And This Ain’t No Chicken Little Children’s Story
By John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© July 18, 2022
The Dem-Marxist Plan to make America a One-Party Cultural
Marxist nation has been in execution for quite some time as you read at The
Last Refuge (aka TheConservativeTreehouse.com)
with this title: “The
J6 Motive – Why Donald Trump Must be Removed, The Political Surveillance of
American Citizens.” You will discover a significant history of
the Patriot Act transformed America into a surveillance state monitored by our
alphabets of the Intelligence Community but exploited by the Obama transformation
agenda to plant Obama Marxist acolytes in the UNELECTED bureaucracy to cement
the transformation. BUT the monkey wrench in the works was the 2016 Trump
election. Trump’s removal and barring from future elections is the agenda to
allow the Dem-Marxist cement to harden. The irony is I’m not as huge a Trump as
before because of his support for the mRNA Jab. But merely because of America’s
current Dem-Marxist Tyrants’ hatred of Trump, I’d vote him praying his mRNA
support is relegated to voluntary rather than mandatory. THIS IS MUST READ
MATERIAL at The Last Refuge!
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The J6 Motive – Why Donald Trump Must be Removed, The Political Surveillance of American Citizens
By Sundance
July 17, 2022
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ
and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. What
Obama and Holder did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the
weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.
This point is where many people understandably get confused.
Liz
and Dick Cheney - Barack Obama and Eric Holder
In the era shortly after 9/11 the DC national security
apparatus, instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney, 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.
After 9/11/01 the electronic surveillance system that was
originally created to monitor threats from abroad was retooled to monitor
threats inside our country. That is when all of our electronic ‘metadata’ came
under federal surveillance.
That inflection point, and the process that followed, was
exactly what Edward Snowden tried to point out.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new
construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their
political opposition became the target of this new national security system.
The problems we face now as a country are directly an
outcome of two very distinct points that were merged by Barack Obama. (1) The
post 9/11 monitoring of electronic communication of American citizens; and (2)
Obama’s team creating a fine-tuning knob that it focused on the politics of the
targets. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this
research outline.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus
immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. The Department of
Homeland Security came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform
and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) was formed.
When President Barack Obama and Attorney General 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.
The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and
Dept of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of
the domestic national security apparatus: a domestic surveillance state.
However, this new construct would have a targeting mechanism based on political
ideology.
The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this
new institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth
Branch of Government.
We were not sleeping when this happened, we were wide awake.
However, we were stunningly distracted by the economic collapse that was taking
place in 2006 and 2007 when the engineers behind Obama started to assemble the
design. By the time Obama took office in 2009, we sensed something profound was
shifting, but we can only see exactly what shifted in the aftermath. The four
pillars were put into place, and a new Fourth Branch of Government was quietly
created.
As time passed, and the system operators became familiar
with their new tools, technology allowed the tentacles of the system to reach
out and touch us. That is when we first started to notice that something very
disconcerting was happening. Those four pillars are the root of it, and if we
take the time to understand how the Fourth Branch originated, questions about
this current state of perpetual angst will start to make sense.
Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and take a walk with me
as we outline how this was put together. You might find many of the questions
about our current state of political affairs beginning to make a lot more
sense.
Remember, it is not my intent to outline the entire history
of how we got to this place where the intelligence community now acts as the superseding
Fourth Branch of Government. Such an effort would be exhausting and likely take
our discussion away from understanding the current dynamic.
History provided enough warnings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
(military) to John F. Kennedy (CIA), to Richard Nixon (FBI), to all the modern
versions of warnings and frustrations from HPSCI Devin Nunes and ODNI Ric
Grenell.
None of those prior reference points are invalid, and all
documented outlines of historic reference are likely true and accurate.
However, a generational review is not useful, as the reference impacting us ‘right
now‘ gets lost.
Instead, we pick up the expansive and weaponized
intelligence system as it manifests after 9/11/01, and my goal is to highlight
how the modern version of the total intelligence apparatus has metastasized
into a Fourth Branch of Government. It is this superseding branch that now
touches and influences every facet of our life. We The People are
under surveillance.
If we take the modern construct, originating at the speed of
technological change, we can also see how the oversight or “check/balance” in
our system of government became functionally obsolescent.
After many years of granular research about the intelligence
apparatus inside our government, in the summer of 2020 I visited Washington DC
to ask specific questions. My goal was to go where the influence agents within
government actually operate, and to discover the people deep inside the
institutions no one elected, and few people pay attention to.
It was during this process when I discovered how information is
purposefully put into containment silos; essentially a formal process to block
the flow of information between agencies and between the original branches.
While frustrating to discover, the silo effect was important because
understanding the communication between networks leads to our ability to
reconcile conflict between what we perceive and what’s actually taking place.
After days of research and meetings in DC during 2020; amid
a town that was serendipitously shut down due to COVID-19; I found a letter
slid under the door of my room in a nearly empty hotel with an introduction of
sorts. The subsequent discussions were perhaps the most important. After many
hours of specific questions and answers on specific examples, I realized why
our nation is in this mess. That is when I discovered the fourth and superseding
branch of government, the Intelligence Branch.
