Only a small number of Americans understand the relationship between the U.S. State Dept (DoS) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). However, as more people understand how these two agencies operate, then people have a much more accurate context for how both agencies are viewed by the rest of the world.
Almost every deployed CIA operative has a cover profile within the State Dept. The foreign service missions of the DoS and CIA are so enmeshed there is literally no way to separate the functions of their agencies. [Go back to the Benghazi Attack for an operational reference] CIA/DoS have to be viewed through the prism of connection.
To better understand this concept, I use the following metaphor:
♦ The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant. The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The Director is the Chef. The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys.
The tables and chairs are assigned by the Maitre D’ according to their value. Countries viewed as more important get the best tables. The menus offered to each nation are completely different. Israel has a table in the kitchen. To get the best experience, tips (bribes) are required for everyone, from the parking valets outside, to the sommelier, to the server. Currently, Ukraine is the biggest tipper.
On the oversight aspect the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the control mechanism to approve/install the Secretary of State. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the control mechanism to approve/install the CIA Director. Everything therein and thereafter is a system of pretending it is something else.
The Dept of State (DoS) is so large there’s no way of addressing the inherent institutional corruption. The Secretary of State can control a small portion of DoS operations, but that’s usually only the geopolitical stuff we see discussed on television, in print media or in press conferences. The business functions of the DoS take place within a network of carefully guarded silos.
Perhaps, the first step in advancing an American-First policy, is to just stop the various administrative offices within the Dept of State from doing anything, literally anything. The challenge within DoS is massive, complex and complicated. I’m genuinely not sure what the Executive Branch mechanism is to do it, but we need to close the restaurant for a few months and do a deep cleaning.
On the back of the operation is the kitchen, the CIA.
It is a popular DC sentiment to say the CIA Director is the most powerful person within the intelligence apparatus. As the viewpoint is shared, it is the established secrecy within the mandate of the institution that gives them power.
Essentially, the CIA was created to be a place where dark arts (lying, spying, manipulation, tradecraft) would be approved and used at the discretion of the institutional leadership. As a consequence, there is no check on the CIA operational agenda. They are permitted by function and mandate, to lie to everyone about what they are doing; this includes the Office of the President.
Because they are essentially an unchecked intelligence silo within a government that has allowed the institution to hold unilateral power and self-policing, the CIA has a power within the apparatus unlike any other member. Inside the business model of foreign policy as a restaurant, the CIA are in control of the kitchen.
Together the DoS/CIA operate a shadow government, looking out for their best interest while generating power through large multinational institutions (corporations), spy agencies (5-eyes), banks, non-governmental agencies (NGAs) and various influence operations.
The activity of the CIA/DoS construct takes place regardless of who is president. Any hope of busting up this corrupt system is going to take a lot of strategic pounding while confronting the supportive element within the Senate at the same time. [Note this is why repealing the 17th amendment would make the work infinitely easier – and also why the 17th amendment was created by banking interests.]
When you stand back and look at the challenge of confronting the DoS and CIA, you can easily see why the Emissary was the first most important person I noted. If you are going to confront the domestic corruption within the DoS, you need the Emissary as a contact for specific foreign government leaders.
Under my sketch, the foreign policy of the USA shifts away from Foggy Bottom and directly back to the White House. This provides space to destroy the system through domestic confrontation. A new State Dept Secretary is going to have to push intensely and forcefully to support the goals of President Trump while understanding the internal effort is going to be much less glamorous, but historically far more important.
♦ The Secretary of State needs to have an understanding of the scale of the system underneath them, a comprehensive understanding of the opposition they will face from within that system, and the fortitude to keep playing whac-a-mole until the heads of the sub-silos are slowly removed. The person in this role needs to be a ‘high energy, smart, multitasker.’ The odds are all against them.
♦ The CIA Director needs the same type of understanding, and an impenetrable ability to put the USA interests above the interests of anyone else who has a table in the kitchen. Given the relationships within the aligned Western Intelligence Services, this is going to be a nerve-wracking challenge. As much as I want the CIA candidate to know the scale of the problem they will face, in one important way it might be more beneficial if the person didn’t know the scale of opposition they will face. This is a dark place.
This is a four-year plunge into one of the most corrupt enterprises at the heart of the DC swamp. The DoS/CIA are the guards of the drain. The drain is underneath decades of bile, silt, muck, scum, filth and horrible stuff.
Our candidates for these jobs need to be high-energy and full of equal parts determination, fortitude, piss and vinegar.
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It’s fine if the SoS merely spends their time restaffing embassies in American allies and critical major powers. Fire as many people as possible. Most of President Trump’s diplomatic achievements were made in spite of State, not because of them.
Furthermore the CIA must be destroyed, period, and it would be better to put a timeservers in the actual office while the executive attacks it from the outside.
