This is more than a little interesting and aligns with my own research and discussions. House Speaker Mike Johnson was lobbied by former CIA Director Mike Pompeo and current officials from the CIA, DNI and Intelligence Community.
This effort, and his son starting at the Naval Academy, is what changed Johnson’s mind about allowing the U.S. intelligence community to have his full support in the IC war against the American people.
The story is shared by CNN, the official outlet for perspectives and viewpoints held by the U.S. State Dept (CIA), so keep the narrative origination in mind. Here are the key points as written in the article:
WASHINGTON – […] The speaker’s embrace of Ukraine aid represents a remarkable evolution for Johnson, who voted against funding for the country as a rank-and-file member. But almost immediately after securing the speaker’s gavel, sources say he began to hear directly from critical Republican national security voices – including Donald Trump’s former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, who impressed upon him the urgent need to approve assistance for Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion.
In March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lobbied the speaker directly. Within minutes of the House approving a new military aid package for Ukraine on Saturday, Zelensky offered his thanks to US lawmakers, and in particular to Johnson for his decision that “keeps history on the right track.”
And more recently, Johnson received a key intelligence briefing from CIA Director Bill Burns, who painted a picture of the dire situation on the battlefield in Ukraine and the global consequences of inaction, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The briefing left a lasting impression, and Johnson became increasingly convinced the fate of Western democracy was on his shoulders, sources close to him said.
Another factor that sources say weighed heavily on his decision-making: Johnson’s oldest son was recently accepted into the Naval Academy.
“To put it bluntly, I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys. My son is going to begin in the Naval Academy this fall. This is a live-fire exercise for me as it is so many American families,” Johnson told reporters. (read more)
♦ The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is at the epicenter of all modern corrupt politics. Every element of weaponized government, each example of action taken, can be traced to an agency within the USIC.
Similar to every other person I have ever met in Congress, House Speaker Johnson was pressured by the USIC and accepted their position. Johnson then changed his mind on the priorities of the USIC, sided with them in everything they requested, and pushed all he knew about the corrupt and weaponized conduct of the USIC to the side.
Keep in mind, we know the core ideology of the USIC is political and corrupt. We also know the core motives of the USIC are weaponized against anything that would remove their power tentacles from control. We know this, because the former USIC Inspector General was an institutionally corrupt guy named Michael Atkinson.
Before becoming the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), Michael Atkinson was the chief legal counsel at the DOJ National Security Division. Atkinson was the office lawyer for the Deputy AG in charge of the DOJ-NSD. Essentially, Atkinson was the internal compliance officer within the DOJ-NSD responsible for making sure all the rules and regulations of the national security division were maintained and accurate.
Michael Atkinson was Acting DAG Mary McCord’s lawyer when she was head of the DOJ-NSD, and when she submitted the fraudulent Title-1 FISA warrant against Carter Page that was used as a surveillance tool against Donald Trump and his campaign.
Atkinson would know the granular details of the FISA application, because it was his job at the DOJ-NSD to audit every U.S. Attorney Office that submitted FISA applications – including Washington DC.
When Mary McCord left the DOJ-NSD, she went to work for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler on the joint House committee to investigate Donald Trump. When Michael Atkinson left the DOJ-NSD, he went to work as the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
It was Atkinson who changed the rules allowing an anonymous whistleblower in the CIA (Eric Ciaramella) to make accusations against the office of President Trump. Whistleblower Ciaramella previously worked for Joe Biden when the corrupt Burisma business venture with Hunter Biden in Ukraine was set up.
Atkinson set up the system for Ciaramella to make an accusation against Trump, while keeping Ciaramella’s name hidden. This previously not permitted secrecy stopped the general public and DC people from knowing the background political motives of the claim against Trump by hiding Ciaramella.
The combination of Michael Atkinson’s work in the DOJ-NSD (Page FISA warrant), and the work he then did to set up the fraudulent CIA claims against President Trump (with Eric Ciaramella), stands as irrefutable evidence of the corrupt and weaponized activity by the Intelligence Community Inspector General. This shows how the IC is corrupt/weaponized.
