Americans for Intelligence Reform

Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Director CIA and the deep state push back against AG Barr

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Brad Johnson it’s June 22nd 2019 and we

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are here to talk about how the left is

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acting a little bit like a cornered

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animal and it’s starting to push back

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against the legitimate investigations of

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actual crimes that a non deep State

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Attorney General is doing if I got that

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about right yes that is about right it’s

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it’s kind of an interesting situation we

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find ourselves in and AG bar we’ve

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talked about him a little bit before but

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he appears to be honestly exactly what

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he looks like which is to say he’s

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coming into this situation and had full

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expectations that that this this

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investigation that was run against

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presidents President Trump’s campaign

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Spygate is kind of the term people are

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using for it was just final you know and

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he’s heard a lot of people say that that

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there was plenty of information out

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there for clapper and Comey former FBI

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director Comey and national security

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council clapper and director of the CIA

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John Brennan all these people said

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there’s a lot of information out there

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and pull all reasons a lot of reasons to

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believe it and of course there was an

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intelligence assessment that said that

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they had a high degree of confidence

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that there was some sort of collusion

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with Russia and all of this so then this

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all gets the motor report comes out

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everybody knows Muller would have nailed

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Trump to the cross given the opportunity

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and the fact that he didn’t do it means

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there was absolutely nothing so it was

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the molar report came out and said it

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was you know there was nothing to it now

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the Democrats are still trying to kind

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of spin it off and all of that and

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create oh well there’s doubt because of

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this that or the other but the fact is

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out of the report there was no collusion

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and there was no obstruction that’s the

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bottom line

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so what Muller has done now is he’s come

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in he’s beginning to take a look at all

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this and he’s as we’ve talked about

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before he say he’s gone to FBI director

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ray current director of the FBI and said

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okay why did this investigation begin

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because it turns out there was nothing

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to it so how did this begin and he

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hasn’t gotten us out

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Factory answer and that’s exactly what

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he has said in a number of interviews so

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we know that that’s just the case so

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he’s very concerned about the

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credibility of DOJ and FBI and wants to

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make sure in his own words that no one

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has had their thumb on the scale of

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justice and he wants to make sure there

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was no abuse out of these senior federal

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government employees because if there

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was nothing to it how did the

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investigation get started and we know

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the steel dossier is a fake so you know

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what was there that’s actually real and

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if there’s nothing that’s real then

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crimes have been committed so he wants

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to get rid of any and all of the players

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that were involved in that if that’s the

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case so that he can you know make a

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clean slate of it bring back the

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credibility of the FBI and DOJ so that’s

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what he’s all about now as this is

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moving forward as I mentioned there was

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the intelligence assessment of all of

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this that also was supporting the

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concept that Trump was guilty of

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collusion with Russians so he’s looking

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at that now and has come out and said

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which we’ve talked about in previous

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interviews that the CIA is is up next

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and they’re taking a look at the CIA

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Jena Haspel in particular who almost

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certainly has some very serious problems

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with this because she was in London as

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chief stationed at the time when a lot

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of this was taking place so that’s

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that’s a problem for her because she

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would have had to know quite a little

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bit about this now so that’s that’s

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setting the stage as to where we found

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ourselves and and now something has has

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changed since then and that was the New

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York Times and we all know that the York

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Times is the leading mouthpiece for

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liberal media Liberal Democrats and used

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that the left here the United States

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they lead the charge if you will and

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kind of set the pace that everybody else

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in the press follows in the media they

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follow them so they came out with an

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article earlier this month that was

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called Justice Department seeks to

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question CIA in its own Rosslyn

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investigation already the way they

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phrase that is is already kind of

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prejudicial they’re trying to frame this

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argument a little bit to their advantage

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and I read through the whole article

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it’s not super long and of course it’s

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mostly a hit piece but what’s

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interesting out of that is that the fact

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that the New York Times is doing a hit

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on AG bar they’re attacking him for Jia

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Haspel and the leadership of the CIA why

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and it’s because this they’re like I’ve

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said many times everybody knows what’s

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coming everybody knows what’s coming so

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they’re all digging in trying to save

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themselves as best they can and that’s

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what we’ve seen happen here and this is

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the first blow if you will and in this

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in this battle now over this CIA you are

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going to see almost certainly leaks come

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out and documents and lists of former

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CIA officers that you know 25 of them

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sign a thing that says blah blah blah

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you’re going to start to see all of

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those things because that’s the normal

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fashion that that the mainstream media

