1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to vpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,320 your support. So I admit I did not see this 10 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:39,640 story at CNN yesterday headline how Trump's government cutting moves 11 00:00:40,119 --> 00:00:50,439 risk exposing the CIA's secrets. It sounds very scary. That's 12 00:00:51,679 --> 00:00:56,679 very concerning. My gosh, why is Donald Trump trying to 13 00:00:58,159 --> 00:01:02,320 desecure our secrets at the CIA? It's very odd. Well, 14 00:01:02,399 --> 00:01:07,640 let's read a write up by Beth Brelgie. She is 15 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,040 at the Federalist. She is an elections correspondent and an 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:16,760 award winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience. She says, 17 00:01:16,799 --> 00:01:20,239 brace yourself as the propaganda press tries to stop President 18 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:27,760 Donald Trump from culling cooperation, sorry as corruption, culling corruption. 19 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,840 It's a slight difference, right, So the press is attempting 20 00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:37,560 to stop Trump from rooting out corruption within the deep state. 21 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:43,200 Expect quote unquote news stories screaming about ordinary budget and 22 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,519 staff cuts that would happen in any bloated private business, 23 00:01:48,159 --> 00:01:53,040 but under Trump will be described as unfair or even dangerous. 24 00:01:54,439 --> 00:01:58,959 And then she takes aim at this CNN story. She says, 25 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:06,560 the short report required for CNN writers Katie bo Lillis, 26 00:02:07,359 --> 00:02:14,080 Phil Mattingly, Natasha Bertrand, and Zachary Cohen. By the way, 27 00:02:14,479 --> 00:02:17,759 kat bow Lillis was involved in a story that led 28 00:02:17,759 --> 00:02:21,280 to a defamation trial where a jury found CNN was 29 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:27,520 literally fake news. So that is not a fireable offense. Apparently, 30 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:33,719 so exposing CIA secrets sounds very dangerous. So just how 31 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,159 much danger are we in let's continue reading. Well in 32 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:42,639 the CNN piece, here's what it says. Quote as the 33 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:48,319 CIA ways staff cuts, current and former intelligence officials say 34 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:54,120 that mass firings could offer a rich recruitment opportunity for 35 00:02:54,120 --> 00:03:00,280 foreign intelligence services like China or Russia, who may seek 36 00:03:00,319 --> 00:03:07,840 to exploit financially vulnerable or resentful former employees. So the CIA, 37 00:03:08,039 --> 00:03:14,000 So we can't fire anybody at the CIA, because if 38 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:20,120 we do, they will go work for enemy countries intelligence agencies. 39 00:03:21,199 --> 00:03:24,479 That's the that's the story angle here, that's the argument 40 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:29,560 that's coming from the CIA. Oh sorry, CNN, No, actually CIA, right. 41 00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:36,319 You know, look, CNN is a cutout for the intelligence agencies, 42 00:03:36,639 --> 00:03:40,199 for various people that work inside of these agencies. They 43 00:03:40,199 --> 00:03:44,479 want something to go out to the public, they do 44 00:03:44,639 --> 00:03:47,400 so through CNN, they do it through NBC, they do 45 00:03:47,479 --> 00:03:50,639 it through you know, I Sakof is a good one. 46 00:03:50,719 --> 00:03:53,840 The or a whole bunch of people that are that 47 00:03:53,919 --> 00:04:00,360 are used to push out narratives that intelligence operatives or 48 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,479 agencies want pushed out to us. And so this is 49 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,120 coming from the CIA. You will actually if you fire 50 00:04:08,199 --> 00:04:11,560 any of us, we're basically going to go sell what 51 00:04:11,599 --> 00:04:18,399 we know to China, which is a bizarre admission. Like 52 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,560 wait a minute. If that's the case, why are we 53 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,959 still paying you, why are you here? We shouldn't give 54 00:04:24,959 --> 00:04:28,680 you any new secrets. Definitely, you shouldn't be having any 55 00:04:28,759 --> 00:04:34,600 kind of clearances, like if you're saying that people's allegiance 56 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:40,839 to America doesn't count for anything, Like all the work 57 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:43,199 that you've been doing for all these years and now 58 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,720 you've been laid off, Now you're going to go run 59 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,160 to China or Russia and sell what you know and 60 00:04:49,199 --> 00:04:51,920 face espionage charges. I mean, that's the other thing here. 61 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,360 Like you realize if we catch you and we try 62 00:04:56,399 --> 00:04:58,759 you for treason, like you could be put to death 63 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:04,240 for this. You realize that, right. The piece goes on that. 64 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:09,120 On the CIA seventh floor, home to top leadership, some 65 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:14,240 officers are also quietly discussing how mass firings and the 66 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,800 buyouts that are already offered to staff, how these risk 67 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,199 creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be 68 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,959 motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service. 