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March 20, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson

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🚨 JFK Assassination Files DEEP DIVE: CIA Cover-Up, Weather Control, Bioweapons, Israeli Nukes!?

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jesse watters ▲ ● ▼		Last night, the administration released thousands of unredacted documents related to JFK's assassination.
		Most of these files have been in the public record for years, but they've reignited theories about what our government's role was.
		The theory is that Oswald didn't defect to the Soviet Union.
		He was sent there as a CIA cutout.
		Because what kind of defector returns from the Soviet Union after three years during the height of the Cold War and just waltzes right through customs with a Russian wife?
		Some investigators believe Oswald was being groomed by the military-industrial complex and eventually set up as a patsy, an assassin who was sheep-dipped into Soviet and Cuban communist activities so that when Kennedy was assassinated, the country had no choice but to invade Cuba and maybe launch a preemptive nuclear strike on Moscow, something the Pentagon and the agency had been itching for.
		Some of these new documents bolster a theory that the CIA created a paper trail.
		At both the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City at the time of Oswald's visit.
		Eisenhower, before he left office, warned the country of this growing threat from the deep state.
unidentified		In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
jesse watters ▲ ● ▼		When Kennedy took office, CIA Director Alan Dulles set in motion the Bay of Pigs invasion.
		A haphazard and poorly executed attempt to overthrow Castro, and he expected Kennedy to send in the military to finish the job when the operation failed.
		Kennedy didn't.
		He fired Dulles and created an enemy.
		Another one of these new files released in the document dump was a memo by Kennedy aide Arthur Schlesinger bashing the CIA after the failed Cuban coup.
		Schlesinger warned about the CIA's reach overseas and how it was encroaching on the State Department's role in foreign affairs.
		His memo urged Kennedy to examine the CIA reorganization and caution that the agency possesses many of the characteristics of a state within a state.
unidentified		My fellow Americans, it is time to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.
		All right, first you flick this switch, then this switch.
		That activates it.
		Then you push this button.
		Now, whatever you do, don't...
		Push this button.
		Now!
		No!
		Then how's that even possible?
		Which button is the button you're supposed to push?
		point to it.
		No!
		Hey, you're making him nervous.
		Shut up and give me some tape.
		Does anybody have any tape out there?
		I want to put some tape...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I don't know why more people aren't having fun with this moment.
		It's an incredible moment.
		If you don't appreciate it, then you're missing out.
		So lock in and let's get ready to go.
		One more deep dive into the deep state with our friend Mike Benz, who's going to be on the program today.
		Breaking it all down for us.
		This is going to be a wild day because we may see the end of one deep state, Oregon, the Department of Education today as well.
		Apparently, Trump's going to end the Department of Education.
		We'll see.
		We'll see what happens, ladies and gentlemen.
		More bombshell findings emerge from the JFK files.
		We're going to break them all down today on The Benny Show.
		We are not scared of what we find here, ladies and gentlemen.
		Nothing to fear but fear itself, right?
		Like, this is the mantra.
		You must be able to embrace reality.
		And the only way you're going to be able to fight evil is if you can stare it directly in the face.
		We're going to do a lot of that with people that we respect on this program.
		And more importantly, there's this pesky little nagging...
		Rat-like gnawing that's going on inside of the greater overall free speech movement that says, shut up!
		Don't talk about these things, right?
		Because they don't like the conclusions.
		Because they don't like what's being revealed.
		They don't like people asking questions.
		And I want to make this very clear.
		F you.
		Try very hard to, like, calm down.
		F you.
		Like, I'm...
		That's the point, actually, of what we do.
		It makes me so upset.
		When we get this, and we've gotten this a lot, actually.
		Cancel culture has moved to the right.
		And as President Trump is revealing in blistering, napalming, salting the earth speed, the operations of some of the darker days in American history, and in so exposing it, creating assassination insurance against himself.
		Because all President Trump is trying to do here is say, here's how it was done in the past.
		Watch out!
		That's what we've done a lot on this show.
		The parallels are chilling.
		And we're going to get more into it today.
		You're going to see that the old handbook is the new handbook.
		There's nothing really new.
		All that's old is new again.
		And they're just kind of recycling the same things as they take shots, literally and metaphorically, at President Trump.
unidentified		But the pretext to truth?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Is being able to ask the correct questions.
		And those who still, after everything that we have been through, but let's just rewind the clock back like four years, okay?
		Those who went through COVID and who swallowed hook, line, and sinker every lie from our federal government and used their platforms to push those lies on all of us, you shouldn't trust those people.
		And responsible dose of skepticism that is still grounded in reality.
		Everything we're going to talk about today, I'm going to show you documents.
		Every single thing we're going to chat about, we're going to show you the hard document.
		You can look it up yourself.
		We'll give you the links to the archive.
		You can go there yourself.
		But I'm, man, I got a bee in my bonnet today over the greater ecosystem.
		Saying, don't talk about them!
		Don't talk about the JFK files!
		They're going to do the same thing with Epstein.
		Trust me.
		They're going to do the exact same thing.
		We're going to get stuff on Epstein.
		I have this from the highest possible source.
		I cannot tell you.
		I was just at the DOJ.
		Alright?
		So put the pieces together.
		I'll just sit in the front row of the DOJ.
		You can go see the photos.
		Alright?
		We try as hard as we possibly can to give you everything that we can.
		I have it from the highest possible sources.
		We are going to get...
		A mountain of new Epstein evidence.
		You can hold me to it.
		We're live right now.
		You can clip this and put it up.
		And I'll be embarrassed on the internet if it doesn't turn out to be true.
		We are going to get new information, just like we've got new information on JFK.
		And all that you must do to be a responsible person in search of truth, especially in this profession, which is our responsibility, it's our obligation, in fact.
		Because skepticism can never be wrong.
		Is to ask questions.
		It's important to just ask questions.
		I don't get this whole like cancel culture of the right.
		The woke right, they call it.
		Don't ask questions!
		You might not like the answer to it.
		If you don't like the answer, then don't ask the question.
		What the hell is that about?
		What are we?
		We're just like leftism has just moved rightward.
		Has the same tactics.
		It sickens me in my soul.
		And so I disavow those tactics.
		I've said on this program many, many times that if a Republican were in the Epstein list, right?
		If there was a Republican there, then I'd be the first person to fund the lawyers putting that Republican in prison, right?
		You can be intellectually consistent and honest about these kind of things.
		And so I don't really give a damn in these big issues, especially with these big issues that have real importance to us and to the fabric of our nation and who actually runs this place.
		That's why JFK matters, some commentators.
		JFK doesn't matter.
		No, it doesn't.
		We live in a fake country, actually.
		Since the assassination of JFK was allowed, which is what my conclusion is.
		I can't wait to talk with Benz about this.
		But my conclusion is the JFK assassination was allowed to happen.
		They created the circumstances for it to happen.
		They let it happen.
		And by they, I mean organs inside of our federal government.
		They allowed it to happen.
		And that's something that clearly parallels with the President Trump assassinations as well.
	It parallels with other assassinations that are very, very strange, like the RFK.
	And the MLK assassination.
	It was allowed to happen.
	And there are people who benefit from it.
	And you have to be able to ask those questions.
	You have to be able to see the country for what it is.
	And if you see your country as a country that is like darkness versus light, a country that was founded on light, but that has been, you know, succumbs to darkness, as all nations do, sadly, because we live in a fallen world.
	You can fight back, but you have to actually know the play.
	You have to know the state.
	You have to be able to see reality.
	You have to be able to look directly down at darkness and ask questions about the nation that we live in.
	Has every single president since JFK's assassination been just a factotum, a pawn, a tool for this permanent bureaucracy?
	Have they been rubbing it in our faces?
	Is Donald Trump perhaps the first president in the last 60 years who has broken that model shattered the wheel?
	Is that why you're seeing the demon screams against Trump?
	The way that they're doing it, man, is unbelievable.
	Well, you see the information I show you on injunctions here, on national injunctions.
	You just gotta blow your mind.
	And the way that, like...
	College-educated white women vote.
	Oh, man.
	ALX, we better have those clips lined up.
	If we don't, make sure we grab them.
	So I just wanted to begin the show by saying this is why we cover these things.
	I think it's really important.
	I think it's actually the most important question.
	Do we have a government above our government that has the power of literally life and death over our elected leaders?
	If you can't ask that question, you're not a man.
	You're not an honest broker.
	You're not seeing reality.
	And that's reality.
	Right there.
	That's reality.
	That's our country.
	We did that.
	That's seven swing states.
	That's the popular vote.
	First time Republicans won that in my lifetime.
	That's President Trump winning every single demographic by 10 or 20 points more than he won it last time.
	And ladies and gentlemen, what's going to happen and what's happening right now in the judiciary is that that country that you live in, that we live in, that system is being overridden.
	There is an energy and a force that is saying that it's all fake.
	It doesn't matter what you think, the American voters, and I think.
	I just happen to have kids here in this country.
	I just happen to be raising my family here.
	It doesn't matter.
	We don't like the leader.
	We'll kill him.
	We don't like who you elect lawfully.
	Dude, we'll rig it.
	We'll install somebody else.
	We'll insult you.
	We'll install a hospice patient.
	Somebody who's lobotomized.
	Just to insult you.
	And we'll make them sit at a Fisher Price fake Oval Office desk.
	Just for fun.
unidentified		Like, just to spite you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's the nature of this.
		That's the nature of this.
		Behemoth of which we are currently fighting.
		That behemoth, as we covered yesterday, is godless.
		This is why we fight it.
		The spark of this nation is a nation founded on God, Christian principles, and founded with the deep bedrock understanding that the government isn't God.
		In fact, many times the government acts antithetical to morality.
		Therefore, the government must be limited.
		And this must be a nation of principled and moral people, as John Adams says.
		And the people who exist in our current government, who exist in what is the so-called deep state, or the permanent theory of unified governance.
		Talked about that.
		Happy to get into it, too.
		Along with the...
		Novels of Bill Barr's dad.
		But the point is that those people are godless.
		They actually believe that they themselves are in control of everything.
unidentified		That they are the deities.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh man.
		And we can prove it.
		Remember that video?
		Let's get one video.
		The last one I'll call for.
		This video of like John Kerry at the World Economic Forum saying that he and his friends are extraterrestrials.
		Hey Alex, we got that.
		I know it's a fun one.
		That one's buried.
		But he's saying like, we're extraterrestrials.
		We're actually, like, it's just the perfect distillation of what we're fighting here.
		If you have this mindset, you're willing to kill a president.
		You're willing to murder.
		Because you actually just think the rest of us are sheep.
		Chattel.
		Tax chattel.
		For the slaughter.
		You don't respect us?
		You don't believe that we deserve?
		Dignity or existence is why you flood a nation with third-world criminal aliens.
		It's why you make war constantly, thousands of miles away, to deplete and destroy the treasure of this country.
		And quite frankly, it's why you kill people like Trump or JFK.
		God help us.
		They tried to JFK Trump, didn't they?
		You try and kill people like them because they stand against that.
		JFK didn't want to start the war in Vietnam.
		JFK didn't want Israel to get nukes.
		JFK didn't want to have the Bay of Pigs.
		He didn't want to start World War III.
		So they really are.
		They're sick people and it's worth asking the questions and it's worth taking another moment and a day to get through the nature of this beast because for the first time in my lifetime...
		We've been able to see some very fascinating, very interesting things.
		Man, we're going to cover all of it on today's show.
		Okay, before I show you this John Kerry clip, and before I bring you a solid gold quote from J.D. Vance this morning, we'll have a little fun before we dive deep into the darkness of these files.
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unidentified		I didn't.
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		Okay, so here is the clip that I was talking about.
		I just want to start with John Kerry saying, actually, what we are are extraterrestrials.
		And we are here to save the world.
		Okay, here we go.
john kerry ▲ ● ▼		And when you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we, a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives.
		Are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet.
		I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet.
		And if you said that to most people, most people, they think you're just a crazy, tree-hugging, lefty, liberal, you know, do-gooder, whatever.
		And there's no relationship.
unidentified		But really, that's where we are.
john kerry ▲ ● ▼		We're extraterrestrials.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We're so much better.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Then you slop.
unidentified		Then you cattle.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Speaking of extraterrestrials, you know, Bill Barr's dad wrote a sci-fi novel about an alien planet run by elites who use child sex slavery to control the entire planet.
		You know, you can go and still find that.
		It's called Space Relations.
		Bill Barr's dad did a lot of, you know, yeah, let's just go on Amazon.
		You just go get it.
		Yeah, that's right.
		There you go.
		Space relations!
		Look at that.
		How much is it?
		Oh, 230.
		Oh, must be out of publication.
		I wonder why.
		Really wonder why.
		Yeah, the guy who recruited Jeffrey Epstein writing this book.
		Guy who shoved Jeffrey Epstein and Jelaine Maxwell together, right?
		Matchmaker.
		Make me a match.
		Here you go, ladies and gentlemen.
		This is what these people believe.
		And I think it's worth taking a moment and discussing the world that they're trying to create and what they have done in the past.
		And before we get there, and because I want to establish what's happening right now in the country before we dive further into these documents, which are going to be wildly, wildly interesting today.
		We're going to talk about weather control.
		We're going to talk about the CIA's knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald, the CIA's control completely of the media, their very strange reaction to all of this.
		We're going to talk about Israeli nuclear programs.