I am going to explain how the Intelligence Branch works: (1)
to control every other branch of government; (2) how it functions as an
entirely independent branch of government with no oversight; (3) how and why it
was created to be independent from oversight; (4) what is the current mission
of the IC Branch, and most importantly (5) who operates it.
The Intelligence Branch is an independent functioning branch
of government, it is no longer a subsidiary set of agencies within the
Executive Branch as most would think. To understand the Intelligence Branch, we
need to drop the elementary school civics class lessons about three coequal
branches of government and replace that outlook with the modern system that created
itself.
The Intelligence Branch functions much like the State Dept,
through a unique set of public-private partnerships that support it. Big Tech
industry collaboration with intelligence operatives is part of that
functioning, almost like an NGO. However, the process is much more important
than most think. In this problematic perspective of a corrupt system of
government, the process is the flaw – not the outcome.
There are people making decisions inside this little known,
unregulated and out-of-control branch of government that impact every facet of
our lives.
None of the people operating deep inside the Intelligence
Branch were elected; and our elected representative House members genuinely do
not know how the system works. I assert this position affirmatively because I
have talked to House and Senate staffers, including the chiefs of staff for
multiple House & Senate committee seats. They are not malicious people;
however, they are genuinely clueless of things that happen outside their silo.
That is part of the purpose of me explaining it, with examples, in full detail
with sunlight.
We begin….
In April of 2016, the FBI launched a counterintelligence
operation against presidential candidate Donald Trump. The questioning about
that operation is what New York Representative Elise Stefanik cites in March of
2017, approximately 11 months later (First Two Minutes).
Youtube VIDEO: Rep.
Elise Stefanik asks questions at Comey hearing
[Posted by Watertown Daily
Times
Posted on Mar 20, 2017
Things to note:
♦ Notice how FBI Director James Comey just matter-of-factly
explains no one outside the DOJ was informed about the FBI operation. Why?
Because that’s just the way things are done. His justification for unilateral
operations was “because of the sensitivity of the matter“, totally
ignoring any constitutional or regulatory framework for oversight; because,
well, quite simply, there isn’t any. The intelligence apparatus inside the
DOJ/FBI can, and does, operate based on their own independent determinations of
authority.
♦ Notice also how FBI Director Comey shares his perspective
that informing the National Security Council (NSC) is the equivalent of
notifying the White House. The FBI leadership expressly believe they bear no
responsibility to brief the Chief Executive. As long as they tell some unknown,
unelected, bureaucratic entity inside the NSC, their unwritten responsibility
to inform the top of their institutional silo is complete. If the IC wants to
carve out the Oval Office, they simply plant information inside the NSC and,
from their perspective, their civic responsibility to follow
checks-and-balances is complete. This is an intentional construct.
♦ Notice how Comey obfuscates notification to the Director
of National Intelligence (DNI), by avoiding the fact James Clapper was the DNI
from outset of the counterintelligence operation throughout the remainder of
Obama’s term. When I get deeper into the process, we will understand how the
Intelligence Branch has intentionally used the creation of the DNI position
(established post 9/11/01) as a method to avoid oversight, not enhance it.
Keeping an oblivious doofus like James Clapper in position held strategic value
[Doofus
Reminder HERE].
That video of James Comey being questioned by Elise Stefanik
was the first example given to me by someone who knew the background of
everything that was taking place preceding that March 20, 2017, hearing. That
FBI reference point is a key to understand how the Intelligence Branch operates
with unilateral authority above Congress (legislative branch), above the White
House (executive branch), and even above the court system (judicial branch).
Also, watch this short video of James Clapper, because it is
likely many readers have forgotten, and likely even more readers have never
seen it. Watch closely how then White House national security
adviser John Brennan is responding in that video. This is before Brennan became
CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars
into place. WATCH:
Youtube VIDEO: Director
of National Intelligence James Clapper did not now London bomb plot
[Posted by panhandlepatriots
Posted on Feb 10, 2011
[Sidebar: Every time I post this video it gets scrubbed from
YouTube (example), so save it if you ever want to see it
again. {Blog Editor: Due to this sidebar note, I decided to upload this
video to my Bitchute Channel in case there is a Youtube scrub: https://www.bitchute.com/video/33zWOo6FRFER/}]
The video of James Clapper highlights how the ODNI position
(created with good national security intention) ended up becoming the fulcrum
for modern weaponization, and is now an office manipulated by agencies with a
vested interest in retaining power. The Intelligence Branch holds power over
the ODNI through their influence and partnership with the body that authorizes
the power within it, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
Factually, the modern intelligence apparatus uses checks and
balances in their favor. The checks create silos of proprietary information,
classified information, vaults of information that work around oversight
issues. The silos, which include the exploitation of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court (FISA Court, or FISC) are part of the problem.
Ironically, the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence was created in the aftermath of 9/11/01 expressly to eliminate the
silos of information which they felt led to a domestic terrorist attack that
could have been prevented. The ODNI was created specifically upon the
recommendation of the 9/11 commission.
