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Month: August 2020

  • Brad Johnson Turkey Greece Israel and the new AXIS

    Brad Johnson Turkey Greece Israel and the new AXIS

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypCxTzXx0hc

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    2020
    00:04
    and uh turkey appears to be continuing
    00:07
    its ramping up of animosity against
    00:11
    basically everybody um what is it that
    00:14
    you have for us today
    00:16
    well kind of a couple of interesting
    00:18
    developments and this is something that
    00:20
    we
    00:20
    actually talk about fairly often just
    00:22
    because uh you know how
    00:24
    aggressive and expansionist turkey has
    00:26
    become under the leadership of its
    00:28
    current president erdogan
    00:30
    so uh there was something that yet we’ve
    00:33
    talked a couple of times there’s been
    00:35
    quite a little bit in the news but
    00:36
    there’s a lot of problems going on
    00:38
    between greece and turkey and
    00:40
    essentially
    00:41
    the problem is coming from turkey
    00:45
    and or it’s been being initiated by
    00:47
    turkey
    00:48
    and turkey is claiming that in those
    00:50
    mediterranean greek waters
    00:52
    that the natural oil and gas
    00:56
    resources that are in those areas belong
    00:58
    to him
    00:59
    and uh there was a quote that he just
    01:02
    came out and was was talking about i
    01:03
    want to read it says
    01:04
    we will not compromise what is ours we
    01:07
    are determined to do whatever is
    01:08
    necessary
    01:09
    and he said that at a ceremony
    01:13
    uh just this in the past couple of days
    01:16
    uh which was celebrating the the
    01:19
    victory of the ottoman empire over the
    01:22
    byzantine empire the byzantine empire
    01:24
    which
    01:25
    the eastern orthodox uh which was
    01:27
    constantinople and
    01:29
    where the uh highest fiat church is all
    01:32
    of that stuff so
    01:33
    when it got conquered this is a this is
    01:35
    a celebration of that
    01:37
    victory which also you know in their
    01:40
    mind includes
    01:41
    basically the greek uh waters and
    01:44
    and and territories which uh the ottoman
    01:47
    empire at its
    01:49
    uh greatest extent controlled much of
    01:52
    europe and
    01:54
    certainly all of that area around them
    01:55
    including the arab countries
    01:57
    and so uh that’s how erdogan views it in
    02:01
    the
    02:01
    is in islam for for him
    02:04
    uh and he views himself as the next
    02:06
    caliph of a
    02:08
    neo-ottoman empire
    02:11
    he views all those resources as
    02:13
    rightfully his
    02:14
    and so this is how absolutely how wars
    02:17
    gets started
    02:18
    and he has and and his comments to
    02:21
    greece he’s saying
    02:22
    exactly that those are ours we’re not
    02:25
    compromising on it
    02:26
    and we’re going to do what it whatever
    02:27
    is necessary to have what’s ours now
    02:30
    of course the rest of the world
    02:32
    basically doesn’t agree
    02:33
    i mean that’s territory that they lost a
    02:36
    very long time ago
    02:37
    so it’s it’s not something that they can
    02:39
    really rightfully claim
    02:41
    under international law as it’s viewed
    02:43
    today
    02:46
    but this is something where he just
    02:47
    doesn’t care that’s not his perspective
    02:49
    he’s using
    02:50
    kind of the ancient old style you know
    02:53
    from
    02:54
    uh by the way that victory from over the
    02:56
    byzantine empire that he was celebrating
    02:58
    took place in
    02:59
    1071. so i mean that’s that is his
    03:02
    perspective that those
    03:04
    customs or rules or whatever from back
    03:05
    in 1071 or what should apply now in
    03:08
    2020 so uh i i don’t
    03:11
    really see now germany has just gone off
    03:14
    they’ve sent an
    03:15
    emissary to go to back and forth between
    03:17
    athens and ankara
    03:19
    and try to broker peace and reduce the
    03:22
    tension all this because it
    03:23
    people see where this is headed but
    03:26
    how do you you know greece is not just
    03:30
    going to
    03:31
    give up its territory and
    03:35
    ankara erdogan doesn’t see it that way
    03:38
    he views that as
    03:39
    his rightfully his and by with holding
    03:42
    it from him that’s an act of war in
    03:45
    essence from erdogan’s perspective
    03:47
    so uh now greece is largely i mean
    03:51
    it’s clear what’s happening here this is
    03:53
    an aggression by greece
    03:55
    whether you know you can justify it or
    03:57
    not by these
    03:58
    uh traditions from islam you know is
    04:01
    this kind of a separate issue but
    04:03
    the uh the fact is that turkey’s
    04:06
    essentially attacking
    04:07
    uh greek territory to take the resources
    04:10
    from those which
    04:10
    again they think it’s theirs the rest of
    04:13
    the world says it’s not
    04:14
    in essence uh so kind of one of the
    04:17
    other things and this is something i’ve
    04:18
    been talking about many many many times
    04:20
    for a very long time and
    04:21
    anyone who sees these on a regular basis
    04:23
    let me talk about the four plus one
    04:25
    which is kind of the
    04:26
    national security threat formula how how
    04:30
    the world is viewed right now and which
    04:31
    is
    04:32
    uh you know russia um china iran
    04:36
    and north korea plus the one being
    04:39
    terrorism
    04:39
    and i have long argued that china needs
    04:42
    to be bumped up so a more realistic
    04:44
    national security threat formula would
    04:46
    not be the four plus one it would be the
    04:48
    one plus four plus one meaning china
    04:50
    being the greater threat should be
    04:52
    separated out at the top
    04:53
    and then uh replaced by turkey in the
    04:56
    main body of the four so one
    04:58
    one plus four plus one which would still
    04:59
    be so china at the top
    05:01
    turkey russia north korea and iran
    05:04
    and then terrorism and this is something
    05:07
    that’s interesting just now
    05:09
    israel has come out and the former
    05:11
    director of their mossad their
    05:13
    intelligence agency has come out and
    05:15
    said that
    05:16
    former ally turkey with whom
    05:19
    israel had a good relationship
    05:22
    uh is no longer that friend you know
    05:24
    they used to sell weapons to turkey
    05:26
    those drones and stuff that
    05:28
    have popped up in different places
    05:30
    including uh
    05:31
    uh and azerbaijan and the fighting there
    05:34
    from
    05:34
    turkey bringing them in and using them
    05:36
    and
    05:38
    uh this is this is uh one of those cases
    05:42
    where
    05:42
    israel has now said yes indeed turkey
    05:45
    does represent a threat
    05:47
    they are a long-term national security
    05:48
    threat what i’ve been saying for a very
    05:50
    long time
    05:52
    and now it’s kind of officially they’ve
    05:53
    i’m sure been looking at it to get to
    05:55
    this point
    05:56
    where they finally agree with me and uh
    06:00
    and the interesting part of it too is we
    06:02
    just comes on the heels
    06:03
    of the agreement uh that was made with
    06:07
    uh united arab emirates and that’s been
    06:09
    in the press a lot over the past week so
    06:12
    this kind of falls into line where you
    06:13
    see this alliance beginning to form
    06:16
    including israel and arab countries
    06:20
    uh who view turkey
    06:24
    greece of course and israel has said you
    06:26
    know we’ll stand by you greece in this
    06:27
    issue we’re on yours
    06:29
    and so you see this coalition kind of
    06:31
    forming around greece
    06:33
    to protect them against turkish
    06:35
    aggression so this
    06:36
    is this is an interesting change in in
    06:39
    what we had been seeing with now israel
    06:42
    who is of course another ally of the
    06:43
    united states
    06:44
    uh who’s now openly stating that turkey
    06:47
    is
    06:48
    an ongoing threat now president trump
    06:50
    just recently
    06:51
    praised erdogan for these hostages that
    06:54
    came out but i think what we see
    06:55
    there uh they were these were hostages
    06:58
    american hostages
    06:59
    being held by turkey and they were
    07:01
    arrested because essentially they were
    07:03
    christians
    07:04
    and pastors and people like that who
    07:06
    were forming christian churches in
    07:08
    in turkey and so that’s illegal for them
    07:11
    and so these guys are all arrested now
    07:13
    they’ve gotten these uh people out of
    07:16
    of jails in in turkey and brought them
    07:18
    back home
    07:19
    so he praised erdogan for being
    07:21
    cooperative on that which is fair but on
    07:23
    the other hand
    07:24
    it’s not lost on me or i’m sure it’s not
    07:26
    lost on president trump that
    07:28
    those guys were all arrested by turkey
    07:30
    in the first place
    07:31
    for what you know for being christian so
    07:34
    uh this is a real problem forming we can
    07:36
    see the radical islamic perspective
    07:39
    really beginning to blossom in turkey
    07:42
    and the real take-home point out of all
    07:44
    of this is
    07:45
    for everyone to remember is that that’s
    07:48
    what
    07:49
    turkey views is correct and right and
    07:52
    righteous
    07:52
    and justified and all of that are those
    07:54
    behaviors you know being a christian
    07:56
    trying to convert people to christians
    07:58
    is essentially
    07:59
    a death penalty for him and so he was
    08:03
    by erdogan from erdogan’s perspective
    08:05
    being extremely understanding to let
    08:07
    these people go but he at least got them
    08:08
    out of his country
    08:10
    and so could save face essentially that
    08:12
    way but then
    08:13
    viewing these territories which as i
    08:15
    said most of europe and most of
    08:17
    all of the arab countries and most of
    08:20
    the world around
    08:22
    uh turkey today’s turkey
    08:25
    he views those resources those things
    08:27
    those people
    08:28
    everything there as his and rightfully
    08:31
    his
    08:31
    and he’s going to get them back and
    08:34
    anything you know that works against
    08:35
    that is standing between
    08:37
    you know him and god’s will and
    08:40
    that you know that’s the simple truth of
    08:42
    it so i don’t think these negotiations
    08:44
    that germany is
    08:45
    is uh uh trying to conduct
    08:48
    to keep they keep peace between uh
    08:53
    greece and turkey uh
    08:56
    are are going to be successful i just
    08:57
    don’t see how this is going to work
    08:59
    because
    08:59
    like i said greece cannot just give up
    09:03
    this these territories to turkey and
    09:05
    turkey
    09:07
    things that rightfully they’re theirs so
    09:09
    you just have these opposite
    09:10
    perspectives
    09:11
    and he’s everyone wants that stuff he
    09:14
    wants those resources so
    09:16
    it’s not going to go away it’s not going
    09:18
    to change as long as erdogan is there
    09:20
    alive and kicking and in charge it’s
    09:22
    headed towards war in that region
    09:24
    so i don’t see it around it at this
    09:26
    point not saying that this is imminent
    09:28
    in the sense that
    09:29
    a naval war will erupt in the
    09:31
    mediterranean between greece and turkey
    09:34
    tomorrow but i am saying it’s more it’s
    09:37
    now become a question
    09:38
    of when not really a question of
    09:41
    if uh there are some other circumstances
    09:45
    there i’m oversimplifying of course but
    09:47
    uh if enough pressure can be brought to
    09:48
    bear by the united states and europe and
    09:51
    israel and other countries and and some
    09:53
    of the other arab countries
    09:54
    who also by the way view turkey as a
    09:56
    threat
    09:57
    uh you know if enough pressure can be
    09:59
    brought to bear by them you know you
    10:01
    might be able to curb them and keep them
    10:02
    in there keep them in a box
    10:04
    but that’s going to get tougher and
    10:05
    tougher and tougher and
    10:07
    erdogan has consolidated his control
    10:09
    inside turkey we’ve talked about all of
    10:10
    that in the
    10:11
    past and he needs those resources to
    10:13
    expand
    10:14
    much like i almost hate to make the
    10:17
    comparison but much like
    10:18
    why we saw japan go to war in world war
    10:21
    ii
    10:21
    they were very expansionist and they
    10:24
    needed those resources
    10:26
    from the expansion to continue the
    10:27
    expansion so
    10:29
    i i think that it’s it’s a similar logic
    10:32
    taking place in erdogan’s mind and and
    10:35
    he’s bound and determined to be the next
    10:37
    grand caliph so uh i see
    10:40
    dark clouds on the horizon we’ll see how
    10:42
    it turns out i wonder what the turkish
    10:44
    is for leban’s realm
    10:46
    um what so would you say the new axis
    10:49
    is china iran turkey
    10:55
    well now that is an interesting question
    10:57
    i
    10:58
    uh yes that if you want to continue the
    11:02
    comparison to world war
    11:03
    ii where we had the axis of
    11:06
    italy german the nazi party and the
    11:09
    japanese
    11:10
    uh imperial regime
    11:13
    yes i i that is a very interesting
    11:16
    comparison and certainly
    11:18
    bears some uh uh i think it would it
    11:21
    would be well worth
    11:22
    kind of looking at that from that
    11:24
    perspective because
    11:26
    certainly you’ve got china and iran and
    11:28
    turkey kind of
    11:29
    squaring off against similar enemies so
    11:32
    it would be sort of a natural
    11:33
    i would say in that uh once again it
    11:36
    would be kind of like the relationship
    11:37
    was with
    11:38
    uh you know the soviet union back in
    11:41
    world war ii because russia is sort of
    11:42
    the odd man
    11:43
    out uh you know they’re not a natural
    11:45
    ally necessarily
    11:47
    uh but they also have a number of
    11:51
    disputes with china they’re they’re they
    11:53
    certainly view each other’s competitors
    11:55
    just as russia views turkey is now
    11:59
    a competitor like i said they’ve had
    12:00
    wars through at least three major wars
    12:02
    in their history
    12:04
    and uh you know that that would be
    12:06
    certainly an
    12:07
    area where this whole thing could shape
    12:09
    up very similar to
    12:10
    what we saw between the axis and the
    12:12
    alliance in world war
    12:13
    ii uh with the soviet union then
    12:17
    russia now probably participating with
    12:19
    the alliance side
    12:48
    you
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  • Brad Johnson on the truth behind the polls for November 3rd

    Brad Johnson on the truth behind the polls for November 3rd

    Do you trust polls? Brad Johnson analyzes the manipulations at play in the Democrats’ endless quest to take Trump down and mainstream media is there to help. How are they spinning those polls you hear about?

