Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

June 6, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

02:16:32

BBN, June 6, 2024 – Exclusive news, documents and interviews reveal concerning questions about GOP..

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	Welcome to Brighton Broadcast News for Thursday, June 6, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams, and God bless you all on this D-Day anniversary.
	D-Day, June 6, 1944.
	Our soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy.
	And special prayers and blessings to all of our veterans, and especially all of those throughout our history who have given their lives in defense of the freedoms for which we now fight every day.
	We defeated tyranny, of course, in Europe with the help of the Russians, let us not forget, or the Soviets at the time, who lost tens of millions of soldiers.
	But together, and with the help of the French Resistance, and with the help of the British...
	And a few other groups.
	The Americans worked to defeat tyranny, to defeat the Nazi regime then in 1945.
	And now we seek to defeat tyranny yet again today in 2024 because tyranny raises its ugly head, doesn't it?
	I mean, just about 80 years later, oh, it's back.
	Back in your face.
	Now I've got an exclusive breaking news story that you won't hear anywhere else.
	This may affect a United States Senate election in Virginia.
	So I'm going to post that as a separate report and just sort of introduce it as a separate report here.
	So let's go to that right now.
	Here we go.
	Welcome to this exclusive report.
	For naturalnews.com and brighteon.com, I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Natural News and Brighteon.
	And we have an exclusive news issue today that is, I think, of very high importance for the upcoming election in November and the composition of the United States Senate, which, as you know, is teetering right on the edge of absolute tyranny. is teetering right on the edge of absolute tyranny.
	And with Trump leading in many of the polls, especially in the seven swing states, it appears increasingly likely that Trump is poised to win the election, even if he's in jail at the time.
	But what's going to happen to the Senate and the House?
	Well, listen to this story.
	Here's the headline from Natural News.
	Exclusive.
	Trump endorsed U.S. Senate candidate for Virginia, Hung Cao, and that's spelled C-A-O. He is of Vietnamese ethnicity.
	Accused of fraud by misusing PAC funds to support his own Senate campaign, Virginia House and Senate candidates react.
	So let me give you some background on this.
	You know, we have a Submit a News Tip form on our website and other news tip channels.
	And so I received some documents.
	One of them is the PDF of this filing, which we posted in this story.
	So it's a complaint to the Federal Election Commission, the FEC. And we posted the PDF of this complaint.
	And according to this complaint, Mr.
	Hong Kao, Engaged in, quote, mail fraud and wire fraud by raising funds for a super PAC that apparently he set up or spearheaded the founding of it.
	It was called Unleash America PAC, P-A-C. You know, Political Action Committee.
	Unleash America PAC. He, according to the complaint, and we've also been able to confirm this through other means, which I will detail here, he solicited donations to the PAC on the premise that those funds would be used to support local candidates in state races across Virginia, you know, races for the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate.
	Furthermore, according to this complaint, the Unleash America PAC did not donate a single dollar or expend any money in support of any Virginia candidate committees in 2023.
	Instead, some of that money has been directed, according to numerous sources, to compensate several people working on Hong Kong's current U.S. Senate campaign.
	Thus, the funds that were originally raised on the promise of supporting Virginia state candidates are now being used for Senate campaign expenditures.
	Now I'm quoting from the complaint.
	Among them for mail lists and political consultants aiding his U.S. Senate campaign.
	According to the allegations of the complaint.
	Now, now USA Today had covered some elements of the Unleash America PAC a couple of months ago, I think in April.
	But they were not aware of this FEC complaint that we have now received and that we have now posted publicly.
	Which accuses Mr.
	Hong Kao of essentially fraud and asks for him to be referred for criminal investigations by the DOJ, which at this point, I don't trust anything coming out of the DOJ. Look at what they're doing to Trump in New York.
	Look at the weaponization of the DOJ against conservatives or Trump supporters and so on.
	So I would not trust any DOJ investigation of any GOP candidate.
	That's just my personal view and opinion on the matter, but I'm just sharing this with you because this is part of the complaint.
	Now, of course, we have reached out to Mr. Hung Kao's campaign.
	I sent an email many, many hours ago.
	I gave them the details of the allegations.
	I asked them for a response.
	I told them that in good faith, I am looking to publish their response.
	And as of right now, I do not have a response.
	I also simultaneously emailed the same list of allegations to his opponent in the primary, who is Jonathan Emord, Now, Jonathan Emord, whom I have known for over 10 years, and I've interviewed Mr.
	Emord numerous times here and there.
	Last year, I also donated to Jonathan Emord's campaign, so I want to be very clear about that.
	I have not donated to Hong Kao's campaign, but I did donate to Mr.
	Emord's campaign.
	Also, for the record, I voted for Trump twice.
	And it seems likely, although I'm very frustrated with some things that Trump has done.
	I don't know that we have any other choice but to vote for Trump again.
	So I'm not here to debate what Trump is or isn't.
	What I'm pointing out is that Trump endorsed Hong Kao and I voted for Trump.
	So that actually carries some weight with me to be pro-Hong Kao.
	Okay.
	But then again, I also donated to Jonathan Imord, his primary opponent.
	So you might argue, well, that works in favor of Imord against Hong Kong.
	Well, let me just clear the air if anybody's got any questions.
	Here's the thing.
	The most important thing here, in my view, is to defeat Tim Kaine.
	Defeat Tim Kaine.
	Tim Kaine is the Democrat senator who was Hillary Clinton's vice presidential candidate in the 2016 election.
	If Trump had not won by overpowering the Democrat cheating machine, which was truly a miracle of history, if Trump had not won in 2016, Tim Kaine would have been vice president.
	And he would have, by the way, he would have made a much better vice president than Kamala Harris.
	But then again, you know, that's not a difficult bar decision.
	You know what I'm saying?
	It's not hard to be a better VP than Kamala.
	In any case, Jonathan Emord's office, I contacted his press office, and they did reply to me with the following statement, which I think is pretty big.
	Now, I also reached out.
	I did a lot of investigation.
	I spent all day on this, and I called four other candidates in Virginia, and Three of them talked to me on the record.
	The fourth has not returned my call.
	So who knows?
	Maybe she's on vacation or something.
	I don't know.
	So I have statements for you here today from four people.
	Let's start with Jonathan Emord, who, again, is the primary opponent of Hong Kao.
	He says, quote, the facts reveal a breach of the public trust that is disqualifying.
	Kow deceived Virginians and people across the country into believing the funds he solicited for his Unleash America PAC would be spent on state candidates.
	Instead, he took the money for himself and his U.S. Senate campaign.
	He should reimburse all donors to that sham PAC. Okay, so that's the statement from Imord.
	It's not that long, and he's not actually calling for Kao to end his campaign, which might be inappropriate anyway, given that Imord is his direct opponent in the primary, but he is calling...
	For Kao to reimburse the donors.
	Because the donors were deceived, says Emord.
	But also, by the way, in my story that I'm publishing on this, you'll see it at naturalnews.com, USA Today talked to donors who said that they were also deceived, that they heard Hung Kao on the radio promising that That if you donated to this PAC, Unleash America, that he would use the money to support other candidates.
	And that did not happen.
	And what's even more strange about all of this...
	Let me see if I can find...
	Here it is.
	I've got a screenshot of an email from Steve Roberts, who is the general counsel of Hongkau for Virginia...
	Steve Roberts, in this email, is replying to Elizabeth Bayer, B-E-Y-E-R, who is the author of these stories.
	She's part of the USA Today Network, also with Newsleader.com.
	I think they have a content sharing agreement.
	I'm not sure exactly what that is.
	But Elizabeth Bayer, I think it's pronounced Bayer, she has been pursuing this story quite a bit.
	I think she's published three or four stories on this and has been asking questions of the Hung Kyle campaign and asking them to respond to questions like, where did the money go?
	And so far, they have not responded.
	According to USA Today, they have not responded to those questions specifically.
	But they did reply with the following statement, which is very confusing to me.
	So again, this is from Steve Roberts, the general counsel of Hung Kyle for Virginia.
	He's replying to Elizabeth again.
	He says, Unleash America PAC is a federally registered super PAC and as such cannot make contributions to any campaign whatsoever.
	No campaign could possibly have received a contribution from Unleash America PAC, nor could Hung have pledged to make such a contribution.
	And I read that and I'm saying, I'm saying, what?
	Because I have, in researching this story, I have seen, I've watched Hung Kao make promises to financially support other campaigns.
	Strongly inferred, implied promises.
	I mean, he didn't directly say, I'm going to give a million dollars to this group.
	He wasn't naming dollar amounts, but he clearly made these promises that if you donate to the Unleash America PAC, that that money is going to go to other candidates.
	So USA Today, whom I do not trust USA Today by default, You know, because, well, it's more of a left-leaning newspaper.
	But I have to say that Elizabeth Bayer here, she appears to have been a very fair journalist in covering this particular story.
	I wish she would look into Hunter Biden's laptop and all the financial kickbacks to the Biden crime family from Burisma and China and who knows what else.
	But that might be asking too much of anybody who writes for USA Today because, you know, when you're...
	When your salary depends on not finding the truth, well, you're very likely to not find it.
	Now, I'm on nobody's payroll, by the way.
	Nobody pays me.
	I mean, I don't answer to anybody.
	I'm the founder of the platform that is publishing this story.
	I only answer to you, the readers, just to be clear.
	So I'm actually in a much better position than Elizabeth Beyer.
	She can be fired.
	I can't be fired.
	So I just want to get to the bottom of this.
	Anyway, Elizabeth...
	Did I say Bayer?
	Bayer.
	I'm sorry, I'm a little bit confused about the spelling.
	It's got to be Bayer.
	I'm sorry.
	Elizabeth Bayer...
	She writes that when Cow launched Unleash America in February of 2023, the Super PAC had one stated goal, to get Republicans elected during Virginia's 2023 statehouse contests to support Governor Glenn Youngkin's agenda, as reported by the Staunton News Leader and USA Today.
	And anyway, you can read all details.
	I'm not going to read everything for you here.
	You can find it here at naturalnews.com.
	But Elizabeth Bayer goes on to write...
	She spoke with Robert Landrum, who donated to the Super PAC. She writes that Robert Landrum thought he was supporting Republicans in Virginia's State House elections that year, referring to 2023, when he donated $500 to a federal Super PAC in April 2023.
	The Super PAC had one stated goal, et cetera, to get Republicans elected.
	That's how he represented the PAC. That's a quote from Mr.
	Robert Landrum.
	That's what he said, Landrum stated in a phone interview with USA Today.
	And then Elizabeth Bayer goes on to talk about the appearances on a radio show and a couple other articles that quote Mr.
	Hong Kao.
	So we went searching for that radio show.
	Actually, I had one of my staffers doing research here while I was working on this article and conducting interviews.
	We found the broadcast.
	It's called Richmond's Morning News with John Reed.
	And we published a link to it.
	It's at omny.fm, which apparently is like a broadcast podcast site.
	Anyways, February 2nd, 2023, if you want to find that broadcast.
	And then I listened to it, and in less than four minutes, here's what Kyle says on the show.
	He says what we need to do right now is we need to get leaders in the Virginia House of Delegates and the State Senate that believe in our values and that's why I'm launching Unleash America PAC because I was one of the top fundraisers in the country last year, this past year.
	I was 14th out of 435 people.
	I had people giving from all 50 states and I wanted to use that in order to help the people running this year and especially getting the vote out.
	And then the host, John Reed, apparently, asks, will your PAC start to address some of those issues?
	Where are you going to put the money?
	And Mr.
	Cow says...
	Obviously, a lot of the races that people wrote off saying, this is not going to happen, so we need to look at these candidates who have a fighting chance, and we've got to get them across the finish line, because without a good House of Delegates and without a state Senate, the governor is not going to be able to get half the things that he wants to get across.