For Virginians, a reminder. Abigail Spanberger, who is running for governor, loves to advertise her CIA credentials.
She is awful!
Good stuff. Each embassy needs an ashole reaming and retooling exercise that puts them back on mission to support US citizens. Scale back putting monies into every country’s pockets. At least a 180 day stand down on foreign aid. More if needed after that. Why stop at 180 days?? PDJT can also task SOS Hageman with draining the NGO swamp as well. Again work Congress into cutting the purse strings from the vultures that they are. Domestic NGO vulterism too. Whack em down to nothing. Just getting started! 🤨
Correction SOS Grenell. 👆🏼
No foreign aid period until all our debt is paid.
So never. Judicious use of foreign aid/bribes might work better. You still have to counter Chinese expansion.
This I like … along with charging the countries for America wasting our tax dollars on their their incarcerated illegal alien criminals !!!
Excellent explanation. Top-tier choices for these two positions. Two bulldogs that will get it done…and we know their loyalties. You are tops SD.
If we thought what the Evil Triplets (CIA / S. DEPT / PENTAGON) did to us the 1st time around was bad, imagine their desperation in a 2nd Trump presidency will be like.
With their investment in Ukraine and the prospect of another profitable war with Iran, Trump will need his own full time security detail to protect him from the government he’s supposed to lead.
Unbelievably dangerous times we live in.
MAGA
Would not include the Pentagon
Yes, it belongs in that group.
I agree with 99.9999999999% of everything you say, SD. But I just can’t for the life of me shake my gut instinct that Hageman is definitely deep state. And my gut says it’s to the level of the worst of the worst.
But I do feel better that you do trust her. So I won’t panic. But I’m never going to trust until she does something to stand in the fire. Just my opinion which doesn’t mean a thing. But I can’t shake the feeling.
My feeling about her is that she is a flea staring into the furnace.
Only time will tell.
Agree. I’ve always gotten that straight-shooter vibe from her.
In fact, I’ve gotten that Margaret Thatcher vibe that the Misleadia is now trying to bestow unearned upon Kommie-La.
It’s difficult to tell about anyone, granted, without a real-world test. Sundance is proposing an excellent one.
Let’s let her test at Assistant Deputy before placing that possibly world changing bet on her in the larger position, huh?
As I said it’s just my opinion. But she had trashed Trump in the past if I’m not mistaken. Or she was connected to someone not good. Either way, she just comes off as DS to me. Just my gut so who knows. And happy to except SD reference.
She was formerly on the staff of Liz Cheney.
“Misleadia!”
Awesome!!!
I believe also that USAID -as the advance group ( now run by Samantha Power et al ) of the Clowns from Langley – must also be mentioned as clearly their adjunct agency, in league with the Vicky Nuland’s of their “world”. As, USAID handle all outbound AGITPROP outside the U.S. and behind the scenes.
While WaPo and CNN/DS-NBC and their like minded propaganda outlets, handle the dissemination of their U.S. based mind control operations.
Yes, USAID, IMF, various NGO banking cut outs, they all need to be defunded and mothballed.
I’m truly sick of all of the NGO’s that do nothing for America but take our money to do leftie things!
This the Democrat’s device for using Taxpayers’ money to destroy our country. These people need to be quashed and punished, and especially the people who enable and provide funding for NGO’s.
USAID is very high on the “no ice cream” list.
Sorry, Sundance! I want Kash Patel at the CIA. He knows where the bones are buried!
He’s not what you think he is
Perzactly
I’m guessing that he was the gentleman you met when you did your
(Mr. Smith goes to Washington) trip.
I wanted to believe Kash was a “white hat” but you’ve given us enough cues…🥺
It always surprises me when someone on this thread cheerleads for Kash Patel. He has Deep State Globalist written all over him.
could only imagine the info to come out if a Kash article was dropped
It would be great to know what he is, in order to mind-meld with you. The more we can safely share and see, the more anti-fragile we can be as a group, making deductions wherever we are that would be similar to what you would make, based on the largest safe-to-share data set (especially in the absence of good comms).
Of course, the best program is to declassify everything without fear or favor so WTP can judge for ourselves. I believe you had suggested a large binder last time around? You’re going to need a bigger binder…
What reading material do you recommend to change my mind?
Good question
Bingo, he’s a shysta. A three shell monty man.
I am with you on that. My picks were Rick and Kash as I read the preamble by SD.
I know that Kash is somewhat out of favor as he wouldn’t cross the IC very hard in his civilian life. He maintained his access and security clearance by playing nice. I honestly don’t fault a man for not biting the hand that feeds him needing income to sustain his family and, to an extent, feed his pride/ego a bit.