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that which the left-wing of inherited

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politically here the United States

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that’s that’s how they respond to these

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sorts of things so that’s why that’s

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what’s going to happen I mean it’s not a

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wild prediction to suggest that pretty

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straightforward however one other aspect

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came out that’s interesting Gina Haspel

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the current director of the CIA has said

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well I have instructed all my people to

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cooperate however they are to protect

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sources and methods which is the

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standard thing for the CIA and

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intelligence in general you always want

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to protect your sources so that the

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names of people that might be reporting

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to us spying against their country for

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this for the CIA for the United States

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you don’t blow their identity so they

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don’t get killed and methods you don’t

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want everybody to know how precisely you

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do all of these things so that you can

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continue to do them pretty fairly

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straightforward so interesting now out

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of that this begs a question just begs a

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question the whole thing was BS

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everything in that was based on the

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Steele report which has nothing to do

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with intelligence that was a political

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document so there was another any

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intelligence to support it in these

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emails as supposedly john brennan has

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said it’s the crown document and without

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it basically then the implication is

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there’s really nothing else there so

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everything revolves around the steel

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dossier and that’s not an intelligence

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document it has nothing whatsoever to do

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with sources methods so where are the

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sources

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does it have to be protected and the

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answer is that there aren’t any however

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that is Gena Haskell’s line in the sand

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and that is her line of defense that

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she’s going to be using going forward

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and like I say simple enough AG bar is

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not an idiot the gans man’s an

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intelligent man has been around so he’s

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quickly going to see you you know

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sources methods okay what sources what

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methods fine you know it won’t be put

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out public anywhere but what case are

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you talking about you know they’re each

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cases are there they’re encrypted

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they’re given like a code name for each

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case so you wouldn’t necessarily you

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could talk about the case without

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knowing who the individual is or any of

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the information that they’ve reported so

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there’s ways to discuss all of this that

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can be done with a G bar but it’s never

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going to get that far because the the

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CIA people already votes re can discuss

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any of that sources methods and a G bars

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gonna take one look at that and go yeah

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okay what source what methods and that’s

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going to be the back and forth that

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you’re gonna see as this as this starts

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to unfold now there’s still an

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underlying problem

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certainly for DOJ and FBI and that’s the

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FISA request that was made to obtain the

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warrant to spy on the Trump campaign

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that’s still winding its way through a

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bar still looking at that that code

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which is 18 US Code section one zero

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zero one

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you know that makes it illegal to lie to

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attest to the truth of what you put on

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the vice application and and lie so the

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all the the DOJ and FBI guys varies all

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the senior people for the initial FISA

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requests and the three subsequent

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renewals all are in deep trouble because

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they’ve broken the law so this is black

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and white a very clear-cut case of

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senior officials doing something illegal

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and again Barra keeps going back why you

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know what was the underlying motive and

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if you can’t give me what that

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underlying motive is then it clearly is

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political and that’s it’s just it’s a

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it’s not this then that sort of

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situation so like I said Barr

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understands all this

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down into it and I think that’s how

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we’re going to see this part of them

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pull those guys are gonna get in trouble

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chorus and I think very quickly we’re

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going to see that the full fight 7 quest

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document be released and as I said I’ve

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read the redacted version it’s clear

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that it’s based on the steel doll scene

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almost nothing else so it’s it’s it’s

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pretty important I think that the

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American public is assured that there is

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one law for all and that the people who

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tried to do this coup were properly

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prosecuted and that people you know I

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think I think it was a Canadian judge

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that said justice must not only be done

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it must be seen to be done and boy

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that’s never been worked through than it

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is in this case a quick question about

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something quasi related I think it was

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Judicial Watch that published a report

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today or yesterday so I that the Obama

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administration specifically President

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Obama at the time and Secretary of State

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Clinton at the time had known ten days

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in advance that the oath at what she

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claimed was a spontaneous grassroots

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demonstration against a video that

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probably they made they knew in fact it

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was an al-qaeda planned attack or

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Islamic state whatever have you ten days

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before for Benghazi any thoughts on that

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yeah absolutely I mean we all knew they

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were lying from the very beginning I

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mean it’s one of those things we often

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Hillary Clinton had a famous quote that

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said you have to suspend disbelief to

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believe it and as soon as they were out

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and and Susan Rice was on the Sunday

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morning TV show doing the circuit saying

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oh it was the video and all that

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everybody knew is a lie everybody knew

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his lie on the hill everybody knows live

