out CTH and your observation and insight to the 4th branch.
A “funny”ending to the article by a former CIA official says something like, “please guys, Durham was enough and he didn’t find too much or enough make any big changes…” Funny too, most car aficionando fixer-uppers see that BONDO and they know… Usually destructive rust is being covered up
Because sometimes you hafta torch the Constitution in order to save the Constitution.
Not surprisingly, this contravening ‘torch of liberty’ was lit under the false light of honor and devotion.
“The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we [the CIA] too are honorable men devoted to her service.” –Richard Helms, Director of the CIA (1973-76)
The Constitution is fundamentally a dark document that takes no power, no men ‘on faith’. Man’s propensity for abuse of power is checked and balanced at every turn.
Whereas Helms believed in the boundless faith and honor of men, which is to say, the absolute rule of men.
Can we say the Constitution’s been proven right?
Helms had no business running the intelligence arm of a constitutional republic. At best, he was naive, at worst, the knowing progenitor of the likes of George Bush Sr, Bill Casey, Peter Strzok and Chris Wray.
No honor among the current crop of boundless thieves.
So how do we get home from here ’cause we’ve been gone for a very very long time?
“…The need for control is a reaction to fear.”
To ascribe what they have been doing all these years to fear (if only a bunch of meanies hadn’t scared the poor little dears so badly) is not only to absolve them, but to almost completely misunderstand what motives their power mad sick souls.
Romans 8: 19-22.
Could another reason be they are scared possibly because the FIB Agent may have flipped to Durham?
I hate to go down this rabbit hole yet again but yesterday’s Bongino Show had some interesting possible dot connections/theories.
Hope porn? Maybe but some interesting thoughts with references.
Here’s a shorter, Cliff Notes version.
We don’t really need investigations. Just do it.
#1 Remove ‘national security’ as a fake excuse to do investigations without probable cause.
BINGO!!!! WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!!!
When criminals get cornered is when they become the most dangerous…
I predict that the deep state will come up with some distraction so that this committee cannot get anything accomplished.
Psy-ops incident leading to war with Russia. The committee is accused of being Putin-stooges and it is disbanded by executive order in the emergency of war.
On the refusal of the House to raise the debt ceiling, Biden administration shuts down the government, including Congress because they “have no money to pay to heat the building or keep the lights on in the Capitol.”
Antifa riots all over the country shutting down whole cities including DC. Physical attacks on committee members and their homes and families.
Shut down the internet. Claim it is a cyber attack. Nobody can communicate quickly and easily.
wait wait, lemme get my ham radio up and running. At least a CB set up from the breaker-breaker days!
I think I know of someone who has a ham radio setup that they might sell to you. The owner is Nellie Ohr. 😀
They are worried! Hell…after reading this carefully, I’m freakin’ terrified…and I don’t scare….for the future of my grandkids and great-grandkids! It is time for pitchforks and torches…it is way past time! The initial couple million of Right thinking activists may be incinerated…but there must be about 100 million more. Boys and girls….WOLVERINES!
And just in passing…may the filthy GEORGE H BUSH “Burn in Hell”
I forwarded this link to get my circle of ‘Smart’ guys to read this tonight…not put it in the stack for Monday am…
“I know that you guys think that I’m ‘CHICKEN LITTLE’ and usually, after a little sound thought, I would agree with your perception. But….LOOK UP! THE FREAKIN’ SKY IS FALLING!”
Are you related to hagar the horrible? We need all the smart patriots on board!
This is a head fake reaction by them.
Look what happened since the Church hearings in the mid ’70’s.
I think they might be worried about Project Veritas, they have a much better record of exposing corruption than anyone in DC.
Correct me if I am wrong but didn’t the COG continuance of government kick in when the Patriot Act passed. I understand Cheney wrote more powers into it. How does this act get dissolved and or reformed? It’s like a monster snowball/avalanche heading directly at us.
Does anyone know if Speaker McCarthy actually ended the J6 committee?
Why don’t you ask him yourself?
I like the representation; it might complicate the drawing to add more, but…Banks, Corporations, Lobbyists, NGOs,Big Pharma, Big Tech, Media…and the Federal Govt being such a large employer to implement, especially Judicial and the Federal funding attached to their goals that States take to operate to get around state autonomy
A gentle reminder of how little courage it actually takes to confront and defeat the forces of intolerant Left.
Evil has us pegged. Therefore, in order to defeat evil, we first must love God more than we do our sinful selves.
Curious to know who is ‘alpha’ in the fourth branch and how power succession is allocated?
