Losing USAID likely means the CIA will hit back hard on the subject of Ukraine as retaliation. USAID was the front group for CIA interventionist operations globally. The omnipotent silo will not accept this decision by Secretary Marco Rubio.
The State Department has formally informed congress of their intent to dissolve USAID terminating the employment of every associate within the agency. [per this release]
Watch the geopolitical events/actions closely in the next few weeks. This is a very big hit against the Intelligence Community network, and likely one of the reasons for CIA manager John Ratcliffe scheduling a meeting with DOGE head Elon Musk.
This announcement coincides with a 3-judge appeals court ruling that now permits DOGE and Elon Musk to take apart the USAID silo. [Ruling pdf Here]
(Via Politico) – A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to resume their efforts to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The ruling from a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a lower-court judge’s injunction that had temporarily blocked Musk and DOGE from playing any role in dismantling USAID.
[…] The challengers can appeal the ruling further, and other lawsuits contesting various USAID cuts remain pending in other courts. Supporters of the agency also promised further litigation over the new cuts announced Friday.
For now, though, the 4th Circuit ruling removes a significant roadblock to one of President Donald Trump’s Day 1 priorities: pausing foreign assistance and shuttering the agency tasked with implementing it. (read more)
Already happened Zelensky rejected the ceasefire proposal!
Did the CIA give their reason?
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Engaging in evil is like sport to the fool [who refuses wisdom and chases sin],
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Yup untenable..z said he won’t allow any land taken by Russians to be russias. And all sorts of non-starters. Putin has to fall back to a UN deal with a peacekeeping force. And Trump stymied by Z who never wanted any deal other than keeping the funding going. You can’t make a deal with someone who calls you or your number 2 a bitch in negotiations.
Then it’s time to shut off the money, recall our troops from Europe, leave NATO and tell them all to take a leap at a rolling doughnut, the US is done underwriting their endless wars and self destruction.
Bingo. The cia is our problem, not Russia. It wasn’t Russia that tried to kill our POTUS twice, and wreaked havoc in the ME
(wreaked havoc in the ME to force a migration into Europe. The ME was the pawn, rich with oil routes to rob, to fund the war on the European population.)
exactly. I have been doing some offshore examination of a series of “Russian hits”, namely the polonium hit and I keep hitting some roadblocks ..which is not to suggest that russian involvement was not present, but perhaps what has happened to Putin and his regime is equivalent to the secret police spy state that falsely attributes crimes of “the state.
the more I look at these cases, the more it leads me back to
MI6 and CIA. in that order
at this point, it is hunch, an unproven thesis. But when I dive, I got deep. more to follow.
God Bless America
Just be sure to come up for air, every so often and keep us apprised, your like a dog wirh a bone, lol.
you’ll know when I complain people are intentional ignoring my pleas for help.
it’s a pattern I’ve come to realize tells a part of the truth about the work WE ARE ALL INVOLVED IN.
truth is dangerous business (grave danger, is there any other kind?)
God bless you, regitiger! You and Dutchman are both blessings to us all here on CTH!
“…..the more I look at these cases, the more it leads me back to MI6 and CIA. in that order…..”
All roads lead to Langley, and from their you’ll need a boat………….
That time was 25 years ago good friend.
Businesses leaving the UK and Germany to move to the US.
The globalist Intel creeps like causing fake “revolutions”, that is, takeovers by hostile rulers?
Fine, let’s see how they like it when MAGA causes some REAL revolutions AGAINST the hostile rulers.
I say we stay in NATO and simply use the bureaucratic rules afforded to each NATO member to wrest a new direction for NATO.
Or, we stay in it to simply play havoc with the execution of their new world order designs.
I think we would be more effective inside than out. For example, with Trump telling their members that they are not paying their contractual share for nato and instead using that money to subsidize their industries unfairly Trump has a compelling, moral reason to impose trade restrictions for a fair trade. This is one of many examples.
If we stay in, we get will dragged into a war we have no business being in. This alone is reason enough to get out of Europe and stay out of Europe.
They have not honored their part of the NATO agreement for some time. They probably can’t field 5 battalions amongst the whole lot, and I am willing to bet they lack air and sea superiority as well. And their military industrial capabilities are woefully underfunded as well I suspect.
This is why they are so desperate for us to be part of any “peacekeeping” force in the Ukraine, and why we should run as fast and as far away from them as we can.
The USA can unilaterally step out of the military component of NATO, as did France in 1966; still a highly influential, founding member.
And bring our equipment back home too.
All of it. Every 2×4 and every screw. Unlike Afghanistan.
The solution here is to get rid of this despicable comedian who only cares about himself not the Ukrainian people.
Zelenskyy is a puppet. He doesn’t control anything. It’s the CIA pulling his strings.
You guys like to type this. I have seen it so many times. If Zellensky is room temp or in jail, he cannot talk smack. One less smack talker is always possitive.
And, he is replaced with some other dipshit CIA puppet. It’s the intelligence agencies that need to be culled.
Kamala is looking for a job.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
The more “smack” Zelensky talks——
results in that hole he is digging getting
one foot deeper.
His “smack mouth “ is his worst enemy.
Hand him another shovel!
