Current Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, was chair of the senate select committee on intelligence (SSCI) and a Gang of Eight member since day one of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Due to his role in the Gang of Eight Senator Rubio was briefed on all the covert activities being carried out in Ukraine by the CIA and Pentagon.
That is why when Secretary of State Marco Rubio told media months ago that “Ukraine was a proxy war for the United States against Russia,” it was a jaw-dropping statement. If anyone would know the receipts, it’s the former Chair of the SSCI, who became the Secretary of State. However, to say the truth so openly and publicly was something entirely unexpected, especially from Rubio.
As Secretary of State Rubio represented President Trump’s America-First foreign policy and national security interests very effectively, many people were shocked at the seemingly 180° degree turn Rubio took to represent the MAGA perspectives. Rubio adroitly navigated the media with exceptional support for President Trump’s positions, and diplomatic action to back it up.
While most of us continue watching Rubio closely, obviously President Trump saw the unique perspectives held by the former Senator on intelligence matters. President Trump then appointed Rubio to a dual role as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
While the Secretary of State represents the public face of President Trump’s diplomatic policy toward the world, the Nat Sec Advisory represents President Trump’s outward view to the global intelligence network. Marco Rubio now carries both extremely important titles and responsibilities.
Keeping in mind the prior statements by Rubio about Ukraine being a proxy state for U.S. operations against Russia, both Marco Rubio and President Trump have been mostly silent and very measured in their comments about Russia after the Ukraine attack on the Russian nuclear-capable bombers.
Obviously, both Secretary Rubio and President Trump know the Senate control of the BBB is unfortunate timing for their solutions to the Ukraine-Russia war. Their solution is likely to be something the Senate will not like. The Senate will never publicly admit that Ukraine is a U.S. proxy war against Russia.
However, while the Senate needs to retain these ridiculous pretenses, ultimately Russian President Vladimir Putin does not. Putin is well aware of the USA support level, open and covert, taking place within Ukraine. This is the context for all of President Trump’s communication with Putin.
After spending almost 6 years at #Palantir, I know something about what they do and what they don’t do. As a result, I want to address the inaccuracies in the 6/30 @nytimes article that’s been picked up by multiple outlets this week. 🧵 1/11
In this thread, I speak solely for myself. I departed Palantir in April (and will share my new chapter soon!). My purpose here is simple: to call for honest and accurate reporting—especially in an era increasingly shaped by distortion and #disinformation. 2/11
Plenty of people have valid criticisms of Palantir—I at times raised concerns while there, as the culture encourages. I believe in speaking up. I also believe in getting the facts right and straight. Criticize what you find problematic—but start with the truth. 3/11
INACCURACY #1: The headline “Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans” is fundamentally wrong. Palantir doesn’t do that. They provide software that helps organizations analyze data those organizations already possess.
Karp must be asked in public many times if he is a Jewish Supremist and/or if he completely disavows Jewish Supremacy. The personal information on all Americans he will have stewardship over at Palantir is crucial to our liberty and must not fall into the hands of a Jewish Supremist. The glib nonchalance he displays in the clip above must not transfer to mind-control programs in USA, or anywhere on earth. Jewish Supremacy is a dangerous and violent cult with zero moral boundaries. No journalist who refuses to ask Karp these questions can be trusted. The term ‘far right’ in Europe, which Karp uses off-handedly, is a slur used to pejoratively describe center-right conservatives with a modicum of national awareness. Karp, I bet, supports a much further ‘far right’ in Israel and should be asked about that as well. With high office comes high responsibility. It is Karp’s duty to honestly disavow Jewish Supremacy on his own, whether he is asked or not. ABN
Now in question is the entirety of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the Russia-collusion hoaxers.
People familiar with the investigation into the Russia collusion hoax told The Federalist that senior officials did not know the FBI case management database, Sentinel, allowed agents to conceal the existence of evidence. Nor did anyone from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office mention that documents related to the investigation into the Trump campaign had been rendered invisible by use of the “Prohibited Access” coding in Sentinel — even though they knew the Department of Justice was investigating the origins and handling of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
On Monday, a former political appointee at the DOJ expressed surprise that no one from Special Counsel Mueller’s team mentioned the “Prohibited Access” functionality of Sentinel to senior officials. This news follows last week’s release by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, of a recently declassified FBI report that revealed that Special Counsel Mueller’s office used a “Prohibited Access” restriction during the Trump/Russia-collusion investigation.
As The Federalist detailed earlier today, the “Prohibited Access” coding in the FBI’s Sentinel case management system, “precludes investigators from detecting the existence of potentially relevant serials.” “In other words,” according to the just-released FBI report, “when search terms that exist in the Prohibited Access-status cases are searched in Sentinel, the particular search will receive a false-negative Sentinel search response.”
What is it that allows hiding evidence like this but not destroying it? I would think the perps would want it destroyed yesterday if not a few years ago. I have never seen an explanation for this. Similar questions with the Epstein ‘files’, the worst of which are obviously videos. If they were saved, why did the perps save them and not destroy them? Same questions for JFK files. What was saved and what was destroyed and what we know about this is as vague as it gets. ABN
UPDATE: I suppose the vagueness is intentional, and as such used to provide multiple levels of information—bogus, real and mixed—which function as escape tunnels and deceptive shiny things. This coupled with decades of delay ensure perps will never be identified, let alone caught and prosecuted (unless someone wants to do a Harvey Weinstein on one of their own, which is why there is always loyalty at the top, because you don’t want that to happen to you). The vagueness is so vast and savage, we really never know what is going on. This is a real-world foundation of KOBK game theory. ABN
There are groups of psychopaths who do almost all the bad conspiracies that harm USA.
