The nature of our problem.
Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, how the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, Main Justice & 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 approximately a year without informing Congress [Gang of Eight]. When asked why, Comey winced, then justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “um, because of the sensitivity of the matter?”
Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue. The arrogance of Comey 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.
This event, and everything in the background as outlined within the James Comey admission, factually happened. It is on the record, admitted and nothing about the reality of what took place is subject to conjecture or refute.
Yet somehow, we, specifically our Congress, just moved on as if what FBI Director James Comey outlined and admitted wasn’t a total usurpation of the U.S. Constitution and a collapse in the structure of our coequal branches of government.
We cannot fight our way through the issues until we first realize what lies at the root of the problem.
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.
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.
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; 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.
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 [Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Meta, Instagram, Twitter, etc] is part of that functioning, almost like NGOs. However, the process is much more important than most think. In this problematic perspective of a corrupt system of government, the process is the flaw – not the outcome.
There are people making decisions inside this little known, unregulated and out-of-control branch of government that impact every facet of our lives.
None of the people operating deep inside the Intelligence Branch were elected; and our elected representative House members genuinely do not know how the system works. I assert this position affirmatively because I have talked to House and Senate staffers, including the chiefs of staff for multiple House & Senate committee seats. They are not malicious people; however, they are genuinely clueless of things that happen outside their silo. That is part of the purpose of me explaining it, with examples, in full detail with sunlight.
We begin….
In April of 2016, the FBI launched a counterintelligence operation against presidential candidate Donald Trump. The questioning about that operation is what New York Representative Elise Stefanik cites in March of 2017, approximately 11 months later (First Two Minutes).
Things to note:
♦ Notice how FBI Director James Comey just matter-of-factly explains no one outside the DOJ was informed about the FBI operation. Why? Because that’s just the way things are done. His justification for unilateral operations was “because of the sensitivity of the matter“, totally ignoring any constitutional or regulatory framework for oversight; because, well, quite simply, there isn’t any. The intelligence apparatus inside the DOJ/FBI can, and does, operate based on their own independent determinations of authority.
♦ Notice also how FBI Director Comey shares his perspective that informing the National Security Council (NSC) is the equivalent of notifying the White House. The FBI leadership expressly believe they bear no responsibility to brief the Chief Executive. As long as they tell some unknown, unelected, bureaucratic entity inside the NSC, their unwritten responsibility to inform the top of their institutional silo is complete. If the IC wants to carve out the Oval Office, they simply plant information inside the NSC and, from their perspective, their civic responsibility to follow checks-and-balances is complete. This is an intentional construct.
♦ Notice how Comey obfuscates notification to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), by avoiding the fact James Clapper was the DNI from outset of the counterintelligence operation throughout the remainder of Obama’s term. When I get deeper into the process, we will understand how the Intelligence Branch has intentionally used the creation of the DNI position (established post 9/11/01) as a method to avoid oversight, not enhance it. Keeping an oblivious doofus like James Clapper in position held strategic value [Doofus Reminder HERE].
That video of James Comey being questioned by Elise Stefanik was the first example given to me by someone who knew the background of everything that was taking place preceding that March 20, 2017, hearing. That FBI reference point is a key to understand how the Intelligence Branch operates with unilateral authority above Congress (legislative branch), above the White House (executive branch), and even above the court system (judicial branch).
Also, watch this short video of James Clapper, because it is likely many readers have forgotten, and likely even more readers have never seen it. Watch closely how then White House national security adviser John Brennan is responding in that video. This is before Brennan became CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars into place. WATCH:
[Sidebar: Every time I post this video it gets scrubbed from YouTube (example), so save it if you ever want to see it again.]
The video of James Clapper highlights how the ODNI position (created with good national security intention) ended up becoming the fulcrum for modern weaponization, and is now an office manipulated by agencies with a vested interest in retaining power. The Intelligence Branch holds power over the ODNI through their influence and partnership with the body that authorizes the power within it, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
Factually, the modern intelligence apparatus uses checks and balances in their favor. The checks create silos of proprietary information, classified information, vaults of information that work around oversight issues. The silos, 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.
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.
