United States Intelligence Community

But they keep bringing me back to the same question.

Who's watching the watchers? And who's watching the people that are exercising all this power that we keep handing over to these people? We've got Catherine Herridge investigating the intelligence community.

handling of information during the 2020 election.

We've got congressional records showing how much information the Arctic Frost investigation collected about Republican donors and supporters.

The sender was a strategic intelligence analyst whose signature identified work on China as well as North Korea.

and was involved in those assessments.

The email originated on the National Security Agency side of the intelligence community, not from an identified CIA official.

And that matters because the broader whistleblower allegations involve multiple agencies.

How likely do you think more strikes are, and how much does it depend on that midterms result for the Republicans?

I've actually listed this on my YouTube channel, and I've written about it on Substack, where I use this tool called ICD-203, Intelligence Community Director 203, to figure out likelihood.

And I would say this is a roughly even chance.

And that might sound like I'm doing a cop-out, because a roughly even chance sounds like a coin flip, right? Either we're going to do it or we're not going to do it.

Insiders familiar with the Ripper tell me speed will be accompanied by deep access with the DOW.

The team will have experts on speed dial from areas rarely exposed to research or reform, like the Intelligence Community or the Defense Innovation Unit.

Of course, Palmer and Elon aren't policy nerds or Pentagon experts.

They're founders.

If you can show up, this is an event you do not want to miss.

Well, after appearing on multiple podcasts regarding his congressional hearing, his time at the dig, and his concern regarding the intelligence community, Jim Erdman, my good friend, co-founder of Feds for Freedom and former CIA operations officer, joins me here in the studio today.

Jim, thank you so much for coming on with us.

It's been fairly busy from the time we last spoke to now.

freedom of speech, a lack of censorship.

And for me, it sort of put a period at the end of the sentence.

And that sentence is, our news media is controlled potentially by the government, potentially by the intelligence community, potentially by other actors.

Yeah, I thought it was really interesting hearing from other people in the IC community be really impressed and honestly shocked by the hearing because they understood the weight and significance of the testimony that you were actually a whistleblower for the CIA, which is very rare.

He's a retired federal senior executive and U.S. Air Force veteran.

Worked in the intelligence community, the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy and State.

It's got a new book coming out.

We'll tell you about it as well.

way.

Ed, when is that book out, please tell me?

Well, it's going to be now another 90 to 120 days because the Intelligence Community's publication review has told me that usually it's supposed to be about 45 days.

But there's things in this book that people are going to want to pay attention to that are going to cause the intelligence community and others some significant consternation.

This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence brief titled US Intelligence on Chinese Nationalist Forces in Burma, August 18th, 1951.

The document is notable because it records the agency's assessment of the movements of nationalist troops after their defeat in China and the resulting security concerns for the United Kingdom's ally, Burma.

The brief was released through a Freedom of Information Act request filed under case number unknown, and it was declassified and approved for public release on October 22nd, 2003, by the CIA's Office of Information Management.

Uh, but apparently there were, there was at least one night when there was no intelligence sharing.

And US intelligence sharing has still been very important, uh, to enable the Ukrainians to hit the, the different Russian targets or to know when the Russian missiles are coming in.

And of course, um, Elon Musk himself claimed, uh, that it had nothing to do with him.

It was the US Pentagon and the White House, uh, that cut this off.