John R. Houk, Blog Editor
Intro © December 3, 2025
Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn – on his Substack Page –
spends December 2
and 3
aiming at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a Deep State controlled
enemy of the constitutional Republic of the USA. It is likely this same Deep
State tried and failed to jail Flynn for what he knows to shut
him up. You should educate yourself if you wish to take a stand for the
Republic and read the two cross posts I’m sharing.
JRH
12/3/25
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The CIA Must Not Be Allowed to Undermine Trump’s Second
Term
CIA Must NOT Be Allowed… (General
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By Michael T.
Flynn LTG USA (RET)
December 2, 2025
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Flynn's Substack – Official
The most dangerous domestic threat in which President Trump
must face is the Deep State bureaucracy which has long controlled much of the
federal government. And, the CIA, operating with near-unlimited funds and
behind a wall of secrecy, is directing the most dangerous Deep State operations
designed to thwart President Trump’s second term, just as it did his first.
The Trump Administration may be tempted to try to make peace
with the Agency or to go slow in achieving reform. It may be tempted to allow
the CIA’s high command to remain in place in the hope that his few appointees
will prevent abuses. Or, the Administration may be tempted to appoint yet
another Blue Ribbon panel to investigate CIA abuses and make recommendations.
However, history demonstrates that if change is not swift and sure, the Agency
will find a way to impede, or even destroy, the Trump presidency using all the
techniques it developed in toppling foreign governments. Consider how decades
of gradual efforts to achieve reform have failed miserably.
Rockefeller Commission: January 4, 1975 — June 11,
1975
President Gerald Ford appointed his (unelected,
chosen by Congress) Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller to head “The
President’s Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States.” It issued a
report in 1975 which exposed some CIA abuses including opening
Americans’ mail and surveillance of domestic dissident groups. It
also reviewed some narrow issues related to the JFK assassination —
specifically JFK’s backward head snap as seen in the Zapruder film (first shown
publicly in 1975), and the possible presence of CIA personnel E. Howard Hunt
and Frank Sturgis in Dallas. The Commission also found evidence
of CIA plans to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro, Dominican
Republic President Rafael Trujillo, and mentions of plots against Congolese
President Patrice Lumumba and Indonesia’s President Sukarno.
Did it accomplish anything? Internal White House and
Commission documents later revealed that the final report was radically edited
by Ford’s Deputy Chief of Staff Dick
Cheney, deleting an 86-page section on CIA Assassination Plots.
Even then, the Rockefeller Report was viewed as such a “white wash” that the National
Security Council recommended that President Ford take even stronger
action against the CIA than the Report recommended, to prevent “giv[ing] a
mandate to Senator [Frank] Church to come up with a ‘final solution’ to the CIA
problem.”
The Church Committee: January 27, 1975 — April 1976
During this same period, and in the aftermath of the
Watergate scandal, the Senate began its own investigation: the “Select
Committee of the Senate to Conduct an Investigation and Study with Respect to
Intelligence Activities Carried out by or on Behalf of the Federal Government.”
Known as the Church
Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church (D-ID),
it was the most serious effort to date to rein in the exploding growth of the
federal intelligence agencies into a surveillance state, but it accomplished
little of consequence.
The Committee did reveal the CIA’s “Operation
Shamrock,” under which the government monitored 150,000 telegrams
sent and received by Americans monthly. It revealed Operation MKUltra, a
program in which the CIA conducted mind control experiments, often on unwitting
subjects, using electroshock
therapy, hypnosis, and mind-altering drugs such as LSD. Subjects
included soldiers and mentally impaired boys in state homes. The story is told
in a book by Stephen Kinzer: Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA
Search for Mind Control. An interim
report was issued by the Church Committee on November 20, 1975
entitled “Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders.” It revealed multiple
CIA attempts to assassinate foreign leaders — some successful and
some not — often without even informing the President. In its “Operation
Minaret,” the CIA was heavily involved in spying on Americans — including
members of the Church Committee itself, including Senators
Church, Mondale, and Baker.
As Church
remarked about the abuses uncovered by his Committee: “Hiding
evil is the trademark of a totalitarian government.” He added:
[T]here is no more pernicious
threat to a free society than a secret police which is operating beyond the
law.… If these abuses had not been uncovered and had the agencies gone
unchecked, we might well have seen a secret police develop in the United
States. Once that begins, the Constitution itself is in very real danger.