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 pre-assembled intelligence weapons (we should never have allowed to be created) and turned those weapons into political tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation.
Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.
This is the scale of corrupt political compromise on both sides of the DC dynamic that we are up against. Preserving this system is also what removing Donald Trump is 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 and FBI are all about.
What would powerful people in DC do to stop the American people from finding this out?
…. Including an FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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The Clapper video, that YouTube keep deleting, is on Rumble. 2 links:
https://rumble.com/vzdgv6-2011-02-11-director-of-national-intelligence-james-clapper-did-not-now-lond.html
https://rumble.com/v2bqfy6-director-of-national-intelligence-james-clapper-did-not-now-london-bomb-plo.html
He’ll of a vacation you took Sundance. THANK YOU so much I have a couple folks who will benefit from this treatise
I only wish I could write so well
Be well and again thanks for your excellent work.
“Jack Smith just filed another motion that sounds like a temper tantrum, opposing a lawsuit by, The Press Coalition,… that would allow the American people to hear or see, unfiltered, this unprecedented case.
“The DOJ is comparing President Trump’s trial to that of Timothy McVeigh, the Tsarnev brothers, and Zacharias Moussaoui.”
Julie Kelly Unwinds All the Crazy Twists and Turns in the Trump Trials (11/13-11min)
https://www.clayandbuck.com/julie-kelly-4/
Why not?
He knows that we will not fight back. They have more paths to get us while we have one path.
Run away run away.
Our Rinos screw us and laugh. They stand with those who killed an unarmed woman and give us the finger. What do our guys do? Toss out the POS McCarthy and bring in McCarthy 2.0 who immediately whipped a vote against mayorkas and biden impeachments and put forwards a continuing resolution. What did we do? NOTHING.
Our government no longer fears it’s populace.
…And why should they?
Heavily armed, so called ‘brave patriots’ are too busy drinking beer and watching sports to do a damn thing about ANYTHING! 😡
The left sees our collective weakness, apathy, indifference, and cowardice.
Expect things to get much worse.
well, that, and the fact that the whole political institutions have silently and methodically been infiltrated w/marxists who can now flaunt their illegality w/o fear of reprisal. so yes, sadly, i expect things to get much worse
Thank you very much for posting.
Neil Oliver adds a timely perspective:
Neal hits the nail squarely on the head when he explains how all of this tyranny is funded directly by US, the subjugated. As has been written countless times, tyrants cannot exercise power without the consent of the subjects. We outnumber them by orders of magnitude. En masse, WE have ALL of the POWER. We just gotta quit being fearful of death – it comes to us all and is as natural as birth. With Courage, we could change the course of history and prevent the hellish reality that will be the lives of our children and grandchildren. I think my death in the service of that better future for them is a very small price to pay.
But acting alone, we are only martyrs, and that is not path I care to trod.
I bet we could get 100 K of signatures in support of live feed video of the Trump case demanding out rights to see.
K=Millions
The “root of the problem” is the Constitution. It was pretty good for a while. It has been failing for 90 years and we’re about to go under. You can pinpoint a lot of points of failure. And you’ve already pointed out that no one, no party can fix our government. Put your energy into creating a new Constitution instead of beating your head over the constant failures. We are headed for a complete collapse. Have a Constitution ready for that moment.
The Constitution didn’t fail. People failed the Constitution. A NEW Constitution will be just as ignored as the old one is today.
100%
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – – John Adams
See my reply to Annie above.
My belief is that a Constitition should be able to limit government even if a cabal of bad people are running it. Because the humans attracted to government are control freaks, getting good people to run government is rare. Our Constitution was written by people who had no experience in limiting government. Our Constitution does not really limit government. Ergo, we need a new Constitution.
What? Our Constitution specifically limits the authority of the federal government. The fault lies with we the people for not knowing this and educating ourselves so that we are in control.
Not being religious, I would amend John Adams statement noted above to “Our Constitution is suitable only for a moral and informed people.”
Exactly. It blatantly restricts government. It’s been ignored- just look at all of the gun laws in every single state. Every single one that prohibits or restricts ownership is unconstitutional. Yet every single state has gun laws.