What Kash and Nunez did took a big set of cajones. The respect I have for them has passed the test of time for me.
I would love Kash at the CIA.
My only issue with Harriet is that I don’t know her very well at all. Too new on the scene.
This may help you to learn more about her…
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/08/03/wildfire-burns-harriet-hagemans-family-homestead-more-evacuations-ordered/
I read that but thanks for it, from the heart.
I have read much about her to be honest and much is positive. I can’t explain my concerns other than something deep in my gut says wait and see.
Again, thanks for the homework my friend
I understand what you mean. It’s unsettling when you come to the realization that so much of what you thought about the world turns out to be a total manipulation or an outright lie. I feel like a suspicious cat most of the time now too! I would never discourage anyone from listening to their gut. After all, if you can’t trust yourself who can you trust? And I’m a big believer in trusting that inexplicable feeling you get in those iffy situations…it’s saved my ass more than once!
Thank you SaoirseCainte for that article. I truly appreciate it. Very insightful into Harriet Hageman.
It does raise concerns with me however. She has a large, hard working family. Will they not be a huge target for the nefarious three letter swamp???
I believe she would have to hold a huge family meeting and they would have to all be prepared for the unleashing of the hellhounds.
But I do agree with Sundance’s choices! I have a very high opinion of Ric Grenell.
Kash Patel is near the apex of CONservative Inc. He rides Donald Trump’s coattails to the bank with his merch and books, that name absolutely no names.
Some in Con, Inc are in MAGAGriftersRUs… some are not… they all get along though…🥺
I get that now. Actions-actions-actions!
Well….Muff…..once again you & I are on the same page….yet I will have to defer to SD on Harriet…. As he IS my MOST reliable source on this cohort in conservative politics. (Now I hope he fills in the blanks on Kash…….🤔)
But I’m 1000% behind Ric in ANY position of MAJOR import/consequence.
My concern with HH, is the same as my concern for any who have been elected, with the exception of PDJT;
IF we all agree the election system is corrupted, doesn’t that mean anyone currently IN office, or that have ‘served’ in elected office in the past, is corrupted?
The best thing we can go by, is to look for those who ran for office, AS a MAGA Candidate, and we can clearly see the blob made sure they lost by stealing it from them.
Sure, Kari Lake is tge obvious example, but there is a nice list, from 2022 midterms.
Dutch, I agree that the MAGA rolls from the midterms are a valid, if not EXCELLENT…. filter to use, but I have to argue for a post hoc ergo propter hoc consideration re: anyone currently in office…. I mean for me, EVEN JD has been pretty much an unknown, until a month ago…..🤷🏼 when did HE finally see the Light and cross the Rubicon for/to MAGA….?
Like many, I know little to nothing about HH….Thus defer to SD….
Don’t defer. Politely ask him why? Listen or read info provided. Then decide. Not a criticism of SD .
The classic “follow the money”…
Corruption among agencies are at their zenith…Ukraine is the latest…a house cleaning is in order yet D’s and R’s are the beneficiaries. Are they going to bite the hand that feeds them? No…but if a strong, principled leader emerges who will dismantle the system and threaten their existence there is hope.
The media is as corrupted as the parties…as uncovered by the IAG report years ago, the agencies paid off the media reporters through sex, dinners, tickets to sporting events etc in order to keep everything under wraps and promote the agencies “squeaky clean” agenda. This needs to be addressed as well and cut off these wannabes…
Our Lion is a threat to their fiefdom…they have tried everything they could to derail him…including killing him…desperate times call for desperate measures in their opinion. He still is not safe and I pray for his safety.
I endorse your recommendations…
“This provides space to destroy the system through domestic confrontation. ”
I see what you did there.😉
I suggest we can make little progress on this front as long as our intelligence agencies remain married to Whitehall.
I LOVE it! NOW, if it can become a reality!
In keeping with Sundance’s metaphor this is one dangerous restaurant! It’s a restaurant that serves up nothing but war, mayhem and death! The kitchen is in violation of every health guideline, the temperature is too hot, food is contaminated, personal hygiene of the kitchen staff is appalling contaminating everything they touch, there is filth everywhere and the dining room is just as unhealthy, unsanitary serving up nothing but lies, misinformation, disinformation and falsehoods to the customers! Finally the record keeping of the restaurant is nonexistent! This is one restaurant that needs shutdown for far too many health and safety violations!!! And We The MAGA People and America Firsters are the owners of this restaurant of death!!! JMO. Godspeed Sundance!!!
…. And yes, it sucks to accept that we are the bad guys! -Sundance 5/1/24
One other thing –
The place is absolutely overrun with Demento-RATS.
Hahaha
Grenell and Hageman would be great choices.
