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Aug 25 2025

Outline #5 – The Prequel


Posted originally on CTH on August 24, 2025 | Sundance

If you have followed the construct of the Trump-Russia collusion story, you are likely outraged that accountability has not followed.  There’s a very frustrating reason for that, and I will explain how two distinctly different issues are being conflated.  Separating them is the key.

The first issue is the FBI’s illegal surveillance of presidential candidates, including candidate Donald Trump.  The second issue is the Clinton campaign inspired Russia-Collusion story, that led to Crossfire Hurricane, colloquially known as “Russiagate.”  All investigative emphasis, including John Durham, has been on the latter which takes you into a DC silo construct where all tentacles lead to dead ends and inaction.

Russiagate was a Clinton-inspired political smear campaign that was given the patina of credibility by the FBI opening the investigation called “Crossfire Hurricane.”  If you focus on that storyline, you end up with zero accountability and endless talk that goes nowhere.

However, if President Trump and DNI Tulsi Gabbard reveal the first element, the FBI’s illegal surveillance of candidate Donald Trump, that path has a physical trail and documents that cannot be deflected by political obfuscation.

♦THE FBI SURVEILLANCE – The original agreement between Clinton and Obama, going back to 2008, was for Obama to take the nomination, the presidency and then eventually support Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid.

Obama would be President. Obama would appoint Clinton to Secretary of State, Hillary would then use her office to build wealth for herself and her family, and then HRC would exit the Dept of State to begin her presidential run.

John Podesta would enter the Obama administration as Hillary left (post Benghazi mess) in 2013.  Podesta would look out for Hillary’s interests from his position inside the Obama White House.  The Clintons and Obamas never fully trusted each other.

Barack Obama would put all the mechanisms into place that would transition his administration into Hillary Clinton’s.  That was always the plan running in the background.

In 2015, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had a check-in meeting -just touching base to firm up the goals and objectives as Hillary began her campaign launch. Podesta then left the White House to take up position inside the campaign, and Obama would maintain Clinton’s interests as planned without a monitor.

All of President Obama’s appointments, in/after 2015, were essentially through the prism of assisting Hillary Clinton to win in 2016. Attorney General Loretta Lynch (tarmac meeting), Deputy AG Sally Yates, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and FBI Director James Comey were all part of that.

This is a key point missed by many. In the last two years of Obama, the cabinet and top-tier members of the administration would align their institutional interests to that of Hillary Clinton.

Technically, Hillary had eyes and ears all over the White House at the time, and with Hillary Clinton being a foregone conclusion, per the expectations of Washington DC, everyone would fall in line during the transition from Obama to Clinton.

Again, this was the general plan. Obama would show up in 2016 to campaign for Hillary, and all would be seamless.

The FBI was aware of the plan for transition from Obama to Clinton. Hence, the FBI role in eliminating the threat later presented by the Hillary Clinton laptop scandal, private servers and the subsequent issues of her receiving and transmitting classified information.

Remember, Clinton’s motive as Secretary of State was to sell her position for material wealth. That’s why she used a personal email, maintained her own servers, and generally controlled how her activity could be monitored and tracked. [Also, she didn’t fully trust Obama]

The FBI activity was to support, defend and facilitate the Clinton effort. This is again a key to understanding “Russiagate.”

After March 2016 (Super Tuesday), it became obvious Donald Trump was going to win the Republican nomination. Trump would be Clinton’s opponent.

♦The surveillance – Using access to the NSA database, the U.S. Govt., specifically “FBI Contractors”, began doing political surveillance of Donald Trump’s campaign. This intel was then sent to the Clinton team. Clinton would benefit from knowing the communication inside the Trump campaign. All of that intel was in the metadata captured by the NSA and searched by the FBI contractors.

All of this activity was political surveillance, using govt resources to feed the Clinton team the info.

♦”RUSSIAGATE” – When the Clinton campaign launched the Russia Collusion dirty trick move against her opponent Donald Trump, originally using Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson, the role of the Obama administration was to facilitate the political hit, and at the very least not impede it. Hence, former CIA Director John Brennan briefing Barack Obama on the status of the Russia collusion hoax as it spread in 2016 via the Clinton campaign.

However, as a result of the circle of information, Obama had a problem. The sourcing of the intel could trace to the illegal FBI surveillance of the NSA database.  That’s why they needed a plausible shift within the surveillance. That’s where the Carter Page FISA comes in.

Specifically, because President Obama was, by extension, now a participant in the Clinton created “Russia Collusion hoax,” and specifically because his administration officials were participants in the process (DOJ, FBI), when President Trump won the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was now exposed by the threat the operation represented. This context is the impetus for the January 5, 2017 meeting and subsequent Susan Rice memo.