Sadly, the Church Committee not only failed to change the
CIA – the CIA was able to manipulate Congress to strengthen the Deep State.
The
Church Committee issued 96 policy recommendations, including the
creation of standing Intelligence Committees in both houses of Congress to
introduce some accountability to the legislative branch and the enactment of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”), designed to introduce
judicial branch accountability.
Many view the creation of House
and Senate Intelligence Committees as being ineffective
or counterproductive, as the members are carefully selected to
include only those most deferential to the CIA. When the CIA discloses to those
Committees, it fulfils its duties, but most agree there has been no
meaningful oversight. Actually, the existence of these committees
may facilitate withholding information from the rest of Congress. The CIA won
on that “reform.”
The second “reform” was to enact the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (“FISA”) which created the FISA Court (“FISC”). Though FISA
was designed to require federal agencies like the FBI and CIA to have to obtain
a judicial warrant before beginning a surveillance, the
FISC system has enhanced government power.
[U]nlike the court system for regular police warrants, the
judicial system for the NSA is far more secretive. In order to give judicial
scrutiny to preserve the secrecy of NSA activities, the FISA court meets in
secret with only government representatives present at its proceedings. The
hearings are closed to the public and the rulings of the judges are classified,
and rarely released after the fact.
The FISA Court gives near-total
deference to intelligence agencies to determine whether its
opinions will ever be made public. FISA Court operations are largely exempt
from public scrutiny on the ground that it deals with national security
matters. Despite the Church Commission’s good intentions, FISA Court review of
intelligence agencies’ domestic spying continues to be more of a theory than
actual practice. Shockingly, “[i]n the 33,949 [FISA search warrant]
applications that were resolved from 1979-2012, only
11 were rejected (0.0324%).” Again, the reform was implemented, and
the CIA won.
House Select Committee on Assassinations Charter
Legislation Proposal Fails
In 1976, the
House created the “Select Committee on Assassinations” to review
the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Warren Commission had previously reviewed the Kennedy assassination and
released its finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone, but it became
known that “federal
agencies had not disclosed important information to the Warren
Commission.” Two books published in 1966, Rush to Judgment by attorney Mark
Lane, and Inquest by Edward Jay Epstein, revealed other
glaring failings of the Warren Commission, including a rushed
timetable, failure to interview crucial witnesses, inadequate staffing, and a
huge number of Commission hearings where only Commission attorneys were present
and none of the members of the Commission.
The Assassination Committee’s report, released in 1979,
found that the Warren Commission had “failed
to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to
assassinate the President.” The Committee noted that “[t]he Central
Intelligence Agency was deficient in its collection and sharing of information
both prior to and subsequent to the assassination.” The Committee determined
that Kennedy’s death was in fact the result of a conspiracy and that at
least two gunmen were involved.
The Committee recommended the creation of “charter
legislation” for the FBI and CIA (presumably to update or replace the original
CIA charter of 1947), establishing the responsibilities of the agencies and
placing limits on their authority. But in an attempt to address agency failure
leading to Kennedy’s death, the Committee recommended that such “charter
legislation” should also include “[i]nstitutionalizing efforts to coordinate
the gathering, sharing, and analysis of intelligence information [and]
[i]mplementing mechanisms that would permit inter-agency tasking of particular
functions.” Again, in their attempt to make federal intelligence-gathering more
efficient, the Committee’s recommendations perhaps inadvertently strengthened
the hand of the CIA against American targets of domestic spying.
Charter legislation for the FBI was introduced in
the House in 1979 and the
Senate in 1980. The legislation in the House closely mirrored the
Senate bill and included aspirational language directing the Attorney General
to “take all reasonable steps to insure that FBI investigations conform with
statutory and constitutional law,” and directing the FBI not to “conduct an
investigation solely on the basis of the lawful exercise of Constitutional or
statutory rights, including the expression of a religious or political view or
the right to peacefully assemble and petition the Government.” Even with such
weak language, neither bill escaped the Judiciary Committees.
