Former CIA Operative Bryan Dean Wright on Intelligence Community Corruption

Dealing with Putin and International Relations

• 💬 Putin is a trained liar, similar to CIA operatives, so actions, not words, are the focus when negotiating.
• ✈️ A B2 bomber flyover during a meeting with Putin was seen as a strategic flex by the White House to demonstrate strength and signal to Moscow.
• ✉️ While Melania Trump's letter about children's welfare might be a value important to the US, it's unlikely to move Putin personally; he responds to demonstrated priorities and red lines.
• 🌍 The global play involves Putin and Xi Jinping trying to reorder the world, with the war in Ukraine serving to keep American focus away from the Pacific.
• 🤝 Leveraging secondary tariffs and cutting oil sales to India are potential ways to apply pressure and gain leverage with Putin.

Revoking Security Clearances and Deep State Cleanup

• ✅ Tulsi Gabbard's action of revoking security clearances for 37 intel officials is praised as a necessary cleanup of partisan actors within the intelligence community.
• 🎯 Individuals involved in creating the assessment of Trump's collusion with Putin, handpicked by Brennan and chosen by Obama, are identified as partisans who should not have had clearances.
• 📉 Stripping security clearances has significant impacts, including loss of employment for current government employees and contractors, and hindering their ability to sit on boards of defense companies.
• 💼 For defense contractors like Boeing or Lockheed, individuals with revoked clearances become dead weight and a potential liability.

Accusations Against Brennan and Clapper

• 🏛️ John Brennan is accused of engaging in a seditious conspiracy by using his CIA position to attack Trump and undermine the voters' choice.
• 📄 Declassified intel suggests the Trump-Russia collusion investigation lacked a predicate and was a Clinton smear campaign, with Brennan allegedly including unverified information from the Steele dossier.
• 📧 An email from NSA Director Mike Rogers to James Clapper expressed concerns about the lack of intel supporting the Trump-Russia collusion assessment, but Clapper allegedly dismissed these concerns and pushed forward.
• 🤝 Clapper, Comey, and Brennan are seen as part of a cabal working at the behest of Barack Obama to destroy President Trump.

Weaponization of the Intelligence Community

• ⚠️ The intelligence community has demonstrably engaged in weaponization to destroy politicians, citing examples from the Iraq WMD assessment to the Trump-Russia probe.
• 🗣️ Senator Chuck Schumer's quote about the intel community having "six ways of Sunday to get back at you" highlights the potential for abuse of power.
• ☀️ Declassification efforts by figures like John Ratcliffe and ODNI Gabbard are seen as crucial for bringing transparency and accountability.
• 🤥 Claims that the CIA under Democratic leadership was solely about facts and data are labeled as propaganda, with the reality being a history of leadership engaging in partisan agendas.

Shift in Agency Culture and Rank-and-File Issues

• 📉 The shift towards political engagement by the rank-and-file began in the Obama era, with instances of officers being targeted for their political beliefs.
• 🏳️‍🌈 Modern recruitment efforts, particularly under the Biden administration, are criticized for prioritizing