Following the surprising result in the 2016 election, the team around Obama was constructing plausible deniability.

President Obama did not orchestrate the Russia Collusion hoax; he facilitated it by not interfering with his administration officials who were assisting Hillary Clinton. This is a key distinction.

President Obama knew what was going on, and he was willfully blind as it was carried out. However, the mess and fallout from the effort his FBI and DOJ officials put into assisting Hillary Clinton eventually represented a threat to President Obama.

With an assist from pressuring allies in the legislative branch, Robert Mueller and all 19 of his Clinton-aligned Lawfare operatives were put into place to cover-up the mess created within the Russia Collusion operation. Mueller +19 Lawfare embeds continued the Crossfire Hurricane operation, while the extreme Lawfare strategy was deployed against the Trump administration.

That’s the short, encapsulated version.

The Russia Collusion hoax was created by Hillary Clinton, spread to media through Fusion GPS, and given the patina of credibility by the DOJ and FBI. President Obama facilitated the operation by not interfering in it until it became a threat to him personally.

Both the Obama and Clinton political teams supported and organized the Robert Mueller cover-up. All of this activity is because Hillary Clinton was supposed to win.  They all knew the “dirty tricks” that were deployed and specifically what systems were utilized in order to carry it out.

♦ Awakening the public. Among the information President Donald Trump has requested for declassification, there are two important document sets being overlooked.

#1 is the 2017 99-page opinion of FISA Court presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer, covering 2016 FBI Contractor abuse of the NSA database. Tulsi Gabbard needs to get the unredacted version, read it and declassify it. [Yes, revealing the names of the actual FBI contractors]

#2 are the NSA “audit logs” which were preserved by NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, as outlined in his testimony. Where does NSA store their audit logs?

Both document trails outline the FBI conducting political surveillance of the 2016 Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

This is the originating data that follows a parallel path in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

Both paths, (1) the FBI illegal political surveillance, and (2) the Clinton campaign Russia Collusion/Crossfire Hurricane investigation, intersect at the Carter Page FISA warrant and merge together. However, it is important to see them as two distinctly different paths.

The illegal surveillance path was made legal retroactively by the FISA Warrant against Carter Page.

Investigating ‘Russiagate‘, as dirty and unseemly as it was, takes you to a place where politics infected the DOJ/FBI, and every participant carries plausible deniability.  However, investigate the 2016 illegal surveillance of Donald Trump’s campaign via the NSA database, and all of that activity cannot be justified.

Do you understand the difference?

If you understand the difference above, then you start to realize why John Solomon is focusing on Russiagate.  Beware the person who picks up the flag at the front of the parade, for they are likely steering the crowd for a reason.

Focus on the FBI surveillance of the GOP in 2016, by focusing on how they exploited the NSA database.

As to the Audit Logs preserved by Director Rogers, there are two strong likelihoods:

#1) I suspect one of the workstations involved in the database searches could be identified as an FBI workstation in the DC Law Office of Perkins Coie.  At least that workstation could be in communication with the NSA search results.

#2) I also suspect one of the workstations involved in the database searches will be located in the office of Samantha Power at the State Department, with a user id login designated to Power (but she may not have physically logged in). This would be an external, non-domestic, workaround to the legal limits of surveillance.  A log-in that can take place from any country not technically bound by the 4th amendment search restrictions found domestically.

Both #1 and #2 above are directly connected to Hillary Clinton.  #1 was her campaign law firm, and #2 was her former office in the State Dept.

Bottom line.  Authorized “contractors” with the USIC were conducting illegal political surveillance on the 2016 GOP presidential contenders and funneling the results to the Clinton campaign.

There is a document trail directly to this activity, and audit logs showing exactly who was doing it.

Aug 24 2025

“Pray For a Good Winter, but Plant Lots of Cabbages”


Posted originally on CTH on August 23, 2025 | Sundance

Abandoned by his father to a troubled single mother; eventually raised by grandparents. He is then recruited from an Ivy league law school by shadow figures, a specific billionaire and a network of interests. He changes his name, writes a book about his life story, and with the support of the aforementioned – who eventually pays for a strategic campaign, becomes a Senator for 2 years before being quickly elevated into position in the White House.

Many people reading that paragraph are familiar with the life story of Barack Hussien Obama. However, that paragraph is not describing Obama, that paragraph describes James Donald Bowman, aka J.D. Vance.

On one side, we have an emotionally constructed political figure for the left.  On the other side, we see an emotionally constructed political figure for the right.  Each person, each emotional narrative, carrying the specific nuances to appeal to their audience; both follow the same playbook.