BINGO! Zelenskyy has destroyed his country with the help of Obama aka Biden!💁🏻♀️
With the help of the CIA.
Time for the USA to walk away from the Ukrainian cesspit before the belligerent combination of the UK and EU Blobs create a false flag to force NATO (always means majority USA) boots on the ground in the failed State that Lenin created.
A false flag event, that “draws NATO in” with PDJT flat out refusing to be drawn in, gets them nowhere, and is exactly what would happen.
Look, either Russia can be beaten and conquered by Ukraine, with enough money and support (it can’t!) in which case Russia is no threat to Europe or the U S…..or it can’t.
And, if Ukraine can’t possibly beat Russia, (and it never could!) no matter how much support and weopons, than what the hell were you doing cheerleading it for the last 3 years???
They have no answer for that, at all.
Anyway, PDJT has already said he will not commit U.S. Troops for countries in arrears, and so if they pull a false flag, he has an “out”.
What the H-that little euro-weenie really has no idea what he’s up against. Stop all US aid and let Russia take YUKraine. Let the weenie get his arms, ammo and jets from France.
unbelievable SMH
Exactly. The Deep State cannot afford to let Trump profit politically from a Ukrainian peace agreement. Indeed, there can be no peace in Ukraine until we have another forever war up and running to take its place.
The IC is already in a fallback position here in the US; these rogue judges are tasked to slow everything down to a crawl until the ’26 election, when the Dems will regain control of the House. The ultimate fallback is Roberts. My take is that the Six Ways from Sunday crowd has him firmly under its control.
The House route (leading to Impeachmentl) is just another lawfare, get an indictment for headlines, even though you won’t get a conviction.
Meaningless drivel.
If the Dems win the House next year (keep watch on the WI supreme court contest this coming Tuesday), we will get another round of impeachment hysteria. Historically, not much happens in the last 2 years of a lame duck administration anyway, and all the smoke and fury will serve nicely to hamstring the President in ’27-28 as he was hamstrung in ’19-20.
How much time do you think DJT has to enact his agenda into law before everyone in office turns his/her attention to the next election? And note “into law.” The problem with executive order is obvious.
Zelenskyy wants more billions. Wifey wants more trips to Paris for a shopping spree.
The midget needs to be removed from power and the money laundering has to stop!💁🏻♀️
The guy begging for money and weapons keeps poking both bears. Even with rhe CIA pulling his strings he must know hes going to take a serious fall. Im betting one of Zs generals is working on it.
That was expected, would happen anyway.
USAID was NOT anywhere close to the only funding device the CIA used to “exert soft power” it was perhaps the most useful.
Notice rent-a-riots for a “day of whatever” at Tesla dealerships, and continued anti-N/P Party actions in Europe?
Makes it easy for Trump to withdrawl from the whole affair I say…Hands the whole mess over to the war zealots in Europe.
God bless the brave men and women executing DJT’s MAGA vision for America. They are on the front lines, kind of all alone actually, doing great good for us. God bless them!
Amen.
Brave, yes, and determined. They all knew President Trump was recruiting them for a war for the ages, a matter of life or death for our Republic.
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
HT: Winston Churchill.
they should not be nor feel alone. free people govern themselves. we should not be bystanders of life. effecting your local political environment for the good is a duty of liberty.
continue to trash fascism and socialism and punish its supporters as well as liberty’s weak defenders at the local level. it all adds up.
If your in an open carry State, consider hanging out around a Tesla dealership, ..if not you can still be eyes and ears, block watch style…
Amen
Thank Sundance, this right here puts paid to all the naysayers chanting, “But what about the Epstein files, we want arrests!”
Trump’s first priority is the bust up the global tentacles that give the Epstein crowd their power.
They are a global mafia robbing not just the US taxpayer, but every nation they can get to!
You’ve simply got to bust up an army before you go after the generals…the army is what gives the generals power!
With it defeated, you can round them ALL up at your pleasure.
We’re not just facing simple corruption here with this crowd; the future economy they plan for everyone has trafficking human beings as its foundation.
Whether “workers”, or “voters”, or children, or sex slaves, or for body parts, or as indentured servants, or as soldiers, or or to stick in virtual “smart city” cattle corrals…slavery will be the foundation of the Built Back Better world.
(as to virtual “smart city” reservations, they’ll build a few Projects like they did in Chicago or the Bronx, but most of the “smart cities” will just be the same old neighborhoods and slums “rezoned” with surveillance and tracking. Since Mammon is their god, one thing these suckers are is cheapskates.)
TY
Well stated, Alzaebo! So much evil!
Wow. I’m at a loss for words. Freaking PDJT is taking down the Derp State right in front of us!
PDJT may be the first POTUS in a century who actually does what he promises the electorate he will do.
Winnamin anyone?! 😎
Al Capone was probably comparable to USAID . He ran soup kitchens during the Great Depression.
Capone was not evil, like government officials who swear a Constitutional oath then turn their back
on it. He readily acknowledged being a racketeer. Like his mentor, John Torrio, he avoided violence if possible.
Capone liked the limelight. Walter Winchell was his press secretary! The limelight (and tertiary syphilis) was his downfall .
The difference between the mafias and government is best illustrated by the Cosa Nostra, the “Our Thing.”
