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hi so today we have Brad Johnson on a
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show he’s a favorite of ours he is the
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president for Americans for intelligence
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reform Thank You Brad for joining us a
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pleasure thank you so the first question
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we wanted to talk to you about is when
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an article you put out where you were
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discussing president Trump’s new pick
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for the DNI which is a Radcliffe I
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believe correct John Radcliffe a
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congressman from Texas who I think is a
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superb pick I know there has been some
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consternation over him as a selection
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but I think people don’t understand the
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full depth of what’s going on with this
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move and and let me say now John
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Radcliffe I think is is a superb pick
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and let me say why now the critics of
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him are saying that he just does not
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have that background in intelligence but
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there’s been a lot of people that have
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had some background intelligence that
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haven’t done that good of a job exactly
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he comes in and he’s the type of guy
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that understands how the process works
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but when he gets to those points where
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he bumps up against something out of
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intelligence specifically that he may or
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may not understand well enough he’ll go
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and confirm it he’s not such a prideful
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person that he’s he’s so hesitant to go
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say you know to person you know that he
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trusts and knows who is an expert in
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that stuff he’s not afraid to go to that
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person and say hey look give me the give
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me the lowdown on this how does it all
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work
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okay and so he’s that type of
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personality so he’s going to come in and
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is perfectly willing to go figure things
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out and is not arrogant and going to
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assume that he knows everything and make
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snap decisions so he’s going to look at
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all of this and the other part of it is
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he understands how bloated DNI has
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become the Office of the Director of
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National Intelligence it was originally
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intended to be maybe a hundred people or
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50 or 60 people and suddenly it’s a cast
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of thousands so he understands this
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bloating and mission creep and all of
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this that has gone on so he’s well
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positioned and probably one of the best
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picks that that’s out there that can
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come in take control get it back to its
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original purpose and make it an
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effective organization versus this
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bloated organization that we have now
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plus we want someone who’s going to
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maybe shake
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– we want to see someone you know come
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into these organizations and maybe look
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at it from a different perspective
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that’s another thing I like about him
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so the other person we want to talk
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about is president Trump’s pick for mark
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Meadows what is your feeling on him
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again mark Meadows out of the House of
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Representatives a congressman and one of
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the leaders in the freedom caucus so
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conservative budget oriented and again
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understands these processes that are out
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there and how bloated so many of these
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agencies have become mission creep and
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overlap that I mentioned all the time or
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in relation to this because that is such
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a large part of our problem now also if
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you take a close look at these two
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individuals
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I think the Trump administration has
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made a very interesting turn and there’s
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always a learning curve it’s one of the
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things you observe with every president
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when they become president the first
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couple years or so are learning how to
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do this job there’s no way to really
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prepare to become president because it’s
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a unique position so these people come
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in as presidents and it takes him that
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learning curve time to come up to stop
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President Trump has now made that turn
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he’s turned the corner on that
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understands it no longer behind the
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power curve on personnel issues and
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we’re starting to see select people
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being sent home let go new people coming
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in for the first time over the next year
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and immediately after elections we’re
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going to see president Trump finally
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bring in his own team and with this move
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to the chief of staff and these new
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people that we’re seeing come in are the
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first step in that so anyone who is a
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trump supporter has to understand how
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important this is and how big of a
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positive this is because that is what
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has happened he’s figured it out he
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knows that there’s a lot of people in
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there stabbing him in the back he
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understands that’s out of the
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intelligence community – we’ve seen with
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the testimony on the hill on how that
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was done and who’s doing it and he’s
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finally got this figured out he was
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trusting and believed that once people
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saw that he was genuinely interested in
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doing the business of the nation in
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doing what’s best for the United States
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of America that they would join him he
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now understands that that just ain’t
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gonna
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it’s not gonna happen you know so now he
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understands he needs to bring his team
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and what we’ve seen is the foundation
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laid for that team and I this it’s I
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can’t be possibly more pleased about the
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turn of events there and we’re going to
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see bigger changes yeah big changes take
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place in personnel and we’ve already
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seen out of NSC there were what 70