The cherry on the proverbial corruption cake happened when ICIG Michael Atkinson helped construct the fraud against Trump; he then turned over all the fake whistleblower evidence to the Shiff/Nadler committee. The head of that committee was Mary McCord, Atkinsons former DOJ-NSD cohort. In essence, Atkinson gave McCord another fraudulently constructed set of documents to attack Donald Trump.
The first time McCord and Atkinson worked together, it was to conduct surveillance of Donald Trump and then hide the evidence. The second time Atkinson and McCord worked together, it was to impeach Donald Trump and then hide the evidence.
I hope everyone can see how the embeds within the Intelligence Community are completely political and working diligently to retain and operate a weaponized system. The functionaries deeply inside the mechanisms of the intelligence apparatus are the ones doing this; it’s not just the heads of the executive agencies as appointed by the Obama/Biden administration.
♦ MAIN POINT – The Intelligence Community overall is corrupt – soup to nuts. If the IC was not comprehensively corrupt, someone like ICIG Michael Atkinson could never become inspector general.
Now…. think about everything that stems from the outcomes of the Intelligence Community!! Everything about everything the IC puts into the DC system; everything that creates policy and executive/legislative action is politically motivated and corrupt.
It’s not just about renewing FISA-702 surveillance on Americans, it’s everything.
THINK!
Think about wars, borders, national security, threats domestically, threats ignored/downplayed due to ideological makeup of the IC. Instructions given to politicians, briefings to the President, advice to policymakers, positions of military assets, foreign policy, election security, DHS mandates, border impacts, and so much more.
Meanwhile, the judicial branch defers to the IC on all matters of national security. Think about the ramifications.
It’s not hard to see how fully collapsed our system is once you realize how fully corrupt the intelligence apparatus has become.
Bonami1776:
“Ukraine will see probably 10% of that money, it is going into the weapons industry to come out as campaign contributions. That’s why the big number and the big push IMO”
That’s the pure and perfect beauty of the circular money laundry.
OUR tax dollars and debt goes to foreign “aid”.
Most of it comes right back to foreign lobbies and American political activists to buy influence or make payoffs here in the U.S.
We are funding our own corruption and displacement!
The enemy is conquering us on our own dime, paying none of the costs, and so bearing none of the risk. If you risk nothing, you can demand anything.
They laughingly told us to our face! Victoria Nuland said, “most of the money never leaves the U.S.”
Why Nuland, must we be the enforcer for the entire world! Why must we be the mommy and daddy for the rest of the world. Why must we pay in blood, sweat, the death of our youth, and all of our own money? Why? How can it be more destructive in stopping this behavior? We would save American lives, American dollars, etc.. We wouldn’t be so deeply in depth. We are not the parents to every other country on earth. We do not owe them our lives and our own bankruptcy to resolve their problems. Where and when does it end, and exactly who is going to do the same for us as we sink into bankruptcy and oblivion? The answer is: No one! No one is going to rescue us!
Evil Miss Piggy needs to shut her big fat lying treasonous mouth. She instigated this war in Ukraine with her Maidan coup and pushing Russia to defend its border from Miss Piggy’s aggressive NATO threats. I really hope the Russians just overrun Ukraine when the ground dries up and make all these people look like fools and accountable for all of our money they stole and wasted on this boondoggle.
Shanker Johnson is a brazen lying backstabber.
History will reflect that fact .
He knows the Republican base wants the illegal invasion of the southern border stopped, their tax dollars staying in the US, no pallets of money sent to the most corrupt place in the world, no part in killing people that haven’t done anything to us.
Johnson bloody well knows this, and did it anyway, confident in the certainty that his Uniparty sponsors will finance the defense of his reelection campaign.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trump-sold-out-his-base-to-shovel-95-billion-to-ukraine-and-israel/
Now now Don, be careful posting anything critical of PDJT….
That article’s best moment was posting MTG’s statement in the House chastising everyone who signed on to this blatant boondoggle. Sadly they don’t care how badly they are called out, because no one hears that tree fall in the forest.
Your boy Cornpop needs a diaper change.
Giddyup!
He is a demigod. Trump.
A man who is greatly respected or admired “a former juvenile delinquent who would become a counterculture demigod.”