	So there he is, very much implying or inferring that, yes, we're going to give this money to the candidates.
	He doesn't technically say, I'm going to write a check to every local candidate in Northern Virginia or anything like that.
	But the impression that the listener gets from hearing this is that that's exactly what's going to happen.
	I think a reasonable listener would reach that conclusion.
	But there are other examples of this.
	So I also found a video clip, and it's not clear when this video clip was recorded.
	But it's a meeting.
	It looks like it's in a local restaurant.
	Frankly, it looks like it's at an IHOP restaurant based on what's on the wall.
	And there's a video of this.
	I have the video.
	And he says, quote, we stood up a super PAC called Unleash America that's both a federal and state so that we can take the money and invest into the elections for this year.
	I'm not trying to brag, he says.
	I was the 14th largest fundraiser in the entire NRCC last year.
	I'm not sure if NRCC is correct.
	There was some noise during the video when he said whatever that is.
	But I think he said NRCC and he continues.
	So what's the best way to do that?
	That's why I'm working very hard this year in order to figure out a way to get the vote out to state elections.
	Okay, so he says, the key line here is, we can take the money and invest into the elections for this year, and he's referring to state elections.
	So, having this information, again, I don't by default believe USA Today, although I was able to confirm what they reported in this case, just to be clear.
	I'm just telling you, I'm like Ronald Reagan on this, trust but verify, you know?
	So, okay, USA Today reports something.
	All right, let's trust it by default, but let's verify that.
	And that's what I did for this story.
	And as part of that verification process, I began calling various congressional candidates who were running...
	In Virginia.
	Some for the U.S. House of Representatives and other candidates for local Virginia elections.
	So I spoke with Mike Van Meter, who was running for the 11th Congressional District in 2024.
	And his website is vanmeterforvirginia.com.
	And he gave me a lot of background information about why the PAC was founded by Hong Kong.
	And essentially, the short version is that Governor Yunkin has his super PAC called the Spirit of Virginia.
	And that PAC raises tens of millions of dollars, deep pockets, big donors.
	But Governor Yunkin doesn't spread that money around to everybody in the GOP in Virginia.
	What he does is he funds just certain hand-selected campaigns.
	And as a result, everybody else is left high and dry.
	And that has been confirmed to me by several sources here.
	There's a lot of frustration with that.
	Now, I did not reach out to Governor Youngkin's office, so perhaps he has a strategy for why this is necessary to maximize Investments in campaigns.
	Who knows?
	I'm not judging that decision.
	I'm just saying that that's what Youngkin does with the spirit of Virginia PAC. Anyway, so Mr.
	Mike Van Meter, he publicly expressed a lot of frustration with his policy on a show called The Larry O'Connor Show.
	And he says this was around October.
	And he was very vocal, sort of expressing frustration about the lack of financial support for other candidates.
	And he said that then Mr.
	Hong Kao called him immediately after he got off this Larry O'Connor show, which he said was about 6.30 in the morning.
	This is very early in the morning, and Hong Kao was listening.
	Now, Hong Kao is a military veteran, so he's one of those guys that can probably wake up at 5 a.m., you know?
	That's not me.
	I'm not up at 5 a.m.
	But Hung Kao is.
	You've got to honor that.
	He's got a strong work ethic.
	Anyway, so he calls Van Meter and says, hey, and I'm paraphrasing this.
	I'm shortening this.
	You can read the actual quote in my article.
	Basically, he says, hey, I'm going to start this new pack, and we're going to make sure that we're going to raise money to help each other.
	And this is a quote, particularly races that need the money like yours.
	And so Mike Van Meter said, essentially, that's great.
	And he had this conversation with Mr.
	Cowell, but then after that, he never heard from him again.
	I mean, never heard anything from this PAC. And also, Van Meter told me, he insisted that Mr.
	Heng Khao never directly promised any specific funds to him, but that this promise was strongly inferred from the conversation.
	And the quote from Van Meter is, quote, it was clear from the conversation.
	I got the impression that was the intent of the PAC.
	In other words, to fund these other candidates, even though, as we heard from the general counsel working with Heng Khao, this PAC is a federal PAC.
	And apparently it's not allowed to fund local state races using super PAC money because it's a federal PAC and donations are intended for apparently for federal campaign purposes.
	At least that's my understanding of this.
	Now, if I have anything wrong here, I mean, number one, I'm trying to explain this in good faith.
	This is kind of a complex story.
	There's a lot of moving parts.
	If I have anything wrong, if you can correct me on this, there's two things that you can do.
	You can post comments underneath this story on naturalnews.com or you can post comments under this video on brighttown.com.
	We'll also post this on Rumble and BitChute and other video sites.
	You can post comments or you can also reach out to us There's a submit a news tip link at naturalnews.com at the very bottom of the page.
	You can submit a tip to us, which is how a lot of information comes to us, and you can offer a correction, and we will take all of those seriously.
	We want to be accurate in this.
	It's really critical.
	So in the interest of accuracy and due diligence, then I also reached out to Mr.
	Nan Nguyen.
	Now, Mr.
	Nguyen, his last name, he's Vietnamese, as is Hung Cao.
	Now, Mr.
	Nguyen, his last name is spelled H-U-Y-N-H. And of course, I totally mispronounced it when I first spoke with him on the phone.
	I apologize.
	For Americans, the Vietnamese names are especially difficult to try to sound out.
	But that's just, you know, it is what it is.
	So Mr.
	Nguyen, who is also a conservative, who, by the way, is a veteran.
	Mr.
	Nguyen told me that he was a refugee who escaped the communist regime immediately.
	In his younger years, I don't know how old he was exactly.
	And one of the reasons he's so passionate about liberty and freedom in America is because of his experience under communism.
	And I don't know if you are aware of this, but Vietnam, even to this day, is a communist country.
	Not everybody seems to realize that.
	And by the way, just as a tangential side note to all of this, you know, I'm married to an immigrant.
	And my wife's family I'm not going to get into all that.
	But look, I used to live in Taiwan.
	I'm married to an immigrant.
	I used to talk to people there all the time who lived under Japanese occupation in Taiwan.
	You know, relatively much older folks because of when those events happened surrounding World War II. But anyway, I understand when somebody says to me that they escaped communism and that's why they love freedom, I totally get that because some of the best Americans that I've ever met are immigrants.
	Because they fled conditions of tyranny, and it gives them a special kind of authenticity and valuing the fundamentals of freedom that America offers.
	Or at least, I mean, we're losing those freedoms, obviously, when you have a State Department that seizes the passport of Scott Ritter with no explanation.
	You know, when you have a...
	A DOJ that weaponizes against the American people and a former president.
	And so I'm not going to go into all these details, but I'm just saying that Mr.
	Wynn, my impression of him from the conversation with him was that he's a true American in the deepest sense of the American spirit.
	So just providing that as background, essentially Mr.
	Wynn...
	told me that he used to even volunteer for the Hong Kao campaign, the congressional campaign, and that he himself, Mr.
	Nguyen, was quite a wholehearted supporter of Mr.
	Kao.
	And they're both Vietnamese, by the way, so there's sort of a natural ethnic, you know, brotherhood, you could say.
	And also, Mr.
	Nguyen told me that the district for which he ran, which I believe is the 9th District of Virginia, has a very high percentage of minorities, most of whom are Asian.
	So there's a lot of Vietnamese, there's a lot of Chinese, there's a lot of Koreans, Japanese, Taiwanese, and so on.
	And Mr.
	Nguyen said to me, and you can read the exact quote in my article, that Hong Kao used his name and Mr.
	Nguyen's name to fundraise, but then Mr.
	Kao turned his back on us.
	He promised all this support to local candidates to attract minority voters.
	We need minority support and so on.
	He says...
	We can't just give lip service to these people.
	We want to attract minorities.
	We have to engage them.
	And Hong Kong did not do that.
	And he said it's devastating to not have support because we need these minorities to turn out who share our principles and support anti-communist ideals.
	And he says what Democrats represent are communist principles, which, of course, that characterization is accurate.
	More and more Democrats today are just taking their playbook right out of communism.
	Anyway, the bottom line here is Mr.
	Nguyen says that Hong Kao should own up to it about the alleged misuse of funds, and he said the following.
	Ultimately, I think he should withdraw from the race because I think Democrats are going to pound on it if he wins the nomination, and it hurts us in the long run.
	So there's the crux of this matter, and that's essentially one of the reasons why I thought this story was so important.
	If Hong Kao, now having these allegations of even fraud or misuse of funds, and having him on video and on audio, Promising to raise money through this PAC and then to, in essence, distribute some of those funds to other candidates.
	Having him on the record saying that, with the possibility that this may be a very blatant violation of federal election rules, this is ammunition for Democrats to really undermine Hong Kong's campaign if he wins the primary.
	And you can just see the ad campaigns that Tim Kaine and the Democrats are going to come up with here.
	I mean, it's not hard to imagine.
	It's going to be something like, oh, Hong Kao accused of wire fraud and endorsed by a convicted felon, Donald J. Trump.
	You know, because they love to say convicted felon every day now that Trump has been, quote, convicted by a completely dishonest rigged court.
	I think Trump should just say to the press, clarification, I am a justice-impacted individual, and my pronouns are, you know, X and Y. But anyway, the media, isn't it funny?
	Sorry, I keep getting distracted, but isn't it funny how the media, when a Democrat, or let's say an illegal alien, a migrant, or a left-wing minority person, or like an LGBT person, when they're arrested and charged with a violent crime, and then they're convicted with felony counts, the press will never call them a felon, will they?
	Oh, the justice impacted individual.
	But when Trump...
	It gets convicted on a made-up premise of essentially an accounting entry about a non-disclosure agreement.
	You know, hey, you agree not to disclose this information and we'll pay you, which is incredibly common in tech, in medicine, in politics, in media.
	It's so common.
	If you criminalize that, half the business owners in the country are felons.
	But anyway, that's a side note.
	I'm just saying that the Democrats are going to pound on Hong Kao, and again, by tying him to Trump as the felon.
	He said, look, it's a tag team of criminals!
	That's what the ads will say, even though that's dishonest, to say that Mr.
	Hong Kao is not a criminal.
	He hasn't been convicted of any such crime, although...
	No doubt the Democrats would try to push for that, you know, investigation.
	The bottom line is they would be really hobbling the Hung Kao campaign from the very start.
	Whereas Mr.
	Kao's opponent, Jonathan Emord, the attorney, who is known as the FDA Dragon Slayer, to my knowledge, Mr.
	Emord has no such baggage whatsoever.
	And I have been an admirer of Jonathan Emord's intellect and capabilities as a lawyer who has argued numerous cases before the United States Supreme Court.
	And he has won cases.
	Perhaps more than any other person bringing health freedom cases before the Supreme Court.
	But Jonathan Emord has, in my opinion, the level of intellect and integrity that can survive the brutal lies and propaganda that the Democrats will hurl at him.
	Because that's how Democrats play this game.
	You can count on it.
	But it's hard to make up lies about Imor that can stick because, you know, he's not Hunter Biden.
	He doesn't have a laptop smoking crack with underage hookers, you know?
	So it's, um, thank goodness.
	Um, You have to think about the strategy here of, if you believe in America, and you know how much damage the Democrats have done, and granted, this is my own opinion, this is not a fact of this story, this is my personal opinion and my personal standing, I believe you have to present the candidate who is most likely to defeat Tim Kaine.
	And based on what I now know about Hong Kao, even what I'm reporting, the videos I've seen, the documents I've seen, the questions that have been raised, and how numerous local candidates are speaking out against him.
	I also have quotes from Maxwell Fisher, by the way, or he's known as Max, that has some other things to add in terms of context to all of this.
	It's my belief that Hong Kao is too vulnerable to To reliably have a solid chance at defeating Tim Kaine.
	That's just my opinion.
	I understand that some people may disagree with that.