69 00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:36,600 In fact, these conversations are so quiet, right that they're 70 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,439 quietly discussing all of this stuff, and it is being 71 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:47,560 discussed so quietly that CNN could report on them. So 72 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,600 is this a threat? Is this a threat from the CIA? 73 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:55,560 That's what they're saying, right, That's what it sounds like 74 00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:59,600 to me. It's a threat. Don't fire me, keep paying me. 75 00:06:00,399 --> 00:06:04,800 I will keep extorting you to keep my job, right 76 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,920 or else I go to Russia and I tell them 77 00:06:07,959 --> 00:06:10,920 everything and that I know. I go to China, I 78 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,839 work to undermine national security. I sell top secret information. 79 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:21,160 So that's a threat. It's extortion. That's the story the 80 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:25,959 CIA thinks is the best spin in the wake of 81 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:33,639 attempts to downsize the CIA footprint. Your response, I mean, 82 00:06:33,639 --> 00:06:35,519 I just like, just step back and think about this. 83 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:41,040 Your response to cutting government waste, fraud and abuse, your 84 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,759 response to a right sizing, to a reduction in force, 85 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,759 your response to potentially having positions cut, is to threaten 86 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:56,240 the American public with espionage. All right, again, bold strategy, 87 00:06:56,319 --> 00:07:02,000 we'll see if it works. Is cnnaction reporting here that 88 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,639 Trump should keep everybody employed because if he doesn't, then 89 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:08,399 the CIA is going to spill secrets to our enemies. 90 00:07:09,879 --> 00:07:15,519 That's what it sounds like. And what Beth Brelgi says 91 00:07:15,639 --> 00:07:17,720 is if that is the case, these are exactly the 92 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:21,040 employees that we should fire. So how about that? How 93 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,279 about we do like some some mock firings. You fire 94 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,079 people and then you you surveil them for a while, 95 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,920 and if they they have any read, you know, any outreach, 96 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,040 then then you can nail them. And then if they 97 00:07:34,079 --> 00:07:36,879 don't have any outreach, then you can bring them back 98 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,600 on board, you know, like a probationary period or something, 99 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,720 I don't know. Within the same PECNN ridiculously makes it 100 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:47,480 sound as if valued model intelligence employees are going to 101 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:50,480 get the acts and that those same employees have loose 102 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:55,279 lips and are ripe for the picking. So which is it, CNN, right, 103 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:59,759 which is it? Like? This is it? This is another 104 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:03,600 kind of permutation or it's a spin on the there 105 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:09,000 are no bad teachers argument. That's what it sounds like, right, 106 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:12,519 like we should pay all the teachers more money, Like okay, 107 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:14,680 but I don't want to pay the bad ones the 108 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,600 same amount as the really good ones. So I want 109 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,000 to pay the really good ones a lot of money. 110 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,240 How about that? Well, no, we can't possibly determine that. Okay, well, 111 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,000 then I'm not going to pay everybody. So it's the 112 00:08:24,079 --> 00:08:25,920 same kind of deal where it's like, hey, you know, 113 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,040 if you fire a bunch of people, then they're going 114 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,720 to go sell our secrets and stuff. It's like, okay, 115 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,519 well let's fire those like, well, you know, I mean 116 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,639 not all of them, but okay, well let's fire the 117 00:08:34,639 --> 00:08:36,240 ones that would sell the secrets. Well, we can't know 118 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,320 which ones those are, so we might as well keep everybody. Right, 119 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:45,159 this is not a logical argument. The media want you 120 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:50,200 to be worried because the media is worried. This is 121 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:57,360 a profound point. Again, this is Bethbrelgi at the Federalist 122 00:08:57,399 --> 00:09:04,120 dot Com. If truck Cleian's house, it will destroy a 123 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,360 lot of their business model at these news organizations. Right, 124 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:15,360 CNN and others have exploited unethical leaking of deep state actors, 125 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:20,799 deep state sources, treating these whispers as gospel and then 126 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:27,679 amplifying those aims of the the whisperers through high profile 127 00:09:27,759 --> 00:09:33,080 quote unquote news stories. Right. This is how color revolutions 128 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:38,159 are aided. This is how intelligence agencies operate. They put 129 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,120 these and they have people like this, you know, all 130 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,799 this is one of the things that that Doge is exposing. 