Posted originally on the CTH on August 6, 2024 | Sundance
Remember, in this series my goal is more to describe the needs of some critical Executive Branch positions from a very practical, non-pretending, perspective of what happens within specific offices. This outline is going to be a little odd, because almost no one knows what the position of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is about.
The ODNI was created as an outcome of the 9-11 Commission recommendations. In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed.
When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
Here is the weird part. The ODNI was formed in 2004, with the intent for the office to be the pivot point of a national security radar. The DNI was intended to provide information to domestic agencies about foreign terror networks that would prevent something like 9-11 from happening again. However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has never, not for one day, operated on this intent. This is why they are such a critical position from my perspective.
The office was new, not established yet as a functioning silo, when Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived in 2009. They quickly dispatched an idiot, James Clapper, into the operation so they could weaponize around the offices’ fulcrum point.
Prior to the DNI office existing, the CIA radar would sweep externally and then report to the Office of the President. The DNI was intended to take external radar sweep (CIA) and make it a full 360° circle, adding a sweep inside the USA that would be handled by the Dept of Homeland Security.
The DHS sweep and the CIA sweep would then be combined into a central collection hub called the ODNI. Everyone with responsibility for “national security” could access the ODNI material. Essentially and presumably, post 9-11 nothing like jihadists practicing to fly airplanes would be missed again; at least that was the intent.
The weird part is that because the DNI was immediately weaponized, the office has never functioned to the purpose of its intent.
No one truly knows what the office possibilities consist of because no one has ever seen anyone try to functionally control the hub. If you think I’m joking about the intent of Obama and John Brennan using the DNI watch this video. This is before Brennan became CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars into place.
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For the intents of this outline the takeaway is how the DNI office has never been used for good. In a strategic way, that can be used to our advantage if you are talking about leveraging silos against each other.
Example: The DNI can assemble material from any silo. Meaning the DNI can reach into any IC silo and extract anything they want. Under the original authorities given to the DNI, this authority exists. So, let’s spread the wings on this office and do exactly what it is permitted to do, only this time extract for the purpose of showing the President what is happening in every silo.
In essence, the DNI *CAN BE* deployed like a super strong cross-silo inspector general’s office. Force the other IC silos to comply with the demands of the DNI. This has never been done. But the DNI has this unique power.
The DNI can make the FBI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, DoD, DoS and CIA provide anything and everything they demand. Instead of the other silos using blocks and threats against the office of the President, use the authority of the DNI to get them without confrontation. Then use the DNI to declassify the documents (if requested by potus), instead of the originating silo.
Can you see how the DNI office can be repurposed to be a seriously strong weapon in the toolbox of the President, against the schemes of those inside the various IC silos. The DNI becomes much more important than the CIA Director, NSA Director, FBI Director, Attorney General, etc, because the DNI can just show up and say, “give me this.” That’s the whole functional purpose of the DNI office that has never been exerted; let’s flippin’ use it.
Let’s use the office of the DNI as the central information hub that takes information from inside the corrupt silos, then provides that information to the President who puts sunlight upon it. Each corrupt silo penetrated with disinfectant. This could begin a process to pull down the shadow operations and let the American public see what has been happening inside our IC apparatus.
To accomplish this approach the National Security Advisor to the President (NSA), would be the person who tells the DNI exactly what they are looking for.
How does the NSA know what to look for? Because the National Security Advisor is the head of the National Security Council (NSC).
Now you see why I say put the strategic scruffy people like Mike Flynn, Kash Patel, etc etc in a stripped down NSC.
Let the NSC monitor the silos with specific intent, then provide Trump’s NatSec Advisor with details on what appears to be happening and where. With the approval of the President, the NSA then turns to the DNI and says, “POTUS wants this, go get this.”
Raw, unfiltered, unredacted information. The silo administrators end up in a fight with the ODNI, not the office of President Trump. President Trump then uses the power of his office to support the demands of the DNI.
