CNN: Deep State Bureaucrats Threaten To Sell State Secrets If Trump Isn’t Nice To Them
CNN warns that intelligence employees who get the axe are valuable — and that those same employees will sell national secrets if fired. Which is it?CNN warns that intelligence employees who get the axe are valuable — and that those same employees will sell national secrets if fired. Which is it?'Buckle up': CIA offers entire workforce buyout to expedite housecleaning
The Trump administration, keen to clear out the institutional rot in Washington, D.C., is apparently set to clean house at the federal agency that previously recruited thousands of Nazis as spies, stole into Senate investigators' computers, manipulated American news coverage, experimented with brainwashing techniques on unwitting citizens, armed various terrorist groups, dragged its feet on acknowledging the likely source of the COVID-19 virus, allegedly engaged in domestic election interference, and helped orchestrate numerous coups around the world.
The Central Intelligence Agency, now led by former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, has reportedly offered buyouts to its entire workforce, reported the Wall Street Journal.
Last week, the White House issued a memo offering buyouts to roughly 2 million federal workers in an effort to remedy government bloat and save taxpayers money.
Workers were told they could either remain in their current positions, meeting enhanced standards of conduct and working in their physical offices five days a week without any "certainty of their position or agency," or they could hit the bricks, retaining all pay and benefits until Sept. 30, 2025.
Federal workers serving in positions related to national security were among those initially ineligible for the buyout package, for which the acceptance deadline was Feb. 6; however, an aide to Ratcliffe told the Journal that the CIA director successfully petitioned the White House to similarly extend the offer to workers at his agency.
'Time to find a new line of work.'
An unnamed source said to be familiar with the offer told CNN that while all workers at the CIA received the offer, some may yet be ineligible depending on role and area of expertise.
A spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency indicated that the move is both part of the CIA director's efforts to "ensure the CIA workforce is responsive to the administration's national security priorities" and "part of a holistic strategy to infuse the agency with renewed energy."
Ratcliffe signaled a desire for a competent and hard-nosed workforce during his confirmation hearing last month, stating:
If confirmed, my leadership at CIA will focus on setting and communicating priorities and demanding relentless execution. Above all, we will be in strict adherence to the CIA's mission. We will collect intelligence, especially human intelligence, in every corner of the globe, no matter how dark or difficult. We will produce insightful, objective, all-source analysis, never allowing political or personal biases to cloud our judgment or infect our products. We will conduct covert action at the direction of the president, going places no one else can go and doing things no one else can do.
Ratcliffe added, "To the brave CIA officers listening around the world, if all of that sounds like what you signed up for, then buckle up and get ready to make a difference. If it does not, then it is time to find a new line of work."
An aide to the director told the Journal that the CIA is also freezing the hiring of applicants given conditional offers of employment and will likely rescind such offers in cases where job-seekers aren't well suited to the agency's new objectives, which apparently include engaging in espionage against countries not traditionally regarded as adversaries to gain an upper hand in trade negotiations, undermining communist China, and taking on Mexican drug cartels.
Fresh off concern-mongering about the potential demise of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) — who represents thousands of federal workers — blasted the buyout offer, suggesting that bureaucrats should not take the out.
"There's no statutory authority that I can see for the president making this offer," Kaine told the Journal. "The administration immediately knows, you don't want to work for me. They'll find some other way to get rid of you. You should not raise your hand."
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Former Intel Officials Who Signed Infamous Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Remain Defiant
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released the transcripts of interviews with several of the 51 officials who signed the letter.CIA had active contractors amongst cabal of intel officials who suggested Biden laptop was Russian fake
Scores of former intelligence officials ran block for Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election after the New York Post threatened his campaign with damning facts about his son's laptop and its contents. It turns out that active elements of the security state similarly conspired to cure the narrative and thumb the scales in Biden's favor.
Background
Less than a month ahead of the 2020 election, the New York Post reported about the incriminating contents of Hunter Biden's laptop and raised various questions about then-candidate Joe Biden, especially about his shady ties to Ukraine.
The report noted, for instance, that a Burisma board adviser thanked Hunter Biden for introducing him to Joe Biden about a year before Biden allegedly extorted the Eastern European country as vice president to get the prosecutor investigating Burisma fired.
The report also painted Joe Biden as untruthful and referenced other damning evidence on his son's laptop, such as videos of Hunter Biden having sex and smoking crack and suggestions of questionable business with China.
Elements of the intelligence community antipathetic to President Donald Trump swooped in to shield Biden in the final weeks before the election, releasing a public letter on Oct. 19, 2020, asserting that the Hunter Biden laptop story had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" intended to hurt the Democrat's candidacy.
Not one of the intelligence officials had apparently seen the evidence of which they spoke before signing the letter, and no signatory has since expressed regret.
Biden used the misleading letter, which was further spun by the liberal media, to great effect.
In his Oct. 22 debate with Trump, Biden said, "Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he's accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four — five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he's saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani."
Michael Morell, one of the former CIA directors Biden referenced, later testified to Congress that he organized the letter to "help Vice President Biden," but more specifically, to help "him to win the election."
Morell also made clear that the Biden campaign was involved and "helped to strategize about the public release of the statement."
According to Morell, the call he received from then-Biden campaign official Antony Blinken got the ball rolling on the deception.
74% of Americans surveyed told the Technometrical Institute of Policy and Politics in a 2022 survey that the FBI and the intelligence community deliberately misled the public and voters. 79% of respondents said that a truthful interpretation of the laptop would have likely changed the election's outcome more in favor of Trump.
The CIA versus Trump
The House Committee on the Judiciary, its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a report Tuesday revealing that former CIA acting director Michael Morell and ex-CIA inspector general David Buckley were both active contractors with top secret clearances for the agency when they signed the letter.
The congressional investigators reached this conclusion on the basis of information provided them earlier this year by Robert Dugas, CIA deputy general counsel for litigation and investigations.
Morell has denied being a contractor at the time, telling the New York Post, "If you write that, you would [be] wrong."
Beside the possibility that unnamed signatories were similarly active spooks, the report noted that others "had special 'Green Card' access to the CIA at the time of the statement's publication, allowing them to gain entry to secure CIA facilities."
According to the report, former CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash, the ex-husband of Thursday's moderator in the Trump-Biden debate, and former National Security Agency deputy director Richard Ledgett, were both serving the agency at the time they signed the letter as independent contractors with top secret clearances.
Other active elements of the CIA were also peripherally involved.
"High ranking CIA officials, up to and including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, were made aware of the Hunter Biden statement prior to its approval and publication," said the report.
The agency conveniently refrained from seizing upon the "opportunity at that time to slow down the CIA's process for reviewing publication submissions and ensure that such an extraordinary statement was properly vetted."
The report suggested that the revelation about the active status of Morell and Buckley "raises concern that these officials abused the access of their positions to curate, promote, and received expedited approval of the statement."
Indeed, the PCRB continuously requested quick decisions from officials within the CIA and partners at ODNI about the status of publication of the statement. This occurred after Morell specifically requested an expedited review process and during a time when he had contracting status and was under consideration to be named President Biden's CIA Director.
The report also indicated that the signatories' decision to leverage their titles in favor of a narrative favorable to Biden "inappropriately embroiled the Agency in the domestic political process."
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