Posted originally on the CTH on February 2, 2025 | Sundance
Those who do not pretend already know the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the cover agency for CIA influence operations worldwide. However, technically USAID is supposed to be the charitable side of U.S. government, supporting foreign countries.
If USAID is simply magnanimous and altruistic aid to foreign countries using taxpayer funds, then what exactly is the “classified material” they would need to withhold from DOGE review?
Sometimes all we need are simple questions to destroy the matrix of lies.
WASHINGTON DC – WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Members of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, eventually did gain access Saturday to the aid agency’s classified information, which includes intelligence reports, the former official said.
Musk’s DOGE crew lacked high-enough security clearance to access that information, so the two USAID security officials — John Vorhees and deputy Brian McGill — believed themselves legally obligated to deny access.
The current and former U.S. officials had knowledge of the incident and spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the information. (more)
What is this “classified material” they speak of?
What "classified info" should a presumed USA charitable enterprise, purposefully using taxpayer funding, consist of? https://t.co/wY7NLLT6Hp
For those who don’t know, USAID is the cover group for CIA intervention in all foreign affairs.
The CIA and State Dept work together. USAID is the sub agency silo that carries out the missions.
The State Dept is the front of house, the dining room. The CIA is the kitchen. USAID are the staff, with DoD as the bussers.
Dissolving USAID into State, removes the cover. The CIA activities become more obvious. Foreign meddling, specifically messing in elections and installing foreign leaders, becomes more difficult.
Posted originally on the CTH on February 2, 2025 | Sundance
During a Fox News interview, Senator Lindsey Graham says he is a yes on RFK Jr, Kash Patel and now Tulsi Gabbard, specifically because the latter has now assured him, she will support FISA-702 warrantless searches of U.S. citizen communication. Senator Graham states falsely the 702 authorities only pertain to foreign nationals. Watch how he says it, PROMPTED:
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Remember what I said about Kash Patel being the firewall selected by the Senate to make the American people drop their pitchforks and torches? Listen to Senator Graham through that protective prism and you can hear exactly that approach.
Saying DNI nominee is disqualified for her prior position on FISA-702 and her previous position on Edward Snowden, SSCI Vice-Chair hopes the republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee do not allow Tulsi Gabbard to come out of SSCI confirmation vote. WATCH:
Lots of professional pearl-clutching here….
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner. He is the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and joins us from Palm Beach, Florida. Good morning to you, Senator.
SEN. MARK WARNER: Good morning, Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you have any sense yet what the cost of these tariffs could be for Virginia, which does have a wine industry, for example?
SEN. WARNER: Yeah. Well, first of all, Margaret, I think we might want to call this the Donald Trump Super Bowl tax, with the big game coming next week. If you- you know, avocados, tomatoes, beer from Mexico, price is going to go up. The question around cars- I’ve read already about $3,000 of additional price on cars, up to 10,000 on trucks, because we’ve actually integrated very well our auto production with Canada and Mexico. I think it’s well about the fact that for years, we’ve been encouraging businesses to leave China and near shore to a place like Mexico. Now that is going to end up costing consumers more. And for industries like ours- like the wine industry, where we are growing rapidly in Virginia, those folks are going to get socked as well. So this is- remember Donald Trump got hired trying to lower grocery- saying he was going to lower grocery prices–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Right.
SEN. WARNER: Two weeks in, he’s doing something that’s going to do the absolute opposite.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, we will track the impact of this trade war. Senator, I want to switch topics. You are, as we said, the Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, we watched that hearing this week for Tulsi Gabbard, she had two particular exchanges with Republican senators, Todd Young and James Lankford, who pressed her to say that Edward Snowden was a traitor. Lankford said it was a softball. But listen to what happened.
SEN. TODD YOUNG: Did he betray a duty? Did he- did he betray the trust of the American people, which is according to Merriam-Webster, that’s the definition of a traitor.
TULSI GABBARD: Edward Snowden broke the law and he released this information in a way that he should not have. He also acknowledged and exposed information that was unconstitutional.
[SEN. JAMES LANKFORD SOT]
SEN. JAMES LANKFORD: Was he a traitor at the time when he took America’s secrets, released him in public and then ran to China and became a Russian citizen?
TULSI GABBARD: Senator, I’m focused on the future and how we can prevent something like this from happening again.
[END SOT]
MARGARET BRENNAN: You’ve worked closely with these senators. I know they’re Republicans and you’re from a different party, but when you speak to them privately, do you think they can get over that- her refusal to call him a traitor and actually vote to confirm her or even move her out of committee?
