People have asked why we focus so much sunlight and attention toward the network silos that operate the Intelligence Community (IC) and as an outcome the national security focus of government. The answer is simple, as Mary McCord herself admitted publicly, the IC are the background approver for every weaponized approach of government, including the DOJ.
With that in mind, CTH has painstakingly made the case –with details and receipts– for a process of removing the IC silos from influence over the Office of The President. The Chief Executive must control all elements of national security policy and implementation.
Thankfully, the Supreme Court recently affirmed the plenary power of the executive branch, and the unitary power of the President in controlling every system within that branch of government.
That ruling (presidential immunity) further bolstered the solution we have continuously proposed. The IC silos must be decoupled from the Executive office definitions of national security, until such a time as the IC institutions can be bought to heel.
The most effective way to confront a rogue, hostile and corrupt IC apparatus is to take away their power. The best way to remove their power is to use their primary weapon, their silo structure, against them.
Turn each silo into an irrelevant echo-chamber by using the White House National Security Council as their replacement. Regardless of what triggers the various IC silo embeds try to pull (CIA, NSA, FBI, DIA, etc.) let them shoot blanks by removing their power over policy and process.
If the IC is isolated from influence, eventually the Legislative Branch, specifically the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, will realize the ‘Seven Ways from Sunday’ group no longer hold power. The IC becomes a crew stomping their feet while no one pays attention.
This approach would be affected by restructuring the President’s National Security Council (NSC), the National Security Advisor (NSA Mike Waltz) and working with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI Tulsi Gabbard), in a synergistic process. The IC become simply information functionaries. The Nat Sec Council then validates and defines the information, creates the definitions of national security interest, and initiates the guidance to President Trump, who ultimately triggers any action.
Until yesterday there were only a few subtle signs that this ‘silo isolation’ approach was being accepted as the most effective optimal solution to the problem within the intelligence apparatus. However, yesterday President Trump signed an Executive Order [SEE HERE] doing exactly the type of restructuring that is needed.
The XO is technical and deep in the weeds, but this is the process that has the greatest likelihood of success.
SUBJECT: Organization of the National Security Council and Subcommittees
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:
As President, my highest priority and responsibility is to ensure the safety and security of the United States and its people. The national and homeland security threats facing the United States are complex and rapidly evolving. These issues often do not fit neatly into the categories that single departments and agencies are designed to optimally address, a fact recognized and exploited by our strategic competitors and adversaries in their adoption of whole-of-government and even whole-of-society approaches.
The United States Government’s decision-making structures and processes to address national security challenges must therefore be equally adaptive and comprehensive. They must be able to competently design and execute cooperative and integrated interagency solutions to address these problems, and protect and advance the national interests of the United States. Therefore, to advise and assist me in this endeavor, I hereby direct that my system for national security policy development, decision-making, implementation, and monitoring shall be organized as set forth in this Memorandum. This Memorandum prevails over any prior orders, directives, memoranda, or other Presidential guidance related to the organization of the National Security Council (NSC or Council).
A. The National Security Council and Supporting Staff
1. Functions, Responsibilities, and Chairs.
(a) Functions and Responsibilities. The National Security Act of 1947, as amended (the Act), established the NSC to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to national security. The Homeland Security Council (HSC) has the distinct purpose of advising the President on matters pertaining to homeland security. The NSC shall convene as the HSC on topic areas agreed to in advance by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) and the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security (Homeland Security Advisor). Along with its subordinate committees and staff, the NSC shall be the President’s principal means for coordinating Executive departments and agencies in the development and implementation of national and homeland security policies, strategies, activities, and functions, their integration across departments and agencies within their purview, and for long-term strategic planning.
(b) Chairs. The President will chair the NSC. When the President is absent from a meeting of the Council, he may appoint a Cabinet-level official to chair.
2. NSC Staffing Responsibilities of the National Security Advisor.
(a) Role of the National Security Advisor. The National Security Advisor shall be responsible, as appropriate and at the President’s direction, for determining the agenda for the NSC, ensuring that the necessary papers are prepared, and recording and communicating Council actions and Presidential decisions in a timely manner.
(b) Role of the Homeland Security Advisor. When convened as the HSC, the duties referenced in subsection (2)(a) shall be the responsibility of the Homeland Security Advisor.
3. Designating NSC Members, Attendees, and Invitees.
(a) Membership. The NSC membership consists of the statutory members set forth in section 101(c)(1) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 3021(c)(1)):
The President;
The Vice President;
The Secretary of State;
The Secretary of the Treasury;
The Secretary of Defense;
The Secretary of Energy;
The Director of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy;
and additional members hereby designated by the President pursuant to section 101(c)(1) of the Act:
The Attorney General;
The Secretary of the Interior;
Chief of Staff to the President (White House Chief of Staff); and
The National Security Advisor.