131 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,759 Us AI d is one example of it. But and 132 00:09:47,799 --> 00:09:53,600 the you know, funding of people in news organizations and 133 00:09:53,639 --> 00:09:58,919 they're essentially cutouts for the CIA or for uh uh 134 00:09:59,399 --> 00:10:05,519 was it a DIA, the various military intelligence whatever. You 135 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:09,039 got people that are on staff at news organizations that 136 00:10:09,399 --> 00:10:13,039 you can give them information and they will publish it 137 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,799 and they will never question your motive in handing off 138 00:10:17,799 --> 00:10:21,200 this super secret information, particularly when it comes to Donald Trump. 139 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:25,000 And that's what we saw, and it's how we saw 140 00:10:25,039 --> 00:10:30,120 it for four years actually longer, Right, eight years since 141 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,159 Trump came down the Golden escalator. Right, that's why we 142 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,240 have witnessed the use of cutouts by our intelligence agencies. 143 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:41,519 They've weaponized it against us. All Right, if you're listening 144 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,159 to this show, you know I try to keep up 145 00:10:43,159 --> 00:10:44,960 with all sorts of current events, and I know you 146 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,480 do too. And you've probably heard me say get your 147 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,360 news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you 148 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,399 detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed 149 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:58,159 with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website 150 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,639 and it combines news from around the world in one 151 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,159 place so you can compare coverage and verify information. 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Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 163 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,919 but it also supports ground news as they make the 164 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,840 media landscape more transparent. Okay, yeah, I'll circle back to it. 165 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,120 I'll pasaki back to this after the bottom of the 166 00:11:51,159 --> 00:11:53,879 hour News. I gotta finish this piece though. At the 167 00:11:53,879 --> 00:11:59,039 Federalist by Beth Brelji. All Right, so, according to the 168 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:04,279 piece here, the media want you to be worried about 169 00:12:04,279 --> 00:12:07,960 any layoffs at the CIA because the media is worried. 170 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:13,279 The media is worried because they rely on leaking from 171 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:18,279 the CIA in order to plant stories. Right, that's what 172 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,080 they are interested in. They want their sources to keep 173 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,120 their jobs, and the sources are telling them, you know, 174 00:12:25,519 --> 00:12:28,759 if they fire a bunch of people, the concern is 175 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:30,639 that they just go and sell this stuff to the 176 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:35,360 Russians or the Chinese or the Iranians. If you don't 177 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,559 keep us on the payroll, we're going to go commit 178 00:12:37,639 --> 00:12:42,919 some treason, right, Like that's the argument. Okay, if Trump 179 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,559 fires their sources, it's harder for them to collude with 180 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:51,720 the intelligence community to craft any propaganda to sell them 181 00:12:51,759 --> 00:12:56,919 to us. Right. She then looks at a sentence in 182 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,559 the CNN PCE that says the administration's efforts to cut 183 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:05,320 the workforce and audit spending at the CIA and elsewhere 184 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,120 threatened to jeopardize some of the government's most sensitive work. 185 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:16,840 Current and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations say, okay, 186 00:13:18,039 --> 00:13:22,679 so that she picks apart this sentence. The phrase threatened 187 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,720 to jeopardize some of the government's most sensitive work, says, 188 00:13:26,759 --> 00:13:30,200 that's a fantasy or a not so subtle threat from 189 00:13:30,279 --> 00:13:35,919 intel personnel whose partisan loyalties outweigh their love of country. 190 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,240 It has not happened yet, but still it is packaged 191 00:13:40,279 --> 00:13:43,840 as quote news. This is a big beef of mine too, 192 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,320 Like this is just speculation. This is just you know, 193 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,159 this could happen. Then everybody runs around as if it's 194 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:52,600 a fat accompany, as if it did happen, but it 195 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:56,480 didn't happen. See, if something did happen, that would be news. 196 00:13:56,799 --> 00:14:02,080 Because something happened. It's not news if you're just making predictions, 197 00:14:02,639 --> 00:14:08,360 that's gambling. The source of the speculation current informer US 198 00:14:08,399 --> 00:14:12,399 officials familiar with internal deliberations, so they had four CNN 199 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,519 reporters on this, and they could not find a quotable source. 200 00:14:15,799 --> 00:14:18,039 Right nobody to go on the record to say that 201 00:14:18,919 --> 00:14:25,559 the four reporters attributed information in their story eighteen different times. 202 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:32,000 They cited attribution eighteen times, and of the eighteen, only 203 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:39,039 one had a name, Joseph Gelli, the Fiscal Services Deputy 204 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,720 Commissioner for Transformation and Modernization. That's the one person quoted. 