J.D. Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio (August 2, 1984). He then changed his name to James David Bowman. He then changed his name to James David Hamel. Eventually, in 2014, notably after Yale Law School (class of 2013, and after marrying his wife Usha, now age 30, he changed his name to write a book.

It was 2014, that’s when J.D. Vance was born.

Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy was published by Rupert Murdoch’s publishing house, Harper Collins in 2016. The book was made into a Netflix movie, [Reed Hastings] created by Imagine Entertainment and directed by Ron Howard (2020).

However, the interesting background on J.D. Vance goes back to Yale, and the Obamaesque tap on the shoulder that comes from a billionaire most are familiar with, Peter Thiel (PayPal and Palantir).

Thiel first recruited Vance into his circle while Vance was still a student at Yale Law School.  Shortly thereafter, Vance joined Thiel’s investment firm Mithril Capital, where he worked for two years before joining Revolution Ventures. Vance played a major role in Revolution’s “Rise of the Rest” seed fund whose major investors included Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.  {Citation}

J.D. Vance then launched his own venture capital firm Narya Capital in 2020, using startup money from both Peter Thiel and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

From this timeline, we can see how J.D. Vance went from no money (student loans) in 2013, to big money in 2020.  Everything came via Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt, but mostly Thiel.

To understand J.D. Vance as an Ohio Senator, we visit the inflection points in 2013 and the subsequent relationship with billionaire Peter Thiel (Palantir Technologies).  The timeline from 2013 to now becomes important.

Billionaires Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel are key members of the steering committee of the controversial, closed-door, and overtly globalist Bilderberg conference. Newsweek once called Schmidt and Thiel the two most influential figures at Bilderberg.

Peter Thiel’s company, Palantir Tech, is the driving force of a global surveillance system using artificial intelligence (AI).

Palantir has massive contract interests in U.S. military and intelligence communities.

Keep in mind, Palantir is the current company creating the tech mechanisms for the U.S. government to conduct foreign and domestic surveillance.

The actual technology needed by the Deep State, to advance their interests, is provided by Peter Thiel. {Citation}

According to the popular narrative, J.D. Vance opposes the Intelligence Community deep surveillance state, while simultaneously being the political front for the interests of Peter Thiel and Palantir Technology.  This doesn’t reconcile.

Peter Thiel was the money and network behind the 2022 Ohio Senate race between J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan.

It was Peter Thiel who took J.D. Vance to meet President Trump in Mar-a-Lago to get the needed endorsement to launch Vance into the U.S. Senate.  Without Peter Thiel there is no Senator J.D. Vance.

It is also important to remember that prior to 2018, prior to Peter Thiel becoming aligned with the FBI as a confidential human source, and prior to Vance needing the Trump endorsement, J.D. Vance was a staunch never-Trumper.

J.D. Vance went from calling President Trump “a literal Hitler,” to appreciating Trump’s incredible leadership – a remarkable shift in opinion.   To his strategic credit, Peter Thiel was successful in gaining both the Trump endorsement and the winning outcome of the 2022 Ohio Senate race.  That success was now Senator J.D. Vance.

Within the Thiel network, you will note the aligned interests of another key financial friend and big federal contractor, Elon Musk.  Together, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel form the core of a very wealthy group of modern tech political influence agents, including another Yale Law School graduate and J.D. Vance supporter, Vivek Ramaswamy.

J.D. Vance named one of his three children Vivek.  Suffice to say, they are close.

What you have read so far is the background of how a billionaire, Peter Thiel, deeply enmeshed in the surveillance state, creates the process for the advancement of his interests.  A few dozen millions are a worthy investment if the investment creates and supports the objectives of the billionaire (Palantir Technology).

As an outcome of an influence network in 2006, Senator Barack Obama was successfully installed.  As an outcome of an influence network in 2022, Senator J.D. Vance was successfully installed.

Both Barry Sotero (Obama) and James Bowman (Vance) are mirror images of each other; the playbooks used to create both are identical.  One went through the path of community activism, the other through the military.  Both paths have a target audience.

We have long discussed the UniParty operation in Washington DC.  What was once a radical concept and controversial, is now accepted as reality.

We have also outlined the how the Fourth Branch of Government was created under Obama.  What was once conspiracy theory is now accepted as the truth.

Once we accept how both wings of the UniParty operate, we then see how the system works.  The Obama network ultimately led to the modern IC surveillance state.  The Vance network now appears to be positioned to benefit from it.

Unfortunately, much like an abuser toward the abused, our ideological enemy uses our virtues of love and trust as weapons.  We are in an abusive relationship with government.

♦ STRATEGIC OPTIMISM – In everything that happens, the geopolitical power players -including the Intelligence Community- have what are called “strategic interests.” Meaning, they plan out their future position based on current events (data), pathways and predictions.