When the NSC convenes as the HSC, members shall also include:
The Secretary of Homeland Security; and
13) The Homeland Security Advisor.
(b) NSC Meeting Attendees. The National Security Advisor retains the discretion to determine the attendee list for all meetings of the NSC, including by requesting the attendance of any senior official of the Executive Branch. The Homeland Security Advisor retains this same discretion when the NSC convenes as the HSC. This discretion shall be exercised based on the policy relevance of attendees to the issues being considered, the need for secrecy on sensitive matters, staffing requirements, and other considerations.
As regular practice, the National Security Advisor and Homeland Security Advisor shall include as additional non-voting attendees:
The Director of National Intelligence (non-voting advisor);
The Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor (non-voting advisor and principal notetaker) or, when convening as the HSC, the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor (non-voting advisor and principal notetaker);
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (non-voting advisor); and
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (non-voting advisor).
(c) NSC Regular Invitees. Unless specifically restricted, these officials are invited to attend any NSC and HSC meeting as non-voting advisors:
The Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President;
The Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy;
The Assistant to the President for Policy; and
The Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs and Legal Counsel to the National Security Advisor.
4. Right to Propose Agenda Items.
Any NSC member attending a meeting in a voting capacity may propose, in advance and in accordance with a timeline set by the National Security Advisor or his designee, agenda items for their consideration.[1] The National Security Advisor will determine whether to include these items on the agenda. The Homeland Security Advisor shall have this same discretion when the Council is convened as the HSC.
5. The National Security Council Staff.
(a) Staff Fusion. There is a single NSC staff within the Executive Office of the President (EOP) that serves both the NSC on national security matters and the HSC when the Council is considering homeland security matters. The staff is headed by a single Executive Secretary, in accordance with section 101(e)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3021(e)(1)) and section 905 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 495).
(b) Purpose. The purposes of the National Security Advisor and subordinate staff are to
(i) advise and assist the President in the course of conducting activities that relate to or affect the carrying out of the President’s constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties pertaining to national or homeland security, pursuant to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, as amended;[2]
(ii) advise and assist the other members of the NSC (and the NSC when convening as the HSC), and others in the White House;
(iii) help the President plan and set priorities, in accordance with section II of the Message of the President in the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977;
(iv) advise and make recommendations to the President with respect to, and establish, integrated domestic, foreign, and military policies and procedures for the departments, agencies, and functions of the Government relating to national and homeland security, pursuant to sections 2 and 101(b)(1) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 3002, 3021(b)(1));
(v) coordinate, facilitate, monitor, oversee, and review Administration policies and their implementation with respect to national security, and make resulting recommendations to the President;
(vi) help the President resolve major conflicts among departments and agencies with regard to national security, in accordance with section II of the Message of the President in the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977.
(c) Fair, Balanced, and Thorough Processes. In accordance with sections I and II of the Message of the President in the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977, the NSC staff shall ensure that the processes it organizes, coordinates, and manages fairly and thoroughly gather the facts, intelligence, and other relevant information necessary to NSC decisions; fully analyze the issues; consider a full range of views and options; assess the prospects, risks, costs, and implications of each option; and distill these options for the President, other NSC principals, and senior officials participating in the subsidiary committees of the NSC or HSC, in a fair, balanced, and organized way. The National Security Advisor and subordinate NSC staff shall represent the views and differences of NSC principals and other senior officials to the President with accuracy and fidelity.
(d) Policy Development. In accordance with sections I and II of the Message of the President in the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977,[8] the NSC staff shall facilitate the development and refinement of interagency policy options, and develop additional options besides those proposed by departments and agencies as necessary, both to complement, supplement, and enhance their work, and to offer the President and other NSC principals and other senior officials a sufficiently broad menu of operationally feasible options for consideration, deliberation, and decision.
B. The Principals Committee
1. Principals Committee Establishment.
(a) (i) Functions and Responsibilities. The Principals Committee (PC) shall continue to serve as the Cabinet-level senior interagency forum for considering policy issues that affect the national security interests of the United States. The PC shall develop options and recommendations for the President on national security and homeland security matters requiring the President’s attention, and with the Committee’s full consensus shall set priorities, issue policy guidance, and facilitate coordination and integration on national security policy and implementation issues as appropriate that do not require Presidential attention.[9] Issues involving matters that are statutorily authorized for decision by a principal, or delegated to a principal by the President, can be coordinated and decided by the principals without requiring Presidential attention.
(ii) Voting and NSC Referral. Consensus is reached when all voting (i.e., non-advisory) attendees present either vote affirmatively for the same decisional option or formally abstain, and all such votes shall be recorded and minuted. Issues for which the Committee fails to reach consensus shall be referred to the NSC for decision, with a formal nonconcurrence required by at least one non-advisory attendee present for such a referral. Whether an issue requires Presidential attention, and the Committee attendees’ positions on the issue itself, shall be separately polled. If a voting attendee does not concur with the determination that Presidential consideration is not required, the issue shall be referred, along with the results of the PC’s deliberation on the issue itself and its recommendations, to deliberation by the NSC.