		We're going to talk about the redactions from all of this and the curiosities around it and the many forces that wanted Kennedy to die and, of course, all of the warnings that he's going to die.
		It's wild.
		There are always these warnings, right?
		Ryan Ralph wrote constantly about taking out Trump.
		Constantly.
		Ryan Ralph offered $150,000 for somebody to take out Trump.
		Oh, okay.
		But he wasn't.
		FBI comes out and says, yeah, he was on our radar.
		Yeah, he shouldn't have been able to own a gun.
		Yes, we knew about him.
		Yes, we were supposed to raid his house.
		We just didn't.
		Yeah, we just let him crisscross the country and travel back and forth from war zones.
		We just didn't, you know, just wasn't in the cards that day to ask him questions.
		Yeah, Homeland Security knew who he was.
		We just, like, let him in.
		We just let him get a gun.
		We just let him hang out next to Trump.
		We just didn't use heat lamps and UV detection in the hedge line there to see the guy, the sniper, is literally sitting next to Trump.
		200 yards away.
		We just decided to not use drones that day.
		Same thing with Matthew Thomas Crooks.
		And it's getting to a point, and I'm going to be very honest with my conclusions about the JFK, and I'll be very upfront because we've looked at everything that is available right now with the JFK files.
		My conclusions up front is that it's simply creating the conditions.
		It's ignoring the warning signs.
		It's a system failure.
		Now, of course, there are many people that wanted JFK dead.
		Which one of them pulled the trigger?
		I don't know, but the constellation's coming together.
		The mosaic, you can piece it together.
		We're going to do that live with Mike Bent, who's about as smart on these things as anybody can possibly be.
		So, speaking of smarts, ladies and gentlemen, let's go ahead and look at the breaking news.
		Before we get to that, let's look at the breaking news about the Department of Education today, because this is the top-line news.
		ALX.
		When's that press conference?
		When is that?
		What's going on with that?
		Let's go ahead and when is that going to happen?
	President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday at 4 p.m.
	Okay.
	Sometimes it's live during the show.
	You never know.
	They change the schedules all the time, right?
	There's been more than enough times when during the show, Trump just goes live, right?
	And we're like, screw it!
	We're going live in the White House!
	We'll see what happens.
	That's why you just gotta lock in.
	Head on a swivel.
	Golden era.
	You never know.
	Trump to order a plan to shut down Education Department advancing major campaign promise.
	Oh boy.
	Our friend Chris Ruffo getting invited to the White House for this.
	President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to the White House official.
	Advancing a campaign promise to eliminate the agency has long been a target of conservatives.
	The official spoke on the condition of anonymity before the announcement.
	Trump has derided the Department of Education as wasteful, polluted by liberal ideology.
	Of course it is, and we're going to prove that to you in a moment.
	We're going to, like, what if we just shut down all the brainwashing?
	And what if we shut down the contagion point for the most brainwashable people in society?
	The sheep herders, right?
	The sheep in the herd.
	Wouldn't we have a better society if we stopped the contagion points, right?
	If you look at this as a virus that spreads, that's what Trump is doing with the Department of Education here.
	The Department of Education is wasteful.
	A department that was created by Congress in 1979.
	White House fact sheet said that the order would direct Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education to the states where it belongs while continuing to ensure that the effective and uninterrupted delivery services, programs, and benefits to which Americans rely.
	The Trump administration has regularly been How's that going, by the way?
	We have a nation of imbeciles.
	We have kids that can't read, kids that are completely obese and unhealthy, have just absolutely no shot, right?
	When you have type 2 diabetes and you're 7, you have no shot at a good life.
	It sucks.
	When you can't read, when you graduate without the ability to read, your life sucks, okay?
	The department sends billions of dollars a year to schools to oversee $1.6 trillion in federal loans.
	Jeez!
	$1.6 trillion.
	How much of that goes to the teachers' union?
	How much of that goes to actually educating kids or feeding them lunches, right?
	Yeah.
	Probably more than 60% is siphoned off.
	For administrators, right?
	Currently, much of the agency's work revolves around managing money, both this extensive school loan portfolio and a range of aid programs for colleges and school districts.
	From school meals to support homeless students, the agency also plays a significant role in overseeing civil rights enforcement.
	Oh, okay.
	I mean, what, like, somebody explain that to me, please.
	Like, civil rights, you mean, like, the constant and Repeated attacks, savage attacks on conservatives or kids that, like, wear MAGA hats to school.
	It's amazing.
	I haven't seen a single lib who attacks a kid for wearing a MAGA hat.
	And I've done so many reports on this.
	You, like, eyes glaze over at this point because, like, this is such a constant thing that happens.
	Professors, other students, gang up, savage, beat, attack, try and destroy.
	Physically or academically, any kid that dares support Donald Trump or be a part of a Turning Point chapter at a school?
	Yeah, you mean like those civil rights?
	Oh, no, no, no, not those civil rights.
	No.
	Please.
	Those kids can burn.
	Yeah.
	You know, screw all this.
	Defund it all.
	Be done.
	Rubble going to talk about closing the education department for decades, waste of taxpayer money in federal governments to make...
	Liberal school indoctrination centers, and I can prove that, actually.
	So there's the people who are connected to the real world, and then there are the people who are connected to the fake world.
	This is the fake world.
	Fake world is, like, the upside down.
	This, ladies and gentlemen, the polling from MSNBC today.
	Like, Alex, get me the full poll, please.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, no, no, I want, like, the poll that's gone around.
	Gone crazy viral, but here's a good screenshot of it.
	NBC News.
	White men with no degree.
	Opinion of Trump, plus 41. College men, plus 1. White women, no degree, plus 14. Women who've gone, white women who've gone to college, negative 38. This is a sheep indoctrination.
	It's also praise, of course, upon women who must, there it is, thank you, who want, who obviously are very susceptible to in-group biases and biasing and conformity.
	Here's the polling.
	This is crazy, man.
	Yeah, this is crazy.
	We'll play the clip.
	Look at that.
	White, like everybody else in the country, everybody else in the country, Effectively along the same trend line, just like trending upward in the directionality that is at the very least like a delta that comports to like a cone of data, right?
	Which is what you're looking for.
	For healthy data, you're looking for a cone that has a delta where all of the data points align.
	What happens with, that's what's happening with every single group except White college women, which are, of course, the abomination to your data.
	What you would look at from a statistical standpoint as fake or clearly broken data set.
	Something that's like way down here, right?
	When everything else is clustered up here.
	What's that if you're a statistician?
	There it is.
	Also, Voldemort, Zelensky, and DEI.
	Look at that.
	Plus 53. Plus 31. This is the result of programming.
	It is the result of being still locked in to propaganda channels.
	And also, of course, it's the result of being susceptible to societal pressure, wishing to appease consensus elites, which is what this group wants, educated white women.
	This is their highest desire, is to make sure that, like, the person giving the speech at the Oscars, they believe the same thing as that person.
	Like, in fact, if I believe the same thing as somebody who's giving a speech at the Oscars, there's a moral failing.
	I go to my church, I pray, I'm like, please, please let me not be somebody who agrees with the Oscars.
	Unless it's Ricky Gervais.
	If it's Ricky Gervais talking, then yes, alright?
	Other than that, yes, other than that.
	But this group, this particular demographic group, Views it as like, I must agree with Michelle Obama.
	I must agree with Rachel Maddow.
	And this is explained in the data here.
	Where does that get imprinted?
	Because many of these people come, you know, they come from families that are led by the men in these first two categories.
	So where does that happen?
	The churn and burn, the destruction of the critical thinking.
	And the capacity for independent thought happens inside of higher education.
	You can see that as the determining factor there.
	They went to college.
	The absolute shocking reporting here.
	Is this on MSNBC?
	Well, there it is.
	Okay.
	Here's the reporting on MSNBC, the propaganda channel.
	Like, they're so proud of this.
	They're so proud of their work here.
	This is what they exist to do, actually.
	Here we go.
unidentified		See this.
		White women with at least a college degree.
		The only group of white voters that really kind of is on the left politically, aligned with progressive causes, democratic politics.
		Give you an example here.
		It's that DEI question right here that we asked about in our poll.
		We had two big statements we read to voters.
		Basically, do you want to continue DEI programs or do you think they should be ended?
		And again, look at this divide here.
		White men, no degree, end it.
		White men with a degree, end it, they say.
		White women, no degree, end it, they say, by double digits.
		And then white women with a college degree, completely different by a nearly 40-point margin, they say, to continue DEI.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We call it the black square people.
		If you're somebody who posted a black square, all right?
		This is the dividing line in society.
		If you're someone who posted a black square, right?
unidentified		Listening and learning.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		What'd you learn exactly?
		That these Marxists want to destroy your city and kill you?
		Like, is that what you learned?
		Right?
		Free all the pedos onto the street so they can burn down every single gas station and auto dealership in Kenosha?
		Is that what you want?
		Yeah, go look at the criminal backgrounds of everybody who effed around and found out with Kyle Rittenhouse.
		And you'll find some very, very dark truths about who...
		Was rioting that night.
		Yeah.
		These are the people, ladies and gentlemen.
		This is the Black Square people.
		All right?
		It is the people who have...
		The brains are smooth.
		The NPC programming is all set.
		And it's all set by the Department of Education.
		Starts with the Department of Education.
		That's where the target...
		That's directly over the target.
		And so Trump going at that...
		It's very, very positive.
		It's very, very good.
		It's the contagion factor.
		Now, what that contagion factor allows for is for these individuals to then graduate and some of them get on the judicial bench, the federal judiciary.
		The judicial injunctions against President Trump.
		Are stunning.
		And I just wanted to cover this because this is the other thing going on in the news today.
		You can see there's absolutely a direct through line.
		Because while this data is shocking, so is this data right here.
		Federal injunctions against presidents.
		And it gets even more stunning when you break it down by whether the judge is a Republican or a Democrat.
		But here we go.
		Federal injunctions against Obama.
		Twelve Obama was president for eight years.
		So, one a year?
		One and a half a year?
		Right?
		1.5 per year.
		Okay.
		Donald Trump was president, the first time, for four years.
		64!
		That's the most injunctions ever against any president.
		There's only been 127 since 1963.
		Biden, 14. And when you break that down, that Biden number is very interesting because when you break that down by party, by who nominated the judges, you will see zero Democrat judges, zero injuncted anything that Joe Biden was doing as he openly necessitated the total and complete invasion of our country and, dare I say, like the actual destruction of our country.
		Nobody cared.
		None.
		There was...
		No injunction against Joe Biden opening up the border and swamping our nation with third world criminal aliens.
		That straight up murdered Americans.
		Time and time again.
		There's too many cases to count, but you know the famous ones.
		Nothing.
		Nothing.
		The only injunctions against Biden were Republican judges.
		100% of the time.
		Not a single leftist judge.
		You see that pipeline?
		That education pipeline?
		Why that is so important?
		Because this is the end result, Ben.
		Right?
		Because what this is is activism.
		These are judges that are declaring that they are actually the president and the president isn't the president.
	We're not a country.
	Fifteen injunctions, national injunctions, federal injunctions covering the entire nation by a single judge.
	You know how broken the system is?
	Fifteen through February.
	Yeah, new high score.
	Trump's racking them up like Will Chamberlain.
	Through February.
	What this is, is it's people saying, you're not in control.
	There's the country.
	This is these judges saying, also, it's kind of amazing, that they're more powerful than the Supreme Court.
	Because if you look at it from a judicial standpoint in the landscape, these federal benches, these inferior courts, which Congress has a right to create in the Constitution, they have a right to create them.
	Congress must create them.
	These inferior courts, One judge can injunct the president and change federal law, effectively stop all federal law.
	In the Supreme Court, you've got to get five court justices to side with you, to either nullify or change the law.
	So actually, these backwater, low IQ, activist, left-wing judges in these small little district courts.
	These inferior judges are more powerful than the Supreme Court.
	It's this complete and utter inversion of the way the nation is supposed to operate.
	And so it's nuts.
	Here's Fox News' reporting on this abomination.
brian kilmeade ▲ ● ▼		The only thing that they can do to this president is stop him, it seems, with judges.
		And look at the injunctions.
		Since 1963, you have Obama with 12, you have Biden with 14, Trump 15 last time.
		And now you have 64 in the first term.
		Do you think we were supposed to be a country where the district court judges determines our foreign and domestic policies?
		District court judges that are political animals?
		I mean, look at this one judge.
		This one judge was an activist, this Judge Era, was an activist for Joe Biden in 2020, got the appointment there, actually raised money for Barack Obama, and also gave money to ActBlue.
		She's deciding if transgenders can be in the military?
		Really?
		What about Judge Chunkin, who is desperate to find Trump guilty in Washington, D.C.?
		She's stopping his agenda, too.
unidentified		Right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Stephen Miller has been excellent on this.
		I've learned so much about Stephen Miller's civics class.
		I wish that he would just teach an online course, Stephen Miller in Civics, on the injunctions.
		I've learned, actually, new levels of vocabulary by watching some of the Stephen Miller clips.
		Man, his hit on CNN was just...
		Complete gold against Casey Hunt earlier in the week.
		But here is a recent hit from this morning, Stephen Miller talking about these injunctions.
stephen miller ▲ ● ▼		The real answer, Rob, is that the communist judges are issuing injunctions against President Trump because he is the first president in our lifetimes to reassert the rule of law and constitutional order in this country.
		To say illegal aliens cannot live here.
		To say that foreign criminal gangs cannot menace our citizens.