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but you have mainstream media covering

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and all the Democratic politicians

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covering so you know they’re liars we

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know they’re liars if they’re now

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confirmed to have lied and I’m not sure

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what price their can be paid for any of

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that there should be because we had four

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people died including the ambassador and

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don’t forget you know so they knew the

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attack was coming we all knew that it

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was plan

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terrorist attack and nothing having to

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do with the video because that came

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before the videos so the the planning so

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you know let’s not forget now the

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masters family said we don’t want his

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death used politically because they’re

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very liberal but the fact is that man

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was murdered and dragged all around town

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naked with a stick up his we’re in and

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they were carrying around like that

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naked you know no price has been paid

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for that and it should be so I I would

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love to see us go back and do it

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unfortunately I’m looking probably

0:11:28.910,0:11:32.870
nothing much will happen out of this

0:11:31.009,0:11:35.930
there’ll be some minor outrage for the

0:11:32.870,0:11:37.579
next few days and it’ll fade away but

0:11:35.930,0:11:39.889
certainly what you’re saying that

0:11:37.579,0:11:41.209
happened to the US ambassador I thought

0:11:39.889,0:11:44.120
for a second that you’re done with

0:11:41.209,0:11:46.339
Qaddafi that’s what house II I’m talking

0:11:44.120,0:11:50.480
about Benghazi he’s right there that the

0:11:46.339,0:11:53.750
US ambassador was murdered then paraded

0:11:50.480,0:11:55.370
around the town naked dead and they were

0:11:53.750,0:11:57.769
holding him up with a with a stick

0:11:55.370,0:12:01.069
see I did was right I did not know that

0:11:57.769,0:12:02.630
part of it cuz it covered up nobody

0:12:01.069,0:12:04.610
wants that news out there because

0:12:02.630,0:12:06.470
everybody would be outraged just like I

0:12:04.610,0:12:08.360
am but what’s gonna happen you know

0:12:06.470,0:12:10.399
probably not a damn thing and that’s a

0:12:08.360,0:12:11.750
shame because I don’t care if that guy’s

0:12:10.399,0:12:13.430
liberal or not I don’t care if his

0:12:11.750,0:12:15.470
family’s liberal wants to cover for

0:12:13.430,0:12:17.329
liberal politicians I don’t give a damn

0:12:15.470,0:12:19.490
what they think on this that is a

0:12:17.329,0:12:21.920
travesty and an insult and an injustice

0:12:19.490,0:12:24.350
to his memory no matter who you know

0:12:21.920,0:12:25.790
what your politics are I don’t care well

0:12:24.350,0:12:27.769
nothing has got to be done they’ve

0:12:25.790,0:12:29.120
covered up all the details of it it also

0:12:27.769,0:12:31.250
means you’re never gonna get a good

0:12:29.120,0:12:32.209
person to be an ambassador on behalf the

0:12:31.250,0:12:34.910
United States

0:12:32.209,0:12:36.829
