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story at CNN yesterday headline how Trump's government cutting moves
risk exposing the CIA's secrets. It sounds very scary. That's
very concerning. My gosh, why is Donald Trump trying to
desecure our secrets at the CIA? It's very odd. Well,
let's read a write up by Beth Brelgie. She is
at the Federalist. She is an elections correspondent and an
award winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience. She says,
brace yourself as the propaganda press tries to stop President
Donald Trump from culling cooperation, sorry as corruption, culling corruption.
It's a slight difference, right, So the press is attempting
to stop Trump from rooting out corruption within the deep state.
Expect quote unquote news stories screaming about ordinary budget and
staff cuts that would happen in any bloated private business,
but under Trump will be described as unfair or even dangerous.
And then she takes aim at this CNN story. She says,
the short report required for CNN writers Katie bo Lillis,
Phil Mattingly, Natasha Bertrand, and Zachary Cohen. By the way,
kat bow Lillis was involved in a story that led
to a defamation trial where a jury found CNN was
literally fake news. So that is not a fireable offense. Apparently,
so exposing CIA secrets sounds very dangerous. So just how
much danger are we in let's continue reading. Well in
the CNN piece, here's what it says. Quote as the
CIA ways staff cuts, current and former intelligence officials say
that mass firings could offer a rich recruitment opportunity for
foreign intelligence services like China or Russia, who may seek
to exploit financially vulnerable or resentful former employees. So the CIA,
So we can't fire anybody at the CIA, because if
we do, they will go work for enemy countries intelligence agencies.
That's the that's the story angle here, that's the argument
that's coming from the CIA. Oh sorry, CNN, No, actually CIA, right.
You know, look, CNN is a cutout for the intelligence agencies,
for various people that work inside of these agencies. They
want something to go out to the public, they do
so through CNN, they do it through NBC, they do
it through you know, I Sakof is a good one.
The or a whole bunch of people that are that
are used to push out narratives that intelligence operatives or
agencies want pushed out to us. And so this is
coming from the CIA. You will actually if you fire
any of us, we're basically going to go sell what
we know to China, which is a bizarre admission. Like
wait a minute. If that's the case, why are we
still paying you, why are you here? We shouldn't give
you any new secrets. Definitely, you shouldn't be having any
kind of clearances, like if you're saying that people's allegiance
to America doesn't count for anything, Like all the work
that you've been doing for all these years and now
you've been laid off, Now you're going to go run
to China or Russia and sell what you know and
face espionage charges. I mean, that's the other thing here.
Like you realize if we catch you and we try
you for treason, like you could be put to death
for this. You realize that, right. The piece goes on that.
On the CIA seventh floor, home to top leadership, some
officers are also quietly discussing how mass firings and the
buyouts that are already offered to staff, how these risk
creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be
motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.
In fact, these conversations are so quiet, right that they're
quietly discussing all of this stuff, and it is being
discussed so quietly that CNN could report on them. So
is this a threat? Is this a threat from the CIA?
That's what they're saying, right, That's what it sounds like
to me. It's a threat. Don't fire me, keep paying me.
I will keep extorting you to keep my job, right
or else I go to Russia and I tell them
everything and that I know. I go to China, I
work to undermine national security. I sell top secret information.
So that's a threat. It's extortion. That's the story the
CIA thinks is the best spin in the wake of
attempts to downsize the CIA footprint. Your response, I mean,
I just like, just step back and think about this.
Your response to cutting government waste, fraud and abuse, your
response to a right sizing, to a reduction in force,
your response to potentially having positions cut, is to threaten
the American public with espionage. All right, again, bold strategy,
we'll see if it works. Is cnnaction reporting here that
Trump should keep everybody employed because if he doesn't, then
the CIA is going to spill secrets to our enemies.
That's what it sounds like. And what Beth Brelgi says
is if that is the case, these are exactly the
employees that we should fire. So how about that? How
about we do like some some mock firings. You fire
people and then you you surveil them for a while,
and if they they have any read, you know, any outreach,
then then you can nail them. And then if they
don't have any outreach, then you can bring them back
on board, you know, like a probationary period or something,
I don't know. Within the same PECNN ridiculously makes it
sound as if valued model intelligence employees are going to
get the acts and that those same employees have loose
lips and are ripe for the picking. So which is it, CNN, right,
which is it? Like? This is it? This is another
kind of permutation or it's a spin on the there
are no bad teachers argument. That's what it sounds like, right,
like we should pay all the teachers more money, Like okay,
but I don't want to pay the bad ones the
same amount as the really good ones. So I want
to pay the really good ones a lot of money.