		To say that unelected bureaucrats do not control the direction of federal policy.
		To say that foreign aid is not a right, but a foreign policy function vested in Article 2 and the commander-in-chief.
		These are the core principles of the Constitution that undergird our entire democracy.
		The injunctions are an effort by the radical left.
		To prevent the American people from having the restoration and change they voted for.
		The way these judges look at it is they say, you don't get to have the country you want.
		You don't get to vote for the change you want.
		They want all power vested in the bureaucracy and the judiciary.
		And none.
		None in the American people.
		This issue was litigated, Rob, for the last eight years.
		The issue of rogue judges.
		The issue of radical left judges.
		The issue.
		Of local judges assuming awesome powers that do not belong to them.
		And the American people went to the voting booth and they said, we want democracy back, we want our freedom back, and we want Donald Trump back.
		And that's what they're going to get, Rob.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Isn't it amazing how there's a through line here?
		Isn't it incredible how everything's connected?
		There's this massive...
		What did Miller just say?
		It's the same thing.
		And you've seen Stephen on the show.
		He's a kick-ass dude.
		We love Stephen Miller.
		It's a little busy right now.
		We've been asking.
		We'll get him!
		We'll get him!
		It's like fly fishing here.
		We'll get him!
		All right?
		They're gonna bite.
		He's busy.
		Busy saving the country.
		What does he say?
		He says the same thing.
		He says, yo, like, this is not about, this is not about a ruling.
		The greater overall issue here is that these judges believe that they are more powerful than the people.
		These bureaucrats.
		Don't care about the will of the people.
		The people elected Donald Trump to send home criminal aliens.
		And that's what one of these judges, Judge Boasberg, in Washington, D.C. What he stopped was criminal alien flights, repatriation flights back to their homes.
		They don't belong here.
		They stopped it.
		Of course, they'll lose because President Trump has a vested right as president.
		To protect our country from foreign and alien invasion.
		But the point is to delay and to rob President Trump of time.
		This was the same thing they did with Russiagate.
		Anybody who speaks, anybody, they're running the same playbooks all over and over again, and I know we're getting a little bit long on this topic, but anybody who knows an individual who served in the first Trump White House knows what Russiagate was all about.
		It was a lie.
		It failed.
		But the point was to put this pall over the Trump administration, this dark cloud, to put gloom and fear over the entire administration and to lock people's behaviors in to constrain it.
		That's the point.
		That was the point of Russiagate.
		Anybody, Stephen Miller said so on this program.
		That's what Russiagate did.
		It constrained our ability.
		The president's most valuable resource is time.
		They're elected for four years.
		You never know what kind of a Congress you're going to get.
		The Congress are razor thin.
		The margins are razor thin.
		They shouldn't be, but they are.
		We're going to change that, but they are right now.
		And so you have to move as fast as possible to get your agenda through and done.
		And that's what these injunctions are doing.
		They're going to lose.
		They're going to be blown out of the water because it's non-justiciable.
		It's a new word that I learned.
		I'm not that smart.
		I went to community college, all right?
		Non-justiciable.
		Justiciable means not subject for judicial review.
		The president is the commander-in-chief.
		That's not subject to judicial review.
		It's written in the damn constitution by the founders of the nation, the people who created the country.
		They wrote it there.
		They ratified it.
		It's always been the rule, and it will always be the rule.
		The entire...
	Executive is vested upon one man, the executive.
	Judges are appointed.
	Congress is elected on a state or local level.
	It's the only position that is elected by the whole of the American people, the president.
	And the powers of the president are awesome, and they are very extensive.
	He is the commander-in-chief.
	He can order troops.
	The president can and will and shall do certain things enumerated in the Constitution, and it's non-justiciable.
	Isn't that neat?
	Fun little word.
	Okay.
	Again, not smart.
	But we're here to establish...
	There's rules here.
	And there's this amazing through line from the Department of Education through to the JFK documents to these judges.
	It's amazing.
	It's the same thing.
	It's about creating a country that is willing to give up its responsibilities for governance.
	Give it up to unelected bureaucrats.
	To organs that exist wholly outside of Democratic or Republican control.
	We're a republic, not a democracy.
	The founders hated democracy, by the way.
	They loathed democracy.
	That's why we are a republic.
	We're a constitutional republic.
	And they're shredding the fabric of that constitution.
	And we're going to get through, we're going to go through these JFK docs and we're going to show you exactly how they did it with JFK.
	It's huge.
	One more thing.
	Carolyn Levitt on today's announcement with the Department of Education.
	What's going to happen?
	Here's a good preview.
karoline leavitt ▲ ● ▼		President Trump is not failing America's children.
		He is saving America's children with this action that he will take later today, directing Linda McMahon, our great Secretary of Education, to dismantle this federal bureaucracy that has taken more than $3 trillion from the American taxpayer since its inception in 1979.
		And what have we had as a result of that investment in our children's education?
		declining test scores in reading, writing, and math.
		Proficiency levels at record lows for eighth graders, for fourth graders, at every level in every state across this country.
		That's why the president is returning education back to the people, to those closest to our students in our classrooms, and that is teachers and educators and parents who know what is best for their children.
		And we are excited about this event that will be here later in the afternoon at the White House.
		We will have parents and educators and students and also governors from across the country who are excited to embrace this new responsibility of educating our nation's children.
		I will add one more point.
		The Department of Education has never educated a child.
		All it has ever done is stolen money from the taxpayers for more regulation that has hurt our children's education.
		And it's about time a president does something about it.
		And thank God President Trump is.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Hell yeah, baby.
		I love it.
		It's great.
		Good for you, Carolyn Levitt.
		Carolyn Levitt had a, uh, great.
		White House press conference yesterday.
		We try to be live for these.
		Sometimes we have scheduling conflicts, but your front seat, ladies and gentlemen, to the Golden Arrow, we very much look forward to that, and we very much look forward to the new documents release.
		There's more.
		We only have seen...
		About 30% of all of the JFK documents, ladies and gentlemen.
		Before we jump in to what we've learned from the first tranche of documents being released and something that was very interesting that was said yesterday by Anna Paulina Luna saying that they are still hiding documents from her and she's hunting for specific documents.
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		All right.
		So let's just breeze through here.
		What did we learn?
		What did we learn over the last few hours in the JFK documents?
		I guess they've been out for now.
		Rolling into 48 hours, okay?
		There was a big trance that was delivered late in the evening on the first day, but there have been no new document releases.
		We've gotten approximately 30,000 documents.
		Of the 80,000, what will be there?
		I mean, we've seen some juicy things already.
		So the first thing that I think is very important is to say, F you to the Black Pillars.
		I don't like the Black Pillars.
		The Black Pillars are there saying, there's nothing in these documents!
		There is, actually, if you look, and if you know what you're looking for, and if you're looking for the right thing, you'll find it.
		What do I mean by that?
		What these documents prove to me is that the people that we said were responsible for the JFK assassination are responsible for the JFK assassination.
		That's the point of these documents.
		The point of these documents are that it, not that it created new conspiracy theories, but it confirmed what we'd already known.
		And here's what we've already known.
		The government lies to us.
		Now, the lying creates the conspiracy.
		There's no such thing as a conspiracy.
		There's just truth we don't know just yet.
		I don't like the term conspiracy theory.
		I don't use it.
		It's a naughty word.
		It was a word that was created.
		It wasn't part of the...
		American lexicon.
		It was created after the JFK assassination.
		And we're going to get into exactly why, because we actually have the documents to prove it now.
	But I want to begin by starting at the top.
	At the top, Arthur Schlesinger's 15-page memo calling for JFK to break up the CIA, saying that the CIA is a state within a state and nobody knows how many potential problems are being created by the CIA clandestine operations.
	We've never seen this memo, and it slams the CIA.
	It says that they are in bed with our enemies, that they are operating.
	We just swipe through the documents, but effectively it characterizes the CIA as operating as a totally independent state and State Department.
	But the State Department is just there to give cover to the CIA.
	That it is its own organ.
	It does not care what the president does.
	It does not care what the people do.
	And in fact, it often operates outside, of course, constitutional boundaries, but outside of the will of the president.
	Not asking permission.
	You know, it's very interesting inside of these documents, you are able to see some of the remarkable, dirty tricks that have been engaged in by the CIA.
	And you're going to gasp when I show you this one.
	Weather control?
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	Got it.
	Yeah, sure.
	The release of biological warfare in order to topple regimes we don't like?
	Shocking.
	Truly.
	Operation Mongoose.
	What's that?
	That's the somewhat declassified operation to topple the communist regime in Cuba.
	And while...
	I don't know.
	I think I would have been okay with those results.
	I went to Cuba.
	It's really sad.
	It's not too far from Florida.
	We went there for a documentary.
	I didn't go there to enjoy anything.
	There's nothing to enjoy there.
	It's an island.
	Literally, it's hell on earth, that island.
	It's horrible there.
	And it shouldn't be.
	It's very sad.
	But the point is that they didn't topple communism in Cuba.
	But they did expose some of their fun little dirty tricks here.
	Amazing.
	Recently released JFK files shed light on Operation Mongoose, revealing the CIA planned agricultural sabotage in Cuba using biological agents to trigger crop failure.
	The documents confirm that the CIA considered bioweapons as key to their method of regime change, dispersing chemicals all over its farmland.
	The individuals in the documents used subtle biological agents to avoid detection, ensuring no clear links to the United States of America.
	Oh boy.
	The group then turned the discussion to number 32, agricultural sabotage.
	General Carter emphasized the extreme sensitivity of any such operation, disastrous results that would flow from something going wrong, particularly if there were obvious attribution to the United States.
	He wanted to say it is possible to accomplish this purpose by methods more subtly and indicated on paper.
	He mentioned specifically the possibility of producing crop failures by the introduction of biological agents that would appear to be natural origin.
	Where have I heard that before?
	Natural origin.
	A bioweapon that we claim just happened naturally inside of a Wuhan bat suit.
	Got it.
unidentified		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		All right.
		Dumb.
		Jackass.
		Why don't we know more about this?
		Whatever's old is new again.
		Whatever's new is old.
		Time is a flat circle.
		History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
		Why don't we know more?
		I want to establish this, and I think this is very important.
		The CIA enforced complete document control.
		No paper trail left.
		It's a very interesting insight into one of these documents presented right here for you.
		They show exactly how hard it would be to get documents from this era if the CIA never wanted you or anybody else to see them.
		Declassified routing slips, CIA Western Hemisphere Cuba operations, shows orders and recipients to destroy cover sheets after review.
		Reports were classified, secret, reserved for the most sensitive covert actions.
		You had to log in by coded identifiers to see them, and the recipients were warned improper filing or unauthorized retention was forbidden.
		Every document hand-carried, recorded, and hand-destroyed.
		No mistakes, no loose ends.
		Well, yikes.
		If they had that system with these documents from the 60s, then how much do we actually know?
		How much actually survived until today?
		Today!
		We have kept our eye on the ball here.
		We have made sure that, like...
		If your eye's on the ball, the JFK assassination of our time is Matthew Thomas Crooks, Ryan Ralph, and the greater overall conspiracy of how that happened.
		How did Trump get shot in the face on live TV?
		Eight more rounds, riddling the MAGA movement, the MAGA rally, killing Cory Comprantore.
		These are things that are still, these are criminals that are still around, right?
		We still have Matthew Thomas Crooks' parents wandering around.
		Like, we still, like, Ryan Routh is alive.
		They have Matthew Thomas Crooks' phone!
		They have it!
		Where is it?
		It's important.
		These are, like, big questions.
		So we can get bad evidence.
		How much of this evidence has been destroyed?
		Well, here, this is a very interesting one.
		CIA was trying to destroy a Marine general who commanded a Marine officer in Japan who commanded Oswald while he was stationed there.
		He was a Marine.
		Said that, no, hold on, hold on.
		Oswald was a CIA officer.
		What?
		You ever heard this?
		It's amazing.
		So he was recruited by the CIA while he was stationed with the Marines in Japan.
		Obviously, I watched it happen, he says.
		He's, like, speaking to the press about it.
		Whoo, baby!
		They did everything they could to shut that one down.
		You can see major discussions about overthrowing.
		Here we go.
		Plans on inducing failure of crops will be submitted.
		You can see other, like, major regime change operations by the CIA.
		You see, this isn't particularly new, this document about Gary Underhill, but it is very interesting, and it certainly is seeing a lot more light today.
		Potentially tying up loose ends, Gary Underhill, somebody with unimpeachable credentials, who worked with the CIA, who helped procure the Italian Carcano rifle, which is a piece of garbage rifle that Oswald apparently used to fire these miracle shots.
		Garrett Underhill fled D.C. the next day, saying that he had discovered a splinter group inside of the CIA that was responsible for the death of Kennedy.
		Then he was killed.
		Twelve shots to the back of the head.
		It was ruled a suicide.
		Don't you worry about that.
		CIA was watching Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, before the assassination.
	Oh, wow.
	Remember the FBI guy in Miami?
	The FBI field office in Miami?
	Oh, yeah, we knew Ryan Ralph!
	Yeah, well, they knew Oswald as well.
	Was it because Oswald was a CIA agent?
	Is this why Oswald was allowed to travel back and forth from Russia so many times without even a hint of suspicion?
	Incredible.
	Incredible.
	The Russians actually warned ahead of time.
	The Russians actually warned ahead of time that there would be a JFK assassination and that Oswald would be assassinated as well.
	Pretty remarkable.