Some of these power structures are, putting it mildly, not good. In fact, they are eroding liberty, freedom and making us serfs, while creating a system of political elites. We feel it daily.

In order to best weaken, or make them more vulnerable, the best strategy is to put them into a position where they cannot plan for the future because they cannot predict the waypoints in their path.

Having a known 2028 U.S. presidential nominee gives them the ability to plan for it. They are able to make moves to get beyond the 2024 to 2028 challenges they face; they look toward who they will be faced with as an opponent in ’28.

From that position, they conduct enemy operations against Trump’s strategy…. they essentially plan to outlast him, ignore him, put on a mask when they talk to him, etc.

President Trump, making it known who will be the ’28 nominee, gives his opposition power. Essentially making Trump’s position less strong.

Had Trump selected a “one-term” running mate (I don’t care who it would have been), the opposition would not know what to expect in 2028. They would be forced to focus every day on what Trump is doing.  The opposition cannot look forward (proactive) beyond Trump.  They are forced to react. They are kept vulnerable.

Do you want your enemies planning, or do you want them reacting to the unknown variables?

Do you want them focused on your attack, or do you want them brushing you off as irrelevant in the longer term?

Do you want them on their heels each day/week as they try to figure out what you are doing…. or do you want them to know the destination ahead, regardless of the daily or weekly policy moves?

By selecting a VP nominee that will be the 2028 presidential nominee (what 90% of short-sighted people wanted), Trump would give greater power to the ideological enemy.

For the next 3.5 years, to achieve the maximum benefit from President Trump, the deep state at home and geopolitical enemy abroad must not know what they will face in the future.

From that position of potential vulnerability, they are forced to focus on daily events and counterstrategies, while unable -by design- to compromise the future opponent.

I never resign Trump to a failed position, as long as there is a way to turn a necessary decision into a winning and more powerful position.

The problem of Peter Thiel, his network, and the potential problem J.D. Vance represents can be dealt with.

President Donald J. Trump makes it very well known, and constantly reminds people for 3 years, that if J.D. Vance sucks, flinches, is inept or doesn’t follow orders, then J.D. Vance doesn’t get the 2028 endorsement.

Thankfully, we see indications of this beginning with President Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC Convention and continuing throughout today – including during an interview this week on Fox and Friends, where Trump noted Marco Rubio would be a good option for 2028.

For Trump supporters and all supporters of the goal to deconstruct the worst and most toxic elements of the Deep State, we should support a tenuous 2028 endorsement message.  After all, we are expecting Vice President J.D. Vance to uphold actionable policies against the interests of his benefactors.

Those benefactors, and the aligned Vance influence network, include Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Ackman, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jacob Helberg, Vivek Ramaswamy and of course, many more.

I don’t care about anything that happened prior to the 2013 inflection point, the tap on the shoulder at Yale.

James Donald Bowman, aka J.D. Vance’s background construct, as lived or as sold, is irrelevant to me.  We do not have the time to be emotionally attached to any individual. We need actionable results.

We are not going to be battered conservatives, pushed yet again into the position of Charlie Brown to Lucy’s deep state, ‘trust the plan‘ football.  The trust account of the American electorate is bankrupt.  Corruption is running amok.

The threat to J.D. Vance’s political career must be actual, loud and repeated often to keep the toxic IC and domestic Silo operators guessing. While simultaneously, every righteous attack takes down a small IC silo segment like a bite out of an elephant.

We also accept that this rather deliberate approach is likely to make Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance and the entire Thiel/Musk network quite unhappy.

♦ SURVEILLANCE STATE – The research article positions the relationship between J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel as a serious challenge – here’s why.

Since his original endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016 (a good thing), billionaire tech executive Peter Thiel has expanded his company, Palantir Technology, to be the leading edge of an AI enhanced data-processing system.

The Palantir tech is designed to use artificial intelligence (AI) to crawl through massive sets of surveillance data, phone data, facial recognition data, metadata (writ large) etc.

In essence, Palantir Tech is receiving government contracts (Defense and Intel) to use the Palantir AI tools to analyze/filter a massive amount of electronic data, and take action based on results from the data, or what might be called SIGNIT (Signals Intelligence).  There are billions at stake in this relationship.

In short, Thiel has a vested financial interest in providing AI surveillance filtration tools to the U.S. government.

Ok fine. That’s just a simple acceptance of what Thiel’s company does now. And Thiel recruited J.D. Vance, back in 2012/2013 while at Yale law school, and personally financed JD’s entry into the world of politics in 2020/2021.

Thiel leveraged his relationship with Donald Trump to get J.D. Vance the Ohio primary endorsement in 2022, and the rest is history.  Fair enough. Nothing disputed.