The intent was to create a central hub of intelligence
information, inside the Executive Branch, where the CIA, NSA, DoD, DoS, and DIA
could deposit their unique intelligence products and a repository would be
created so that domestic intelligence operations, like the DOJ and FBI could
access them when needed to analyze threats to the U.S. This, they hoped, would
ensure the obvious flags missed in the 9/11 attacks would not be missed again.
However, the creation of the DNI office also created an
unconstitutional surveillance system of the American people. The DNI office
became the tool to take massive amounts of data and use it to target specific
Americans. Weaponizing the DNI office for political targeting is now the
purpose of the DNI office as it exists.
The illegal and unlawful nature of the surveillance creates
a need for careful protection amid the group who operate in the shadows of
electronic information and domestic surveillance. You will see how it was
critical to install a person uniquely skilled in being an idiot, James Clapper,
into that willfully blind role while intelligence operatives worked around the
office to assemble the Intelligence Branch of Government.
• The last federal budget that flowed through the
traditional budgetary process was signed into law in September of 2007 for
fiscal year 2008 by George W. Bush. Every budget since then has been a
fragmented process of continuing resolutions and individual spending bills.
Why does this matter? Because many people think defunding
the Intelligence Community is a solution; it is not…. at least, not yet. Worse
yet, the corrupt divisions deep inside the U.S. intelligence system can now
fund themselves from multinational private sector partnerships (banks,
corporations and foreign entities).
• When Democrats took over the House of Representatives in
January 2007, they took office with a plan. Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, and
Democrats controlled the Senate where Harry Reid was Majority Leader. Barack
Obama was a junior senator from Illinois.
Pelosi and Reid intentionally did not advance a budget in
2008 (for fiscal year 2009) because their plan included installing Barack Obama
(and all that came with him) with an open checkbook made even more lucrative by
a worsening financial crisis and a process called baseline budgeting. Baseline
budgeting means the prior fiscal year budget is accepted as the starting point
for the next year budget. All previous expenditures are baked into the cake
within baseline budgeting.
Massive bailouts preceded Obama’s installation due to U.S.
economic collapse, and massive bailouts continued after his installation. This
is the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ aspect. TARP (Troubled Asset Recovery
Program), auto bailouts (GM), and the massive stimulus spending bill, the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, i.e.. those shovel ready jobs)
were all part of the non-budget spending. The federal reserve assisted with
Quantitative Easing (QE1 and QE2) as congress passed various Porkulous spending
bills further spending and replacing the formal budget process.
Note: There has never been a budget passed in the
normal/traditional process since September of 2007.
• While Obama’s radical ‘transformation‘ was
triggered across a broad range of government institutions, simultaneously
spending on the U.S. military was cut, but spending on the intelligence
apparatus expanded. We were all distracted by Obamacare, and the Republican
Party wanted to keep us that way. However, in the background there was a
process of transformation taking place that included very specific action by
Eric Holder and targeted effort toward the newest executive agency the ODNI.
The people behind Obama, those same people now behind Joe
Biden, knew from years of strategic planning that ‘radical transformation’
would require control over specific elements inside the U.S. government. Eric
Holder played a key role in his position as U.S. Attorney General in the DOJ.
AG Holder recruited ideologically aligned political
operatives who were aware of the larger institutional objectives. One of those
objectives was weaponizing the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) a
division inside the DOJ that had no inspector general oversight. For most
people the DOJ-NSD weaponization surfaced with a hindsight awakening of the
DOJ-NSD targeting candidate Donald Trump many years later. However, by then the
Holder crew had executed almost eight full years of background work.
• The second larger Obama/Holder objective was control over
the FBI. Why was that important? Because the FBI does the domestic
investigative work on anyone who needs or holds a security clearance. The
removal of security clearances could be used as a filter to further build the
internal ideological army they were assembling. Additionally, with new power in
the ODNI created as a downstream consequence of the Patriot Act, new protocols
for U.S. security clearances were easy to justify.
Carefully selecting fellow ideological travelers was
facilitated by this filtration within the security clearance process. How does
that issue later manifest? Just look around at how politicized every
intelligence agency has become, specifically including the FBI.
• At the exact same time this new background security
clearance process was ongoing, again everyone distracted by the fight over
Obamacare, inside the Department of State (Secretary Hillary Clinton) a
political alignment making room for the next phase was being assembled. Names
like Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton were familiar on television
while Lisa Monaco worked as a legal liaison between the Obama White House and
Clinton State Department.
Through the Dept of State (DoS) the intelligence apparatus
began working on their first steps to align Big Tech with a larger domestic
institutional objective. Those of you who remember the “Arab Spring”, some say
“Islamist Spring”, will remember it was triggered by Barack Obama’s speech in
Cairo – his first foreign trip. The State Department worked with grassroots
organizers (mostly Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar and
Libya. Obama leaned heavily on the organizational network of Turkish President
Recep Erdogan for contacts and support.
Why does this aspect matter to us? Well, you might remember
how much effort the Obama administration put into recruiting Facebook and
Twitter as resources for the various mideast rebellions the White House and DoS
supported. This was the point of modern merge between the U.S. intelligence
community and Big Tech social media.
