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This is the one issue I have with term limits. It shifts power to the faceless, unelected operatives in the shadow government of the Deep State. They don't care who gets elected, they just hop around from position to position continuing to push the agenda from the cover of obscurity.

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This!

Your elected officials don't write the bills, they dont process things, they are faces.
Theb"work is done by the staffers who are unknown and just stay in their role no matter who sits in the chair.

CIA whistleblower claims the agency “took back 40 boxes of JFK and MK-Ultra files” that Tulsi Gabbard was reviewing for declassification.

The whistleblower also alleges the CIA “illegally monitored the computer and phone usage” of Gabbard’s investigators during the probe into… pic.twitter.com/AIRfS2utQE

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) May 13, 2026

BREAKING: CIA statement to @FoxNews on the active CIA employee testifying in the Senate Homeland Security Committee this AM on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic & a possible government coverup.

“The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 13, 2026

Fox’s Bill Melugin just exposed the stunning no-show by Senate Democrats at the CIA whistleblower hearing on Covid.

Not a SINGLE Democrat was in the room — even though several sit on the Homeland Security Committee.

MELUGIN: “There are no Senate Democrats inside of that hearing… pic.twitter.com/dERE0QpHWY

— Overton (@overton_news) May 13, 2026

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BREAKING: CIA statement to @FoxNews on the active CIA employee testifying in the Senate Homeland Security Committee this AM on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic & a possible government coverup.

“The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 13, 2026

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Please fire Liz Lyons, CIA Director of Public Affairs

"… and efforts to undermine that conclusion are disingenuous." Liz Lyons, CIA Director of Public Affairs"

I haven't watched the hearings, but is anyone trying to undermine the lab leak conclusion? This statement seems like misdirection to shift focus off the real questions of our government's culpability through Fauci and the NIH and the response to Covid. I'm not falling for it.

Ratcliffe is an utter failure, imho.

Leaving everything else aside, how is this even a real post in May 2026 under a President Trump administration? These people sound as rogue as ever, which was already obvious when they tried to dismiss the Russiagate hoax as mere “tradecraft errors,” forcing Tulsi Gabbard to step… pic.twitter.com/4jS7miz4Xb

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 13, 2026

Way more than I can post here, but the CIA should rightfully be utterly gutted organizationally by sun down, imho.

CFPB, Pocahontas' unconstitutional leftist slush fund (which they set up under obama to be out of reach of the executive somehow) is getting unapologetically dismantled.

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Democrats used a procedural tool called the Congressional Review Act to force more than a dozen resolutions targeting Trump's rollback of the CFPB, covering everything from overdraft fees and medical debt to military lending protections. The real goal wasn't legislation it was to put vulnerable Republican senators on the record ahead of the 2026 midterms and use the votes in campaign ads.

The votes targeted changes made at the CFPB since Trump returned to office and put Budget Director Russell Vought in charge. Since February 2025, Vought has rolled back 67 policies and scaled back the bureau's operations, part of a broader effort to rein in an agency the administration says spent years operating without meaningful limits.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who pushed for the CFPB's creation while teaching at Harvard Law School and has been its loudest defender in Congress ever since, led the Democratic charge on the Senate floor.

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"The Trump Administration is hell-bent on destroying the agency," Warren said, adding that the administration had "abandoned consumers and is making life more expensive for them."

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She left out an inconvenient number. Democrats like to cite the CFPB's own figure of $19.7 billion returned to consumers through enforcement actions and settlements since the bureau's founding. According to a February estimate from the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the CFPB has cost consumers and lenders between $237 billion and $369 billion since its creation, largely by driving up borrowing costs through aggressive regulation. For every dollar the bureau clawed back in settlements, it may have taken ten from ordinary Americans in higher loan rates and fees.

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More at the link. It remains a proud showcase of leftist policy impacts, and largely 'returned to consumers' was confiscated money sent to leftist groups that fund Democrats.

Carmen Lineberger is a 62-year-old former federal prosecutor from Port St. Lucie, Florida, who was indicted today on serious federal charges.