	But part of what goes into that opinion on my part is the fact that the Democrats will be incredibly well-funded because Tim Kaine will get money.
	From all kinds of sources all over the country and all kinds of Democrat PACs.
	And who knows?
	I mean, the Democrat Party is such a corrupt cabal, in my opinion.
	They wouldn't even let Bernie Sanders have an honest shot four years ago.
	They ruined their own candidates or blocked them.
	I don't even know that the Democrats are going to try to hold on to Joe Biden at this point.
	Is Joe Biden electable?
	If Joe Biden were re-elected, well, I mean, he wasn't even elected the first time, to my knowledge, but if he were elected, would he even know it?
	Would he even have any understanding of who he is and where he is and what's going on?
	You know, it's the White House, sir!
	It's the White House!
	I wanted a Blue House!
	You know, it's like, my God!
	This is supposed to be the leader of the free world?
	Are you kidding me?
	So the Democrats are desperately trying to figure out who they can put in there.
	And that decision, if it happens to replace Biden, will very likely happen this month, late June, perhaps early July.
	But beyond that, there's no other chance to replace him.
	Anyway, that's beyond the scope of this story.
	Those are just my personal comments.
	And that's not directly relevant to this Virginia situation.
	But I do believe that we have to put forth the best candidates who can defeat Democrats because Democrats represent, in my opinion, the complete destruction of our constitutional republic.
	They are opposed to the First Amendment, as has become very clear over the last few years.
	They do not believe in your right to speak.
	By the way, my companies have just filed suit against the federal government.
	We have sued Homeland Security.
	We have sued the Department of Defense.
	We've named the State Department, we've named Google, Facebook, Twitter, we've named NewsGuard, and we've named overseas NGOs in our truly historic free speech lawsuit that lays out the entire roadmap of what we call the censorship industrial complex.
	Which involves the federal government engaging in international censorship laundering operations through overseas NGOs, filtering that back into big tech in America to deplatform and censor people as requested by the government itself.
	And of course, I've been targeted in that.
	So that's just one example of how we know Democrats are at war with Democrats.
	America, at least the foundation of America.
	Of course, Democrats also hate the Second Amendment.
	They despise it because they want the population disarmed while they themselves are surrounded by armed bodyguards, you know, to protect them from the people they're supposed to represent.
	Yeah, okay.
	Democrats are opposed to the Fourth Amendment.
	They believe in mass government surveillance.
	After all, how are they going to know who to censor if they don't surveil you and monitor your speech, you know?
	They don't honor the Fifth Amendment.
	They don't honor the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment or any number of others.
	And for that reason, in my view, defeating Democrats is necessary for the survival of this constitutional republic.
	And that's why this matters to me.
	If Hong Kong had no baggage and could go into this election...
	Without having this vulnerability that could be easy, sort of sniped at by the Democrats, I wouldn't have anything.
	I wouldn't criticize him.
	In fact, I'm not even criticizing him.
	I don't have anything against Hong Kong's policies or positions on most issues.
	What I'm saying is that he's too vulnerable.
	And he's very unlikely in my assessment to be able to defeat Tim Kaine.
	Whereas Jonathan Emord has no such baggage that I'm aware of.
	And knowing the kind of person he is, he would not create an opportunity for the Democrats to come after him.
	Because Jonathan Emord is a straight shooter.
	He's meticulous.
	I mean, absolutely meticulous.
	You probably will not find a more detail-minded person running for the United States Senate.
	I honestly, in all the years that I've known attorneys I've never known an attorney as detail-minded and as cognitively structured in his understanding of the complex layers of law as Jonathan Emord.
	And so that counts for a lot.
	In my mind, that makes him a lot more electable.
	And more resilient to the attacks that will be leveled against whatever GOP candidate happens to be there.
	Then again, you might say that I'm biased because I did donate to E-Mord's campaign.
	And I did, but I donated last year.
	Long before this story ever came up on anybody's radar.
	Long, you know, long before any of this.
	And I wouldn't be opposed to donating to Hong Kao if I thought he was the best candidate.
	The one person I will not be donating to for sure is Tim Kaine.
	So one more point in all this.
	Max Fisher, his campaign website is maxfisherforvirginia.com, by the way.
	He told me something that everybody else had mentioned in different ways, that Hongkau is a no-show most of the time at local events and grassroots events.
	He's just not there.
	He said, quote, the one person always absent was Hong Kao.
	And not to say he wasn't as engaged, he just hasn't been around.
	He says all these other candidates are putting in time and showing up at events, a lot more grassroots efforts.
	But Hong Kao just wasn't there.
	And Max Fisher told me, quote, any candidate that ran last year could tell you the same thing.
	We didn't see any of the PAC money.
	And he talks about the Hung Cow PAC, the Unleash America PAC, as well as the Spirit of Virginia PAC. But a lot of these Fairfax County and Northern Virginia candidates just didn't get any money at all.
	And personally, I was very surprised to hear that because from these conversations, it sounded to me like just a couple thousand dollars could have really helped these people with yard signs or mailers or something, like a couple grand.
	Are you kidding me?
	These campaigns, these people running for the state House of Delegates or the state Senate, they didn't have a couple grand coming their way?
	I mean, I don't know about you, but how is it that our United States Congress can approve $95 billion for Ukraine and Israel and Taiwan?
	And other countries, all this money, just print more money.
	Print trillions and distribute it all over the world.
	Drop it from helicopters, you know?
	Helicopter money.
	But the pro-America people running for office in Northern Virginia can't even get a couple of grand from the GOP. You know?
	I am just baffled to hear that.
	Seriously.
	I'm just blown away.
	Democrats have the money machine all nailed down.
	They have the federal government give all this grant money to these fake solar companies, and the fake solar companies launder that and make a bunch of campaign donations to Democrat candidates.
	And that's just one example.
	All kinds of examples like this.
	It's rather sickening.
	Or...
	A lot of this money goes into the union coffers collected as union dues, and then the unions support mostly Democrats, although that may be changing with Trump in play right now.
	I think the union workers are becoming more pro-Trump.
	But the Democrats have the money machine system nailed.
	They're going to have more money than GOP candidates in almost every case.
	So that means the GOP has to be smart about using that money.
	They've got to be efficient, but they've also got to make a more compelling argument to local business leaders about why the GOP policies are critical for the success of your local business or your statewide business.
	I mean, I'm a business owner.
	I have multi-million dollar business operations in Texas and I pay attention to what the candidates are offering.
	I want low taxes and low regulation.
	I want to be able to conduct business and create jobs and produce products that contribute to the betterment of lives and health of people in Texas and all over the country.
	And I chose Central Texas because it's low regulation and low taxation.
	And we have a governor, Greg Abbott, who is all in with low taxation.
	We don't have a state income tax.
	So in Virginia, it seems like it would be a very compelling message to a lot of business leaders to say, hey, you know, look, under the Democrats, you're going to have so much inflation and dollar devaluation because of the money printing, your entire supply chain is going to become less reliable and more expensive.
	Your labor costs are going to skyrocket.
	Regulation is going to continue to worsen for your industry, whatever industry you're in.
	You're probably going to be harassed by the EPA at some point, no matter what you do.
	Or you're going to be harassed by the FDA or who knows who.
	Or the FTC, the FCC, anything.
	Whatever you're doing, you're going to get harassed under Democrats.
	Whereas the GOP... At least we would hope this is what they're doing.
	The GOP is supposed to stand for smaller government, less regulation.
	Still, you know, you're not allowed to just dump poison into the river.
	That's not what the GOP stands for.
	They still want clean water.
	But let's just, let's not terrorize every business with EPA bureaucrats showing up and shutting everything down because they found like a puddle in the back of We all deal with that insanity from time to time.
	And I would think there's a lot of military-industrial complex companies in Virginia.
	You would think.
	I'm sure there are, you know, given the geography and proximity to the naval bases and D.C. and everything else.
	But You would think the GOP would have a very compelling pitch to the military companies like, hey, we're all pro-war.
	By the way, I'm not pro-war.
	I'm an anti-war person.
	This is one of the policies in which I strongly disagree with the mainstream GOP. I'm like, get us out of Ukraine.
	Get us out of the Middle East.
	Get us out of these wars.
	We don't want to go to war with China.
	Are you kidding me?
	Why don't we build a border wall Why don't we bring that money back home and invest in our own country?
	But anyway, that's a whole different podcast.
	But the pitch to the local military companies should be so easy.
	It should be like, hey, vote for us.
	We'll make sure there's more wars, and you're going to make a load of money.
	That's an easy pitch if you're a pro-war candidate.
	And by the way, half the Democrats are pro-war too, so that's not even a party line anymore.
	It's like everybody wants war until it happens, and then everybody's like, oh, this is so awful.
	Yeah, well, maybe you shouldn't have started the war.
	It's like when Russia starts nuking U.S. military bases in Europe, which seems to be right around the corner, I can see it now.
	The corporate media in America is like, oh my gosh, unprovoked aggression from Russia.
	These are crimes against humanity.
	You have no idea what the U.S. has been doing, like sending F-16s that are nuclear-capable into the air to threaten Russia, allowing Ukraine to use all these long-range missiles that are striking targets deep within Russia, threatening Russia's very existence, violating the Minsk Accords and all the other agreements that said NATO would never expand eastward after the fall of the Berlin Wall and so on.
	Oh my gosh, do journalists in America not have any knowledge of anything in the world at all?
	I think they don't.
	And neither do many lawmakers, by the way.
	They're just like, let's just bomb the whole world.
	You know, Senator Lindsey Graham.
	Let's just bomb everything.
	Bomb it all.
	He thinks this is still like 1967 when America was the dominant naval power.
	Look, I'm not going to get carried away on this topic.
	You can tell I have a little bit of frustration about all of this.
	But the reason I have this position is because I believe in the value of human lives.
	Because I actually care about people.
	And I don't want to see bloodshed.
	I don't want to see suffering.
	I don't want to see economic damage.
	I believe in liberty, freedom, abundance.
	I believe in American innovation, entrepreneurship, ingenuity, creativity.
	And spirituality.
	I have faith.
	And I believe that faith is an important element of our culture.
	And yet, I look around the world and I see so many people cheering for death and destruction and war and violence and suffering.
	Yeah!
	And I'm very disturbed by that.
	And that's why politics matters, as Rush Limbaugh used to say, may he rest in peace.
	Politics gets into everything.
	And although there are people out there who say, well, I don't want to deal with politics.
	Well, you're going to live with it.
	You're going to live with the repercussions of politics.
	Whether you are involved or not, you're dealing with it.
	Politics affects everything.
	Your freedoms, your speech, your economic conditions, interest rates, you know, home loans, food prices, inflation, war versus peace.
	Politics affects everything.
	And as I've said before, you know, stolen elections have consequences.
	That's why we're all suffering so horribly under the Biden regime.
	Because Biden, in my view, Biden was never elected by the American people.
	Because even the people then could see that he's not qualified to be president.
	And experience has proven that to be true.
	So elections matter.
	And stolen elections can be catastrophic for a nation.
	Which is what we're experiencing right now.
	That's why we have to correct this.
	If we're going to get our constitutional republic back in order...
	We have to.
	We have to get involved with choosing the right candidates who have the right philosophies, voting them into office, and then holding their feet to the fire to demand that they do what they promised, which is so rare in Washington right now that it's almost a joke.
	But if there's one person I know who will do what he promises to do, that's Jonathan Emore, just because I know his ethics, I know his behavior for over 10 years.
	But I will hold his feet to the fire, too.
	If he becomes the next United States Senator for Virginia, he will hear from me on a number of issues.
	You know, as my own senators hear from me, I talk to Senator Ted Cruz's office.
	Sometimes I'm not happy with Ted Cruz.
	Other times, I'm thrilled.
	Sometimes I'm happy with Governor Abbott, sometimes disgusted.
	But that's democracy, folks.
	That's democracy.
