Former CIA Officer Larry Johnson: This Is A Controlled Leak To Prepare The Public For "Crash Landing" Of U.S. Foreign Policy

Real Clear Politics ^ | 4/14/23 | Tim Hains

[Libloather]

Former CIA officer Larry Johnson, who did presidential daily briefings during the George H.W. Bush administration, told "Judging Freedom" host Andrew Napolitano that he thinks the latest leak of Ukraine War documents is an inside job.

About the source, he said: "I'd put it above the CIA. This is elements connected to the Director of National Intelligence... There's no way that some National Guardsman doing [temporary duty] at Fort Bragg would have access to that."

"The information was leaked for [a purpose], to prepare the U.S. public for the crash landing that's going to take place with respect to U.S. foreign policy," he said.

"The documents are real. I’m not saying the documents are fabrications, they are not. But this cover story that's been manufactured to explain how these documents came to be produced, it just falls apart... This thing is too tidy a package, this has been wrapped up nice and neatly, this is like an episode of 'Law And Order.'"

LARRY JOHNSON: This is a coordinated media strategy, this is a disinformation campaign. The documents are real. I’m not saying the documents are fabrications, they are not. But this cover story that's been manufactured to explain how these documents came to be produced, it just falls apart. It simply falls apart based on one document, which is listed as "CIA Operations Center Report: Top Secret." I worked in the CIA operations center, and I helped prepare those reports, that's an internal CIA document. No one on a U.S. military base anywhere in the world will have access to that kind of document.

[FLT-bird]

Doesn’t everybody know already that the administration and the corporate media have.....shock shock.....been lying through their teeth all along about the whole “the Ukes are winning” stuff? I mean, how naive can somebody be? How many times does the corporate media have to lie to everybody before they finally catch on that the same corporate media outlets are lying about this too?

I have a 100% infallible way of telling what is going on in the world. Just listen to whatever the corporate media says about any subject and you immediately know the exact opposite is true.

If they say Trump colluded with Russia, you know he didn’t.

If they say Hunter Biden’s laptop is “Russian disinformation” you know its 100% genuine.

If they say the vaccine is safe and effective, you know it is neither.

If they say the election is the most secure ever, you know it was stolen.

If they say 81 million votes you just laugh your azz off.

If they say the Ukes are winning you know they’re on the verge of collapse.

It never fails.

[Bratch]

The Leak Was the Op – White House and Congress Demand New Powers, Think Restrict Act, in Aftermath of Classified Intel Leaks

April 13, 2023 | Sundance | 174 Comments

Never letting a crisis go to waste is very useful tool, especially when the government creates the crisis.  As CTH has said from the first discussion of the classified intelligence leaks, the “leak is the op.”

The intel leak is the operation created by the Intelligence Community to support new expanded powers for the Fourth Branch of Government.  It should not be a surprise to discover the institution now leading the charge to give more power for U.S. intel agencies, is…. wait for it….. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

The SSCI is the organizational institution that supports the Fourth Branch of Government, the intelligence branch.  The SSCI previously created a bipartisan Restrict Act, to deal with dangerous information on the internet.

According to SSCI Chairman Mark Warner, ‘The Restrict Act’ will give more power and authorities to the Executive Branch to deal with internet danger.  Now the SSCI sees the classified intel leaks as evidence for the importance of the Restrict Act.

Well, butter my buns and call me a biscuit, surprise-surprise!  Funny how that happens.

(Via NBC) – The Biden administration is looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chatrooms after U.S. intelligence agencies failed to spot classified Pentagon documents circulating online for weeks, according to a senior administration official and a congressional official briefed on the matter. 

The possible change in the intelligence-gathering process is just one potential shift as officials scramble to determine not only how the documents leaked but also how to prevent another damaging incident.

[…] The president and other officials were dismayed when they learned the documents had been online for at least a month.  “Nobody is happy about this,” said the senior administration official. 

The administration is now looking at expanding the universe of online sites that intelligence agencies and law enforcement authorities track, the official said.

[…]  If the administration tries to check online chatrooms more closely, it will have to navigate legal safeguards designed to protect Americans’ privacy and freedom of expression, former intelligence officials said.

Watching a public chatroom is fair game, but law enforcement agencies don’t have the legal authority to monitor a private online chatroom without probable cause, the former officials said.

