John Ratcliffe

nonsense.

The Atlantic has also published an interesting read about the role of CIA Director John Ratcliffe and the paradoxes inherent in the administration's stance towards Russia at the moment.

One intelligence officer cited in the piece says that though you'd never know it from Trump's rhetoric, the CIA's operations are now much more aggressive against Moscow than they were during the Biden administration.

It explains his trip to Moscow a few weeks ago as an attempt by the CIA to convince Putin that he was pursuing a lost cause.

They still understand.

I mean, the one thing Trump does do for Ukraine or allows to be done for Ukraine, it's really John Ratcliffe, a CIA director, is provide intelligence.

So there was a lot of back and forth in the last two weeks with the throttling of Starshield and Starlink, which I'm sure you want to get into with with me later.

about whether or not the intelligence sharing mechanism had been severed and as best i can tell from my reporting on both sides it has not been um and the the intelligence sharing with ukraine there's sort of three tiers to it tier one is force protection early warning of incoming ballistic missiles so it's true that sometimes russia launches ballistic missiles or it launches It's S-400 air defense system missiles for a ground attack purpose.

They've been planting anti-Kash Patel stories since June about his reported trip to Russia this fall.

We had John Ratcliffe make headlines a couple of months ago with his unannounced but highly memetic and telegraphed visit to Moscow himself.

And now we have The EU accusing Trump of pushing Ukraine into surrender as Steve Witkoff meets Zelensky in Oslo.

This was just a few days ago.

The Biden White House coordinated with the FBI in obtaining these phones from the administration they had just kicked out of the White House.

In the two years of Arctic Frost, Grassley's office says the FBI interviewed approximately 40, quote, Trump administration officials, including employees from the offices of the president and vice president, DOJ and former director of national intelligence director John Ratcliffe, end quote.

And let me add here that when the FBI interviews people in these politically motivated probes, and apparently at other times, we learn from Spygate and other investigative reporting on the FBI's abuses that they try to entrap people into accidentally making speculative or false statements.

such as forgetting a detail or not saying something in an elegant way or misremembering a detail or stating things in a confusing way so that they can convict their targets of process crimes like obstruction and conspiracy.

That woman was then taking the information and publishing it on her Substack account.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed that Brinksman provided services to the CIA.

He began working as a contractor with the agency back in 2020 and received top-secret security clearance.

Ratcliffe said there will be zero tolerance for this type of leaking that creates great risk to national security and intelligence sources as well as operations.

In late April, the liberal Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the Financial Times that Russia might test European NATO's resolve in months.

Reports then circulated that the CI chief John Ratcliffe visited Moscow four months later in August that he supposedly warned Russia against precisely this scenario.

A month later, which I've gone over, but this is to build this episode in this case, Polish foreign minister, a liberal man, Radek Sikorski, declared that Russia is at war with Europe, thus worsening the hysteria.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb tried talking sense into his European NATO counterparts by downplaying the likelihood of a Russian attack, after which Sikorsky walked back to his rhetoric by suddenly claiming this.

We're seeing this in America now.

May 4th of this year, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation issued a level three essential action alert, its highest severity, when it showed that even losing thousands of megawatts of computing load or more leaves what's called your bulk power system without warning, bam, crashes your system.

NERC's chief engineer, a gentleman named Mark Lauby in the New York Times Magazine, said that the network's complexity and redundancy made a cascading national collapse unlikely.

I would disagree with him.

But within a couple of days, it was obviously not true.

And he was enraged, so enraged that the Secretary of State slash National Security Advisor Marco Rubio went to brief Congress and in the hallway on the way up to the briefing said on camera, we followed Israel into this war.

Now, Marco Rubio is a lifelong Israel sycophant paid whose campaigns have been financed by agents of Israel effectively.

So why would he say something like that? Well, he was parroting his boss who had just been ranting about how Bibi lured us into this trap.

And I'll just say at the outset, I don't know the answer, but I can tell you what I saw, which is on the Wednesday after he won in November of 2024, there was the first transition meeting in Palm Beach.

And that meeting was led by the head of the transition, Howard Lutnick, who was a Hillary Clinton bundler, a big Hillary Clinton fundraiser who Trump, for some reason, after the Butler shooting, put in charge of the transition.

And it was Howard Lutnick who effectively chose Marco Rubio, Mike Walz as national security advisor, John Ratcliffe as CIA director, neocons, Israel shills in key national security jobs.

I was shocked by it.