In many ways, the coordinated political outcomes in Libya
and Egypt were the beta test for the coordinated domestic political outcomes we
saw in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The U.S. intelligence community
working with social media platforms and political operatives.
Overlaying all of that background activity was also a new
alignment of the Obama-era intelligence apparatus with ideological federal “contractors“.
Where does this contractor activity manifest? In the FISA Court opinion of
Rosemary Collyer who cited the “interagency memorandum of understanding”, or
MOU.
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Hopefully, you can see a small part of how tentacled the
system to organize/weaponize the intelligence apparatus was. None of this was
accidental, all of this was by design, and the United States Senate was
responsible for intentionally allowing most of this to take
place. The tools the government used to monitor threats were now being used to
monitor every American. WE THE PEOPLE were now the threat the national security
system was monitoring.
That’s the 30,000/ft level backdrop history of what was
happening as the modern IC was created. Next, we will go into how all these
various intelligence networks began working in unison and how they currently
control all of the other DC institutions under them; including how they can
carve out the President from knowing their activity.
♦ When Barack Obama was installed in January 2009, the
Democrats held a 60 seat majority in the U.S. Senate. As the people behind the
Obama installation began executing their longer-term plan, the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence was a tool to create the Intelligence Branch; it was
not an unintentional series of events.
When Obama was installed, Dianne Feinstein was the Chair of
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and Democrat operative Dan
Jones was her lead staffer. Feinstein was completely controlled by those around
her including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The CIA was in the process of
turning over personnel following the Bush era, and as a result of a massive
multi-year narrative of diminished credibility (Iraq WMD), a deep purge was
underway. Obama/Holder were in the process of shifting intelligence alignment
and the intensely political Democrat Leader Harry Reid was a key participant.
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Rubio
(R) & Warner (D) Senate Intel Committee
THE TRAP – Many people say that Congress is the
solution to eliminating the Fourth and superseding Branch of Government, the
Intelligence Branch. This is an exercise in futility because the Legislative
Branch, specifically the SSCI, facilitated the creation of the Intelligence Branch.
The SSCI cannot put the genie they created back in the bottle without admitting
they too are corrupt; and the background story of their corruption is way too
intense to be exposed now.
Every member of the SSCI is compromised in some controlling
manner. Those Senators who disliked the control over them; specifically
disliked because the risk of sunlight was tenuous and, well, possible; have
either left completely or stepped down from the committee. None of the SSCI
members past or present would ever contemplate saying openly what their tenure
involved.
[Note: You might remember when Vice Chairman Mark Warner’s
text messages surfaced, there was a controlled Republican SSCI member who came
to his defense in February of 2018. It was not accidental that exact Senator
later became the chair of the SSCI himself. That Republican Senator is Marco
Rubio, now vice-chair since the Senate re-flipped back to the optics of
Democrat control in 2021.]
All of President Obama’s 2009 intelligence appointments
required confirmation from the Senate. The nominees had to first pass through
the Democrat controlled SSCI, and then to a full Senate vote where Democrats
held a 60 vote majority. Essentially, Obama got everyone he wanted in place
easily. Rahm Emmanuel was Obama’s Chief of Staff, and Valerie Jarrett was
Senior Advisor.
Tim Geithner was Treasury Secretary in 2010 when the joint
DOJ/FBI and IRS operation to target the Tea Party took place after the midterm
“shellacking” caused by the Obamacare backlash. Mitch McConnell was Minority
Leader in the Senate but supported the targeting of the Tea Party as his Senate
colleagues were getting primaried by an angry and effective grassroots campaign.
McConnell’s friend, Senator Bob Bennett, getting beaten in Utah was the final
straw.
Dirty Harry and Mitch McConnell saw the TEA Party through
the same prism. The TEA Party took Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts (Scott
Brown); Sharon Angle was about to take out Harry Reid in Nevada; Arlen Spector
was taken down in Pennsylvania; Senator Robert Byrd died; Senator Lisa
Murkowski lost her primary to Joe Miller in Alaska; McConnell’s nominee Mike
Castle lost to Christine O’Donnell in Delaware; Rand Paul won in Kentucky. This
is the background. The peasants were revolting…. and visibly angry Mitch
McConnell desperately made a deal with the devil to protect
himself.
In many ways, the TEA Party movement was/is very similar to
the MAGA movement. The difference in 2010 was the absence of a head of the
movement, in 2015 Donald Trump became that head figure who benefited from the
TEA Party energy. Trump came into office in 2017 with the same congressional
opposition as the successful TEA Party candidates in 2011.
Republicans took control of the Senate following the 2014
mid-terms. Republicans took control of the SSCI in January 2015. Senator
Richard Burr became chairman of the SSCI, and Dianne Feinstein shifted to
Vice-Chair. Dirty Harry Reid left the Senate, and Mitch McConnell took power
again.