Under this approach the DNI has a lot more power; yet funnily, it’s power they already have – yet have never utilized.
Unfortunately, the DNI needs to be confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee – so, this factors into who could achieve the position. [NOTE: Ric Grenell is too valuable in another position.] John Ratcliffe might be a possibility, but I’m not sure he would be strong enough to go up against the system he knows well (and on a character issue he’s bff’s with Trey Gowdy).
Preferably we really want an outsider in this role, yet any true outsider is going to face massive scrutiny getting through the nomination filter. My gut tells me that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey might be a strong candidate, and as DNI he can build on his reputation for confronting DHS manipulation.
AG Andrew Bailey exposed the DHS manipulation of social media and has pushed the envelope against the Deep State/Lawfare attacks against Donald Trump. Bailey has used the power of his office for good purposes, and that provides me with cautious optimism he could do the same at a federal level in the position of Director of National Intelligence.
[The next position to outline be a combination. The Secretary of State and the CIA Director. The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant. The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The Director is the Chef. The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys. Ukraine is a big tipper.]
The professional elements within the top floors of the Democrat apparatus, I’m specifically mentioning the people very close to Obama, genuinely do not believe Kamala Harris stands a chance at winning. FYI, I’ll have more on this later.
Posted originally on Aug 4, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |
QUESTION: Do you think Trump can win when Kamala raises far more money?
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ANSWER: The 2016 election proves that money will not buy the presidency anymore but will buy true love. Hillary raised far more money than Trump and still lost. That was why Hillary would not even address her audience – Podesta had to do that.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 2, 2024 | Sundance
The National Security Advisor to the President is another of the key roles within the White House that is critical to defend against the weaponized Intelligence Community. In a second term as president, we anticipate Donald Trump will again face opposition from both parties in congress and from every created silo operation in the administrative deep state.
Accepting in advance that any appointees to the Executive Branch agencies in charge of the Intelligence System, are not going to be able to change the outcomes from within those agencies, then strategizing how to confront the rogue intelligence state becomes a more honest exercise.
The National Security Advisor is going to have to navigate an intelligence community that is fully weaponized and adverse to the interests of the White House. Every element of the IC, the “six ways to Sunday” team, will work actively and behind the scenes to undermine the office of the President. Any attack vectors will be fully exploited, by the IC and nothing should be considered out of bounds.
The leaders of the CIA, FBI, DIA, DHS and NSA will all lie to the President. That’s what these institutions do now. They are part of the 4th branch of government, and they consider themselves omnipotent due to the structure of the legislative changes and oversight after 9-11. Notice I left out the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI, I did that on purpose.
The NatSec Advisor to President Trump is going to have to work through an entirely weaponized fourth branch of government in order to survive it, let alone destroy it. As a consequence, the Nat Sec Advisor needs to be a person with deep understanding of how the intelligence system inside Washington DC works, as well as carrying a profound distrust for them.
Any person who trusts any product created by the IC should be immediately disqualified from any position in our constitutional government. Additionally, any person who intentionally maintains the system of pretending (Robert Mueller was honorable etc.), is automatically disqualified.
The National Security Advisor does not need to be confirmed. The NSA person is unilaterally picked by President Trump and the entire executive branch was just reminded by SCOTUS that POTUS is in charge of everything. This should be a big arrow in the quiver of the NatSecAdvisor.
The National Security Advisor is also the chair of the National Security Counsel (NSC). The NSC is the working group in the White House specifically tasked with formulating analysis on events from their skills on specific issues. The National Security Advisor does the NSC hiring and firing. Trump needs a lot of firing assistance.
When the IC was weaponized by George W Bush and Barack Obama, the DNI fulcrum point was never used much as part of the process. The DNI sits at the center of all intelligence information and maintains the pivot on the National Security Radar that now sweeps a full circle.