	The people have a voice.
	The people apply that voice to the candidates that they want to represent them, and then they try to hold those candidates accountable as much as possible and pray to God.
	That we don't end up getting nuked from Russia or China because our US State Department is run by incompetent fools who don't even recognize the art of diplomacy.
	It's gone.
	They are not diplomats.
	They are not statesmen or women.
	They are fools.
	And if we survive this regime right now, count our blessings, folks.
	Count our blessings because we dodged a bullet worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis.
	In any case, just to summarize this, I welcome comments and corrections.
	If I've said anything that's not factually correct, I will make a good faith effort to correct it.
	I'm approaching this story in good faith, in the interests of America as I see it.
	And with the aim of, frankly, hoping that we can put forth the best candidate in Virginia to defeat Tim Kaine and help push the Senate more into the red, if that's even possible.
	Did I ever tell you I had lunch with Gabby Giffords in Arizona, Congressman Giffords.
	When I was living in Arizona...
	I served on the Tucson Police Foundation and in a key board member role there to help advise local law enforcement.
	And we had a lunch with Gabby Giffords.
	This was, of course, before she was horrifically wounded by being shot.
	And I believe I met her husband, who's now the senator.
	But he was not the focus of the lunch.
	I had lunch with Gabby Giffords and I was so impressed with her ability to speak Espanol because at the time I was learning Spanish and I noticed that she spoke it very well.
	But the reason I even mention this is because I am not someone who judges people simply by the letter next to their name, Democrat or Republican or Independent or what have you.
	I judge people by their character and their philosophies.
	Now, sadly, Gabby Giffords, after she was horribly wounded, she has become, well, she and the people around her have become so aggressively anti-gun that That, of course, I could not possibly support her position today.
	Now, you could argue that's understandable, given that she was shot by an armed assailant.
	And thus, you know, her personal experience with firearms is very, obviously very negative.
	I don't mean any disrespect by pointing that out.
	But I'm open to any candidate from any party that has solutions for our constitutional republic.
	At the same time, I absolutely will criticize or condemn those candidates who are engaged in the destruction of this great republic.
	And I have been very vocal about that, and will continue to do so.
	Which is one of the reasons why I'm blacklisted and banned, and was specifically named by the Department of Defense to be blacklisted.
	Yeah, I'm one of the few Americans who's actually literally named by the Pentagon.
	And other department, you know, government agencies to be silenced.
	It's kind of like you have to work hard to get that level of attention from the federal government, but somehow I achieved that.
	And that just goes to show you how tyrannical and authoritarian our federal government has become.
	And the reason it has become that way is because, of course, stolen elections and radical left-leaning Democrats and communists who absolutely want to destroy this nation.
	So that's all I have to say about this topic today.
	A lot of it's, you know, my own personal commentary, of course, on a variety of subjects.
	But in my mind, this is all related to Again, I welcome any response from Mr.
	Hung Kao's campaign.
	I honor his military service, by the way.
	I have nothing against Mr.
	Kao personally.
	I've never spoken with him, but would welcome the opportunity to do so.
	I've not met him.
	I haven't interviewed him.
	But I wish him well in wherever this goes.
	And I hope and pray to God that Either Mr.
	Hongkau or Jonathan Emord can become the next United States Senator for Virginia.
	I pray to God that Tim Kaine is defeated.
	I pray to God that our republic is protected and restored.
	And I thank you for joining me in this prayer for America.
	God bless you all.
	Thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams of naturalnews.com and brighteon.com.
	Take care.
	All right, I hope you enjoyed that special report.
	I know it was quite lengthy and detailed, but I also think very important to cover all of that.
	Now, I forgot to mention the featured interview today.
	We're going to be interviewing Mr.
	Pedro Israel Orta.
	He's the author of a book called The Broken Whistle, A Deep State Run Amok.
	And it's subtitled Memoir of a CIA Whistleblower.
	So yes, Mr.
	Orta is a former CIA analyst, and he tried to blow the whistle on some very nefarious operations inside the CIA, and they retaliated against him.
	So, of course, I want to interview this man.
	Hey, why not?
	I'm already on the Pentagon's list to be silenced.
	That must be because, well, I have a voice.
	I have influence that's waking up people to the truth about what's happening.
	So let's interview CIA whistleblowers.
	Hey, I've interviewed former EPA whistleblower, Dr.
	David Lewis, about bio sludge, which is now destroying farms all across America, as you're well aware, probably.
	I've interviewed Google whistleblower, Zach Voorhees.
	In fact, I don't know.
	I may have another Zach Voorhees segment for you today.
	Maybe not, just in the interest of time, but we published a segment with Zach Voorhees yesterday.
	If you missed that, you should hear that.
	It's really cool because we were talking about robots and drones and AI and World War III and sort of exotic weapon systems and all kinds of funky subjects.
	I always enjoy talking with high IQ individuals like Zach Voorhees.
	But Mr.
	Orta's book, The Broken Whistle, is described as follows by Literary Titan Reviews.
	They say the Broken Whistle is more than an expose.
	It is a discerning examination of the mechanisms of power, corruption, and the pursuit of truth and justice.
	Orta's work is a significant contribution to literature for those intrigued by the inner workings of the intelligence community.
	The complexities of political power and the audacity required to confront a system that often suppresses dissent.
	You don't say.
	Okay, so that interview is coming up.
	And a couple other news items, and then I have another small report.
	But here's something that caught my attention recently.
	The New York Times is reporting that Israel funded and ordered a secret influence campaign to target U.S. lawmakers, mostly black lawmakers, targeting them to be pro-Israel.
	And according to the coverage of the New York Times and also RT... Israel's influence campaign used hundreds of fake accounts that posed as U.S. students, concerned citizens, and local constituents on various social media platforms, including X, Facebook, and Instagram.
	In other words, Israel was running a sock puppet content farm system to deceive lawmakers into thinking that all these concerned citizens wanted them to be more pro-Israel.
	And from the story says these accounts were allegedly used to post pro-Israel comments and articles backing Jerusalem's position on the war, West Jerusalem, and were mainly focused on attracting the attention of U.S. lawmakers, primarily black Democrats, urging them to continue funding the country's military.
	So you see, Israel, which receives billions of dollars in money from the U.S. approved by the United States Congress, Israel uses that money to fund fake influence campaigns targeting black Democrats.
	So, there you go.
	The campaign was exposed by a site called Fake Reporter, which is a misinformation watchdog, apparently.
	It was also exposed by Meta, you know, Facebook and Instagram, and OpenAI, ChatGPT.
	Who said they found and disrupted the influence operation.
	Well, have no illusions.
	Israel has plenty of money to do it again.
	Okay, so there you go.
	The next story that's, I think, really critical to review here is, well, here's the headline.
	Kiev regime tortured U.S. journalists to death, says Putin.
	And this is concerning Gonzalo Lira.
	Now, Gonzalo Lira is an American.
	He was, I believe, originally from Chile, but he was an American citizen.
	He was living in Ukraine.
	And for the entire duration of the war until he was captured and tortured to death by the Ukrainian officials, he was one of the most fascinating and informed voices and intelligent voices that was reporting on what's happening he was one of the most fascinating and informed voices and intelligent voices that And he was reporting this from inside Ukraine.
	And of course, he was very critical of the Ukraine regime, which is why they arrested him twice and threw him in prison.
	And ultimately, they caught him a third time when he was trying to flee the country, crossing the border, I think into Poland, I think it was.
	And they threw him back into a Ukrainian jail, and they tortured him to death, according to Vladimir Putin.
	And so the subhead of the story is that the Russian president has chided Washington for ignoring the incarceration and killing of American blogger Gonzalo Lira.
	Now, Gonzalo Lira, who I interviewed a couple of times, I believe.
	I interviewed him once on InfoWars, and maybe once or twice on my own channel.
	He was very much outspoken.
	He was a counterculture thinker.
	He was highly intelligent in his analysis, and he was also a really gifted communicator.
	He was a writer.
	And one of the things he told me And I think he told me this off air, was that he was working on a series of books that he thought would be so dangerous that they would kill him for it.
	I think he said it was going to be five books.
	And I know he was spending a lot of time working on at least the first book.
	I don't even recall what he said the books were about.
	I don't know if it was about philosophy or history or what, but I remember him saying that these were the most dangerous books that he could possibly write in terms of danger to his safety.
	That he was going to be exposing things that the powers that be did not want to be exposed.
	So knowing that, this allegation from Putin that Ukraine had him tortured to death, this is not an outlandish allegation.
	Right.
	It's very possible that the United States government ordered Ukraine to arrest him and to kill him in order to silence him, knowing what he was saying or knowing what he was working on.
	What's especially disturbing about all of this is that the U.S. State Department did nothing to protect Gonzalo Lira.
	Nothing.
	This is the same State Department that went out of its way to free a women's basketball team, a black woman, Allegedly a woman who was caught in Russia with marijuana, I believe, and was actually jailed, was prosecuted, found guilty, and jailed in Russia.
	And the U.S. State Department went crazy making sure she was released because, you know, she's the right color, she's the right gender to be released.
	But Gonzalo Lira?
	Oh, no.
	Nobody in the Biden regime would do anything for Gonzalo Lira.
	Because, well, he's criticizing the administration.
	In other words, Gonzalo wasn't black enough, gay enough, trans enough, or liberal enough to merit any saving from the State Department.
	Just goes to show you what the United States government regime actually values.
	You know, if you're black, gay, trans, liberal...
	Whatever.
	You will be set free because the government will fight for you, but not anybody else.
	As Putin said, quote, they tortured an American journalist to death in a Ukrainian prison, and the U.S. is not even asking what happened to him.
	No one went to the trouble of asking what actually happened, and he's exactly right about that.
	The Western corporate media won't even mention Gonzalo anymore.
	No questions.
	Why shouldn't somebody ask the White House, hey, why didn't you go save, why didn't you just order Ukraine to release Gonzalo, release him to the United States?
	Because what Gonzalo was doing was constitutionally protected speech under U.S. law.
	And those rights should have been protected.
	Instead, he was killed for his speech.
	So Gonzalo Lira is literally an American journalist who was murdered because of his speech, and his murder was allowed by the United States government under the Biden regime.
	Think about that.
	That's the tyranny that we're living under right now.
	And, you know, I've been named by the Pentagon for blacklisting and censorship.
	Right?
	I guess if I went to Ukraine, which I'm not going to do, but if I went to Ukraine, they would probably arrest me and torture and kill me.
	And nobody in America, in the corporate media, would ask a single question about it.
	Oh, just some non-gay, non-trans, non-black critic of Biden.
	Oh, tortured and killed in Ukraine?
	Oh yeah, so what?
	Just another day.
	This is America now.
	Run by a bunch of communists.
	And, you know, anti-human lunatics.
	To Gonzalo Lira, may God bless you.
	May you rest in peace.
	My God.
	Gonzalo Lira will not be forgotten.
	Not here.
	And when he was missing and he was in prison for all that time, I kept asking, where is Gonzalo Lira?
	And, well, ultimately we found out.
	All right.
	Moving on to the next story.
	It's being widely reported that the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, which is an aircraft carrier, was struck by Houthi missiles that caused extensive damage to the aircraft carrier.
	Now, that said, there is a fake video that's been circulating, and it's totally fake.
	It might be from a video game or something.
	It's a fake video that That seems to show some kind of giant bomb crater on the deck of the aircraft carrier.
	That's not real.
	That's not what I'm talking about.
	So Jeffrey Prather, who is an outstanding source, also he was a government whistleblower too, and I've interviewed Jeffrey Prather many times.
	You need to watch his show.
	He's on Brighttown.tv on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
	And he also has his website, jeffreyprather.com.
	That's J-E-F-F-R-E-Y. He says that there have been hits on the Eisenhower in the last one to two days, and they are real.
	And that all evidence of those hits is being completely scrubbed from the internet.