205 00:14:45,039 --> 00:14:48,000 Everybody else was a source familiar with the matter, current 206 00:14:48,039 --> 00:14:51,399 and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations, a senior 207 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,919 career Treasury Department official, some officers, sources familiar with the matter, 208 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:02,720 former intelligence officials, said one former CI speaking hypothetically. One 209 00:15:02,759 --> 00:15:06,600 of these people, said one US official said. This person 210 00:15:06,679 --> 00:15:10,799 said former officials, noted current and former officials familiar with 211 00:15:10,879 --> 00:15:15,720 the episode, The first official said, another US official sympathetic 212 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:20,200 to Trump's efforts, some current and former officials, one source 213 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,840 familiar with the matter, former Treasury officials, and then one 214 00:15:24,919 --> 00:15:30,480 named guy. That's not journalism. Okay, that's not journalism. I 215 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:31,919 don't know what this actually. This is why I call 216 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:37,399 it journalism ming, because it's it's like journalism adjacent. Here's 217 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,000 a great idea, how about making an escape to a 218 00:15:40,039 --> 00:15:43,559 really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina? 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Maybe you sign a declination 245 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:21,160 upon receiving your clearance and it plainly states on the 246 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,519 first paragraph you will not divulge anything to a foreign 247 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:28,599 entity or person's working for a foreign government, friendly or not. 248 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,880 It's punishable by imprisonment. You cannot talk about your job, 249 00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:39,039 not even to your wife. Right. But this is the 250 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:45,079 narrative that the CIA and these Intel officials are pushing 251 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:49,119 out to us, and the media is amplifying because the 252 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,240 media is trying to protect their sources that feed them 253 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:56,240 all of the propaganda that allows them to claim that 254 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,920 they've got some inside scoop on how bad Donald Trump 255 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,599 is and how he paid some hook to pee on 256 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,119 a bed in Moscow, like that kind of stuff. By 257 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:08,119 the way, some of the people in the Intel community. 258 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,960 I feel like should get fired, like the people that 259 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:16,400 were on the NSSA secret sex chat list. Oh yeah, 260 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,400 have you heard about this? Yeah? This is a doozy. 261 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,279 The intelligence community is one of the most powerful parts 262 00:18:23,319 --> 00:18:27,200 of the American national security apparatus. In theory, at least, 263 00:18:27,839 --> 00:18:31,240 it works tirelessly to keep the nation safe. But according 264 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,599 to internal documents obtained by Christopher Rufo and Hannah Grossman 265 00:18:35,799 --> 00:18:41,680 at The City Journal, some Intel Agency employees have another 266 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:47,400 on the job priority sex chats. We have cultivated sources 267 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,680 within the National Security Agency. So there's Rufo admitting that 268 00:18:50,759 --> 00:18:56,200 he's basically spying on the NSA, which is quite a 269 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:02,680 turnabout one current employee and one former employee who provided 270 00:19:02,799 --> 00:19:09,440 chat logs from the nssa's intel Link messaging program. According 271 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,960 to an NSA press official quote, all NSA employees sign 272 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:19,599 agreements stating that publishing non mission related material on intel Link. 273 00:19:20,079 --> 00:19:23,599 So it's like an internal chat board, okay, and you're 274 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:29,079 only supposed to be using it for mission related things. Okay. 275 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,759 You're not supposed to be posting stuff like, you know, 276 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,279 good morning, hope everybody has a great day to day, 277 00:19:34,279 --> 00:19:37,480 none of that crap, right, I don't want it either, 278 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:40,839 by the way, in my messages, but this is not 279 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,519 the purpose of this board, and they sign an agreement 280 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:48,480 that says they will not use it for anything non 281 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:55,160 mission related and a violation will result in disciplinary action. Nonetheless, 282 00:19:55,640 --> 00:20:01,759 these logs, dating back two years are lurid, featuring wide 283 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:11,200 ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and even castration. I 284 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,680 have read the messages, so you don't have to. They 285 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,880 are disturbing. I cannot read them on the air. They 286 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,279 are too graphic. I cannot read them on the air. 287 00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:25,359 One of the most popular chat topics though, was male 288 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:30,720 to female transgender surgery and how they really enjoyed all 289 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:34,440 of the new pleasures of ping. Yeah, that was one 290 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:42,759 of them they liked. Yeah. Employees discussed hair removal, estrogen injections, 291 00:20:43,559 --> 00:20:47,759 and the experience of sexual pleasure using air quotes on 292 00:20:47,799 --> 00:20:52,400 that one post castration. So when you go through with 293 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,759 the bottom surgery, they're like, oh my god, this is amazing. 