Prior to the Patriot Act the national security radar swept outward from the border looking at national security threats overseas. Back and forth, back and forth, the radar swept looking for foreign adversaries who might target the USA. The Patriot Act put a ball joint on the radar that now conducts surveillance sweeps in a circle, including over all Americans.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was created to be the depository for all intelligence products. Intelligence assembled on foreign threats (CIA) can be reviewed by domestic handlers (FBI and DHS). When Bush created the office and later when Obama weaponized the office, they installed people who would just go along with whatever the FBI side and CIA side told them to do. The ODNI was created to be the stupid pivot man.
However, looking at the system in totality, it is my belief that if a really smart person was in the ODNI position, they could control a great deal and even impede the activity happening both domestically (FBI/DOJ) and abroad (DoS/CIA). I believe the DNI can crush the system, if the person really looked carefully at their power in the pivot location.
The DNI can control information. The DNI can starve the beast.
Just like the State Dept and CIA work hand in glove to make a mess of the world, so too can the Nat Sec Advisor and DNI work together to deconstruct the domestic intelligence system. In this process, information is the key. The DNI can control the information, making it harder for the IC Silos to lie to the National Security Advisor.
[NOTE: control of information is also why the Director of the National Security Agency is also important. The Director of the NSA is essentially the librarian for all data. The librarian can control who enters the library if the right people in the Executive Branch (POTUS, Nat Sec Advisor and ODNI) give the Director of the NSA that power (executive action). More on that later.]
The National Security Advisor (hereafter *NSA) needs to be a person who has a comprehensive understanding of the Silos, and a willingness/desire to take them apart.
The *NSA needs to be exceptionally smart, profoundly insightful, intensely strategic, and with a comprehensive knowledge of the DC system. The *NSA also needs to be stable from attack by the IC defense system. The ideal *NSA will have an income from outside government that cannot be impacted by the schemes of the IC. The *NSA also needs to be very stable, grounded, logical and thoughtful.
This set of character traits, in combination with the knowledge needed, disqualifies almost everyone in DC. Steve Bannon is a chatterbox who doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut, and he has a massive ego. Kash Patel is not strategic enough and maintains the pretending game in order to present himself as a man of value. Peter Navarro is loyal but has some of those key judgement issues that can be exploited by the IC, and he’s not very smart.
Former Nat Sec Advisor Michael Flynn disqualified himself from further consideration by poor judgement. Don’t forget, Flynn was an agent for a foreign government (Turkey 2016) and never told candidate Trump, thereby setting the Trump administration up for compromise. Flynn then claims he didn’t see the risk of an FBI interview in his office and never told the White House Counsel of his intent to be interviewed by the FBI. You cannot claim Flynn is smart and reconcile that with his stupidity.
All of the previous names might be good additions to the National Security Council, but no way should any of those names get close to a position where their failure to deliver can cause damage to the larger goal.
As a result, there is a very small field of candidates, very small, who might be able to pull off the role of National Security Advisor. At the top of that list is probablyDevin Nunes. I qualify with a “probably” because Nunes has one massive Achilles heel in my opinion.
Devin Nunes believes in the system. He believes in the FISC and FISA (702). Nunes believes in large aspects of the surveillance state, and he believes in the roles and responsibilities within government as it pertains to the Intelligence Community.
Nunes believes the system is good, and that its just being operated by bad people. This is where Mr Nunes and I diverge. However, I am willing to undermine my position and say that perhaps we need a person who believes in government. Maybe that’s the type of character trait that can be a good benefit. I don’t know. Maybe I’m too jaded and just want it all stripped down to nothing.
What I do know, is that Devin Nunes would never intentionally screw stuff up, and he’d never intentionally undermine President Trump. Nunes is super loyal, and he loves our country.
I don’t know if he would take the job of National Security Advisor (he would probably want CIA director). However, with a strategic partner in the DNI office, Devin Nunes could give us a solid chance.
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