How about that? Well, no, we can't possibly determine that. Okay, well,
then I'm not going to pay everybody. So it's the
same kind of deal where it's like, hey, you know,
if you fire a bunch of people, then they're going
to go sell our secrets and stuff. It's like, okay,
well let's fire those like, well, you know, I mean
not all of them, but okay, well let's fire the
ones that would sell the secrets. Well, we can't know
which ones those are, so we might as well keep everybody. Right,
this is not a logical argument. The media want you
to be worried because the media is worried. This is
a profound point. Again, this is Bethbrelgi at the Federalist
dot Com. If truck Cleian's house, it will destroy a
lot of their business model at these news organizations. Right,
CNN and others have exploited unethical leaking of deep state actors,
deep state sources, treating these whispers as gospel and then
amplifying those aims of the the whisperers through high profile
quote unquote news stories. Right. This is how color revolutions
are aided. This is how intelligence agencies operate. They put
these and they have people like this, you know, all
this is one of the things that that Doge is exposing.
Us AI d is one example of it. But and
the you know, funding of people in news organizations and
they're essentially cutouts for the CIA or for uh uh
was it a DIA, the various military intelligence whatever. You
got people that are on staff at news organizations that
you can give them information and they will publish it
and they will never question your motive in handing off
this super secret information, particularly when it comes to Donald Trump.
And that's what we saw, and it's how we saw
it for four years actually longer, Right, eight years since
Trump came down the Golden escalator. Right, that's why we
have witnessed the use of cutouts by our intelligence agencies.
They've weaponized it against us. All Right, if you're listening
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I'll pasaki back to this after the bottom of the
hour News. I gotta finish this piece though. At the
Federalist by Beth Brelji. All Right, so, according to the
piece here, the media want you to be worried about
any layoffs at the CIA because the media is worried.
The media is worried because they rely on leaking from
the CIA in order to plant stories. Right, that's what
they are interested in. They want their sources to keep
their jobs, and the sources are telling them, you know,
if they fire a bunch of people, the concern is
that they just go and sell this stuff to the
Russians or the Chinese or the Iranians. If you don't
keep us on the payroll, we're going to go commit
some treason, right, Like that's the argument. Okay, if Trump
fires their sources, it's harder for them to collude with
the intelligence community to craft any propaganda to sell them
to us. Right. She then looks at a sentence in
the CNN PCE that says the administration's efforts to cut
the workforce and audit spending at the CIA and elsewhere
threatened to jeopardize some of the government's most sensitive work.
Current and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations say, okay,
so that she picks apart this sentence. The phrase threatened
to jeopardize some of the government's most sensitive work, says,
that's a fantasy or a not so subtle threat from
intel personnel whose partisan loyalties outweigh their love of country.
It has not happened yet, but still it is packaged
as quote news. This is a big beef of mine too,
Like this is just speculation. This is just you know,
this could happen. Then everybody runs around as if it's
a fat accompany, as if it did happen, but it
didn't happen. See, if something did happen, that would be news.
Because something happened. It's not news if you're just making predictions,
that's gambling. The source of the speculation current informer US
officials familiar with internal deliberations, so they had four CNN
reporters on this, and they could not find a quotable source.
Right nobody to go on the record to say that
the four reporters attributed information in their story eighteen different times.
They cited attribution eighteen times, and of the eighteen, only
one had a name, Joseph Gelli, the Fiscal Services Deputy
Commissioner for Transformation and Modernization. That's the one person quoted.
Everybody else was a source familiar with the matter, current
and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations, a senior
career Treasury Department official, some officers, sources familiar with the matter,
former intelligence officials, said one former CI speaking hypothetically. One
of these people, said one US official said. This person
said former officials, noted current and former officials familiar with
the episode, The first official said, another US official sympathetic
to Trump's efforts, some current and former officials, one source
familiar with the matter, former Treasury officials, and then one
named guy. That's not journalism. Okay, that's not journalism. I
don't know what this actually. This is why I call
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Got a message from Russ He says, as a former
TSBI holder, I think that's probably like un arms. Sorry,
this is from fish Crazy. Fish Crazy says he was
a he or she he or she. I don't know
a former TSBI holder. I feel like that's like some
sort of top secret clearance. Maybe you sign a declination
upon receiving your clearance and it plainly states on the
first paragraph you will not divulge anything to a foreign
entity or person's working for a foreign government, friendly or not.