	No videos allowed anywhere.
	Total cover-up of the damage caused.
	This is now becoming a state secret that a U.S. aircraft carrier was damaged and in part set on fire, you know, briefly by the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
	Now, the reason this has to be kept completely under wraps is because the U.S. Navy is largely a bluff.
	For decades, the US has been sailing around the world with its big ships, big aircraft carriers, you know, like the Godzilla of the high seas, running around saying, do what we want or we're going to bomb you.
	And combined with economic sanctions, weaponization of the SWIFT system, plus assassinations, color revolutions, CIA operations, economic sabotage, infrastructure sabotage, whatever, the U.S. has been carrying out these operations all over the world for decades, functioning essentially as both a terrorist organization and a giant global bully.
	And the enforcer of that has been the Navy.
	The Navy, with the aircraft carriers, floating cities, as they're called, is the ultimate projection of military coercion all over the world.
	And an aircraft carrier like the Eisenhower has about 5,000 crew members.
	It's a floating city.
	Well, technically more like a floating high school, given the maturity of the people on that thing.
	It's a floating high school, with all the high school drama that you might expect.
	But anyway, if the word gets out That US aircraft carriers can't defend themselves from the Houthi rebels?
	Then, you know, the coercion doesn't work anymore.
	Then people aren't as afraid as they're supposed to be.
	You know, it's kind of like the...
	The Wizard of Oz effect, you know?
	It's all scary until you pull back the curtain and the man behind the curtain is a little squat fat guy pulling levers.
	Not at all intimidating.
	Well, the U.S. Navy is being struck and potentially can be defeated by countries that once posed no threat whatsoever.
	And note, by the way, that Iran has not even fired Kinzhal missiles at U.S. naval vessels.
	And Kinzhal missiles are hypersonic and cannot be intercepted by known naval technology.
	And Kinzhal missiles can also carry nuclear warheads.
	So, one day, I think we're going to see a U.S. aircraft carrier completely destroyed.
	And it will sink to the bottom of the, maybe the Red Sea, maybe the Mediterranean, you know, maybe the Arabian Peninsula waters.
	Who knows?
	It will sink.
	It will be destroyed.
	And then no one will fear the U.S. And that's why this story is being covered up, because fear of the Navy is America's diplomacy at this point.
	Because there's no actual diplomacy in America.
	I mean, not from the State Department or the government or Homeland Security.
	There's just threats and coercion and violence, and that's it.
	So keep your eyes on that story.
	Now, speaking of things being destroyed and illusions being shattered, I want to play for you a video that came from the War Monitor's channel on Twitter, which apparently seems to be a pro-Palestinian channel.
	And this video shows...
	appears to depict...
	Footage of a Hezbollah missile destroying an Iron Dome platform in the Ramot Naftali barracks in what they call Northern Occupied Palestine, which the Western world would say is Northern Israel.
	So watch this video because this is showing that Israel's so-called Iron Dome At least this part of it doesn't work.
	And that's why Iran was able to strike...
	It's intended targets with ballistic missiles, by the way, in mid-April.
	The Iron Dome is a hoax.
	The Iron Dome doesn't work.
	As I said yesterday, I said the Ayatollah just blew a giant hola in your Iron Doma.
	And I'm sorry, I like to play silly word games from time to time, but the Iron Dome is a hoax, just like U.S. naval superiority is also a hoax.
	It does not actually exist the way that we thought it did.
	Check out this video for yourself.
	We'll be right back.
	All right.
	Did you see that?
	Now, I can't verify what day that was filmed or really where that is, and obviously I can't read all the Arabic writing and everything.
	But you can clearly see there were tanks parked there.
	Those had to be Merkava tanks and a lot of military vehicles and clearly like an anti-air defense rocket system there.
	And it was struck, you know?
	It was struck.
	But I think it's always funny that they put such dramatic music in It's like it's an adventure film, you know?
	There's a lot of, you know, it's funny to see the videos from both sides of this conflict.
	The Palestinian or the Hezbollah or Hamas videos are always like very spirited in their music.
	You know, it's like victory march, you know, that would be the way to describe that music.
	But anyway, the point is, it's clear that the Iron Dome is quite vulnerable.
	Otherwise, how did this rocket get through with a camera working on it, and it wasn't even electronically jammed, you know?
	Because we have the video.
	I mean, we're looking at the video.
	It's posted on Twitter.
	So, warfare has changed, my friends.
	The old systems of the Iron Dome and the impenetrable...
	Aircraft carrier system, it's obsolete.
	It's all obsolete.
	Iran can strike Israel.
	Yemen can strike aircraft carriers.
	Russia can nuke air bases in Western Europe.
	Well, and frankly, anywhere in the world.
	Hypersonic missiles, drones, electronic countermeasures.
	This has changed the nature of warfare.
	Land-based robot doggy drones.
	It's changing everything.
	The old rules are obsolete, but the West is still fighting with the old rules, and that's why they're getting utterly destroyed in Ukraine.
	They're still fighting the way they fought in 1992, and then they wonder, well, how come it doesn't work?
	Because the world has changed.
	Technology has changed since then.
	And Russia realized it sooner than the West did.
	So that's why Russia's drones and missiles are so effective.
	Anyway, that's it for that story.
	A little exciting video.
	Oh my goodness.
	We're going to go to the interview with Pedro Israel Orta.
	I think that's a Cuban name, by the way.
	I think that's what he said during the interview, that he's of Cuban ethnicity.
	I always love the fact that I get to speak to people from all over the world, different cultures, different languages.
	I get to interview people from Cuba, from Vietnam, from Russia, from Taiwan, Hong Kong, you know, all over the place.
	It's great.
	Before we get to that, a couple of plugs here.
	Be sure to check out beready123.com for backup information.
	Power systems, solar generators, they have the solar panels and the really high-end solar generators with the built-in battery packs that are lithium-ion, the charge controllers, the inverters to power your devices and to charge your devices even when the power grid goes down.
	And given where things are headed, I don't trust the power grid right now.
	So again, BeReady123.com.
	For your backup food supplies, of course, check out HealthRangerStore.com.
	And also, if you want the very best analysis of what's happening financially and geopolitically, you want the Trends Journal.
	And that's authored by Gerald Salenti and his team of researchers.
	Go to TrendsJournal.com.
	Subscribe there.
	It's only a couple of dollars a week.
	Use discount code RANGER. It'll save you 10%.
	And this is the best analysis that you can get of what's happening, especially affecting the financial markets, precious metals, investments, currencies, central banks, interest rates, and so much more.
	And Gerald Salenti is just the master of this.
	He's seen it all.
	He knows what the trends are.
	He's been very accurate about his trends.
	Not 100%, but incredibly accurate.
	And again, use discount code RANGER. You'll save 10%.
	We earn a little bit on that.
	And you'll be supporting the Gerald Salenti Trends Publishing operation at the same time.
	That's a subscription that you'll use.
	And if you've already subscribed, don't forget to download those issues.
	And you can also download the back issues from his site.
	I've done that.
	I'm a subscriber, by the way.
	I mean, like I literally just paid for a subscription myself.
	I use discount code RANGER also.
	I got 10% off and I download all the back issues.
	I'm going through these, it's like awesome.
	Actually, to tell the truth, what I actually did With the most recent issue is I downloaded it.
	I had the OCR system convert the PDF into text, and then I fed the text into my AI system and told it to summarize it.
	And so I'm actually reading the summarized version of the Treads journal, which is just for me.
	I don't have permission to post that or anything, but that's what I did.
	It's like...
	I'm not sure I have time to read this whole thing, so I'm going to read the short version, but that's just because I have a really good AI infrastructure running right now, and we're summarizing lots of things, so I just kind of threw it into the mix.
	It's like, here, summarize this, and it did.
	Yes, Trends Journal, short version.
	Anyway, it's fun to play with large racks of servers with, you know, GPUs and AI systems on.
	There are benefits.
	All right, so enjoy that and enjoy this interview with Pedro Israel Orta, and I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and today we're joined by a first-time guest, a fascinating man.
	He is a former CIA operations officer and analyst and served many other roles inside the CIA, and he's also become a whistleblower.
	His name is Pedro Israel Orta, and his book is called The Broken Whistle, A Deep State Run Amok.
	His website is PedroIsraelOrta.com, and he has a movie there.
	If you go to the movie tab, you can see it, and it's called Deep State Gangsters as well.
	So welcome, Mr. Orta, to the show today.
	It's an honor to have you on, sir.
	Mike.
	Pleasure to be on your show today.
	Thank you so much.
	Well, thank you for taking the time to join us and I was really intrigued by your book.
	I haven't read it cover to cover but I've scanned parts of it and I'm really fascinated by your message.
	So let's start with your background and what was your history with the CIA and what brought you to the point where you are now as a whistleblower and author?
	Well, I'm really a mid-career CIA hire.
	By the time I entered the CIA, I had to work 14 years in the Miami business world.
	I had to go to school at night to finally get my Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, and International Relations.
	I'm a product of the Cuban emigres who fled Cuba in the early 60s, fleeing the tyranny of Castro's Cuba.
	So I witnessed firsthand the effects of tyranny on families.
	And I had to work full-time, study full-time.
	Almost full-time at night.
	That led to a graduate fellowship at the CIA. I started working for the CIA as an analyst, a graduate fellow, converted to a staff officer, and I did a variety of functions at the CIA. I did very well as an analyst, earning some exceptional performance awards.
	I did president's daily briefs, briefed many senior government officials, wrote finished intelligence products.
	And at one point in time, I just needed to get out of the analytical realm.
	So that thrust me into operations that took me out to Iraq, Afghanistan, a country that I cannot name.
	It was a variety of covert action work, human operations, counterterrorism work, some interagency liaison work with other government entities in the U.S. military.
	I even ended up in Afghanistan doing counterintelligence.
	Ultimately, I end up back at the CIA headquarters area where I started doing some technical targeting work, technical intelligence officer type work, targeting work in counterterrorism that took me out back to the Middle East working on high value targets.
	And all these accomplishments led to being offered an opportunity to be a deputy chief of base in Afghanistan.
	Wow, that's huge.
	And that's huge.
	I mean, they don't give you a deputy chief of base or a chief of base position unless they believe you are very well qualified for that position.
	And really, that's where I ran into a serious problem where I had to disclose wrongdoing, the act of blowing the whistle.
	I was an accidental whistleblower.
	And one thing led to another from there, and it's a long story that took a whole book to tell it.
	Yeah, and that's your book right now, The Broken Whistle, correct?
	Wait, let me bring that up on the screen again for people to see it.
	The Broken Whistle.
	And I titled it The Broken Whistle for one particular reason.
	I blew the whistle on fraud, waste, abuse of authority, significant and specific endangerment of public safety, and some personal harassment issues in that Afghanistan-based 2014-2015.
	But the worst part wasn't necessarily that I blew the whistle on these things, although it was bad, considering their lives were being endangered.
	But ultimately what happened is the process to blow the whistle And to seek protection if the reprisals are taken against you is broken.
	I started blowing the whistle on the broken whistle.
	Okay.
	And I started blowing the whistle not just internally to the leadership of the CIA, but externally to the Director of National Intelligence and Congress.
	I even used the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act.
	And they refused to file my disclosures.
	They wouldn't respond to me.
	They told me we don't send these things to Congress.
	They gave excuse after excuse after excuse.
	And ultimately, when I start escalating, they send in the CIA office of security to basically be a big bad bully to threaten me.
	We can take the job away from you, so you better shut up.
	And at that point in time, when I escalate again to the director of CIA, director of national intelligence, and even to the director of security, saying, you know, we got a serious problem here.
	If you take security so seriously, why not sit and talk to me?
	Let's go over these issues.
	And they basically send in the personnel security division chief for the office of security to threaten me.
	You will sign this letter of warning.