Here’s where things get sticky….

Thiel’s company, Palantir Tech, provides the AI metadata analytic tools used by the U.S. government in their national security efforts.  The government access to that metadata comes, in part, as an outcome of the legislative FISA authorization.

As a consequence, eliminating, say… FISA(702) surveillance processes, is against the financial interests of Peter Thiel.  If the U.S. government cannot access the dataset, the U.S. govt doesn’t need Palantir’s AI filtration tech.  That’s just the nature of the relationship.

Again, this is just a cold, factual acceptance of the situation.

Would J.D. Vance support the elimination of FISA(702), FISA Courts, or the National Security Division of the DOJ (something that forms the foundation of removing the worst elements of the Deep State), knowing that action would be adverse to the interests of his benefactor and mentor, Peter Thiel?

Again, just a question.  Perhaps he would, perhaps not; however, a review of history shows the odds are not in our favor.

I mean, there is a reason why Thiel recruited, financed, supported and guided Vance to the position he is now in, correct?

Elon Musk’s entire business model, sans X (maybe) is contingent upon government contracts and policy.

Regardless of his altruistic disposition, or lack thereof, Musk’s enterprises, Tesla and Space-X, do not exist without direct government funding or indirect govt support via policy.

Peter Thiel is essentially in the same position with Palantir Tech, unless the U.S. Government gave him permission to sell his services to foreign adversaries.  Not likely.

Many are looking at J.D. Vance as the guy, maybe one of the ‘guys’, who can finally confront the worst elements of the Deep State.  However, the worst elements of the Deep State, the surveillance and control silos, are in a synergistic relationship with Vance’s benefactors.

Will Vance willingly tear apart the surveillance state that will create a negative financial outcome for those who put him into office?  My note of caution is, ‘Don’t get your hopes up.’

I mean, seriously think about it.  Musk puts up USG satellites that monitor stuff.  The low-earth-orbit monitoring results (data signals) are returned to the USG.  The data signals are then analyzed by AI tech created by Thiel.

Another way to look at it: Elon Musk puts the camera on your face; Peter Thiel tells the govt where you went.

♦ BIG PICTURE – Are the newest group of billionaire Silicon Valley tech leaders currently supporting MAGA Trump/Vance, really a modern assembly of the Green Dragon rebels in Boston, plotting the next Tea Party rebellion?  Or are they simply just the other side of a new modern Technocratic control system, aligned with and dependent on government?

The Obama-era ‘Technocracy‘ was based on public-private partnerships with social media.  This was the origin of the surveillance state that now scours, controls, filters, censors and ultimately monetizes your social media data profile.  The operational and business model is cemented into the process now. Everyone accepts it. Terms and conditions apply, and if you don’t agree, you can’t use.

Is the pending Trump-era ‘Technocracy‘ a rebrand, pushing social media off to the side (that part is done) and bringing data processing control agents, artificial intelligence software designers, big money venture capitalists, banks and those who are creating digital id systems?  Do Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Ackman, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jacob Helberg and Vivek Ramaswamy, now occupy the empty chairs around the table of Technocracy?

Was the 5/10-year business model, in the mind of tech billionaire Peter Thiel, what led him to recruit J.D. Vance in 20? Was it a financial decision blended with ideology to guide, finance and support J.D .Vance all the way to 2022 and 2024?  Was J.D. Vance an investment?

Truly, I suspect our gut knows the answer.

That’s why my approach is to say, “Here’s the factual data – trust your instincts.”

[SOURCE]

Around this time someone will snark, saying my assembling this perspective indicates President Trump is an idiot, or something.

NO!  President Trump is not stupid, or naïve!

CTH has painstakingly outlined how the silo process within the Deep State works.  You have more information about that process. You have more knowledge about that process.

All of us, courtesy of dozens of brilliant researchers here and in lots of other places on the internet, have a far more comprehensive understanding of how the systems within the D.C. administrative state work than any subset of professional politicians or their staff.

Are you stupid or naïve?  No.  None of us are.

However, many of us are sick and tired of having the virtue of our patriotism weaponized against us. For reference, see DHS, ODNI, CISA, TSA, The Patriot Act, or any other of the myriads of crisis-created legislative solutions, later turned into tools by bad actors that inevitably diminish freedom.

I was sitting at dinner with a good person, who happened to be the head, the tipy-top, of one of the most connected IC silos in Washington DC, and that person laughed recalling situations where they walked into their office many days and frustratingly shouted at their staff, “Who the f**k is leaking information to this guy,” meaning me.  No one was leaking anything, and the entire organization was just as surprised as the leader of it.