    With his unique viewpoint from they eyes of a CIA operative, Brad Johnson brings you and world news difficult to find on major news stations. Now retired, he is President of his non-profit Americans for Intelligence Reforms. Please like and subscribe to stay on top of developing stories.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSIFbknDr6Y

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    brad johnson it is august the 26th of
    00:02
    2020
    00:04
    and uh turkey appears to be continuing
    00:07
    its ramping up of animosity against
    00:11
    basically everybody um what is it that
    00:14
    you have for us today
    00:16
    well kind of a couple of interesting
    00:18
    developments and this is something that
    00:20
    we
    00:20
    actually talk about fairly often just
    00:22
    because uh you know how
    00:24
    aggressive and expansionist turkey has
    00:26
    become under the leadership of its
    00:28
    current president erdogan
    00:30
    so uh there was something that yet we’ve
    00:33
    talked a couple of times there’s been
    00:35
    quite a little bit in the news but
    00:36
    there’s a lot of problems going on
    00:38
    between greece and turkey and
    00:40
    essentially
    00:41
    the problem is coming from turkey
    00:45
    and or it’s been being initiated by
    00:47
    turkey
    00:48
    and turkey is claiming that in those
    00:50
    mediterranean greek waters
    00:52
    that the natural oil and gas
    00:56
    resources that are in those areas belong
    00:58
    to him
    00:59
    and uh there was a quote that he just
    01:02
    came out and was was talking about i
    01:03
    want to read it says
    01:04
    we will not compromise what is ours we
    01:07
    are determined to do whatever is
    01:08
    necessary
    01:09
    and he said that at a ceremony
    01:13
    uh just this in the past couple of days
    01:16
    uh which was celebrating the the
    01:19
    victory of the ottoman empire over the
    01:22
    byzantine empire the byzantine empire
    01:24
    which
    01:25
    the eastern orthodox uh which was
    01:27
    constantinople and
    01:29
    where the uh highest fiat church is all
    01:32
    of that stuff so
    01:33
    when it got conquered this is a this is
    01:35
    a celebration of that
    01:37
    victory which also you know in their
    01:40
    mind includes
    01:41
    basically the greek uh waters and
    01:44
    and and territories which uh the ottoman
    01:47
    empire at its
    01:49
    uh greatest extent controlled much of
    01:52
    europe and
    01:54
    certainly all of that area around them
    01:55
    including the arab countries
    01:57
    and so uh that’s how erdogan views it in
    02:01
    the
    02:01
    is in islam for for him
    02:04
    uh and he views himself as the next
    02:06
    caliph of a
    02:08
    neo-ottoman empire
    02:11
    he views all those resources as
    02:13
    rightfully his
    02:14
    and so this is how absolutely how wars
    02:17
    gets started
    02:18
    and he has and and his comments to
    02:21
    greece he’s saying
    02:22
    exactly that those are ours we’re not
    02:25
    compromising on it
    02:26
    and we’re going to do what it whatever
    02:27
    is necessary to have what’s ours now
    02:30
    of course the rest of the world
    02:32
    basically doesn’t agree
    02:33
    i mean that’s territory that they lost a
    02:36
    very long time ago
    02:37
    so it’s it’s not something that they can
    02:39
    really rightfully claim
    02:41
    under international law as it’s viewed
    02:43
    today
    02:46
    but this is something where he just
    02:47
    doesn’t care that’s not his perspective
    02:49
    he’s using
    02:50
    kind of the ancient old style you know
    02:53
    from
    02:54
    uh by the way that victory from over the
    02:56
    byzantine empire that he was celebrating
    02:58
    took place in
    02:59
    1071. so i mean that’s that is his
    03:02
    perspective that those
    03:04
    customs or rules or whatever from back
    03:05
    in 1071 or what should apply now in
    03:08
    2020 so uh i i don’t
    03:11
    really see now germany has just gone off
    03:14
    they’ve sent an
    03:15
    emissary to go to back and forth between
    03:17
    athens and ankara
    03:19
    and try to broker peace and reduce the
    03:22
    tension all this because it
    03:23
    people see where this is headed but
    03:26
    how do you you know greece is not just
    03:30
    going to
    03:31
    give up its territory and
    03:35
    ankara erdogan doesn’t see it that way
    03:38
    he views that as
    03:39
    his rightfully his and by with holding
    03:42
    it from him that’s an act of war in
    03:45
    essence from erdogan’s perspective
    03:47
    so uh now greece is largely i mean
    03:51
    it’s clear what’s happening here this is
    03:53
    an aggression by greece
    03:55
    whether you know you can justify it or
    03:57
    not by these
    03:58
    uh traditions from islam you know is
    04:01
    this kind of a separate issue but
    04:03
    the uh the fact is that turkey’s
    04:06
    essentially attacking
    04:07
    uh greek territory to take the resources
    04:10
    from those which
    04:10
    again they think it’s theirs the rest of
    04:13
    the world says it’s not
    04:14
    in essence uh so kind of one of the
    04:17
    other things and this is something i’ve
    04:18
    been talking about many many many times
    04:20
    for a very long time and
    04:21
    anyone who sees these on a regular basis
    04:23
    let me talk about the four plus one
    04:25
    which is kind of the
    04:26
    national security threat formula how how
    04:30
    the world is viewed right now and which
    04:31
    is
    04:32
    uh you know russia um china iran
    04:36
    and north korea plus the one being
    04:39
    terrorism
    04:39
    and i have long argued that china needs
    04:42
    to be bumped up so a more realistic
    04:44
    national security threat formula would
    04:46
    not be the four plus one it would be the
    04:48
    one plus four plus one meaning china
    04:50
    being the greater threat should be
    04:52
    separated out at the top
    04:53
    and then uh replaced by turkey in the
    04:56
    main body of the four so one
    04:58
    one plus four plus one which would still
    04:59
    be so china at the top
    05:01
    turkey russia north korea and iran
    05:04
    and then terrorism and this is something
    05:07
    that’s interesting just now
    05:09
    israel has come out and the former
    05:11
    director of their mossad their
    05:13
    intelligence agency has come out and
    05:15
    said that
    05:16
    former ally turkey with whom
    05:19
    israel had a good relationship
    05:22
    uh is no longer that friend you know
    05:24
    they used to sell weapons to turkey
    05:26
    those drones and stuff that
    05:28
    have popped up in different places
    05:30
    including uh
    05:31
    uh and azerbaijan and the fighting there
    05:34
    from
    05:34
    turkey bringing them in and using them
    05:36
    and
    05:38
    uh this is this is uh one of those cases
    05:42
    where
    05:42
    israel has now said yes indeed turkey
    05:45
    does represent a threat
    05:47
    they are a long-term national security
    05:48
    threat what i’ve been saying for a very
    05:50
    long time
    05:52
    and now it’s kind of officially they’ve
    05:53
    i’m sure been looking at it to get to
    05:55
    this point
    05:56
    where they finally agree with me and uh
    06:00
    and the interesting part of it too is we
    06:02
    just comes on the heels
    06:03
    of the agreement uh that was made with
    06:07
    uh united arab emirates and that’s been
    06:09
    in the press a lot over the past week so
    06:12
    this kind of falls into line where you
    06:13
    see this alliance beginning to form
    06:16
    including israel and arab countries
    06:20
    uh who view turkey
    06:24
    greece of course and israel has said you
    06:26
    know we’ll stand by you greece in this
    06:27
    issue we’re on yours
    06:29
    and so you see this coalition kind of
    06:31
    forming around greece
    06:33
    to protect them against turkish
    06:35
    aggression so this
    06:36
    is this is an interesting change in in
    06:39
    what we had been seeing with now israel
    06:42
    who is of course another ally of the
    06:43
    united states
    06:44
    uh who’s now openly stating that turkey
    06:47
    is
    06:48
    an ongoing threat now president trump
    06:50
    just recently
    06:51
    praised erdogan for these hostages that
    06:54
    came out but i think what we see
    06:55
    there uh they were these were hostages
    06:58
    american hostages
    06:59
    being held by turkey and they were
    07:01
    arrested because essentially they were
    07:03
    christians
    07:04
    and pastors and people like that who
    07:06
    were forming christian churches in
    07:08
    in turkey and so that’s illegal for them
    07:11
    and so these guys are all arrested now
    07:13
    they’ve gotten these uh people out of
    07:16
    of jails in in turkey and brought them
    07:18
    back home
    07:19
    so he praised erdogan for being
    07:21
    cooperative on that which is fair but on
    07:23
    the other hand
    07:24
    it’s not lost on me or i’m sure it’s not
    07:26
    lost on president trump that
    07:28
    those guys were all arrested by turkey
    07:30
    in the first place
    07:31
    for what you know for being christian so
    07:34
    uh this is a real problem forming we can
    07:36
    see the radical islamic perspective
    07:39
    really beginning to blossom in turkey
    07:42
    and the real take-home point out of all
    07:44
    of this is
    07:45
    for everyone to remember is that that’s
    07:48
    what
    07:49
    turkey views is correct and right and
    07:52
    righteous
    07:52
    and justified and all of that are those
    07:54
    behaviors you know being a christian
    07:56
    trying to convert people to christians
    07:58
    is essentially
    07:59
    a death penalty for him and so he was
    08:03
    by erdogan from erdogan’s perspective
    08:05
    being extremely understanding to let
    08:07
    these people go but he at least got them
    08:08
    out of his country
    08:10
    and so could save face essentially that
    08:12
    way but then
    08:13
    viewing these territories which as i
    08:15
    said most of europe and most of
    08:17
    all of the arab countries and most of
    08:20
    the world around
    08:22
    uh turkey today’s turkey
    08:25
    he views those resources those things
    08:27
    those people
    08:28
    everything there as his and rightfully
    08:31
    his
    08:31
    and he’s going to get them back and
    08:34
    anything you know that works against
    08:35
    that is standing between
    08:37
    you know him and god’s will and
    08:40
    that you know that’s the simple truth of
    08:42
    it so i don’t think these negotiations
    08:44
    that germany is
    08:45
    is uh uh trying to conduct
    08:48
    to keep they keep peace between uh
    08:53
    greece and turkey uh
    08:56
    are are going to be successful i just
    08:57
    don’t see how this is going to work
    08:59
    because
    08:59
    like i said greece cannot just give up
    09:03
    this these territories to turkey and
    09:05
    turkey
    09:07
    things that rightfully they’re theirs so
    09:09
    you just have these opposite
    09:10
    perspectives
    09:11
    and he’s everyone wants that stuff he
    09:14
    wants those resources so
    09:16
    it’s not going to go away it’s not going
    09:18
    to change as long as erdogan is there
    09:20
    alive and kicking and in charge it’s
    09:22
    headed towards war in that region
    09:24
    so i don’t see it around it at this
    09:26
    point not saying that this is imminent
    09:28
    in the sense that
    09:29
    a naval war will erupt in the
    09:31
    mediterranean between greece and turkey
    09:34
    tomorrow but i am saying it’s more it’s
    09:37
    now become a question
    09:38
    of when not really a question of
    09:41
    if uh there are some other circumstances
    09:45
    there i’m oversimplifying of course but
    09:47
    uh if enough pressure can be brought to
    09:48
    bear by the united states and europe and
    09:51
    israel and other countries and and some
    09:53
    of the other arab countries
    09:54
    who also by the way view turkey as a
    09:56
    threat
    09:57
    uh you know if enough pressure can be
    09:59
    brought to bear by them you know you
    10:01
    might be able to curb them and keep them
    10:02
    in there keep them in a box
    10:04
    but that’s going to get tougher and
    10:05
    tougher and tougher and
    10:07
    erdogan has consolidated his control
    10:09
    inside turkey we’ve talked about all of
    10:10
    that in the
    10:11
    past and he needs those resources to
    10:13
    expand
    10:14
    much like i almost hate to make the
    10:17
    comparison but much like
    10:18
    why we saw japan go to war in world war
    10:21
    ii
    10:21
    they were very expansionist and they
    10:24
    needed those resources
    10:26
    from the expansion to continue the
    10:27
    expansion so
    10:29
    i i think that it’s it’s a similar logic
    10:32
    taking place in erdogan’s mind and and
    10:35
    he’s bound and determined to be the next
    10:37
    grand caliph so uh i see
    10:40
    dark clouds on the horizon we’ll see how
    10:42
    it turns out i wonder what the turkish
    10:44
    is for leban’s realm
    10:46
    um what so would you say the new axis
    10:49
    is china iran turkey
    10:55
    well now that is an interesting question
    10:57
    i
    10:58
    uh yes that if you want to continue the
    11:02
    comparison to world war
    11:03
    ii where we had the axis of
    11:06
    italy german the nazi party and the
    11:09
    japanese
    11:10
    uh imperial regime
    11:13
    yes i i that is a very interesting
    11:16
    comparison and certainly
    11:18
    bears some uh uh i think it would it
    11:21
    would be well worth
    11:22
    kind of looking at that from that
    11:24
    perspective because
    11:26
    certainly you’ve got china and iran and
    11:28
    turkey kind of
    11:29
    squaring off against similar enemies so
    11:32
    it would be sort of a natural
    11:33
    i would say in that uh once again it
    11:36
    would be kind of like the relationship
    11:37
    was with
    11:38
    uh you know the soviet union back in
    11:41
    world war ii because russia is sort of
    11:42
    the odd man
    11:43
    out uh you know they’re not a natural
    11:45
    ally necessarily
    11:47
    uh but they also have a number of
    11:51
    disputes with china they’re they’re they
    11:53
    certainly view each other’s competitors
    11:55
    just as russia views turkey is now
    11:59
    a competitor like i said they’ve had
    12:00
    wars through at least three major wars
    12:02
    in their history
    12:04
    and uh you know that that would be
    12:06
    certainly an
    12:07
    area where this whole thing could shape
    12:09
    up very similar to
    12:10
    what we saw between the axis and the
    12:12
    alliance in world war
    12:13
    ii uh with the soviet union then
    12:17
    russia now probably participating with
    12:19
    the alliance side
    12:48
    you
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  • You can’t have it back! says Russia to China about #Vladivostok

    You can’t have it back! says Russia to China about #Vladivostok

    You buy an old car for cheap, fix it up and then the guy who sold it to you demands it back. What do you do? Say no. That’s what Russia is saying to China after China decides they want Vladivostok back. Not much going on there in the 18th century when Russia asked and China said sure, take it. But much like the old car, Russia transformed it into one of their largest cities.. Seems like the two countries are rattling little sabers over this and Brad Johnson, retired Senior CIA Operative and President of Americans for Intelligence Reform, gives you a look at these two frenemies.