(b) Role of the National Security Advisor. The PC shall be convened and chaired by the National Security Advisor. The Chair shall determine the agenda, location, and meeting materials, in consultation with the appropriate attendees.
(c) Substitute Chairs. At his sole discretion, the National Security Advisor may delegate authority to convene and chair or co-chair the PC to an appropriate attendee of the NSC or EOP policy council senior official. The Homeland Security Advisor, who is Chair when the PC considers matters that would be raised to the NSC convening as the HSC, may similarly delegate such duties.
(d) Right to Propose Agenda Items. Any PC member attending in a voting capacity may propose, in advance and in accordance with a timeline set by the Chair, agenda items for consideration by the PC. The Chair will determine which, if any, shall be included.
2. Executive Secretary Responsibilities and Process.
(a) Responsibilities. The Executive Secretary shall ensure that the necessary papers are prepared, serve as executive secretary of the PC, and shall record and communicate accurately, and in a timely manner, the Committee’s conclusions and decisions, what was not decided, and any responsibilities for implementation by departments and agencies or taskings to the Deputies Committee or subsidiary policy coordination committees that have been agreed or assigned, if appropriate.[10] The Executive Secretary shall generally be assisted in these tasks by the senior directors and other NSC staff by the senior directors and other NSC staff.
(b) Dispute Resolution Process. If a PC voting attendee disputes that the conclusions or decisions of the PC were correctly minuted, this must be communicated in writing to the Executive Secretary and the National Security Advisor (and any substitute Chair if appropriate) within three business days, although those officials may allow additional time if exigent or extenuating circumstances require it. If resolution of the dispute cannot be achieved, and any necessary amended report of the PC proceedings was issued within a week of the dispute being communicated, the disputing attendee may appeal the matter to the White House Chief of Staff or, should that official so designate, to the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, whose decision shall be final.
3. Principals Committee Attendees and Invitees.
(a) Principals Committee Attendees.
(i) The National Security Advisor retains the discretion to determine the attendee list for all PC meetings on national security. The Homeland Security Advisor retains this same discretion when chairing the PC. This discretion shall be exercised based on the policy relevance of attendees to the issues being considered, the need for secrecy on sensitive matters, staffing needs, and other considerations. As regular practice, the National Security Advisor and Homeland Security Advisor shall include as additional non-voting attendees:
1) The Director of National Intelligence;
2) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;
3) The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency;
4) The Principal Deputy National Security Advisor;
5) the National Security Advisor to the Vice President; and
6) The Executive Secretary (principal notetaker).
(ii) PC Regular Invitees. Unless specifically restricted, these officials are invited to attend any PC meeting as non-voting advisors:
The Assistant to the President and Counselor to the President;
The Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy;
The Assistant to the President for Policy; and
The Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs and Legal Counsel to the National Security Advisor.
(iii) Staffing Invitees. At the discretion of the Chair, staff members of the NSC or other appropriate EOP policy councils may be invited to attend specific PC meetings to assist the Executive Secretary in the performance of their executive secretary duties.
C. The Deputies Committee
1. Deputies Committee Establishment.
(a) Functions and Responsibilities. The Deputies Committee (DC) shall continue to serve as the senior sub-Cabinet interagency forum for consideration of and, where appropriate, decision making on, policy issues that affect the national security interests of the United States. The DC shall review and monitor the work of the interagency national security process, including the interagency groups established pursuant to section D below. The DC shall work to ensure that issues brought before the NSC, the NSC when convening as the HSC, and the PC have been properly analyzed and prepared for decision. The DC shall also focus significant attention on monitoring the implementation of these policies and decisions and shall conduct periodic reviews of the Administration’s major national security and foreign policy initiatives.
(b) Role of the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. The DC shall be convened and chaired by the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. The Chair shall determine the location, agenda, and meeting materials in consultation with the DC attendees.
(c) Substitute Chairs. At his sole discretion, the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor may delegate authority to convene and chair or co-chair the DC to an appropriate regular attendee of the DC or other appropriate EOP official. The Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security (Deputy Homeland Security Advisor) shall chair meetings when considering issues that would be raised when the NSC is convened as the HSC. The Deputy Homeland Security Advisor has similar delegatory authority.
(d) Right to Propose Agenda Items. Any DC member attending in a voting capacity may propose, in advance and in accordance with a timeline set by the Chair, agenda items for consideration by the DC. The Chair will determine which, if any, shall be included.