Another Trump administration would need to operate under the theme of firing thousands of globalist bureaucrats. If Grenell and Hageman are willing to help dismantle the parasite network undermining our nation, then they would go down in history as heroes for generations to come. I don’t think we can stop the economic depression that’s coming, but we CAN use that period to justify firing the globalists who got us into this mess in the first place.
Don’t know anything about Rep. Hageman, but her resumé sounds like she’d be a natural at the Dept of the Interior.
Give that one to Sarah Palin instead.
Sundance’s recommendation for Harriet is perfect.
Hageman and Grennell – YES!
Another power given to the Sec of State (not sure if it has ever been used) is the ability and duty to deport undesirables from the U.S. even if they are naturalized citizens. He/she can also confiscate their wealth if it has been used to undermine our national security……Soros comes to mind.
Wow!
The power to exile – for real.
b71, you are definitely a person who reads the f. manual every time, with comprehension, right on!
No more color revolutions deportations should be main focus for State Dep.
Needing both/and.
Sovereignly assigned and (miraculously) placed human resources.
Prayers, intentions and declarations calling on the only One fully able to bring the transition the nation is desperate for.
God have mercy on the Republic.
Show yourself to be a Covenant keeping God.
Too bad about Pompeo. I had high hopes for him. In general it sounds like everyone would be better off without the three letter agency discussed in the article.
Better off without Pompeo too!
According to Tucker, Pompeo is a criminal for plotting the murder of Julian Assange. I agree. Reference:
Excellent analogy! One can picture the restaurant, run by puffed up self importants.
Is there any difference between NGOs and NGAs?
Before I even got to your picture I had Ric Grennell in my mind from your description. (Maybe great minds think alike?)
Of all the countries damaged by this unaccountable group of “I run the world” types, none have been so damaged as the USA.
I will never forget the photo of then Gov Sisolak of NV dining in a restaurant without a mask while a live band played music. Everyone else in that restaurant had to have been part of the Elites Who Do Not Have To Follow The Rules.
This is after he demanded that the peons wear masks, banned live entertainment, and (for a while) shut down restaurants that had no drive thru.
His explanation was that since he wasn’t “actively” listening to the music (ie, staring at the band) it was okay to have live entertainment (for him and his elite friends).
Jack Posobeic has talked about the meaning of hypocrisy a few times – he points out that the evildoers (the ones he rightly calls UnHumans) don’t have any concept of it.
It’s useless to call them out on it, because to them it is a fine and correct thing for a member of their self-perceived “elite” to have many – in fact, all – privileges not granted to peons.
The only solution is to defeat them.
As another radio/podcast host has said, the elitists (the proper term to describe them, they are in no way “elite”) do not care about hypocrisy, they care about hierarchy. In essence, telling the plebes that “We are in charge. Shut up, sit down and do as we tell you to do.”.
Newsome and friends at the French Laundry was an even worse look of elitist hypocracy.
Great analysis and summation!!!
Notes:
“Israel has a table in the kitchen (CIA central control).” 👀 (why and how?) So, who controls whom???
SSCI approves Director of CIA. However, CIA holds dirt or has compromised each SSCI member. Therefore, CIA controls SSCI.
5 eyes + ONE!! 👀
All Roads Lead to Langley, First!!!!! 👀
Good question “who controls whom?”.
Also wonder if “big tipper” is food critic as well?
The “big tipper” and the current rulers of Israel are joined at the hip.
From Kolomoisky to Zelensky to Pinchuk, they all share geographic origins, family ties, and ultimate outlook and goals with the Mileikowsky (“Neyanyahu”) family.
Ultimately, they are an extended Eastern European (Ukrainian Russian “Jewish”) multi-generational mafia crime organization that has taken power in both countries, and ours as well (Pritzkers, Epstein, Nuland and her family, Larry Fink, Les Wexner, Jake Tapper, Josh Shapiro, Madeline Korbel Albright, Dana Bash, Janet Yellen, Elena Kagan, Wolfowitz, Hollyweird, etc., and on and on).
They revere the Talmud not the Torah, they believe in black magic (and adopted the ahistorical Prague based “Star of David” based on the star of Rempham as their Zionist symbol), they worship Satan not YHWH, they hate Christians, and they seek to rule the world.
Hard truths, not tin foil hat anymore because there is plenty of evidence for everything I just set out.
And there it is.
“They revere [neither] the Talmud [nor] the Torah” – FIFY.
All those you mentioned [and more] are all provably either one or all of the following:
Look it up and add more weight to the powerful facts you present, that can not be denied, and will be applauded gratefully even by [and especially by] God Fearing Jews.
Sundance,
I love you. I couldn’t pick you personally out of a lineup. But I love you. This is perfect.
You wrote: Note this is why repealing the 17th amendment would make the work infinitely easier – and also why the 17th amendment was created by banking interests.