     

    https://youtu.be/fINq8ssapJg

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    august 26th it is uh 2020
    00:03
    with brad johnson i understand
    00:06
    that china is making demands on
    00:09
    territory which
    00:11
    sounds suspiciously russian in by name
    00:16
    yes uh china is making territorial
    00:18
    claims
    00:19
    for a chunk of russia where one of the
    00:22
    largest
    00:23
    cities in the in the fed the russian
    00:26
    federation
    00:27
    you’re well away from moscow vlad of
    00:30
    vladivostok uh
    00:33
    is it’s a port city there and it’s kind
    00:35
    of on a
    00:36
    little arm that sticks down and if
    00:39
    you’re looking at a map
    00:40
    and you go to the far right which is the
    00:43
    far
    00:44
    eastern part of russia there’s a border
    00:47
    between china and russia in common there
    00:49
    and there’s a little arm that reaches
    00:51
    down from russia
    00:52
    and includes at the tip of it this port
    00:55
    town of
    00:55
    vladivostok now uh there was a period of
    00:59
    time where that was kind of part of
    01:01
    china but this is back prior to the
    01:04
    1800s and it’s been part of russia
    01:06
    uh since then so now some of the press
    01:09
    reporting on this is typical and says oh
    01:11
    this is
    01:12
    this is property in a city that
    01:14
    previously belonged to the prc you know
    01:16
    uh but that’s you know kind of referring
    01:19
    to the modern communist party china
    01:22
    which that’s not true and it was never
    01:25
    really a
    01:26
    hardened part of china there was a a
    01:28
    whole bunch of kind of minorities it was
    01:30
    a sort of a very small
    01:32
    international town i mean back prior to
    01:34
    say
    01:35
    the mid-1800s there was a couple
    01:38
    thousand people there so and those
    01:40
    people were not really associated with
    01:42
    china or russia
    01:43
    there were some of each of those uh but
    01:46
    but it wasn’t like a hardcore chinese
    01:48
    place that they’d had traditions for 500
    01:50
    years
    01:50
    as being a chinese village or something
    01:52
    like that so
    01:54
    russians came in and took it china
    01:55
    didn’t really care
    01:57
    particularly and so it it they threw a
    01:59
    couple of treaties ended up giving it to
    02:01
    russia
    02:02
    so russia has kept it since then now
    02:04
    during the soviet union time this is
    02:06
    built into a big city so
    02:08
    that’s basically what’s going on i think
    02:09
    the pressing the
    02:11
    claim is what’s interesting out of this
    02:13
    that i i mean
    02:14
    you you couldn’t just russia is not
    02:16
    going to give up one of its largest
    02:18
    cities
    02:19
    outside of moscow and saint petersburg
    02:21
    it’s it’s not going to
    02:22
    give up one of its largest cities to
    02:24
    china just that they’ve
    02:25
    built up from the 1800s to a large city
    02:29
    from nothing
    02:30
    uh just based on this claim but it’s
    02:32
    interesting that china puts it out there
    02:34
    so we’ll see
    02:35
    i doubt china is going to do anything
    02:37
    too
    02:38
    militant based on this but i think
    02:40
    they’re trying to get in their claim
    02:42
    first and uh and will use it as a
    02:45
    negotiating
    02:46
    china i mean with russia who they are
    02:48
    starting to have some areas of conflict
    02:50
    so
    02:50
    i think it’s it’s a a pawn in the larger
    02:53
    game is what’s going on
    02:56
    basically then china like turkey is just
    02:59
    finding ways of ticking off
    03:00
    every one of its neighbors and that’s a
    03:02
    wonderful thing thank you so much for
    03:04
    that brad
    03:31
    you
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  • Russian naval military exercises off coast of Syria near Turkey

    Russian naval military exercises off coast of Syria near Turkey

    At least 9 ships and 3 subs conducted exercises just off the northern coast of Syria. Why? Russia sent the ships and are somewhat allied with Syria, but certainly long time enemies of Turkey. Erdogan condemned it – a bit too close to Turkey. What is Putin up to? What is the back story? Brad Johnson says the situation is unfolding, so it’s not yet clear. Stay tuned.

    Brad is a retired Senior CIA Operative and Chief of Station who is president of his non-profit Americans for Intelligence Reform. We hope you subscribe and we’d welcome your comments.

    https://youtu.be/6mpPC3fVk90

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    august 25th with brad johnson
    00:04
    russia has done military exercises off
    00:08
    the coast of syria you were saying
    00:10
    they’ve never done this before
    00:12
    usually these kinds of things are
    00:14
    signaling something
    00:15
    what do you think it’s signaling yes i
    00:18
    think very interesting and this is not
    00:20
    just
    00:21
    you know uh two row boats or something
    00:24
    like that they’ve got
    00:25
    at least nine ships and three submarines
    00:29
    russian navy so by russian navy
    00:31
    standards this is a fairly major
    00:34
    show force uh or or exercise naval
    00:38
    exercise
    00:39
    right off the coast of syria now uh
    00:42
    of course we know that russia is backing
    00:44
    syria and and
    00:46
    um and what’s going on there so there’s
    00:48
    a certain level of sense to be able to
    00:49
    do it there
    00:50
    kind of a show of strength with somewhat
    00:53
    of an ally
    00:54
    and keeping the assad regime alive and
    00:56
    well in syria
    00:58
    but i don’t think that’s the the real
    01:00
    reason for it and this was sharply
    01:02
    condemned by
    01:03
    none other than everyone’s friend and
    01:05
    buddy
    01:06
    uh president of turkey erdogan
    01:10
    and he came out and condemned this as as
    01:12
    you know russian aggression in the area
    01:13
    and that sort of stuff
    01:15
    shocking absolutely shocking that they
    01:16
    would do such a thing
    01:18
    and of course off the coast of syria
    01:20
    happens you know which would be
    01:22
    uh to the the coastline that is on the
    01:25
    west side of syria
    01:27
    that same section of ocean is on the
    01:30
    southern part of turkey
    01:32
    so they’re very near the southern coast
    01:33
    of turkey doing these exercises in the
    01:36
    on the
    01:37
    in the ocean there in front of of
    01:40
    syria so it is a very interesting thing
    01:43
    and a fairly large naval exercise
    01:45
    uh and i think it is in fact we’ve seen
    01:48
    a number of things in
    01:49
    say the last year year and a half that
    01:51
    russians been doing
    01:53
    uh to kind of try to keep erdogan under
    01:55
    control as we’ve talked about before
    01:57
    turkey and russia are have been um
    02:01
    essentially enemies of each other
    02:04
    for you know 200 years or 150 years
    02:07
    something along those lines they’ve had
    02:08
    at least like three major wars and
    02:10
    a number of skirmishes and so on so
    02:12
    they’re always
    02:14
    traditionally very wary of each so i
    02:17
    think this is pretty clearly
    02:18
    putin flexing a little bit of naval
    02:21
    muscle
    02:22
    under the nose of turkey interesting
    02:26
    that he does
    02:26
    that now why would he do that of course
    02:29
    that’s that element
    02:30
    remains to be put together here but
    02:32
    something is going on in the background
    02:34
    where putin deemed it a great idea
    02:37
    to flex this muscle uh in front of
    02:39
    turkey so that’s what we see going on
    02:41
    it’s a sign of something else
    02:43
    that’s happening in the background like
    02:44
    you say these naval exercises
    02:46
    aren’t accidents they do these things
    02:49
    for
    02:50
    a stated reason and they’re not going to
    02:51
    use the navy to attack syria they’re
    02:54
    already allied there so
    02:56
    who else could it be and of course the
    02:57
    only one around of any consequence right
    02:59
    there
    02:59
    that would interest the russian navy is
    03:01
    turkey so clearly a message to turkey
    03:05
    clearly flexing muscle for them uh the
    03:07
    the question is what is it on the back
    03:09
    in the background what’s the back story
    03:11
    that provoked this
    03:12
    maybe it’s just a a sign of russian
    03:14
    aggression that is consistent with how
    03:17
    russia does stuff they like to go tweak
    03:19
    the nose of people they view as an enemy
    03:22
    or a competitor so
    03:23
    it could be something as simple as that
    03:25
    uh we’ll see does erdogan
    03:27
    strike back in some way those sorts of
    03:29
    things i stay tuned i
    03:30
    i think there’ll be more coming out on
    03:32
    this one they’ve that is heating up just
    03:34
    that next little bit with turkey so
    03:36
    we’ll see where it goes
    03:38
    turkey’s certainly uh being quite
    03:40
    aggressive on a lot of
    03:42
    a lot of sides of that country so
    03:45
    more pressure is good thanks very much
    03:47
    brett
    03:48
    all right thank you
    04:16
    you
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  • Brennan says he’s not under investigation. That may not be so.

    Brennan says he’s not under investigation. That may not be so.

    Not commonly known, but the DOJ can tell an interviewee he is or isn’t under investigation but they can legally lie about it. After a meeting with the DOJ in CIA headquarters, Brennan is publicly squawking he’s free and it’s all political anyway. (Ironic, huh?) The DOJ is saying nothing though. While still with his security clearance, Haskell, now head of CIA, told Brennan he cannot examine his own papers regarding the Russian investigation. Interesting, says Brad Johnson. But his 25 years as a CIA Operative and Station Chief give him inside knowledge you won’t hear in mainstream media. His analysis ties many threads together.

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    brad johnson it is the 25th of august
    00:03
    2020 and one of the people who
    00:07
    everybody i know who really gets this
    00:10
    stuff
    00:10
    tells me is at the core of so much evil
    00:13
    that’s taken place in the
    00:15
    anti-state in the us is john brennan and
    00:18
    we’ve talked about him a number of times
    00:20
    but now you tell me there there’s been
    00:23
    progress in terms of
    00:25
    what’s taking place with him that
    00:27
    there’s been interviews he’s been seen
    00:29
    by people like by department of justice
    00:32
    people
    00:33
    can you update us on what the deal is
    00:35
    with uh with mr brennan
    00:37
    yeah absolutely of course john brennan
    00:39
    is the former director of the cia
    00:41
    he was the director of cia when all of
    00:44
    this
    00:44
    nonsense about the russia collusion and
    00:47
    all that stuff got going
    00:49
    and i’ve long said that as information
    00:51
    surfaced it always seemed to have some
    00:53
    sort of connection back to john brennan
    00:55
    at the cia
    00:56
    so that’s that’s made me say for a long
    00:58
    time
    00:59
    that it that all roads seem to lead to
    01:02
    john brennan and that he’s the architect
    01:04
    the mastermind
    01:05
    if you will and i’m using that term very
    01:07
    loosely the mastermind behind this whole
    01:10
    russia collusion scheme that was uh
    01:13
    you know that came to be through this
    01:15
    political corruption that exists that
    01:17
    appears to exist at the cia and fbi now
    01:20
    uh
    01:22
    a couple of things have happened of
    01:23
    course we and i mentioned this in a
    01:25
    previous interview that there has been
    01:26
    the first indictment
    01:28
    by the u.s attorney durham john durham
    01:31
    investigation
    01:32
    that person that was indicted was uh
    01:35
    kevin
    01:36
    uh kleinsmith eric or kevin kevin i
    01:38
    think uh kleinsmith who was a
    01:40
    fbi lawyer so his job was to look at
    01:43
    everything make sure it was legal eagle
    01:45
    and go on
    01:46
    he’s pled guilty to changing uh
    01:49
    a memo or an email that had come from
    01:52
    the cia and added the word like
    01:54
    not so they’re saying he is innocent and
    01:57
    he changed it to he is not
    01:59
    innocent you know it was a a as an
    02:01
    example something to that effect where
    02:03
    he was
    02:04
    you know making the meaning to be the
    02:06
    opposite of the way it was written
    02:07
    so uh now in that atmosphere like i say
    02:10
    the first
    02:11
    durham indictment has come out that guy
    02:15
    has pled guilty uh and as i mentioned in
    02:18
    a previous interview he could have been
    02:20
    charged with a whole bunch of other
    02:21
    stuff it wasn’t so it leads me to
    02:23
    believe that he’s been
    02:24
    flipped and will be testifying then on
    02:27
    the heels of that
    02:28
    finally this is something we’ve known
    02:30
    that’s been pending for a long time
    02:32
    the former cia director john brennan
    02:34
    under the obama administration
    02:36
    was interviewed and he was interviewed
    02:38
    by u.s attorney
    02:40
    john durham’s office and
    02:44
    at that interview interestingly enough a
    02:46
    couple aspects of it really
    02:48
    caught my eye one of them was that that
    02:50
    interview actually took place at cia
    02:52
    headquarters
    02:54
    now that’s an interesting thing to do
    02:56
    why there i don’t know
    02:58
    but there’s a couple of things out of it
    03:00
    that also are interesting
    03:02
    and one i think everyone will recall
    03:04
    that uh president
    03:06
    uh trump had said a long time ago like a
    03:09
    year ago
    03:10
    that he wanted that guy’s uh clearance
    03:13
    removed
    03:14
    and now i don’t know what trump had
    03:16
    tried to do behind the scenes but i
    03:18
    understand he didn’t do much
    03:20
    part of it i think is he doesn’t
    03:21
    understand the way that the system works
    03:23
    so
    03:23
    president trump if you need somebody to
    03:25
    handle getting rid of people’s
    03:27
    clearances for you
    03:28
    i can i can lay it out for you i can
    03:30
    write the memo minimum give it to you
    03:31
    design and
    03:32
    take it to where it needs to go uh
    03:35
    take 10 minutes at any rate that means
    03:38
    since he was at headquarters the cia
    03:40
    headquarters
    03:41
    for this interview that is still intact
    03:44
    now
    03:45
    he has publicly complained that current
    03:48
    ci
    03:48
    director gina haspel has
    03:52
    refused him access to his papers so
    03:55
    not exactly sure what that means but
    03:58
    apparently
    03:58
    he with his clearance still active
    04:01
    wanted to go back in and
    04:02
    refer to everything he’d been working on
    04:04
    for one reason or another
    04:06
    the fact that he’s been refused access
    04:08
    to those
    04:09
    like i say is very interesting now i’m
    04:12
    kind of putting breadcrumbs together
    04:14
    here to form a trail
    04:16
    but uh so the interview takes place
    04:18
    there he’s refused to access
    04:20
    he does still have to his papers he does
    04:22
    still have his clearance obviously or he
    04:24
    wouldn’t have been at cia headquarters
    04:26
    uh and in that interview according to
    04:29
    john brennan now doj has said nothing
    04:31
    publicly which of course they would not
    04:33
    that’s standard procedure for them uh
    04:36
    but john brennan came out and publicly
    04:38
    talked about the interview
    04:40
    and he says that he was told he is not a
    04:43
    subject of the investigation
    04:45
    which by the way when uh
    04:49
    you know general flynn was talked to he
    04:51
    was told he was not
    04:52
    a subject of investigation he was lied
    04:54
    to on that in that circumstance
    04:57
    and these investigators are legally
    04:59
    allowed to lie
    05:00
    to the subject and tell them whatever
    05:02
    they want so it could easily be
    05:05
    false information john brennan is not
    05:08
    subject to the investigation
    05:10
    and i think there are some reasons why
    05:12
    that we can
    05:13
    you know kind of conclude that it’s that
    05:15
    it’s false so
    05:17
    uh he’s also said john brennan came out
    05:20
    and said that
    05:21
    he kind of read them the riot act
    05:24
    telling them how this investigation was
    05:26
    political that they’re destroying the
    05:28
    integrity of the cia
    05:30
    and they’re destroying the integrity of
    05:31
    the us government and on and on and on
    05:33
    you know which of course is
    05:34
    the same thing he always says which i
    05:36
    have always argued that that’s
    05:38
    that’s uh you know the old shakespeare
    05:40
    argument he thinks the lady duff
    05:42
    protests too much i think it’s one of
    05:43
    those things he argues very
    05:45
    vehemently about all of this stuff
    05:47
    because he’s he’s worried about going to
    05:49
    jail
    05:49
    and so and and maybe you should be
    05:52
    worried about the death penalty out of
    05:53
    all this too
    05:54
    uh anyway that’s why that’s pretty wild
    05:56
    speculation but i think those things
    05:58
    probably are in his mind
    05:59
    uh so that’s kind of what was said
    06:02
    publicly by brennan about all of this
    06:04
    that
    06:04
    he’s not under investigation he
    06:06
    explained to him how they’re such dummy
    06:08
    or even doing this and
    06:09
    it’s political corruption on their part
    06:11
    to do this which
    06:13
    that’s irony isn’t it and
    06:16
    uh that’s kind of what has been said
    06:17
    publicly now again going back to those
    06:19
    bread crumbs that i mentioned
    06:21
    one of the things that that kind of
    06:22
    catches my eye like i said is
    06:25
    either you have your clearance or you
    06:27
    don’t
    06:28
    gina haspel is friends with john brennan
    06:32
    and i that you know they traveled
    06:35
    together
    06:36
    to go to uh uh senator mccain’s funeral
    06:40
    out in arizona when he died i mean they
    06:42
    went together as friends
    06:44
    so uh it doesn’t make sense that she
    06:46
    would cut him
    06:47
    off from his papers without a reason
    06:50
    so what would be the circumstance under
    06:52
    which he could maintain his clearance
    06:55
    but not have access to his papers which
    06:57
    is where we’re at today
    06:59
    and the one thing that kind of fits the
    07:00
    scenario is that
    07:02
    yes he’s been allowed to keep his
    07:04
    clearance for now
    07:06
    but he is in fact subject the subject of
    07:09
    an investigation
    07:10
    and so they don’t want to give him any
    07:12
    current access to these papers so he can
    07:14
    go back
    07:15
    and change his story or you know jog his
    07:17
    memory as to what he needs to say and
    07:19
    all of that
    07:20
    because all of this stuff is documentary
    07:21
    there’s documents to back up a lot of
    07:23
    these things
    07:24
    so what makes sense what fits the
    07:26
    scenario
    07:28
    you know occam’s razor the simplest
    07:30
    explanation for this would be
    07:32
    that he is subject to investigation and
    07:34
    they don’t want him to have access back
    07:35
    to these papers and so doj
    07:38
    went to gina haspel and said you
    07:40
    mentioned a word of this and this is
    07:42
    obstruction of justice but your orders
    07:44
    on this are
    07:45
    do not allow him any you know any access
    07:47
    to anything because he’s subject to
    07:49
    investigation
    07:50
    now again the rumors were i don’t know
    07:53
    this for a fact but the rumors were
    07:55
    that gina haspel had also lawyered up so
    07:58
    this
    07:59
    this is an interesting circumstance it
    08:00
    would make sense if she’d been
    08:02
    approached by
    08:03
    doj said this is what’s going on she
    08:06
    lawyers up
    08:07
    and you know is prepared now that may or
    08:10
    may not mean
    08:10
    she’s in some sort of trouble or under
    08:13
    investigation
    08:14
    but it would be it is sort of an
    08:17
    indicator of what may be going on behind
    08:18
    the scenes with john brennan now
    08:20
    again i mentioned this is relatively
    08:22
    speculative in nature
    08:23
    i understand that but those are what the
    08:25
    circumstances at least kind of point out
    08:27
    to me on this now
    08:28
    we’ll see very shortly that a whole
    08:30
    investigation is supposed to be
    08:32
    uh or at least the main part of the of
    08:34
    the investigation is supposed to start
    08:36
    to come out here very soon we’re already
    08:38
    almost to the end of august and everyone
    08:40
    expects it to be out by early september
    08:41
    at the latest
    08:42
    at least the initial cut of the thing
    08:45
    should should be out now apparently
    08:47
    they’ve said that there’s going to be
    08:48
    more coming
    08:51
    i again
    08:54
    tend to suspect this is good news but
    08:56
    we’ll see it’s going to end very shortly
    08:58
    and we’ll find out very shortly
    09:00
    so by september 15th we should see
    09:03
    something concrete actually happen that
    09:06
    we can take the thing
    09:08
    i believe so
    09:25
    [Music]
    09:34
    good
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    The AIR website contains many related interviews about FISA investigations if you’d like to learn more on the history and chain of events.