Republicans were in control of the Senate Intelligence
Committee in 2015 when the Intelligence Branch operation against candidate
Donald Trump was underway. [Feinstein’s staffer, Dan Jones, left the SSCI so he
could act as a liaison and political operative between private-sector efforts
(Fusion GPS, Chris Steele) and the SSCI.] The SSCI was a participant in that
Fusion GPS/Chris Steele operation, and as a direct consequence Republicans were
inherently tied to the problem with President Trump taking office in January of
2017. Indiana Republican Senator Dan Coats was a member of the SSCI.
Bottom line…. When it came to the intelligence system
targeting Donald Trump during the 2015/2016 primary, the GOP was just as much
at risk as their Democrat counterparts.
When Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election, the SSCI was
shocked more than most. They knew countermeasures would need to be deployed to
protect themselves from any exposure of their prior intelligence conduct. Immediately
Senator Dianne Feinstein stepped down from the SSCI, and Senator Mark Warner
was elevated to Vice Chairman.
Indiana’s own Mike Pence, now Vice President, recommended
fellow Hoosier, SSCI Senator Dan Coats, to become President Trump’s Director of
National Intelligence (ODNI). [Apply hindsight here]
• To give an idea of the Intelligence Branch power dynamic,
remind yourself how House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI),
Chairman Devin Nunes, tried to get access to the DOJ/FBI records of the FISA
application used against the Trump campaign via Carter Page.
Remember, Devin Nunes only saw a portion of the FISA trail
from his review of a Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) previously given to
President Obama. Chairman Nunes had to review the PDB at the White House SCIF
due to compartmented intelligence, another example of the silo benefit.
Remember the massive stonewalling and blocking of the
DOJ/FBI toward Nunes? Remember the back and forth battle over declassification
surrounding the Nunes memo?
Remember, after Nunes went directly to House Speaker Paul
Ryan for help (didn’t get any), the DOJ only permitted two members from each
party within the HPSCI to review the documents, and only at the DOJ offices of
main justice?
Contrast that amount of House Intel Committee railroading
and blocking by intelligence operatives in the DOJ, DOJ-NSD and FBI, with the
simple request by Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner asking to see
the Carter Page FISA application and immediately a copy being delivered to him
on March 17th 2017.
Can you see which intelligence committee is aligned with the
deepest part of the deep state?
Oh, how quickly we forget:
Kortan-FBI
Statement Nunes Memo
The contrast of ideological alignment between the House,
Senate and Intelligence Branch is crystal clear when viewed through the prism
of cooperation. You can see which legislative committee holds the power and
support of the Intelligence Branch. The Senate Intel Committee facilitates the
corrupt existence of the IC Branch, so the IC Branch only cooperates with the
Senate Intel Committee. It really is that simple.
• The Intelligence Branch carefully selects its own members
by controlling how security clearances are investigated and allowed (FBI). The
Intelligence Branch also uses compartmentalization of intelligence as a way to
keep each agency, and each downstream branch of government (executive,
legislative and judicial), at arm’s length as a method to stop anyone from
seeing the larger picture of their activity. I call this the “silo effect”, and it is done by design.
I have looked at stunned faces when I presented declassified
silo product from one agency to the silo customers of another. You would be
astonished at what they don’t know because it is not in their ‘silo’.
Through the advice and consent rules, the Intelligence
Branch uses the SSCI to keep out people they consider dangerous to their
ongoing operations. Any appointee to the intelligence community must first pass
through the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, before they get a full
Senate vote. If the SSCI rejects the candidate, they simply refuse to take up
the nomination. The president is then blocked from that appointment. This is
what happened with President Trump over and over again.
• Additionally, the Intelligence Branch protects itself, and
its facilitating allies through the formal classification process. The
Intelligence Branch gets to decide unilaterally what information will be
released and what information will be kept secret. There is no entity outside
the Intelligence Branch, and yes that includes the President of the United
States, who can supersede the classification authority of the Intelligence
Branch. {Go Deep} and {Go Deep} This is something 99.9% of the people on
our side get totally and frustratingly wrong.
No one can declassify, or make public, anything the
Intelligence Branch will not agree to. Doubt this? Ask Ric Grenell, John
Ratcliffe, or even President Trump himself.
• The classification process is determined
inside the Intelligence Branch, all by themselves. They get to choose what rank
of classification exists on any work product they create; and they get to
decide what the classification status is of any work product that is created by
anyone else. The Intelligence Branch has full control over what is considered
classified information and what is not. The Intelligence Branch defines what is
a “national security interest” and what is not. A great technique for hiding
fingerprints of corrupt and illegal activity.
[For familiar reference see the redactions to Lisa Page and
Peter Strzok text messages. The Intelligence Branch does all redactions.]
• Similarly, the declassification process is
a request by an agency, even a traditionally superior agency like the President
of the United States, to the Intelligence Branch asking for them to release the
information. The Intelligence Branch again holds full unilateral control. If
the head of the CIA refuses to comply with the declassification instruction of
the President, what can the president do except fire him/her? {Again, GO DEEP} How does the President replace the
non-compliant cabinet member? They have to go through the SSCI confirmation.
See the problem?
Yes, there are ways to break up the Intelligence Branch, but
they do not start with any congressional effort. As you can see above, the
process is the flaw – not the solution. Most conservative pundits have their
emphasis on the wrong syllable. Their cornerstone is false.