2. Executive Secretary Responsibilities and Process.
(a) General. The Executive Secretary shall ensure that the necessary papers are prepared, and shall record and communicate accurately, and in a timely manner, the Committee’s conclusions and decisions, what was not decided, and any responsibilities for implementation by departments and agencies or taskings to subsidiary policy coordination committees that have been agreed or assigned, if appropriate. The Executive Secretary shall generally be assisted in this task by the senior directors and other NSC staff.
(b) Dispute Resolution Process. If a DC voting attendee disputes that the conclusions or decisions of the DC were correctly minuted, this must be communicated in writing to the Executive Secretary and the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor or the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, as relevant, within three business days, although those officials may allow additional time if exigent or extenuating circumstances require it. If resolution of the dispute cannot be achieved, and any necessary amended report of the PC proceedings issued within a week of the dispute being communicated, the disputing attendee may appeal the matter to the White House Chief of Staff, or should that official so designate, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, whose decision shall be final.
3. Designating Deputies Committee Regular Attendees and Invitees.
(a) Deputies Committee Attendees. The Principal Deputy National Security Advisor retains the discretion to determine the attendee list for all DC meetings.
The Deputy Homeland Security Advisor retains this same discretion when chairing DC meetings. This discretion shall be exercised based on the policy relevance of attendees to the issues being considered, the need for secrecy on sensitive matters, staffing needs, and other considerations.
As regular practice, the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor shall include as DC attendees:
The Deputy Secretary of State;
The Deputy Secretary of the Treasury;
The Deputy Secretary of Defense;
The Deputy Attorney General;
The Deputy Secretary of Energy;
The Deputy Director of National Intelligence (non-voting advisor);
The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (non-voting advisor);
The Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (non-voting advisor);
The Executive Secretary of the NSC (non-voting advisor and principal notetaker); and
The National Security Advisor to the Vice President.
When homeland security issues are on the DC agenda, the DC’s regular attendees will also include:
11) The Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security; and
12) The Deputy Homeland Security Advisor (chair).
(b) DC Regular Invitees. These officials are invited to attend any DC meeting:
The Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget; and
The Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Policy Strategist.
D. Policy Coordination Committees
Management of the development and implementation of national security policies by multiple Executive departments and agencies typically shall be accomplished by Policy Coordination Committees (PCCs), with participation primarily occurring at the Assistant Secretary level. As the main day-to-day fora for interagency coordination and integration of national security policies, PCCs shall develop and provide policy options and analyses for consideration by higher echelon committees of the national security system. PCCs shall ensure timely responses to, and implementation and monitoring of, decisions, directives, objectives, instructions, inquiries, tasking, and policy guidance of and by the President, National Security Advisor, and the higher-echelon committees of the national security system.
PCCs shall be established at the direction of the National Security Advisor or Homeland Security Advisor, in consultation with the White House Chief of Staff or her designee. Members of the NSC staff will chair the PCCs.
PCCs shall review, coordinate, integrate, and monitor the implementation of Presidential decisions in their respective national security and homeland security policy areas. The Chair of each PCC, in consultation with the Executive Secretary, shall invite representatives of departments and agencies to attend meetings of the PCC where appropriate. The Chair of each PCC, with the agreement of the Executive Secretary, may establish subordinate working groups to assist that PCC in the performance of its duties.
Interagency Policy Committees (IPCs) chartered under the aegis of the process established by National Security Memorandum-2 (NSM–2) may continue to be operated as PCCs by the NSC staff until renewed or discontinued by the National Security Advisor.
E. General
(a) The President and the Vice President may attend any meeting of any entity established by or under this directive.
(b) This document is part of a series of National Security Policy Memoranda, which have replaced both National Security Memoranda and National Security Study Memoranda as the instrument for communicating relevant Presidential decisions. This directive shall supersede all other existing Presidential directives and guidance on the organization or support of the NSC and the HSC where they conflict, including National Security Memorandum–2 of February 4, 2021 (Memorandum on Renewing the National Security Council System), which is hereby revoked. This document shall be interpreted in concert with any Presidential directives governing other policy councils and offices in the EOP mentioned herein, and with any Presidential directives signed hereafter that implement this document or those Presidential directives.
[SOURCE]
This process hinges upon the execution of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
We will watch closely.
Hopefully this doesn’t lead to some IC clown having an intentional “intelligence failure” resulting in something catastrophic so they can blame President Trump for not listening to their tantrums.
I’d say that is a definite possibility
Highly Plausible..
Nothing screams louder than a bull getting his manhood removed and becoming a steer.
Have you ever seen one get polled?
Double edged sword.
Like that hasn’t happened before….
Anyone remember the FBLie dropping the ball when called about ME students at a flight school not interested in landing?
Yeah, tip of the spear my ass….BURN IT ALL DOWN
It sounds like lots and lots and lots of committees trying to get every member to agree. Painful
Sundance, I think you & Devin helped deliver these restructuring changes…
WOLVERINES!!!