I have been waiting for his reaction, he would be wise to stay far away until he is elected, or this is over.
Yawn.
Remember to stamp your card when your shift ends.
Do you expect anything less than that fact? He was elected for a reason and you are now living and seeing it. He is and represents 98 % of the Republican Party. More people are starting to understand that the Republican Party is the problem. Not enough yet because people need more pain and when that peaks then they will replace the Republican Party and get back to savings this country as we know it. Watch how many of the RINOS get reelected through VOTER FRAUD in 2024 and TRUMP loses. Maybe that his the wake up call the people need ?
It will collapse before it is saved. We should be making plans for mopping up blue cities, interim gov/militia security and reconstruction.
History may show that President Trump was the reasonable option.
I think he was also confident he could not be replaced because of the illusionary Republican majority. When you only have only a 1 or 2 majority with sometimes a hundred plus Republicans voting with Democrats you do not have a Republican House.
Stupid or compromised, either is no excuse for being a traitor.
I know, the scheming against us is never-ending in DC.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trump-sold-out-his-base-to-shovel-95-billion-to-ukraine-and-israel/
First off….this is an opinion piece…..they don’t really know what happened or what was said between Johnson and Trump in that meeting! For all you know, Johnson told Trump they have him over a barrel and that they are going to put kiddy porn or frame him with some sexual thing…or even worse he really is a pedo and the IC knows it and they are using it against him for leverage to get what they want. No where does MTG say it’s Trump that wanted this funding! He most definately did not want the FISA thing going forward. And if Trump made a deal with the apparatus to get back into the White House….why are they still going after him! This is a BS story and YOU believe it! Wow! Frickin gullible you are! Obviously you do not understand the depth of the corruption we are dealing with and the limits we have on our side of dealing with them….when they control all the levers of power! And when you are in a war, not everything is going to be clean and pretty….and….you might even do things and or say things to create certain illusions that are not true to get the enemy to believe or act a certain way. IT’S A WAR! It’s not politics anymore! So try to think the way a general would think in a war and the kinds of things you might do to get your enemy to react certain ways. Okay….so maybe you are unable to that…….then you will be lost until all is revealed!
TRUMP most certainly IS our GUY! Trump 2024 or even before!!!
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DJT is all we have right now. End of story.
Nailed it!
In reality Republican Trump voters are paying to elect Biden, but have no clue that is happening. Their own tax dollars will be used against them. Quite a racket the democrats have going there. Need campaign funds, need to buy off someone, Add it to an omnibus bill labeled as something else (how about the Ukraine) and Viola! The democrats have done it again. Unending election funding. This time with the help of Mike Johnson.
Yep. Back into the democrats pockets. Got from ours in debt taxes
Eve Rowell:
“Everything about DC is broken: the entire federal government is a 5th column operating in the interests of globalists and banksters who do not care one single bit about Americans.”
Meaning the politicals are mere satraps (puppets) of international powers.
Now, look at the USIC. They operate across borders; this means they are above the laws defined by those borders.
The Five Eyes have become their own ecosystem of opportunity and advancement. They are a parallel economy, not subject to the limits of capitalist accounting or the cost of goods sold.
They have gone rogue; beholden to no authority but their own, they engage now in conquest and rule…in their own interest, as a sovereign power.
Build Rackets Better
“And out of this grew what was later named — and condemned — as the “cult” of intelligence, an inbred, distorted, elitist view of intelligence that held it to be above the normal processes of society, with its own rationale and justification, beyond the restraints of the Constitution, which applied to everything and everyone else.”
–William Colby, My Life In the CIA
I really enjoy listening to Mike Benz.
He strikes me as providing the same level of quality information as Colonel MacGregor.
…and the Speaker is backing a guy in Texas that calls us “scumbags” and “Klansmen?”
Who picks these people to run for office, anyway???
I feel like I’m locked in a carnival funhouse…with no way to escape
“The cockade became a badge of despotism; every one who would not join the order, and go to every excess in their measures, was denounced as a traitor, and a man must wear the national cockade, or be massacred.”