Attack the institutions as you suggest. But, maybe Trump can walk and chew gum and should take a Woodrow Wilson strategy for these 4 years. During Woodrow Wilson’s presidency (1913-1921), the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th constitutional amendments were ratified.
We repealed the 18th. Perhaps Trump could seek to repeal the 17th and add term limits and a balanced budget amendment.
He can do it via pushing Congress to pass these amendments for state ratification or bully pulpit a Convention of the States.
When my sister and I went to a local county fair, the GOP had a stand for Trump and other republicans running in Wisconsin. They had white board where people could pick their most important issue. First we picked abortion,(we are adamantly against it) and them my sister wanted the repeal of the 17th amendment put on the whiteboard so people could vote for the repeal of that amendment. She did a good job educating the local GOP people who were running the stand for the GOP.
Good for her. Your post made me think. I hope this reply isn’t TLDR.
The problem is that people respond that they like being able to vote for the Senator(s) and the Congressperson.
They overlook the fact that the original Constitution, with its three-party structure (the citizens, the state, and the federal government), was designed to ensure a balanced and effective governance.
The response is to blow that structure off and point out they prefer to vote for their Congressional Members.
When the conversation turns to the question of unfunded state mandates, I ask if they favor that type of structure. Their usual response is no. I then explain that the 17th Amendment, which changed the way Senators are elected, is a key factor in the existence of unfunded mandates. If we revert to the pre-17th Amendment system, where state legislatures sent their representatives, we can avoid such issues.
This is often the point at which they raise their hands and say they would prefer to vote for their senator.
I then move the conversation to accessibility. I ask them if they can sit down and have a coffee with their state legislator. They often agree they can have such opportunities. I then ask them how often their U.S. Senator has sat down with them to discuss concerns. The answer is often zero. Then, I point out what benefit they have voted for someone who will not meet with them when they could have more influence with their state legislators and thus be able actually to influence the direction of the Senate.
I usually close out with the observation that under the current system, the voter is 1 of the millions of people that the Senator represents. With the repeal of the 17th Amendment, the Senator would have to be in tune with the will of the state legislatures. Bodies that are often comprised of only a few hundred people.
Suddenly, that Senator will become more responsive to people, such as Rep. Dunahoo from Jefferson, than he/she would have been under the current system.
Thanks for reading if you got this far.
Thanks for taking the time to so clearly and succinctly provide that educational, important information!
Aren’t the current senators “selected”? Would that change if we repeal the 17?
The citizens of the state choose U.S. Senators via an election. That is not how the process has always been conducted.
Before the 17th Amendment, the state legislature would choose the Senator among the body. The citizens of a state did not have anything to do with the choice of the U.S. Senator.
The reason for that structure was to make sure one body of Congress (House of Representatives) would speak on behalf of the citizens of their district. That is why spending bills originate in the House or Representatives. They must stand for election every two years, and if there is a change in voter sentiment, it will be seen in this chamber first.
The Senate delegates came from the state legislature because they had a constituency different from the House. They were to represent the will of the state. The goal was that if a bill was introduced in the House that was detrimental to the functioning of a state, the Senate would cool down the passage of the bill to ensure that it didn’t adversely impact the functioning of a state.
Woodrow Wilson pushed several constitutional amendments. The 17th was proposed under the guise that the people must vote for their U.S. Senator. But, that was not the intent of the Senate. It was to protect the state’s interest so that people would not be harmed by various mandates from the federal government upon the state government.
Repealing the 17th would mean your state legislators would select a Senator every six years, and you would vote for your House member.
There is no logic as to why two chambers represent the same constituency. The states need a seat at the table in forming legislation in the “I’m just a bill” process rather than having to hire lobbyists to impact legislation.
Otherwise, programs like Obamacare and other mandates attempt to force states to offer various goodies to voters without any consideration of how that might harm the states’ priorities.
“The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years.” = Quick summary of the important part of the 17th amendment to US Constitution. … Prior to the 17th amendment, State Legislatures elected the Senators from each State.
In my State (California), the State Legislatures can be >as notoriously crooked as National Politicians. … A legislative ‘Floor Fight’ in California can mean a lobbyist just tossed a $2 bill onto the floor at the Capitol.
We only hear about the bribery cases when our politicians actually get caught and put in prison. Too often, it’s just the hand that reaches out with the bribe that’s placed in jail. The politicians that reach out to take the bribes are rarely punished, and generally reelected.
A politician in my State famously said, “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.”
I agree with that statement. However, as someone who has lobbied in DC, I can tell you that the 17th Amendment did not change the shakedown aspect of legislators or lobbyists.
The 17th Amendment effectively concentrated lobbyists in the single city of DC, eliminating the need to travel to places like Boise, Helena, Santa Fe, etc. However, it also resulted in the states losing their direct representation at the Federal level of government.