SEN. WARNER: Listen, Margaret, Edward Snowden released more information- probably did as much damage to our intelligence community as anyone in history. And the fact that Ms. Gabbard- who actually had legislation to pardon Edward Snowden, she called him a brave whistleblower, couldn’t bring herself to call him a traitor, I think is disqualifying just on plain judgment. What would that- what signal if she got in, would that send to the IC workers or contractors? Is she going to suddenly enforce the law if she called Snowden a brave whistleblower? And what I’m particularly concerned about, Margaret, is our sharing of information with our allies, that’s not written into law that’s based on trust. Will they really trust to share their intelligence with us if she can’t call out one of the worst traders in recent American history as- as such, as a traitor.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you think she can even make it out of committee and make it to a full vote on the floor of the Senate?
SEN. WARNER: I know there are a number- our committee is the- historically the most bipartisan. We check our partisan hats at the door. There is enormous MAGA pressure that, as we’ve seen, put on senators who are willing to stand up. We’ll know this coming week, but it’s not just Snowden, it was- America’s most powerful intelligence tool is a law called- something we call Section 702, she left us totally confused on her views on that. And as well, her lack of judgment, whether it’s going to visit Assad when he was head of Syria, whether it was taking trips paid for by sketchy groups or echoing Putin’s comments somehow NATO started the war in Ukraine, that is not the judgment of somebody that would run 18 intelligence communities- agencies
MARGARET BRENNAN: We will watch to see those Republican senators. I want to ask you as well about what’s happening at the FBI and the Justice Department. President Trump- he campaigned on this promise to restructure the government. Seems like he’s implementing that this week. So far between the FBI and Justice Department, we’ve seen at least 20 terminations. Some are calling this a purge. But is it overstating it if we’re seeing 20 people lose their jobs?
SEN. WARNER: Well, if you are suddenly taking out the most experienced folks at justice or at the FBI, how does that make us stronger? And what he’s saying is, every FBI agent that somehow touched the January 6 investigation- that was a comprehensive investigation. I’ve been told there were almost half of all the FBI agents at least had some involvement. Remember, this was a case that was taken up against these rioters all across the country. If you’re suddenly going to get rid of all of those- that could be thousands–
MARGARET BRENN: Yeah–
SEN. WARNER: –what does that mean for our cyber security? What does it mean for our trafficking and stop against fentanyl and other drugs? What does it mean in terms of, you know, serious crime investigations? This would be devastating.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, that’s- our reporting is that the order was for a list to be drawn up of those 1500 or so people who worked on those cases. We’re going to try to get to the bottom of whether they’re actually going to be fired or not–
SEN. WARNER: –But, Margaret. Margaret–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –That’s not clear.
SEN. WARNER: We’ve seen- but we’ve seen you get your name on these lists. It’s like- it’s like, Trump’s potentially illegal offer to buy out all the federal employees, where we have no money in the budget for but we had a great tragedy this week in DC with the air- the crash. We are already short air traffic controllers. If suddenly 2 or 3000 air traffic controllers were to say, hey, I’m going to take this buyout, our airspace couldn’t operate. And yet he’s doing this so recklessly, frankly again, without legal authority–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Is it being offered to them?
SEN. WARNER: Pardon me?
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is that open to–
SEN. WARNER: –Say again.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is it being offered to air traffic controllers?
SEN. WARNER: All federal employees- my understanding it went out to two million federal employees. This offer- which, again, OPM does not have that authority to start with. That was who it came from, but it is- I can tell you, with lots of federal employees, we got chaos on steroids going on, and we had heard from Trump’s supporters, the OMB director, for example, that he wanted to traumatize federal workers. Well, that is happening, and these workers are the folks that inspect our- our fruit, our milk, our eggs. You know, what happens if they all quit?
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you- and I know many of those people live in the state of Virginia, they are your constituents. I want to ask you about your former partner on the Intelligence Committee, Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State. He told a podcaster this week, the president made the decision to cancel security protection for Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who served during the first term, because he looked through a “threat versus cost risk assessment.” I know you’re briefed on intelligence. Did the threat from Iran to assassinate former US officials go away?
SEN. WARNER: No. I’ve seen no intelligence that would indicate that that threat has been diminished. I think this is payback and it’s not just Pompeo–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –But Secretary Rubio endorsed this.
SEN. WARNER: Listen I have not seen any intelligence- and here I agree with my partner Tom Cotton, the now chair of the intel committee- we’ve seen nothing to indicate less threat. And also taking out, for example, down the security detail for former General Chief of Staff, Mark Milley. This is all about retribution. And he’s putting people’s lives in danger, which is just unbelievable, and I wish more people would stand up.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Senator, thank you for your time this morning.