–Noah Webster, The Revolution in France, 1794
Rep. Eli Crane Blasts RINOs Calling Him A ‘Traitor’
https://rumble.com/v3s1t1d-lets-compare-resumes-rep.-eli-crane-blasts-rinos-calling-him-a-traitor-caus.html
I’d agree except. We have a way out and I believe you know the way? I’d go on and on of the dismantled reasoning people go through to achieve excuses but it’s pointless at this season.
There will be much death and believers will have to face their faults, it’s history. The unbelievers, well they were never written into the script. It’s why America is not in our bibles, we become a nation of unbelievers. Very sad to see.
It is the believers that hold a nation together.
And this is the whole idea, we can do all things through Christ but nothing without. It’s all stubble to be burned. Why in all of creation turn away from God?
I believe we are entering a time foretold in the Bible called The Time of Great Sorrows and a Time of Great Knowledge.
We are running out of options.
Soap box
Ballot box
A**o box
speaker Johnson, the check is in the mail. i’ll bet there aren’t 15 members of the house of representative that haven’t been completely compromised at this point.
I say less than that…in ALL of Congress
Maybe a few more in the rank and file, somewhere
“Nice appointment to Annapolis for your son. Be a shame if he were to be caught with dope or kiddie porn, eh?”
Johnson’s intel briefing included blackmail, and is why he flip-flopped. We’re not stupid. Doesn’t matter anyway, because the left does whatever it wants, even when they are clearly wrong and break laws. Proof is what they are doing to 45 – because they can and no one will dare to stop them.
It’s kind of like that old Who song lyric: “Meet the new ‘Bush’, same as the old ‘Bush’
Since our nation’s John Hinkley moment until Donald Trump interrupted for 4 years, the CIA has been in charge.
They became in charge after they assassinated JFK and have been ever since.
MTG nailed it. Her commentary regarding the bloated foreign money laundering aid bills says it all, yet nobody pays it any mind. They just waived their little flags and celebrated the upcoming infusion of money into their “campaign” accounts. Please read it and apologies for the length:
”The United States taxpayer has already sent $113 billion to Ukraine, and much of that money is unaccounted for. This is an example of a sick business model the US government wants to continue….. The Congress votes for money for foreign wars that the American people do not support….. The American people do not support a business model based on blood and murder and war in foreign countries while the government does nothing to secure our border.
The American people are over $34 trillion in debt and the debt is rising by $40 billion every night while we all sleep. But nothing is done to secure our border or reduce our debt. Inflation continues to rise every day and Americans can hardly afford to pay their grocery bills, they can hardly afford to put gas in their cars, and they can hardly afford the rent. And, now, average mortgage payments are over $3000 when they were just $1700 three years ago. Young Americans don’t think they will ever be able to buy a home and yet today, this congress thinks the most important thing they should do is to send another $61 billion to the war in Ukraine that the American people –by 70%– do not support!
… But, today, the most important thing this body thinks we should do, is not reduce spending, or drive down inflation, or secure our own border that is invaded every single day by people from over 160 different countries… We have over 1.8 million ‘got-aways’ and we don’t know who these people are… and yet we have people in this very congress ‘talking tough’ saying, “We have to defeat Russia. Oh, we have to protect Ukraine” and yet , all of you are unwilling to protect the American citizens that pay your salary, pay to keep the lights on, and pay to keep the federal government running. And for what?
For nothing! Ukraine isn’t even a member of NATO But all you hear in Washington DC is “Oh, we have to keep spending America’s hard-earned tax dollars to continue to murder Ukrainians to wipe out a whole generation of young men so there are (thousands of ) widows, and fatherless orphans, and not enough men to work in their industries. Oh, but you really support Ukraine. (sarcasm) What kind of support is that? It’s repulsive!
Shame on the American government! Shame on the American government! If we want to support our military, then support our military. We should be building up our weapons and ammunition, not sending it over to foreign countries to kill foreign people.
And if this body was what it pretends to be, every single one of us would be demanding peace in Ukraine; peace for these people, so that no more of them have to die. But you never hear anybody demanding peace. No, no, no. Peace is the last thing Washington wants because it doesn’t fit the business model. This is a business model they say builds the American economy and protects American jobs. What a disgusting business model. We should have a business model that builds-up our American companies and American jobs to serve American interests, and our military and our government should care about protecting the national security of the United States of America and the Americans who pay their hard-earned tax dollars to fund all this.