Who she is: She worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida and managed its Fort Pierce branch. PBS

What she's charged with: She was indicted on two counts of theft of government property (valued under $1,000), destruction/alteration/falsification of records in federal investigations, and concealment or removal of public records. Department of Justice

What she allegedly did: She is accused of emailing herself the most sought-after, confidential Justice Department records from Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation of President Trump specifically Volume II of Smith's final report, which detailed findings about Trump and two co-defendants mishandling national security documents. CNN

The "cake recipe" scheme: Prosecutors allege she sought to conceal her actions by altering file names renaming the report "Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf" before emailing it to her personal account. In a separate earlier instance, she sent other confidential DOJ materials disguised as a "chocolate_cake_recipe.pdf." Yahoo!

The court order angle: One charge relates to her allegedly flouting a court order from Judge Aileen Cannon, who had ruled the report should remain sealed, siding with Trump's attorneys who argued its publication would be unfairly prejudicial after the case was dropped following Trump's 2024 election victory. Newsweek

Her plea and potential sentence: She appeared in court for her arraignment in West Palm Beach. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years for the records falsification charge, up to 3 years for the concealment charge, and up to 1 year on each theft count. The case is being jointly investigated by the FBI and the DOJ Inspector General.

Why she did it remains unclear the indictment does not explain why Lineberger allegedly sent the material to her personal email or whether she intended to share it publicly.

Another banger from data republican.

Part 2 is up.

The democracy ecosystem claims $33 billion a year and employs hundreds of thousands of people. There is no puppet master. They converge through constant conventions.... meeting, aligning on priorities, and deploying.

Now imagine MAGA with $33 billion and 200,000… https://t.co/MZoLLjZN2o pic.twitter.com/LyklEf0uKs

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 20, 2026

Scum bags.

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In September 2022, Rachel Kleinfeld, a Carnegie Endowment senior fellow, published "Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy"through the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

What Kleinfeld proposed were five strategies drawn from international democracy-support research: the kind of work Carnegie, the National Endowment for Democracy, and Freedom House had been doing in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East for decades. The paper read like a field manual for
treating the United States as a backsliding democracy in need of outside intervention… except the interveners were domestic NGOs, and the target population was the American right.

Here's what makes the paper more than scholarship. At the time of publication, Kleinfeld held governance positions at organizations executing four of the five strategies she prescribed. This was not hidden it was read aloud as her introductionat the 2023 Bridging Movement Alignment Council gathering:

"Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment's democracy conflict and governance program... She is also a trustee of the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, States United for Democracy, and on the Advisory Board to Protect Democracy, and a senior adviser to the Democracy Funders Network and a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises."

She wrote the instruction manual, then handed it to the people who write the checks. The Democracy Funders Network where she serves as Senior Advisor is the switchboard for democracy philanthropy.

It describes itself as a "cross-ideological learning and action community for donors" concerned about American democracy. Its executive director describes DFN's role as having "helped incubate critical field-wide infrastructure." DFN also built the U.S. Democracy Hub. DFN hosted Kleinfeld's paper on its resources pageas a sector-wide strategic blueprint the month it was published. Within twelve months, IMIP adopted Strategy #4 as its founding mission.

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Some weird formatting, sorry.

Going after Roy Singham would make my month.

Wait until you hear about his personal friend David Alder of Progressive International and The Hague Group

Hint hint https://t.co/Bx00XLYT1Q

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 26, 2026

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The CIA, as with the FBI, should be legislatively abolished and replaced imho.

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Abolished? No.

Spycraft is a dicey type of occupation. May sound dumb now but the regular intro to the TV series, Mission Impossible. "Your mission, IF YOU DECIDE TO ACCEPT IT, is....."

I interviewed with the CIA when I was in law school. BUT they wanted me in DC. Money was not great. Cost of living was not better. To be clear, I was not recruited as a field agent, legal analyst.

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There was a time, not too far in the past, that getting that type of security clearance/job would not have been easy to pull off with basic fake credentials.

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The was never really true even in the time of the Dulles brothers. The CIA has always made room for dirty people if they have a willingness to do dirty things on orders and to keep quiet about it. Ironically, in the Clinton administration the Executive Director of the CIA was Nora Slatkin who set upon a crusade to not use any foreign government officials as assets if they were part of a regime that had blood on its hands. He clean hands purity policy resulted in burning many irreplaceable assets overseas while retaining (and promoting) all the bad actors.