Th Constitution has been subverted by all three branches of government. The worst is the excessive spending by Congress, because they think they will always have access to We The People’s money, to waste as they please. If we use the Convention of States, we can defund the Federal government and force it to shrink.
Convention of States. No thanks. Wed end up with a worse document. Enforce the one we have, get rid of any amendments after 10, and go with that.
Become educated about the process and the current effort to add a balanced budget and term limits to the amendments in order to curtail the corrupt hearts of men.
It is our failure to accept the truth that evil can come from the human heart, corrupting any system of goverment.
We cannot “end up with a worse document” because the process to amend curtails that possibility.
It has been my experience that people who oppose the convention of states don’t actually know anything about it.
I don’t think you could be more in error. Our current Constitution arose from a convention that was convened to only modify the Articles of Confederation. The delegates threw it out completely, ignoring the instructions of their respective states, looking to the Declaration of Independence for their authority to do so. There are dangerous replacement “constitutions” already written, that turn our Rights into government controlled privileges.
Although, I’ve always maintained that our Rights cannot be taken from us, we can only relinquish them.
I have more faith in my fellow Citizens. I believe Constitution V2 will be better than V1. It doesn’t have to be great or good, just better.
Why are we still sending them money every April 15 How have they terrorized us to blindly obey them.
Did Biden/Obama anticipate a tax revolt when he threatened 85,000 new and armed IRS agents.
This act of paying them makes us complicit in all the horrors being promulgated by those “in charge”. Their is blood of innocents on all of our hands for not correcting this.
The problem with Congress is that they have discovered that taking a position on an issue can result in losing an election. Therefore, they pass the Buck to the President, the courts, the Bureaucracy and anyone else they can. The Constitution grants them powers but it does not specify what they MUST do. Since the Constitution gave them the power to make their own rules we get what we get and no one can stop it. The Employees tell the Owners how things are gonna work.
We can defund the government without risking it all on a new “constitution”. CoS is a very dangerous gambit.
We allowed it. We’ve stood by and watched as they dumbed-down our children by teaching activism while ignoring civics and founding principles. The people get the government they deserve.
The root of the problem is good men unwilling to stand.
But they will talk a lot. We deserve what comes.
Our children will pay the price. They will be on a list and dealt with like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot did with their capitalists and the children of their capitalists.
But we are too stupid to see any of it.
You are incorrect because you are not understanding where we are in the process of restoration.
The majority of Americans were unaware that what they saw was a theatrical show. Very busy keeping homes, jobs and food on the table.
Now many are much more aware and this will precipitate the good men beginning to stand. If you doubt this, review the poll numbers for Trump before the lawfare began and his current standing.
Americans can see.
Americans will stand. Americans are standing locally.
We’ve only just begun.
Being a naysayer at this time and casting dispersions upon others only leads readers to question who you really are and your real intent.
The root of the problem is the corruption of human nature.
With no accountability to a Higher Power and the capacity to hide in plain sight due to media compliance we are now facing a grave situation indeed.
The Constitution’s provisions combined with a righteously angry We The People will clean out the corruption and lead to its restoration.
For anyone reading this who is unaware: these corruptors wish to destroy the existing Constitutional government we inheirited. Offering the Constitution itself as the problem rather than the evil in the hearts of men is the dead giveaway of a fedposter.
Anyone who accepts this notion is unbelievably and intentionally ignorant, wishing to be enslaved by these evil doers.
See my answer to Annie above. Hamilton pointed out that if Men were Angels we wouldn’t really need a government. The other side of that coin is that since Men are Not Angels, we need a limited government which we do not have.
Thank you for your reply to Jack Wayne
(who needs a course in logic, among other things)
There is no room for an autonomous agency outside of the elective process, that has usurped so much power over our individual lives as well as powers superior to our elective representatives.
SCOTUS is the remedy to this unconstitutional aberration.
Has SCOTUS really acted as a bulwark to the erosion of self-governance? They are human and they have shown they like power as much as anyone. Since the Constitution is designed to provide an all-powerful central government, SCOTUS will certainly rule in that direction.
Be mad, be mad all you want. Vent your frustrations. Demand action from your elected representatives. March. Sing patriotic songs. Make yourselves happy.