Posted originally on the CTH on February 2, 2025 | Sundance
A quick review and a little warning of sorts, in a good way.
Two weeks into the second term of President Trump and the activity when combined with the future outlook is excellent.
Apoplexy abounds throughout the DC system as President Trump continues to overwhelm every silo of opposition simultaneously; meanwhile, the media is being bombarded with so much activity they are completely flummoxed like a bunch of one-legged plate spinners in a three-ring circus.
The systems’ outrage machine is bellowing dark smoke, clanking, spluttering and in a state of perpetual tilt. Things are going swimmingly.
With the latest outrage du jour, the elimination of USAID now sucking all the oxygen from the intake manifolds of the Deep State machine, the various NGO’s are blasting the UniParty politicians with too much noise.
Chairs, both people and seats, are everywhere; phones are melting, media editors and transcriptionists for silo narratives are totally overwhelmed, “stop the hammering,” and yet the deafening sound of winning is not at peak climax.
We The People have not smiled this much in decades, as the Big Ugly wrecking ball only gains momentum with each swing. These results are far beyond my personal expectations, and that is entirely the result of my reluctance to trust.
In the deep recesses of the data, there was always a possibility of Trump’s singular intent breaking through the concentric circles of control; but that analysis leaned alarmingly toward ‘hope’, so it was always best to put it into oppositional context. When we contemplated the quiet thoughts that must have been in place, despite our concerns with the guardians of status-quo, there was always the possibility…. But watching it unfold is something very special. Very special indeed.
The singular intent theory always held that President Trump, as a solitary person, had to retain independent thoughts regardless of the snakes in his midst. The singular intent theory can be encapsulated in one example -and there are many- of an issue that highlights it.
EXAMPLE: For four solid years President Trump requested and instructed the declassification of the information used against him in the Russian Collusion conspiracy operation. To wit President Trump went through three chiefs-of-staff with the same request, declassify the documents. Four Directors of National Intelligence; two CIA Directors; two FBI Directors; two deputy FBI Directors; three Attorneys’ General; three Deputy AG’s; four White House counsels and three National Security Advisors, all with the same directive, declassify and release the damned documents. None of them ever did. Instead they formed concentric circles around the President and blocked, with growing, evolving and shape-shifting justifications at every turn… But wait….
…. Not only did all the aforementioned people, lawyers, administrators and IC silo officials block President Trump’s effort to declassify evidence of the activity against him, the DOJ then went to the absurd length of appointing a Special Prosecutor to chase President Trump to his home in Mar-a-Lago and charge him with a crime AFTER they refused to do the thing that was then used as a justification for charging him with a crime, classified documents…. THINK ABOUT IT.
Put yourself into the quiet time of President Trump’s thinking as he sat in an armored SUV going to the courtroom to hear accusations of his illegal conduct, when contemplated against the nature of the opposition that created the legal outcome that was now used to charge him. Seriously, put yourself into his quiet thoughts. That my friends, is one small example of the place where the “singular intent” theory of Trump in term-2 starts.
From that origination position, hope for Trump and the proverbial “lessons learned” always existed. It didn’t matter if the people around him held the same level of purpose or intensity about those matters, for President Trump the man this weaponization bullshit would always be personal.
Now we are bearing witness to the natural outcome of all of it. Instructions, policies, procedures and Executive Orders flowing at a pace that no-one in Washington DC could fathom, despite the ‘dictator Trump‘ protestations they predicted in their proactive position to retain status-quo.
Yes, the results of the past two weeks have been astoundingly awesome. And that is despite the wish-washy efforts of many within the ranks of the office of the presidency. Thus, I step off my soapbox with a joy-filled warning of sorts.
Beware the movement of the walls around you as we enter this dark tunnel place toward Deep State deconstruction.
Many of the allied, dare I say friendly torchbearers, did not anticipate the level of Trumpian ferocity needed to pass through the caverns on the journey to the plug at the bottom of the swamp.
There’s a great deal of Big Ugly stuff to overcome the deeper we get, and as the quest gets more challenging, we will likely discover the ranks of the brave are thinning. However, be of good cheer, for that is a good thing. Because in the final analysis the victory is even sweeter when fewer can pass the challenge.
I think by now many of us know these DC people very well. Their apoplexy, in combination with their growing desperation, makes them exceptionally dangerous right now… But fugit, if not now, then when? Wrath of patient men and all that.
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