For their own self-preservation, the Intelligence Branch has
been interfering in our elections for years. The way to tear this apart begins
with STATE LEVEL election reform that blocks the
Legislative Branch from coordinating with the Intelligence Branch.
The extreme federalism approach is critical and also
explains why Joe Biden has instructed Attorney General Merrick Garland to use
the full power of the DOJ to stop state level election reform efforts. The
worry of successful state level election control is also why the Intelligence
Branch now needs to support the federal takeover of elections.
Our elections have been usurped by the Intelligence Branch.
Start with honest elections and we will see just how much Democrat AND
Republican corruption is dependent on manipulated election results. Start at
the state level. Start there…. everything else is downstream.
♦ COLLAPSED OVERSIGHT – The modern system
to ‘check’ the Executive Branch was the creation of the legislative “Gang of
Eight,” a legislative oversight mechanism intended to provide a bridge of
oversight between the authority of the intelligence community within the
Executive Branch.
The Go8 construct was designed to allow the President
authority to carry out intelligence operations and provide the most sensitive
notifications to a select group within Congress.
The Go8 oversight is directed to the position, not the
person, and consists of: (1) The Speaker of the House; (2) The Minority Leader
of the House; (3) The Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, HPSCI; (4) The Ranking Member (minority) of the HPSCI; (5) The
Leader of the Senate; (6) The Minority Leader of the Senate; (7) The Chair of
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, SSCI; and finally (8) the
Vice-Chair of the SSCI.
Example: When the Chief Executive (the President) initiates
an intelligence operation on behalf of the United States, the President
triggers a “finding memo.” In essence, the instruction to the intel agency or
agencies to authorize a covert operation. When that process takes place, the
Go8 are the first people notified. Depending on the sensitivity of the operation,
sometimes the G08 are notified immediately after the operation is conducted.
The notification can be a phone call or an in-person briefing.
Because of the sensitivity of their intelligence
information, the Gang of Eight hold security clearances that permit them to
receive and review all intelligence operations. The intelligence community are
also responsible for briefing the Go8 with the same information they use to
brief the President.
The Go8 design is intended to put intelligence oversight
upon both political parties in Congress; it is designed that way by informing
the minority leaders of both the House and Senate as well as the ranking
minority members of the SSCI and HPSCI. Under the concept, the President cannot
conduct an intelligence operation; and the intelligence community cannot carry
out intelligence gathering operations without the majority and minority parties
knowing about it.
The modern design of this oversight system was done to keep
rogue and/or corrupt intelligence operations from happening. However, as we shared in the preview to this entire
discussion, the process was usurped during the Obama era. {GO DEEP}
Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to
Congress on
March 20, 2017, that the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, DOJ
and DOJ-National Security Division, together with the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA, had been conducting independent
investigations of Donald Trump for over a year without informing the Go8. Comey
justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “because of the sensitivity
of the matter.”
Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue.
The arrogance was astounding, and the acceptance by Congress was infuriating.
However, that specific example highlighted just how politically corrupt the
system had become. In essence, Team Obama usurped the entire design of
congressional oversight…. and Congress just brushed it off.
Keep in mind, Comey did not say the White House was unaware;
in fact he said exactly the opposite, he said, “The
White House was informed through the National Security Council,” (the NSC).
The unavoidable implication and James Comey admission that everyone just
brushed aside, was that President Obama’s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice,
was informed of the intelligence operation(s) against Donald Trump. After all,
the NSC reports to the National Security Advisor.
Does the January 20, 2017, Susan Rice memo look different
now?
Again, no one saw the immediate issue. What Comey just described on
that March day in 2017 was the usurpation of the entire reason the Gang of
Eight exists; to eliminate the potential for political weaponization of the
Intelligence Community by the executive branch. The G08 notifications to the
majority and minority are specifically designed to make sure what James Comey
admitted to doing was never supposed to happen.
Team Obama carried out a political operation using the
intelligence community and the checks-and-balances in the system were
intentionally usurped. This is an indisputable fact.
Worse still, the entire legislative branch of Congress,
which then specifically included the Republicans that now controlled the House
and Senate, did nothing. They just ignored what was admitted. The usurpation
was willfully ignored.
The mechanism of the G08 was bypassed without a twitch of
condemnation or investigation…. because the common enemy was Donald Trump.
This example highlights the collapse of the system. Obama, the
Executive Branch, collapsed the system by usurping the process; in essence the
process became the bigger issue, and the lack of immediate Legislative Branch
reaction became evidence of open acceptance. The outcomes of the usurpation
played out over the next four years, Donald J. Trump was kneecapped and lost
his presidency because of it. However, the bigger issue of the collapse still
exists.
The downstream consequence of the Legislative Branch
accepting the Executive Branch usurpation meant both intelligence committees
were compromised. Additionally, the leadership of both the House and Senate
were complicit. Think about this carefully. The Legislative Branch allowance of
the intelligence usurpation meant the Legislative Branch was now subservient to
the Intelligence Branch.
That’s where we are.
Right now.
That’s where we are.
Term-3 Obama is now back in the White House with Joe Biden.