None of it will matter.
Not one iota.
The elites do not respond to the needs or desires of the citizen. It is the other way around.
To prance and preach might make YOU feel better, getting things off one’s chest often is a short-term relief, but none of it will change the outcome.
And don’t think for one minute another walk inside the Capitol building will do any good. You should learn from the recent past.
No manner of intellect and persuasion and debate and argument will move the needle off the This is Shit indication, and no amount of complaining, pleas, temper tantrum, and keyboarding will change the inflection of the ever-widening gorge between Constitutional action and tyranny. Those days ended when Gentleman gave over the reigns of power to rage-addicted children, many of them recently empowered wymn; you see what fruit that vineyard yields.
It is past time to reconsider options.
The problem….is Washington D.C.
Sadly, Dan…you are correct…the intelligence community has the left and the media as their weapons….honesty and truth and good people stand no chance against such malfeasance….
Conservatives are too busy running away from the fight to get mad.
They’re too busy drinking beer and watching sports (bread & circuses).
We are at war. This is a (pretty good) problem description, not an excuse to give up. Learn, train, execute, adjust fire. Repeat. Never give up.
“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.” – – GEN Patton
If we ARE at war, and I believe we are, why are we the only ones fighting?
I promise you, we are not the only ones fighting.
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” – Eph. 6:12
Strongly recommended, timely – and fun – reading: Angel in the Whirlwind by Benson Bobrick. Watch for the scene where General Washington slams his hat on the ground in a rare expression of exasperation, following a string of battlefield defeats.
I was mostly with you until you disparaged half the human race. Some wymn are pretty smart, sir.
(BTW, it’s “reins”. But maybe you were trying to add another level of wordplay.)
Anyhow: I try to resist giving up and declaring the situation hopeless. But things are bleak.
The problem isn’t bidet…and it isn’t o blah blah…
That Clapper and Brennan interview makes me want to “be-atch” slap the 💩 out of them every time I see it. Neither of them is a mental wizard. They are both tools and obnoxious as Hades.
Pencilneck, Piglosi– all of them are vile and decadent.
Randi Weingarden is another useless tool.
We must rid ourselves of these unelected vipers. Eliminate the majority of federal agencies– they are intrusive & unnecessary.
Don’t forget the infamous “Black Eagle Trust”, established around 1947 after Gen. MacArthur gave the Japanese government and emperor a sweetheart deal in exchange for all of the IJA gold stored in the Philippines. The recovered Reichstag gold added to it was an added bonus.
200,000 tons of illicit gold held by various IC entities in corrupt US corporate and offshore banks can buy off a lot of problems.
“Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold,” by Sterling Seagrave, is as good as any book and/or introduction to the ocean of off-the-books yellow metal that’s been corrupting the IC and our world for the last 80 years.
The IC doesn’t need any of Congress’s stinkin’ taxpayer money. They’ve got their own banks stuffed full of lucre, and then some.
“The corrupt divisions deep inside the U.S. intelligence system”
Is the core of the issue
Thank you so much SD. Read thru twice, still absorbing. Thank you. God Bless.
Thankyou Marco Rubio for your insightful question and incisive follow-up (just kidding). When do you think you’ll get around to Oversight and judicial sunlight?
Just asking.
dismantling/repurposing this is not going to be easy and will likely result in the end of our current ‘government’ in favor of a new one. that is the true fertilizer of the tree of liberty.
cast off the corrupt, institute the new.
may we return to the roots of a truly ‘republican’ way of governance and ACCOUNTABILITY.
I’d preface this essay with “finish your cuppa morning joe before reading”.
But I totes appreciate the recap. Makes it more likely the info will survive the 21st century version of Fahrenheit 451 that is coming.
This is latest post by Sundance is really the Magna Carta on the inner workings of many black hats that ride together. The power of Sauron is powerful and all seeing. We require not only a ring bearer but a fellowship to resist the Ringwraiths.
Their main weapon is legacy media & social media to control the narrative, it’s also their weak spot.
We need a focused message, at one source, and point people to it. The source should have key truths about Covid, Biden’s laptop, FISA treachery, evidence of 2020 steal, intelligence branch treachory, Twitter files, censorship evidence.