	You can see the documents now.
	The CIA may have been using Oswald, according to some of these documents.
	Oswald did make contact with the Soviet embassy in Mexico City.
	He inquired about travel to the USSR.
	His visit was tracked.
	Oswald was tracked.
	This document shows that the American government was warned of the operation to kill Kennedy.
	And also that MLK is named here.
	That Oswald would be killed right afterwards.
	This is what I find particularly fun.
	You can always see who's guilty, right?
	Burn the house down.
	You can see who's guilty.
	You see where they run.
	Man, you see, like, the lack of curiosity explains to you exactly where people's intentions are.
	Apparently, the director of the FBI, the famous J. Edgar Hoover, demanded a quick public report to stop conspiracy theories from spreading.
	Hoover wrote that there is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead.
	Wow.
	Very interesting for the world's most powerful police force at the FBI, a guy who loved inquiries, a guy who loved getting the dirty little details of every single person he ever investigated.
	J. Edgar Hoover made sure that there is nothing further in the Oswald case except that he is dead.
	He wanted to ensure that the public believed that Oswald acted alone.
	Well, that alone.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we'll show you a larger conspiracy along with the new revelations that Oswald knew Jack Ruby and they were seen in the nightclub with Dallas police officers.
	That's all strange, isn't that?
	Jack Ruby, of course, said he had to kill.
	He had to.
	Powers that be, he had to kill Oswald.
	What's that about?
	In the last interviews he was allowed to give, Jack Ruby saying that he was told.
	To kill Oswald.
	And there was a third person involved.
	He took that to his grave.
	The CIA continued to spy on Oswald and his family before and after newly declassified cable shows the CIA urgently requested a full investigation into Oswald's contact, fiance, and movements through Europe before the JFK assassination.
	Oh, we knew him!
	Say the line.
	We knew him!
	CIA was actively trying to suppress international foreign media coverage.
	There was foreign media coverage that speculated that the CIA was involved in the killing of JFK.
unidentified		Ooh, baby!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They were not happy about that.
		Italian papers, Japanese papers, papers throughout the Soviet bloc.
		Oh, man.
		They needed to control that information.
		They needed to control even more.
		Mike Benz will be joining us in just one second.
		Saying here, man, it's nice to just see the cut and dry.
		Political and psychological warfare.
		Here you go.
		Radio broadcasting by the CIA.
		Radio broadcasting.
		During the Cold War, these are the techniques available to the CIA.
		We're going to covertly direct the broadcasting.
		It will be a CIA policy to make sure that we're in charge of the radio stations and tell them what to say, and we're going to use Voice of America to do it.
		It's kind of nice to just see it all laid bare.
		Something that has popped up to me that I've never heard explained in any textbook or anywhere else was the major frictions between JFK and Israel on their nuclear weapons program and how JFK was openly fighting.
		With the leader of Israel, Ben-Gurion, about this program and how they set up a fake world.
		As we played you that clip yesterday, we set up a fake world.
		They set up a fake control center to trick American inspectors.
		Kennedy demanded, this is so dire, Kennedy demanded that there be inspectors.
		Again, you're living in a world that just developed nuclear weapons in 1945.
		So you're not even 20 years in to a nuclear world.
		Nobody knows how to handle these things.
		There's newer and bigger and more horrifying bombs being built every second.
		And you want to stop nuclear proliferation, especially to, like, new states, right?
		Especially to...
		Here we go.
		Article says Israel got CIA atomic aid.
		This is from July 12, 1975.
		New York Times.
		Says that this guy who wanted the redactions for Israel, James Angleton, who was head of counterintelligence, he assisted in the uranium procurement for the, never admitted to, even to this day, nuclear program inside of Israel.
		Yes, Israel has nukes.
		Yes, Richard Nixon has straight up admitted this and said that they were using their nukes as a bartering chip against him, and so on and so forth.
		I did not realize that JFK fought so ardently.
		I'd never had this explained.
		Fought so ardently against this program.
		And of course it makes a lot of sense!
		These are like, still to this day, of course, these are like very controversial lands and areas and wars and fighting.
		Like, for a region that is so destabilized, you don't want nuclear weapons there, obviously!
		Right?
		Like, it makes perfect sense if you lay it out on a map!
		There it is, ladies and gentlemen.
		So, that's some of the things that we learned.
		CIA's clandestine manual revealed just interesting stuff that you can pour through.
		And I think it's as fascinating as anything except for this little ditty.
		This is what I want to start off with Mike Dunn's about.
		The fake world that they created.
		This with King Hussein.
		It's amazing.
		King Hussein, ladies and gentlemen.
		Of Saudi Arabia, getting him a Jewish starlet to escort him around L.A., creating fake sets that look like Moscow sets, that looks like the rooms were in Moscow, filming naughty adult movies as blackmail so we could affect regime change.
		My goodness.
		Everything old is new again.
		It's just that these are like the ancient texts of Epstein.
		It's the same thing.
		It is in black and white.
		And it's directly from our government.
		And they fought you for their last 60 years so you couldn't see this.
		Take the photos, right?
		Fake.
		It's all fake.
		It's a fake world.
		But ladies and gentlemen, there are some people that shed light on the darkness.
		Mike Benz is one of those individuals.
	We're so honored to have Mike Benz on the program now.
	This is going to be fun.
	Let's go.
	you you you Mike, is it like Christmas morning for you at this point?
	Let's just begin there.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's a new day in America, and it feels something like a Christmas morning.
		I think you did an amazing job teeing this up.
		By describing it as a fake world, I've been using this phrase, USAID Truman Show, about the USAID debacle that's been unfolding over the past several months, and I've been trying to stress that USAID is the continuation of CIA work, and that after the CIA got in trouble in the 1960s and 70s, And had to go through these reforms.
		They moved the operational layer of the CIA substantially into USAID.
		You have in these papers the direct...
		You see this phrase, agency-sponsored, time and time again.
		And these were all largely redacted.
		They'll reference some group, the Hungarian Freedom Fighters, or some research center in Houston, Texas.
		And then there'll be brackets.
		There were brackets up until...
		For the past 50 years.
		And now we see the brackets visible and it'll say, and they're agency sponsored.
		At the time, that meant Central Intelligence Agency.
		Now, by and large, that means the U.S. Agency for International Development.
		And it's simply done as a democracy promotion program rather than a covert action program that has to be authorized by the White House.
		If I can just point out a few things up top that I find so fascinating about these documents, I'm less interested, as interested as I am in the JFK assassination, I had no expectations of finding some singular smoking gun within the agency's own files that said, well, we did it.
		But what you see is...
		Just an incredible trove of structuring and internal deliberation documents that live on today because the institutions that are named and the dynamics that they were dealing with are infused in the current dramas that we're currently involved in.
		So, for example, there's this 15-page Arthur Schlesinger memo that's A lot of folks are talking about, and I too find it incredibly fascinating.
		And it's called CIA Reorganization.
		And even that name, again, as we've talked about so many times, in today's context, when it's too dirty for the CIA, it's done by USAID.
		And USAID is going through a reorganization.
		There has been an incredible push and pull drama.
		That's been playing out over this as the White House has been trying to shut USAID down.
		And then the courts just this very week said, actually, you can't shut it down.
		You have to keep spending $44 billion of U.S. taxpayer money in foreign countries.
		The president can't stop it, even though the president set it up.
		Which president?
		It was JFK.
		JFK set it up.
		In 1961, set up USAID.
		And actually, maybe there are two things that are related on this topic.
		There's this Arthur Schlesinger memo.
		Yeah, this one, CIA reorganization.
		And there's a passage in there that's called Confidential American Sources.
		And what Schlesinger goes over is how the CIA is supposed to answer to the State Department.
		The State Department is supposed to be...
		The Big Mac Daddy when it comes to foreign policy and all these different spindle groups like the CIA, like Voice of America, like what would come to be USAID are supposed to be, they're supposed to answer to state.
		State is supposed to have review and approval authority.
		And the CIA is supposed to provide covert assistance.
		And what Schlesinger says in this memo is that we need to reorganize the CIA.
		Because they effectively are dominating many aspects of foreign policy, that they're supposed to be receiving our instructions.
		Instead, they're pursuing their own foreign policy, and we end up just rubber stamping everything with very little transparency into what's going on there.
		Note that that's the same thing that Senator Joni Ernst complained to Elon Musk about on a live X-Space, that the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Senate...
		Foreign Affairs Committee was never able to get access to what USAID was really doing.
		We saw the Obama administration complain about that with the Zunzanillo fake Cuban Twitter affair that evidently happened without presidential or White House approval.
		We saw that happen with the State Department complaining that they had little effective oversight over USAID.
		What you see in this document is they actually go through the specific structure through which the CIA is able to end-run the State Department, and they talk about how the CIA abused State Department cover constantly.
		If you go down, I think it's Section 3, if you can pull it up.
		It's the section right below this.
		It's Section 3 called The Controlled American Sources.
		I think it should just be on the next page if you pull it up on screen.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We're getting it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
		And what they go over is, you know, a lot of people have accused me of being CIA because, you know, I had this tenure at state and the most common foreign policy.
		And if there's a rogue cell that's using American taxpayer dollars, American direct personnel or informants or agents or networks to carry out a foreign policy that's in opposition.
		To what the president wants, that is a massive impact on world affairs.
		You can imagine, for example, if Trump wants peace in Ukraine, but there's a rogue cell out of the U.S. Embassy in Kiev that does not want peace in Ukraine, and they operationalize the network that is supposed to be instrumentalized by the U.S. president and its policymaking function, then world history plays out in a completely different manner.
		And so what it says is, Right.
		The encroachment on policymaking functions.
		CIA today has nearly as many people under official cover overseas at state.
		3,900 to 3,700.
		About 1,500 of them are under State Department cover.
		Now, I knew that there was this massive over-representation of cover under State Department cloak.
		I didn't have the specific numbers until two days ago.
		Roughly half.
		Roughly half of all CIA agents undercover overseas are under State Department cover.
		And then the other 2,200 are either under military or non-state cover.
		Non-state will mean through, at that point it would be the NGOs, the universities, commercial cover is a big one.
		But it says, originally the use of State Department cover for CIA personnel was supposed to be strictly limited and temporary.
		This is fascinating to see, by the way, that this was 1961.
		They were already complaining.
		The pinned video at the top of my X feed goes through this State Department CIA creation in 1948.
		But to see that only 13 years later, the State Department was openly complaining that the Frankenstein monster they'd created had already effectively usurped so much of that function.
		But if you go back to that page there, it says...
		So the Dulles-Jackson report in 1948, the CIA should not use State Department cover as a simple answer to all of its problems, but should proceed to develop its own outside cover and eventually in this way, and through increased efficiency, find ways to temper its demands on the State Department.
		Nonetheless, it steadily increased its requisitions for official cover.
		And that says there's several reasons why they do it.
		It's quicker, it's less expensive.
		It leads to more secure communications because it's all happening within the embassy.
		It's a pleasanter life for CIA people.
		But then it says in some missions, I understand, that these CIA folks under State Department cover personnel outnumbers regular State Department personnel.
		In Vienna, out of the 20 persons listed as being in the political section, so that's influencing the political affairs.
		The State Department has a political affairs That was actually Victoria Nuland's job, interestingly enough.
		Victoria Nuland, after she was the head of European and Eurasian affairs during the Maidan coup, she was promoted to the head of the whole political section at the State Department.
		Now we learn that basically the entire political section in virtually every embassy is three-quarters CIA.
		And I'll talk about how that, I know that that's continued at least up until the 2000s, but I'm just going to read a little bit of this.
		And by the way, Victoria Newland, after her term at state, moved to be on the board of directors of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the world's most prolific CIA cutout, which was conceived of in the office of the CIA in 1983.
		So you see this CIA role for Victoria Newland, just jumping off the page here.
		But you see, as it says, in Vienna, Of the 20 persons who are listed in the political section, 16 of them, so that is 80% of the State Department folks there are actually CIA.
		In Chile, it's 13 of the 31. 47% of the political officers serving in U.S. embassies on the day of Kennedy's inauguration.
		We're actually CIA.
		Sometimes the CIA mission chief is actually working directly at the embassy.
		We saw this.
		I'll talk about when I get to the John Brennan lead-up to this, how that actually happened in the lead-up to 9-11.
		But it says that sometimes it actually is a different policy than that of the ambassador, the CIA mission chief.
		And in the Paris embassy today, now that was a friendly country, is today, was in 1961, there are 128 CIA people working out of the Paris embassy.
		CIA in Paris has long begun to move into areas of political reporting normally occupied by state.
		The CIA men doing overt internal political reporting outnumber those in the embassy's political section.
		It's even sought to monopolize contact with certain French personalities, among them the president of the National Assembly.
		And if you juxtapose that against another fantastic document, which is from the CIA side of this, the Alan Dulles side of this, and I can see if I can pop it up to you guys on screen for a second here.
		There's a document that references the necessity of avoiding Higher approval and the, quote, NSC machinery.
		And if I can just take one second here to just pull the reference.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		The deep dive, Mike, is always fun with you, man.
		Yes, likewise.
		You always pull things out.
		Virtually everybody else misses, and you've seen the inside of the machine, right?
		You've been at State, so you've actually seen just even the top layer of crust of this monster.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Well, because that's what you do at State.
		At State, you can request a CIA analyst memo.
		I could request the CIA to write a memo.
		They're supposed to serve State.
