**BUMPED** How is it that an insignificant corner of the internet could predict the removal of the U.S. National Security Advisor, specifically as the first administration official to be removed, more than two months before Donald Trump was sworn in as President on January 20, 2025?
To understand the complexity of the intelligence information flow, consider:
The silo system is made up, in part, of: The National Security Council (10+ desks, 15 staff/analysts per), the National Security Advisor to the Office of the President, the Dept of Justice National Security Division [DOJ-NSD (foreign review section, counterintelligence export control section, cyber section, counterterrorism section)], Central Intelligence Agency [(CIA), National Intelligence Council, Directorate of Analysis], Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI (Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, WMD Directorate, Directorate of Intelligence, Cyber)], the Office of the Director of National Intelligence [ODNI (Requirements, Analysis, Collection, National Counterterrorism Center, Mission Managers)], the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Dept of Defense [DoD, (Nuclear, Chemical, Biological, Industrial, International)], the National Security Agency [NSA (Operations, Technology, Cyber], and many more.
Each agency/office a silo, with distinct sub-silos, each with equity stakes in the information they gather, review and analyze; ultimately attributing classification level and intersecting analysis with each other agency as mission aligned.
Sound ridiculous? It probably is, yet we’ve merely scratched the surface of the networks and information flows that swirl around the Office of the President.
How does President Trump frame his world view? Who organizes the information that is prioritized to reach his desk?
It is very easy to say, “President Trump has to know about (fill_in_blank),” without contemplating the process by which President Trump would know about (fill_in_blank). The recent remarks by President Trump, surrounding COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, should put a spotlight on this consequential dynamic.
♦ PIAB – We were all very pleased to see President Trump announce the newly formed President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), because for more than a decade we have watched how intelligence products were manipulated, shaped and constructed to create the illusion of something that was entirely false.
However, we should note the same process of selecting the PIAB membership led to the previous issue of selecting former Congressman Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor. In that example, CTH predicted what would happen several months before it actually happened.
There are issues of great DC interest that overlay all names and positions within the Trump administration. The subsequent behavior of NSA appointee Mike Waltz was a great reminder that sometimes those interests or judgements are not in alignment with the common MAGA priority.
Big international policy issues, like support for Israel, Ukraine support, NATO support and opinions on the threat Russia or China represents, are all part of the prism through which White House personnel references are traditionally made.
When intended policy runs counter to personal ideology, conflicts arise.
The policies of Wall St -vs- Main St, banking regulations, reciprocal tariffs, trade fairness, cryptocurrency and foundational economic nationalism can be challenging to align with the perspectives of the professional political class, in DC.
The aspect of there being “trillions at stake” applies here, and being an outsider in DC generally comes down to financial interests and financial relationships. Then you run into the issues of the surveillance state, FISA (702) support, data collection and artificial intelligence.
In short, the interests of maintaining the status quo inside Washington DC, which may be interests carried by those in the orbit of President Trump, can stop information from reaching President Trump.
♦ Gordian Knot – As a consequence, cutting through the enmeshed interests with obvious, albeit painful truth, means delivering critical information in such a manner that, well, it cannot be refuted.
We hope this is also the goal of those who have recently been outlining the background of Russiagate. However, given a history of inaction, and the stakes at hand, nothing should be taken for granted.
What’s needed is a full spectrum outing of everything that took place throughout the targeting of President Trump.
Perhaps a lengthy press conference directly in Washington DC, where the adversarial media are confronted with overwhelming evidence of the activity around the targeting (2012-2024), in such a manner that their predictable defensive questioning can be knocked down with specific citation.
A soup-to-nuts threshing of the previous activity – a must watch TV and viral moment- cutting through the entangled issues and breaking them down to their simple core. However, that approach first starts with the ability of a person to outline the issues with exceptional citation.
The citations, what people call the “receipts”, are key. Because the citations underpin the activity, and the citations are vast, spread throughout the entire silo system and in large measure intentionally disconnected.
The story of the Trump targeting and surveillance effort is abundantly clear when the citations are gathered in timeline sequence and order. However, those citations must be woven into the story of how the targeting of Trump took place. It takes telling the story, the remarkably truthful story, for the impact to structurally change perception.
♦ OPTIMISM – We are aware that people in/around term-2 govt have come around to understand the scope of our research on these issues. The 2024 Mike Waltz prediction served a serendipitous purpose; also, you guys know our rehashes are not hymnals to the CTH choir. We are narrowing focus.
Visible confirmation comes in the appearance of change. Specific offices have structurally changed the way they engage with the Intelligence Community. Even while the operatives buried deep in the system are still trying to create false outcomes, the Nat Sec Advisor, CIA Director and ODNI are working with greater synergy.
Literally hundreds of embeds -across multiple silos- have been removed from the aggregate apparatus. The National Security Council has been taken apart, staff removed, desks shuttered. The National Intelligence Council was removed from the CIA with personnel fired. The Directorate of Analysis is now openly confronted. The ICIG is once again a watchdog. This creates optimism that substantive change is possible. [It’s also long overdue] However, much more work lies ahead.
As we began this outline, we shared a small sample of the myriads of silos to emphasize how each agency may not even realize the value within the information they hold. Each extracted puzzle piece fills in a clearer picture.
Spygate targeting, which evolved into Russiagate targeting, which evolved into Mueller targeting, which evolved into Jack Smith targeting, is one continuum purposefully scattered into separate isolation silos to hide the core issue, the U.S. government was/is using NSA captured electronic metadata to conduct domestic political spy operations.
September 5, 2025 | Sundance
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