    After retiring from the CIA, Brad founded his non-profit Americans for Intelligence Reform with the mission of moving our intel resources away from politics and re-establishing espionage responsibilities. He serves as President of AIR.

     

    https://youtu.be/UmDe3VpiLmw

  • Brad Johnson interviewed on PIJN’s Dr Chaps

    Brad Johnson interviewed on PIJN’s Dr Chaps

    Various topics including intelligence reform and the Chinese Communist Party’s handling of COVID19.

    https://youtu.be/yZCYvGehRUU

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    the government of china is now
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    obfuscating
    00:09
    their coronavirus reporting they might
    00:12
    not even be testing their citizens
    00:14
    for the spread of the virus today we
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    interviewed covid19 which has now become
    00:18
    a global pandemic
    00:20
    but if they are no longer testing their
    00:23
    citizens
    00:24
    for coronavirus that means it’s going to
    00:27
    spread everywhere
    00:28
    among a billion people in china
    00:31
    and the united states is not
    00:34
    as cnn reported the number one
    00:37
    country in the world with cases and
    00:39
    deaths because
    00:40
    china probably is nobody knows because
    00:43
    they’re no longer testing welcome to the
    00:45
    program
    00:46
    bradley johnson who is an xcia operative
    00:49
    who leads the organization intel
    00:53
    reform.org
    00:54
    bradley welcome to the program introduce
    00:56
    yourself to our audience
    00:58
    dr chap so wonderful to speak with you
    01:00
    uh yes bradley johnson 25 years the
    01:02
    agency i was in the
    01:04
    operational cadre which is the overseas
    01:07
    cadre that does the
    01:08
    espionage portion of the work that’s
    01:10
    done at the cia so
    01:12
    uh that’s my background and now i’m
    01:16
    president of an organization called as
    01:18
    you said americans for intelligence
    01:19
    reform
    01:20
    and one of our main goals is to
    01:23
    see the president re-elected now because
    01:25
    what has happened is the intelligence
    01:27
    community has been politicized and
    01:30
    weaponized to use against him now we’re
    01:33
    also supporters of the president
    01:34
    but we’re also very much against the
    01:37
    intelligence community being weaponized
    01:39
    and politicized
    01:40
    regardless of who’s president because
    01:42
    that takes us down the wrong
    01:43
    track that’s third world and we just
    01:45
    can’t have it here in the united states
    01:47
    so
    01:47
    those are some of the principal founding
    01:49
    reasons for americans for intelligence
    01:51
    reform
    01:52
    i’m totally in support of that mission
    01:54
    as an ex-intelligence officer myself in
    01:57
    the u.s air force i was a major in
    02:00
    the j-2 directorate of u.s spacecom and
    02:03
    norad intelligence
    02:04
    i worked every day with people like you
    02:06
    at dia nsa
    02:08
    cia and i had a fascinating career top
    02:11
    secret clearance but
    02:12
    i so much respect the real spies i was
    02:15
    never a spy but
    02:17
    apparently you were in charge of a bunch
    02:18
    of those and you’ve seen it all
    02:22
    well i certainly have seen a great deal
    02:24
    there’s no question whatsoever and yeah
    02:27
    spying is you know espionage is
    02:29
    essentially spying so
    02:30
    as far as you know spotting assessing
    02:33
    developing and recruiting
    02:34
    spies for the united states of america
    02:36
    uh yeah that
    02:37
    that i have pretty much seen that from
    02:39
    top to bottom and managed large programs
    02:41
    of that nature and
    02:43
    personally been involved in many many
    02:44
    activities of that nature
    02:46
    covert action programs the the whole
    02:48
    gambit well what is
    02:50
    your observation now of this report
    02:52
    coming out of china i’m reading on
    02:54
    bloomberg dot com
    02:57
    that china has now stopped testing their
    03:01
    own
    03:02
    citizens for coronavirus and that means
    03:05
    i think uh well you tell me what it
    03:08
    means
    03:10
    well i i think there’s the one steady
    03:13
    component of this whole thing that we
    03:15
    can all count on from the very beginning
    03:17
    of this and that is that china is lying
    03:19
    to us
    03:20
    they’re uh lying about every aspect of
    03:22
    this they’re covering up the number of
    03:24
    people that have died they’re covering
    03:25
    up
    03:25
    uh how many are sick they’re just
    03:27
    they’re covering up every aspect of this
    03:29
    so
    03:30
    any information coming out of china at
    03:33
    best can be used sort of to
    03:35
    report as a trend now what china is
    03:38
    reporting now this doesn’t get so much
    03:39
    to the united states
    03:40
    but on the world stage they’re doing a
    03:42
    couple of things one of them is that
    03:44
    they’re reporting that essentially
    03:46
    the disease is over for them so
    03:48
    therefore
    03:49
    uh they can stop doing all of the
    03:51
    testing and so on so it
    03:53
    is a propaganda tool from their
    03:56
    perspective so
    03:57
    that’s how they’re playing this now uh
    04:00
    they’ve they’ve then used that to move
    04:02
    outward and start to supply aid
    04:05
    to other countries who are suffering
    04:06
    from this uh wuhan virus
    04:09
    and so that’s again all part of how
    04:11
    they’re playing this in propaganda
    04:13
    and sort of the third level of that
    04:16
    specific what they’re do
    04:18
    specific to what they’re doing is
    04:20
    they’re now trying to blame the united
    04:22
    states of america for the virus to begin
    04:23
    with now
    04:24
    all of that is false i mean you know
    04:26
    where there is any truth in any of it
    04:28
    it’s hard to say but i think i heard
    04:32
    what you’re saying is
    04:33
    that china is lying they are under
    04:35
    reporting and they say oh
    04:37
    we’re done we don’t have any more cases
    04:39
    when united states
    04:41
    intelligence reports coming out of china
    04:43
    our own spy agencies
    04:45
    three different agents have reported to
    04:47
    bloomberg
    04:48
    and other sources without attribution
    04:52
    they have to speak anonymously because
    04:53
    it’s classified information
    04:55
    that china still is incu encountering
    04:58
    the wuhan virus is still spreading among
    05:01
    their population
    05:02
    so how can they claim to be safe when
    05:04
    they are exporting products
    05:06
    or people are going back to the
    05:07
    factories they’re still making
    05:09
    plastics and glass and steel products
    05:11
    that are being sold on amazon
    05:14
    or exported to the united states how can
    05:16
    they certify that they’re
    05:18
    being a safe nation when they’ve lied
    05:21
    about
    05:21
    stopping the testing of their own
    05:23
    populace
    05:25
    yes well i i think the answer to that is
    05:27
    very straightforward they cannot i mean
    05:29
    uh we just simply can’t trust it i i
    05:32
    would
    05:32
    expect that you can pretty much take any
    05:35
    number that they give you as far as
    05:37
    infections go and add a zero at the back
    05:39
    end of it
    05:40
    and be closer to the truth in whatever
    05:42
    they’re saying so
    05:43
    yes you cannot count on their
    05:45
    information as being true
    05:48
    yes exactly i think 10 times the number
    05:50
    of deaths and 10 times the number of
    05:52
    people
    05:52
    sick is far closer to the truth than
    05:54
    what china’s telling us
    05:56
    we’re going to take a short break when
    05:58
    we come back we’ll have more with
    05:59
    bradley johnson
    06:00
    on how we can reform the intelligence
    06:03
    community to make it less political
    06:05
    this is p i j n news defending your
    06:09
    religious freedom
    06:10
    welcome back i’m dr chaff joined again
    06:12
    by bradley johnson xcia operative leader
    06:15
    of
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    intelreform.org
    06:18
    bradley i’m concerned now because u.s
    06:21
    senator
    06:22
    ben sasse of nebraska has come out
    06:25
    and rebuked the chinese and actually
    06:27
    rebuked cnn
    06:29
    who was reporting chinese propaganda
    06:32
    and the leftist mantra that the united
    06:35
    states is the most dangerous most deadly
    06:38
    most coronavirus in the world in blaming
    06:41
    trump for this
    06:43
    but when the truth is according to
    06:44
    senator ben sasse that
    06:46
    china remains number one they’re just
    06:48
    not reporting it because they have
    06:50
    stopped testing their citizens
    06:54
    yes i would be uh i think there was a
    06:57
    great deal of irresponsibility on the
    06:59
    part of the chinese and
    07:00
    and many many layers to how that
    07:03
    that irresponsibility is applied but
    07:06
    just on
    07:07
    on you raise a very important point and
    07:10
    yes
    07:10
    cnn was rebuked but i would widen that
    07:13
    net a little if i
    07:15
    could and say basically who in the
    07:18
    mainstream
    07:19
    media is reporting this fairly and i
    07:22
    don’t think you see anyone
    07:24
    on the left whether it’s the university
    07:26
    system which is an important part of
    07:28
    this
    07:28
    because of the science aspects which we
    07:30
    all know has been long controlled by the
    07:32
    left
    07:33
    the mainstream media again long
    07:35
    controlled by the left and the
    07:36
    democratic party which has been consumed
    07:38
    by the extreme left
    07:39
    so all of those groups
    07:43
    are acting in conjunction and in a sort
    07:46
    of
    07:46
    informal uh cooperation with china
    07:50
    and so you see china’s message being
    07:52
    picked up and sent by them
    07:54
    and the reason being i think is because
    07:56
    the left is unified in the sense that
    07:58
    they all hate
    07:59
    trump so using this as an excuse or a
    08:02
    club to beat trump with
    08:04
    is the whole goal and we’ve seen that
    08:06
    you know time after time after time this
    08:08
    the mueller investigation the ukraine
    08:10
    phone call any little item that they can
    08:13
    find
    08:13
    that they can use to try to criticize
    08:15
    trump that’s what they’re trying to do
    08:18
    so uh basically we’re in a situation
    08:20
    where
    08:21
    the university reporting the that on the
    08:24
    science issues the mainstream media
    08:26
    reporting on the news of it
    08:28
    and the democratic party who only wants
    08:30
    to attack trump
    08:32
    anything they say we all know you can’t
    08:34
    believe it you can’t trust it
    08:36
    because what are they going to say if if
    08:38
    trump would
    08:39
    push a button and cure this virus they
    08:42
    would blame him for something else i
    08:44
    mean
    08:44
    overpopulation or something they would
    08:46
    come up with some reason to criticize
    08:48
    the president
    08:49
    so there’s just nothing that’s going to
    08:51
    be done where he will be
    08:53
    treated fairly by any of those three
    08:55
    groups so for them to pick up and run
    08:57
    the run with the ball with the chinese
    08:59
    that’s who they are so they’re never
    09:02
    going to report the truth because
    09:03
    the truth is all bad for china
    09:08
    well and now u.s congressman adam schiff
    09:12
    who led the impeachment hearings and
    09:13
    he’s chairman of the house intel
    09:15
    committee
    09:16
    he said we’re going to open another
    09:18
    investigation against trump for how he
    09:21
    has mishandled the coronavirus briefings
    09:24
    meanwhile trump’s
    09:25
    popularity ratings are now skyrocketing
    09:28
    he’s up to 60 percent all the
    09:30
    independents are with him
    09:32
    all the republicans are with him but
    09:34
    only 27
    09:35
    approval rating among democrats so why
    09:38
    would
    09:38
    adam schiff now try to open another
    09:41
    round of impeachment hearings or
    09:43
    investigating the president
    09:44
    over the mishandling of the corona
    09:48
    crisis
    09:50
    well uh i think the democrats are faced
    09:52
    with a terrible problem and that
    09:54
    terrible problem
    09:55
    is u.s attorney general barr and u.s
    09:58
    attorney john durham’s investigation
    10:00
    into the fisa fiasco and that now
    10:04
    people don’t recognize often that the
    10:06
    fisa document is not just a law
    10:08
    enforcement document it’s actually more
    10:11
    of an intelligence an intelligence
    10:13
    community document
    10:14
    because what it does is it it takes
    10:17
    information that originates with the
    10:19
    intelligence community
    10:20
    and there’s a handshake between the
    10:22
    intelligence community and law
    10:24
    enforcement
    10:25