if this isn’t addressed well it

0:12:34.910,0:12:39.410
certainly doesn’t help you ok but you

0:12:36.829,0:12:41.120
know and if they had just put in the

0:12:39.410,0:12:43.339
security that the Ambassador knew who

0:12:41.120,0:12:44.569
was lacking me they probably saved his

0:12:43.339,0:12:45.920
life but they didn’t want to do it

0:12:44.569,0:12:47.300
Hillary didn’t want to do it for

0:12:45.920,0:12:49.519
political reasons and that’s been well

0:12:47.300,0:12:51.230
established to will she pay a price for

0:12:49.519,0:12:53.240
it I don’t know I mean maybe if we can

0:12:51.230,0:12:54.920
find the emails on it and stuff and that

0:12:53.240,0:12:57.290
comes out publicly it might be something

0:12:54.920,0:12:58.699
but I want to get back to a little bit

0:12:57.290,0:13:02.990
on Gina house will make a couple more

0:12:58.699,0:13:04.519
points on that if I can so you know the

0:13:02.990,0:13:05.300
game plan here at this point for Gina

0:13:04.519,0:13:07.490
has well

0:13:05.300,0:13:08.780
which to me is it’s it’s clear now this

0:13:07.490,0:13:10.970
is something I’ve been suggesting all

0:13:08.780,0:13:13.100
along that Gina asked what was involved

0:13:10.970,0:13:14.630
in all this didn’t you know I certainly

0:13:13.100,0:13:16.460
don’t have the inside track proof but

0:13:14.630,0:13:18.590
just analyzing the circumstances

0:13:16.460,0:13:20.480
operationally seemed pretty clear she

0:13:18.590,0:13:23.030
was handpicked to go back to London and

0:13:20.480,0:13:24.530
see us by John Brennan him almost

0:13:23.030,0:13:27.140
certainly was in cloth so it’s just

0:13:24.530,0:13:29.210
logical that she was as well so now this

0:13:27.140,0:13:30.590
this situation as its unfolding seems to

0:13:29.210,0:13:31.760
be confirming everything I’ve been

0:13:30.590,0:13:33.830
saying for a long time

0:13:31.760,0:13:36.050
Gina Haskell as I said it’s kind of

0:13:33.830,0:13:37.700
drawn along the line in the sand so what

0:13:36.050,0:13:41.630
she’s planning on as I said the leaks

0:13:37.700,0:13:45.260
and you know using sources and methods

0:13:41.630,0:13:48.020
as an excuse not to tell a Jabbar’s team

0:13:45.260,0:13:51.020
what’s going on and they’re gonna try to

0:13:48.020,0:13:54.650
kind of maximum maximise pushback on the

0:13:51.020,0:13:59.750
president and/or the AG bar rather I

0:13:54.650,0:14:01.220
should say and hoping that this this

0:13:59.750,0:14:03.130
pressure will build and they’ll make the

0:14:01.220,0:14:05.870
president look bad as part of the

0:14:03.130,0:14:07.220
elections go forward to 2020 and they’re

0:14:05.870,0:14:10.610
hoping that the president will lose and

0:14:07.220,0:14:12.560
that’s really the it hang on stall drag

0:14:10.610,0:14:15.110
your feet pretend to be willing to help

0:14:12.560,0:14:17.450
but you know use as many excuses as you

0:14:15.110,0:14:20.330
can the typical absolute bureaucratic

0:14:17.450,0:14:22.400
response for which the CIA is actually

0:14:20.330,0:14:24.200
quite good well-trained for doing

0:14:22.400,0:14:25.760
precisely these sorts of tactics so

0:14:24.200,0:14:28.010
they’re gonna put up a good fight to

0:14:25.760,0:14:29.990
stall hoping that they’ll that a

0:14:28.010,0:14:31.700
democratic candidate will win in 2020

0:14:29.990,0:14:35.270
which is what they all tend to believe

0:14:31.700,0:14:38.810
which strikes me it’s like unrealistic

0:14:35.270,0:14:40.250
appraisal but I think that’s what that’s

0:14:38.810,0:14:45.200
what their hope is at this point a

0:14:40.250,0:14:47.150
couple other things out of that she drew

0:14:45.200,0:14:49.340
the line in the sand but here’s

0:14:47.150,0:14:51.230
something that absolutely nobody is

0:14:49.340,0:14:53.620
reporting and this is kind of really the

0:14:51.230,0:14:56.720
main thing I wanted to mention today

0:14:53.620,0:15:00.740
President Trump about four days ago came

0:14:56.720,0:15:02.810
out with a it’s a memorandum on writing

0:15:00.740,0:15:04.940
and order of succession within the

0:15:02.810,0:15:08.270
Central Intelligence Agency so what that

0:15:04.940,0:15:10.940