CIA Spies on Senate Staff During Torture Investigation
If any additional reasons not to study the matter further
were required, it would be the CIA’s
penetration of the Senate Intelligence Committee computer system to
stifle its investigation of the CIA Detention and Interrogation Program in
March 2014. When Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) accused the CIA of spying on
the Committee during its investigation into the torture of prisoners, CIA
Director John Brennan denied it flatly: “Nothing could be further
from the truth…. We wouldn’t do that. That’s just beyond the scope of reason in
terms of what we’d do.” Later, it was proven that the CIA spied on the Senate
Intelligence Committee, and Brennan lied through his teeth in denying it. Brennan’s
track record of lies is well established.
The Lesson to Be Learned
The Rockefeller Commission accomplished literally nothing.
The CIA spied on the members of the Church Committee, and although that
Committee revealed a great deal, its reforms actually enhanced the power of the
Deep State. The House Committee on Assassinations accomplished nothing as the
CIA stopped proposed Congressional reforms, and the CIA is still hiding its
records on the events of November 22, 1963. The CIA both spied on the Senate
Intelligence Committee investigating torture and then lied about it.
This historical record demonstrates why President Trump
should not be tempted to follow The
Calf-Path described in poetry by Sam Foss,
For men are prone to go it
blind; Along the calf-paths of the mind,
And work away from sun to sun, To do what other men have done.
They follow in the beaten track, And out and in, and forth and back,
And still their devious course pursue, To keep the path that others do.
Now is the time to get off the calf path to end the
threat posed by the CIA to President Trump’s second term as well as to our
Constitutional Republic. It is time for the type of decisive action that
President Donald Trump has demonstrated repeatedly in becoming President of the
United States not just once, but twice.
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The CIA’s Continuing War on President Trump
CIA Continuing War on Trump
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By Michael T.
Flynn LTG USA (RET)
December 3, 2025
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The long, dark nightmare of the Biden-Harris Administration
has ended. Now, it is incumbent for President Trump to evaluate realistically
the type of government he will be inheriting. President Trump took the only
oath specified in the U.S.
Constitution, required of all incoming presidents:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,
and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
Constitution of the United States.
Every other federal employee who is in elected or appointed
office takes a different oath, promising only to “support and defend” the
Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic….” 5 U.S.C. § 3331.
Thus, only the President is charged with the solemn duty to “preserve” and
“protect” the Constitution. The language about “enemies, foreign and
domestic” is obviously subsumed in the Presidential oath, and our nation has
many domestic enemies.
President Trump will took over a nation which was severely
damaged by: the moral depravity of the Clinton Administration (eight years);
the mass slaughter caused by the lies of the Bush/Cheney Administration about
“weapons of mass destruction” (eight years); Obama’s radical “fundamental
transforming” of America (eight years); and the deep financial
and moral corruption of the Biden Administration (four years).
The Russiagate hoax
pushed by the Deep State worked to neutralize much of the first Trump
Administration’s efforts to return government to “We the People.” Now, the
greatest threat that President Trump will face in his second Administration is
yet another CIA/Deep State operation against him, supported by an establishment
media.
Obama Fundamentally Transforms the CIA
Obama accomplished his goal of fundamental transformation
with respect to the CIA. During Obama’s first month, his CIA Director was Michael
Hayden, followed by Leon Panetta and David Petraeus. However,
Obama really hit his stride upon winning his second term when he handpicked former
communist supporter John Brennan, as the head of the CIA,
who served for almost every day of his second term. CIA whistleblower
John Kiriakou explains what Brennan accomplished for Obama,
staffing the CIA with persons willing to misuse the Agency’s power to
accomplish political objectives:
Brennan brought his own people in and they too were Obama
loyalists, they had owed their careers to Obama. The next thing you know,
you have this politicized leadership at the CIA when the CIA is supposed
to be nonpartisan, apolitical.
CIA Opposition to Candidate Trump
During
the 2016 campaign, “the CIA … overtly threw its weight
behind Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and sought to defeat Donald Trump.”
This was not a covert operation — it was an in-Trump’s-face effort to defeat
him, planting seeds for the Russiagate hoax. “In August [2016], former acting
CIA Director Michael Morell announced his endorsement of Clinton in the New
York Times and claimed that ‘Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an
unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.’ GWB’s CIA and NSA director
Michael Hayden also endorsed Clinton and used the CIA-friendly Washington
Post to warn, in the week before the election, that ‘Donald Trump really
does sound a lot like Vladimir Putin.’”