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people sent back now a lot of people are
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criticizing that saying they were fired
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that again is a lie and a manipulation
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of the facts no one there at NSC was
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fired they all come from someplace else
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NSA CIA FBI military they all come from
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someplace else so when they leave in
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Asik they go back to their parent agency
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so all they did was go back to whatever
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job they had to go back to eventually
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anyway
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yeah that’s all so so you said something
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in this article that I read that you
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wrote about how the IC has become
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politicized I think most Americans don’t
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understand that and I don’t know if you
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could explain how or what that means
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well there’s and this is one of the
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initiatives that Americans for
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intelligence reform we’re always working
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on and that is to reform issues like
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this so what has happened and the way
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that this has all been taken over was
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the the pipeline to leadership and the
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hiring process so now I like to use the
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FBI not because I want to pick on them
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in particular but it’s just that they’re
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an open organization and easier to use
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as an example because there’s so much
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information out there so for example a
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hiring practice is now at the FBI
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there’s a lot of questions about like do
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you want to be a justice warrior well we
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all know what that means that means are
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you a liberal and so but that’s part of
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the official hiring practice so those
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are the types of people that they bring
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in if you’re not a liberal now in the
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halls of government in the intelligence
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community basically have to keep your
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head down your mouth shut
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well that’s not what we need I feel like
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that’s discrimination it is
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discriminatory
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I might conservatives are not a
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protected class all below perhaps they
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should be it is discriminatory yes it is
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because basically it’s it’s a type of
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good old boy network just playing come
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come to life again
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and so if you’re not part of that little
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of the club or the clique then you don’t
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move up and the way that this is
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manipulated and this is government-wide
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now
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promotions are very carefully protected
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so that under the EEO rules and all of
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this anyone that can is protected but
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there are certain things you have to do
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in every one of these agencies to be
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promoted
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there are ticket punch responsibilities
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that you have to have had as you go up
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those become more difficult and more
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rare the way that you get those items is
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by the job you’re given and the way it’s
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manipulated is who gets what job and if
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you’re not in the old boy network that’s
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not gonna you’re not going to get those
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yeah that’s and you’re farmed out that
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is how they’ve taken over the CIA the
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FBI NSA State Department very long time
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ago and this carries over into other
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places Department of Education interior
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all of these places have been taken over
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the critical aspect of this from my
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perspective is the intelligence
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community that has to be cleaned out
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because what happens is if you are so
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strongly in a political bent what you do
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is you filter the information through
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this prism of your political beliefs
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exactly and what we do not do then at
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that point is take the very best
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information and pass it on to
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decision-makers and that gets people
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killed it gets us in trouble it degrades
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our national security and it’s supremely
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important it has gotten so bad the IC
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the intelligence community as a whole
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the 17 agencies including the DNI who
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heads this all up creates a document
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every four years that comes out timed to
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the new president so every four years
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whenever a president is not graded this
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document comes out it’s meant to look
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five to 20 years out into the future
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this past one that was done when Trump
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got elected previously after the 2016 it
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came out in early 2017 yeah there was
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more in that report on global warming
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than there was on terrorism I mean you
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you have to look at the leadership of
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the intelligence community and go you’re
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all fired
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this is idiocy you know first of all
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just taking a look at on the face of it
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of global warming it’s a silly thing
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there is zero proof zero evidence that
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global warming even exists
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now they have models showing what
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happens if the temperature goes up
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outside of that there’s nothing and
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that’s not proof of anything that’s
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merely if it does go up what will it
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look like and it’s a you know global
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warming really should be called
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terraforming that’s the actual
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underlying word that was always used for
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this concept and it’s been manipulated
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for political reasons but there isn’t
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anyone that knows how to terraform not
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only isn’t there is there no existence
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of a way to or or a program or a system
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to terraform there’s not even any
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theories of how to do it and the problem
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are the amounts of gas is what we’re
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calling greenhouse gases today that man
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puts out into the atmosphere we’re
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talking one millionth of a percent in
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many cases of the amount that’s out