Then some action items people can take: mainly sharing the source, but also getting engaged in the republican party and getting the rhinos out; then defeating the Democrat party; demanding paper ballots from their county supervisor of elections instead of machines.
Unfortunately, we will be long subjugated before any of your suggestions are effectuated.
It seems to me that given the totality of this presentation, the causation relationship between the creation of the IC, the 4th branch, and 9 11 presented here is backwards, as symbiotic as it is.
We can say this. SD cannot, yet.
Thank you Sundance. I am listening.
We cannot fight our way through the issues
When ‘talking points’ start arriving at 3000+- fps, I think we can.
Since SEIU and ACORN provided the ground troops to install Barack Obama in 2008, what role do the large government employee unions play in this overall Intelligence Community scheme?
Are the large government employee unions merely auxiliary drones doing what is asked, or are they key beneficiaries and decision maker participants in of this grand scheme.
My first contact with Barack Obama came in 2007 when he was barely known to a national audience ,but was out on the campaign trail as an also ran. However, I was stunned at the disciplined operation of the thugs running this minor city campaign event. Bruque and pushy – no small town community feeling at all. These were clearly strangers brought into our local political scene with a mission and purpose We were just hired extras in their intentional scene setting.
They slapped Obama stickers on all us when we entered the rally area, which we assumed were mere security passes. Now I realize they wanted to show a sea of dedicated Obama supporters wearing those badges while Obama whipped up the crowd into chanting and wildly enthusiastic voices crying out for him where ever he appeared.
However, we were immediately turned off by this clear huckster, his Black Church cadences drive rising hysteria, and his fake fainting lady stunts, which he repeated with the exact same words and timing at numerous rallies. What Obama, this unknown and unproven kid, did to seasoned pro Hilary Clinton had to come from sources well outside this junior Senator’s ability to pull off. Who else was pulling his strings to get party forces to align 100% against Hilary Clinton.
Visiting the DNC convention in Denver CO, it again was a highly disciplined all out war effort for Obama -Obama -Obama full again of union looking types and menacing thugs hawking only Obama gear. None dared sport a Hilary button. It was a very weird and dirty feeling listening to the smug voices rallied there, who knew they had their dream candidate.
But for what end game, and who were these people that were so sure they had the right person, even though Obama’s own performance during the campaign was 99% lacking.
The full story of the 2008 coup of America by “Obama” and the yet undisclosed role of the massive government employee unions who are granular in every part of this country, is still a tale that has yet to be fully told or understood. We pay dearly failure to understand what fully drove this astro-turf Obama revolution, this every single day.
Thank you for “going deep”. Yes, some of us have been on this same journey too for a long long time. You do have an audience. And we all have too many loose ends in need of tying up. You are very, very correct – the entire civics process has been hi-jacked by deadly professionals.
This played out in California too – riding in on “election reform and term limits” but quickly became a one party super-majority tyranny. Proving “term limits” is not the answer either when outside forces pull all the strings and only the faces are forced to change.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-can-finish-it-here-us-senator-challenges-teamsters-president-fight-during
Very interesting information, Jaye. Thank you.
I could be completely wrong in my understanding of Executive Orders & Declassification and I honestly request clarification if I am.
In reference to the sentence;
“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(1)} and {Go Deep}.”
The first {Go Deep} is Hyperlinked to an article titled;
“The Declassification Conundrum…
September 7, 2018 | Sundance | 1,299 Comments”
In that article is the following sentence;
“First, here’s a link to the General Principles of declassification [SEE HERE] Yes, the President can declassify anything; however, there is a process that must be followed.”
The [SEE HERE] is Hyperlinked to;
The President Executive Order 13526
Classified National Security Information
December 29, 2009
The first sentence of Executive Order 13526 states;
“This order prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information, including information relating to defense against transnational terrorism.”
To my way of understanding Executive Orders; based on President Trump signing Executive Orders to revoke or declare; Null and Void certain Executive Orders signed by that moslem Kenyan, on President Trump’s first day in office; an Executive Order, can be revoked or declared; Null and Void by signing another Executive Order?
