Nov 13 2024

President Trump Announces William Joseph McGinley as White House Counsel

Posted originally on the CTH on November 12, 2024 | Sundance

A key position. President Trump has announced his selection of William Joseph McGinley to serve as White House Counsel for the second term.

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The White House Counsel (WHC) is a critical component to the Office of the Presidency.

In term-1 the WHC was the primary hurdle to much of the corrupt information the public wanted President Trump to address. It was White House Counsel who warned President Trump that any unilateral action taken by him would be construed by the silos within the IC, FBI and DOJ to be interference with their investigations. President Trump deferred to that counsel.

The WHC doesn’t represent the President, the WHC represents the Office of the Presidency. It is the WHC primary function to protect the power of the President within the Executive Branch. This generally leads to many misinterpretations of risk, and the President is often hamstrung by overly cautious counsel in the position.

Thankfully, a recent Supreme Court decision over “presidential immunity” affirmed the absolute and plenary power of the person who is President, as the authority of all actions that take place within the executive branch during their officials acts as President. As SCOTUS affirmed there is no power greater than President Trump. The President is the executive branch in everything, and the President has no boss.

For Term-2 that recent SCOTUS decision and affirmation will play a significant part in a change of tone that should allow the White House Counsel to be less cautious about the office itself. Hopefully, this will empower President Trump to extend his authority over the Executive Branch and target any issues he may deem appropriate within his official acts.

President Trump’s priorities are his “official acts” and they exist without question or oversight within the Executive Branch. If the President deems an issue of vital national interest, that issue is a vital national interest – period. This approach applies toward everything within the executive branch.

Nov 13 2024

President Trump Announces Nomination of John Ratcliffe to CIA Director

Posted originally on the CTH on November 12, 2024 | Sundance

President Trump announces via Truth Social, his intent to nominate former ODNI official John Ratcliffe to the position of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Former DNI Ratcliffe passed through the Senate Intel Committee nomination process in 2019 after being blocked by Mitch McConnell in 2018. With a prior SSCI confirmation being successful, the path to confirming John Ratcliffe as CIA Director is essentially a foregone conclusion.

As CIA Director, John Ratcliffe will control the world’s second-most powerful intelligence agency. Ratcliffe has almost no attack vectors for the internal IC apparatus to use against him, that’s why I previously thought a role in the Trump-2 intel system would be good.

Ratcliffe was/is the lead transition team member on all things related to Intelligence. Prior rumor put him in the NatSec Advisor role, but CIA Director is a good fit. John Ratcliffe is very stable, vanilla, no drama and can be expected to deliver on the priorities of the Trump administration. He will work very well with the White House.

The concern would be Ratcliffe’s ability to remove the corrupt players within the darkest part of the darkest IC system.

The CIA operates a totally opaque budget and is the only institution in government with an allowable mandate to lie to every other element of the executive branch and every other branch. The CIA is legislative authorized to be an entirely dark operation with almost no oversight (SSCI).

All lying is legislatively lawful from the CIA, that is the structure of their authority. However, we can quickly see what that authority can lead to when corruption is running amok.

With this in mind, a guy like Ratcliffe in charge of a silo that is permitted to manipulate/lie is worth quite a bit. It will be very interesting to see how truth telling Director Ratcliffe deals with the dark aspects to the omnipotent silo he now controls.

One last word of caution. In the prior administration Ratcliffe never fought for declassification of records, which led to President Trump exiting his second term without vital issues ever seeing sunlight. As DNI John Ratcliffe never declassified the critical information that President Trump was urgently requesting in the final months of his presidency. Ratcliffe maintained the silo structure without conflict.

John Ratcliffe’s best friend is Trey Gowdy.

Sean Hannity will likely quickly follow with ‘glowing’ reviews.

Watch for a response from those who have a table in the kitchen.

♦ 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.

The tables and chairs are assigned by the Maitre D’ according to their value. Countries viewed as more important get the best tables.

The menus offered to each nation are completely different.

Israel has a table in the kitchen.

To get the best experience, tips (bribes) are required for everyone, from the parking valets outside, to the sommelier, to the server. Currently, Ukraine is the biggest tipper.

On the oversight aspect the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the control mechanism to approve/install the Secretary of State. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the control mechanism to approve/install the CIA Director. Everything therein and thereafter is a system of pretending it is something else.

Nov 13 2024

President Trump Confirms Selection of Representative Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor

Posted originally on the CTH on November 12, 2024 | Sundance

President Trump has confirmed his intention to use Florida Rep (Daytona) Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor.

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Mike Waltz serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).

In the role of Nat Sec Advisor, Waltz would presumably represent the power of the president toward every element of the National Security apparatus and Intelligence Community.

The Nat Sec Advisor is a very powerful position, if used correctly. The absolute power of the President toward the intelligence community in the executive branch is carried by the Nat Sec Advisor (NSA). The NSA has the ability to reach into every silo and control every element of every decision therein.

The NSA organizes the finding memos which authorize all covert intelligence operations globally and domestically. The NSA can shut down bad things in the IC, cancel black-op operations, and essentially hold omnipotent power within the executive branch over every aspect of the 17 intelligence agencies who operate therein. The NSA can also determine what is, and what is not, a national security matter.

Mike Waltz comes from inside the IC machinery and there is a lot more to be concerned about than there is to be optimistic about.

Waltz has publicly said, engaged with, and acted upon, National Security Information (NSI) products, intelligence information, that is demonstrably false and fraudulent.

Perhaps Waltz has changed his disposition, but I see no immediate indications.

Like many others, heck, almost all others, Mike Waltz believes the IC system is inherently good, just under the control of bad actors. There are volumes of direct and specific evidence that this is not the correct perspective. The IC system is corrupt by design, the mandates and interpreted policies that formulate the mission statements of the bureaucrats within it are the problem, not just the corrupt officials carrying out the mission.

It is almost impossible to understand the scale of the corruption within the IC from a position inside the silos under the control of the IC, the “six ways to Sunday” group. It is only when you exit those silos and engage with the world that is not under the control of the IC that you fully grasp just how fraudulent the constructs are.

The IC use the system to manipulate the Office of the President, the House and Senate intelligence committees, and the aggregate direction of all agency silos under their control. Big Tech is a downstream beneficiary, both in finance and operational business model, from the Intelligence Community, that’s how and why the IC can control social media.

Those entities who operate within the current system of technocracy are dependent on the allowances of their benefactors. This presents a very challenging problem to overcome.

None of what you have just read is fathomable to anyone inside the silos created by the IC, including Mike Waltz.

Those who exit the silo structure, and then contemplate the reality of new information from outside the world of the IC, suddenly realize just how their thinking was manipulated by the people who operate the control systems in the silos. It’s akin to an abusive relationship, where the abused only realize the scope of how much they were manipulated long after they finally break free. I have watched it happen.