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there and the gases that are in the
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atmosphere naturally fluctuate by much
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larger amounts than that for example you
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could see a 10% fluctuation in the water
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vapor in the air overnight and a 10%
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fluctuation in that area where you’re
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comparing it to one one millionth of a
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percent of some gas that’s out there
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that’s put out by man I mean there’s
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just no way to separate those out the
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fact is that the Sun is the single
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largest factor period anyone that
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doesn’t recognize that fact as what
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heats up the earth is just you know they
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live in an alternate bizarro universe
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that’s just a plain fact so in the the
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report that came out and Trump obviously
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got that icy report what would you have
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wanted to be in there what was missing
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from that report that should have gone
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to Trump when he first came into office
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well a number of things one of them
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needs to be who we recommend to be on
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the reports for terrorist organizations
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that’s a key missing factor and what
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we’ve seen and this is based on some of
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what happened during the Obama years
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Muslim Brotherhood has been overlooked
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it is a terrorist organization but there
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are political problems out there right
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now because the Muslim Brotherhood and
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Turkey are working hand in glove they’re
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essentially extensions of each other now
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the strongman air daguan in in Turkey
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and he has been named by the head of
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Muslim Brotherhood to be the next leader
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of Islam so he’s working to establish
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the Neo Ottoman Empire
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a new Ottoman Empire and so that’s what
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he’s after that’s why you see him trying
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to essentially invade lands in Syria and
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take over areas because he wants to
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expand that empire so this the Muslim
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Brotherhood has been overlooked because
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of all the politics laid in place by
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Obama that is one of the things that
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should have been addressed by this and
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it has not been so the lone wolf issue
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is something is very important to me
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personally and it’s one of those things
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at the end that the intelligence
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community should be all over and are not
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and it’s a deceptive practice on their
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part that really irritates the the great
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a or takes me a great deal else a nice
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yeah and the the problem with that is is
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essentially there’s no such thing as a
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lone wolf lone wolves there is big
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departments at Isis for example and
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different terrorist groups al Qaeda
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where all of they do is troll the
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internet and these are highly trained
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well-paid professionals who that’s how
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they spend their time and what they’re
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doing is constantly trolling the
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internet looking for susceptible
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individuals that are weak on in one form
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or another they then recruit them online
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trained them online and send them out to
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do these acts many times they pre record
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their suicide messages before that
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appear later on but one of the things
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they’re also trained to do is they erase
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all tracks electronic tracks because
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there’s different types of software and
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apps that can be used and they erase
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them all before they go out and do their
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their terrorist act so the police come
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in and look at this and go well we don’t
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have any proof so therefore we don’t
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know the motive so therefore this is a
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lone wolf that is on the on the part of
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law enforcement I don’t blame them
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specifically because this is an
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intelligence act and they’re in law
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enforcement so their standard is to find
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proof that they can use in court
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unfortunately this isn’t that problem
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and so we’re using the wrong tool
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against the problem here exactly and
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it’s an intelligence issue that needs to
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be worked that way where you go in and
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start tracking back but every one of
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those lone Wolf’s was in contact was
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spotted online they were recruited
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online they were trained online and then
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they covered their tracks that were
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online and then they went out and did
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the terrorist act that is what people
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are calling lone wolf that is a
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deceptive lie and part of what I’m
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saying of how they cover up the truth
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that’s important if the IC was on this
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reporting the truth
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then we would know what we need to do is
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use our intelligence agencies and anyone
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else that’s cooperating with us overseas
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and go find those offices where these
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guys are trying to recruit people online
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and take them out yeah that is what we
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now ship it down that’s not happening
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because of politics and people are dying
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as a result yeah this is BS and those
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guys are completely a response this is
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one of the things that we have to
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correct that’s what was missing from the
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report that Trump should have gotten
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like I said they talked about global
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warming did two or three to one compare
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that terrorism yeah that’s just so
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deeply irresponsible i president Trump
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is beginning to figure this out but he
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needs to fire the vast majority of
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leadership and start over to get people
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who are actually dedicated Patriots who
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respect the Constitution United States
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and understand what it is to have strong
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national security and strong
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intelligence and we don’t have it
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