		Okay, so I just texted this to your producer, and I can text it to you directly, too.
		You can find...
		Mario has a tweet with specific screenshots, and I can pull the ID number if you need it on it.
		But I can just describe it in general form here, which is in June 1961, there's a special group that's set up that is effectively a...
		NSC interagency, a National Security Council interagency group meeting.
		They call it the special group.
		And I believe if you scroll down to look at the screenshots, I can walk you through it.
		But again, this is June 1961, just five months before USAID was created.
		Because USAID was created in the thick of all of these disputes between Kennedy, his CIA.
		This is National Security Council.
		And what it goes through here, you see it says, Review of Political Action Projects.
		And this is a special group, and you see it says that it's got Alan Dulles, as well as the Special Assistant to the President, JFK.
		And you'll see at the top, it says in Congo, that the approval for the CIA work there was conditioned on the acceptance.
		Of three provisions set forth in the State Department internal memo.
		So the CIA wants to do this work, but the State Department is saying you can only do it on the following three conditions.
		And that Mr. Bundy felt that he could not approve this program without reference to higher authority, which is going to mean the National Security Council, which is the White House interagency.
		Because there are all these levels of control when it comes to this dirty work that's supposed to rein it in.
		It's all supposed to run through the president.
		The president sets the foreign policy of the country.
		The State Department is supposed to carry that out.
		The CIA is supposed to carry out the dirty work.
		work on behalf of the State Department.
		So you have these levels.
		And the accountability of the CIA and the accountability of state are both supposed to happen at the National Security Council, which is parked in the White House layer.
		So if you go to the next page is where it gets really spicy and interesting.
		Okay.
		So...
		It says that Mr. Dulles, that was the head of the CIA, noted that the pertinent National Security Council, NSC paper, authorized programs but emphasized that they would only undertake this type of activity if it was fully supported by the Department of State and higher authority, meaning the National Security Council.
		And then it says that Mr. Dulles said, however, that he felt the special group should have Some latitude to make decisions on these matters within the general policy, which might be laid down by the higher authority without referral of each specific case for approval.
		So what Dulles is campaigning for at this time, this is five months before USAID is created, is that the CIA should not need...
		Detailed oversight of every specific operation or every specific contracting agent that they work with or the methods through which they carry it out.
		What they want is a general policy articulated regime change in Nicaragua, the sabotage of a pipeline in Siberia, but not have to have the specific means and methods approved because it's leading to Delays in operational approval, which then sabotages the ability to actually get the operation done and carry out the general foreign policy.
		And then if you scroll down, if you go to the Vietnam section here, and again, Vietnam was a huge dispute with JFK.
		There are many people who believe that part of the CIA relations with CIA's role in the JFK assassination may have to do with The conflict over what to do in Vietnam and what to do vis-a-vis Russia.
		You see it says, covert annex Korea.
		And we had just come out of the Korean War at this point, and we are still very active in the region with Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam.
		It says, Mr. Bundy reiterated the decision that covert annexes should not be processed through the National Security Council machinery.
		Because in the interest of higher authority and political action operations, that's manipulating the internal politics, in friendly areas.
		So again, this is in friendly areas.
		In partnered countries, we should not run the political manipulation that we do through the, quote, NSC machinery.
		Now, I'm going to juxtapose this with a document that came out in 2014.
		The USAID...
		had begun working more and more directly with the U.S. military and special forces.
		Special forces is the specific branch of the U.S. military that does political black ops in the name of national security.
		So there's this deep interlinkage between Pentagon special forces, CIA covert action.
		And USAID, who sets up and funds all the different assets and institutions under humanitarian cover, under media cover, under NGO cover in the region that special forces will work with and CIA will work with to carry out those political black ops, whether they help national interest, that's where you get CIA, or national security, that's where you get special forces.
		And there's a great document from 2014 that was set up to review the efficacy of USAID, DOD, joint work.
		There was a special bureau that was set up during the Obama administration.
		Hillary Clinton helped facilitate that while she was Secretary of State to join USAID to the Pentagon directly.
		Hillary Clinton called this the three Ds, defense, diplomacy, and development.
		You know, joining together the Pentagon, the State Department, and USAID.
		And there's a direct quote from one of the generals who was commissioned to help review the efficacy.
		And what the general said is at this point in time, this was 2014, that the U.S. military prefers to work directly with U.S. aid rather than with the State Department because U.S. aid actually does stuff and U.S. aid is not handcuffed by what he called the knife fight at the interagency level.
		Meaning that because USAID does not have to get NSC approval, it does not have to be run through the NSC machinery, the Pentagon can run its own foreign policy in the area without having to deal with the negotiation with the White House.
		And this is actually the origins of the term the blob.
		This is not my coinage.
		This was the Obama National Security Council's The Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes, is who coined that term, the blob, because he felt the Obama administration could not even really set foreign policy because they were being end-run by the different levels, like the Defense Department and like the USAID-funded NGO Plex, that could effectively carry out their own foreign policy in the region.
		And the NSC could not And what you see here is a deliberate plot by the CIA in 1961 to cause that problem.
		And what's so amazing about it is just five months in that memo, they reference how Alan Dulles was then about to meet directly with the White House to try to set up a plan to carry this out.
		And lo and behold, five months later...
	USAID is created, and USAID is not on the National Security Council.
	It's completely off-channel to the White House in that respect.
	It's supposed to answer to the State Department.
	But the fact is, there's no oversight.
	If the Inspector General doesn't inform, then they can carry out their own foreign policy.
	And you see right here that USAID is exactly what the CIA was asking for, a method to have a general policy in the region.
	A carte blanche, effectively, beyond that, so that if, for example, the president sets a policy that they want to wipe out al-Qaeda, but the CIA doesn't want to do that, the Pentagon doesn't want to do that, they can say, okay, we're taking on ISIS.
	But in the background, they can be funneling arms and running funds and shelter and health care and technical support.
	Just in that process, without ever having to inform the White House, we saw this happen to President Trump when USAID was funding these very terrorist groups Trump was trying to wipe out.
	We saw this happen with the military openly bragging shortly after Trump lost the election that they were, quote, constantly playing shell games with the numbers that were happening in terms of the number of troops in Syria, the number of troops in Iraq, while Trump was trying to scale down.
	Those numbers could have been they were giving them the official W-2 employees and not reporting how many people there were under military cover or how many assets there were not being reported because they were simply not conveyed to the White House.
	But what I'm trying to say here is that document's called CIA reorganization.
	What are we going through right now?
	USAid reorganization.
	And by the way, that's not an accident.
	The first thing USA did after it got set up was provide funding to these CIA-backed mercenary groups in Laos and Cambodia.
	There's the famous case I've talked about, about Vang Pao in Cambodia, which was in 1961, November 1961, USAID gets created.
	Just two weeks earlier, JFK had awarded the Green Beret to the Special Forces.
	Again, the Special Forces do this.
	In the name of national security, they will influence internal politics in order to get a military base installed, in order to promote paramilitary groups that might unseat that government who's doing political stuff that the White House nominally doesn't like.
	But just one month after USAID was created, JFK launched something called Operation Pincushion in Cambodia, which was a special forces mission.
	To recruit, and you can look this up, it's called Operation Pincushion.
	That was in December 1961, just one month after USAID was created.
	Operation Pincushion was a special forces operation to recruit violent terrorist groups and paramilitaries as hillside guerrillas in Cambodia.
	They could not get enough funding for Operation Pincushion directly through congressional appropriations, and so they set up a drug trade in Cambodia.
	They had The CIA then took control of the Special Forces recruits.
	It was a CIA-backed mercenary group.
	This has all come out, by the way, in the Senate Intelligence Committee.
	The John Kerry hearings, by the way.
	John Kerry was involved in this in the 1970s.
	And USAID quickly took up the task, within a few years, of providing the financing to the CIA-backed mercenary army.
	USAID even paid For Vang Pao's CIA army to purchase two CIA proprietary aircraft, one from Air America, one from Continental Air Services.
	These have both been declassified.
	They're in historical museums.
	They're on CIA.gov as being stipulated CIA proprietary airlines.
	They were known to be trafficking the heroin from the Golden Triangle in Cambodia.
	To Vietnam to retail the heroin for profit so that they could pay for their arms.
	They could pay for the mercenaries.
	And so USAID was buying CIA airlines within just a few years of its creation.
	And then this became a big scandal in the 1970s in the lead up to the Church Committee hearings.
	Professor Alfred McCoy actually testified to this in 1972 to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
	JFK might not have known that we were trafficking drugs out of that, that that's what USAID and CIA were doing, because all this could occur without having to go through the NSC machinery.
	What Trump is trying to do fundamentally right now is run foreign policy out of the White House, as was supposed to be the case in 1948, in 1961.
	These very institutions under the gun for potentially assassinating JFK were...
	Trump is trying to do now what JFK tried to but failed to do in 1961.
	And the final thing I'll say as a volley here is, I had a weird personal experience with this when I was a White House speechwriter, because I was a speechwriter for Trump in what feels like an eternity ago now.
	But I had a weird assignment once where I was asked to look up the quotes that JFK had to say about his own military generals.
	And to potentially fold that into a speech, because at the time, in 2020, Trump was concerned that his own military was betraying him behind his back and was curious about JFK experiencing the same problems and what JFK had to say about the Pentagon not running things through the National Security Council channels.
	The Pentagon is supposed to answer to the National Security Council, just like state, just like CIA.
	And so in so many ways, there is this mere reflection of Trump in the JFK assassination story, and what we're seeing now is sort of a second shot at the apple.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I mean, a literal second shot at the apple, because there are so many parallels here that it's bone-chilling.
		Also, I just want to establish, Mike, when they're running heroin, when USAID is using CIA planes to run heroin to Vietnam, they're selling them to American soldiers.
		Yeah?
		Is it like they're running heroin to get our own American service members addicted to heroin?
		Oh, absolutely.
		Much like the poppy sales in Afghanistan are being used for opioids here in the States to destroy lives.
		Is this correct?
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		Oh, absolutely.
		I mean, this whole CI drug-running operation started with the U.S. War Department back in the 1930s, before it was even called the Defense Department, and it renamed from the Department of War to the Department of Defense just to make it look like, you know, we're forward-defending ourselves.
		We're not declaring war on Iraq or Afghanistan.
		We're not going to war in Vietnam.
		We're forward-defending our interests.
		But that was originally done through the OSS and through the War Department when they were using military airlines in the 1930s in China when we were supporting Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese nationalists against the Chinese communists.
		We were doing that same strategy.
		They didn't invent that in Cambodia and Vietnam.
		This was...
		This is part of the deep interlinkages here, actually, between the same cast of characters who were running the CIA at the time.
		This is James Jesus Angleton, who was the head of CIA counterintelligence and whose name is all over these documents.
		He's sort of a lead suspect in the CIA role in the JFK assassination.
		James Jesus Angleton, he grew up in Italy.
		Italy was the first place that the CIA launched its political covert action arm in.
		The State Department got the idea to use the CIA for political dirty work.
		In April 1948, its first political job that it was assigned was rigging the 1948 Italy election to swing it towards the...
		Pro-West, pro-America candidate over the pro-Russia communist candidate.
		NSC 10-2 was created just two months later.
		That's the National Security Council memo.
		Again, back to this NSC versus CIA power struggle.
		Again, NSC is the White House.
		So you can just think of it, when you hear NSC now, just think Trump.
		So NSC versus CIA today is Trump versus CIA.
		And so the CIA got its plausible deniability cloak in a memo in 1948 called NSE 10-2.
		That's the plausible deniability doctrine.
		That all was created because the National Security Council was so enthused about the power of the CIA and its successful operation in Italy in 1948.
		James Jesus Angleton comes out of that.
		He grew up in Italy.
		He was the son of a sort of, you know, A diplomat, commercial family.
		His father was deeply involved with the Chamber of Commerce in Italy.
		So this is back to this sort of commercial interlinkage with CIA and state.
		We see, by the way, and we should get to this at some point, the role of commercial cover in multinational corporations and CIA work is very interesting in these documents.
		But James Jesus Angleton comes out of that whole milieu from Jump Street.
		And, you know, what I find really, I guess, interesting about this is you have this power struggle between, you know, about how to organize authorities.
		And it got ahead of itself already.
		Within 13 years, they were already end-running, you know, those official channels.
		And that goes back to what we were talking about with CIA drug running gets right back to This is another beast that Elon and Trump are going to have to take on, is that they have not yet really touched the Pentagon in the way that they have tried to touch USAID.
		That's something that Doge is doing review over.
		And I said this on Joe Rogan about a month ago or a month and a half ago, where I said, this fight for USAID is going to be on steroids when it comes to reforming the Pentagon, which is $900 billion.
		But you're going to find...
		The Pentagon, when you try to stop these drug networks, right now we've declared narco cartels as being terrorists.
		And this was something that the media has been screaming about.
		We saw that the New York Times came out and said it was a disaster to designate Mexican cartels as terrorists because it could have massive negative economic consequences on U.S. companies who can't avoid doing business with the cartels effectively.
		Both in foreign countries and at the supply chain layer.
		We saw the U.S. Institute for Peace, which just this week had to have its doors kicked down and its president forcibly removed by federal police because he refused to resign.
		Now, this institution, I should note, and this relates to the drug networks because this is preview.
		Let me just open up the crystal ball and just...
		Tell you what's going to happen over the next 6 to 12 months here as we continue to do this reorganization is you are going to find elements in the Pentagon who do not want to stop the drug cartels.