NOTE: Former Obama National Security aide and counsel to the
President, Lisa Monaco, is in her current position as Deputy Attorney General,
specifically to make sure all of these revelations do not become a legal risk
to Barack Obama and the people who created them. The SSCI confirmed Monaco for
this purpose because the Senate is just as much at risk.
Term-1 and Term-2 Obama usurped the ‘check and balance‘
within the system and weaponized the intelligence apparatus. During Trump’s
term that weaponization was covered up by a compliant congress, complicit
senate intelligence committee, and not a single member of the oversight called
it out. Now, Term-3 Obama steps back in to continue the cover up and continue
the weaponization.
Hopefully, you can now see the scale of the problem that
surrounds us with specific citation for what has taken place. What I just
explained to you above is not conspiracy theory, it is admitted fact that
anyone can look upon. Yet….
Have you seen this mentioned anywhere? Have you seen this
called out by anyone in Congress? Have you seen anyone in media (ally or
adversary) call this out? Have you seen any member of the Judicial Branch stand
up and say wait, what is taking place is not okay? Have you seen a single
candidate for elected office point this out? Have you seen anyone advising a
candidate to point this out?
This is our current status. It is not deniable. The truth
exists regardless of our comfort.
Not a single person in power will say openly what has taken
place. They are scared of the Fourth Branch. The evidence of what has taken
place is right there in front of our face. The words, actions and activities of
those who participated in this process are not deniable, in fact most of it is
on record.
There are only two members of the Gang of Eight who have
existed in place from January 2007 (the real beginning of Obama’s term, two
years before he took office when the Congress flipped). Only two members of the
G08 have been consistently in place from January of 2007 to right now, today.
All the others came and went, but two members of the Gang of Eight have been
part of that failed and collapsed oversight throughout the past 15 years, Nancy
Pelosi and Mitch McConnell.
♦ TECHNOLOGY – On a global scale – the
modern intelligence gathering networks are now dependent on data collection to
execute their intelligence missions. In the digital age nations have been
executing various methods to gather that data. Digital surveillance has
replaced other methods of interception. Those surveillance efforts have
resulted in a coalescing of regional data networks based on historic
multi-national relationships.
We have a recent frame of reference for the “U.S.
data collection network” within the NSA. Through the allied process
the Five Eyes nations all rely on the NSA surveillance
database (U.K, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and U.S.) The NSA database
provides the digital baseline for intelligence operations in defense of our
allies. The portals into the NSA database are essentially an assembly of allies
in like-minded ideological connection to the United States.
Unfortunately, there have been some revelations about the
NSA database being used to monitor our allies, like in the example of Germany
and surveillance on Angela Merkel’s phone. As long as “the good guys” are
operating honorably, allies of the United States can feel confident about
having protection from the NSA surveillance of global digital data. We warn our
friends if we detect something dangerous etc.
The U.S. has nodes on communication pipelines to intercept
and extract data. We have also launched hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
satellites to conduct surveillance and gather up data. All of this data is fed
into the NSA database where it is monitored (presumably) as a national security
mechanism, and in defense of our allies.
However, what about data collection or data networks that
are outside the NSA database? What do our enemies do? The NSA database is just
one intelligence operation of digital surveillance amid the entire world, and we
do not allow access by adversaries we are monitoring. So what do they do? What
do our allies do who might not trust the United States due to past
inconsistencies, i.e. the Middle East?
The answers to those questions highlight other data
collection networks. So, a brief review of the major players is needed.
♦ CHINA – China operates their own
database. They, like the NSA, scoop up data for their system. Like us, China
launches satellites and deploys other electronic data collection methods to
download into their database. This is why the issues of electronic devices
manufactured in China becomes problematic. Part of the Chinese data collection
system involves the use of spyware, hacking and extraction.
Issues with Chinese communication company Huawei take on an
added dimension when you consider the goal of the Chinese government to conduct
surveillance and assemble a network of data to compete with the United States
via the NSA. Other Chinese methods of surveillance and data-collection are less
subversive, as in the examples of TicTok and WeChat. These are Chinese social
media companies that are scraping data just like the NSA scrapes data from
Facebook, Twitter and other Silicon Valley tech companies. [ Remember, the
Intelligence Branch is a public-private partnership. ]
♦ RUSSIA – It is very likely that Russia
operates their own database. We know Russia launches satellites, just like
China and the USA, for the same purposes. Russia is also very proficient at
hacking into other databases and extracting information to store and utilize in
their own network. The difference between the U.S., China and Russia is likely
that Russia spends more time on the hacking aspect because they do not generate
actual technology systems as rapidly as the U.S. and China.
The most recent database creation is an outcome of an ally
having to take action because they cannot rely on the ideology of the United
States remaining consistent, as the administrations ping-pong based on
ideology.
♦ SAUDI ARABIA – Yes, in 2016 we discovered
that Saudi Arabia was now operating their own intelligence data-gathering
operation. It would make sense, given the nature of the Middle East and the
constant fluctuations in political support from the United States. It is a
lesson the allied Arab community and Gulf Cooperation Council learned quickly
when President Obama went to Cairo in 2009 and launched the Islamist Spring
(Arab Spring) upon them.
