William J. Burns

And so we knew that they didn't want to be a part of NATO.

We knew that it would likely trigger a war, as this former CIA director, William Burns, had warned.

But we did it anyway.

So we can't say that this has anything to do about preserving democracy.

And, uh, but still the journalists all the way till yesterday, actually came another article about me where they said that all my claims had been disproven.

And the claims that was allegedly disproven are so ridiculous.

They even said that, you know, I cited William Burns, the former CIA director, arguing that, you know, in his memo, net means net, that if you try to pull Ukraine into orbit, the Russians would likely intervene militarily, even if they don't want so.

I was fact-checked that, no, he never said that.

So deterring an adversary, reassuring an ally, getting ahead of a false flag narrative, these each need different amounts of information.

So in the Ukraine example, CIA Director William Burns went to Moscow in 2021 to tell the Kremlin privately.

That Washington knew the plan, right? It wasn't splashed across the newspapers.

It wasn't an official statement.

Anyhow, he was called in by Lavrov.

Bill Burns is his name.

He later became head of the CIA.

So Lavrov says, look, you keep wanting to get Ukraine into NATO.

And, of course, there are all kinds of cameras and all kinds of...

As long as the IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, was there.

Matter of fact, Bill Burns, who I mentioned before, head of the CIA until the new administration came in, just two weeks before he went out of office, he said, look...

You asked how close Iran is to getting a nuclear weapon.

Though she was new to hostage advocacy, as a businesswoman and philanthropist, Naftali is no stranger to taking charge.

She writes that the mass kidnapping of young children by terrorists was something few people in government, including, as it turned out, senior officials like National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and CIA Director William Burns, had ever dealt with before.

Special Presidential Envoy Roger Carstens, who had handled hostage cases for the U.S. State Department since 2020, admitted the situation was unlike anything he had encountered before.

Carstens, she writes, was hardly sanguine about the challenges of bringing Abigail home.

So they sent sort of emergency missions.

You know, they sent Bill Burns, who was a senior figure, in the Biden administration, the director of the CIA to Moscow, they tried to talk the Russians off the path they were on.

They tried to publicize it and create a kind of world backlash.

But I think in retrospect, Putin had been on this course for quite some time.

Absolutely.

Well, first of all, I'm reminded of what Bill Burns said while he was head of CIA on Putin's health.

Like, unfortunately, he's healthier than we hoped, or he's all too healthy for our liking or something like that.

So I don't think he has necessarily any health concerns.

So deterring an adversary, reassuring an ally, getting ahead of a false flag narrative, these each need different amounts of information.

So in the Ukraine example, CIA Director William Burns went to Moscow in 2021 to tell the Kremlin privately.

That Washington knew the plan, right? It wasn't splashed across the newspapers.

It wasn't an official statement.