” The IC become simply information functionaries. ”
But this was and is their greatest weapon, their ability to obtain, control, disseminate and manipulate information: Illegal NSA searches, blackmail, leaks, censorship, silos, false flags, etc.
They must be severed from the information and most importantly, punished for their crimes.
The difference that I see is they no longer are free to ACT on that information, only to report it.
There are always delegated authorities. Can’t have all decisions flowing to the top. The system would collapse under its own inertia.
What’s going on is assertion/restoring of authorities where they properly reside.
Look at the NSC EO just for internal authorities – it delegates.
IC does a lot more than just push information.
CIA is operational.
FBI is operational.
Armed Services intelligence personnel are embedded.
In a very real way, this all also feathers into Command and Control.
Having all these “Non-voting” important titles that can only produce docs when asked, and then docs of defined subject and scope, really limits the number of required titles with no vote.
That is great because the best way to reduce the influence of the IC is
1) drastically reduce how much info, and and how many documents get classified. Most documents get classified to cover up the agencies fubar, and to prevent the institution from being embarrassed.
2) The when there are less documents to hide, reduce the number of people with clearances. That way if a doc gets leaked, there is a much smaller pool of meiscrants that are suspects.
3) is set up a committee to read every Single classified document and decide if it is vital information or if it just is to save face. If the latter it must be immediately declassified, released to the public at a public forum, and the person who classified it must be there to be humiliated and scorned and to explain him or herself.
So that is the plan
less secrets docs
less clearances
More transparency and bureaucratic humiliation.
Go to Bed It’s late!
LoL!!
Yes and no.
Sundance’s particular focus has been information flows into the oval office.
Widen the aperture: do you understand (or have you participated) in the complete universe of classified (often because of ways and means) information that supports a whole multitude of activities?
The problem has been the IC (some set of people in it) assuming authorities and making decisions outside their Constitutional scope. Worse, this rogue behavior is politicized to a degree that is perceived as fundamentally undermining our system of government toward ends that undermine the very foundations. In the larger picture, the political aspects of this extend beyond the IC – things get murky at this point.
PDJT builds and operates “things”. To do this he employs people with various skills who all coordinate according to a blueprint. Within a functional discipline employees are expected to apply their expertise. Some decisions are made on the spot. Major decisions flow upward to the developer and, ultimately, to person(s) paying all the bills. The functions still have to get done. The decisions still have to get made. The IC provides actionable information/analysis and it is also operational. It has a fundamentally important role in national and domestic security.
One can fiddle fill-in-the-blank with how information is mis-classified and how many people receive clearances/access all day long – I have seen that path go both ways over and over. At the end of the day the key metric is whether command authority requirements for actionable information/analysis are met.
Sundance has focused on structural changes and policy exploitation that have impacted national security decision-making at the Presidential level. He has identified many of the players, their political objectives/connections in this rerouting of authority and decision-making. He has proposed fixes. He has made an effort to connect this specific theme to much larger contexts (big biz influence, money flows, surveillance, foreign policy, trade policy, coups, etc.)
PDJT has started the arduous process of restoring the integrity and proper functioning of the IC at the national security level. He has published executive orders (inherently temporary) that provide legal force. Congress needs to support Presidential national security authorities just as SCOTUS has.
No one should be confused. PDJT is not destroying the IC body. He is performing radical surgery to remove the cancer and providing post- operative measures to sustain a healthy national security homeostasis (that includes a loyal, value-adding, properly subordinate IC).
PDJT is exercising raw political power.
Your post philip jefferies, has been long overdue, offering a perspective beyond 30,000 feet. Accurate, insightful and on target from my limited vantage point. Thanks for sharing!
Good. Now we need to watch closely at who does what here. HOWEVER, why now can’t Ciaramilla, Misko, the Vindman brothers, Fiona Hill, Abigail Grace, Adam Schiff ALL be charged with Sedition against the President in his first term? And NOW Jake Sullivan who just a couple of days ago told NSC staffers to “Hold Over” so they could sabotage Trumps agenda. Is this not the very definition of Sedition? WHEN do we see action on this?
You need your team installed first – especially at DoJ and DoD.
Yes, by all means make the current corrupt system irrelevant. But the new system will eventually be corrupted as well. After all, as we are often reminded, trillions are at stake.
And we are all human. That’s why religion and morals are, I would say, critical.
One thing is for DAMNED sure… in his first term, he learned A LOT!
President Trump learned even more in the four years after he left DC about how to fight off deliberate attacks from his political enemies. His time in the wilderness, like Churchill’s, was NOT wasted.
It doesn’t hurt that the Dem/Prog left self-destructed.
Sundance, a lot of work went into composing this article. Thank you.