    and then law enforcement picks up this
    10:26
    case whatever it may be
    10:28
    and runs with it so that intelligence
    10:31
    document that was given to a judge to
    10:34
    get all of these
    10:35
    original fisa warrants was based on
    10:37
    intelligence that’s why it’s
    10:39
    more principally better described as a
    10:41
    an intelligence document
    10:43
    rather than a law enforcement document
    10:45
    so what they did
    10:47
    again this politization of the
    10:49
    intelligence community
    10:51
    played itself out there all of those
    10:53
    things that they did
    10:54
    were highly illegal and that is going to
    10:56
    come out in this report
    10:58
    and it’s going to be devastating to the
    11:00
    democratic party
    11:01
    so they have to build a way to defend
    11:03
    themselves and the only way to defend
    11:05
    themselves
    11:06
    is to constantly attack president trump
    11:09
    no matter how
    11:10
    unfairly they’re better off attacking
    11:12
    him through any means
    11:14
    than letting things just run forward so
    11:17
    i was an intel officer
    11:18
    during the 9 11 attacks we’re going back
    11:21
    to
    11:22
    2001 when right after that president
    11:25
    bush
    11:25
    initiated the patriot act and for a
    11:28
    while there
    11:29
    they were allowed to spy on foreign
    11:32
    communications that come
    11:33
    into america and there was some question
    11:36
    of whether or not that violated the
    11:37
    fourth amendment
    11:38
    senator rand paul congressman jim
    11:41
    sensenbrenner with whom i met
    11:43
    were opposed to violating the fourth
    11:45
    amendment of the constitution to spy on
    11:47
    americans
    11:48
    but we did that anyway that led to
    11:50
    abuses during the obama era
    11:53
    of spying on americans under the guise
    11:56
    of what they called
    11:57
    for fisa warrants in other words foreign
    12:00
    intelligence surveillance act
    12:01
    that law was set up the foreign
    12:04
    intelligence surveillance court
    12:06
    to authorize secret hearings against
    12:08
    americans
    12:10
    without even their knowledge without
    12:12
    their presence
    12:13
    the obama administration was spying on
    12:15
    americans listening eavesdropping on
    12:16
    their conversations if they had a
    12:18
    warrant from a secret judge in a secret
    12:21
    court
    12:22
    now we fast forward to 2020. the trump
    12:25
    administration
    12:27
    has been trying to fight the coronavirus
    12:29
    but they are also having to fight what
    12:31
    some call the deep state operatives
    12:34
    within the intelligence community that
    12:36
    still exists today
    12:38
    are there operatives do you believe and
    12:41
    and
    12:41
    without specific knowledge i don’t want
    12:43
    you to divulge anything classified that
    12:45
    you may know
    12:46
    but are there democrat operatives in the
    12:49
    cia
    12:49
    that are fighting against trump so in
    12:52
    your opinion are there deep state
    12:54
    operatives
    12:55
    in the cia that are now opposing
    12:57
    president trump
    12:59
    oh yes i mean there’s just no question
    13:00
    whatsoever i think your question
    13:02
    actually understates the full scope of
    13:05
    the problem
    13:06
    and i i think i mean there’s certain
    13:07
    things we can all agree upon
    13:09
    uh former director cia director john
    13:12
    brennan
    13:12
    who by the way you were mentioning the
    13:14
    spying he was actually caught spying on
    13:17
    congress
    13:18
    recording their phone calls denied it
    13:21
    lied about it was later caught doing it
    13:24
    and had to publicly apologize
    13:26
    so that same john brennan as we know is
    13:29
    one of the greatest detractors of
    13:31
    president trump and
    13:32
    and appears to very personally hate him
    13:35
    a great deal
    13:36
    now the leadership at the cia are all of
    13:39
    those same people that were the main
    13:40
    lieutenants under john brennan
    13:42
    they’re the main lieutenants now with
    13:44
    the current director
    13:46
    gina haspel of the cia who was also
    13:48
    herself a close
    13:50
    uh friend of director brennan
    13:53
    in fact when senator mccain john mccain
    13:56
    from arizona
    13:57
    died gina haspel went to the funeral
    14:00
    with john brennan
    14:02
    they’re very close personal friends and
    14:04
    i’m sure that there are personal
    14:05
    discussions taking place between them
    14:07
    and who knows what they might be
    14:09
    discussing but not only is it the
    14:11
    leadership
    14:12
    it’s the entire pipeline to leadership
    14:14
    within all of these federal agencies
    14:17
    they’re all very dedicated leftists
    14:20
    who hate president trump and we’re going
    14:22
    to take a short break
    14:24
    when we come back we’ll have more with
    14:25
    bradley johnson on how we can reform
    14:28
    the intelligence community to make it
    14:30
    less political dr chaps joined again by
    14:32
    xcia operative bradley johnson who leads
    14:36
    intel reform.org bradley we’ve
    14:39
    identified the problem first of all
    14:41
    china is lying to us
    14:43
    cnn is lying to us the democrats on the
    14:46
    intel committee are lying to us
    14:48
    they’re trying to politicize this and
    14:50
    now we may have a deep state problem
    14:52
    within the intelligence community that
    14:55
    is opposing the re-election of donald
    14:57
    trump for political purposes
    14:59
    what is the solution how can we reform
    15:01
    the intelligence community to be
    15:03
    non-partisan if there is such a thing
    15:06
    well it’s it’s an extraordinarily
    15:08
    difficult problem to be faced with
    15:11
    because they’ve become so entrenched
    15:13
    over the last couple of decades that
    15:15
    it’s a
    15:15
    it’s a serious problem and all many of
    15:17
    these political issues that we’re seeing
    15:19
    today
    15:20
    are the results of that effort to
    15:22
    consolidate their control over the
    15:24
    federal these federal government
    15:25
    agencies so it’s going to be an uphill
    15:28
    battle
    15:28
    i don’t know that anyone has the
    15:30
    political will to actually even
    15:31
    face this problem but i can tell you
    15:33
    some of the solutions
    15:35
    one of them would be to change how the
    15:37
    polygraph is done for those people who
    15:39
    have
    15:40
    high level uh clearances for the top
    15:43
    secret
    15:44
    the tssci full scope poly for those
    15:47
    people that have that clearance these
    15:48
    are the people that would be at the
    15:49
    highest levels of
    15:51
    nsc fbi cia nsc
    15:54
    these people part of the questioning
    15:56
    needs to be
    15:57
    to ask them questions along the lines
    16:01
    of what is more important to you your
    16:03
    oath to defend the constitution of the
    16:05
    united states
    16:06
    or your personal political beliefs which
    16:09
    take precedent
    16:10
    will you be an activist doing whatever
    16:13
    it is you think is important
    16:15
    or will you be a loyal citizen of the
    16:17
    united states supporting and defending
    16:19
    the constitution of the united states
    16:21
    that line of questioning would need to
    16:23
    be broken down into a number of
    16:24
    questions
    16:25
    but that could be included in every
    16:27
    polygraph test with the snap of a
    16:28
    fingers
    16:29
    and that would begin to eliminate a lot
    16:31
    of the worst of those people
    16:33
    the second half of that that i would
    16:34
    implement as in the federal government
    16:36
    the way promotions are handled
    16:39
    is very carefully controlled so that
    16:41
    race color creed
    16:42
    all those sorts of issues don’t come
    16:44
    into play so you’re unable to see
    16:47
    who these people are all you see is
    16:48
    their record so that they can be judged
    16:51
    on their record and
    16:52
    fairly promoted now that’s good but the
    16:55
    problem is
    16:56
    the way that the promotions are tied to
    16:59
    the job that you have
    17:00
    and where the trip comes in and the way
    17:02
    that the left has completely
    17:04
    consolidated control
    17:05
    over these federal agencies is through
    17:07
    those who’s assigned
    17:09
    what job and that that is
    17:13
    been corrupted so in order to get
    17:15
    promoted you have to have certain jobs
    17:18
    but to get into that job so that you can
    17:20
    be promoted
    17:21
    they control that manipulate that and
    17:23
    they only put in their political cronies
    17:26
    the final point i would make on all of
    17:27
    this that so that therefore has to be
    17:30
    done in such a way that they cannot play
    17:32
    those games and pick their own little
    17:34
    cronies
    17:34
    to put into all of these jobs it has to
    17:36
    be done fairly
    17:38
    like the promotions are so that people
    17:39
    are judged on merit
    17:41
    not their political bias or loyalty to a
    17:44
    certain political party
    17:45
    the final area of this would be in the
    17:48
    hiring practices
    17:49
    and i’ll mention the fbi not because i’m
    17:52
    particularly picking on the fbi but
    17:54
    because they’re more open in their
    17:55
    hiring practices some of their
    17:57
    questioning for new
    17:58
    prospective candidates to be hired are
    18:01
    things like
    18:02
    do you want to be a justice warrior well
    18:05
    what does that mean what that means is
    18:07
    they’re asking are you a liberal
    18:08
    democrat or not
    18:10
    so if you answer no i don’t really want
    18:12
    to be a social justice warrior
    18:14
    i want to defend and uphold the
    18:15
    constitution united states
    18:17
    they don’t hire you if you say yes i
    18:19
    want to be a social justice warrior
    18:21
    then you get hired so i mean those three
    18:24
    areas are all
    18:25
    horrible problems that need to be
    18:27
    overcome and as i said i i
    18:29
    don’t know if anyone has the political
    18:31
    will
    18:32
    to face all of this take it on and start
    18:34
    making these corrections
    18:36
    but now the left would would would clow
    18:39
    cry bloody murder over these sorts of
    18:41
    things but these are the things that
    18:42
    need to be done
    18:43
    and these people cannot be trusted in
    18:46
    positions of authority in government
    18:49
    and the reason they cannot be trusted is
    18:51
    because
    18:52
    their personal political beliefs take
    18:55
    precedent over the constitution and the
    18:58
    national security of the united states
    19:00
    i totally understand the difference and
    19:03
    that personnel
    19:04
    is policy and what i mean by that is
    19:07
    the people that you hire to hire the
    19:10
    people that you want
    19:12
    the hiring people the hr director
    19:14
    essentially of the cia or
    19:16
    fbi as you were tank they can bias
    19:19
    the troops by only hiring leftists
    19:23
    and social justice warriors as you’re
    19:25
    saying that
    19:26
    have democrat leaning affiliation of
    19:28
    course eventually
    19:30
    the entire agency is going to oppose a
    19:32
    republican
    19:33
    administration even if he appoints top
    19:36
    level spies like uh secretary mike
    19:39
    pompeo over the cia now the secretary of
    19:42
    state
    19:43
    there’s only so much the top-level
    19:44
    bureaucrats or the
    19:46
    administration appointees can do to
    19:49
    penetrate the deep state
    19:50
    and replace that personnel is policy
    19:53
    we’re out of time but i’d like i’ll give
    19:54
    you the last word what’s your website
    19:56
    uh my website is uh it’s the
    19:59
    the organization’s americans for
    20:01
    intelligence reform the website is
    20:03
    intelreform.org i can also be followed
    20:06
    on youtube
    20:07
    at uh brad johnson air
    20:10
    and on facebook americans for
    20:12
    intelligence reform
    20:14
    amen to that i’m dr chaps and our
    20:16
    website is prayingjesusname.org
    20:22
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  • Timing is everything. Bannon arrested on heels of FBI lawyer plea bargain

    Timing is everything. Bannon arrested on heels of FBI lawyer plea bargain

    Dems continue twisting every possible event to be yet another Trump misstep. One of their own pleads guilty, therefore, dirt must be dug up on Trump – no matter how confabulated. Bannon, not the best with details, now faces mail fraud charges from the US Post Office. A non-profit raising donations for The Wall, Bannon is a go-to fundraiser but something went amiss and the Post Office arrested Bannon on a yacht. The press says Trump is shaking in his boots, but Bannon had left the Trump administration prior to all of this. Just another day of mudslinging by the Bully Party.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFlJKpYZgU

     
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    brad johnson it is august the 21st of
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    2020
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    and uh there was a very interestingly
    00:08
    timed arrest
    00:09
    of steve bannon um allegedly for
    00:12
    breaking some rules
    00:14
    in terms of fundraising for the wall and
    00:17
    uh for me
    00:18
    it just looks like a tit for tat
    00:21
    in terms of the the guilty plea
    00:24
    of the fbi lawyer but maybe there’s some
    00:26
    more to it what do you what do you know
    00:27
    about that
    00:29
    yeah it’s kind of an interesting case
    00:31
    and as you say there’s some quirks to
    00:33
    the timing that are worth kind of
    00:35
    laying out a little bit but uh in
    00:37
    essence what happened
    00:39
    was uh after steve bannon left the
    00:42
    uh you know working for president trump
    00:45
    after he
    00:46
    left his job at at national security
    00:48
    council he went off and did some other
    00:50
    things
    00:51
    and one of the things that he did was
    00:53
    try to raise this
    00:54
    fund for build the wall so he was trying
    00:57
    to
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    privately fund it uh by getting
    01:01
    donations from people
    01:02
    and according to the what the press is
    01:04
    reporting on the charges
    01:06
    which you know take this with a grain of
    01:08
    salt what they’re reporting is
    01:09
    that part of his sales pitch
    01:13
    was you know to get donations was that
    01:16
    it was an all-volunteer effort
    01:18
    and so uh then part of the money was
    01:22
    was paid out of that fund to another
    01:25
    nonprofit
    01:26
    and out of that other non-profit some
    01:29
    people that were
    01:31
    friends of steve bannon working with him
    01:32
    on this project were getting money
    01:35
    nowhere in that did they say that steve
    01:37
    bannon was being paid money
    01:39
    they did say that out of this uh
    01:43
    effort to build the wall he was paying
    01:45
    some of his expenses
    01:47
    now there’s some talk about some of this
    01:49
    was done
    01:50
    you know it’s it’s unclear who exactly
    01:52
    was doing that but some of what they’re
    01:53
    saying is that it
    01:55
    it crossed the line because he was
    01:56
    buying you know a car
    01:58
    and and plastic surgery for his face
    02:01
    which
    02:01
    after looking at him i don’t see a lot
    02:03
    of signs of that
    02:05
    but maybe so and uh you know other
    02:08
    personal items so that’s the charge that
    02:10
    he was using this money to cover his
    02:12
    personal items now out of a non-profit
    02:16
    if you don’t pay yourself a salary but
    02:18
    cover your expenses that is still an
    02:20
    all-volunteer organization now
    02:22
    i don’t know steve bannon well i mean
    02:24
    i’ve met him he goes to some of these
    02:26
    events and organizes events that i
    02:28
    get invited to and things like that so
    02:30
    i’ve met him but don’t know him
    02:31
    we’ve never had a personal one-on-one
    02:33
    conversation but just in my observations
    02:35
    of the man
    02:36
    and something that everybody says about
    02:38
    him is he’s very sloppy i mean he’s just
    02:40
    a sloppy guy you know if you look at how
    02:42
    he’s dressed how he
    02:43
    you know kind of doesn’t really cut his
    02:45
    hair and all this sort of stuff
    02:47
    uh he’s just a sloppy guy so if anything
    02:50
    i would kind of lean towards that that
    02:53
    you know he was
    02:55
    just sloppy in the way he did some of
    02:57
    this stuff
    02:58
    but the friends that were helping him on
    03:00
    this thing
    03:02
    according to the press reporting were
    03:03
    the ones that were getting the money
    03:05
    uh paid in as uh like a salary
    03:08
    out of this other non-profit so then the
    03:10
    the charge is that this is
    03:12
    as uh electronic mail fraud the post
    03:15
    offices that are the guys
    03:16
    impressing these charges uh
    03:20
    now some of the timing out of this
    03:22
    that’s so interesting
    03:23
    and what you alluded to early on in the
    03:25
    introduction is that this
    03:27
    lawyer kleinsmith uh
    03:30
    just got indicted out of part of the u.s
    03:34
    attorney uh john durham investigation
    03:36
    which is this whole
    03:37
    fisa fiasco stuff so and then in a
    03:40
    previous interview we talked about what
    03:41
    a key guy he is and
    03:43
    it really looks like he’s basically
    03:45
    flipped and agreed to testify to get
    03:47
    only one charge and a much less lesser
    03:50
    penalty you know lesser jail time
    03:52
    uh out of the deal so it’s a big deal
    03:54
    and a lot of i think a lot of other
    03:57
    uh indictments are coming on the heels
    03:59
    of that and he’s sort of like the first
    04:01
    the first domino to be touched and
    04:03
    pushed over
    04:05
    now so what the timing of this
    04:08
    is kind of matches that i will say one
    04:10
    thing now of course the post office
    04:12
    is like state department and a lot of
    04:13
    the other federal agencies it’s been
    04:15
    very very liberal for a very long time
    04:18
    and so it would be
    04:19
    an a place that’s clearly susceptible
    04:22
    to uh you know political corruption in
    04:26
    the leadership level
    04:27
    and certainly within that investigative
    04:29
    arm of the post office
    04:31
    most people don’t realize i mean the
    04:32
    post office even has jail cells in
    04:35
    in the larger post office uh facilities
    04:38
    and so they’re they’re actually quite
    04:39
    active on this and a lot of people have
    04:41
    gone to jail for
    04:42
    mail fraud of one type or another and
    04:44
    this is what they’re saying falls into
    04:46
    that category
    04:47
    uh but now the suspicious end of things
    04:50
    of course is the timing one
    04:52
    because we just had kleinsmith the
    04:54
    lawyer kleinsmith the fbi
    04:56
    lawyer get indicted so they need
    04:58
    something to offset that
    05:00
    so the democrats do so this would be
    05:02
    good timing in that sense to show that
    05:05
    there’s other indictments and
    05:06
    the press coverage of this now is saying
    05:08
    oh president trump
    05:10
    better be worried in all this but i i
    05:13
    think this is going to be the same as
    05:14
    all of this other stuff the ukraine
    05:17
    phone call the mueller investigation
    05:19
    all of this stuff is just doing whatever
    05:21
    they can do whatever they can come
    05:23
    across whatever they can find that can
    05:25
    be twisted
    05:26
    in any way shape or form i personally
    05:29
    doubt steve bannon who is not
    05:32
    poor uh who wasn’t apparently even
    05:36
    according to the negative reporting
    05:37
    coming out of the mainstream media
    05:38
    wasn’t
    05:39
    paying himself a salary he was covering
    05:41
    expenses
    05:43
    um i just don’t see him you know
    05:47
    that he’s such in such desperate needs
    05:50
    of money that that he really did all of
    05:52
    that stuff
    05:53
    now the legitimate expenses i mean if
    05:55
    he’s having
    05:56
    while he’s out trying to collect money
    05:58
    has to go to a meeting here there and
    05:59
    all that
    06:00
    travel expenses and you know hotel and
    06:02
    food and
    06:03
    basically per diem expenses all of those
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    are
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    perfectly legitimate expenses that
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    almost everyone does
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    even if they don’t take a salary so i
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    i tend to suspect some sort of
    06:14
    manipulation of the information out
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    there and
    06:17
    what he came out and said was steve
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    bannon was publicly
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    but it hit this morning but he just said
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    this is you know by people who don’t
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    want the wall built which
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    struck me as kind of a lame comment but
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    that’s what he said
    06:29
    president trump on the other hand first
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    of all steve bannon had left
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    working for the nsc had not was not
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    working for the government wasn’t
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    working for trump wasn’t working for the
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    campaign
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    at any of those things they were
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    completely cut
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    they not that they don’t have a friendly
    06:43
    relationship but all that had stopped
    06:44
    the professional end of it
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    had ended and uh steve bannon went out
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    on with all this on his own
    06:51
    the president according to the president
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    uh which were also comments that were
    06:54
    published this morning
    06:56
    he said look you know i heard about this
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    thing didn’t like it because it’s
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    you know not government it’s not private
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    it’s just some sort of
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    mix and i told them you know i don’t
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    like this whole idea if that’s what
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    you’re gonna do go do it but you know
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    i’m not involved
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    and if you look back the president was
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    never the one coming out and supporting
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    this
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    he never came out and said oh you know
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    support this this non-profit to build a
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    wall
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    so i think the hands of the president
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    are completely clean on this he had
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    never
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    had anything to do with it directly i
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    think it was a
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    a thing by steve bannon and why he got
    07:29
    involved in that
    07:30
    maybe he just believed strongly in the
    07:32
    wall don’t know i
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    like i say i would be tend to be
    07:35
    surprised if he really you know he’s
    07:37
    kind of a sloppy guy so maybe he bent
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    some of the rules a little bit but
    07:40
    probably more out of the
    07:41
    just kind of his natural state of being
    07:44
    than like going oh
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    i can steal you know five thousand
    07:47
    dollars over there for my
    07:48
    new haircut or whatever which steve you
    07:52
    can do some helping that everybody
    07:53
    and at any rate the other aspect of this
    07:57
    i also find very interesting is where he
    07:59
    was arrested
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    and so they wait to arrest him because
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    of course
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    once they get to that point they’re
    08:05
    surveilling him i mean how would you
    08:07
    know somebody’s out on a yacht
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    and that’s where he got arrested the
    08:10
    yacht belongs to guo i think is how it’s
    08:13
    pronounced guo
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    ed who is basically a chinese oligarch
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    anti-communist
    08:18
    and that guy and steve bannon have been
    08:21
    working on some things to expose
    08:23
    chinese corruption and things that
    08:26
    they’re doing in the united states so
    08:27
    it’s actually been a fairly effective
    08:29
    program and and that guy
    08:31
    that chinese oligarch who owned the
    08:33
    yacht and steve bannon have been working
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    on that so that was a natural thing for
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    them to
    08:38
    meet and certainly a yacht out you know
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    out in the ocean is a great place to
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    have
    08:42
    private conversations away from you know
    08:44
    eavesdropping or
    08:45
    electronic collection means things like
    08:47
    that so uh
    08:48
    why they he would be arrested while he
    08:50
    was on a yacht and they even report
    08:52
    in the press reporting that he was
    08:54
    arrested having a sunburn
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    and so i find that very suspicious i
    08:58
    think they’re trying to
    08:59
    you know arrest him at a moment where
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    it’s it’s
    09:02
    done for appearances to make him
    09:05
    look bad and if you look back i i
    09:08
    hearkened back
    09:09
    to uh uh some of the guys that were
    09:12
    arrested that had uh
    09:13
    uh worked with uh president trump in the
    09:16
    campaign and
    09:17
    you know they were going to the guy the
    09:19
    one guy’s house in the middle of the
    09:20
    night and arrested him at
    09:22
    two or three o’clock in the morning with
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    12 vehicles and all these guys and dogs
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    and arms and just
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    you know and the older guy just you know
    09:29
    would have come out and turned himself
    09:31
    in if they’d asked him to do it
    09:32
    and yet they arrested him that way and
    09:34
    the cnn news crew happened to be staking
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    out the property just in case
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    and so the whole thing was filmed and
    09:40
    put out on the news i think this is a
    09:42
    repeat of that and that’s one of the
    09:44
    reasons i’m so suspicious
    09:46
    of this whole thing from the very
    09:47
    beginning i doubt there’s anything very
    09:49
    serious in there against steve bannon
    09:51
    we’ll see uh but certainly the timing
    09:54
    and the place of arrest you’ve got to
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    question i think it clearly shows
    10:00
    uh a political uh acts to grind behind
    10:03
    the scenes on how all this was done
    10:05
    the other aspect of this and final point
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    on this is
    10:08
    u.s attorney general barr has not
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    weighed in on this
    10:12
    i don’t know how it works for the post
    10:15
    office
    10:16
    to be arresting them i don’t know if
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    their
    10:19
    authorities are under department of
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    justice but that’s an interesting
    10:23
    question
    10:24
    it again is an area of of
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    that i find suspect because if the post
    10:30
    office was selected to do this
    10:32
    in order to get out from under u.s
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    attorney general barr
    10:36
    who’s clearly been cracking down on
    10:39
    these
    10:40
    politically motivated arrests versus
    10:43
    you know being motivated by just
    10:44
    straight up criminal activity
    10:46
    i i wonder about all of that aspect of
    10:48
    it and of course the u.s attorney
    10:50
    general bar hasn’t weighed in on any of
    10:52
    this yet
    10:52
    i don’t know if it’s appropriate for him
    10:54
    to do so that’s another aspect of this
    10:56
    that i find very interesting
    10:58
    that specifically it was the post office
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    not that they were inappropriate to do
    11:02
    it
    11:02
    just that the post office was selected
    11:04
    because we see these
    11:06
    uh these politically motivated aspects
    11:08
    of it to the timing
    11:10
    and which i find very suspicious and the
    11:12
    fact that he was arrested on this yacht
    11:14
    which is also clearly i think meant to
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    embarrass
    11:17
    us steve bannon so i the whole thing
    11:19
    stinks i think it’s going to be another
    11:21
    mueller investigation but
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    uh well time will tell we’ll see also i
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    mean i just read this
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    i can’t even cite the source so i don’t
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    know if it’s true or not but
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    what i had read was that the total
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    amount of money in question was well
    11:34
    below
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    the three or four percent which is fully
    11:36
    allowable for a not-for-profit
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    yes i think that’s true as well and so
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    it it it
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    just it makes the whole thing look like
    11:45
    it’s politically motivated versus some
    11:47
    sort of criminal thing
    11:49
    and uh like i said i you know the these
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    guys involved i don’t know the others
    11:54
    the other three people i think there
    11:55
    were four indictments total
    11:57
    uh i but this the steve bannon i mean
    12:00
    he’s not a poor guy
    12:02
    and you know he wasn’t making huge
    12:03
    amounts of money off of this
    12:06
    and as you say the amounts out of the
    12:07
    total were quite small
    12:09
    and there’s always a an allowable fudge
    12:11
    amount in there and
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    if it went off to another nonprofit and
    12:14
    that non-profit paid people salaries i
    12:17
    don’t know that that’s necessarily
    12:19
    illegal so you know not my area of
    12:22
    expertise clearly but you know all that
    12:24
    has to be pounded out and we’ll see how
    12:26
    it goes but i
    12:27
    i don’t like i say i just don’t see uh
    12:30
    this
    12:30
    that steve bannon is in any great
    12:32
    trouble and i think that the press
    12:34
    trying to link this to president trump
    12:36
    is just pure bs it’s the usual stuff it
    12:39
    just looked at it as like
    12:40
    that ukraine phone call which was
    12:42
    nothing uh which is all perfectly
    12:45
    legal and moral and ethical and all
    12:47
    those sorts of things
    12:49
    i think it’s just another thing like
    12:50
    that they’re taking something fairly
    12:52
    normal
    12:53
    maybe not perfect but fairly normal and
    12:55
    trying to taint it as some evil thing
    12:57
    and they’re out there
    12:58
    talking about oh this guy was
    13:00
    recommended for indictment and that guy
    13:01
    for investigation and this and that and
    13:03
    the other
    13:03
    trying to make it look like some sort of
    13:06
    you know criminal cabal
    13:07
    where it’s all bs it’s just it’s it’s
    13:10
    all politically motivated
    13:12
    bs by corrupt u.s government officials
    13:15
    who are willing to
    13:16
    support the democratic party and prison
    13:19
    and the uh democratic uh uh
    13:22
    biden you know a candidate and all this
    13:25
    sort of stuff i
    13:26
    i it’s just it’s stinky the whole thing
    13:28
    is just stinky
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  • Brad Johnson on Caravan to Midnight | John B. Wells