Most of the lethal violence happened between the gang members themselves.
And the leaders were bad men, they knew it, they knew they weren’t going to heaven…yet still, because the “Our Thing” was not just for the made men, but for their people to get ahead, the Sicilian/Italians, the Jews, the Irish, the Polish, the Russians, the whatever ethnic group gangs contributed huge sums to churches, schools, hospitals, orphanages, jobs, housing, and aid societies.
If you needed a help locally you knew somebody who you could to talk to in person, who could then talk to somebody else who knew somebody. That’s how it still works in the old Democrat wards on the East Coast. That is real representation.
One rap song even complained about this part of black culture; there’s plenty of money in the hood, but nobody ever spends it ON the hood. Ain’t no schools being built, nor orphanages being fed, because the government money will do what the churches used to do.
(The most stable social structure of all was the sturdy neighborhood stool of family home-school-work-church.
Even the gangs supported that four-legged stool.)
So who was Capone working for? He was working for his people…you could even say he was doing God’s work, despite being a bad man, because God will use every tool to hand, no matter its flaws.
Being the 3 judge panel voted against USAID tells me the CIA is losing their power and fake Judges.
Great job. Taken down.
Chuck Schumer: “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community – they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
President Trump: “Hold my beer.”
“Hold my
beerDiet Coke.”Just sayin’.
A coke and a smile 🙂
There you go again.
“I’d like to buy the world a Coke!”
“Okay–that will be $24, 598, 465.00.”
“Um…nevermind.”
They look like a cult! LOL!
You can like anything you want – getting what you like, well that’s another story.
🎵 it’s the real thing!🎶
Am thinking of all the older commercials with Santa Claus…
“The pause that refreshes” (my generation)….
Some people on here are showing their age.
Our great President Trump is teaching the world to sing again.
A Coke and a ten pound sledge hammer is closer to truth.
You can get further with a coke and a 10 pound sledge hammer than you can with just a coke….
Eddie Murphy! Great line he had regarding Bill Cosby.
Correctamundo sir!
Today’s Saturday.
” The omnipotent silo will not accept this decision by Secretary Marco Rubio.”
The CIA accepted the decisions of President John Kennedy.
Oh wait! Never mind.
Good it is time to eliminate the traitors from our government.
They should be hung like the treasonous pos they are.
“Losing USAID likely means the CIA will hit back hard on the subject of Ukraine as retaliation.”
I have my stockpile of Potassium iodide. Set my children and grandchildren up 3 years ago and ordered more last year.
And they will fund surreptitiously what USAID funded openly, skipping any actual “aid” like food aid.
The CIA is self-funding to some unknown extent:
In-Q-Tel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
As of 2016, In-Q-Tel listed 325 investments, but more than 100 were kept secret, according to the Washington Post. The absence of disclosure can be due to national security concerns or simply because a startup company doesn’t want its financial ties to intelligence publicized.
One of the many footnotes to that Wikipedia article:
The CIA’s Venture-Capital Firm, Like Its Sponsor, Operates in the Shadows
In-Q-Tel provides only limited information about its investments, and some of its trustees have ties to funded companies
Wall Street Journal
30 Aug 2016
https://web.archive.org/web/20160831020609/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cias-venture-capital-firm-like-its-sponsor-operates-in-the-shadows-1472587352
And about anyone finding out:
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.
The last paragraph sums it up perfectly.
Thanks for sharing the links.
Wonder if you could find the audit trail with fractal computing…
$0r0$ is a CIA/MI6 op.
The CIA OWNS INTERNATIONAL BANKS.
Its not that USAID was their only method for moving $, or for sourcing it.
assuming the cia plans to / might strike back the solution is for Ratcliffe to exercise leadership. except for tangible services defined narrowly shut down the organization. advise everyone that they will be fired immediately if they make an attempt to sabotage the pdjt agenda.
And instead of saying the “CIA” we need to say the names of the top people.
He’s been very quiet ever since his confirmation, though of course that is how it should be.
I just hope he’s got a team of insiders, as few as they might be, that he can trust. And I dream that he’s putting together or has put together a plan to take down some of the higher-ups. The head of that corrupt snake needs to be removed asap.
“the solution is for Ratcliffe to exercise leadership”
Good luck with that.
According to Tucker Carlson, in a fairly recently released book he read, don’t recall the title, a journalist directly asked Allen Dulles if the CIA had been involved in the JFK assassination and his response was, “In my Father’s house are many rooms,” implying that the CIA is so compartmentalized and black world that even the head may not know everything.
GREAT movie about that: Three Days of the Condor.
The irony of the murderer, Alan Dulles, quoting the Words of the Lord Jesus makes me sick.
At least he lived in a world in which people understood the reference.
Winston, that’s one of my all time favorite movies. The ending reveals the influence that the CIA has with the media, the New York Times in this film, when Cliff Robertson asks Robert Redford who has just told the newspaper a story about a CIA plot to invade the Middle East for oil….
“How do you know they’ll print it? You can take a walk, but how far, if they don’t print it.”
IIRC, the movie’s from 1975 and we’re STILL deep in the snake pit.