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JUST IN: FBI arrests senior CIA official after uncovering over $40 million in gold bars & $2 million in cash at his Virginia home.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) May 27, 2026

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Many folks here on TA complain about the lack of action by our DOJ, and yes we need prosecutions, but unless they were on the take and getting a cut, every single American whether a D or R should be damn proud of the hustle we are seeing out of Kash Patel's FBI and all of our fraud investigations (by multiple departments).

They are flat out kicking ass and taking names, EVERY day.

In a perfect world, the thugs would continue to be culled from the swamp payroll, we have another Republican president in'28 and Kash remains at his post to continue halting the unbelievable amount of theft of our tax dollars and catching the criminals among us.

This is a bit of a derail I guess, so I apologize, but leftist scum Paul Krugman calls for a purge of MAGA from the US, akin to de-nazification.

Some themes of history never go away.

Leftists calling for the genocide of people they don't like being at the top of the list. https://t.co/a5Sxowx2pF

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) June 1, 2026

Personally, I think it's funny how insane/desperate these commies are at this point. Trump has utterly broken their minds.

Did he turn a NY Times career into living in a slum? Look at his surroundings

He looks and sounds like he should be looking for a comfortable nursing home, imho.

Aside, Ben Rhodes, swamp cretin of the Obama years, admits they didn't give a crap about Ukraine. Duh. But then of course claims that was a mistake (he's never actually been right about a single damn thing I can recall).

Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes, in a new interview, confirms the US was prepared to go to war for the Baltic states in 2014, but not for Ukraine.

"We were worried they were going to do a little green men play in the Baltic states. We would have sent troops. That was the message… pic.twitter.com/0xQ8uqLHYy

— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 2, 2026

Obama was feckless and weak as all global leaders knew. Heck, he's the one who managed a global apology tour for being American. Rhodes couldn't even get an interim security clearance, and then engineered the pallets of cash to the IRGC deal that put us in the situation we are in today. His weeping on the steps outside at night after GCF lost in 2016 is still one of my favorite political images.

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This is a bit of a derail I guess, so I apologize, but leftist scum Paul Krugman calls for a purge of MAGA from the US, akin to de-nazification.

Some themes of history never go away.

Leftists calling for the genocide of people they don't like being at the top of the list. https://t.co/a5Sxowx2pF

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) June 1, 2026

Personally, I think it's funny how insane/desperate these commies are at this point. Trump has utterly broken their minds.

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I would agree to that if we could also have de-commification as well. Unfortunately the institutes that would provide such a services are all run by said leftist lunatics so I have zero reason to trust them.

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This is a bit of a derail I guess, so I apologize, but leftist scum Paul Krugman calls for a purge of MAGA from the US, akin to de-nazification.

Some themes of history never go away.

Leftists calling for the genocide of people they don't like being at the top of the list. https://t.co/a5Sxowx2pF

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) June 1, 2026

Personally, I think it's funny how insane/desperate these commies are at this point. Trump has utterly broken their minds.

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I wonder how much of the TDS comes from him turning off their NGO $$$ spigot.

Something about when they tell you who they are...

A lot. Look at this hearing about medicaid/medicare fraud in Ohio, which reduced a Dem-Commie state senator testifying to tears. They are literally overly-emotional just to publicly hear about the horrible fraud/crime they have imported into our country.

🚨 WOW. Rep. Brandon Gill throws Ohio Democrat State Senator into TEARS by asking: "Has Somali immigration been good for Ohio?"

"I'm processing your question and I was almost brought to tears just now!"

GILL: "72% of Somali immigrants are on welfare."

DEM: "The rate and level… pic.twitter.com/rvA7hWjj23

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 3, 2026

100% of the Medicaid fraud companies @LukeRosiak investigated had Somali, Bhutanese, or other African origin names.

Not some. Not most. 100%. pic.twitter.com/y2srYxG8XX

— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) June 3, 2026

New Executive Order

Directs executive branch agencies to expand and implement Schedule Policy/Career, an excepted-service personnel category for career federal employees in policy-influencing positions.

Transfers designated positions into Schedule Policy/Career, making employees in those roles subject to streamlined removal procedures for poor performance or misconduct while retaining merit-based hiring requirements.