294 00:20:57,519 --> 00:21:02,680 And that's what they're talking about in the NSA internal 295 00:21:03,079 --> 00:21:07,680 message boards. This is what they're talking about. This is 296 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:10,160 like you remember, I don't know, Okay, hang on, do 297 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,759 you remember It's been a while, But I'm old enough 298 00:21:12,759 --> 00:21:15,119 to remember this. Maybe you're not. Do you remember there 299 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,400 was a guy running for governor of North Carolina and 300 00:21:18,519 --> 00:21:22,359 he had posted a bunch of really lurid things on 301 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,799 like a porn site message board, and everybody was like, 302 00:21:27,079 --> 00:21:31,759 why are you posting stuff on a porn site? Like? 303 00:21:31,799 --> 00:21:34,559 Who does that? Why are people doing that? Like? And 304 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,680 everybody everybody was speculating as to why somebody would do 305 00:21:38,759 --> 00:21:42,119 this and whatever. It's kind of like that, why are 306 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,559 you in a why are you in a group chat 307 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:51,400 at work talking about this? Like this would be inappropriate 308 00:21:51,599 --> 00:21:54,440 no matter what the you know, whether it was heterosexual 309 00:21:54,519 --> 00:21:58,079 sex or homosexual sex or transgender sect whatever it is. 310 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,160 This doesn't belong in the workplace. Oh my gosh. These 311 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,599 are people that hold the keys to all of the 312 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,039 systems that spy on everybody, and this is the stuff 313 00:22:09,079 --> 00:22:13,799 they're talking about. I can only imagine. I can only 314 00:22:13,839 --> 00:22:20,000 imagine what they are using the mechanism for. According to 315 00:22:20,039 --> 00:22:22,720 our sources, the sex chats were legitimized as part of 316 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:29,839 the NSA's commitment too. That's right, diversity, equity and inclusion. See, 317 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,359 you're a bigot if you don't let people talk about 318 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:37,599 their transsurgery and their orgasms. See that's very clearly the 319 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:45,079 keyse activists within the agency used LGBTQ plus employee resource 320 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:50,039 groups to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties. 321 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,839 According to the current NSA employee, the group spent all 322 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,119 day recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as 323 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:02,480 Privilege or ally Awareness, Pride to transgender community Inclusion, and 324 00:23:02,519 --> 00:23:05,000 the like, and they did so with the full support 325 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,759 of NSA leadership, which declared that DEI was quote not 326 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:13,039 only mission critical but mission imperative. You must talk about 327 00:23:13,799 --> 00:23:18,160 your sex life with your coworkers. Do I have to? 328 00:23:18,279 --> 00:23:21,599 Can I? Can I resign from the NSA? I don't 329 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,799 want to know this stuff. Last January, chat room members 330 00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:32,880 discussed their practice of polyamory or ethical non monogamy. They 331 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:38,000 also talked about orgies, and then my favorite was trying 332 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,839 to describe a polycule, which remember this is the effective 333 00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:48,559 altruism guy Sam bankmin Fried, the scam artist guy, you know, 334 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:52,319 son of wealthy left wing donors and such, and yeah, 335 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,319 that guy, and he was in a polycule and so 336 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:59,319 get this, it's a polyamorous group, one employee explained, And 337 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,559 then he proceeded to try to explain it here Right 338 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:07,000 here it goes, A is my girlfriend and B g R. 339 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:09,839 B and G are her partners. Then B and C 340 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,839 are dating, but not C and D, nor EF or 341 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,880 G with any of the others, though there are several 342 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:28,240 MWB's made metas with benefits connections. See, this is perfectly understandable, right, 343 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:34,000 everybody clear on what that situation is. It's unbelievable. One 344 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,799 of the people on the chatboards refused to use pronouns 345 00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:38,960 he or she or even they. Then they went with it, 346 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:44,519 which I think means they're not human Again, this is NSA. 347 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,839 A conflict is coming. These NSA chatlogs suggest the presence 348 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:54,319 of at least hundreds of gender activists within the Intel services. 349 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,359 What could go wrong? Actually, you know what, I am 350 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:01,079 rethinking my skepticism. Some of these people in the chat group, 351 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:06,799 I think very well might sell secrets to the Chinese. 