It is interesting, even amazing, but ultimately, not surprising that the media ignores the most obvious connection between any advance of a peace settlement/cease-fire in the Ukraine and more attacks by NATO/Ukraine a day later or even less, after progress on peace is announced.
The lack of curiosity shows deliberate obfuscation.
Perhaps someone should pull the plug on the N.S.A. and its massive computer spying operation:
“…This data-storage facility for the US intelligence community is designed to store data estimated at over a zettabyte, though its actual capacity is classified.
Its purpose is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.
A zettabyte (ZB) is 1,000 exabytes (EB). Each EB is equal to 1,000 petabytes (PB). A PB is equal to 1,000 terabytes (TB).
The average personal computer today has a capacity of 1 TB with a ZB of data representing 100 million personal computers’ data capacity.
Additionally, the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally is forecast to increase rapidly, from 64 ZB in 2020 to more than 180 ZB by 2025—a far cry from the 2 ZB created in 2010….”
See:
https://www.thestreet.com/csuiteadvisors/stories/keith-gunther-csa-beyond-the-terabyte-the-computational-and-political-power-of-data-centers
Remember that a terabyte is 1000 Billion, i.e. a Trillion bytes. Each jump is 1000 of the number before.
We are dealing therefore with the unimaginable concept of a sextillion:
i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Do we really want a secret government agency to have this much computing power to spy upon us?
How can we keep Microsoft, HP, Google, Apple, Amazon, IBM and Oracle stock up if we don’t have massive government purchases of compute and storage space to hold all those billions of hours of footage and voice recordings?
Big Tech would have to go and actually invent something useful.
Don’t worry, they are working on it.
https://www.anl.gov/advanced-computing
I don’t know. After the DOGE team stating that the most surprising thing about the Feds, are the antiquated computer systems and the boondoggles to get them updated. I say the NSA is in the same boat & using PR to bamboozle everyone into thinking that they collect all information and can spy on anyone.
Agreed. I think they ARE recording everything on the planet… to Iomega Drive 1990s style tapes.
Does that help them find the information they need in a timely matter? No, but it’s all there for querying if the need arises. Which is why you are supposed to have a targeted warrant to go through recordings, it helps the interns know what shelf to pull the data from at Iron Mountain.
They have yottabyte storage in Utah.
Why bother with actual data in any quantity? Create something at need. Or simply accuse in a secret court where the accused has no opportunity to defend themselves and is then disappeared.
Samantha Power can spend more time with her
familyco-conspirators.Hopefully they will only see each other on visitation days while she is residing in prison.
DOGE/Musk enters the dark pit. Full on war. Great read on this:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/
Yes. It is an interesting read and quite plausible.
We will soon have a better idea of what is going to happen.
Very good Substack. Thanks for the link.
Coffee and Covid is the best, after the Conservative Treehouse of course!
Mega-dittoes to that.
The guy sounds like one of us.
Will have to check in on him again.
Winning! This is a great thing!
Notice no cuts yet to CIA. Wasn’t the threat of that JFK’s demise?
If I recall correctly, JFK said he wanted to tear it to shreds and blow it in the wind.
Hit back hard? Somebody just blew up Putin’s limo. They didn’t get him. Amazing
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/public-safety-and-emergencies/fire-and-rescue/vladimir-putin-s-limo-blows-up-in-massive-explosion-as-car-engulfed-in-huge-fireball-on-moscow-street/ar-AA1BTP9Z
Could have just been a fast spreading car fire.
Unless the door locks were activated so the occupants could not escape
So it is true….
Yes.
Texas sub vet has a better link a little way down the thread.
CFP has it listed on top of the page.
It’s all true.
Z-man said recently that President Putin would soon be dead.
If they tried and missed, Z-man is dead man walking.
President Putin said in yesterday’s meeting something to the effect that a group of nations would have to appoint an interim government in Ukraine for a peace deal to be reached.
Those coming up behind Putin are not nearly as moderate. A stupid move.
Holy smokes, that should be a global headline right there, Longshoreman.
Go figure. Given Vlad’s KGB chops, I’ll bet even money that he/they set out the limo as bait, to see who showed up. Maybe he wanted a new one, anyway.
Repurpose the Consumer Fraud Protection Bureau (CFPB) to recover the USAID money that’s been grifted. Start with CIA.
The dissolution of the CFPB has been blocked by Judge Berman.
Fine. Let it protect consumers by clawing back the grift.
And after it recovers billions, present Judge Berman with an award for saving the agency.
She was just overruled yesterday in a DC Appeals Court ruling on a similar case involving the firing of the head of a so-called “independent” agency. She will be overruled on this case as well for much the same reasons.
Berman is an American traitor IMO.
These traitors in black robes are not randomly chosen. They come from a pipeline paid for by the Eleanor Homes Norton Commission pipeline for communist judges hellbent on destroying our Republic. Clyburn has the AME, Norton has the DC judiciary
And after the award ceremony, then put her in jail and confiscate the award money.
Except the public is fed up with Ukraine. There is no support for any more support for Ukraine. So the cia can go pound sand
Ukraine is the Israel of the Left.
I cannot tell you how true that is, Longshoreman.