CIA Opposition to President Trump
After Trump’s victory, the CIA
“concluded” that Russia had interfered by hacking emails from the
Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The FBI accepted the
conclusion of the Clinton Campaign vendor CrowdStrike that Russia did the
hacking, even though that company later admitted
it had no proof. While the CIA libeled Trump as essentially a
Russian agent, “Brennan also had intel saying ‘actually Russia
wanted Hillary Clinton to win because she was a known quantity, she
had been secretary of state, and Vladimir Putin’s team thought she was more
malleable, while candidate Donald Trump was unpredictable’” — and Brennan
covered it up. In “concluding” that Russia wanted Trump, Brennan,
“the most politicized intelligence chief in American history,” allowed “no
dissenting views or even … reviews by outside experts.” As Blaze
News noted:
While Donald Trump was
president, the CIA launched a full-scale operation to remove him from office
for daring to question the agency…. Brennan initiated the Russia collusion
hoax by leaking the “Steele dossier,” a complete fabrication based on false
information from Russian intelligence officials. Brennan misled the press,
claiming the dossier was CIA intelligence…. This was the CIA’s attempt to
stage a domestic coup and take down a sitting president.
Fox News’ Jesse
Watters described how Brennan and the CIA “manipulated other
assessments, buried high-quality intelligence, and then manufactured a
conclusion that 17 agencies agreed Russia interfered in the 2016 elections to
help Trump and then the press ran with it, and the country was brainwashed.” Trump
correctly noted that his CIA attackers were “the same people that said Saddam
Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.”
In August 2019, the Washington
Examiner reported that “[f]ormer CIA
Director John Brennan says world leaders view President Trump as not only
‘incompetent,’ but also ‘delusional.’” In late October 2020, as Trump and Biden
prepared for their second presidential debate, former acting CIA
Director Michael Morell sent an email to another former director,
Obama-appointed John Brennan. He asked Brennan to sign on to a letter claiming
that the New York Post expose on Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian
“disinformation.” Morell
later admitted that the intent of the letter was to “help Vice
President Biden … because I wanted him to win the election.” Brennan
responded, “Ok, Michael, add my name to the list. Good initiative.
Thanks for asking me to sign on.” Of the 51 “current and former intelligence
officials” who signed the letter designed to defeat Trump, 42
were current or former CIA.
Also in 2019, Real
Clear Investigations reported that the so-called “whistleblower”
who claimed a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian officials that was cited
as a charge in Trump’s first impeachment, was actually CIA operative Eric
Ciaramella, “a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House,
[who] previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA
Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia
‘collusion’ investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.”
Ciaramella “huddled for ‘guidance’ with the staff of House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, including former colleagues also held
over from the Obama era whom Schiff’s office had recently recruited….”
CIA Opposition to Trump’s 2024 Campaign
In late 2023, Brennan dredged up his old “Russia
collusion” hoax again, declaring that “it was ‘absolutely
essential’ to Putin that Trump win back the White House.” “If Trump is able to
return to the White House,” Brennan fabricated, “Putin could have a like-minded
individual that he can work with, detrimental to U.S. interests certainly and
detrimental to Western interests overall.”
By the time the 2024 campaign came along, former CIA analyst
and Georgetown University Professor John
Gentry predicted that “[t]he CIA has become politicized and will
work to stop Donald Trump from becoming president.” He “warned that
politicization of the CIA has become a ‘significant’ problem.”
The CIA’s Continuing Threat to President Trump
The CIA has extensive experience in undermining
democratically elected governments, using riots, bribery, threats, false flags,
paramilitary operations, and even assassinations. The CIA has near-unlimited
funds, the ability to conduct its operations in secret, a politicized senior
leadership, and a deep commitment to stop the Trump Administration at all
costs.
A good case can be made that the ability of the second Trump
Administration to implement any of its policy agenda will depend primarily on
whether President Trump and his appointees realize the threat the CIA poses to
him and the nation. Then, the Trump Administration must give the highest
priority to defanging and neutralizing the Agency — returning it to its
original mission to focus on foreign intelligence — before it destroys his
presidency for a second time, and our constitutional republic as well.
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