means is it lists out in order starting

0:15:08.270,0:15:13.370
with director Haspel then deputy

0:15:10.940,0:15:15.860
director then the deputy directors and

0:15:13.370,0:15:18.140
then you know the IgE and kind of down

0:15:15.860,0:15:20.240
the line and it lists out about 15 or so

0:15:18.140,0:15:22.670
people so that there’s an order of

0:15:20.240,0:15:25.700
succession so that if Gina Haskell were

0:15:22.670,0:15:28.460
to die or to be removed from office or

0:15:25.700,0:15:30.830
for any reason unable to perform our

0:15:28.460,0:15:33.770
duties as director the CIA who would

0:15:30.830,0:15:36.290
then step in to take her place and now

0:15:33.770,0:15:39.140
the point out of that is though this has

0:15:36.290,0:15:41.660
happened before at the CIA but not very

0:15:39.140,0:15:43.250
common and it’s also happened to a lot

0:15:41.660,0:15:46.370
of other agencies it’s it’s fairly

0:15:43.250,0:15:48.560
common as a thing to happen to it to

0:15:46.370,0:15:50.660
various agencies in the US government

0:15:48.560,0:15:51.680
but not very common at the CIA like I

0:15:50.660,0:15:54.980
said it’s happened before

0:15:51.680,0:15:57.020
but traditionally within the CIA it was

0:15:54.980,0:15:58.610
updated occasionally but it wasn’t

0:15:57.020,0:16:00.470
really a memorandum from the president

0:15:58.610,0:16:02.740
it was just a procedure because in the

0:16:00.470,0:16:07.340
olden days the CIA was much more

0:16:02.740,0:16:09.700
organized and so the linear you know

0:16:07.340,0:16:16.370
succession was fairly straightforward

0:16:09.700,0:16:19.160
now this New York Times article came out

0:16:16.370,0:16:22.160
steena Haskell says yes we cooperate but

0:16:19.160,0:16:23.450
no sources and methods and I think the

0:16:22.160,0:16:26.060
White House took a look at all of this

0:16:23.450,0:16:27.380
probably a G bar I don’t know that Trump

0:16:26.060,0:16:30.710
would have this would have occurred to

0:16:27.380,0:16:32.510
him by himself but Trump is now drawing

0:16:30.710,0:16:34.880
a line in the sand as well because what

0:16:32.510,0:16:36.500
he has said is this is now officially in

0:16:34.880,0:16:38.810
the line of succession so gene if you’re

0:16:36.500,0:16:41.420
gone this guy is taking your place now

0:16:38.810,0:16:43.160
that’s a very interesting thing I think

0:16:41.420,0:16:45.350
that’s a pretty clear-cut message in a

0:16:43.160,0:16:49.520
shot across the bow screwed me and

0:16:45.350,0:16:51.770
you’re done and I I think Gina Haskell

0:16:49.520,0:16:54.500
has to be looking at this and going well

0:16:51.770,0:16:57.230
then basically this is this is war it’s

0:16:54.500,0:17:00.200
all-out either I resign and leave and

0:16:57.230,0:17:02.750
Anna and faces some real legal issues

0:17:00.200,0:17:04.910
that are coming up so she’s faced with a

0:17:02.750,0:17:09.440
tough situation now she’s either got a

0:17:04.910,0:17:10.730
flip you know go to the AG bar just say

0:17:09.440,0:17:13.310
everything she knows and everything she

0:17:10.730,0:17:15.140
did and hope for some sort of leniency

0:17:13.310,0:17:20.330
and some sort of deal which she’s not

0:17:15.140,0:17:22.160
going to do that or dig in her heels and

0:17:20.330,0:17:24.140
hope for the boss and and clearly with

0:17:22.160,0:17:25.790
this New York Times article that’s been

0:17:24.140,0:17:27.019
her strategy here now is to dig in her

0:17:25.790,0:17:29.899
heels and open

0:17:27.019,0:17:34.580
so I think the battle lines are drawn

0:17:29.899,0:17:36.980
and as AG bar starts to dig in and not

0:17:34.580,0:17:38.720
get cooperation out of the CIA people

0:17:36.980,0:17:40.370
and that’s another thing if you go

0:17:38.720,0:17:41.809
through that list I won’t belabor it

0:17:40.370,0:17:43.809
here but they’re all they’re not given

0:17:41.809,0:17:46.669
by name in the list but they have been

0:17:43.809,0:17:48.620
publicized into these positions before

0:17:46.669,0:17:50.929
and it’s something we’ve talked about a

0:17:48.620,0:17:53.509
little bit before all of those senior

0:17:50.929,0:17:55.940