Israel was created by British and German Jews; Ukraine was to be another former “homeland”, a 2nd Israel, created by “Ukrainian” shtetl Jews, that is, the Neocons in America.
Why? Because Israel is surrounded by exploding Arab populations, growing to five times their size in 1948; Israel might soon be overrun.
(Ukraine would replace Israel, and hopes its resurgence from the fallen USSR will usurp Jerusalem, the City of London, and the New York/DC metroplex as the capital of world Jewry. We are in a civil war between the Tribes.)
Edit: the City of London/Brussels metroplex
Or, just delete the last paragraph so the Christian kiddies don’t cry.
I really don’t intend to stir the pot, so apologies for hurt fee-fees.
The next legal filing by the IC will miraculously be assigned to Boasberg.
Randomly, of course.
Hmmmm….yesterday Zman was all over the news saying Putin was going to die. Today one of Putin limos blows up in Moscow.
Koinkydink?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34134385/putin-limo-exploded-fire-paranoid/
If I was the little green gnome, I would keep my travel plans VERY secret 🙊 😉 …
“yesterday Zman was all over the news saying Putin was going to die.”
I think Zman is being set up. A secret operation would not let someone who has a propensity for running his mouth in on a clandestine operation, unless it is part of a much larger plan.
My take is that deep state wants President Putin to take out “little z” so they do not have to.
In the video’s I’ve watched, the limousine was parked on a busy public street. Shops and restaurants, traffic driving by with people rushing to put out the fire before fire dept arrived. That doesn’t pass the smell test. Would Putin be in such a relaxed environment??
“That doesn’t pass the smell test.”
IDK about Mr. Putin’s schedule. I know there is a verse about “foolish talking”.
Ephesians 5:4 KJV
Neither filthiness,
nor foolish talking,
nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
————-
I was with a coworker in Albany NY at a Dept. wide training for our division. It was 1993 and I almost said something in response to his joking around “if I had built any bombs lately”, but did not. That afternoon a bomb went off in the
WTC.
I could have had LE so far up my rectum I would never had needed a colonoscopy.
I would have been cleared, but no one needs that kind of hassle or attention.
So IDK if little Z thought he was privy to some inside info or if he said what he did being completely clueless. I would not trade places with him, no matter how much $ he has stashed away.
SORRY for my indecision or NAIVETÉ…BUT ….WHAT IS the consensus on Ratcliffe….?
Is he on our team and COORDINATING with Rubio, Doge and Tulsi…..? Or is he trying to negotiate “a prisoner exchange” on behalf of deepstate….?
and was Signalgate a shot over their bow….? Or pure ineptitude ….or just unfortunate occupational hazard with myriad contacts in ones phone and too many chefs…..?
He definitely has a deep state pedigree as does Rubio. But for me I am willing to give some time for them to do good. I read somewhere he got rid of a bunch of probationary folks but since the number of staff is itself classified we may never get insight to what reforms he is able to do.
I can’t imagine taking over that hornet nest and fixing it in 70 days or so. I am will to give some time and actively work to hold my powder. But that is just me
I read today, on Coffee and Covid substack, ( I believe…I read about 5 substacks daily, so I lose track….sorry), that on day one Ratcliffe fired an “unnamed” CIA staff member.
Take it for what its worth….Seems there was no yelling and screaming or dirty deeds known, yet…
Time will tell all.
What do you call it when he fires a staff member?
A start😎
TSV,
I know I’m with ya on that….. I was thinking back to Trump 45 with Ratcliffe….. hence my SERIOUS not rhetorical question….
RUBIO has shockingly and delightfully surprised me, so I’m still very OK with Ratcliffe …and my gut the 1st time around told me he was MAGA….but I’m not 100% on him & was wondering if there was anybody else with supportive facts insights either way….
Apparently not…🤷🏼
Gotta search for SD’s cabinet opinions I guess…..
CB: our host calls him the CIA manager for a reason. Even if he wanted to (not convinced he does) the entity is not reformable. Do you think there has been a “director” since Hoover that actually had a handle on all that the spies do? Do you think the spooks are honest with him? They play the waaaaaaay long game. Keep up their ops regardless of who is currently “in charge” and probably domt actually share any real intelligence or maybe even…. Make stuff up!
At long last. Their reputation around the world was horrible.
🎶 Forget Your Troubles
Judy Garland
🎶it’s a good day
Judy Garland
Things goin on
Skynyrd
🤓
😎
The lord is strengthening our president every day. We must fear not…….
Slava USAID.
Sundance,
Love the photo of HAL as in hallelujah for the Trump Team! This move took guts! This will be quite a battle! Keeping my prayers up for all our brave warriors!
Losing USAID
Until the next EO bringing it back, “new and improved…promise.”
Or just sent back to a self-funding CIA.
Here’s another program that was closed down:
The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On
Technology behind the Pentagon’s controversial data-mining project has been acquired by NSA, and is probably in use.
April 26, 2006
https://www.technologyreview.com/2006/04/26/229286/the-total-information-awareness-project-lives-on/
In April, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the advocacy organization for citizens’ digital rights, filed evidence to support its class-action lawsuit alleging that telecom giant AT&T gave the National Security Agency (NSA), the ultra-secret U.S. agency that’s the world’s largest espionage organization, unfettered access to Americans’ telephone and Internet communications. The lawsuit is one more episode in the public controversy that erupted in December 2005, when the New York Times revealed that, following September 11, President Bush authorized a far-reaching NSA surveillance program that included warrantless electronic eavesdropping on telephone calls and e-mails of individuals within the United States.