352 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,039 It doesn't actually seem so far fetched now, you know. 353 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,640 Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 354 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,079 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 355 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,440 our past while transcending generations. They help us process the 356 00:25:19,519 --> 00:25:22,960 meaning of life, and our stories are told through images 357 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,799 and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in 358 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,599 nineteen ninety seven and Mint Hill, North Carolina. 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They are your life told 369 00:26:04,039 --> 00:26:06,599 through the eyes of everyone around you and all who 370 00:26:06,599 --> 00:26:08,839 came before you, and they will tell others to come 371 00:26:09,039 --> 00:26:13,880 who you are. Visit creative video dot com. A couple 372 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:21,319 of things have been developing during the program. First, Caroline Levitt, 373 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,160 White House Press Secretary, she did her briefing today, made 374 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,640 an announcement here that it's a little bit inside baseball, 375 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,680 but it might matter a little bit and it's going 376 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,920 to definitely anger the media class. 377 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,799 Speaker 2: As you all know, for decades a group of DC 378 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,440 based journalists. The White House Correspondence Association has long dictated 379 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,359 which journalists get to ask questions of the President of 380 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,880 the United States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore. 381 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,160 I am proud to announce that we are going to 382 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,960 give the power back to the people who read your papers, 383 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,839 who watch your television shows, and who listen to your 384 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,960 radio stations. Moving forward, the White House Press Pool will 385 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,640 be determined by the White House Press Team. Legacy outlets 386 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,640 who have participated in the press pool for decades will 387 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,000 still be allowed to join, fear not, but we will 388 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,599 also be offering the privilege to well deserving outlets who 389 00:27:16,599 --> 00:27:20,519 have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility. 390 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,400 Just like we added a new media seat in this 391 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,440 briefing room, legacy media outlets who have been here for 392 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,279 years will still participate in the pool, but new voices 393 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,440 are going to be welcomed in as well. As part 394 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,319 of these changes, we will continue the rotation amongst the 395 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,119 five major television networks to ensure the President's remarks are 396 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,480 heard far and wide around this world. We will add 397 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:48,000 additional streaming services which reach different audiences than traditional cable 398 00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:51,319 in broadcast. This is the ever changing landscape of the 399 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,599 media in the United States today. No, we will continue 400 00:27:54,599 --> 00:27:58,000 to rotate a print pooler who has the great responsibility 401 00:27:58,039 --> 00:28:01,640 of quickly transcribing the President's remarks in disseminating them to 402 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,319 the rest of the world. And we will add outlets 403 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,759 to the print pool rotation who have long been denied 404 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,440 the privilege to partake in this experience, but are committed 405 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,160 to covering this White House beach. We will continue to 406 00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:17,160 rotate a radio pooler and add other radio hosts who 407 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,640 have been denied access, especially local radio hosts who serve 408 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,519 as the heartbeat of our country. We do really and 409 00:28:23,559 --> 00:28:26,039 we will add additional outlets and reporters who are well 410 00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:28,079 suited to cover the news of the day and ask 411 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,880 substantive questions of the President of the United States, depending 412 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,319 on the news he is making on that given day. 413 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: I am all for it. The gatekeepers have lost control 414 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,720 of the gate and man, are they're going to be 415 00:28:43,039 --> 00:28:45,000 They're going to be mad. Oh yeah, they're going to 416 00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:49,000 be mad. Yeah, because that's all they do. Like, if 417 00:28:49,039 --> 00:28:51,039 you want to get the credentials, you got to go 418 00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:53,359 through these other outlets. It's kind of a bizarre thing. Look, 419 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,599 it all went downhill as soon as they let TV in. 420 00:28:55,799 --> 