SPLC is facing serious allegations of financial fraud
“What they're being accused of doing is giving money to the Ku Klux Clan, giving money to Nazi groups, you know, laundering money. There are very clear laws, very specific laws about money laundering. You can't do it. And if they've got documentary evidence that they did it, this could be the end of the SPLC. The 990s will tell you everything you need to know about an organization.”
General Milley coordinated secretly with Chinese counterparts
“General Milley defended his collusion with CCP officials, which he says was to cool down tensions with China. He claims he spoke with his Chinese counterpart amid rumors of a forthcoming military attack, but we still don't know who Mark Milley actually works for.”
Pompeo weighed kidnapping or assassinating Julian Assange
“The former CIA Director and former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Wednesday, called for the criminal prosecution of sources who spoke to Yahoo News for a story detailing proposals by the intelligence agency in 2017 to abduct WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He wanted to kidnap or assassinate Assange, not because of the Russiagate story that the Democrats and the left wanted to brainwash everyone into believing, but because of the Vault 7 dumps.”
“In his testimony, he also discussed a phone call he had with Pelosi, whom he accused of trying to encourage him to undermine Trump's ability to launch a nuclear attack. The speaker claimed she apparently called Milley in an effort to strip Trump of his nuclear launch capabilities just one day after trying to initiate 25th Amendment proceedings.”
Kash Patel transformed the FBI into a partisan agency
“What we found was an agency that was really straining under political pressure where the leadership was transformed into something much more partisan than anyone at the FBI had seen before. Agents were finding themselves doing work that felt to them like it was different and at odds with their own sense of mission and purpose.”
Conspiracy theories now drive FBI leadership decisions
“Most importantly, he's somebody who has spun conspiracy theories about the bureau in the past. He says that Joe Biden rigged the twenty twenty election. He thinks that there were FBI agents involved in planning the January sixth attack on the Capitol, which is part of why Trump picks him.”
“The rise of artificial intelligence and large language models dominated not only the economy but has also been at the root of a Hollywood double strike conducted by Writers Guild of America and a SAG APTRA strike.”
John Brennan allegedly orchestrated a soft coup against Trump
“John Brennan, I believe, really did attempt to carry out a coup, not with tanks in the streets. He tried to do it through rumor and innuendo. And he tried to deny Donald Trump the presidency. He tried to deny the choice of 51% of Americans. Genuinely worried now that they're not going to prosecute John Brennan. I think John Brennan is a malevolent figure in modern American politics.”
Far-right rebellion defined Kevin McCarthy's speakership
“The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day-long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy, whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber.”
“2023 also saw the roots of a global banking crisis arise out of four American regional banks, the two largest being Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank.”
Dan Bongino’s appointment signaled a radical leadership shift
“With Dan Bongino's selection to be his deputy director, I realized in that moment that it was not going to be okay. Dan Bongino struck me as somebody who had really lost his way, particularly some of the most alarming things he would say would get clicks and kinda work their way into algorithms.”
Kiriakou seeks a pardon to restore his stolen pension
“I said, 'Mr. President, my name's John Kiriakou. I'm the CIA torture whistleblower. Barack Obama and John Brennan ruined my life, and you were the only person who can give it back to me.' And he goes like this. He goes, 'Tucker Carlson told me about you.' He said, 'Talk to Pam Bondi. She'll get the paperwork done.' What would a pardon do? It would give me my pension back.”
Bill Clinton is remarkably personable but Hillary is difficult
“One thing about Clinton, I noticed it from the very moment that I met him. He hates silence. He wants to be joshing and joking and laughing and telling stories. Then Hillary walks off. She walks right up to us. She says, 'Jesus Christ, Bill, it's raining all day. I'll be in the room.' And she walks between us and I'm looking at him like, 'You poor man.'”
Politicians often make empty promises to secure endorsements
“Kerry's reading the speech and then he goes off topic and he says, 'You know, I was supposed to be the Secretary of State. I invited Obama over to my house at Christmas. Obama put his arm around my shoulder and he said, John, if you endorse me and if you do it before the Kennedys do it, Secretary of State.' I said, 'Bill Richardson has exactly the same story.' Barack Obama promised half a dozen people.”
Kiriakou apologizes for labeling Patrick Bet-David a Zionist
“No, I I owe you an apology. As I said, you've you've shown me wrong, and I I'm sorry that I perpetuated an untruth. I think that the definition of Zionism has changed now. I think it's much more—well, depending on your point of political view—more reactionary or more radical than it was when it originated in the UK in the late 19th century.”
FISA 702 lacks sufficient oversight regarding American citizens
“What section 702 does is it allows these continued secret warrantless wire taps on people. But again, on whom and what's the threshold? We don't know what the threshold is. Nobody will tell us. And so you get somebody like Carter Page who was doing what he thought he was supposed to be doing as a mid-level Trump campaign person and the next thing he is experiencing is he's under investigation.”
Obama prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined
“Between 1917 and 2009, three people were prosecuted for speaking to the press. Just under Obama, eight of us were prosecuted for speaking to the press. I remember a friend of mine at the White House saying, 'Be careful of this guy. Obama has a Nixonian obsession with national security leaks.' And I said why? He said because John Brennan's whispering in his ear every single day, prosecute, prosecute, prosecute.”
US officials threatened interference in UK elections
“He strongly implied the US would interfere in UK politics if Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister because Jeremy Corbyn was against the ultra-zionists. That's why you need to worry about Pompeo; he was CIA and Secretary of State, and these people rise fast, as we saw with George H.W. Bush and Hillary Clinton.”
Patel prioritized visual optics over investigative standards
“There was from what I learned on a senior conference was that the president had seen video footage or pictures of the raids that were being conducted around The United States and was angry that he did not see the well known FBI flak jackets with the yellow FBI on the back.”
Naval movements are the best indicator of military action
“One of the very first lessons that I learned at the CIA is that if you want to determine American military intentions, watch naval movements. You know, we can fly troops out all over the place. It doesn't make any difference. If you're going to send an entire aircraft carrier strike group, you mean business. If you're gonna send two of them, you're going to war.”
“It showed a lack of understanding of what the bureau at the headquarters level does. And so this was the first instance, I would say, of a pattern that we would see after that of decisions first, and then everybody scramble and figure out how to make it happen later.”
“Julian Assange dumped Vault 7, which revealed that the CIA can hack in anywhere, connect it to the internet, make it seem like Russia or China or whoever did it. The CIA can have the capability to go into any system, cyberattack, and have it ready when it's revealed who done it; they can paint it like Russia or China did it with Chinese characters.”
“And the goal has always been that once she is comfortable, then she will be out with them. But it would be inappropriate for us to rush it. We want to see them together.”