Critics charged that the Bush administration had violated both the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens against unwarranted search or seizure, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, which requires eavesdropping warrants to be obtained from a special court of judges empowered for that purpose.
In February 2006, the controversy intensified. Reports emerged that component technologies of the supposedly defunct Total Information Awareness (TIA) project – established in 2002 by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop advanced information technology to counter terrorists, then terminated by Congress in 2003 because of widespread criticism that it would create “Orwellian” mass surveillance – had been acquired by the NSA.
Washington’s lawmakers ostensibly killed the TIA project in Section 8131 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for fiscal 2004. But legislators wrote a classified annex to that document which preserved funding for TIA’s component technologies, if they were transferred to other government agencies, say sources who have seen the document, according to reports first published in The National Journal. Congress did stipulate that those technologies should only be used for military or foreign intelligence purposes against non-U.S. citizens. Still, while those component projects’ names were changed, their funding remained intact, sometimes under the same contracts.
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!”― Ronald Reagan
And then Obama and Holder repurposed the components of the TIA project to spy on their political opponents. And here we are…
TIA was privatized and reintroduced as Palanitir, Peter Thiel’s company.
Lifelog was a DARPA project privatized and rebranded as Facebook after Zuckerberg stole the college version from the Wittenberg twins. (That version, used to build facial recognition, was a campus program called “Hot or Not?”
“warrantless electronic eavesdropping on telephone calls and e-mails of individuals within the United States.”
A WNY political consultant, Michael R. Caputo, said after he was interrogated by the Feds (for about 2 weeks, IIRC) that they knew ABSOLUTELY EVERY detail of his life.
His legal bills to prevent the Feds from screwing him were around $250,000.
He briefly worked the campaign, he resigned after a hasty tweet about “the wicked witch is dead” while driving between Cleveland and Buffalo. That tweet was in response to the firing of Corey Lewindowski, who was allegedly keeping Mr. Caputo from being paid.
https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign_key_staff_and_advisors,_2016
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_campaign_staff_transfers,_resignations,_and_terminations,_2016
“Losing USAID likely means the CIA will hit back hard on the subject of Ukraine as retaliation. USAID was the front group for CIA interventionist operations globally. The omnipotent silo will not accept this decision by Secretary Marco Rubio.”
Serious question: Is Ratcliffe compromised? If not, can he do ANYTHING to impede the agency he runs from “hitting back hard”?
It appears that President Trump and his “Team” have been in sync prior to taking office.
If Ratcliffe and/or others were/are compromised, I contend that President Trump has enough on the opposition that those who were compromised are now on his team as long as they remain loyal and do as He instructs them to do and he has them covered.
It’s very likely he and his hand-picked team have been strategizing and compiling executive orders and legal filings for all types of lawfare complications over the last 4 years, at least that is how Donald Trump, the businessman, handled issues as a private citizen.
I find it difficult to believe that he would allow a compromised individual to be placed in such sensitive and important positions, representing the President, the Executive and the Commander-in-Chief, if he DID NOT trust them. But they MUST do as he directs or they are OUT!
That’s not who he is or ever was. He’s a completely different person now and a much better leader.
I truly believe he did in fact “catch them all” and is holding the “cards”.
You’re so right, Abigail.
Perhaps and no
It’s now indisputable. Zelenski= Arafat.
Good one! Arafat was an Egyptian occupier with Tunisian troops.
Thanks! I had even forgotten that detail.
He rejected peace when offered everything he claimed to want. Then he conned us into financing schools in which he turned entire generations of relatively helpless people into irredeemable savages.
I don’t even blame Clinton for that, the evil and deception was unprecedented in our time. I don’t see Zelenski any differently. Let the EU have him.
This is not one of my smart *ss remarks, I seriously wonder if we may end up in the war on Russia’s side. Lots of parallels in Europe today to the 1930’s.
Biden NATO and the CIA created their version of a Golem in Z, Nazis and Ukraine. It has grown stronger, increasingly destructive and now cannot be constrained.
Sundance – Can you elaborate on why troublemakers at CIA are not simply FIRED?
My question exactly. Just get rid of these people.
How would one know who the real trouble makers are?
Some may have been. The staffing at CIA is classified so we won’t get much visibility
Trump’s biggest fight is with the corrupt-to-the-core CIA. By far.
Not only with respect to the USAID slush fund, but with respect to Ukraine and the EU. And I’d also be willing to bet with respect to the federal judiciary as well, and the judicial lawfare-insurrection that we are witnessing in real time and with real-world, country-altering consequences.
You cannot hate the CIA enough. They are the enemy from within. They must be ex-communicated.
The CI Hey has six ways to Sunday to fund their black ops. They have funded their ops via drug running, gun running, selling spare military parts in the black market to sanctioned nations, human smuggling, business kickbacks, selling visas at overseas embassies, selling information, installing dictators, etc.