“We do not have nor do we want a system where the United States government monitors private internet chats,” said Glenn Gerstell, former general counsel of the National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020. 

[…] Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., said the leak raised yet more questions about how the government manages its secrets, only months after revelations that successive administrations appeared to have mishandled classified documents.  […] “I think it’s time that Congress plays a role here in setting some parameters,” Warner said.  (read more)

Just a few “parameters“…

Swear.

Promise.

Uh huh….

The Restrict Act, also known as Senate Bill 686 [SB686 HERE], also known as the bipartisan bill to empower the executive branch to shut down TikTok.  Also known as the ‘online Patriot Act’.

[popdonnelly]

Johnson’s record for being correct isn’t good.

[Erik Latranyi]

The media has been in bed with the global communists since the 1960s as those university hippies entered the workforce. Now they are totally in charge of the newsrooms and take direction from the Politburo called the DNC, WEF, etc.

Now they are infiltrating the board rooms and executive level of corporations. Budweiser was just the latest example and it will only get worse once they control the boards of these companies.

[no-to-illegals]

When the media says “that’s the way it is” one can be certain it IS the way it ISN’T

[Openurmind]

Yep, absolutely.

[arthurus]

I have been reading histories of the rise and fall of ancient empires. They end to fall when the societies have been rich for too long and are morally and spiritually decadent and a weak and/or insane and incompetent ruler is at the top. And we are an empire and the Biden is a real ruler, much more than he is the president of a republic. He does not run his own rule but is the incompetent figurehead of the elite which describes rulers of old who presided at the end. Most recently perhaps, were Tsar Nicholas and Chernenko. Gorbachev was trying to catch the bricks as the wall was falling.

[maddog55]

One mans opinion. Look at Snowden and the damage he did. There’s idiots everywhere including the military.

[arthurus]

I have been reading histories of the rise and fall of ancient empires. They end to fall when the societies have been rich for too long and are morally and spiritually decadent and a weak and/or insane and incompetent ruler is at the top. Ameica is an empire and the Biden is a real ruler, much more than he is the president of a republic. He does not run his own rule but is the incompetent figurehead of the elite which describes rulers of old who presided at the end. Most recently perhaps, were Tsar Nicholas and Chernenko. Gorbachev was trying to catch the bricks as the wall was falling.

[FLT-bird]

It’s as if when the Ellsberg Pentagon papers were published, the media just published what was on the fly cover. Why, you might even wonder if they were in cahoots.

Wonder? There's no wonder. The corporate media has been entirely captured. They just spout regime propaganda now. Notice how they never contradict or challenge the regime narrative and give the regime nothing but tongue baths now? That's what happens when over 90% of the media is owned by just 6 companies.

[Dan in Wichita]

But the stupid democrat party voter will just keep voting to destruction all around them.

True that. Freedom, prosperity, and security are not important to them.

[Openurmind]

“Look at Snowden and the damage he did.”

Yeah he just couldn’t keep it a secret that our own government is nothing but a bunch of lying corrupt criminals. What a terrible guy to be more loyal to the people than to be a boot licker.

[ohioman]

Great post and 100% correct!

[maddog55]

Guess the point went over your F’n head. I won’t spell it out but to most it was obvious.

[larrytown]

KISS principle needs to be applied to this.

When you see the phrase “There’s no way people could be so incompetent/stupid/etc as to let something happen…”

Yeah, they are. The simplest solution is usually the correct one.

They are that stupid and incompetent.

[This_Dude]

Been telling just that to anyone who’d listen. Outstanding post. Couldn’t have said it better myself

[TalBlack]

“The dimrat leaders believe that none of their destruction will ever touch them.“

The tiny jewel upon which all of this massive chaos turns.

[jacknhoo]

“I find it amazing that so many here cannot see that we should not be supporting the Ukraine.”

_______

DoD propagandists and their useful idiots.

[devane617]

hmm...ok, Larry, if you say so.

[GOPJ]

It simply falls apart based on one document, which is listed as "CIA Operations Center Report: Top Secret."

I worked in the CIA operations center, and I helped prepare those reports, that's an internal CIA document. No one on a U.S. military base anywhere in the world will have access to that kind of document.

Can we assume some of the other 'kids' in the gaming chat room were also NSA egging the 19 year old - (now 21 year old) on?

Does this mean we're losing the war? Or that the goons and thugs running the US want powerful NEW laws to spy on American citizens as the boot comes down on our faces?