Those are really great questions. With no clear answers that I can see at this time
Must draw public attention to Deep State abuses. The American public needs to know who their real enemies are.
Bring Wray and Burns (CIA) before Congress. Tell them a congressional committee will be reexamining the assassination of MLK for CIA and FBI involvement.
Direct them to bring in all files, (unredacted), turn over the murder weapon for dna testing, etc.
Put out the news to any media that will carry it. Put out updates such as “CIA Refuses to Turn over MLK Assassination Files”, or “FBI Balks at Turning Over MLK Assassination Weapon for Testing”.
Keep the Deep State in the public’s view. Much easier to dismantle agencies that become more suspect and unpopular by the day.
Since the Patriot ACT is unconstitutional and the root of surveillance, why not a public insistence that it be repealed? Along with the FDR revised Trading with the Enemy Act?
Poor things may need to lawyer up. Turn about is fair play when you consider the innocent people the corrupt IC financially destroyed or tried to destroy through their fabricated, hidden and/or destroyed accusations and evidence. May they suffer as they made others suffer.
‘…The need for control is a reaction to fear.”
The answer to this taking back controlling behavior can be found by searching this phrase. It’s the number one search result on most search engines.
Taking back control involves a mix of rigid boundaries or going no contact all together.
Let’s ” reimagine ” the role or even existence of the CIA et al, shall we?
After all, it’s the favorite cause de jour of the left.
“shielded from public exposure” there it is, right there.
Wow, time to start the RICO case against the whole bunch of them…….
with our own special council since all of them are compromised.
But but butttt… isn’t big government grifter Elon supposed to be saving free speech…?
Nooe
Patriot [tyrany] Act was written in 1996 and stored. In Sept 2000, PNAC, Project for the New American Century was released stating “we need a new Pearl Harbor to launch a war on terror and overthrow five mideast countries”
Future War 2025 was NASA conference held July 2001 stated “continuity of government will require trauma based mind control” PRESTO, Sept 11, 2001
TruthStreamMedia.com > https://bitchute.com/video/Ggr8d143E7Lv/
Where are the subpoenas? I practiced law for 25 years. I can craft a moderately complex subpoena in about 60 minutes. By myself. These goofballs have been on the job for a month and have known they would have control for three months. Not a single subpoena. Not a single witness. Meanwhile the DS have unleashed Antifa again and are preparing to assault Stalingrad.
Totally unimpressed.
Not to worry. The usual threats – to person, to family members, to assets, to reputation – will be made, and in the end none of the Bad Guys running the DC Crime Syndicate will be exposed, much less held accountable for their crimes.
“…the professional intelligence apparatus views themselves as beyond being accountable to the elected public officials.”
Because they ARE beyond being accountable.
All this is theater. Look at what happened with the Church Committee 1975-6. Grave revelations that stopped short of details. Much media coverage and big talk about holding spooks to account.
Ultimately, the spooks were unscathed and the public lost interest. The spooks tightened their cloaks and grew their power even more.
The masses are manipulated and herded. A long series of plays in the theater, making them think the Constitutional Republic is working as designed, yet… …while people fixate on the theater, the slow inexorable process continues tightening surveillance and controls leading to the end state.
Q: What is the end state?
A: All trends converge on a future CCP global hegemony, with weakened US/west vassals under satraps administering totalitarian control of the global hegemon.
The 100 Year Plan.
Everything happening now fits. The cabal we see are intermediaries, agents for the mothership, most are clueless apparatchiks who can’t see past the money.
The theater is not only show, it is tell: The provocative events are used to gather intel on the enemy (the people) by their responses, as well as misleading and manipulating them.
Textbook counterintelligence ops. Gee, I wonder what entities are able to do this? (Back to the subject of the CTH article.)
Good. I think that’s the point. Those A-holes have forgotten who they work for.
Worried? Sure they are. They’re so worried they’ll double down. You watch.
In the old days we only had newspapers and TV to gather our news…News has always been controlled by intelligence….With the invention of the internet, news became unmanageable to a great extent, hence the infiltration of social media by “Deep State”, CIA, FBI…The problem has always been there, we’re just now able to see it because of an open network (Internet), why do you think gov’ts want to control online speech so bad…Point being, the news media has always, I repeat, always been under the control of gov’t/deep-state/bad actors…Take the JFK assassination for example…Sunlight on these deep state organizations is a totally new thing to them…
Allowing electronic voting system is a totalitarian dream. What could go wrong. Note how it came in bit by bit.