America last. America last. That’s all this is. America last, every single day.”
MTG is extremely eloquent in spelling out truth. And she throws common sense, believable, and valid truth bombs all of the time, but like you said, she is ignored. Completely Ignored.
How any human being could listen to this speech, and not understand what she is saying is beyond me. ANd that leads me to conclude, we are so f—d! It all falls on deaf ears. Each point she makes could be a headline.
I know Sundance has problems with her, but look where we are now?
What if Kevin McCarthy were still there? Would this have happened anyway? I don’t know enough to know.
But you have to give it to her that she has enough class and sense, not to say “TOLD YA!” regarding putting Johnson in.
When the Rs picked MJ – a nobody to most of us – and IIRC he was unanimously (or almost) voted as SOH, I knew we had a problem. Now we know how, what, where it manifests. Just another POS-Politician.
For years now I’ve asserted that there are no more than 10-20 honest men/women in the entire Congress of the United States of America.
I’ve seen nothing yet that changes my mind.
I worked in and around Capital Hill for several years in the 80’s and early 90’s, including working directly with the staff of some Congressmen and Senators and on one joint committee. Things were questionable and sketchy to me then, and it’s only gotten worse since then.
They are almost all on the grift. They get their cuts/perks by helping business grifters (who in turn send them campaign money.
Meanwhile, the taxpayers take it in the shorts.
10-20? I admire your optimism
When I left the DC Sausage making factory in ‘91- my mantra was “If Jesus was elected President he could not fix it”. It’s only gotten worse. The entire machine is on auto and it needs to be shut off and stripped down to its basic Constitutional requirements. Maybe then this Nation would have a chance.
The USIC does not engage in lobbying. It engages in leveraging and coercion. It can do that in several ways: bribery, blackmail, and extortion. The only question is which will it be.
Tucker had an interesting podcast this week. He said the IC has the ability to remotely put kiddie porn, AI photos of political figures doing unthinkable things and many other dirty deeds. And they can do this to your family. At first when I heard this I thought well just un plug and do everything the old fashioned way. But then my wifi went out on my house. Guess what? My alarms system went down, my house phone went down, my hubby’s heart alert went down. It’s no longer enough to be squeaky clean like Devin Nunes was, you will be caught in the noose of the IC if they want to get you. Pretty scary. I think we are past the tipping point of saving our country
The FBI was attempting (but got busted) to put porn on Sheryl Attkisson’s husband’s computer when she was reporting facts about government corruption in the obama era. This tells us FOR A FACT that this is being done. Her case is still in the courts (where it will likely be as long as it takes to wear her down). I have ZERO doubts AI will be used to threaten and control those who would dare to stand up to them.
they built the system around us and people have happily bought into the tech bling. to operate in society means you must comply, at present there is no way out. you’ve now discovered what i did years ago when i tried. the masses must begin demanding traditional alternatives like paper documents. paper works and it doesn’t surveil you while transferring money from the populace to big tech.
when your privacy is taken from you by tyrannical techocrats you are also being stripped of your liberty
Can’t wait to see what Johnson’s net worth when he leaves the speakership compared to when he started.
He didn’t “change his mind.” He always intended to vote the way he did. He just needed some cover for it.
Trust Kansas/s
Kick traitor Johnson out the door in his useless sorry asap!!
No matter how much money these idiots send Ukraine, the results will be the same: We the people will pay in taxes and massive inflation, and Russia will continue to kick the shit out of Ukraine. We know this and they know this. It’s almost like they know we are facing a financial collapse and shoving as much money in their incompetent pockets as they can. They are all criminals. Liars, cheats, and criminals. All of them.
Welp, it seems Mike Johnson does not want you to know his prior stance on issues…maybe he has decided to revise and extend his remarks. I was quickly browsing the internet and came across this information but cant recall the article cause I delete my cache too often. Mike Johnson’s Instagram has gone private and can’t be access by anyone unless they have permission to see it. So if I do come across the info/website again, I will post the link immediately 😛