    Brad Johnson on Caravan to Midnight | John B. Wells

    Should you make decisions for your child or should the government? Brad’s editorial in The Epoch Times is covered by John B. Wells in his Caravan to Midnight show. As the president of Americans for Intelligence Reform, Brad is a retired CIA Station Chief. Please like and subscribe. And visit Caravan to Midnight for some great shows.

    https://youtu.be/3t0tE30CA58

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    hello friends around the world and
    00:35
    welcome to caravan to midnight defcon
    00:37
    2.0 you know it’s very easy to define
    00:41
    communism which is that it’s not easy to
    00:44
    see it
    00:45
    all the time as a guy who’s highly
    00:48
    trained and experienced in the trade
    00:50
    craft of being a shepherd
    00:51
    in wolf’s clothing
    00:54
    just what is the best and most expedient
    00:57
    way to call out and expose
    00:59
    these wolves in sheep’s clothing
    01:03
    well i’ll tell you what’ll constitute a
    01:05
    really good start is a conversation
    01:07
    we’re going to have with brad johnson
    01:09
    cia station chief retired
    01:13
    he writes prolifically at one of my
    01:16
    favorite websites
    01:17
    ever and that would be the epoch times
    01:18
    let me just run one of his stories past
    01:20
    you
    01:22
    and i think you’ll enjoy it this is from
    01:24
    march 27th earlier in the year
    01:26
    if you uh if you go to the search engine
    01:29
    of your choice and type in
    01:31
    brad johnson epoch times epoch
    01:35
    it’ll take you right to the page where a
    01:36
    big stack of his articles
    01:38
    are listed for your enjoyment goes like
    01:40
    this
    01:42
    hard to believe but we have come to the
    01:45
    point where parents have to question if
    01:46
    our schools and medical systems are a
    01:48
    net positive
    01:49
    in our children’s lives or perhaps even
    01:51
    worse a danger to our children
    01:54
    in canada one father has been put
    01:57
    through
    01:57
    a living hell by the school and court
    02:00
    systems
    02:01
    and his daughter is paying a serious
    02:04
    price
    02:05
    the canadian father is clearly a decent
    02:07
    man non-political and genuinely
    02:09
    concerned with the well-being of his
    02:10
    daughter with no preconceived notions
    02:13
    the problem began when his daughter was
    02:16
    only 12 years old and having some
    02:18
    problems in school based on some mental
    02:19
    health issues
    02:21
    they turn to the school counselor for
    02:22
    help as many of us would naturally be
    02:24
    inclined to do
    02:25
    the school counselor immediately
    02:27
    identified the daughter as
    02:29
    transgender while still only 12 years
    02:31
    old
    02:32
    the school helped her pick out a male
    02:34
    name and began treating her as a boy
    02:36
    without
    02:37
    informing her father according to the
    02:40
    father when he found out he wasn’t sure
    02:42
    what to think or do
    02:43
    as would be natural for most any parent
    02:45
    but he was
    02:46
    accepting of her exploration of her
    02:48
    gender
    02:49
    the school recommended that his daughter
    02:51
    see psychologist and lgbt author
    02:55
    dr wallace wong very quickly dr
    02:59
    wong concluded the child had gender
    03:01
    dysphoria
    03:02
    and recommended she began taking
    03:04
    cross-sex hormones
    03:06
    while she was still only 13 years old to
    03:09
    his credit
    03:10
    doctor wong works with his local orphan
    03:12
    and foster care system although
    03:14
    according to press reporting he’s come
    03:15
    under criticism
    03:16
    for potentially diagnosing as high as 20
    03:19
    percent of those children
    03:21
    with some form of gender dysphoria
    03:24
    the family was referred to hospital and
    03:26
    supplied with disclosures by medical
    03:28
    personnel which explained
    03:29
    that if his daughter received the
    03:31
    injections her bones would stop
    03:33
    growing which would create serious
    03:35
    long-term health problems
    03:37
    her brain would stop developing and she
    03:40
    will be permanently
    03:41
    sterilized among other issues both real
    03:44
    and potential
    03:46
    specifically the disclosure added that
    03:49
    no one knows all of the long-term health
    03:51
    implications because the procedures are
    03:53
    so new
    03:54
    the father thought his daughter’s
    03:56
    history of mental health issues was
    03:58
    a more likely cause of any problems than
    04:00
    gender dysphoria
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    and refuse to grant permission for
    04:02
    hormone treatments
    04:04
    he concluded it was more responsible for
    04:06
    his daughter to be older
    04:07
    before making health decisions that are
    04:09
    irreversible such as being sterilized
    04:13
    shortly after the daughter’s fourteenth
    04:15
    birthday her father was informed by a
    04:17
    doctor at the british columbia
    04:18
    children’s hospital in canada
    04:20
    that his consent was no longer required
    04:23
    because the daughter was capable of
    04:24
    deciding the question on her own
    04:27
    the father believes that his daughter
    04:28
    was misled and brainwashed by school
    04:30
    administrators and leftist activists
    04:32
    who began to treat his daughter as a
    04:34
    transgender boy at school
    04:36
    when she was 12 years old without
    04:38
    informing her parents
    04:40
    the father immediately took the matter
    04:41
    to the courts trying to stop the
    04:43
    procedures from going forward against
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    his wishes
    04:46
    in february 2019 justice gregory bowden
    04:51
    of the bc supreme court found for the
    04:53
    government
    04:54
    and ordered that the 14 year old girl
    04:56
    began taking cross-sex hormones on her
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    own prerogative the court went far
    05:01
    beyond this finding and stipulated that
    05:04
    if either parental referral to her using
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    female pronouns
    05:08
    or being addressed by her birth name
    05:10
    they would be considered
    05:11
    guilty of family violence
    05:16
    the same evening the father gave an
    05:18
    interview to the federalist and referred
    05:20
    to his daughter as a girl this was later
    05:22
    cited by the court and the father was
    05:24
    convicted of family violence in
    05:26
    april of twenty nineteen once again the
    05:29
    judge
    05:29
    francesca marzari m-a-r-z-a-r-i
    05:33
    francesca marzari
    05:37
    went way beyond and issued an order
    05:39
    authorizing the father’s arrest
    05:41
    without a warrant by any police officer
    05:43
    who has reasonable grounds to believe
    05:45
    he has referred to his daughter as a
    05:47
    girl or with female
    05:49
    pronouns the court also imposed a gag
    05:53
    order so he can speak publicly about
    05:54
    anything related to his daughter or the
    05:56
    case keep in mind
    05:58
    there are no laws in canada that permit
    06:00
    the courts to issue
    06:01
    gag orders that stop parents from
    06:03
    talking to their children
    06:05
    or removing the parents from the
    06:07
    decision-making process
    06:08
    for medical treatment of their child the
    06:11
    appeal process did slightly relax
    06:13
    these findings and remove the part about
    06:15
    the father being arrested for family
    06:16
    violence based only on his comments
    06:19
    the gag order in other aspects remain in
    06:21
    force
    06:22
    and his daughter started the hormone
    06:24
    injections as of march 2019
    06:26
    at 15 years old she is sterilized
    06:29
    and must take the treatments for the
    06:31
    rest of her life
    06:33
    who knows what health problems she will
    06:35
    suffer as a result
    06:36
    the medical world admits they just don’t
    06:40
    know
    06:43
    how do we end up in this dark and
    06:44
    dangerous place
    06:46
    how would any child at such a young age
    06:48
    know for sure if they want to be
    06:49
    sterilized or not
    06:52
    it is stunning that somehow this has
    06:53
    become a partisan political issue
    06:56
    and that the left is supportive
    07:00
    famously the left calls conservatives
    07:02
    deplorables
    07:03
    but it’s the left which has lost its way
    07:06
    and they are in fact degenerates
    07:08
    and amoral the age of majority has long
    07:12
    been agreed upon as 18 years
    07:14
    for most things and even that might be
    07:16
    too young for these sorts of decisions
    07:19
    should we not at the very least explore
    07:21
    all avenues of mental health treatments
    07:24
    first and make sure there aren’t any
    07:26
    other separate issues
    07:28
    a 13 or 14 year old girl cannot consent
    07:30
    to have sex with an adult male because
    07:32
    she’s too young to be allowed to make
    07:34
    those decisions
    07:35
    she’s also too young to decide if she
    07:37
    should be sterilized
    07:39
    this child some argued was targeted by
    07:43
    the school and court
    07:44
    systems to make a political point
    07:46
    terrorists kill and hurt people to make
    07:47
    a political point too
    07:49
    at least they’re honest about it and
    07:51
    don’t try to impose gag orders and hide
    07:54
    from their own actions brad johnson
    07:57
    retired
    07:58
    c i a senior operations officer and
    07:59
    former chief of station
    08:01
    he is president of americans for
    08:03
    intelligence reform
    08:05
    his website is intel reform.org
    08:08
    if you’re going to love this man his
    08:09
    name is brad johnson
    08:12
    c i a retired standby
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  • Former Royals Harry and Meghan’s staggering monthly payments

    Former Royals Harry and Meghan’s staggering monthly payments

    Timing wasn’t the best for the couple’s move across the pond. With Meghan looking to revive a career and Harry looking for hefty speaking engagement payouts, COVID-19 derailed their aspirations leaving them with eye-popping monthly expenses and little income. Perhaps Oprah can front them a few Euros. Brad Johnson gives you the lighter side of the news.

    He is a former CIA Station Chief now retired and devoting his life to his non-profit Americans for Intelligence Reform. Please subscribe and support our mission of bringing you news the mainstream media does not want you to hear.

