Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Joint Chiefs of Staff is a body of senior uniformed military leaders within the U.S. Department of Defense that advises the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council on military matters. It has no operational command authority over combat forces but provides strategic planning, advice, and coordination for the U.S. armed forces.www.jcs.mil
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Oct 27, 2026
RothschildGUEST
And really what we're talking about here is perhaps one of the most decorated officers within the Israeli military.
RothschildGUEST
who made these claims in 2020 and to give the audience an understanding, this would be in a similar way to perhaps a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff making a claim about extraterrestrial intelligence within the United States, except this happened in Israel.
RothschildGUEST
And in 2011, Haim Eshed retired from government space leadership and really he then became a professor, a lecturer, a consultant, and a participant in discussions regarding future technologies.
RothschildGUEST
His interest expanded beyond traditional aerospace engineering into questions about artificial intelligence, space exploration, the future of humanity, and the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was truly a don't-ask-don't-tell facility in a different sense of the word.
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All the upper levels of management, straight through to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were not really sure how this site was budgeted or paid for.
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No one had the privilege of knowing, and that meant no one.
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Not even Congress had any idea of what went on here, and even the top-level cleared committees only knew the name, and that it turned out some powerful systems.
Dave DeCampHOST
Israel was going to do it on its own, but that the U.S. said, no, wait until we can do it together.
Dave DeCampHOST
And this also said that one reason why the U.S. didn't give the green light was because Zamir, Eyal Zamir, the IDF chief of staff, told Dan Cain, the U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that an attack on Iran could hurt the Israeli election.
Dave DeCampHOST
So some more reporting about this kind of discord between Netanyahu and the IDF chief of staff.
Dave DeCampHOST
Now, it's Monday night.
Robert ByrdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the language that I insisted be included in this resolution, because that's the language the president used.
Robert ByrdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's the language that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff used.
Robert ByrdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's the language that the Secretary of Defense used.
Robert ByrdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's the language that the parties to the agreement used.
Alex LiaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
For the military, that's a huge insult.
Alex LiaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's like the governor of Maryland going in and arresting someone on the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Alex LiaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Notice, in the past year, Xi has not inspected a single military unit.
Alex LiaoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Not one.
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Having worked his way up from the enlisted ranks to full colonel, he served our country for more than 32 years.
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He has served as a bomber squadron commander, bomb disposal technician, Joint Chiefs of Staff Operations Officer, assisted the national security team with the campaign plan for the global war on terrorism.
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He authored the first theater nuclear war plan and served as the vice commander of America's largest airborne intelligence wing.
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Colonel Rob Maness is a true American hero.
Sean David MortonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was a research facility that just kept giving, and no one had to provide oversight.
Sean David MortonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All the upper levels of management, straight through to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were not really sure how this site was budgeted or paid for.
Sean David MortonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No one had the privilege of knowing, and that meant no one.
Sean David MortonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Not even Congress had any idea of what went on here, and even the top-level cleared committees only knew the name and that it turned out some powerful systems.
Mark MedishGUEST
Well, he also
Sidney BlumenthalHOST
Mark also asked his secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Sidney BlumenthalHOST
Can't you shoot them in the legs?
Mark MedishGUEST
Yes, that's what we've heard.
Mark MedishGUEST
And the very fact that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs was dressed in military fatigues at the time, which is kind of a no-no when you go to the White House, that suggests that it was actually a military operation on that day.
Mark MedishGUEST
So that was, to use your earlier, that was a trial run also, I think.
Mark MedishGUEST
They're experimenting, they're probing with possible uses of powers.
Danny SheehanHOST
It has not been revealed to most of the secretaries of defense of the United States.
Danny SheehanHOST
The directors of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been lied to by these people, and this entire program has been concealed.
Danny SheehanHOST
This is unconstitutional.
Danny SheehanHOST
This is a violation of Article 1 of the Constitution of our United States that has created our United States Congress as the governing agency of our country.
Larry ArnnGUEST
And also because of that, he was a member of the Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff.
Larry ArnnGUEST
It was called Committee, which is rather like our Joint Chiefs.
Larry ArnnGUEST
And so he was in all three places to command the war.
Larry ArnnGUEST
And that had not been...
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