My point is that many ordinary Americans know far more about the interconnectedness of DC silo operations, than the people within the individual silos can fathom.  They are stuck inside a created system of compartmentalization; we are not.

The overwhelming odds are that you know more than your federal representative. That fact doesn’t make you smarter than President Donald J. Trump, it just means you have a different set of researched datapoints that create a different understanding.

Additionally, President Trump doesn’t “vet” anyone; someone else does the “vetting” for him.  That vetting helps him to make decisions, it doesn’t exclusively determine the final decision.

No one is stupid in this discussion.  No one knows all the information.  The fact-finding is a process of information assembly, that permits guidance to decision making.  That’s it.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) might have been a good decision at the time, until it starts getting weaponized later on.

Given the nature of the political landscape, Senator J.D. Vance was a good selection for Veep.  A candidate for the office of the vice presidency that positioned President Trump, and the people around him, to be able to start putting countermeasures into place to stop government weaponization, a seemingly out of control surveillance state.

Senator J.D. Vance helped to unite the various Republican clans.

Perhaps more valuable, his selection reduced the possibility of the Silicon Valley Technocrats working against OUR interests – as we look to control THEIR influence.

More importantly, Senator J.D. Vance made winning in November of 2024 slightly more likely.  That was the key value in his personage.

Perhaps Vance is a technocratic tool; perhaps he’s a MAGA ally; who really knows?

The bottom line is we must understand the context of everything that comes with Vance, nothing more.

Trust God, and for everyone else – watch them like a hawk, while you live your best life.

We won in November. We have an opportunity to start putting countermeasures and guardrails into place that will seemingly impede the efforts of the bad operators within each IC silo.  Simultaneously, we need to identify who each bad actor is. We can see DNI Tulsi Gabbard working earnestly on this effort.

This larger mission is the reversal of weaponization, and a restoration of representation that believes in freedom.  I am both optimistic and clear-eyed about the nature of the challenges we face.

“Pray for a good winter, but plant lots of cabbages.”

Aug 24 2025

Devin Nunes Frames a Remarkable Reality


Posted originally on CTH on August 24, 2025 | Sundance 

While speaking to Lara Trump about the ongoing Russiagate review efforts, Devin Nunes notes, “The only thing that President Trump and this administration can do, is make sure that whoever can be held accountable, are held accountable, and that this doesn’t happen again; that these people are taught a lesson, so that this doesn’t happen again.”  But there’s something even more revealing within the interview.

Context: Devin Nunes is the chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, an alternative mechanism to review and analyze global and domestic intelligence information – with overlay against truth and reality that underpins the issue(s).

Action: Accepting the intent of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, now insert the recent DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s directive to stop information sharing with allied countries as it specifically relates to President Trump’s efforts to create a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.

Back to the interview:  Here’s the statement that really deserves to be emphasized @05:25: “Imagine where we sit today, with all the things going on around the world, and the President has to have the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, his own intelligence board, all making sure the intelligence is not weaponized. I mean it’s rather incredible, this is something that is unprecedented in the United States of America.”

Think about that ¹remarkable context.  Essentially what Nunes is saying is that Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, John Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard and Devin Nunes (et al) cannot trust the operational embeds under the agency heads within the United States Intelligence Community.  Think about that, as it is said out loud.

¹This is exactly what CTH has been trying to hammer home for years.  The modern IC system is now designed to be a rogue apparatus, disconnected from the traditional framework of executive control.  The people who operate within that fourth branch of government are not constrained by the power or authority of the executive.

This is exceptionally dangerous.  We elect a President (Executive), we elect representatives (Legislative), the Executive and Legislative create the Judicial, who exactly is controlling the Intelligence Branch?

Many, too numerous people to count, have dismissed my warnings about how this system is operating.  Here we have the former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and current Chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, saying exactly the same thing.

Ratcliffe, Gabbard, Patel, Blanche, Bongino, Bondi, Rubio and all of the Nunes advisory team, are trying to keep the IC system operators from targeting President Trump via weaponized, purposefully manipulated, intelligence information.

By direct and unassailable implication, this means rogue influence operations are taking place external to the ability of executive to curtail them.

As Devin Nunes is noting, the Office of the President is taking active measures to work around the intelligence agencies.

This rogue nature of the intelligence apparatus is an example of how the CIA seemingly operates in places like Ukraine without President Trump or Director John Ratcliffe having any power over the activity.

Aug 24 2025

When Questioned About Ukraine-Russia Intransigence, President Trump Says, “Maybe I do Nothing, and Say It’s Your Fight”


Posted originally on CTH on August 23, 2025 | Sundance 

A very interesting response from President Trump against the U.S. President stepping back and awaiting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin to organize their teams and schedule a bilateral discussion.