Amends civil service regulations, requires agencies to identify additional policy-influencing positions for potential transfer, and establishes new performance award mechanisms to incentivize high-performing employees.

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CIA whistleblower claims the agency “took back 40 boxes of JFK and MK-Ultra files” that Tulsi Gabbard was reviewing for declassification.

The whistleblower also alleges the CIA “illegally monitored the computer and phone usage” of Gabbard’s investigators during the probe into… pic.twitter.com/AIRfS2utQE

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) May 13, 2026

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If this is true, Gabbard is either weak or compromised. Maybe Pulte was chosen because he is a boy scout? Would make sense.

Erdman is a fascinating whistleblower. Thread lead me down a rabbit hole and sure enough to a substack discussing Metabiota, Peter Baric, Ecohealth, the CCP, Ukraine, Lugar Center, UNC etc. All the usual suspects.

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2015 August, the official publishing house of the PLA AMMS published a book titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Artificial Viruses as Genetic Weapons. The book's primary thesis is that SARS-CoV-1 did not emerge naturally through a process of zoonotic spillover, but rather was a genetic weapon, that is, a chimeric virus artificially engineered to infect humans.

The book described experimental techniques that a virologist could use to create chimeric viruses like SARS-CoV-1:
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2015-Barics lab began work with Gilead on Remdesivir
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2016-World Health Assembly , the W.H.O. set up the R&D Blueprint and announced a priority list of pathogens that most threaten global health and for which no vaccines or drugs were in the pipeline. SARS made the list, as did MERS, Nipah, Ebola and other rare but serious diseases caused by epidemic viruses.
2016: The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity states that "very few government-funded gain-of-function experiments [pose] a significant threat to public health."
2016-Daszak, a regular advisor to WHO on pathogen prioritization for R&D, Carroll and Joana Mazet former global director for USAID's PREDICT all joined together in 2016 to form the Global Virome Project; a "10-year collaborative scientific initiative to discover unknown zoonotic viral threats and stop future pandemics".

Mazet was also co-director of UC Davis' One Health program, which recruited Dr. Wacharapluesadee and her team in Thailand to conduct a multi-year research project on bats.

They are joined by Edward Rubin of Metabiota Inc, a recipient of Callahan's PROPHECY funds at DARPA and, notably, an $18.4 million DTRA contract award for scientific research and consulting work in Ukraine and the Lugar Center in the Republic of Georgia.

Metabiota was accused by the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium in 2014 of violating their contract and engaging in dangerous blood culturing work at a lab in Africa, as well as misdiagnosing patients.

EcoHealth's Executive Vice President, William Karesh, links directly back to the very top of the U.S. biodefense establishment, as a member of ASPR Robert Kadlec's original Blue Ribbon Panel on Biodefense along with Hudson Institute senior fellows Tevi Troy, Jonah Alexander and Scooter Libby

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Besides Event 201 we had a whole bunch of Excercises. Cygmus (UK-2016) , MARS (Munich-2017), SPARS (2017), Clade X (2018), Crimson Contagion (1st half-2019). Lots of interesting stuff going on in preparation (2016-2019)https://t.co/rP4LA0KfZA

— Pete Lincoln (@petelincoln48) May 14, 2026

Intelligence community finger prints all over the sequence of events. More at the link/threads.

Trump wants Pulte to push through mass-firings in the intelligence community? I voted for this!

"Don't fire me or I'll betray the country to make my car payment" is an excellent reason for why they shouldn't be allowed within 100 miles of government

— Allan (@AllanRicharz) June 5, 2026

Exactly.
A den of liars and thieves anyway, imho:
Edit: Michael Caputo post had profanity. Sorry.

DailyMail piece on the pending IC purge:

I said it in another post, but you could reduce the entire intelligence community by 50% and I guarantee you the quality of intelligence would go up. I should know I served in the community 43 years. There are people who are literally camping there for a good government paycheck…

— Myers Alva (@tizintest) June 5, 2026

It's the time to kick the woke pukes out of the IC.

Drain the swamp, please and thank you. Leftists have been screwing us on every front for decades. Raising our taxes since can embezzle and steal more through fraud and NGOs. The ones who are too stupid to steal just get bureaucratic jobs doing nothing but collecting a paycheck.

This is why they hate Trump!