Don’t forget how tight they are with MI6 and Mossad.
A many-faced monster with State sponsors of their terrorism.
The anger over the dismantling of these money laundering operations is unbelievable. PDJT is messing with their trillions. He has immense courage and integrity.
Love this! Congrats Elon & the tax paying citizens of the USA. There’s your 1 Trillion!
DOGE is finding USAID type corruption in ALL agencies, thus CIA is in ALL agencies. They are a cancer that can not be removed without killing the host which is us. So good luck, not going to happen.
Best news I’ve heard all day!
Interesting that the JFK files released and soon to come MLK files could create more distrust of the CIA. Right when Elon gets invited. This will be where the war engages.
Imagine a rebuilt CIA where the director actually has vision into all operations and expenditures, and is accountable to the president?
This is going to get hot fast. Let’s pray our cabinet members stay protected.
USAID is bluntly discussed in today’s post at Jeff Childers’ Coffee & Covid….and then further down in the post (near the end) he launches into the CIA possibilities, setting it out in terms of the timeframe….in light of Sundance’s post on the CIA, very interesting stuff.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/thunder-dome-saturday-march-29-2025
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/28/cia-public-information-manager-john-ratcliffe-has-invited-elon-musk-to-visit-cia-to-discuss-government-efficiency/
Seems to me that watching the upper level USAID people to see where they get hired could tell us a lot.
Which D.C. lawfirm they join you mean.
Or University
Or think tank
Hope and pray PDJT is successful.
excellent ..the combat operations of this war continues in BIG STRIDE.
actions taken against the enemy is taking place.
gird your loins by friends and patriots. it will not be pleasant, but necessary this war.
we are very close to completing stage 4, transfer of power. Not fully complete, but the trajectory is moving IN OUR FAVOR.
the corruptor are off balance and unsteady, desperate and emotional… good. let them eat cake.
God Bless America
Things are about to get violent as Ratcliffe has invited Elon to look closer at the efficiencies and inefficiencies at the CIA.
“Losing USAID likely means the CIA will hit back hard on the subject of Ukraine as retaliation. USAID was the front group for CIA interventionist operations globally. The omnipotent silo will not accept this decision by Secretary Marco Rubio.”
Having to write those 2 sentences says the CIA has lost its way. That is the kind analysis.
No one expected this to be easy.
I will write this again, but I will write this now:
THANK YOU SUNDANCE FOR REMAINING TRUE
God Bless America
I love this!
🥂 🥂 💃 💃 💃
For so long many pushed the saying …
No Foreign Aid!
😁 😁 😁
That translated into cutting off an
arm of …The Deep State.
👏 👏 👏 😉 😉
😉 😉
Now….let’s cut to stop All Foreign and
Military Aid😁
Like everything else that disrupts/subverts Trump’s agenda, I see significant value in exposing everything Trump needs us to see, the will of the American people is currency driving his momentum. The Signal debacle is instructive, and serves up another reminder attesting to the profound compromise the IC needs to operate
Important in the scheme of things…
There is clearly an ongoing operation to sow discord, targeted at Trump’s cabinet.
Hegseth, Waltz, Bondi, now RFK Jr., not to mention all the attacks on Elon and Tesla.
If you think this is organic, you are mistaken. This is coordinated.
The Deep State are fighting back. Their backs are against the wall and their operation is being exposed. They are going to throw anything and everything against the wall, hoping that something sticks, in an attempt to derail Trump and his administration.
And to make matters worse, much of this hysteria is being amplified by people who are perceived to be in our own camp, in exchange for clicks…
Stay frosty. There is lots of disinformation and smear campaigns in the air, and all of it is designed to destabilize and sow discord amongst Trump’s administration, in a last ditch effort to prevent him from succeeding in his mission of “obliterating the Deep State”.
BioClandestine
Stay the course.
“And to make matters worse, much of this hysteria is being amplified by people who are perceived to be in our own camp, in exchange for clicks…”
Thank You! I am so sick and tired of the outrage crew in the MAGAshpere. They continually amplify the nonsense and help spread the lies and propaganda.
Hubby has a friend who consumes nothing but drive by media and their many hoaxes. He visited today and started going on and on about signalgate, and Hegseth and national security, and Gabbard and Vance and Greenland and all the “mistakes” “Trump” and his team are making.
I killed the hyperventilating by responding “you know I really don’t care. As far as I am concerned President Trump and his team can do no wrong”
…Conversation over.
👍👍
Agree CCV!
I can’t add anything to your succinct post!
Good Evening CountryClassVulgarian. I salute you for that great response! May I steal it? Have a wonderful weekend.
hahaha!!!
Pretty gutsy thing to say, Country, but yeah, I bet that shut him up **pronto**.
I may try it myself!
And half the population are lightweights.😳
60%
1%*
* The last to leave the party Ideologues too dumb to vote for Trump. Does not include those benefiting from govt fraud and abuse.
Heh.
and if they do wrong, it’s because they made a mistake and I don’t wanna hear about it. I’ve been watching our country wrecked for the last 12 years by these communist Democrats. I wanna see them wearing handcuffs and perp- walked at 3 AM.
Perzactly.
They have made mistakes. Some of them pretty big.