The 18th Amendment was dangerous because it created an underground liquor market, and the 17th is dangerous because it has removed our states from any opportunity to shape legislation. And has allowed for trillions in unfunded state mandates so the DC politicians can claim they did something.
Your last paragraph is the key. Our states are supposed to send the senators. We made our choice in the state for them to send a rep or two of their choosing.
This also lets us be able to get at our senators as needed if things go bad. The federal senators never stick around In state. They go to dc all the time. The state senators don’t.
The 19th Amendment should be scrutinized as well, given it changed the lowest common denominator in this nation from the family to the individual. The root of any nation is a family, not a person. Yet the 19th said now we don’t have to cater to the family, now we can cater to the individual. Add time, and campaign issues that would affect the family (economics, war policy, immigration) are replaced with selfish anti-family issues (abortion, legalized pedophilia via the Alphabet Soup crowd, legalized drug usage, etc.).
This one can’t be walked back, but we would do well to remember what it cost the nation. A husband and wife united in their vote still represents the family, but its being diluted by hordes of brainwashed college kids who swear off families in the name of more vacations or climate change or something.
Are you saying we should repeal a woman’s right to vote? I need to understand how they connect better. Please explain further if you have time.
The Nineteenth Amendment provides:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Grenell for sure. I don’t know enough about HH to comment.
A question — Do you believe this housecleaning should be done in public view or somewhat discreetly?
Would getting widespread public support for this housecleaning make the job easier, consequence be damned? I suspect the public will be rightfully shocked at the criminality of it all. Even if past serious crimes (murder, assassinations, extortion, etc.) are exposed resulting in national embarrassment or worse, it will be worth it.
Sunlight remains as the very best disinfectant.
The malign nature of the State Dept is so ubiquitously dangerous. Deconstructing this is essential – maybe particularly so, as most people have not awakened to how malign it truly is. Its actions over the years have become one of the primary instigators of world instability. Sadly, to my mind, the foreign policy actors of the United States sow havoc and war.
Some of it has “meandered” into general conciousness such as some of the coups in South America. The government of Bangladesh accuses us of destruction at this moment, as we consider the problem posed in this thread.
Think Grenell is a solid choice. Do not have the impression that he caves when questioned. Would begin by cutting size, and thereby reducing the training, hiding places, budget, personnel support. Close down embassies and offices. Can be presented to the public as a budget saving operation.
As for the CIA – just do not know.
As for the CIA – just do not know.
An if I told you I’d have to….
That’s the problem with the CIA. We know nothing about them really. We see the kitchen but not the 400 sub basements self funded through blackmail, extortion, drug sales, stock manipulation, and weapons sales.
To scatter the ashes to the wind it will take a hurricane 🌀 I hope they are feeling terror
Child sex trafficking, weapons and drug trafficking, etc…
Absolute scum of the earth. Demons running amuck.
Anf, probably over 1000 (just guessing) ‘legitimate’ front companies they run, as well.
That’s what JFK was going to do…smash the CIA into pieces. And we know how that ended.
Don’t we know them by their fruits?
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5 eyes equals 5 heads (at least) You would need yet another “spy” agency to go into immediate war with the existing hydra or risk total immolation of the US government and country.
deconstruction is a fools errand, and should be obvious to all with historical knowledge.
reconstruction is the alternative, but it’s not without facing time, errors, and continual negative influences. It is not a 4 year process . Pres. Trump starts the process of giving cause and reason to changing outcomes. We will need to finish it.
We don’t even have four years. There will be no “process.” It’s a one week job. 1. National Emergency. 2. Invoke Presidential Emergency Action Documents. 3. Space Force captures top tier traitors. 4. Steven Miller or someone, live primetime broadcast proving 100% the 2020 coup d’etat to American people, and who was responsible. 4. As close to unity as we’ll ever get. A new birth of freedom. JMHO
Restoration.
Agree on Rick, how about Ezra?
I’m fairly certain Ezra was one who was very quick to not only distance himself from PDJT (after the 2020 steal), but also criticize his intelligence on record.
I recall sharing the info at the time… but the specific quotes escape me.
Not a loyal guy & very self-serving.
Ezra Cohen cut the balls off the CIA by cutting it off from Special ops support, and elevated Special Ops to its own status.
Non verba sed facta.
Is that good or bad? No sarc at all, please elaborate, thanks.
The picture with Grenell and Hageman, “My recommendations”, look like they’re perfect for the positions noted.
Rick has an authentic looking fake smile which is necessary when dealing with diplomacy and Harriet’s face has an underlying tone of “I’m nice but underneath lies a possible adversary.”