President Trump has said he expects the diplomatic teams of Zelenskyy and Putin to coordinate a face-to-face meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy in the next two weeks.

As noted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sometimes it just takes putting the principals into the same room to break the logjam.  However, both regimes have entrenched ideologues who are positioning for maximum leverage.

President Trump is asked what he will do if Zelenskyy and Putin cannot or do not organize a meeting. WATCH:

For the first time President Trump indicates he’s willing to take a full retreat position from the effort, “or do we do nothing, and say it’s your fight.”  Doing nothing seems to indicate the U.S. withdraws all support and lets them fight to the point of defeat or surrender.  Doing nothing is actually doing something quite remarkable.

In the background of all of this, DNI Tulsi Gabbard has issued a directive telling all of the intelligence agencies all information regarding the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations is not to be shared with U.S.-allied intelligence partners.

[…] “The memo, dated July 20 and signed by Gabbard, directed agencies to not share information with the so-called Five Eyes, the post-World War II intelligence alliance comprising the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, multiple U.S. intelligence officials told CBS News.” {LINK}

Aug 24 2025

Neighborhood Watch – President Trump Speaks to Police and National Guard Before Joining DC Patrol


Posted originally on CTH on August 22, 2025 | Sundance

After initiating a federal security program in the Washington DC metropolitan area, President Trump goes to the streets to thank the police and national guard for their efforts at restoring law and order.

President Trump delivered remarks to the assembled law enforcement and national guard.  WATCH:

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Aug 23 2025

John Bolton Under Investigation for Violations of the Espionage Act


Posted originally on CTH on August 23, 2025 | Sundance

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton is a well-documented neocon, who operates inside the business model of selling U.S. foreign policy influence for personal gain.  His activity mirrors that of former Senator John McCain in many regards.

John Bolton sold his access, contacts and ability to influence policy to the highest bidder. In DC parlance they call that a “consultant.” When the consulting is contracted for a specific national interest, the title shifts to “lobbyist.”  That was his job, and all of Washington DC knows it.

Washington DC operates on this business model; the entire system will be soft to criticize Bolton and many will likely defend him.

The FBI raid on his residence and office has led to a considerable amount of speculation.  However, as some background details start to come out, it appears CIA Director John Ratcliffe provided FBI Director Kash Patel with specifics on the international travels and efforts of Bolton.

That CIA referral has led to an FBI investigation under the auspices of potential violations of the espionage act, where Bolton would have leveraged current or prior classified intelligence information as part of his influence business.

Almost identically to former Senator John McCain, John Bolton was well known to intersect with the nation of Qatar as part of his operation.  Qatar has deep pockets and a long-identified influence operation throughout the middle east, sometimes playing both sides. Qatar is also the playground for the CIA.

While it is yet unknown which nation and which activity Bolton was likely engaged in, the highest probability centers around the deepest pockets, which would also put Bolton on the CIA radar.

With President Trump in the White House, there is a big market for the services of people like John Bolton who operate a specific militaristic mindset against the Trump administration.

NEW YORK TIMES – The information that provided the basis for the warrant to search John Bolton’s home on Friday was based on intelligence collected overseas by the C.I.A., according to people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation.

John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, provided Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, with limited access to the intelligence. It involved the mishandling of classified material by Mr. Bolton, the people said.

The search of the home and office of Mr. Bolton, who was national security adviser during President Trump’s first term, was a major escalation of a long-running inquiry into whether he collected or leaked sensitive national security information, law enforcement officials said.

The nature of the intelligence collected overseas is not known. The F.B.I. obtained the search warrant after presenting evidence to a federal judge. Mr. Bolton’s office declined to comment.

The C.I.A. and F.B.I. regularly cooperate on counterterrorism investigations. It is unusual for the C.I.A. to so prominently provide information for a high-profile investigation of a former U.S. official. (link)

Also from The New York Times:

[…] The investigation into Mr. Bolton seeks to determine whether he illegally shared or possessed classified information, according to people familiar with the case who requested anonymity to describe details of a continuing investigation. The key criminal statute involved in those potential crimes is part of the Espionage Act. Another potential criminal statute in the investigation is one that bars the unauthorized removal of classified documents or material.

The information that provided the basis for the warrant to search Mr. Bolton’s home was based on intelligence collected overseas by the C.I.A., according to people briefed on the matter. John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, provided limited access to the intelligence to Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director. The intelligence involved the possible mishandling of classified material by Mr. Bolton, the people said. (link)

Did John Bolton have access to classified information about national security policy, yes.

Would John Bolton leverage that knowledge for personal material gain, again yes.

Did Bolton operate in the same industry as almost all DC influence agents, yup.