Whoever is currently feeding Trump information about Russia and the conflict in Ukraine needs to be sacked. The other day, while Trump was signing executive orders, he remarked to reporters words to the effect that the Russians had sustained over a million killed and that the Russian economy was teetering on disaster. This is of course just Ukrainian Ministry of Defence/Neocon/CIA bullshit. Russian casualties are lower than the figure Trump cited by roughly an order of magnitude. Russia’s economy is expected to have grown by 3.2% in 2024 and the IMF expect it to continue growing this year. Trump can’t negotiate effectively if he’s working with a set of fictitious facts.
Maybe that info is not quite accurate.
Yes. And they are also lying to him about the “failing” Russian Economy, as you say.
And meanwhile, they’re purchasing more EU officials to push for war–besides Zelensky, I mean.
We bind the wicked schemes of Endless War and speak Your Peace, Father, as it is in Heaven, in Jesus; Name Amen!
Rest in the Vine: From Love, With Russia
CONGRATULATIONS, SUNDANCE! YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS FOR EIGHT YEARS AND YOUR PROPOSALS FINALLY CAME TO PASS! WELL DONE! YOUR COUNTRY OWES YOU ITS THANKS!
Medal of Freedom 🇺🇸
A relief.
May it go as written.
The importance of that move, and the reverberations coming from it, cannot be overstated.
I cannot explain the sense of relief since the inauguration, except to say many of us have the same feeling. There is also a not-small element of spiritual revenge in the mix – I can’t help myself, the energy around victory is a sweeter taste than the deflation after defeat.
Fact: Since everything done by the IC and other entities e.g. NSC remains hidden from the commoners because of “National Security”, and their MO includes deception, then everything the commoners see is facade.
Including this, no doubt.
Here, an added layer of mind-boggling intrigue details, to keep the “inquiring minds” occupied yet another day with things they cannot affect in any way.
Laser pointer dot bouncing around on the floor.
This has always been the “Conservative Tutorial House” as far as I am concerned.
Let’s Pray the “big brains” heed your Weapons Grade Enlightenment..
Please put this in an organization chart and show us where the decision making power should be and maybe where it has been?
In the old system there were people making decisions and acting on them. They do not have that capability going forward and can those people/positions be eliminated?
Lee Smith wrote this on Jan 9, 2025:
The Deep State Strikes Back!
A front-runner for the top White House intelligence job may be planning to run cover for the IC, sources say
by
Lee Smith
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/deep-state-strikes-back
Except Speaker Johnson appointed someone else!!👍🏻
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1530
Mike Waltz fired everyone at the NSC. He followed through.
I like “You’re fired!” better.
Even if BidenFuhrer’s Pelosi Commission Pardon somehow holds up, it does not cover all her other crimes, as I read it.
Ditto for Mary McCord.
Can’t help but think that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has a couple of Treepers residing therein. Thanks, Sundance!
Fire ALL of them!
“Thankfully, the Supreme Court recently affirmed the plenary power of the executive branch, and the unitary power of the President in controlling every system within that branch of government. That ruling (presidential immunity) further bolstered the solution we have continuously proposed. The IC silos must be decoupled from the Executive office definitions of national security, until such a time as the IC institutions can be bought to heel.” …….
The Unitary Power of the President is simply how We the People assert control over OUR government. And it is OURS and no one else’s.
Without control by the Executive we chose–THROUGH HONEST ELECTIONS–these agency tyrants are floating out in space, exercising arrogated and unaccountable power, a damnable tyranny untethered from a Free People and their Constitution.
Al Hamilton:
“The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.”
Funny; they all bought $300 seats to watch “Hamilton”–and learned nothing.
BTW, the Swamp hated the Immunity Ruling because their Crooked DOJ already doled out legal immunity to Swamp Presidents–but not to our Rightful President.
Psalm 59
1-2 My God! Rescue me from my enemies,
defend me from these mutineers.
Rescue me from their dirty tricks,
save me from their hit men.
3-4 Desperadoes have ganged up on me,
they’re hiding in ambush for me.
I did nothing to deserve this, God,
crossed no one, wronged no one.
All the same, they’re after me,
determined to get me.
4-5 Wake up and see for yourself! You’re God,
God-of-Angel-Armies, Israel’s God!
Get on the job and take care of these pagans,
don’t be soft on these hard cases.
6-7 They return when the sun goes down,
They howl like coyotes, ringing the city.
Then suddenly they’re all at the gate,
Snarling invective, drawn daggers in their teeth.
They think they’ll never get caught.
8-10 But you, God, break out laughing;
you treat the godless nations like jokes.
Strong God, I’m watching you do it,
I can always count on you.
God in dependable love shows up on time,
shows me my enemies in ruin.
11-13 Don’t make quick work of them, God,
lest my people forget.
Bring them down in slow motion,
take them apart piece by piece.
Let all their mean-mouthed arrogance
catch up with them,
Catch them out and bring them down
—every muttered curse
—every barefaced lie.
Finish them off in fine style!
Finish them off for good!
Then all the world will see
that God rules well in Jacob,
everywhere that God’s in charge.