I’m cynical enough to think that senate confirmation of Grenell and Hageman is unlikely at best.
My ‘Plan B’ – perhaps after an interim appointment of the above and failed confirmation, nominate the two dumbest leftists you can find. The senate will be forced to confirm them or be embarrassed into rejecting their own.
Then SecState and CIA get steamrolled by ODNI and President Trump. Given enough rope, Boris and Natasha may even hang themselves.
Difficult to not confirm a sitting Senator. And Grenell was Ambassador to Germany before. Difficult to not confirm him as well.
I think Harriet is in Congress, not the Senate.
You are correct. My bad!
Ric Grenell was confirmed in President Trump’s 1st term. He was Ambassador to Germany and then NIC I think.
Good choices! I like the idea of just stopping the functions. Give everyone some video games to play until you figure out what functions are really necessary. It may also serve to surface some nefarious players who rely on the system for their sustenance.
Maybe they could make some cool dance videos as well.
They are probably already practicing their Monkey Pox two step.
Maybe what was called in the former SovietBloc “Labor Education” …… the faculty, students and parents wiped down top to bottom, repainted/reorganized a school/institution each year. Let the gov personnel work laborious jobs until everything is settled. Cleaning all the filth from OUR places where they are employed by US!
I fully agree with Rid Grenell but am highly skeptical about your choice of Harriet Hageman. She certainly has given some nice interviews and comes across looking like a bulldog (same way Dem Sen Tester comes across looking like a conservative farm boy bubba) but at the same time…..what has Harriet Hageman done in substance to demonstrate her political courage? She fell into line 100% supporting the Kevin McCarthy speakership and she consistently falls in line with her Republican establishment in the House on all other matters of substance. Further, she would be an inexperienced newbie walking into the lions den and most likely get eaten alive. Maybe she is a sleeper….a wolf in sheep’s clothing….who could get approved and rise to the occasion once installed but her substantive actions to date suggest she may just be another sheep.
I think we are all recovering from Battered Conservative Syndrome and wary of another Rooster Gowdy.
I can only have faith that Sundance is privy to more information and possibly direct contact which warrants the support of Hageman.
Concur. And before Trey Gowdy, the phony conservative was Darrell Issa…
Yes, indeed.
BOOM
Those with kitchen tables run everything. And I mean everything!
I think that whoever get this mission should have 8 close allies working with them so that the IC Blob knows that eliminating Choice #1 yields 8 more just like the first one.
Stepping this close to their corrupt nirvana means that they have to kill or be killed.
Perhaps the best thing to do is confiscate all of their computers, cell phones, emails, landline phones, file cabinets (digital and not), desks, tables, chairs, and break room furniture. That will bring them back to the stone age.
Then ship what is left of their “employment” to various office space in Strip Malls in flyover country. Let them sit there and do nothing.
Fortunately or unfortunately there is a lot of empty strip malls
ABSOLUTLY on target!
I was hoping Grenell was in one of either of these positions. Hageman, I like what I have seen and heard so far.
I love this recommendation!! Yes! Piss and vinegar my friends!!
Haven’t heard that since Grandma Bertha said it!
The Senate sub committee on intelligence is a blocking agent to keep swamp drainers from office. The current minority leader is S. Rubio, a swamp enabler. I would like to see him appointed to a slightly minor cabinet position. If we can achieve majority in the Senate, with severally new Maga supporting people, replace Rubio with a Trump supporter.
Rubio would just work to undermine the Trump administration if he were moved to the cabinet. The Swamp says “jump”, and Rubio asks “How high?”
Need a revival of the “throw the bums out movement” but specifically targeted/priortized at the Swamp gatekeepers.
Something to start thinking about, alongside the staffing, is what metrics will we use to measure the effectiveness of the cabinet member?
I think in DOJ and CIA (or the IC in general) it’s going to involve rapid declassification of essential information. Everything related to the Russia hoax – fully redacted – for example. The Benghazi operation and subsequent attacks. Lay it bare.
At DoS, probably the unraveling of the Ukraine impeachment hoax. Who started it? What were the Biden’s actually doing? How did DoS kick off the whole “whistleblower” fraud. (Eric Ciaramella was CIA, but the restaurant is the restaurant…so who on the staff was involved…and the role of corrupt actors in Congress.). Lay it bare.
Anyway, examples aside, PDJT will need measurable ways to evaluate progress. Then you watch and see who delivers. Part of that delivery will involve removing intransigent, disloyal, and traitorous bureaucrats who get in the way. “Mr. President, these four individuals appear to be the roadblock. I need you to fire them.” (Unitary Executive). That sort of thing.
Sundance, you have accurately described these two positions as well as recommending two highly qualified individuals— Ric G. and Helen H.
Who is Hellen?