With today’s tech, a moral group within government (or next to it) could easily map who the bad guys are, how they are connected to each other and how they do their conspiracies.
Ofc, we have not seen anything like this so far but it is possible.
If the mapping were done using our best technology, entire syndicates of bad actors could be busted in one day.
For this to happen, the tables will have to be turned somewhere deep inside the intelligence community, or high above it.
Massive raids on the syndicates by special forces would effect enormous change for the good almost immediately.
By busting these groups and disabling them permanently, USA would free itself from widespread infestations of these parasites.
Needless to say, these parasitic groups themselves know who they are and how they are connected and they are probably well aware of this vulnerability.
But they would not necessarily know they are being identified and slated for destruction.
If the bad guys can hide, so can the good guys.
If something like this ever happens, I doubt we the plebs will know anything about it until it happens.
What are the odds? Maybe not so bad.
What if someone like Peter Thiel were already doing this? Or someone we have never heard of.
A small group of tech geniuses with deep moral sensibilities might be fascinated by work like this and become passionate about pulling it off.
USA has harbored many clandestine criminal gangs.
Maybe the new surveillance tech will help us get a secret gang of really good people who will wipe them out. ABN
The Trump administration is collecting data on all Americans, and they are enlisting the data analysis company Palantir to do it.
The New York Timesreports that President Trump has enlisted the firm, founded by far-right billionaire Peter Thiel, to carry out his March executive order instructing government agencies to share data with each other. The order has increased fears that the government is putting together a database to wield surveillance powers over the American public.
Since then, the administration has been very quiet about these efforts, increasing suspicion. Meanwhile, Palantir has taken more than $113 million in government spending since Trump took office, from both existing contracts and new ones with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. That number is expected to grow, especially given that the firm just won a new $795 million contract with the DOD last week.
Palantir is speaking with various other agencies across the federal government, including the Social Security Administration and the IRS, about buying its technology, according to the Times. Palantir’s Foundry tool, which analyzes and organizes data, is already being used at the DHS, the Department of Health and Human Services, and at least two other agencies, allowing the White House to compile data from different places.
This is an opinion piece, slanted toward privacy and against totalitarianism, but I do not see how anyone can stop data collection. Information about us is everywhere and easily gathered. It can be weaponized and probably will. How do you stop it? If USA does not do it, others will. Information knows no borders. This is another reason why we should do all we can to preserve free speech and support those who support it. Free speech and freedom of thought are all we have left to protect ourselves. Masses of free humans will become the only database that can stand up to AI and those who control it. ABN
New State Department reorganization plans will cut or consolidate more than 300 of the agency’s offices and bureaus as part of a massive overhaul seeking to streamline the department, according to agency officials.
The State Department submitted a notice to Congress Thursday disclosing plans for the overhaul — the largest restructuring for the agency since the Cold War, senior State Department officials told Fox News Digital.
The agency’s overhaul aims to cut red tape so the department can respond to threats more quickly, place greater emphasis on the agency’s “primary mission” representing the U.S. abroad and eliminate “bureaucratic overgrowth” in Washington, the congressional notice said.
#1) Send out an email to every field office, agent, division and contractor within the FBI asking every participant in Crossfire Hurricane or the Mueller investigation to report to the auditorium in DC on XXX date.
#2) Have big buffet and coffee set up. Now, with all of them seated in the audience, take their cell phones, laptops and electronic devices away, and give each of them a piece of paper and ask them to write down the names of every single person they interacted with during their investigative duty. Give them one hour to complete the task.
#3) Retrieve their notes. Send them to lunch (provided), as you review the lists. [Cell phones, laptops and electronic devices remain on side of the room where they placed them.]
#4) When they return, tell them all to stand up as you read the names from the lists. As their name is called, they can sit down.
#5) At the conclusion of reading the list, almost everyone should be seated, correct? Those who remain standing are unknown to the FBI investigators in the room. Tell those standing people to leave and assembled in an adjacent room, under watch.
#6) After the small group departs (if any), ask these questions:
A) If you were aware, or if you suspected, you were participating in a fraudulent investigation motivated by politics, please stand up.
=> Announce those people are fired for cause. Fired for violating their oath of office.
Escort them out.
Turn back to those remain seated.
A) If you *DID NOT KNOW* you were participating in a fraudulent FBI investigation, motivated by politics, please stand up.
=> Announce those people are fired for cause. Fired for not being smart enough to carry out their oath of office.
Escort them out.
The room should be empty.
#7) Now,… Final Detail. Perhaps you have an adjacent room with a few people that no one in the FBI knows who they are or what they were doing there. These were not named on any list created by the FBI employees who conducted “Crossfire Hurricane” or the “Mueller probe.”
President Donald Trump’s senior budget officer is expected to take over operations at the Department of Government Efficiency once Elon Musk steps down.
Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, will soon take on much of DOGE’s workload, including working with Congress to recoup funds, reclassifying federal employees, and advancing his proposed 2025 budget, which would significantly reduce government funding, according to the Wall Street Journal.
He has already acted as Musk’s lower-profile partner and praised his department’s efforts to reduce federal regulations, noting that President Trump has pledged to eliminate ten regulations for every one imposed.
UPDATE: This is a very good interview. First posted a day or two ago, I am bumping it to the top because I have only just had time to watch it and discover how good it is. Martin provides a fascinating overview of how DC and USA look from an insider’s point of view. Highly recommended. ABN
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