guys on the list were all are all

0:17:53.509,0:17:58.669
brennidon and at the time when Gina

0:17:55.940,0:18:01.220
Haskell was put in I told President

0:17:58.669,0:18:02.269
Trump in a series of op eds and

0:18:01.220,0:18:05.509
interviews and so on

0:18:02.269,0:18:08.120
don’t do it she’s just she’s just like

0:18:05.509,0:18:10.100
putting Brennan in that office and you

0:18:08.120,0:18:13.309
know that’s that’s that’s not gonna help

0:18:10.100,0:18:14.539
you and and now it’s shown that what

0:18:13.309,0:18:16.340
I’ve been saying to the president all

0:18:14.539,0:18:18.379
along was true not that he knows who I

0:18:16.340,0:18:20.960
am or would listen anyway but at least

0:18:18.379,0:18:22.639
you know full vindication here for what

0:18:20.960,0:18:23.750
I’ve been trying to say oh yes we did an

0:18:22.639,0:18:26.960
interview when he first did that

0:18:23.750,0:18:28.879
appointment about that very very clear

0:18:26.960,0:18:31.250
and on the record that was a very bad

0:18:28.879,0:18:33.799
idea and why yeah but you know yeah and

0:18:31.250,0:18:35.179
now we’re seeking that play out and an

0:18:33.799,0:18:37.759
Ag bar spot after so they’re gonna go

0:18:35.179,0:18:40.580
forward so the these guys that are on

0:18:37.759,0:18:43.309
that list are all people that a couple

0:18:40.580,0:18:45.620
of them former director Brennan brought

0:18:43.309,0:18:47.840
out of retirement and put them into

0:18:45.620,0:18:51.889
senior positions in the CIA because

0:18:47.840,0:18:53.629
there is blood and he raised another a

0:18:51.889,0:18:55.279
bunch of people up that were around him

0:18:53.629,0:18:57.049
helping him implement all of this stuff

0:18:55.279,0:19:00.919
he was doing which is craziness

0:18:57.049,0:19:04.370
Jeana Haskell has repeated all that with

0:19:00.919,0:19:06.259
the precise same people she even brought

0:19:04.370,0:19:07.909
some of those guys that were brought out

0:19:06.259,0:19:09.950
of retirement to work for John Brennan

0:19:07.909,0:19:12.230
who went back into retirement she

0:19:09.950,0:19:15.350
brought them out of retirement again to

0:19:12.230,0:19:18.740
fill the same senior positions again for

0:19:15.350,0:19:20.450
her and this is this now I’m telling

0:19:18.740,0:19:23.210
President Trump if you’re listening to

0:19:20.450,0:19:24.649
me brother he you it doesn’t matter if

0:19:23.210,0:19:26.960
you get rid of Gina Haskell it’s the

0:19:24.649,0:19:30.350
same people so you got the same problem

0:19:26.960,0:19:32.299
if you don’t take out the top 15 people

0:19:30.350,0:19:34.639
you’re not gonna make any difference by

0:19:32.299,0:19:35.869
removing Gina asshole so now I mean

0:19:34.639,0:19:37.070
maybe it would serve as a warning to

0:19:35.869,0:19:38.360
those people and they would turn around

0:19:37.070,0:19:40.400
a little bit or or

0:19:38.360,0:19:42.770
less aggressive in their and their

0:19:40.400,0:19:46.010
defense against you but you know in

0:19:42.770,0:19:47.600
Dinesh D’Souza’s excellent documentary I

0:19:46.010,0:19:49.070
don’t remember the name of it was but it

0:19:47.600,0:19:51.620
was essentially on what I call the

0:19:49.070,0:19:53.600
Clinton crime family he described a

0:19:51.620,0:19:57.920
strategy of this particular cabal has

0:19:53.600,0:20:00.680
never let go of the con under no

0:19:57.920,0:20:03.470
circumstances never let go of the con

0:20:00.680,0:20:05.810
and I got to say ever since I saw that

0:20:03.470,0:20:08.210
documentary I’ve been watching what any

0:20:05.810,0:20:11.540
of these guys do and say you can present

0:20:08.210,0:20:13.940
them with all with video evidence and

0:20:11.540,0:20:16.250
fifty signed witnesses sworn witnesses

0:20:13.940,0:20:18.350
to what actually took place and they’ll

0:20:16.250,0:20:20.480
just they’ll just claim no I was

0:20:18.350,0:20:22.370
abducted by aliens it doesn’t matter

0:20:20.480,0:20:26.030
they’re just will not let go of the con

0:20:22.370,0:20:28.310
so I hope that President Trump keeps the

0:20:26.030,0:20:31.910
pressure up and and methodically and