It's punishable by imprisonment. You cannot talk about your job,
not even to your wife. Right. But this is the
narrative that the CIA and these Intel officials are pushing
out to us, and the media is amplifying because the
media is trying to protect their sources that feed them
all of the propaganda that allows them to claim that
they've got some inside scoop on how bad Donald Trump
is and how he paid some hook to pee on
a bed in Moscow, like that kind of stuff. By
the way, some of the people in the Intel community.
I feel like should get fired, like the people that
were on the NSSA secret sex chat list. Oh yeah,
have you heard about this? Yeah? This is a doozy.
The intelligence community is one of the most powerful parts
of the American national security apparatus. In theory, at least,
it works tirelessly to keep the nation safe. But according
to internal documents obtained by Christopher Rufo and Hannah Grossman
at The City Journal, some Intel Agency employees have another
on the job priority sex chats. We have cultivated sources
within the National Security Agency. So there's Rufo admitting that
he's basically spying on the NSA, which is quite a
turnabout one current employee and one former employee who provided
chat logs from the nssa's intel Link messaging program. According
to an NSA press official quote, all NSA employees sign
agreements stating that publishing non mission related material on intel Link.
So it's like an internal chat board, okay, and you're
only supposed to be using it for mission related things. Okay.
You're not supposed to be posting stuff like, you know,
good morning, hope everybody has a great day to day,
none of that crap, right, I don't want it either,
by the way, in my messages, but this is not
the purpose of this board, and they sign an agreement
that says they will not use it for anything non
mission related and a violation will result in disciplinary action. Nonetheless,
these logs, dating back two years are lurid, featuring wide
ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and even castration. I
have read the messages, so you don't have to. They
are disturbing. I cannot read them on the air. They
are too graphic. I cannot read them on the air.
One of the most popular chat topics though, was male
to female transgender surgery and how they really enjoyed all
of the new pleasures of ping. Yeah, that was one
of them they liked. Yeah. Employees discussed hair removal, estrogen injections,
and the experience of sexual pleasure using air quotes on
that one post castration. So when you go through with
the bottom surgery, they're like, oh my god, this is amazing.
And that's what they're talking about in the NSA internal
message boards. This is what they're talking about. This is
like you remember, I don't know, Okay, hang on, do
you remember It's been a while, But I'm old enough
to remember this. Maybe you're not. Do you remember there
was a guy running for governor of North Carolina and
he had posted a bunch of really lurid things on
like a porn site message board, and everybody was like,
why are you posting stuff on a porn site? Like?
Who does that? Why are people doing that? Like? And
everybody everybody was speculating as to why somebody would do
this and whatever. It's kind of like that, why are
you in a why are you in a group chat
at work talking about this? Like this would be inappropriate
no matter what the you know, whether it was heterosexual
sex or homosexual sex or transgender sect whatever it is.
This doesn't belong in the workplace. Oh my gosh. These
are people that hold the keys to all of the
systems that spy on everybody, and this is the stuff
they're talking about. I can only imagine. I can only
imagine what they are using the mechanism for. According to
our sources, the sex chats were legitimized as part of
the NSA's commitment too. That's right, diversity, equity and inclusion. See,
you're a bigot if you don't let people talk about
their transsurgery and their orgasms. See that's very clearly the
keyse activists within the agency used LGBTQ plus employee resource
groups to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties.
According to the current NSA employee, the group spent all
day recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as
Privilege or ally Awareness, Pride to transgender community Inclusion, and
the like, and they did so with the full support
of NSA leadership, which declared that DEI was quote not
only mission critical but mission imperative. You must talk about
your sex life with your coworkers. Do I have to?
Can I? Can I resign from the NSA? I don't
want to know this stuff. Last January, chat room members
discussed their practice of polyamory or ethical non monogamy. They
also talked about orgies, and then my favorite was trying
to describe a polycule, which remember this is the effective
altruism guy Sam bankmin Fried, the scam artist guy, you know,
son of wealthy left wing donors and such, and yeah,
that guy, and he was in a polycule and so
get this, it's a polyamorous group, one employee explained, And
then he proceeded to try to explain it here Right
here it goes, A is my girlfriend and B g R.
B and G are her partners. Then B and C
are dating, but not C and D, nor EF or
G with any of the others, though there are several
MWB's made metas with benefits connections. See, this is perfectly understandable, right,
everybody clear on what that situation is. It's unbelievable. One
of the people on the chatboards refused to use pronouns
he or she or even they. Then they went with it,
which I think means they're not human Again, this is NSA.
A conflict is coming. These NSA chatlogs suggest the presence
of at least hundreds of gender activists within the Intel services.
What could go wrong? Actually, you know what, I am
rethinking my skepticism. Some of these people in the chat group,
I think very well might sell secrets to the Chinese.