If I am not misunderstanding this business about Declassifying documents, when Donaldus Magnus is returned to his rightful office, he should be able to wipe out Executive Order 13526 with his own Executive Order. That, in turn, would accomplish a significant effect on knocking down the Deep State Intelligence Community’s little house of cards.
However, I humbly request that someone who knows more about this subject to enlighten me as to anything false or incorrect about my understanding of Executive Orders and Declassification.
You understand completely.
As Sundance explained, the deep state of the intelligence community simply doesn’t comply.
The Supreme Court even overturned a Trump executive order. I can’t remember what, revocation of DOCA and something else I think
The simple explanation is if it expands the reach of the US govt, it stands. If not, it’s overturned.
That’s all well and good if the rules apply to everyone. Unfortunately, the DS is now laughing at us talking about enforcement of the law. As far as they’re concerned, the laws serve as just another distraction to occupy our minds.
They have the key – it’s hard to get them out – watch ShadowGate
7 years,
nearly passed since Comey’s public admission of the crime.
7 years,
means nothing will ever be done about it.
Comey’s performance was obviously indemnified and approved through carte blanche. We will never see that blanque cheque because they, he are still cashing it.
Would you ever give up that deal?
“We cannot fight our way through the issues until we first realize what lies at the root of the problem.”
We can not fight because we are cowards who run after these guys killed an unarmed woman.
We are so lame. All our guys can do is sit on asses and talk.
And what comes?
Ain’t f’n pretty. Your children will pay… and the left know who they are.
My G-d but we are useless in a fight.
I have always shared these articles with close friends, family members, etc. But it had never occurred to me until today to share these with every elected official in my home town.
Two different comments finally got my brain cells working. One was Dutchman’s mantra of working local to elect MAGA people to School Boards, local boards, etc. The others were from a numbers of treepers talking about printing off copies and giving them to people after engaging them by happenstance.
My county is pretty red. Typically 60-40 in most elections. You can’t drive more than a mile in any direction without seeing at least one Trump sign or flag in someone’s yard. But even so, I know, most people here do not know, or understand the depths of the corruption that abounds in our government.
So here is my plan: over the next couple of weeks I will distribute a printed copy of this article and the previous article to every town ship office, county commission offices, my State reps local office, my State senator local offices, and to the District Court and Circuit court offices. I purchased a box of report sleeves (like what kids put book reports in) for all of these copies and am labeling each cover clearly with the CTH web address.
In addition, I am compiling all of the above officeholders e-mail addresses along with all the county School Board members addresses, County judges e-mail addresses and I plan on e-mailing them copies of the same articles.
I realize that 90+% of these may go unread, but I’m thinking it only takes one match to get a prarie fire started.
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The bottom line summary: for the political class and aligned elites, across the board, there has been little to no accountability; the “system” no longer functions as intended by the founders.
ShadowGate – the movie by Millie the Millennial – she was arrested by the fed minutes after the movie hit the internet – I knew she was right… wow – just wow….
The unelected Deep State has Stockholm Syndromed us. Time to roar and defund.
Who dares not pay their taxes next April 15? What will they do if no one pays their taxes?
Start gathering signatures to amend the US Constitution and rescind all mandatory income taxes.
Put funding government back in the hands of the people; not into the strangulation hold wielded big government employee union bosses. That is who now sits on both sides of the federal dollar bargaining table, handing out our tax dollars only to themselves.
A third of this post is enough to delegitimize the existence of a federal government. More evidence, stated louder and longer is getting redundant.
BRAVO ZULU….
To you sir and your “team” for transcribing the WHO WHAT HOW&WHY of our slouching to perdition.. I am constantly reminded of the true nature of our battle… for it is not just a few skirmishes or feints or “fire fights” but full on assaults-banzai charges .. designed to overwhelm..
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
– Ephesians 6:12
THIS time & place in history is our test.. our trial.. our Road to Concord … our “Meuse-Argonne”.. “Iwo Jima” .. our “Bastogne” our “frozen Chosin”.. our stand must hold… our choice at these crossroads must be made and done decisively and with trust in The Lord….