0:20:28.310,0:20:33.080
detailed by detail makes this all clear

0:20:31.910,0:20:35.570
makes it happen

0:20:33.080,0:20:37.640
I hope so too and and I’d let me also

0:20:35.570,0:20:38.230
provide the solution if by some magic

0:20:37.640,0:20:41.420
wand

0:20:38.230,0:20:43.610
this word filters out to the government

0:20:41.420,0:20:45.740
to the White House National Security

0:20:43.610,0:20:49.000
Council or something the solution is

0:20:45.740,0:20:52.030
this what he needs to do is pick a

0:20:49.000,0:20:54.710
professional career professional CIA

0:20:52.030,0:20:56.360
intelligence person bad girl doesn’t

0:20:54.710,0:20:59.110
matter just pick somebody who’s a pro

0:20:56.360,0:21:01.190
but who’s actually also a patriot and

0:20:59.110,0:21:03.260
doesn’t put their personal politics

0:21:01.190,0:21:05.630
first everybody that’s there puts their

0:21:03.260,0:21:07.850
politics first now this is not going to

0:21:05.630,0:21:11.450
be easy but what he needs to do is

0:21:07.850,0:21:13.760
repeat what he did with a G bar he found

0:21:11.450,0:21:16.040
a G bar a G bar came and when I first

0:21:13.760,0:21:18.770
heard him I was gonna you know out of

0:21:16.040,0:21:21.350
the bush gang if you will and those guys

0:21:18.770,0:21:23.810
were all kind of the Republican RINO you

0:21:21.350,0:21:26.420
know anti-trump sorts of people so I

0:21:23.810,0:21:29.810
thought my first reaction was oh no you

0:21:26.420,0:21:31.880
know another crap pic but AG bar has

0:21:29.810,0:21:34.550
turned out to be a real gem and really

0:21:31.880,0:21:37.850
truly is a believer he’s a patriot first

0:21:34.550,0:21:40.220
and believes that what has to be done is

0:21:37.850,0:21:43.340
there you know will serve under those

0:21:40.220,0:21:46.280
same laws and are treated equally and so

0:21:43.340,0:21:47.990
that Thummim you know on the on the

0:21:46.280,0:21:49.100
scale of justice stuff isn’t going to

0:21:47.990,0:21:50.390
fly with him and he’s going to go after

0:21:49.100,0:21:53.180
those people we

0:21:50.390,0:21:55.250
the same person the same type of person

0:21:53.180,0:21:57.410
to head the CIA but it’s got to be a

0:21:55.250,0:21:59.960
trained Pro and let me just briefly

0:21:57.410,0:22:02.510
mention why because it’s the same thing

0:21:59.960,0:22:06.230
Mike Pompeo came in as as director of

0:22:02.510,0:22:09.130
CIA after John Brennan now Mike

0:22:06.230,0:22:12.050
impassive intelligent man had a lot of

0:22:09.130,0:22:14.240
experience as a consumer being on the

0:22:12.050,0:22:17.900
oversight committee of intelligence but

0:22:14.240,0:22:20.390
he got in and and really in the sense of

0:22:17.900,0:22:22.340
running in intelligence as he ages he

0:22:20.390,0:22:24.730
was an amateur and so he just couldn’t

0:22:22.340,0:22:28.880
see didn’t understand it’s a very

0:22:24.730,0:22:31.550
distinct complex culture and an outsider

0:22:28.880,0:22:34.400
cannot come in and run the CIA

0:22:31.550,0:22:36.950
effectively he just cannot it’s too

0:22:34.400,0:22:38.540
complex it’s too difficult there’s too

0:22:36.950,0:22:41.900
many things happening in the culture and

0:22:38.540,0:22:44.150
the cultures built to deceive so you’re

0:22:41.900,0:22:45.560
gonna get told what you want and I think

0:22:44.150,0:22:47.990
ultimately that’s what happened to Mike

0:22:45.560,0:22:49.310
Pompeo he was told what he wanted to

0:22:47.990,0:22:50.960
hear which is the best way to lie to

0:22:49.310,0:22:52.970
somebody tell them what they want to

0:22:50.960,0:22:55.190
believe tell them what they want to hear

0:22:52.970,0:22:56.660
and they will believe and so that’s I

0:22:55.190,0:23:01.160
think whatever I am it’s a religion of

0:22:56.660,0:23:02.450
peace yes exactly right and and I think

0:23:01.160,0:23:05.660
that’s what happened to Mike and and as

0:23:02.450,0:23:06.920
I said Mike’s top notch guy so you know

0:23:05.660,0:23:07.850
if it could happen to him it could

0:23:06.920,0:23:09.500
happen to anybody

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that’s not a trained professional in the