		You're going to find elements in the CIA who are not going to want to stop the drug cartels.
		Elements at state and many, many elements within the NGO layer who are going to continue to get State Department funding or lobby for it.
		We're going to continue to get legacy USAID funding who are going to be trying to stop.
		The shutdown of the drug networks.
		So I want to sort of paint the picture of how far back this goes.
		Do you want me to pause or stop or interrupt me at any time?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		No, I fell into a fit of laughter when the director of the Institute of Peace was fighting like a rabid animal, kicking and biting in order to stop Doge from entering his building.
		I think that's very peaceful, and I love it.
		And it's one of my favorite stories of the week, and we haven't been able to cover it enough.
		Yes, nonetheless, Mike, please, the table is yours to explain how the U.S. government traffics most of the world's drugs.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Yes, okay.
		So the U.S. Institute of Peace was set up in 1984, conveniently, by congressional mandate, the same way that after JFK established USAID.
		There was a congressional approval of it.
		Same thing with the National Endowment for Democracy, which was created by President Ronald Reagan, but then was ratified in a bill in Congress.
		So U.S. Institute of Peace is the same way.
		Now, I walked by the U.S. Institute of Peace every day on the way to work because it's right next to the State Department.
		It's effectively a State Department auxiliary.
		It's literally the building next door.
		You can't miss it.
		It gets $56 million a year from taxpayers through a State Department allocation.
		It is fully funded by the U.S. government.
		It was created by the U.S. government.
		It is an arm of the State Department.
		There's no two ways about it.
		They resisted Doge oversight.
		They refused to comply with the Trump executive order on establishing Doge oversight.
		They fought tooth and nail.
		They actually kept one of the Trump-appointed U.S. Institute of Peace board members out of the building.
		They refused to allow one of the board members into the building.
		I mean, this is someone who was appointed to serve on the board and is not even allowed in the building.
		Now, if you pull up, I believe this should still be on their website.
		If you go into Google and you just type U.S. Institute of Peace Negative economic consequences.
		I don't think they used the word heroin.
		I think they used the word poppy.
		But they wrote a piece, and I can send you a link if they've taken this article down in the past two weeks, because I know that folks there are very unhappy with me publicizing this.
unidentified		Let me go.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Oh, wait.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Did they take it down?
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, let me, don't you worry.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		I've got just the...
unidentified		There, you can see the titles that are still there.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's even better.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Let me institute.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		What the Taliban poppy ban means for Afghan poverty.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so here you go.
		I'm going to, I actually, so here you go.
		I have this.
unidentified		Perfect.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		I'm sure they deleted this when this got millions of views this week, but here you go.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		I just texted to you and I'll text it to your producer as well.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I think it's been scrubbed.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		Well, I don't doubt that.
		Basically, everything I talk about gets scrubbed within weeks and months.
		The National Endowment for Democracy is scrubbed.
		The International Republican Institute is scrubbed.
		Arizona State University is scrubbed.
		The Department of Homeland Security is scrubbed.
		So this is June 2023.
		Okay?
		This is not ancient history, Benny.
		This is a year and a half ago.
		The Taliban's successful opium ban is bad for Afghans and the world.
		It will have negative economic and humanitarian consequences.
		So, if you remember, the Taliban tried to shut down opium production in Afghanistan in 2000, one year before 9-11, and we then promptly invaded Afghanistan.
		Whereupon, Afghanistan went from being 0% of the world's heroin supply to 95% of the world's heroin supply, and the entire thing happened under literal U.S. military occupation, okay?
		Now, Afghanistan, back in the day, in the 1970s, was a huge percentage of the world's heroin supply, and I want to kind of go through the history of this from China.
		And the Golden Triangle into the Golden Crescent and then finally into the Western Hemisphere, because you're going to see this USAID, CIA, DOD drug running operation that's been going on for 100 years at this point.
		Everyone can look up a man named Paul Hallowell.
		Paul Hallowell was the chief legal eagle for the Central Intelligence Agency.
		From the 1930s until the early 1950s, whereupon he transitioned back into corporate law life, there's another sort of funny intersection.
		I'm something of a corporate lawyer myself.
		I worked for eight years as a New York corporate lawyer, and it's funny when you look at the fact that Alan Dulles and Paul Hallowell and so many of these others had the same job, because what it has to do is creative structuring.
		In order to hide what's really going on.
		So Paul Hellwell, you'll see he joined the CIA in 1947.
		He, in May 1949, met with Harry Truman and advocated for increased funds for Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang army there.
		Now you notice that, okay, in the war with China.
		Now, and Frank Wisner is the guy who created Operation Mockingbird.
		He's the one who ran Wisner's Wurlitzer, the international swirl of media under the CIA's command that is now stationed out of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, another agency that was just shut down by the Trump administration.
		That's where Voice of America is now housed out of Radio for Europe, Radio Liberty.
		You'll see that this also includes establishing Civil Air Transport, which was the CIA proprietary airliner.
		Now, what Paul Hallowell is famous for today is he was sort of the architect of the CIA drug-running apparatus that was...
		He basically took it over, because you saw that he formerly worked for the military, and then he was CIA.
		And what Paul Hallowell did is he...
		He helped orchestrate this interlinkage between CIA and banks and military cargo planes to run drugs for the KMT by taking the opium that was grown in China and in the Golden Triangle, flying it out on U.S. military aircraft, and then washing the money through several offshore bank accounts, effectively.
		It was one of the big games in town in this.
		The Vatican Bank had worked closely with the U.S. military during World War II when the Vatican Bank and organized crime in Italy were two allies of the U.S. because they were both staunchly against Mussolini.
		Mussolini was oppressing the Catholic Church.
		Mussolini was cracking down on Italian mafia organizations and organized crime.
		They were organized crime for the good guys, the mafia was during World War II.
		And the Vatican Bank was a sovereign banking territory.
		This is before the Brits perfected offshore banking.
		And the Brits didn't really move into Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands and Bank of Jersey and all these offshore bank accounts until really the 1950s with the Suez Crisis.
		So at the time...
		The Vatican Bank was being used to launder drug proceeds for the U.S. military in the early Central Intelligence Agency.
		They also diversified the bank accounts into what are now known as CI proprietary banks.
		If you look up, for example, Castle Bank and Trust or the Nugent Hand Bank, Castle Bank and Trust was set up in the Cayman Islands.
		Nugent Hand was set up in Australia.
		In Australia, it was local to the It was local to Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos, and so it was easy.
		You have these local banks that are set up by the CIA to launder drug proceeds.
		In the 1970s, this was done with a bank called BCCI, the Bank of Commerce and Credit International, which was a big scandal.
		It was a CIA proprietary bank that collapsed.
		It was run out of Pakistan, which, as you and I have talked about, is the sort of star player in the Ryan Routh Now, BCCI was used to launder the heroin proceeds that were being used to fund the Mujahideen, just as the opium proceeds were being used by the CIA and the U.S. military to fund Chiang Kai-shek during the 1930s and 40s against Mao.
		And just like the cocaine trade was used to help the Nicaraguan Contras, And the Brazil military coup and the coups in Bolivia and Argentina and Colombia.
		So what you see is that narcotics provides seven to eight times as much funding for U.S. proxy wars as U.S. development funds do.
		And so if you try to shut down the drug trade, you are going to shut down the U.S. ability to...
		To orchestrate regime change in Venezuela.
		To orchestrate regime change in Syria.
		And we saw, for example, these same Syrian terrorist groups, these ISIS groups, they traffic in the drug trade.
		And lo and behold, where are they sourcing those drugs from?
		U.S. military-occupied poppy crops.
		USAID was actually busted irrigating the heroin crops, the poppy crops, in order to allow The CIA and its proxy groups to traffic it out of there.
		And what you see is US Institute for Peace was saying it was going to be an economic and humanitarian disaster if we shut down the drug trade.
		What happened when Bukele tried to shut down the drug gangs in El Salvador?
		Who was his enemy there?
	It was USAID.
	And it was State Department USAID partners like the George Soros Open Society Foundation who said, you can't arrest the drug cartels.
	That's a humanitarian crisis to try to mass incarcerate these drug dealers.
	Hey, Benny, what are the Soros DAs doing in major metropolitan cities like Chicago and in Arizona and in Los Angeles where they are literally retailing?
	The drugs that come in from Colombia and Mexico, they're letting the drug dealers go.
	They are decriminalizing drug sales.
	They are keeping the entire layer of the drug trade flowing.
	And what you see is it goes all the way up to the State Department, the DOD, CIA, and USAID.
	And so this is just a massive fight that Trump has ahead of him if he wants to try to shut down fentanyl and illegal narcotics because he's up against his own government.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Mike, there's so many follow-up questions.
		I just like sitting back and listening to the lecture, quite frankly.
		I don't even know where to begin, so I think I'll change the subject, to be quite honest with you.
		I think you've established just a perfect through line from the creation of the blob.
		I need it to my window, please, Klein.
		From the creation of the blob.
		And its inception, which is what we actually see in these documents, which is very fascinating.
		And then with the through line to the battles that we're having today.
		And I want to do that with this document.
		Something that you mentioned before.
		Bioweapons being used, and in particular, to be masked.
		That would appear to be of natural origin.
		I love this one.
		Huh, hot damn, man.
		Where have I seen that before?
		It's incredible.
		We'll create a bioweapon for regime change and we'll loose it and we'll claim that it was from natural origin and we'll send Dr. Fauci to the CIA to strong arm and to badger the CIA scientists to say that it came from a Wuhan bat soup.
		And...
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		It's incredible.
		$15 million from USAID, by the way.
		The Wuhan Institute of Viral has got $15 million to develop SARS.
		The fur and cleavage site DARPA developed coronavirus jumping animals to humans.
		They got $15 million from USAID to do that work.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's refreshing.
		It's like having a sip of...
		Hot tea on a cold winter's night.
		It's so nice to just see something so familiar here.
		Let's make sure that it's a biological weapon, but that we can mask it as natural origin.
		It's like the same playbook, bro.
		It's like 60 years.
		The same playbook.
		It's unbelievable.
		You've talked about this before.
		This is obviously Operation Mongoose.
		This is in Cuba.
		But break it down.
		Seeing a lot of action these days.
		Weather control, biological weapons, and control back in the 60s.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Yes, I'm going to text you and your producer another thing to pull on screen, but let's stay on this one because they're both connected.
		So I want to read this full thing here, actually, because like I sort of said when we first started talking, I don't...
		And I don't think you should expect to see a smoking gun about who killed JFK in here.
		Now, there will be circumstantial evidence that will be useful for further investigation, but you're not going to find a CIA cable about the CIA killing Kennedy.
		But you do see smoking guns on...
		So actually, if we start with that other one, I'm going to connect it to this in a second.
		Actually, we'll start with this, maybe, and then we'll go back to that document.
		So you do see smoking guns.
		For so many other things that are pertinent to world events that are in these documents.
		And what you just pulled up is an absolutely devastating smoking gun, which corroborates the entire thesis and actual logistical descriptions that are given out.
		So if I can just read that quickly, the tweet description, because it just sort of tees it up.
		And I tweeted this.
		A year and a half ago.
		And I said, okay, so look, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like COVID may have actually been made in the same military lab where the Pentagon created Lyme disease.
		And what I mean by that is there's a book by Chris Newby called Bitten, and there's a lot of other excellent researchers who have studied the military origins of tick-borne viruses like Lyme disease, which have a very, very strange imprint on the human...
		It's a very unnatural outlier in the realm of human diseases.
		And it was the U.S. military during the exact period that what you just pulled up on screen was working, had formal military programs to create what we now know as Lyme disease, tick-borne viruses to be deployed on Cuba.
		In order to kill their agriculture crops.
		So here's the through line here.
		If you pull up that first screenshot there, you'll see this from Daily Mail.
		It says, Revealed.
		Tony Fauci run lab in Montana, experimented with coronavirus strain shipped in from Wuhan a year before COVID pandemic began.
		Now, you'll see in the bottom left.
		That's called the Rocky Mountain Laboratories.
		Now, this is the star player in Chris Newby's book Bitten about the origins of Lyme disease.
		The world's foremost expert on tick-borne viruses was recruited to a military lab in Montana called Rocky Mountain Laboratories, where they were given DARPA grants and U.S. military funding to jump tick-borne viruses to humans.
		And to superjuice, to basically give Lyme disease and related tick-borne viruses to ticks.
		They would collect ticks in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, and they would bring them to the lab, and the military would infuse them with what they called sublethal agents, so that it would not cause mass death.
		This was actually conceived by the military as being a humanitarian way.
		of doing war because it would not result in hundreds of thousands or millions of casualties.
		It would just mean all of the agricultural crop workers in Cuba would get sick.
		They'd get sick for months.
		They would be lethargic.
		They'd be unable to do physical labor, which, by the way, is the same symptoms you have from Lyme disease.
		And so they would not be able to sustain themselves while they were under a trade embargo.
		The U.S. had a naval blockade on Cuba, so they could not import.
		They had to rely on their own sugar.
		They had to rely on their own fruit.
		And so if you don't have tens of thousands of agricultural crop workers, because nominally commercial airplanes dropping military cargo carrying tick-borne viruses infects the whole agricultural crop workers, now everyone starves.
		And there has been You know, decades of research on the role of starvation in regime change.
		It is extremely useful to get people up on the streets to protest their government when the government can't feed the people.