This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your soul…”
– Jeremiah 6:16
We are engaged at home with family & neighbor.. at the city state and federal levels.. we’re in this mess until … well like that other guy said… it ain’t gonna be easy to rescue-recover a Republic.. but if you don’t try.. you’re never gonna know if it can be done…
SEMPER FI
Historians are NOT going to be kind to this Democratic/Deep State reign of terror on half of the American population – Trump needs to be re-elected and blow the entire cabal up… The Republicans in Congress need to grow some balls or they will find themselves in the unemployment lines…..WE ARE FED UP WITH THIS …Obama should be tried for Treason……..instead of pretending that he is a beloved Elder Statesman….
It’s late in the thread, so few may read, but here’s one more perspective to consider. Founding fathers said something to the effect that the constitution is made for a moral people. This is the fundamental transformation that is needed.
We got to this point because we snickered at election fraud. I am guilty too. I grew in the suburbs of a major city. We joked about the dead voting, voting early and often, etc. But this should be to our national shame and embarrassment.
Heroes of today are those who can circumvent the system, the bureaucracy. On the one hand, these byzantine systems need circumventing, and it’s good to admire Mr. Incredible who helps the little old lady through the labyrinth of forms at the insurance company. However, in older days, heroes were made of sterner stuff.
Many European countries still list government departments as ministries. We would do well to consider the origin of this terminology. A moral people understand that their life’s work is first to honor and glorify the God who made them and to whom they must give account. Public servants should be exactly that, but it starts from the inside. The whole country should honor those who set good examples.
Among the many enlightening things I like about this treatise, the explanation as to why there has been such inaction in many states on election process reform….WW3, Future Plandemics, Rigged Elections, One Global Digital Currency, Open Border…those are the concerns on my mind. I’m sure there are other things to be concerned about, but those are in my mind right now.
Sometimes the Deep State of H8te gets caught in public, as FBI Dir. Wray was busted by Rep Higgins (LA-R) in a Cap Hill Hearing today over FBI using “Ghost Buses’ on j6 to deliver FBI operatives in Trump/MAGA clothing to the Capitol. Hope Higgins is correct,..
“Your Day Is Coming!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/your-day-is-coming-director-wray-huge-gop/
Our House seems to not have any problem with what they are doing still, that is the problem.
As the years have gone by since 9/11/01, it is very obvious that it is an inside job.
There are so many facets to it. Even auditors from the pentagon who were researching the trillions of dollars missing were removed on 9/11.
When you see the result of 9/11, it makes clear that they achieved their goals.
It’s really simple, and obvious. Why did they enable and allow the heavy protest to get out of hand January 6th? Because it served their interest to destroy President Trump’s future. And why do they prosecute and treat protesters like dirt, holding them for years awaiting trial, and hitting them with LONG sentences? It’s a warning. It’s intimidation.
That crowd scared the crap out of them. They got a glimpse of how they could lose their power quickly. Pelosi didn’t count on it getting that rowdy. Afterward, they surround the capital with fencing and stage military for months.
All to intimidate the masses.
All while they let Pro-HAMAS and pro-terror rioters attack police and destroy property outside the WH and just more recently at the DNC HQ. Only one arrest. One. Fricking…..one. Despite cops actually being attacked and injured. One.
I would share this on Twitter/X, but I have been de-platformed for “hate speech”. They hate what hurts them …
Is there any question why the 7th circuit court of appeals determined AR-15s were weapons of war like M16s and unconstitutionally protected violated the constitution?
Turn to Federalist #29 regarding requisite training and the ability to fight off invasion and tyranny of government on the battlefield. How would a 2A militia own and carry the weapons of war in invasion emergencies if they were not allowed to own and carry them? We can look back at the Revolutionary war and then fast forward to the Shay’s rebellion of 1886 where transcripted citizens were expected to show up with firearms, powder horn and ball when called to service.
Did the judges actually study history???? Using the argument that semi-automatic Ar-15s looked like fully automatic M16s to claim AR-15s are weapons of war were contrary to the constitution is foolhardy. It’s pretty basic.
Have you considered sending this in to the NYT Letters to the Editor?
Does anyone here at CTH REALLY BELIEVE We The People can vote our way out of this?
TheAmericansParty.US
The problem.