That said you can’t achieve the levels of success they are aiming for (tearing down the deep administrative state, taking on the intelligence community, the restructuring of the executive branch overall, etc without swinging hard and sometimes you miss when you swing hard. It’s part of life.But without there deep swings they would have no hope of this task at all.
In fact before inauguration I felt trump would fight a losing battle and end up getting knee capped by the deep state like he was in his first term. But this time around I’ve gotten more enthusiastic as he continues and am beginning to really believe in his success.
So right and I agree!
You can garauntee that some of the people who are perceived to be in our own camp have their pockets lined by USAID cutouts. A lot of their money never left our shores and bribed, I mean lobied, politicians!
This could be the theme song for the Admin…
Closing Time
I am not religious, but I have found myself praying “you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here”.
Hmmm. I guess I must be religious. I still mourn the loss of my spouse 5 years ago, I pray when I hear “I know who I want to take me home”. The song to me is about far more than a bar closing, it is about the last call of life. That is the final last call we all face after all.
God bless you Irene))
irene, your interpretation brings another dimension that I had not considered. It is a good song, then! If a song means different things to different people and can bring some peace and solace, that is a very good thing. Thank you…
Hey did you get permission from the copyright owner to use that? /S
😎
I know, right? A band that no one’s heard of for decades gets upset for the Admin using one of their songs. They should be thanking the Admin for the new found publicity!
As my lawyer friend told me, it’s always better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Then again, he made his living defending those who didn’t ask permission so he may have been simply drumming up business with his advice. 😉
President Trump is the single biggest media topic and attention-getter in the world these days. Yes he has been made controversial because he refuses to capitulate to the globalist blob, but that’s not his fault, thats his redeeming quality and the reason behind his “star” attractiveness.
ANY artist should feel blessed if PDJT chooses their tune for a campaign theme song. But recognizing that good fortune requires being red-pilled, critical thinking skill and thus being awakened to political reality. A LOT of people in the entertainment industry are still under the influence of the dark forces described in Ephesians 6:12 and still suffer the delusions created by those entities.
Goes along with my rule: Never ask a question that you don’t want to hear the answer to unless you really, really have to.
Hi MM,
I have always wondered if you are from Boston, or perhaps Lexington MA, where there is a beautiful monument called “The Minuteman”.
No need to feel compelled to answer my question, but I have always felt a certain kinship with the word “Minuteman”
Anyway, I digress…. I know who I want to take me home, that would be the Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. Every time I hear this song, that is what comes to mind!
Apologies for non-sequiter, just wanted to share that ❤️
I grew up a few towns over from Lexington. We played against them in sports. They always had great teams.
I often visit the nearby Minuteman Visitor Center. It’s a great take. I believe it’s run by the National Park Service. It’s just down the road from the Paul Revere capture sight.
I now reside on the South Shore.
Thanks for asking.
To get ready for the 250th Commemoration of the American Revolution, my branch of a women’s heritage organization – a big one, nationwide – recently prepared a nice looking bookmark with an image of the Concord Minuteman statue by Daniel Chester French that was used on a 1923 US postage stamp; underneath this figure is a verse from the Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including the immortal words, “. . . and fired the shot heard ’round the world”!
Please, within your own family, church, school, community organization, remember to thank our Revolutionary War Patriots with a prayer on April 19th, 2025. Teach your children and grandchildren of the miracle that is the USA and attend as many patriotic events with them as possible.
There is such a huge amount of corruption permeating our government. The NGO kickback scheme is simple and effective, spreading an immense amount of money to all sorts of people, including those on “our” side. That is why there are lights as far as you can see when you fly into DC — it is our tax dollars burning through the night. DC votes 90% D because they don’t want to disrupt their business model.
The big ones are medicare, medicaid and social security, we have only seen the corruption in the periphery of the blob. Where do you think the illegal immigrants are getting the money to send to Mexico? How many are on “disability” with maximum benefits? Follow the money.
I see they already been hard at work with all the trash on Bobby Kennedy they’re putting out. If and when that loses any traction they will start on somebody else.
They are just going to keep slinging darts in the hopes they hit the bullseye. They don’t much care what destruction they sow in the pursuit of that goal. Orangeman just doggone bad…
That they are parading the ghetto fraud from Texas (Texas! Why?), the bartender from Queens and the old fool from Vermont shows us everything we need to see.
:”… CIA manager John Ratcliffe scheduling a meeting with DOGE head Elon Musk.”
This is perhaps it, the deciding battle against the deep state. The CIA has reported to nobody, and the Kennedy files showed many hints to their nefarious actions. USAID was their tool. At all costs they will try to stop Musk from forcing their spending open, and giving Ratcliff and Trump, real control.
The Deep State were successful in Trump1 and the 2020 election. DJT has had four years to reflect and plan. We are seeing the fruits of that experience and labor now. He may just save our Republic. Our greatest enemy at this time are elements of our own government. The Zen Master says, “We’ll see.”
Absolutely right! USAID is/was their Deathstar and blowing it up means the empire strikes back, and no level of treachery is beneath them. Hopefully they don’t go nuclear to preserve the deep state, but I wouldn’t put it past them. This is a battle of good versus evil, and they are demonically evil.