	If you don't, I will take your clearance away from you and I will fire you.
	At that point in time, he committed an act of reprisal.
	He was threatened to take personal actions against me for my whistleblowing, which was lawful whistleblowing.
	So I immediately disclosed that to the DNI, director of national intelligence, Daniel Coates.
	The Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Susan Gordon.
	The Director of Central Intelligence, Mike Pompeo.
	His number three, Brian Bulatow.
	Forget Gina Haspel.
	She's basically a defender of the bureaucracy.
	So they did nothing.
	And Congress was notified through the official channels at CIA, Office of Congressional Affairs.
	But they let basically, who I name in the book, Salvatore.
	To execute his perfect Christmas massacre, because this was literally over the Christmas holiday, to basically run a surveillance operation and be on the lookout list type operation to deny me entry into a building.
	And I was basically kicked out of the CIA, put through the personnel evaluation board process, which is really a kangaroo court, call it what it is.
	Because I've got basically the Office of General Counsel, the Office of Medical Services, and a few others on that board that only make a recommendation to the Director of Security, for that matter, the Deputy Director of Security, who has the final say of what happened.
	So he can basically tell the board, nah, we're not going to do what you tell us to do.
	We wanted to fire this guy, we're going to fire him.
	So they had to do that.
	Let me back up a little bit and ask you a few other questions up front.
	So just in terms of you starting with the CIA, as I understand it, you joined the CIA in good faith.
	Your family had escaped, as you said, Cuba.
	You were, in essence, living the American dream or at least invested in the American dream, the American ideals of freedom and liberty and liberal democracy around the world, the new rules-based order, all that.
	And stop me if I say anything incorrect here.
	And then you're working in the CIA, like you said, counterterrorism, various intelligence operations, all kinds of things.
	You then witnessed a gross abuse of power.
	And can you tell us what that is?
	I know it's detailed more in your book, but tell us here what exactly compelled you to blow the whistle.
	The first instance, Afghanistan 2015, early 2015.
	We were in Afghanistan to fight a war.
	As a deputy chief of base and a chief of base, our number one priority is the safety of personnel.
	We were mandated with training, personnel policies, multiple briefings, one-on-one with senior leaders in a group setting.
	We're told these are the things that you will do.
	These are the things you will not do.
	If you see X, Y, and Z, you will address it and deal with it immediately.
	Here I was working for a chief of base who couldn't handle the extreme environment of a war zone, the lack of food, shall we say, decent food.
	I mean, there was food.
	It was probably one of the better places I had found in a war zone for food, but still.
	This officer had served in Europe prior to Afghanistan, so it was quite a shock.
	Going from a cafe in Milan or a cafe in Paris to eating meals at what the military calls a DFAC. It's not quite the same.
	You've got the dirt.
	You've got the grind.
	You're literally on call 24 hours, seven days a week.
	You're working seven days a week.
	We're being constantly bombarded by indirect rocket attacks that, you know, we would be sleeping and all of a sudden we will hear a kaboom, you know, and then you hear the sirens blow off.
	So you have to run off the bed, you know, you have to account for all personnel.
	You have to find out what's going on.
	Is everybody okay?
	Where did the rocket hit?
	Are we still on alert?
	Not on alert?
	Very chaotic.
	And the most sensitive part about this is this was a very fine woman.
	Who undoubtedly, you know, she was very well prepared for other jobs, but she had very little to no Warzone experience.
	And in this particular case, she had young sons back in the Washington, D.C. area who she was very depressed that she was away from her sons and she was concerned about their lack of food and so forth.
	So in this space, she starts adopting sons, treating other military officers or actually enlisted personnel as they were sons.
	Treating a...
	We had a two-man shop, communication shop.
	The younger officer worked 8 a.m.
	to 8 p.m., the older one, 8 p.m.
	to 8 a.m.
	And she babied and treated this younger officer that worked from 8 a.m.
	to 8 p.m.
	like a son and marginalized the older officer that worked from 8 p.m.
	to 8 a.m.
	And in this situation, the only thing I could do...
	Well, I'm sorry to interrupt, but so far none of that sounds...
	Like a serious violation of anything at the moment.
	She's favoring some soldiers.
	Well, and she was sending us out for food and for yoga classes in places where rockets would impact.
	And in one of those trips, a rocket did impact.
	And you've got to bring a little bit of context here.
	Back up to 2009, where the CIA had sent out an unqualified woman to serve as the chief of base for COAST, And her decision making in Coast in 2009 led to a suicide bomber attacking a group of CIA officers that killed her and six others in the context of what we were supposed to be doing.
	We were not meeting with the military.
	The military was constantly asking me, why aren't you meeting with us?
	We really need to see you.
	I mean, I had to tell them we were busy, and we were busy basically being a social club on steroids, not completing the mission of warfighting, endangering personnel life, and creating a harassment issue in the workforce.
	All right, so you're saying that her actions...
	Because of what you're saying is her incompetence, that she put the lives and safety of your personnel, your colleagues, at risk because they were not properly integrating or meeting with local law enforcement and not properly engaged in defensive planning and things like that.
	Is that a fair assessment?
	There's an element of that because a lot of the meetings we're having with the military were for defense purposes, defending the base, you know, looking out for each other as far as suicide bombers, indirect fire, intelligence sharing, getting information for CIA operations, not just getting information for CIA operations, not just in that base, but in other bases in Afghanistan.
	I mean, there was one situation where we had a serious incident in one base and I had to run off and meet with some military colleagues in this particular base to get the information that we needed.
	But because prior to when the situation blew up, I had built those relationships.
	I was able to get the information.
	The final point of this is, you're right.
	These are really, in the grand scheme of things, despite the fact that potentially lives were at risk, these were easy problems to resolve.
	Instead, ultimately what would happen here is, The situation between these two communicators would blow up, and this is where I had to make a decision.
	Do I speak truth to power, or do I basically hang an innocent man?
	And in this particular case, she started falsely accusing this man of drawing a weapon.
	She drew a line that, you know, I have morals, I have ethics, And in order to move up the chain of command, I'm not going to step over people and bulldoze people and falsely accuse people of doing things they didn't do.
	So by taking a stand for righteousness and speaking truth to power, I found myself being kicked out of that base, going back to CIA headquarters.
	And now I'm having to face what I call the devils of CIA headquarters.
	Where it seems like every office at CIA was lined up against me to try to get me kicked out of the CIA. Well there's a culture, as I understand it, but of course let me pose the question to you.
	In the CIA there's a very strong culture of you go along to get along.
	Like you're either with our culture or you're going to become our enemy and we're going to find a way to get you out.
	Did you then very quickly find yourself on the outside of that culture?
	I found myself on the outside of that culture.
	That culture is the bureaucracy is always right, even if it's wrong.
	And you have to play ball by our rules, whether we're wrong or not.
	Well, exactly.
	But, you know, I think this may be an extension of the overall policy and philosophy of what the CIA has become.
	And this is a question I have for you.
	I think the average American, especially people watching this show, would say that the CIA lacks any oversight and accountability because obviously the agency can always say, well, that's a national security secret.
	How dare you even ask Mr.
	Congressman or Congresswoman or Senator?
	You can't ask.
	These are secrets.
	We can do whatever the hell we want, basically, is the attitude.
	But it seems like that pervades even inside the CIA. So that's the point of the book.
	The main thesis of the book is a lack of congressional oversight over the CIA is what has caused the CIA to run amok.
	We are dealing with the same problems of the 50s and the 60s that were exposed in the 70s with the Church Committee that were reportedly to a degree corrected with the Church Committee findings that led to a more robust Senate Select Committee of Intelligence, the House Permanent Select Committee of Intelligence to do oversight But the reality is that that congressional oversight is extremely deficient and lacking.
	So the CIA knows that it can get away with certain violations, and they do so.
	There have been instances of the CIA breaking laws, and when Congress comes looking for accountability, the CIA basically flips their middle finger, telling Congress, F you.
	We're not going to give you the information.
	And there's one specific example written in my book about that, dealing with whistleblower protections.
	Well, can I... Let me just...
	Play the other side here for a moment, but Congress isn't trustworthy, okay?
	So if you're the CIA, I mean, we have members of Congress that are actual idiots, as you well know.
	We have members of Congress that think the moon is made of gas, or that if you put too many troops on the island of Guam, that the island will capsize and sink.
	And these are actual on-the-record statements from members of Congress.
	If you're the CIA, isn't it accurate?
	And I'm not defending their actions, just to be clear.
	I'm prompting you to answer this.
	But if you're the CIA, isn't it an accurate claim to say, well, we can't tell Congress all these things we're doing because, number one, they're not qualified to understand this, and secondly, they're not trustworthy.
	They're going to leak it for their campaign purposes, and they're going to compromise and endanger the lives of CIA operatives all over the world.
	Is that a fair answer?
	Well, there's a couple elements here.
	One of them is, at times, Congress really doesn't want to know.
	True, yeah.
	I mean, there's instances of Congress saying, we really don't want to know what you're doing.
	And that's been documented.
	Another element of this is where the CIA seeks always to protect itself.
	So even if they make some grave mistakes, there's a lot of spin.
	There's a lot of shape to narrative.
	So they will tweak truth and into half-truths or even lies and presented to Congress as such.
	Sure.
	But now, there is an element here of deficiency in oversight through ill-prepared congressmen.
	I mean, my goodness, we had Senator Burr from North Carolina as the chairman of the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence.
	And prior to his tenure as a senator, He was in lawnmower sales.
	He was a sales manager for a lawnmower company.
	Spinning blades?
	Maybe he could cut the budget occasionally.
	I don't know.
	There's an element of truth there.
	You've got career bureaucrats who've been doing the intelligence work for Decades at times that, yeah, they're more knowledgeable than Congress.
	There's truth to that, but our government is a government of checks and balances.
	Supposed to be, right.
	If Congress demands to see something, they're supposed to be given the information in a timely manner with transparency, and that's not the case.
	That's right.
	Now, here's another element, too, that happens.
	Realize that although you have senators and representatives that sit in these committees, The bulk of the work is done by staffers.
	And in the case of staffers, the staffers are not like the representatives and the senators.
	A senator or representative gets a clearance just by being a senator and a representative, particularly if you are in a national security oversight committee.
	But the staffers have to go through a robust vetting process to get a clearance.
	And those clearances are controlled by the intelligence community.
	If the CIA, the FBI, or DIA, NSA does not want to give a clearance to somebody, they will say, no, we're not giving a clearance to them.
	And we saw this with President Trump early on in his administration.
	He had nominated some personnel who were in sensitive national security presidentially appointed positions.
	The intelligence community said, no, we're not giving a clearance to that person.
	And there was nothing that they could do unless the president wanted to override it.
	But in the case of Congress, Congress can't override the intelligence community over these clearance issues.
	Well, you speak to checks and balances, and I completely agree with you.
	I think our audience does as well, that we need checks and balances.
	And the CIA in particular, my understanding and my question to you, is it seems that even though its mandate is to operate outside of CONUS, You know, outside the United States, it is increasingly becoming involved in domestic politics, domestic intelligence operations, collusion with big tech, Wikipedia, to push specific narratives, to blacklist and deplatform certain voices, such as my own, by the way.
	And this, if there were checks and balances, this wouldn't be happening.
	But it seems like the CIA does whatever it wants, whether it's lawful or not.
	That is true.
	I mean, they're able to work their way around some restrictions by some creative means.
	I mean, I witnessed firsthand how the lawyers would circumvent restrictions.
	They find every single loophole they can possibly find.
	It's like, imagine a fence and you stand on the fence and it's like, okay, it's illegal to stand inside this area and But you straddle the fence and you're leaning into it, but you're still on the fence.
	One way this is done is if you are a counterterrorism subject or a counterintelligence subject, in other words, there's reasons to believe that you are a counterintelligence threat or a counterterrorism threat to the United States, the CIA actually can work domestically on those cases as long as they're working with the FBI and the FBI has the lead.