00:28:58,559 You know, like print, you guys were there first, fine, 421 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:03,359 you know, then radio got in the superior media, and 422 00:29:03,359 --> 00:29:05,000 and then you know, TV came along. It's just like 423 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,839 we don't need this, you know, and but then they 424 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,079 let him in and then it's like they just took over. 425 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,599 So no, it's this is a good thing. This is 426 00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:17,279 a good thing. Like the DC Press Corps. They've been 427 00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:21,279 stiff arming all sorts of other journalists from you know, 428 00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:25,440 getting access and this, I'm fine with this, totally fine 429 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:30,440 with it. Let's see. Then there's this the House Judiciary Committee. 430 00:29:31,599 --> 00:29:34,599 The Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent out a 431 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:42,920 tweet they say new disclosure reveals that the Biden IRS 432 00:29:43,559 --> 00:29:51,160 leaked taxpayer information of over four hundred five thousand Americans, 433 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:57,440 including Donald Trump's. The IRS admission confirms the committee's suspicion 434 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,079 and recent reports that showed the scope of the late 435 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,319 of the League was way broader than what the Biden 436 00:30:05,319 --> 00:30:10,319 administration's IRS initially led the public to believe. In May 437 00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:14,000 of twenty twenty four, an IRS spokesman stated that more 438 00:30:14,039 --> 00:30:17,599 than seventy thousand taxpayers were affected, but what they have 439 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,119 actually found now is the number is more than four 440 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:28,559 hundred and five thousand taxpayers. It's a massive scandal. Yet 441 00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:37,839 another massive scandal regarding the Bidens and the Irs. There 442 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:43,519 is a follow up to this from Phil Kerpin, who 443 00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:52,039 is the founder of American Commitment and he's a syndicated columnist, 444 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,200 and he points out that a person by the name 445 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,160 of Chaz Little John stole up to fifteen years of 446 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,519 tax return and this is the four hundred five thousand 447 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,599 and sent it off to the left wing advocacy group 448 00:31:08,759 --> 00:31:15,519 Pro Publica. IRS repeatedly downplayed the number of victims, and 449 00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:21,319 Biden gave him a one count sweetheart plea deal. At 450 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,119 least in that plea deal, the judge in that case 451 00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:28,920 maxed out the sentence on the one count. I think 452 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,039 the guy got I think he got fifteen years or 453 00:31:32,079 --> 00:31:35,039 something or no, that's fifteen years of tax returns. But 454 00:31:35,319 --> 00:31:38,319 so that's it, Like, this is this is what happened 455 00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:41,039 in order to get Trump's tax returns, which, by the way, 456 00:31:41,079 --> 00:31:46,480 remember what that turned into nothing? There wasn't anything there, remember, 457 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,559 it was exactly Yeah, it was like they fought all 458 00:31:50,599 --> 00:31:52,920 of these fights to try to get the tax returns 459 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,519 and when they finally got them there there was nothing 460 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:01,319 incriminating in the tax returns. And apparently most of these 461 00:32:01,359 --> 00:32:05,200 are businesses that were stolen and leaked to Pro Publica, 462 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:10,079 which then published it like they published this stuff, Like, 463 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:15,200 is that is that journalism ethics? I know, oxymoron, blah 464 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,759 blah blah, But no, you're supposed to You're supposed to 465 00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:21,519 weigh the consequences of doing stuff like that, of publishing 466 00:32:21,559 --> 00:32:26,880 these kinds of stories. Meanwhile, we're supposed to Yeah, we're 467 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,960 supposed to be worried about one guy on the Doge 468 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,680 team that's using data to run through AI algorithms to 469 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,119 find out if there's waste and fraud and abuse. I'm 470 00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:39,599 supposed to be worried about that when you get employees 471 00:32:40,079 --> 00:32:43,720 that steal four hundred thousand tax returns and hand them 472 00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:47,680 off to Pro Publica. Sorry, sorry, I just I cannot 473 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,119 generate the outrage. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 474 00:32:51,119 --> 00:32:53,200 Thank you so much for listening. I could not do 475 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,400 the show without your support and the support of the 476 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,480 businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, 477 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,920 please support them too. Until you heard it here, you 478 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,559 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 479 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,319 go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 480 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:13,799 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.