You know the thing. Hahahaha
Yes please 🙂 Solid choices for both positions. Thanks!
I love the analogy. I’ve been in food & bev for decades. A periodic deep clean is an imperative for a well-run operation. Some operators accomplish this w/o closing, some close for a short period. Some never deep clean. Finally, when those poorly maintained operations vacates, a new F&B operator cleans house during the transition or the landlord converts the F&B premises to retail and rips out the F&B infrastructure. And that is a controlled demolition. The US needs a combination: a deep clean with a partial demolition with a partial shut down.
I pray that Trump Team will have that opportunity. If not, if the fascists again cheat We The People out of self-governance and install this shallow, despicable, anti-American narcissist, they will add another layer of filth, grease, and grime. The buildup will become permanent, petrified to the structure. The tools for cleaning, through disuse, will become irrelevant and useless.
Believe DJT, this is it.
The other option, using the example, is a nice hot grease fire…..
THAT!
Has anyone looked into Bill Binney? NSA whistleblower, a movie was made, “A Good American” and I believe he would have the knowledge and desire to break IC. Thank you all for your efforts.
Yes, Bill Binney could be trusted to do a controlled demolition of the CIA.
Ric Grenell came to DC without the politicians. He is not afraid to shake up the system. Hagman has shown she is not afraid to question authority. I like your choices.
I would like to see the CIA cut down to size. Zapata Oil, Unitd fruit Corp., Bengazi,the Congo… All this “Mission Impossible” stuff has gotten out of control. It does little except show the world that we are meddling in the affairs of other nations without consent.
“This provides space to destroy the system through domestic confrontation.”
This is the magic sentence, isn’t it? It would appear that none of these silos/departments/behemoths can actually be ‘rebuilt’ without the majority of it being destroyed first…?????
I completely understand recommendations for CIA and DOS directors. Enthusiastically agree with both – 🎯! !💯! !👍👍! !🥳! !👏👏👏! !🥰🥰🥰! !🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸! ! !
Woo-Hoo!! I knew Harriet would play an important role!
Solid picks – would be effective from day one.
Additionally, if not for the nepotism charges that would ensue, I’d put Don Jr. as CIA Director (AKA…DCI)—seriously—and Eric in a critical role under Mnuchin who IMHO should return as Treasury Secretary. Then in a few years, Eric becomes the Treasury Secretary.
…(cont.) and place Hageman as ODNI (which is technically the boss for DCI).
Good choices, both solid people.
In keeping with the restaurant metaphor who is the owner of the restaurant? Food for thought.
It should be the American people instead I contend the (SES) Senior Executive Service.
This was established in 1978 as part of the Civil Service Reform Act under OPM Office of Personal Management, ostensibly for continuity of government.
What it’s done in reality is create an untouchable self-deified uniparty swamp rat who exist to preserve any and all government no matter how dumb or anti-American. They are always there as “special” advisors to all branches of government to ensure continuity, don’t you know.
“Members of the SES serve in the key positions just below the top Presidential appointees. SES members are the major link between these appointees and the rest of the Federal workforce. They operate and oversee nearly every government activity in approximately 75 Federal agencies.”
“Building a highly effective 21st century workforce to serve the American people is the challenge we’re built for. ”
“Ready to help run our nation? Our agency requires an elite workforce to meet the needs of 2 million Feds.”
They escape any overview and many stay on the swamp teat until their death.
Yes, SES are the “made men” of the criminal deep state.
“Made men” Perfect…: )
Yes, abolish the Keystone, abolish the SES.
Root & Branch.
Now those are two choices I can get excited about. Powerhouses.
I very much like the Grenell choice as SoS. He’s not afraid to rattle some cages. I’ve heard a few interviews of Hageman over the last couple years & I’ve tried to watch her committee performances during hearings. She’s impressed me as a no-nonsense, get it done, no excuses kind of gal. When I read the article about her family’s homestead being destroyed, I feel more confident in my impression. Good choice!
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/08/03/wildfire-burns-harriet-hagemans-family-homestead-more-evacuations-ordered/
I continue to believe that the fastest and most effective way to reform is to have a motivated federal or perhaps even state district attorney prosecute individual government employees who evidence shows have broken the law. If they have bribed etc outside the scope of their employment, that’s a violation of state law. Let them raise employer authorization as a defense. Then plea bargain deals for those willing to snitch.
Wow. Yes. Harriet the Righteous Flame thrower….reveal and destroy.
Wrong. The choices must be end of career, ambition-less people who don’t give a fvck about the SES and GS15 overseers interests. Find a 60-something military retiree not General Officer who is super-fed up with the system and you will have the heat seeking missile that can fix it. I know a few.
You have a good point.
Maybe General Kaine would actually be the best as SoS, and make Grenell the Foreign Emissary.