I have no doubt the creation of the Saudi intelligence
network was specifically because the Obama administration started supporting
radical Islamists within the Muslim Brotherhood and threw fuel on the fires of
extremism all over the Arab world.
Think about it., What would you do if you were Saudi Arabia,
Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, Jordan, Oman or Yemen and you knew the United
States could just trigger an internal uprising of al-Qaeda, ISIS and the
political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood to seek your destruction?
Without a doubt, those urgent lessons from 2009, 2010, 2011
triggered the formation of the Arab Intelligence Network as a network to defend
itself with consistency. They assembled the network and activated it in 2017 as
pictured above.
♦ Israel – Along a similar outlook to the
Arab network, no doubt Israel operates an independent data collection system as
a method of protecting itself from ever-changing U.S. politics amid a region
that is extremely hostile to its very existence. Like the others, Israel
launches proprietary satellites, and we can be sure they use covert methods to
gather electronic data just like the U.S. and China.
As we have recently seen in the Pegasus story, Israel creates spyware
programs that are able to track and monitor cell phone communications of
targets. The spyware would not work unless Israel had access to some network
where the phone meta-data was actually stored. So yeah, it makes sense for
Israel to operate an independent intelligence database.
♦ Summary: As we understand the United States
Intelligence Branch of government as the superseding entity that controls the
internal politics of our nation, we also must consider that multiple nations
have the same issue. There are major intelligence networks around the world
beside the NSA “Five-Eyes” database. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Israel all
operate proprietary databases deploying the same tools and techniques for
assembly.
The geopolitical conflict that has always existed has now
shifted into a digital battle-space. The Intelligence Agencies from
these regions are now operating as the backbone of the government that uses
them, and has become dependent on them. [<- Reread that].
Once you accept the digital-era
intelligence apparatus of China, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, The United States and
Israel, are now the primary national security mechanisms for stabilization of
government; then you accept the importance of those intelligence operations.
Once you understand how foundational those modern
intelligence operations have become for the stability and continuity of those
governments…… then you begin to understand just how the United States
intelligence community became more important than the government that created
it.
From that point it is then critical to understand that
domestic intelligence operations are underway to monitor the electronic communication
of American citizens inside our own country. YOU are under surveillance. The
parents who confront school boards are under surveillance. The political
operatives inside the FBI are monitoring everyone who comes onto the radar,
that is why the National School Boards Association asked the White House, then
the DOJ, to have the FBI start targeting parents. Are things making sense now?
♦ Public Private Partnership – The modern
Fourth Branch of Government is only possible because of a Public-Private
partnership with the intelligence apparatus. You do not have to take my word
for it, the partnership is so brazened they have made public admissions.
The biggest names in Big Tech announced in June their
partnership with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by
the NSA, to: (1) monitor all activity in their platforms; (2) identify
extremist content; (3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism
(DVE); and then, (4) put the content details into a database where the Five
Eyes intelligence agencies (U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) can
access it.
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all partnering
with the intelligence apparatus. It might be difficult to fathom how openly
they admit this, but they do. Look at this sentence in the press release (emphasis mine):
[…] “The Group will use lists
from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs
from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and
neo-Nazis.”
Think about that sentence structure very carefully. They are
“adding to” the preexisting list…. admitting the group (aka Big Tech) already
have access to the intelligence-sharing database… and also admitting there is a
preexisting list created by the Five Eyes consortium.
Obviously, who and what is defined as “extremist content”
will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a
gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch
from any oversight.
When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to
conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against
problems due to the Constitution of the United States. They get around those
legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual
data mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the
central database.
The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th
amendment issue) without a warrant; however, private individuals can search and
report back as long as they have access. What is being admitted is exactly that
preexisting partnership. The difference is that Big Tech will flag the content
from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the
extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to
exploit.
The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a
problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a
lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to
identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive
filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for
individuals.
Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional
and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United
States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government,
cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency
sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is
no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.
What was announced in June 2021 is an alarming admission of
a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political
opposition as extremists.
July 26 (Reuters) – A counterterrorism
organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including
Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of
extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down
on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told
Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet
Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images
from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of
content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda
and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the
group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white
supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N.
initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from
intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more
groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter
(TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical
representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their
services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own
sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)
The influence of the Intelligence Branch now reaches into
our lives, our personal lives.
In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus
intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled
many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and
growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in
check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative
reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize against
domestic enemies.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only
six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the
intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. Simultaneously
the mission of the intelligence community now encompassed monitoring domestic
threats as defined by the people who operate the surveillance system.
The problem with assembled power is always what happens when
a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to
weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the
network of President Barack Obama did.
The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons
(we should never have allowed to be created) and turned those weapons into
political tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the
essential fabric of our nation.
Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to
create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that
perspective the fundamental change was successful.
This is the scale of corrupt political compromise on both
sides of the DC dynamic that we are up against. Preserving this system is also
what removing Donald Trump is all about…. And like I said in the precursor, I
doubt Donald Trump fully comprehends the motives of his opposition.
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