	So the reality is the FBI and the CIA work hand in hand domestically.
	And that's one way the CIA can't work inside the United States.
	Well, that's very concerning because we're now seeing, and I'm not asking you to comment on this particular situation.
	If you want to, that's fine.
	But with Israel and the pro-Palestine student protesters in the United States, we're seeing governors like the governor of our state, Texas, make declarations that say that all of these student protesters, including some academics and professors, should be arrested including some academics and professors, should be arrested and imprisoned.
	And according to some members, mostly of the GOP in the Senate, such as Senator Ted Cruz and others, that they are seeking to criminalize any student on campus who says something like free Palestine, let's say, and to declare them terrorists.
	Now that would trigger potentially then, according to what you're saying, that the FBI could get involved with a domestic terrorist investigation and then the CIA could get involved and as long as they call them terrorists, they could kidnap these students, take them to a black site, torture them for information.
	What's to stop that from happening?
	I mean, there's nothing that can stop it if there are declared terrorism subjects a threat to the United States.
	And that's happening.
	And potentially, you know, I can't answer if that has happened with any student.
	But, you know, we have seen many cases of such cases during the war on terrorism where subjects were basically put on no-fly lists.
	In some cases, people were obviously kidnapped and extradited, or in some cases, kidnapped and taken to a black site and tortured.
	We can go back to the Senator Feinstein investigation on extradition and torture, and it's in there.
	But what's disturbing about all of this is that the U.S. then attempts to take this righteous moral position This posture to the rest of the world.
	Lecturing, for example, Putin and Russia say, you're evil because we are the standard of human rights, America.
	We don't do all these crazy things.
	Or lecturing China, for example.
	How dare you, China, the way you're treating the Uyghurs?
	We don't do that in America, but we do do that in America.
	Yeah.
	It's called the weaponization of government power, which goes into the movie, the documentary that's tied to my book, Deep State Gangsters.
	We do have a weaponized government.
	That is abusing its authorities.
	And one specific area where we see this is with the technical surveillance where America's entire communications infrastructure can easily be tapped into by the intelligence community.
	And everything that you type on a computer, on a phone or every phone call you make, and even potentially this session that we're having right now could be surveilled or stored in the database and pulled up at times under those counterterrorism authorities without a need for a warrant.
	Well, absolutely.
	We have no doubt that it will be archived, transcribed and archived.
	In fact, we will transcribe it, and ourselves as well.
	We'll do it for them.
	We'll do it for them.
	I mean, they're going to do it.
	Deep State Gangsters is the film.
	When does this come out again?
	It's sometime probably close to Labor Day.
	The production is almost complete.
	We've got John Kiriakou, Nate Kane in it.
	We've got another FBI whistleblower lined up, myself, and we've got two commentators, Lee Smith and J. Michael Waller.
	Okay, I don't recognize any of those names, but it sounds like they're important whistleblowers.
	Is that mostly who they are?
	John Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA torture program.
	Okay, I apologize.
	It's not my wheelhouse.
	I don't...
	Yeah, his case is very significant, and the government came after him, again, through abuses of power.
	Okay.
	That story is where he wrote his own book.
	Basically, they...
	The order was, DCI Brennan told the FBI, I want this man charged with a crime.
	Do it.
	And the DOJ had previously investigated the Kiriakou case and found no crime.
	Kiriakou is the way to pronounce his name.
	My apologies.
	So they basically cooked up a way to creatively prosecute him.
	And the problem that we run into is, if you get indicted, Yes.
	That makes it really difficult for you to defend yourself unless you have literally hundreds if not millions of dollars.
	It takes literally millions of dollars to defend yourself from some of these criminal charges.
	And not only that, but the venue in which you're going to be tried is either going to be the D.C. court or, for that matter, usually the Eastern District of Virginia – And these courts are significantly biased against anyone that's against the government in any form or fashion.
	And there's another whistleblower out there, Jeffrey Sterling, who there is no proof whatsoever that he leaked any national security intelligence to a reporter.
	with the Espionage Act, a stacked indictment as usual, and they prosecuted him on circumstantial evidence.
	And based on circumstantial evidence, that wasn't, as they call, it has to be beyond any reasonable doubt.
	It was not beyond any reasonable doubt, just circumstantial.
	But in a court that's biased, a stacked indictment, they basically declared that he was guilty and he went to jail.
	Well, I don't know how you feel about Donald Trump, but clearly what they've done to him is a very strong example of the weaponization of the legal system and the intelligence community.
	I mean, the whole anti-Trump dossier, the Russia collusion hoax as it was, and now Trump being dragged through this trial in New York where they can't even really name a crime that he allegedly committed.
	Yeah.
	Well, the first impeachment, the Ukraine whistleblower, I get into it in chapter one of my book.
	And then later on in the book, I go over my own intelligence community whistleblower protection act disclosures.
	Here we have a case that the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel ruled that this so-called intelligence whistleblower The Ukraine whistleblower, the telephone call, was not a whistleblower according to the law.
	And his disclosures were not about intelligence activities.
	So this was not an ICWPA, Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act disclosure.
	Yet Congress jumped on it.
	The media pounced on it.
	Political pundits, activist groups, everybody came to support this whistleblower and it led to an impeachment.
	But in my case, when I used this Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act with a first-hand disclosure of having knowledge first-hand, they failed to process my disclosures.
	They failed to respond to me one time.
	I followed up a second time.
	I followed up a third time.
	Ultimately, I had an attorney.
	We creatively found a way to get the I asked Congress to get engaged.
	Congress asked for some of the things.
	The CIA said, we don't pass all those materials to Congress.
	They were refusing to send everything I needed to send to Congress.
	Lack of oversight.
	And whatever Congress got, I have no idea to this day what they got.
	And ultimately what happens is in my entire termination process, eventually the The ICIG, Office of Inspector General for the Intelligence Committee, sends me a form that says, if I have first-hand information, I can file on ICWPA. And the way it works is, within 14 days, they have to make a determination whether it is or not a disclosure that Congress needs to know.
	And if Congress needs to know, they have one week to pass it to the DNI, Director of National Intelligence, and then within 21 days, the Director of National Intelligence sends it to Congress.
	In this particular case with Trump, they completely violated all those.
	Completely.
	The Inspector General for the Intelligence Community notified Congress.
	That's a violation of law.
	The Congress was immediately protecting this whistleblower.
	And more importantly, it was a hearsay complaint, which according to the form that they gave me, didn't even meet the requirement of a whistleblower protection act.
	Well, it was clearly Trump was being railroaded from day one.
	That's obvious.
	But let's shift gears and let me ask you then.
	Now that you're no longer employed by the CIA and you're making this film, you're an author, I'm curious what you are doing in your post-CIA career, and then more importantly, Do you feel like you're still being threatened?
	Because you still represent now, I think, as a non-official whistleblower, as a former CIA officer, making this film and writing books and doing this interview, for example.
	Some people inside the CIA might perceive you as even a greater threat now than you were when you were inside the system.
	Well...
	There's validity to that claim that I could be a threat to them and that they could come after me.
	But that's where I have to abide by the law.
	And the book was submitted to the Pre-Publication Review Board.
	And what is published is exactly what they approved for me to publish.
	So it does have some redactions that are in black.
	As long as I don't violate my non-disclosure agreement and my secrecy agreement and don't disclose national security information, I violate no laws.
	And if they decide to come after me, I can use my constitutional rights to plead the fifth and keep my mouth shut.
	Which, by the way, if you ever get a knock on the door by the FBI or any federal agent, the correct answer is, I need to get back to you with a lawyer.
	And if you ever get questioned, make sure that there's a warrant in place that demands you get questioned or a subpoena that demands you get questioned.
	And when you do get questioned, I would want to make sure that that is being duly noted, recorded by a lawyer on your side and with witnesses on your side.
	Because you never want to find yourself in a situation like General Flynn found himself with the FBI or I found myself with some security officers where both of us were questioned and what we said was turned around, perverted and written up in a different way and then it was then used against us.
	Well, the FBI is famous for doing that.
	They do not record the interactions.
	They make notes and then they alter the notes.
	Yeah, that's accurate.
	Yes, yes.
	Well, so what do you want to see happen here?
	More oversight or what exactly?
	What do you think would resolve this issue so that the CIA would no longer It's a tough question to answer as far as how can we fix these problems.
	Ultimately, my aim is to fix these problems.
	One area is the lack of engagement by the American populace, the American people.
	I mean, we've got people who refuse to vote.
	The primaries, 20-30% turnout.
	Of course, we're going to end up electing some buffoons into Congress.
	The American people need to be more engaged, get involved to ensure that they are sending the best people they can send to Washington.
	And not only that, but more importantly, securing their election systems at the state and city levels to ensure that we can have honest elections.
	On the other hand, the element of oversight.
	My book is basically like a shot across the bow of a boat, Congress, that we have serious problems in this country because you're failing to do your oversight.
	And we have just witnessed that in the past couple weeks, months.
	Well, Speaker Johnson, of course, has turned out to be, well...
	Very problematic in terms of what he used to promise, you know, America first, pro-liberty, rule of law, and then he jumps in and reauthorizes, leads the reauthorization of FISA. And then send $95 billion to Ukraine and Israel and other countries without a single dollar to protect the U.S. border.
	I would think that most of our audience, Mr.
	Orta, believes that Congress is gone.
	With few exceptions, like Representative Thomas Massey in the House, and let's say Senator Paul in the Senate, and some other exceptions like that.
	Most of Congress is already gone.
	They've sold out America.
	If they were going to do anything, they would have protected the border 10 years ago.
	Do you get a sense that it's too far gone, or is there still a chance you think that we could turn this around and restore the republic?
	I have serious concerns with Washington Congress and that military intelligence industrial complex.
	I don't know if we can ever fix this problem unless we elect a president that's going to be powerful enough to crush it, as President Kennedy wanted to do, shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces.
	It's going to take a very strong president with correct appointments into positions of power to enforce such an agenda.
	On the congressional end, we need to ensure that strong congressional leaders are serving in the committees that have oversight over these issues and not just congressmen or senators who are engaged in what I call political theater, grandstanding, and showmanship.
	Now, there's another element to this.
	The states have a lot of power.
	Governors have a lot of power.
	Governors need to step up to the plate and begin to exercise their powers as governor of states to start combating.
	And I don't mean combat as in taking insurrection or rebellious type acts.
	I'm talking about using every legal power available, using their executive fiat powers to start challenging the overreach of the federal government power.
	Well, to some extent that is happening.
	The Tenth Amendment is having a resurgence right now.
	Some states are nullifying certain federal laws or regulations such as those by the ATF. Some states are working to legalize firearm suppressors domestically.
	I think Texas is one of those, by the way.
	We saw during the Trump administration many states declaring themselves to be sanctuary status, which means they will not comply with federal illegal immigration laws or deportation laws.
	And now with the Biden administration in place, we're seeing sort of the flip side of that, of some states saying they will not go along with federal law enforcement, even Texas defying The federal government's desires to keep the Texas southern border wide open to allow unlimited illegal immigration into the country.
	So it seems to me that what you just mentioned is a process that is already happening.
	Many states are, in essence, carrying out what you might call a soft secession from the federal government.
	Do you see that happening as well?
	That that is happening, and it's been...
	A slow process, and it's been limited in nature with a few key states paving the way, like Texas.
	But we need every single state in the Union to follow such a path.
	And in most cases, each state has their own constitution, and each state is basically structured in the same way the federal government is structured, with the checks and balances of their own Senate, the House of Representatives, and the judiciary branch with the governor, executive branch.
	So we need more state legislatures to step up to the plate and begin to take more robust actions and not just wait for their governors to take the lead.
	Okay, great answer.
	And I think that process is underway.