0:23:09.500,0:23:13.760
sense of intelligence having been in

0:23:11.450,0:23:16.400
there knowing the thing a true Pro would

0:23:13.760,0:23:18.140
walk in I mean I’m not suggesting myself

0:23:16.400,0:23:22.040
in any way wouldn’t wouldn’t want to do

0:23:18.140,0:23:23.240
the job but if I were to walk in we’re

0:23:22.040,0:23:24.260
suddenly there a lot of the stuff

0:23:23.240,0:23:26.300
they’re saying that you know would make

0:23:24.260,0:23:28.160
me laugh and I think I would find it

0:23:26.300,0:23:29.810
funny it’s so stupid I would know more

0:23:28.160,0:23:31.220
about it than they do and they’re trying

0:23:29.810,0:23:33.530
to be asked me to that it’s like you

0:23:31.220,0:23:35.570
know okay you’re fired get out and you

0:23:33.530,0:23:37.340
know the next guy’s not gonna pull that

0:23:35.570,0:23:38.780
cuz you know they kick it away or that I

0:23:37.340,0:23:40.580
could go down and read the files look

0:23:38.780,0:23:42.350
talk to all the people you know who take

0:23:40.580,0:23:45.260
me 30 minutes to get to the bottom of

0:23:42.350,0:23:48.230
whatever it was they couldn’t fool me I

0:23:45.260,0:23:49.580
mean maybe occasionally but but anyone

0:23:48.230,0:23:51.680
could be fooled sometimes and lied to

0:23:49.580,0:23:53.960
sometimes but not very often it would be

0:23:51.680,0:23:55.520
a lot harder so that’s the solution

0:23:53.960,0:23:57.770
that’s what I would hope that somebody

0:23:55.520,0:24:00.890
would whisper and president I’m serious

0:23:57.770,0:24:02.550
you got to fix all of these agencies and

0:24:00.890,0:24:04.590
he’s probably still going to have to go

0:24:02.550,0:24:08.250
back back and fix this at the FBI

0:24:04.590,0:24:10.920
because the new director ray seems to be

0:24:08.250,0:24:13.680
putting his his perspective on this is

0:24:10.920,0:24:15.690
to protect the FBI at all cost well if

0:24:13.680,0:24:18.780
there’s elements in the FBI that are bad

0:24:15.690,0:24:21.210
why you protecting them you know you’re

0:24:18.780,0:24:23.340
protecting crooked cops and that’s not

0:24:21.210,0:24:26.490
the job of a director that’s not the job

0:24:23.340,0:24:28.740
what a patriot would do in that job so I

0:24:26.490,0:24:31.830
personally think Ray’s in trouble

0:24:28.740,0:24:33.960
director ray and maybe I guess I perhaps

0:24:31.830,0:24:35.880
hope that he’s in trouble but certainly

0:24:33.960,0:24:38.490
he’s had some confrontations with aging

0:24:35.880,0:24:42.240
bar over this type of stuff and I think

0:24:38.490,0:24:44.400
he needs to get his head on straight and

0:24:42.240,0:24:47.910
understand that protecting the FBI at

0:24:44.400,0:24:50.280
all costs is betraying the FBI it’s not

0:24:47.910,0:24:52.050
protecting the FBI because like I said

0:24:50.280,0:24:53.940
you protect bad cops what does that do

0:24:52.050,0:24:55.800
to the reputation of the FBI it doesn’t

0:24:53.940,0:24:57.720
help the rank and file I’ll see this

0:24:55.800,0:24:59.580
stuff at the FBI they all know what’s

0:24:57.720,0:25:01.620
going on now some politically don’t mind

0:24:59.580,0:25:02.850
so much oh is politically hated but they

0:25:01.620,0:25:05.880
all understand and the public

0:25:02.850,0:25:06.930
understands the public you don’t they

0:25:05.880,0:25:08.190
sometimes you have to wake them up but

0:25:06.930,0:25:09.690
they’re not stupid they know the truth

0:25:08.190,0:25:12.300
when they hear it most of the time and

0:25:09.690,0:25:14.430
everybody sees this so it’s no secret

0:25:12.300,0:25:15.960
this is why Trump is popular this is why

0:25:14.430,0:25:17.850
is why his numbers are going on up is

0:25:15.960,0:25:19.500
all this stuff so that would be my

0:25:17.850,0:25:22.160
message I hope mr. Trump

0:25:19.500,0:25:25.470
president Trump please pick a pro and

0:25:22.160,0:25:28.080
Anna page and you’ll have the CIA fixed

0:25:25.470,0:25:29.940
and take them off the cabin don’t love

0:25:28.080,0:25:33.000
this guy

0:25:29.940,0:25:35.310
spyler really give it to you and then

0:25:33.000,0:25:37.440
you guys decide you guys set policy you

0:25:35.310,0:25:39.870
don’t need the CIA making policy so

0:25:37.440,0:25:42.320
that’s my rant oh so that’s my tube it’s

0:25:39.870,0:25:42.320
all of that

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