14-15 They return when the sun goes down,
They howl like coyotes, ringing the city.
They scavenge for bones,
And bite the hand that feeds them.
16-17 And me? I’m singing your prowess,
shouting at dawn your largesse,
For you’ve been a safe place for me,
a good place to hide.
Strong God, I’m watching you do it,
I can always count on you—
God, my dependable love.
Rest in the Vine: They Think It’s Funny Destroying America,
but You, Father God, Are a Covenant-Keeping God, Hallelujah!
Rest in the Vine: Al from Princeton: The Unitary Power vs. the UNIPARTY’s Final Hours
You will note that Donald is doing nothing about the CIA’s participation at Wuhan for the purpose of spying on the activities there via a private front group funded by the DOD and the usual funding front group for the CIA, USAID. It is very likely that COVID-19 was blowback for CIA activities there just like 9/11 was blowback for CIA activities in Afghanistan:
Answer to an AI query about CIA-caused blowback: “An example of blowback is the U.S. support for Afghan insurgents during the Soviet-Afghan War, which later contributed to the rise of al-Qaeda and the September 11 attacks. This illustrates how covert operations can lead to unforeseen and harmful repercussions for the sponsoring nation.”
The installation of a now proven to be a CCP lackey Ethiopian Marxist party member Tedros as head of the WHO in 2017 only five months after Trump was sworn in along with the fact that the perfectly timed pandemic destroyed Trump’s chance at reelection via various means and stopped cold the worst revolt against the CCP since Tienanmen Square taking place in Hong Kong at that time says to me that the virus “leak” was either a black world PLA or loan wolf action. They correctly counted on a cover-up in the West due to the CIA’s involvement. CLEVER dragon…
MAHA is a topic diversion as detailed in a previous post of mine here where I relayed the findings of a recent deep investigation by others of the proponents of it who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, that diversion substituting a LONG standing problem for the recent crime against humanity that was COVID-19 and the official reactions to it. People who would know now claim that even if confirmed, RFK Jr. has been castrated on pursuing that topic. Even Big Pharma has publicly stated in a trade magazine that they see the threat from him most likely being in the domain of Big Food. And they would know…
Tucker Carlson has said that he has been told by multiple politicians that “our” politicians fear being retaliated against “six ways from Sunday” by the intel community if they go off script, that threat of “six ways from Sunday” retaliation being officially confirmed by US Senator Schumer.
Until this is dealt with, little else matters and the above rearrangement of the bureaucratic deck chairs on the Titanic don’t even begin to cut it:
President Trump withdrew from the WHO.
The efforts to rearrange the hilariously bloated number of bureaucratic deck chairs on our Titanic cluelessly assume that civilian departments have any real oversight or control of our 17 intel agencies. They don’t.
According to a book Tucker Carlson read, when former CIA head Allen Dulles was directly asked whether he thought the CIA had anything to do with the assassination of JFK he replied, “In my father’s house are many rooms,” most likely implying that the CIA is so strictly compartmentalized that even even the director may not know all that is going on.
About revelations from insiders about a rogue CIA due to extreme compartmentalization and funding from commercial patent royalties going to the CIA therefore bypassing the need for CONgressional funding:
Dr. Robert Malone: “They needed to protect the CCP, that was part of the logic in the (virus) cover up” (24:40) – 27 Jul 2023
https://rumble.com/v32s9a0-dr.-robert-malone-we-needed-to-protect-the-ccp-that-was-part-of-the-logic-i.html
In that interview, Bannon, very uncharacteristically, skips a commercial break to keep taking with Dr. Malone and says, “Forget aliens and spacecraft.”
Dr. Malone, after stating that he has heard from trusted insiders that the CIA has gone totally rogue and simply does what it wants, said something like, “We’re not on air right now?”
Where some of CIA profits come from:
In-Q-Tel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
On the myth of actual oversight and control:
There Is No Oversight: The NSA Withheld Documents From Intelligence Committee Heads
Mar 28th 2014
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140327/08140826708/there-is-no-oversight-nsa-withheld-documents-intelligence-committee-heads.shtml
There has never been effective oversight of the NSA’s bulk collections programs, or indeed, intelligence agencies in general. There’s been a lot of noise made about this vaunted oversight in defense of programs revealed by leaked documents, but this is nothing more than a talking point.
At The Big Picture, a clip of Sen. John D. Rockefeller (then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) discussing how oversight actually works has been posted. It’s from an interview given in 2007, about the time the FISA Amendments Act was being put together to replace the expiring Protect America Act. The amendments act, among other things, extended the length of warrantless surveillance and gave telecoms retroactive immunity for their participation in the NSA’s bulk collections.
Here’s Sen. John D. Rockefeller explaining why, even back in 2007, intelligence agency oversight was a joke.