    https://youtu.be/FMeK7rl_rh8

     
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    brad johnson this is august 21st of 2020
    00:04
    and
    00:04
    you want to do an update on uh uh
    00:07
    harry and meghan markle and what’s
    00:10
    become yeah i mean since
    00:11
    since the setting at this conference is
    00:13
    poolside and everything’s casual
    00:15
    i i thought it was appropriate to to
    00:17
    maybe do a little
    00:18
    update on prince harry and his bride
    00:22
    meghan
    00:23
    markle who’s the california actress uh
    00:26
    it it just it’s as as i said the the
    00:29
    train wreck
    00:30
    continues uh to to get closer and closer
    00:33
    as they head down the tracks
    00:35
    and uh what just kind of the latest two
    00:37
    bits out of all of this
    00:38
    are that uh they finally of course
    00:40
    bought their home in california we all
    00:42
    knew what they were going to do
    00:44
    they were originally given a home back
    00:45
    when they were still
    00:47
    you know royals uh and uh given this
    00:50
    home and had it all refurbished and
    00:52
    and nicely done and spent a lot of money
    00:54
    on that and then moved to canada which
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    uh in fact in conversations with you you
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    were pointing out that is not going to
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    last they’re clearly on their way to
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    california
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    and that is exactly what’s happened
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    they’re now in california they’ve now
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    bought a house
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    uh 21 million in some change i believe
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    is what they
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    invested in that and it’s uh uh the
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    house
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    a couple little interesting silly points
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    on the thing the house was owned by a
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    a wealth and wealthy russian who had it
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    would have this house
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    built to his specifications it’s nice
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    i’ve seen the photographs of it
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    from online that uh you know pool and
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    tennis court and
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    you know really nice nice property
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    multi-acres
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    of on this property and in a very
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    wealthy area of a lot of other
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    you know actors and hollywood people
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    that are that are in that area it’s
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    considered kind of the more
    01:43
    mellow you know family can live their
    01:46
    sort of neighborhoods
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    versus some of the other very well
    01:49
    hollywood sort of
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    party areas so in that sense it’s a
    01:53
    little bit different
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    but good security rich people live there
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    there’s no you know
    01:57
    hundred thousand dollar shacks out there
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    anywhere and uh
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    so it’s not like they’re living in some
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    out of the way god forsaken place
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    and uh the 21 million the father you
    02:08
    know prince harry’s father gave him the
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    5 million
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    down payment okay getting the down
    02:12
    payments you know from a parent is not
    02:14
    so unusual so that’s nice
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    and uh the security that they have which
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    is fairly expensive
    02:20
    is also paid for by the security but
    02:23
    they do have their own expenses and part
    02:25
    of that
    02:25
    is uh you know they even with five
    02:28
    million dollars down on 21
    02:29
    million dollars you still got 16 million
    02:31
    dollar mortgage
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    and uh you know that’s that’s a hefty
    02:36
    payment and plus they’re
    02:37
    they do have some expenses they have
    02:39
    staff to help them at the house i mean
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    this place is beautiful the gardens and
    02:43
    everything are huge so i mean it’s not
    02:45
    something you could possibly do by
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    yourself and not that they would
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    consider it
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    anyway but so they have a staff and this
    02:51
    mortgage payment all this and so
    02:53
    according to news reporting they’re in
    02:55
    the uh you know five hundred thousand
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    dollar
    02:57
    half a million dollar range monthly to
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    cover these expenses
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    in addition to that that castle this
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    beautiful country mansion castle that
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    they were given
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    by the queen to live in that they had
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    refurbished
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    lived there a month or maybe two
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    something along those lines and then
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    moved off to canada that really got them
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    a lot of negative
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    press and so they were they uh they were
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    forced into a
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    paid all back situation so they also
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    have that monthly expense i think i saw
    03:29
    that that was a couple hundred thousand
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    dollars a month
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    too so also they’re you know they’re not
    03:33
    sitting at home doing nothing they do
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    have a son and they
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    fly around i think that they’re you know
    03:38
    quite the jet setter so i wouldn’t be
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    surprised if
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    you know at that level you usually have
    03:43
    another couple hundred thousand in
    03:45
    monthly expenses so i i suspect that
    03:48
    if if it doesn’t exceed that their
    03:50
    monthly expenses with all of this put
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    together
    03:53
    are in getting close to a million
    03:55
    dollars or you know if not more like i
    03:57
    said
    03:57
    so uh just to break even you know
    04:00
    they’re they’re probably going to need
    04:01
    to bring in around 12 million a year now
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    prince harry was cut off
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    meghan markle does not come from a you
    04:08
    know hugely wealthy family
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    at that level and so uh they’ve got
    04:13
    uh some income stream problems starting
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    to develop now which is kind of what
    04:17
    i’ve
    04:18
    been talking about and uh
    04:22
    you know including this this payback i
    04:24
    think is a three or five year
    04:25
    term so it is a shorter term that they
    04:27
    have to take care of
    04:29
    uh but they this foundation that they
    04:32
    had planned on doing was going to be
    04:33
    called the royal
    04:35
    sussex which is i think he was the
    04:37
    prince of sussex or something like that
    04:39
    but
    04:39
    that was what they had intended and
    04:41
    we’re going to have you know big amounts
    04:42
    of money come into that
    04:44
    the queen put the kibosh on that and
    04:46
    said you know you can say sussex if you
    04:48
    want but you can’t say royal
    04:49
    you’re no longer royal you resign so you
    04:52
    know good luck
    04:53
    so there that has been cut out from
    04:55
    underneath them
    04:57
    and uh the speaking fees and all these
    04:59
    things of course they had the
    05:00
    you know unlucky timing to do this when
    05:02
    kovitt hit
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    and they’re in california and as
    05:06
    everyone knows just
    05:07
    kind of leans towards the extreme on the
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    left so
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    uh all of that has been cut off so most
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    of their income where they expected to
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    make money
    05:16
    uh where megan was supposed to be doing
    05:17
    acting and he was supposed to be doing
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    public speaking
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    both of which i long ago have said
    05:22
    aren’t going to work out very well for
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    them
    05:24
    there’ll be some initial interest but
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    after a while it’ll it’ll go out because
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    one she’s not that great of an actress
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    and two he’s not that great of a speaker
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    so
    05:32
    uh the the shininess has has already
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    gone
    05:36
    interestingly enough now this is rumors
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    stuff so not don’t you know again it’s
    05:40
    not particularly important either but
    05:42
    rumor is too that they’re they’re you
    05:44
    know they aren’t getting a lot of their
    05:45
    phone calls returned
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    by the hollywood elite so uh it looks
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    like this they’ve
    05:52
    dug this hole from for themselves and
    05:54
    are now sitting in it
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    and most of their income stream has
    05:58
    dried up and yet they have these
    05:59
    expenses now
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    but not able to sort of see
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    what’s coming down the line i think that
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    there’s so
    06:08
    much arrogance involved in this that you
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    know any normal person would look at
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    this and go well
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    you know my my my income stream is not
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    what i expected
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    i don’t know when it’s going to come
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    back or if it will come back
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    and so you know that’s not the time to
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    buy
    06:24
    an enormous house that kind of exceeds
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    what i’m able to afford
    06:28
    uh without help from my parents or
    06:30
    somebody so
    06:31
    i i think it’s one of those things where
    06:33
    they just like i’ve said i think they’re
    06:35
    completely oblivious to how
    06:37
    the real world works prince harry has
    06:39
    never stepped foot in it
    06:40
    meghan markle has stars in her eyes and
    06:43
    you know she’s manipulated this prince
    06:44
    harry into doing whatever she wants and
    06:47
    certainly wherever she wants which is
    06:48
    now back in her hometown of california
    06:51
    so the train wreck is getting closer and
    06:53
    closer i would you know before was
    06:55
    predicting out a couple years maybe i
    06:56
    would say that
    06:57
    timeline is shortening so that’s that’s
    07:00
    the update on on
    07:02
    prince harry and megan and and uh and
    07:04
    the and the
    07:05
    wall that is that the train is hurtling
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    towards
    07:08
    so what you’re saying in essence is that
    07:10
    nobody should expect to run into them at
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    costco
    07:15
    well i i don’t know what they’ll do
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    it’ll be actually
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    it’ll be kind of a study in human nature
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    too once they do hit that wall and the
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    whole thing falls apart
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    will the old man bail him out i will
    07:25
    prince harry’s father bail him out and i
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    would say
    07:27
    almost certainly you know he’s you know
    07:29
    the royal family is worth a billion plus
    07:32
    so uh these amounts of money by their
    07:35
    standards
    07:36
    aren’t that great so i’m sure that the
    07:38
    father could
    07:39
    write a check and pay off the mansion if
    07:41
    he wanted to and things like that so
    07:44
    i suspect that that’s what’s going to
    07:45
    happen and they’re going to live out
    07:47
    their lives in this place in california
    07:49
    but
    07:50
    uh being shocked by just not having
    07:53
    anyone be very interested in them
    07:55
    i think i think that that will be
    07:57
    something where they’ll be in denial
    07:59
    forever kind of like
    08:00
    how hillary clinton is on the election
    08:02
    you know there’s always some reason why
    08:04
    it’s somebody’s fault
    08:05
    i think that’s what we’re going to see
    08:06
    out of them in the future is like you
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    know well we weren’t able to get this
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    going because so and so screwed us over
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    or this or that or the other
    08:12
    i think it’ll be that full full-scale
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    denial will be the way it turns out
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  • Lawyer pleading guilty | he’s more than a small fish

    Lawyer pleading guilty | he’s more than a small fish

    #Clinesmith #FBIlawyer #FISA
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    brad johnson it is august the 17th
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    of 2020 and there has finally been
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    an indictment or yeah i guess it’s an
    00:09
    actual indictment over
    00:12
    uh of somebody over this whole
    00:15
    fisa thing now there’s two things about
    00:18
    this which i
    00:19
    was i’m hoping you can address and one
    00:21
    is that
    00:23
    a lot of critics of this thing have said
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    well it’s going to be all
    00:26
    mid management which are thrown under
    00:28
    the bus and the
    00:29
    key people who really are responsible
    00:32
    will end up getting away with us
    00:34
    so i’m wondering if that’s one of the
    00:35
    things that can be addressed
    00:37
    um and actually let’s just go with that
    00:40
    so what do you think of the
    00:41
    i mean it’s very exciting that
    00:42
    something’s actually happened in terms
    00:44
    of indictments
    00:45
    but do you think this is going to be
    00:47
    what people are expecting a kind of
    00:49
    disappointing avoidance of the real
    00:51
    people
    00:53
    i think this is a very interesting
    00:54
    development and first let me say
    00:56
    greetings to everyone from
    00:58
    uh sunny florida where uh i’m at a
    01:00
    conference that’s
    01:02
    uh un into the new covid regime which is
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    done in a very interesting fashion i
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    actually
    01:07
    don’t always have a suit and tie on in
    01:09
    case that was a question in anybody’s
    01:11
    mind and here nowadays these conferences
    01:13
    are done outside by the pool
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    so that you have distancing and you’re
    01:17
    in a open
    01:18
    to the air space so i actually kind of
    01:21
    find that to be a little silver lining
    01:23
    to this whole covert thing
    01:24
    at any rate to the serious point of your
    01:26
    question
    01:27
    uh eric kleinsmith is a lawyer for the
    01:30
    fbi
    01:31
    and he has been indicted he was uh
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    originally
    01:35
    found if you will in the horowitz the ig
    01:39
    the
    01:39
    inspector general of the fbi’s
    01:41
    investigation of the fbi
    01:43
    he was identified and referred to u.s
    01:46
    attorney
    01:47
    durham john durham then for further
    01:49
    investigation
    01:50
    he was further investigated and then has
    01:52
    now been indicted
    01:54
    now uh the to your point i think this is
    01:57
    very significant
    01:58
    uh he was only indicted on one count
    02:01
    pled guilty or is pleading guilty to a
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    felony charge which for a lawyer i mean
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    that means disbarment and that’s a
    02:08
    a very serious thing for this type of
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    person in particular
    02:12
    whereas like a normal person who’s not a
    02:14
    lawyer who is just to pick some random
    02:16
    job a plumber
    02:17
    who has a felony can probably always
    02:19
    still work as a plumber and if he keeps
    02:21
    him
    02:21
    you know on the straight and narrow
    02:22
    he’ll be all right a lawyer who’s
    02:24
    convicted of a felony is going to be
    02:26
    disbarred
    02:27
    and he’s he’s career-wise is probably
    02:29
    pretty much ruined forever
    02:31
    so understand the severity of what this
    02:35
    means
    02:35
    to eric kleinsmith the individual who’s
    02:37
    been indicted
    02:38
    a couple of other things eric kleinsmith
    02:42
    as a lawyer well this all started off
    02:45
    and
    02:45
    and i mean this is the swamp stuff so
    02:48
    this may not make sense to most people
    02:50
    but uh in government in the fbi the cia
    02:53
    nsa
    02:54
    state department all of these things you
    02:56
    have lawyers assigned to your different
    02:58
    units where you’re working the divisions
    03:00
    and so on
    03:01
    and so that’s what this guy was eric
    03:03
    heinsmith and so when you’re trying to
    03:05
    do stuff and set up paperwork
    03:06
    all that has to go through the lawyer
    03:08
    from that department so this guy was a
    03:10
    central key
    03:11
    figure to all of this he would have had
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    to sign off on it so for example
    03:15
    peter strzok authors the uh
    03:18
    the the fisa warrant the request
    03:22
    for the fisa warrant that goes to the
    03:24
    fisa judge to be signed up
    03:26
    on all of that has to go through this
    03:28
    lawyer so this lawyer
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    knows exactly who ordered what and when
    03:33
    so here’s what my take on this is that
    03:35
    he was not
    03:36
    severely charged i mean it’s it’s a
    03:38
    serious charge but one
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    which means that there could be a whole
    03:42
    there is
    03:43
    a whole list of things that he could
    03:45
    have been charged with
    03:46
    and was not so what does that mean
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    we have to see but my i think the
    03:52
    implication of it in my opinion of it is
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    that what has happened is he’s made a
    03:57
    deal which by the way as a lawyer would
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    be
    04:00
    absolutely a completely natural thing he
    04:02
    understands plea bargaining he
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    understands that process
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    he’s the perfect guy to go to for a plea
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    bargain deal of some sort
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    because that’s going to be his initial
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    reaction a guy like that
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    does not want to go to jail for 30 years
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    he would not do well and if you’ve seen
    04:17
    the
    04:17
    pictures of him he’s he’s a mama’s boy
    04:20
    kind of guy so
    04:21
    he would be a target in jail from the
    04:23
    first moment and
    04:24
    so he is going to make the absolute very
    04:27
    best
    04:28
    negotiated deal he can from the
    04:29
    beginning i think that’s what has
    04:31
    happened
    04:32
    he would be a he’s an early on get him
    04:34
    indicted right away
    04:35
    get the plea bargain going and make him
    04:37
    testify and
    04:39
    he will then be flipped using the
    04:41
    parlance of
    04:42
    of the trade and he’s going to then
    04:44
    testify about
    04:45
    everybody else there so i would say for
    04:48
    example
    04:49
    he would know everything that peter
    04:50
    strzok did peter strzok of course
    04:52
    is the uh former uh head of the ci
    04:56
    counterintelligence division of the fbi
    04:58
    so this guy would know about peter
    05:00
    strzok he’d know about all of these
    05:02
    other people what the front office was
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    doing
    05:04
    and those sorts of things so he’s very
    05:06
    well positioned his testimony as a
    05:08
    lawyer would be
    05:10
    really good you know he’s the right type
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    of guy just in every way for this
    05:14
    he knew what he did wrong from the very
    05:16
    beginning so like i say he was
    05:18
    identified early on
    05:20
    uh he’s the perfect person at a lower
    05:22
    level to testify about all the people
    05:24
    above him
    05:25
    because that’s how these things are
    05:27
    organized in federal government at the
    05:28
    fbi
    05:29
    the lawyer for the fbi is the guy
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    reporting to the hefes at the fbi
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    so he would like i said if he got a call
    05:36
    from peter strzok and said
    05:38
    go do this make sure the paperwork looks
    05:40
    right he would do it
    05:41
    if somebody ordered him to now what he’s
    05:43
    been indicted for is
    05:45
    changing an email from the cia so that
    05:48
    it could be used to justify the fisa
    05:50
    warrant that was the crime whether it’s
    05:53
    some type of fraud i’m not sure but at
    05:55
    any rate it’s been reported to be a
    05:56
    felony so it’s some sort of felony
    05:58
    charge so
    05:59
    he’s he’s clearly at the crux of the
    06:01
    matter and i think right now he’s
    06:03
    he’s made this deal and is spilling its
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    guts and anybody who had anything to do
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    with him at the fbi
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    and other agencies because they
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    coordinate lawyer lawyer between
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    agencies as well and also
    06:16
    foreign so if he was using if he was in
    06:19
    any part peter strzok for example we
    06:21
    know was flying back and forth to
    06:22
    england to meet with mi6 or mi5 or both
    06:25
    and the cia possibly
    06:29
    so those sorts of coordinations actual
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    coordinations would also
    06:33
    include this lawyer so that lawyer would
    06:34
    know a great deal about what leadership
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    at fbi was doing
    06:37
    and possibly about some of the foreign
    06:40
    aspects and other
    06:41
    agency aspects of what was going on so
    06:44
    absolutely ideal guy to flip
    06:47
    and at just the right level exactly the
    06:49
    right understanding level
    06:50
    all of those sorts of things so i think
    06:53
    that’s exactly what happened and that’s
    06:54
    why they’ve indicted him now
    06:56
    and this is the first first indictment
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    out of the durham investigation
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    and i would say it pretends many more at
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    more senior levels
    07:04
    so i think everyone should take this as
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    a real
    07:07
    sign of encouraging sign for the those
    07:10
    people at the senior level which was
    07:12
    your initial question
    07:13
    i think we can all take this is very
    07:16
    very good
    07:20
    so i’m looking this as a big positive
    07:24
    so just to mix metaphors for a moment
    07:26
    essentially he’s the keystone domino
    07:30
    yes actually that’s that’s a good mix
    07:32
    metaphor which of course is
    07:34
    is almost illegal by itself but yes i
    07:36
    think that’s a
    07:37
    a very good mixed metaphor that that he
    07:39
    would be aptly described as a keystone
    07:42
    domino
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