It doesn't actually seem so far fetched now, you know.
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of things have been developing during the program. First, Caroline Levitt,
White House Press Secretary, she did her briefing today, made
an announcement here that it's a little bit inside baseball,
but it might matter a little bit and it's going
to definitely anger the media class.
Speaker 2: As you all know, for decades a group of DC
based journalists. The White House Correspondence Association has long dictated
which journalists get to ask questions of the President of
the United States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore.
I am proud to announce that we are going to
give the power back to the people who read your papers,
who watch your television shows, and who listen to your
radio stations. Moving forward, the White House Press Pool will
be determined by the White House Press Team. Legacy outlets
who have participated in the press pool for decades will
still be allowed to join, fear not, but we will
also be offering the privilege to well deserving outlets who
have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.
Just like we added a new media seat in this
briefing room, legacy media outlets who have been here for
years will still participate in the pool, but new voices
are going to be welcomed in as well. As part
of these changes, we will continue the rotation amongst the
five major television networks to ensure the President's remarks are
heard far and wide around this world. We will add
additional streaming services which reach different audiences than traditional cable
in broadcast. This is the ever changing landscape of the
media in the United States today. No, we will continue
to rotate a print pooler who has the great responsibility
of quickly transcribing the President's remarks in disseminating them to
the rest of the world. And we will add outlets
to the print pool rotation who have long been denied
the privilege to partake in this experience, but are committed
to covering this White House beach. We will continue to
rotate a radio pooler and add other radio hosts who
have been denied access, especially local radio hosts who serve
as the heartbeat of our country. We do really and
we will add additional outlets and reporters who are well
suited to cover the news of the day and ask
substantive questions of the President of the United States, depending
on the news he is making on that given day.
Speaker 1: I am all for it. The gatekeepers have lost control
of the gate and man, are they're going to be
They're going to be mad. Oh yeah, they're going to
be mad. Yeah, because that's all they do. Like, if
you want to get the credentials, you got to go
through these other outlets. It's kind of a bizarre thing. Look,
it all went downhill as soon as they let TV in.
You know, like print, you guys were there first, fine,
you know, then radio got in the superior media, and
and then you know, TV came along. It's just like
we don't need this, you know, and but then they
let him in and then it's like they just took over.
So no, it's this is a good thing. This is
a good thing. Like the DC Press Corps. They've been
stiff arming all sorts of other journalists from you know,
getting access and this, I'm fine with this, totally fine
with it. Let's see. Then there's this the House Judiciary Committee.
The Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent out a
tweet they say new disclosure reveals that the Biden IRS
leaked taxpayer information of over four hundred five thousand Americans,
including Donald Trump's. The IRS admission confirms the committee's suspicion
and recent reports that showed the scope of the late
of the League was way broader than what the Biden
administration's IRS initially led the public to believe. In May
of twenty twenty four, an IRS spokesman stated that more
than seventy thousand taxpayers were affected, but what they have
actually found now is the number is more than four
hundred and five thousand taxpayers. It's a massive scandal. Yet
another massive scandal regarding the Bidens and the Irs. There
is a follow up to this from Phil Kerpin, who
is the founder of American Commitment and he's a syndicated columnist,
and he points out that a person by the name
of Chaz Little John stole up to fifteen years of
tax return and this is the four hundred five thousand
and sent it off to the left wing advocacy group
Pro Publica. IRS repeatedly downplayed the number of victims, and
Biden gave him a one count sweetheart plea deal. At
least in that plea deal, the judge in that case
maxed out the sentence on the one count. I think
the guy got I think he got fifteen years or
something or no, that's fifteen years of tax returns. But
so that's it, Like, this is this is what happened
in order to get Trump's tax returns, which, by the way,
remember what that turned into nothing? There wasn't anything there, remember,
it was exactly Yeah, it was like they fought all
of these fights to try to get the tax returns
and when they finally got them there there was nothing
incriminating in the tax returns. And apparently most of these
are businesses that were stolen and leaked to Pro Publica,
which then published it like they published this stuff, Like,
is that is that journalism ethics? I know, oxymoron, blah
blah blah, But no, you're supposed to You're supposed to
weigh the consequences of doing stuff like that, of publishing
these kinds of stories. Meanwhile, we're supposed to Yeah, we're
supposed to be worried about one guy on the Doge
team that's using data to run through AI algorithms to
find out if there's waste and fraud and abuse. I'm
supposed to be worried about that when you get employees
that steal four hundred thousand tax returns and hand them
off to Pro Publica. Sorry, sorry, I just I cannot
generate the outrage. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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