DAVIS: Reports quote administration officials as saying this is going on and it’s being done in a way to avoid oversight of the Intelligence Committee. Is there any way—
ROCKEFELLER: They’ll go to any lengths to do that, as we’ve seen in the last two days [during hearings on FISA].
DAVIS: Is there anything you could do in your position as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee to find answers about this, if it is in fact going on?
ROCKEFELLER: Don’t you understand the way Intelligence works? Do you think that because I’m Chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say I want it, and they give it to me? They control it. All of it. ALL of it. ALL THE TIME. I only get – and my committee only gets – what they WANT to give me.
Audio clip:
[audio src="http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/mt-static/images/Rockefeller.mp3" /]
“the above rearrangement of the bureaucratic deck chairs on the Titanic don’t even begin to cut it”
Agree with your diagnosis Winston but not your prognosis. America and Americans have to accept the rest of the world is not out to get them and is not their enemy.
China and Russia don’t want to attack you, they want to live peacefully with you, not under you, but with you, and do business with you on a fair, open competition where the only winners and losers are those who work smarter, harder, better, faster and cheaper and those who don’t, lose. But no-one needs to die in needless war.
You can say the same about India, which is an emerging super-power, and Iran, which is an emerging regional power, which happens to be an obstacle to Israel, so for no apparent reason, the American people are taught to hate it and fear it. What does Iran have to do with your own security? Nothing, right? Yet, you’re told you have to hate it. Why?
What is it about America that it constantly wants to dominate the world and beat down everyone who doesn’t want to obey them?
This doesn’t come from the American people, does it.
No. So where does it come from? Because this IS how most Americans think. Isn’t it.
So where does that come from?
It comes from the propaganda bollocks the IC has laid down on you and the entire Western world since forever. Not just in the media but in the education system as well. I mean just look what young people learn these days from primary through middle through high school through college and look how they turn out. Think that’s an accident? Think that just happened? Just a bunch of random stuff?
And dealing with the IC means you and we in the West ALL need to deal with that, not just in America but in all Western nations.
I could give you a novel on how why when where and who on what the IC has done to us, dating right back to the birth of MI-6 in Queen Elizabeth I’s day in the 1500’s.
But long story short, all Western societies have been infected with the same disease, and it’s called information warfare, which warps and twists our reality, and the people driving it are the IC in each of our countries.
Unless and until we each in our own nations root that out, this infection will continue to fester.
“Iran, which is an emerging regional power, which happens to be an obstacle to Israel, so for no apparent reason, the American people are taught to hate it and fear it. What does Iran have to do with your own security? Nothing, right? Yet, you’re told you have to hate it. Why?”
over 200 US marines in bombed barracks in lebanon+ in Saudi, US hostages in tehran, funding of terror proxies worldwide attacking US interests(hezbullah, hamas, houthis, etc), operating global drug trade through Hezbullah, sending operatives into USA, etc etc etc……… for a start.
“What is it about America that it constantly wants to dominate the world and beat down everyone who doesn’t want to obey them?”
Perhaps it started from seeing in WWI and WWII, for a start that isolating itself from the world did not prevent war and terror from reaching us. It was not our “policing of the globe” that was the problem it was the policy of intentionally “not winning” those wars and leaving the bad actors in place. The successes were WW1, 2, even the korean war resulted in the success of south korea, at least, but after that the policy changed and even when winning. How we dealt with europe, japan and south korea were examples that led to success, and we got some spoils of war. In Iraq it was all the non participants who got the spoils of Iraq oil. Much of it is plain common sense.
I’ll never forget Comey thinking that he gets to decide what the President shall hear, and thinking that on his authority alone things shall be done. What an arrogant cow pattie. McCabe was a tool. Wray was impotent. That’s the way I see it. Praying for a better outcome.
Wray intentionally played along with transparent sedition against an elected president.
The Six Ways from Sunday crowd need to be destroyed. They have held our leaders hostage. That only happens in Communism, but it happened here.
Thank you Sundance. You are a National Treasure.
What is the image in the b&w photo that SD is using in these IC articles?
This restructuring is essentially what Actual President Truman proposed one month (to the day) after Deep State Dulles assassinated Actual President Kennedy.
Rest in the Vine: Truman’s True Letter In the Sands of Time
FBI not mentioned anywhere
As long as we do not see swat teams raid and round up biden, obama players, investigations against all the prosecutors and judges who conspired with obstructing trump presidency, jail terms for high biden obama official(navarro, bannon, etc) things wont change. It is only with massive retaliation that any credibility can be restored…. as they said :”no one is above the law” and that needs to be demonstrated using the same tactics. When they are massively attacked and jailed perhaps even they will want to uphold our laws and traditions, and even they will whine about weaponization and political targeting. We cant move on where the side that perpetrated all the crimes just gets raps on the knuckles. They must pay heavy prices and that payment must be seen to be paid.