	All right, let me shift gears and ask you a what-if question, and of course I do not expect you, and I know you wouldn't violate your non-disclosure agreements in any way, but my question is, What if, you know, in 1991, the Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic collapse, collapse of their currency, of their centralized government structure.
	Should such a similar collapse occur in Washington, D.C.? Let's say the dollar is rejected, the Treasury defaults on debt, which some of my other guests believe is going to happen at some point here relatively soon.
	It seems to me that the CIA... Well, my question is, what would the CIA do?
	Because the CIA is an infrastructure.
	It's an infrastructure.
	It's a business model.
	The CIA has its own revenues.
	It has its own enforcement division.
	It has guys with guns, very well-trained guys.
	It has intelligence and surveillance data.
	It's got blackmail information on lots of people.
	It has the ability to gather intel.
	It's got operatives all over the world.
	What would the CIA do, in your opinion, if the central government collapsed?
	In my opinion, from what I see how our government structures are framed and how they operate, if we have just a currency collapse and the federal government basically implodes, the power of the federal bureaucracy is going to also implode.
	And ultimately, it's going to be up to the states and the local counties and the local cities to exert some kind of governance in this chaos.
	So, at that point in time, the states that are well prepared to handle such a catastrophe will be much better off than those that are not.
	Like, I would not want to find myself in a place like Chicago or New York if this thing happens, okay?
	Because I can't even have a gun to defend myself.
	What about the CIA stations in other countries?
	You have many, I mean thousands of CIA employees and operatives stationed all over the world, I would imagine.
	And if Washington implodes, what happens to all those people?
	I mean, if people can't be paid, you can't work for free for the government.
	That's against the law.
	It's like a government shutdown.
	Basically, at that point in time, they're frozen in place.
	They can't work.
	And in some cases, they'll probably be recalled and sent home to...
	No government employee can actually work for free.
	That's against the law.
	Every time we had a government shutdown, you were either named essential or non-essential.
	And if you were essential, there was a loophole in place that would allow you to work while you weren't getting paid.
	All right, so then let me ask the next question, which is if the CIA offices or stations were shut down across, let's say, the Middle East, across Southeast Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe in particular, what do Europe, Eastern Europe in particular, what do you think the impact would be in terms of the dynamics of what other nations would respond with if those CIA stations were no longer operational?
	Most people don't realize that a lot of government work is called busy work.
	The actual hardcore work that yields productive results is probably, you know, you can follow the 80-20% to 20-80%.
	Most CIA assets are just basically career-enhancing statistics so that case officers can get promoted, so that they can generate intelligence reports, so that a station can say we're generating X amount of intelligence reports and running X amount of assets.
	Historically, for any intelligence agency, whether it's in the U.S., whether it's China, whether it's the Soviet Union, now Russia, or for that matter, the Israelis, usually it's volunteers, people who volunteer and say, hey, I want to be a spy for you and give you information.
	You've got the Russian Pankovsky case, you've got the U.S. Walker case, the Hanson case.
	So, minimal impact, in my opinion, as far as intelligence collection.
	And at the same time, since we rely so much on SIGINT collection, we can still continue to do SIGINT collection in such a scenario.
	Okay.
	Well, that's interesting, because it seems like you're saying that these stations around the world aren't really achieving much, other than producing reports.
	Yeah, I mean, you can quantify as far as impact.
	There's a lot of activity that's not really productivity, and it's just busy work.
	Well, my company's building a very elaborate AI engine.
	We could produce all those reports.
	Just out of AI. I mean, we could have stations of AI-generated reports.
	Here, you want to report his reports.
	Statistics, statistics.
	You don't even need humans to do that.
	No, I mean, nowadays, technology has taken over so many things that you can use technology to do a lot of the intelligence processing, and that's what's actually done.
	AI, big point right there.
	The OSINT, open source intelligence, is a huge field with tremendous potential.
	And on that note, human intelligence collection is becoming much more complicated and complex almost to the point that in some places you cannot conduct human intelligence operations because of all the intelligence collections and mechanisms in place like the smart cities that have all the surveillance cameras.
	How do you do intelligence collection of human sources in such a city?
	You almost can't because you got to go find black spots.
	The cameras are not seeing you.
	Right.
	Okay, let me ask an extension to all of this.
	If the CIA is doing any kind of a decent job collecting intelligence and signals analysis and so on, you would think that that information would get to the political decision makers In the State Department, Homeland Security, in the Biden administration, and so on.
	And perhaps this is one of the frustrations of working in the CIA is that even if you produce good, solid intel, the political types completely ignore it or they're too stupid to recognize it.
	Perhaps.
	I'll let you answer it, but let me finish my question.
	So why is it that The State Department, the Biden administration, and so on are so wrong about everything, especially, for example, Ukraine and Russia situation.
	They were telling us since the summer of 2022 that Ukraine was going to defeat Russia, that Russia was weak, that Russia's currency was going to collapse.
	Every single thing they've told us has been wrong.
	How can they be wrong so consistently if they're getting any kind of decent information from the CIA? There's an element of groupthink to it where people think the same and you can't be an outlier.
	And there's also the taskings that get to the intelligence community where these principles, these leaders, are asking questions.
	And the questions they're asking are literally questions that reinforce their world beliefs and their conclusions and what they believe that is correct.
	So it produces an atmosphere, a scenario in which They're just feeding their own beliefs.
	Russia is enemy number one.
	We want intelligence that shows us that Russia is enemy number one.
	So the intelligence community goes out and produces reports that show them that Russia is a threat.
	So, I mean, pardon my language, but it sounds like you're describing much of what the CIA does as cognitive masturbation.
	In many ways, that's what it is.
	I mean, we see it with the press.
	That's what the press does.
	The press continually harps out what they want people to read and hear and see.
	It's propaganda.
	For that matter, I call the Office of Public Affairs, the CIA, the Office of Propaganda Affairs, because they're there to shape and influence the media with what they want the narrative to be.
	Absolutely.
	Alright, well, wow.
	First of all, this has been a fascinating discussion.
	We're approaching the final minutes here.
	What would you like to leave our audience with We've covered a lot of subjects, but what else is on your mind?
	Well, the conclusion of my book and the documentary, Deep State Gangsters and the Broken Whistle Deep State Run Amok, the bottom line is we are spiraling downward to a tyrannical form of government, weaponized government power.
	And if we do not rise up and use our constitutional republic mechanisms to We will lose our country.
	I like what Liz Truss, the short Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, wrote in her book, 10 Years to Save the West.
	Look at Venezuela.
	All it took for a prosperous country with significant oil reserves, a robust middle class, with the wrong leader coming in, Chavez, within 10 years, he destroyed that nation.
	We could find ourselves going that same path.
	And that's basically the clarion call of the broken whistle.
	I show people how they weaponize their powers against me, how they are corrupt and refuse to obey and follow the laws, how Congress refuses to do oversight, and what it all means is who will speak for you when they come looking for you is going to be dependent on who you speak up for.
	Do you think that Trump would make a significant change and would he put in place a DNI who would be very effective and so on?
	I mean, he has a mandate to really strongly reform the intelligence community if he gets elected again.
	If Trump gets elected again, he cannot make the mistakes he made in his first administration of putting in Rens Priebus, William Sessions, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence.
	Right.
	I call them deep state stooges.
	He's going to have to put in people that are going to be very strong and forceful and clean up these bureaucracies.
	Well, I agree with you, but I don't see any sign that Trump is moving in that direction, by the way.
	He appears to be continuing to surround himself by the same kind of people like the Mike Pompeo's of the world that essentially refuse to carry out his wishes in his first administration.
	It's a valid point.
	I mean, that's one concern I've got with Trump.
	Can he deliver on draining the swamp?
	He failed the first time.
	The second time, you know, first of all, I'm not even too sure they're going to allow him to be the Republican nominee.
	I hear rumors most recently that, you know, should he get convicted here in New York, that they're going to find a way to basically take him off as the Republican nominee.
	Well, the people doing that are clearly playing with volatility in a very dangerous way.
	And I appreciate what you just said, that we can lose our constitutional republic very quickly.
	It can happen rapidly.
	And some would say it's already happening.
	I agree with you that we need due process.
	We need transparency.
	We need checks and balances.
	And there is this power cabal that runs Washington right now that is very dangerous, not just internationally, to the free market system of the world, but is very dangerous to the American people.
	And if we don't find a way to dismantle that and redistribute power the way...
	The branches of government are supposed to be separated and the way the court system is supposed to function, then we're in real trouble.
	We may not make it as a nation.
	That is the message.
	You nailed it.
	Alright, well, and if you want to see the destruction of America, just watch the behavior of the judge in the current Trump trial in New York.
	It's all on parade, you know, right there for the whole world to see.
	Okay, well, Pedro Israel Orta is our guest today, folks, and his film coming out is called Deep State Gangsters.
	His website is pedroisraelorta.com, and his book, which is here, here it is, The Broken Whistle, A Deep State Run Amok.
	And I want to thank you, Mr.
	Orta, for spending time with us today.
	This has been a fascinating discussion.
	I wish you the best with your film and your future.
	Thank you so much.
	It's been a pleasure.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Have a wonderful rest of your afternoon.
	And thank all of you for watching today.
	Of course, I'm Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com, where we have free speech protected, and we are not afraid to ask the deep questions.
	We love the founding principles of our constitutional republic.
	We hope to restore it, and we will continue to bring you fascinating interviews from people who are part of that process of either blowing the whistle or helping to resolve the problems we now face as a nation.
	Thank you for watching today.
	God bless you all.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Take care.
	Back in stock at the Health Ranger store, we now have the Elderberry Echinacea Tincture Combo, which is outstanding for the immune system that's in the middle there.
	Back in stock.
	We've also got Quercetin available, which is a very popular item, as everybody's learning about the supportive benefits of Quercetin.
	We have broccoli sprout powder in capsules now back in stock.
	We also have a little bit of the actual powder as it's shown there in that canister.
	All these available at healthrangerstore.com.
	Go to the website, find out what we have there.
	We've got a lot of new products, a lot of products back in stock.
	And then also we have the pea protein.
	Back in stock.
	Now, for those who like plant-based proteins, pea protein, it's very smooth.
	The texture here is very smooth.
	It's also one of the cleanest, well, I think the cleanest plant-based protein you can get in terms of lab test results, whereas rice protein sometimes, depending on the source, can have arsenic in it.
	We've seen that in rice protein, some lead, some cadmium.
	But pea protein is very, very clean.
	Some people prefer a whey protein taste, but if you're used to doing vegan proteins, then pea protein is more in your wheelhouse of what it's supposed to taste like, and that's a really great, clean, smooth product right there.
	That's back in stock at our store.
	But check out our hundreds of other products at healthrangerstore.com.
	And remember...
	That every purchase helps us with our big lawsuit that we filed.
	We're suing Google, Meta, we're suing Twitter or X, we're suing the Department of Defense.
	We're also suing Homeland Security News Guard and various NGOs for censorship collusion.
	In our lawsuit, we're exposing the censorship industrial complex, and we're working to dismantle it, to compel the court to actually dismantle this censorship complex so that the free speech rights of the American people can be restored, as is supposed to be guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Bill of as is supposed to be guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights under But we have to fight for it, and we need your support in order to carry out and fund that fight.
	So shop at HealthRangerStore.com and help us take this fight to the censors to dismantle the censorship industrial complex while at the same time enhancing your health and nutrition with laboratory-tested, certified, organic, ultra-clean products that we offer.
	Again, healthrangerstore.com.
	Thank you for your support.
	A global reset is coming.
	And that's why I've recorded a new nine-hour audiobook.
	It's called The Global Reset Survival Guide.
	You can download it for free by subscribing to the naturalnews.com email newsletter, which is also free.
	I'll describe how the monetary system fails.
	I also cover emergency medicine and first aid and what to buy to help you avoid infections.
	So download this guide.
	It's free.

▲