Posted on 11/02/2019 4:39:27 AM PDT by Travis McGee
On Thursday October 31, Halloween, a few hours after Nancy Pelosi’s sham House impeachment inquiry vote, I was able to interview retired CIA Chief of Station Bradley Johnson for the Alex Jones Show on Infowars. Here are some transcribed Johnson quotes of special importance, but I think the entire 20 minute interview should be watched.
On John Brennan’s continuing influence at the CIA:
“I was going to say, I heard you talking about John Brennan still having influence in the CIA, and I’ve got to reiterate that, and there is no question whatsoever about it, I can say as absolute fact that he’s got tremendous pull still in the CIA. Let’s not forget that the current director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, was a close associate of John Brennan. John Brennan’s clearance is still intact, that has not been pulled, that’s an oversight that should be taken care of, so he’s got access to them basically whenever he wants. And the three top lieutenants that are within the CIA operations end of things, running it, not like the HR or personnel sorts of people, those three individuals were also closely working for and associated with John Brennan. So the number one, number two, number three and number four people at the CIA right now, are close friends and associates that have worked closely in the past with John Brennan. So to suggest even for a moment that he isn’t pulling strings whenever he desires to in the CIA is just poorly informed. He absolutely is connected.”
Do you think the top floors of CIA still have a “protect the Deep State” agenda?
“All of the agencies are that way, the FBI, the CIA, NSA, the State Department, they are all that way. The pipeline to leadership in all of the federal agencies that are in the intelligence community have been controlled by the left for a long time. The only people who make their way up through that pipeline and get into positions of leadership are the “resist” Deep State types of people. So they’re all that way, there’s no exceptions to that. It’s not what talking heads say, ‘Oh, there’s good people there, purely professional there…’ That used to be that way, but that’s no longer that way. That was all consolidated under Obama, and that’s the way it stays, and unfortunately Trump hasn’t had the chance to fix that yet.”
On reforming the CIA and the other Intel agencies that have been co-opted by globalists and leftists:
“It’s a tough problem, and I would say that anyone I’ve talked to that are retired ‘agency’ and people like that, that I know, we’ve all concluded that essentially it cannot be fixed with what’s there, and I think that’s the bottom line.”
Speaking about the bloated numbers of personnel at the Intel agencies, and how a RIF [Reduction In Force] might improve the situation, or instead, might be used by the dominant leftists to target the remaining conservatives for firing:
“I would say there’s no patriots left, certainly not at the leadership level. At the working level, yes, but those people essentially, you have to keep your head down and your mouth shut, because if it comes out that you’re a conservative, you’re destroyed, your career is over. It’s not that you necessarily get fired on the spot, but you’re never going to get a good job, and the only way to get promoted and move up is to have a good job that tics off all those things that are required to go to the next level, and that’s how they control the pipeline. There’s a lot of laws controlling the promotion process, but there’s no laws controlling how jobs are handed out, and that’s the way that the liberals have taken it over inside all of these federal agencies. Many years ago at [the] State Department, and in recent decades at the rest of the agencies. So a RIF, especially at the higher levels, there’s no conservatives to target, so it would only be to the good. It would be a net win to do a RIF of any sort at any of these agencies.”
Please see the rest of my interview of Brad Johnson at:
https://banned.video/watch?id=5dbb55b647aa1a001ce34cf1
Other agencies are not as bad, but they do need a huge correction in attitude.
Amen. Starting at the top. A complete brooming.
I agree, depending on what is meant by the word 'fix'. There are no 'simple' focused solutions, and getting rid of this infestation will require a lot of effort and time. One of the first things we need to do is exactly what Trump is doing - speaking clearly and challenging the thoughts/philosophy/ideology/sacred cows of the left directly and definitively. The shallowness, lack of intellectual underpinning, and destructiveness of the left's positions must be pointed out again, and again, and again in every public forum possible.
Thanks.
The deep state has gotten so deep now, even if you lop off the top four levels, you still have a cadre of chumps to take over. It is that bad. Worse when you as president issue directives and those whom are supposed to follow them just ignore them. Not sure how much the senior officer corps is affected, but it is almost time to replace the civilian “leaders” with their military cohorts...at least they still mostly follow orders.
Bull Durham slapping the cuffs on Brennan, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page etc might also go along way to reforming their culture.
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They recruit from DOD too. Where else can you get a 007, Matt Helm, or someone to get heir hands bloody.
Let’s first give an Article V COS a try. Its a complete end run, a flanking movement that neither the Deep State nor Congress can corrupt.
Subscribed, thanks for the tip. He has 589 now.
IMHO, it’s more possible that we can arrange a stampede of unicorns to wipe out the deep state.
I know it’s in the constitution, but as Mark L often says, “we are in a post constitutional America.”
It’s a mystery to me how he can hold out hope for a COS.
It’s a mystery to me how anyone can hold out hope for a solution other than through an Article V COS.
An article V convention is less likely than divine intervention. I wish it were otherwise.
An article V convention would be a VERY dangerous roll of the dice.
The Constitution, as written, is darn close to perfect...and it ONLY needs to be followed by pols & judges.
So was independence from Great Britain on July 4th 1776.
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