The existence of an unelected and autonomous lump of government employees weaponized against their perceived political enemies with independent powers and impervious to public oversight.
Defund the bastards. Have SCOTUS take them out. Their very existence is unconstitutional. What legal case will take them out?
This is a great deep dive showing the constructs and mechanisms behind the superficial treatment in D’Sousa’s “Police State”. Great analysis.
One step that might help, although will never be enacted, is for breaking the oath to the Constitution be made a capital offense. So much of this cannot be corrected from within the compromised “system”.
“You don’t hear anybody talking about what FBI is doing with the NSA collected data. That’s because they’re doing it in secret. I mean, they’re also using it to convict people of crimes, and that’s what they’re doing – they’re looking at it for criminal activity.”-Bill Binney
“Reagan used to say that ‘we’re a country with a government.’ Well, now we’re a government with a country, and we’re making everybody else that way, too.”-Bill Binney
And look up Crypto AG article by the WP published 4 years ago outlining how IC has back doors into so many governments.
Mike Pompeo Joins Kyivstar’s Board of Directors to ‘Safeguard American Investors’
Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov said Pompeo will primarily represent the interests of American investors. Experts suggest that his connections can help protect the rights of US investors.
The revolving door of MNC, NGOs, Banks, International Law Firms like Wilkie Farr Gallagher, Think Tanks and those in the USG as someone once said “the deep state is really deep”.
Are my comments being deleted? Can’t find them?
the “sensitivity of the matter” is exactly WHY Congress should have been informed …
What would powerful people in DC do to stop the American people from finding this out?
They would set Trump up to lose and rig an election to make sure he was out of office! Flynn was never a patriot! Obama used Flynn to set Trump up! Do you think he would take an interview with the FBI without counsel? Of course not! It was deliberate! Flynn, Rodger Stone, Oath keepers , proud boys, Alex Jones were all in on it on Jan 6th! It was an under cover op ran with the FBI! Flynn co-opted the Q movement digital soldiers vs. keyboard warriors! Flynn used the Q movement to portray himself as patriot and used his digital soldiers to slowly take support away from Trump! The ultimate goal was/is to make Trump LOSE! At some point all of Flynn’s digital soldiers are going to push RFK just like Flynn’s brother!
If any of you are on Telegram or Truth social check out The Breb Room! You would be amazed at the TRUTH they are putting out there!
The analysis is short in one area: how did the political process become corrupted? The answer runs deeper than just money/wealth – which has always been a prominent “feature” of American society, economy and values (like it or not).
The technical foundation (the underlying technical enablers) for the surveillance state has been an inherent aspect of the information age since its inception. It wasn’t a matter of if, but when; and more importantly, by whom. Anyone who was part of this sweeping example of creative destruction knows this. The ideational portion of this latched onto the emerging capabilities early on. Predictions about information warfare in all spheres of interaction gained momentum in the 1990s.
Were one to model what is now a fact of our lives, it might look as follows (greatly simplifying): a three plane structure; a system-of-systems “creature” whose behavioral aspects cannot be reduced to any logical, equilibrium state.
A base plane of suppliers, providers and funders, energy, materials, environmental controls, educated/trained workforce, industrial products (semiconductors, CPUs, computers, telecommunications, etc.), 6.1./6.2/6.3 science (research & development), requirements/design/standards definition, etc.
A massively (velocity, volume, variety) intruding cyber plane of networked computers, databases, software, firmware, devices (IoT and others), operators, maintainers, defenders, attackers, managers, missions, functions, data/information, spectrum, communications, flows, etc.
The overarching societal plane of government, legal frameworks, owners, businesses, critical infrastructure, meta models for how cyber should be nurtured and purposed/repurposed, international competition – and much, much more.
The future was always present in the seed of the cyber beginning. It was going to happen. The interactions among the three planes are bidirectional – though the societal plane sets the legal framework and holds onto ownership it should be noted.
The real question of the hour is how the particular forces currently in power prevailed? They are not numerically predominant. It took decades. Knowing this helps establish one of the vectors for undoing or, at the least, challenging the always shifting balances of power. It will also force an uncomfortable inward accounting for past mistakes, misjudgments, intellectual and tactical errors.