		There is a pressing time clock because people's family, their children are starving, their wives are starving, so they need, if they believe that they'll be able to feed themselves under a new government.
		Or that there will be aid packages delivered with a new government.
		They will take to the streets and overthrow that government.
		This is what the military planned to do in Cuba, and they planned to use Lyme disease created in the first place by the military to do it.
		So if you go to the next slides here, you'll see.
		Yeah, okay.
		Maybe the next one.
unidentified		Right.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		You'll see here.
		So this is Bergdorfer.
		Grew up in Basel, Switzerland.
		You know, studied Swiss Tropical Public Health.
		At the end of his training in 1951, he took out the position at the U.S. government's Rocky Mountain Labs in Montana.
		And the job was to try to create, this was done under the cover of trying to create vaccines against these tick-borne viruses.
		You know, vaccine diplomacy goes back a long way.
		In fact, vaccine diplomacy and vaccines as an instrument of statecraft, as a foreign policy tool, was lauded by Henry Kissinger.
		Whose name is all over these documents, as well as by Peter Hotez.
		Peter Hotez, the star spokesman of all things COVID orthodoxy, wrote a whole series of articles beginning in 2004 about how vaccines can play, even if they don't work, even if you leave aside the health benefits, it allows the U.S. State Department to penetrate areas that would typically be forbidden.
		Under statecraft and typical intelligence grounds if you run it through the public health facilities and vaccine clinics.
		As you and I have talked about, the CIA was busted running fake vaccine clinics in Pakistan and running CIA operations in Latin America out of HIV clinics.
		And so if you go back now to the slide that you had just pulled up, the now declassified Unbracketed.
		It's like when Trump said, I'm unshackled.
		Remember when the pussy tape dropped in the 2016 campaign election?
		He said, I'm now unshackled.
		I can say, we're now unbracketed.
		We're unbracketed, Benny.
		So if you scroll up to the top, I just want to read this whole thing and just tie it together if we have time.
		So the special group then turns to discussion.
		to agricultural sabotage.
		Again, the same thing that Chris Newby meticulously documents that was the purpose of creating these tick-borne viruses that would later become what we now live with today as Lyme disease.
		And you'll notice it's being run at the military level.
		General Carter.
		And again, the military was funding the creation of these tick-borne viruses out of the very lab That the DARPA grants to create the SARS-CoV-2 fern cleavage sites would be used.
		The same lab, Benny!
		It's not like just the same playbook.
		It's the same players from 60 years ago.
		Emphasize the extreme sensitivity of any such operation.
		Agricultural sabotage.
		And that disastrous results would flow from something going wrong.
		Disastrous results would flow from something going wrong.
		Oh, like, for example, now Americans are getting Lyme disease.
		Particularly if there were obvious attribution to the US.
		Now, what have I been talking about since Jump Street about who was in control of censorship about US or US military role in the creation of COVID?
		It was CIA proprietaries and US military funded censorship organizations who were the first people on the scene.
		To censor COVID-19.
		It was the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab, which is funded by the U.S. government and has seven CIA directors on its board, who immediately, before it even got its name COVID-19, back when it was called the coronavirus, its first two months was setting up special monitoring groups about rumors of it being man-made or it being a military creation.
		It was Grafica, who got $7 million in...
		Military PSYOP funding.
		They were literally incubated in the Minerva Initiative, which, thank God, Trump has now shut down, much to the dismay of the censorship industry.
		The Minerva Initiative is now on its way out the door because its funding has been pulled.
		They were the ones who incubated Grafica.
		Grafica was a private corporation that was folded into the Pentagon's Psychological Operations Research Center.
		They then turned around and began monitoring rumors and actually doing Detailed, complex, sophisticated topographical network maps of everyone in the United States, everyone in every NATO country, everyone in Southeast Asia, everyone in South America, by political party, by communal affiliation.
		Who were the major networks spreading those conspiracy theories about there being man-made origins?
		And they started doing that.
		In December and January, December 2019 and January 2020.
		So you'll see the military is saying, operationally, we need to do this.
		We need to make sure no one thinks it's us.
		During COVID, DARPA funded the creation of these, you know, foreign cleavage site SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses and then funded the cover-up of it.
		He went on to say, however, That it would be possible to accomplish this purpose by methods more subtle than those indicated in the paper.
		Now, what I want to know is, show me the paper.
		What's in that paper?
		Because the nice thing about this is these documents also provide, like, there's a lot of references to annexes that we don't have.
		There's a lot of references to, you know, like cited documents that are not in this.
		I want to know what's in that paper.
		He mentioned specifically the possibility of producing crop failures by the introduction of biological agents, which would appear to be of natural origin.
		That's what they were doing with Lyme disease.
		That's what they were doing with tick-borne viruses that were being created for the express purpose of dropping them into Cuba.
		Now, what we don't have is evidence that it was actually dropped into Cuba.
		We don't know whether or not they actually went through with this.
		What we do know is that that work was then carried out.
		In Lyme, Connecticut, where the, you know, in that whole New York Lyme, just like, for example, in that Montana lab, would then carry out its work at the UNC Chapel Hill lab.
	There's this interlinkage here.
	That's where we got EcoHealth Alliance and the USAID funding.
	Mr. Bundy said he had worries about any such sabotage which could clearly be made to appear as the result of...
	of local Cuban disaffectation or of a natural disaster, but that we must avoid external activities such as the release of chemicals unless they could be completely covered up.
	And again, part of the reason they started running this outside of the National Security Council, part of the reason this became run completely in-house at USAID was because Dulles, the CIA director, And folks within the National Security Council did not want things to be run through the traditional NSC machinery because all it takes is one whistleblower.
	Trump leaves office and writes a book and says, holy crap, I was in the meeting where we decided we were going to unleash biological agents to destabilize the world economy to ensure that Trump wouldn't be re-elected.
	And we worked with our partners in China who also hated Trump to do it.
	But if the CIA...
	Hated Trump as they did, as the military hated Trump as they did, and I can personally attest that Trump, you know, was at war with his own generals from within the White House.
	We know that Mark Milley, for example, was having close calls with China behind Trump's back to reassure China that Trump would not be taking action, you know, during the transition period, and Mark Milley was very close to the China folks there.
	Were they close during the Wuhan lab, you know?
	The thing here, did they run this through the Wuhan?
	Did they run this DARPA-created, USAID-funded operation through a Chinese lab so that the US involvement could be, quote, completely covered up?
	Because China's got tight controls over its own information security.
	What I'm saying is, is all this opens the door to...
	Further declassification.
	And it helps us forensically reconstruct the specific institutions which now need much further review, from the AFL-CIO to the public health universities to USAID itself.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So very quickly, Mike.
		Very quickly, Mike.
		Yeah, Robert made it.
		Utterly fascinating.
		This went viral.
		It was a post from Eric Weinstein.
		And he's getting into the Epsteinop, which is the way that I read this.
		But I don't know, right?
		Here's a world leader.
		Here's an actress or young girl.
		And here's a film of it.
		And we've sent those naughty films to the state that we wish to influence.
		And it's all here in black and white.
		And I'm sure that you know far more about this operation, but to me, much like the poisoning of crops and the natural origin and the bioweapons, it sure as hell seems to rhyme with what we know about the Epstein op.
		Your take on these notes from inside of the JFK documents release.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I mean, I have been skeptical for some time about the blackmail.
		To me, It's obvious that Epstein was an access agent.
		That, to me, is fairly incontrovertible.
		Now, an access agent is someone who gets access to networks or to geographic or physical territories that you would not normally be able to get access to as a diplomat.
		And so you need some sort of intelligence asset under some sort of cover, a humanitarian cover.
		Emergency worker cover, commercial cover, embassy cover, but that can hobnob with individuals and get them to share secrets, get them to tell you their plans of what they're going to be doing next.
		Be in the room where it happens.
		For example, people are using freshly issued burner phones.
		The NSC can't tap that immediately unless they are able to...
		Have a network that they can immediately tie it into.
		Oftentimes, you just need people on the ground.
		And the fact is, Epstein was more connected than anyone I've ever heard of, other than diplomats like Henry Kissinger and the like.
		This is a guy who was in with not just heads of state, like Bill Clinton or Ahud Barak in Israel or Netanyahu in Israel.
		Or the British royal family in the UK, but was having frequent meetings with Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman, who was deeply involved in the universities.
		He was one of the key funders of the MIT Media Lab.
		MIT, by the way, is all over these CIA documents, which is a whole other thing, the CIA and the universities in this.
		He had connections in Hollywood.
		He had, obviously, these connections to these sex trafficking rings.
		Now, the CIA was involved in sex trafficking.
		You know, again, so was the War Department actually was in the 1930s and 40s for intel collection during World War II.
		You know, you have these soldiers in these brothels.
		You see the military and CIA role in prostitution is a very interesting one.
		But the CIA was famously running something at this very time while this is going on called Operation Midnight Climax.
		You can look that up.
		There's been a lot of movies and books written about this, which was the CIA's work with With whorehouses, not just abroad, but in the United States itself.
		The CIA was effectively running brothels in New York and in Los Angeles and in San Francisco.
		We know that there have been strange cases of high-level political figures being involved with the D.C. Madam and these other prostitution scandals.
		That happened.
		If you want to get rid of a prosecutor, for example, this is what, you know, prostitution was used to take down folks like Eliot Spitzer in New York.
		You can gather a lot of intelligence by capitalizing on people's vices.
		And what you see here with the Robert Mayhew story is, you know, what seems to be an almost direct replica of Jeffrey Epstein, except we know with Robert Mayhew, Mayhew belonged to intelligence, and we know that Jeffrey Epstein...
		Belong to intelligence because the friggin' prosecutor himself, Alex Acosta, when he was appointed to be the Secretary of Labor, when he was nominated to be the appointee, one of the big scandals was, well, why didn't you crack down on Epstein?
		Because he had just gotten rearrested.
		And Alex Acosta came out and publicly, you know, put the chips on the table and said, wasn't my fault.
		I, at the Justice Department, was told to back off of Epstein.
		Because he belonged to intelligence.
		And I have also seen a lot of other things with CIA Epstein that show a direct communication channel there.
		But let me pause that to say that you also have these strange situations.
		If you go to Google right now and you type in Jeffrey Epstein, New York State Department, State Department lease.
		And you'll see something, because again, anytime you have the CIA operations, they're supposed to be State Department approval.
		And so you have, now, Alex Acosta, here you go, look at that Buzz, just pull that BuzzFeed one, okay?
		Now...
		Let me mention just a little bit of the history of Jeffrey Epstein and statecraft, because the question is, was Jeffrey Epstein Robert Mayhew 50 years later, 40 years later, 30 years later, actually, because the Jeffrey Epstein story goes back to 1985 and potentially earlier.
		Jeffrey Epstein was involved in, and actually, before I read this, let me set the stage here.
		So maybe you can scroll if you'd like, but I'll come back to it.
		Jeffrey Epstein was involved in several CIA-adjacent operations long before the sex trafficking allegations came to pass.
		And again, we know that the prosecutor prosecuting Epstein said that he was intelligence, which is going to mean CIA.
		Now, it likely also means foreign intelligence organizations.
		It's very difficult for me to imagine, for example, that it was not...
		I believe that Epstein was an access agent.
		I also believe that it's highly likely that it was a shared access agent between the U.S., the U.K., and Israel.
		The fact that Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, was a Mossad agent, the fact that you have these deep interlinkages with the Israeli government, the fact that the CIA itself has these deep interlinkages, You know, we see these in the documents.
		You know, James Angleton, James Jesus Angleton was the guy who ran point for U.S.-Israel intelligence sharing and back channels.
		You know, anytime you have U.S. intelligence, you have British intelligence.
		There's a special relationship between the U.S. and U.K. There's a special relationship between the U.K. and Israel.
		If you remember, Israel only got its...
		Independence only got created as a country because of the Balfour Declaration, the letter from Lord Rothschild to Lord Balfour during World War II about basically securing the British mandate of Palestine for Israel.
		So there's been this joint fluidity between the US, UK and Israel.
		The fact that Epstein We saw this, for example, in a sense that's controversial and a major scandal that Americans can't even get disclosure about their own paid-for by American taxpayers' intelligence work.
		But, you know, this is not Just unique to Israel.
		You see in these documents, the Australian embassy was putting pressure on the CIA not to declassify various things.
		You saw many other countries whose names were redacted until just two days ago in Belize, in Guatemala, in Mexico, in Hungary.
		So this is not just an Israel or UK thing.
		This is a fairly common thing.
	You can imagine, for example, if the UK wanted to declassify If Joe Biden was in power and Nigel Farage had, you know, won the campaign to become the prime minister of the UK, you could imagine the Joe Biden State Department and CIA putting pressure not to declassify British intelligence documents that implicated U.S. access agents because there's joint intelligence sharing through Five Eyes and other channels.
	What I'm saying, though, here is the Jeffrey Epstein story runs through statecraft, not just through the sex trafficking ring.
	But for coming up on 40 years now, in 1985, Jeffrey Epstein was involved in these intelligence networks during the Iran-Contra affair.
	It was Jeffrey Epstein and his sponsor, Les Wexner, in Columbus, Ohio, who played a large role in the Iran-Contra scandal when Congress forbade the Republican...
	You had a Democrat Congress who passed something called the Bolin Amendment, which prevented U.S. taxpayer funds from being used for regime change in Nicaragua.
	But the Reagan White House wanted to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua anyway.
	The problem was they were not allowed to use taxpayer dollars to do it.