Does this investigation of Bolton create an increased sense of anxiety amid all those who operate on the same system, oh heck yes.

What does the investigation of Bolton mean to the larger network of corrupt influence peddling in DC, we don’t know yet.

Aug 23 2025

President Trump Announces U.S. Govt Takes 10% Stake in INTEL, Semiconductor and Chip Manufacturing


Posted originally on CTH on August 23, 2025 | Sundance

After concerns were raised by congress that Intel’s current CEO Lip-Bu Tan was a venture capitalist investing in Chinese companies, a concern shared by President Trump, apparently things have changed considerably.

Mr. Lip-Bu Tan came to the White House to address concerns about protecting U.S. national security interests. President Trump announces the U.S. government now has a 10% stake in the tech firm.

President Trump (Truth Social) – “It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future. I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Shares are now valued at approximately $11 Billion Dollars. This is a great Deal for America and, also, a great Deal for INTEL. Building leading edge Semiconductors and Chips, which is what INTEL does, is fundamental to the future of our Nation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Intel has been struggling for the past several years, and President Trump has been focused on getting Semiconductor and Chip manufacturing established in the USA, a big national security issue.  The Trump administration has been negotiating a 10% stake in Intel by converting grants the company was awarded under former President Joe Biden.

Obviously, I’m not a big fan of government collaboration with private corporations, but this approach aligns with a very specific national security issue.  This sounds like something Commerce Secretary Lutnick and President Trump would structure as a win/win.

Intel Public Statement Here:

“The government’s investment in Intel will be a passive ownership, with no Board representation or other governance or information rights. The government also agrees to vote with the Company’s Board of Directors on matters requiring shareholder approval, with limited exceptions.”

Aug 23 2025

DOJ Releases Transcripts and Audio Recordings of Ghislaine Maxwell Statements to Deputy AG Todd Blanche


Posted originally on CTH on August 22, 2025 | Sundance

We can expect the Democrat talking points about the Epstein files to quickly disappear now.  The DOJ has released the transcript and audio recordings of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell.

DOJ LINK HERE

Ghislaine Maxwell said she never saw President Donald Trump “in any inappropriate setting.”  Ghislaine Maxwell on Trump/Epstein: they only spent time together in social settings, she “absolutely never, in any context” saw or heard of President Trump doing anything inappropriate, he was a “gentleman in all respects.”

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Aug 23 2025

Canada Surrenders – PM Carney Announces End to All Retaliatory Tariffs – Trump Gives Nothing, U.S. Tariffs Remain


Posted originally on CTH on August 22, 2025 | Sundance

The Canadian govt led by Prime Minister Mark Carney has completely capitulated to the power and influence of President Trump.

While explaining how the United States has fundamentally changed the entire landscape of global trade, the leader of the Snow Mexicans announces he is dropping all countervailing and retaliatory tariffs against the USA and getting nothing in return.  Total and complete surrender by Canada; there is ZERO upside for Canada – NADA, Zippo, Zilch.

Prime Minister Mark Carney made the announcement, then faced the ire of the assembled media who were furious about the details within the statement.  The Canadian people had been promised an “elbows up” fight to the end. Instead, today they got down on their knees and begged Trump to retain the USMCA.

Complete and utter capitulation by Canada. No digital services taxes. No countervailing duty tariffs. No reciprocity tariffs on Steel and Aluminum. No retaliatory tariffs (reciprocal/baseline). Meanwhile, the USA keeps 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum against Canada, and Canada only gets 25% tariffs against U.S. steel/aluminum.

In addition, Canada has pledged to continue gaslighting their citizens, while wasting time, effort and resources on a hope to retain the USMCA, while refusing to admit to themselves that President Trump intends to dissolve it. WATCH:

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If that recap sounds bad for Canada, trust me – it’s way worse.  Really bad, horrible – terrible even.  So far beyond bad, the light from where horrible starts could not reach the Canadian terrible place for a year.  Not good.  

Aug 23 2025

President Trump Makes an Announcement from The Oval Office – 12:00pm ET Livestream


Posted originally on CTH on August 22, 2025 | Sundance 

At noon today, President Trump is scheduled to make an announcement from the oval office in the White House.  Several people have speculated about the subject matter, but my suspicions are that this relates to the U.S-Canada trade status.

Perhaps the USMCA is officially opened for renegotiation; or perhaps the “elbows up” team has taken a knee.  Regardless, that’s my guess about the subject of the announcement.   Let’s watch together:

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The leader of the Snow Mexicans looked really small after the White House Ukraine peace summit.  Just a guess, but I’m thinking Carney -with economy slowly contracting around him- is trying to get relevant quickly.