	So they had to get creative.
	They had to create what the National Security Council point on this, Poindexter, would call a standalone A self-sustained, off-the-shelf, private enterprise to run this.
	So it was being coordinated by the government, but the funding would be done through something they called the enterprise, which would be private, it would be standalone, meaning it would not be stood up within the government.
	It would be self-sustained, meaning it would fund itself, and it would be off-the-shelf, meaning the U.S. government could pick it up or put it down when it needed it for black ops and dirty work operations.
	When it needed and when it didn't need it, they would call it off the shelf or a la carte.
	It would exist as a network node to be utilized when and as needed, but it wouldn't be a permanent government function.
	It wouldn't be like a Bureau of Political Affairs subsection at state or at DOD or CIA.
	And they created this for Iran-Contra.
	This all came out in public hearings.
	It was a massive scandal during the Reagan administration.
	It ran through George H.W. Bush, who was the CIA director and whose name is all over these JFK documents, I should note, which is another interesting thread.
	But maybe we'll get to that maybe in another venue.
	But Jeffrey Epstein was involved in the personal negotiation.
	So those CIA airliners to run drugs to the Nicaraguan Contras, because they couldn't fund it through congressional allocations, they funded it through drugs.
	The cocaine trade, the Nicaraguan Contras, were effectively running a drug trade through Miami, through MENA, Arkansas, and the CIA airbase there under Bill Clinton's control.
	Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas at the time.
	This was a massive scandal that the CIA airbase was being used to run drugs under a Democrat governor for a Republican president.
	Of course, that governor would become the next president.
	You know, funny that, right?
	But Jeffrey Epstein, the airlines that were being used for that were by and large CI proprietary airlines, like Air America, Southern Air Transport, Continental Air Services.
	You know, they weren't running this on like, you know, Delta flights.
	These were CI proprietaries that were trafficking drugs from CI airbases to their friendly points of contact in Colombia.
	And transporting in from there or Guatemala or Costa Rica or directly into Nicaragua.
	And Jeffrey Epstein was involved in the personal renegotiation when the MENA Air Force Base closed down and when the Southern Air Transport was closed down in Miami.
	Those bases moved directly to Columbus, Ohio, which is the home of Jeffrey Epstein's sponsor, Les Wexner.
	I believe it's also where Vivek comes from.
	And I'm not implicating Vivek here.
	I'm trying to say that there's a fascinating role of economic development and military CIA activity.
	And Columbus, Ohio was also the star of the show, if you remember, with the Haiti kerfuffle, when Haitians were being moved en masse.
	Into Republican Mike DeWine's state of Ohio to Springfield, just like 15, 20 minutes away from Columbus, Ohio.
	Now, Columbus, Ohio was...
	Republicans were apoplectic.
	Do you remember this scandal?
	This was about six months ago.
	Of course.
	What was happening there is Mike DeWine was in the process of turning Ohio into a major military-industrial hub.
	This is part of his economic development plan, is to supercharge Ohio's military contracts.
	Now, Columbus, Ohio, that exact region they were being imported to, was exactly where the CIA proprietary airline that Jeffrey Epstein negotiated.
	They literally closed down in Miami and Mena, moved to Columbus, Ohio.
	They then used that for transport to Hong Kong, which is a major, major drug trafficking hub.
	Hong Kong was won over by the British by military means during the Opium Wars in the 1800s.
	Again, Hong Kong only became a non-China entity.
	The reason there's a dispute over Hong Kong is because it was seized by the British when China refused to buy British opium.
	We call these the opium wars.
	And so Hong Kong was a narco state, just like Taiwan, just like what's now Colombia and what Afghanistan was turned into, what Pakistan is.
	And so what I'm getting at here is Jeffrey Epstein was taking these CIA drug-running airliners and moving them directly to Columbus, Ohio.
	Remember the Haitians, okay?
	Why were the Haitians being brought into Ohio?
	What does that have to do with Jeffrey Epstein and Les Wexner and the U.S. military?
	Well, if you remember, we recently, I'm sorry, FBI informants, DEA informants, and U.S. military-funded commandos assassinated the president of Haiti in 2021.
	You can look this up.
	It's an incredible scandal that's currently playing out completely behind closed doors because the CIA intervened on the trial of the FBI informant, DEA informant, and U.S. military-trained assassin squad.
	They've been on trial in Miami.
	For the past several years, but the CIA intervened on the Justice Department and said that sensitive information about these individuals cannot be turned over to defense counsel.
	You cannot have open hearings.
	You can't sit in or read the transcripts of these trials because it's a matter of national security about whether or not these people who assassinated the president of Haiti, it could undermine U.S. national security if we knew the details of who killed the president of Haiti.
	What does that tell you?
	But Haiti is also, their main export is apparel.
	Most of the workforce in Haiti either works in one of two fields.
	They either do apparel, threads, t-shirts, skirts, luxury fashion, high-end dresses, lingerie.
	A huge proportion of that is...
	is centered in Haiti.
	There's cheap labor.
	There's no look, oversight from the regulatory authorities.
	Bill Clinton couped the Haitian president, Aristide, out of power in the early 90s and then couped him back into power in the late 1990s.
	This is how much the Clinton world has been playing around in Haiti.
	But Jeffrey Epstein's chief sponsor, the guy who gave him his second New York townhouse, Which will get us back to this article, because his first New York townhouse was given to him directly by the U.S. State Department.
	How do you get that, by the way?
	Try just walking up to the State Department and trying to make them your landlord.
	But Jeffrey Epstein, what I'm trying to say is, limited brands made its goods in Haiti.
	Columbus, Ohio, the...
	Limited Brands was the largest retailer in the United States in the 1990s, centered out of Columbus, Ohio, sourcing its goods out of Haiti.
	That whole financial empire, it's like straight out of Zoolander.
	When the whole plot of Zoolander was to assassinate the Malaysian prime minister so that high-end apparel in New York City could keep sourcing its goods from Malaysia and they wouldn't implement these child labor laws.
	Well, we just assassinated the president of Haiti.
	Jeffrey Epstein's main sponsor, Les Wexter, runs his whole network out of Columbus, Ohio.
	The whole thing runs on the fashion industry in Haiti.
	We were just importing tens of thousands of Haitians directly into the area while we are trying to stabilize the government.
	The whole purpose of these refugee programs is to give them free food, free housing, free cars.
	No-show jobs so that we pay for their entire lifestyle so that they can send our taxpayer money in the form of remittances to CIA-backed mercenary groups in the area to take control.
	That's the whole game.
	We pay for everything so they send remittances back to the network they came from so you don't even need USAID funding.
	If Congress doesn't want to approve billions of dollars in USAID funding...
	No problem.
	Because beyond the development funding, we've got the narco-trafficking funds and we've got the remittance money for the refugee programs.
	It's all being run through the same Columbus-Haiti network that Jeffrey Epstein was running and even negotiating the CI airliners to set up the transportation hubs to run it from.
	I'll pause there to say...
	Oh, okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I'll just say, we'll tighten it up, right?
		It's the same, right?
		It's the same operational...
jesse watters ▲ ● ▼		Playbooks.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And that's essentially all I'm trying to get to is whether it's COVID-19 or whether it's Jeffrey Epstein, you can see laid bare here in the documents.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's the same.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, and it's approved at the highest levels.
		Jeffrey Epstein leased that $15,000 a month in the 1990s.
		This is before the famous Jeffrey Epstein townhouse, which is just two blocks away.
		He moved directly from the State Department.
		Two, that Les Wexner, you know, acquired for zero dollars, largest residential real estate building in the entire city of New York, okay?
		Now, Jeffrey Epstein leased that directly from the State Department.
		The State Department had just seized that building from Iran.
		They seized it from the government of Iran.
		Now, remember I said that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in the gun-running networks, you know, he was working with Anand Khashoggi.
		And his whole network was the main arms runner during Iran-Contra.
		The State Department seizes this giant residential palace from the government of Iran and then gives it to Jeffrey Epstein, but then gets double-crossed by Epstein when Epstein then subleases the building out without the State Department's consent to...
		And if you scroll down, you'll see how this ended up falling apart and he ended up moving to the...
		The now famous mansion.
		Actually, if you scroll up one second, it's just right above you.
		But things went sour when the State Department sued Epstein, alleging that he moved out of the building without their consent.
		There's another thing they freaked out about is when he left and they didn't know where he was.
		But then he ended up subletting it to Ivan Fisher, the famous New York criminal defense lawyer who represented...
		The French Connection and Pizza Connection drug rings.
		Now, the French Connection was the CIA drug...
		There's a whole movie about this called the French Connection.
		So let me explain the French Connection and Pizza Connection here.
		The French Connection was...
		So when the CIA was moving opium out of the Golden Triangle and moving it into Vatican Bank accounts and Cayman Islands accounts and offshore CIA proprietary banks, They were processing the refinement of the opium into heroin and the processing of the narcotics in France.
		The French CIA facilities were used to process the drugs.
		They were then transported to Italy, where the unions and the Italian mafia organizations would then transport them out through the Mediterranean and into ports in New York and in Boston and in Miami.
		You had the CIA and military sourcing the drugs.
		You had the French CIA military connection that was refining it.
		And you had the Italians who were moving it logistically through their unions, through the dock workers, through the ship workers, and through the transport that was controlled by the unions, which was controlled by the mob, which was answering to and protected by.
		This is why these organized crime networks were never arrested.
		Until the 1990s, when we basically moved primarily from the Italian mobs to the Colombian and the Mexican and the Central Asian ones with the Turkish White Wolves and the whole Taliban-ISIS networks.
		But basically, they were protected for 50 years by the Justice Department because they belonged to intelligence.
		But what I'm saying is Jeffrey Epstein not only scored this cushy mansion...
		Directly from the State Department in a region Epstein himself helped facilitate the arms traffic to, but then he subleased it out to the guy representing the defendants in the exact drug-running operations that the CIA was running.
		Now, the pizza connection, by the way, is not the John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, Pizzagate Network.
		This was a separate scandal that popped off in the 1980s.
		When the Italian mafia was laundering drug proceeds through cash-only pizza parlors up and down the East Coast, and this went protected for decades, and everyone wondered, why aren't the prosecutors doing anything?
		And the answer was because they were moving the wholesale products from the intelligence services that were being used to fund proxy wars when we couldn't get enough USAID funding.
		And washing it through pizza parlors.
		What's the answer to that?
		Give more USAID funding.
		And so this is one of the funny things about all these USAID-funded groups saying, don't get rid of USAID.
		It's going to cause these negative economic and humanitarian consequences because the more you strip USAID, the more CIA drug trafficking you need.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Mike, it's like interviewing Grok.
		This is what it is like.
		It's like interviewing the most sophisticated AI.
		That understands the deepest, darkest secrets of our federal government.
		And ladies and gentlemen, if you want to understand those secrets, and I have more follow-up questions.
		Every time I think I have a follow-up question, we bulldoze that, like, seven stories ago.
		And, like, keep going.
		You gotta follow Mike.
		Here's Mike's account.
		Like, in document dumps like these, we can barely crack the crust, and Mike goes, like, straight to the very heart.
		This has been, like, listening to...
		A college lecture, Mike.
		It's amazing.
		Mike does a lot of this, actually, on his channel.
		One million.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		I'll be doing a four-hour lecture tonight, actually.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		One million subs.
		Mike, I might regret this, but here we go.
		In 60 seconds or less, who killed Kennedy?
unidentified		I have thoughts.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		I think the beautiful thing about these documents is that they give us leads.
		To try to secure that answer.
		Like I said, these are paper documents, and that paper's been sitting around for 60 years.
		With the Whitey Bulger case in 2014, under the Obama administration, of course, Whitey Bulger's cousin is close with Joe Biden, but you had the FBI.
		Talking about the need to destroy its own paper records, because if anyone finds this, we'll all get fired.
		That was a direct quote from the special agent in charge of the FBI field office in Boston about Whitey Bulger in the early 2010s.
		So I have to think that given that the CIA was turned over to the administration...
		They're not going to put that on paper.
		What you can do is you can build a case as was done by the New Orleans prosecutor in the 1970s.
		The best you can do is reconstruct the full picture before you make a preliminary assessment.
		Obviously, there's a lot of people.
		These documents give a list of suspects, but it's almost like a game of Clue where everybody involved.
		has the means and the motives.
		Whether you think that's the CIA, whether you think it's a foreign intelligence service, like people are saying the Israeli government may be implicated, whether you think it's the unions, whether you think it's the anti-Castro Cubans, whether you think it's his own military brass who were upset about his detente with Russia and his policy on Cuba.
		Everybody's got the means and the motive.
		But the best thing that we can do is, on the way to trying to find that ultimate answer, reconstruct as much of the history of the national security state, declassify all the annexes we just talked about, and the paper references.
		Those are relevant.
		Those should be a second tranche.
		They may have information relevant to who killed Kennedy.
		And obviously, we should be demanding this same level of transparency about the Epstein releases, because...
		These are the same networks as we just talked about.
		You know, the CIA role in both of them, the State Department role in both of them, the intelligence web and outside institutions in both of them.
		So I don't want any brackets in the Epstein releases.
		This has been a healthy exercise, and it set the gold standard for subsequent releases, and I am proud to be an American this week.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Beautiful way to end it.
		Godspeed, Mike.
		Everybody follow Mike.
		More lectures tonight!
		You're the man, dude.
mike benz ▲ ● ▼		You too.
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