For two years I was asked to present thoughts on potential candidates for offices in/around the Trump administration if they can achieve victory in the 2024 election.  Essentially, if Trump wins, “who” would be best in “what” positions?

I was extremely reluctant to put something together like this because ultimately, I look at the challenges with a different perspective. Additionally, I am not confident that key people around Donald Trump fully understand the complexity of the problem, and as a result would not absorb the context of any suggestions I might offer.

However, having spent the past 18 months traveling, quietly tracking (yes, that’s me), methodically researching, looking, listening, digging deep in the places that few understand or pay attention to, and after careful thought, prayer and reflection, I began to think that perhaps a slight change in the presentation might actually be beneficial.

Thus, I began in July of 2024, writing very specifically about who might be best suited for roles and responsibilities. Not from the perspective of the person per se’, but rather from the perspective of a fully understandable context for the position; the reality of what can be pragmatically accomplished, and detailed reasoning for why the challenge they will face exists.

This is a beginning with the end in mind approach.

It is NOT my intent to provide a private list of recommendations. What I wanted to do was set a cornerstone of how each role could, predictably, be anticipated to engage with each challenge; then, ultimately, what I believe they will have to do in order to make progress.

The result was a public series of non-pretending presentations, where all of the traditional civic perspectives that people carried might be challenged.

Roles and responsibilities are only valuable if we define and accept the problem from the same perspective.  It is with that thought in mind that such an undertaking begins.

If successful in the 2024 election, President Trump will have one 4-year term to begin charting a new course within our government.

President Trump cannot be expected to fix or repair all of the damage created within our Constitutional Republic in one term.  However, it is possible for President Trump to set the cornerstones in place that ensure the greatest likelihood of success for a modern restoration.

What we are facing is like the Eye of Sauron in the Hobbit trilogy. I am not going to repeat the background context for how the current landscape was created.  That is available HERE, within the discussion of the Fourth Branch of Government.  Under the CTH category filing system in the right-hand margin, you will now find a sub-category “2025 – Term 2” under the primary category “President Trump.”  All of these articles are there, as published.

The current staffing challenge is about removing the cancerous cells that have been seeded deep within the institutions.

The Intelligence Community created the disease, then used the politicians to sell the cure.

In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose. Then things went sideways…  (more)

The challenge is obviously multifaceted with three infected systems, branches, attacking both domestic and foreign policy against the interests of the American people.

President Trump can address the Executive Branch directly; all other aspects are ancillary to the executive policy.  The Legislative Branch fix is then dependent on We The People, and the Judicial Branch fix is an outcome of both.

Within the staffing question, we must begin with a common understanding.  Domestically we have authorities created by the Patriot Act, ODNI and DHS to contend with.  Externally we have the State Dept and CIA collaboration that also feeds into the larger operational missions of the Intelligence Community.  It is this IC that now dominates all issues of consequence, and it is from this perspective we must first address any restoration context.

♦ Executive Policy – Domestic Consequences. There are five or six key positions, most of them holding deputy positions in support.  Again, this is from my own boots on ground review, real-time research shared, understandings discovered, and earnest challenges identified.

Within the executive branch, directly connected to the office of the presidency, the six primary domestic IC-centric positions of consequence are:

President Trump Emissary – no confirmation needed.

President Trump National Security Advisor – no confirmation needed.

White House Counsel – no confirmation needed.

Director of the Office of National Intelligence (DNI).

Director of the National Security Agency (NSA).

Secretary of the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS)

And then come the Secretary of State (DoS), and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).  These two are combined because they operate collaboratively as one larger silo with two divisions.

Like a restaurant with a front dining room (State Dept.) and a back kitchen (CIA).  The front is visible, the back is not visible.  The front cannot function without the back, and the back is dependent on the front for business pretenses.  The front is the head, the back is the neck. I am pulling DoS and CIA out of the domestic aspect, along with the Defense Dept (DoD) for a reason that will be identified later.

Overall, each of these BIG silos operates what we call the “National Security” system.  They have smaller silos within them, but generally for the intents of the first few positions, these are the critical parts.  Emissary, NSA, White House Counsel, ODNI and NSA.

Already, you are probably saying, “wait, what is this emissary thing?”   Good.  That’s part of the dropping civics non-pretense.

President Trump had before, and will even more critically need again, an exceptional emissary who can convey his thoughts, words and intents to other people – unincumbered by the system itself.

Without the emissary, the embeds within the current national security system will build walls to keep the office of the president isolated.

Those who retain the silo process as an institutional construct to control events, must be confronted by using a process within a system they cannot control.  The President must be able to reach out from his office without going through the national security matrix. That’s the importance of the emissary.

By now, everyone should understand the Trump Doctrine: “Economic Security is National Security.”  Every successful outcome that benefits Americans comes from the expressed policy of using economics as a tool and a weapon to achieve security, domestically and abroad.

I am going to begin with a discussion of the “Emissary.” Their role, their responsibilities, the challenges they face, the personal characteristics and traits needed, how they interact within the system and a full understanding of exactly how critical this person is for the voice of the office of the president.

Two Big Picture Contextual Articles:

Next, we begin the specifics. Who should be the emissary?

♦ The Emissary – Without a doubt in my mind, the “emissary” is the most important person President Trump will select.

The Washington DC Intelligence Community (IC) actively work to isolate the office of the president.  This is an almost impossible dynamic to avoid, caused by an entrenched and ideological adversary who has dug themselves deep into the apparatus of government.

The “emissary” is the person who carries the word of President Trump to any person identified by President Trump.  The emissary is very much like a tape recording of President Trump in human form.  The emissary travels to a location, meets a particular person or group, and then recites the opinion of the President.  The words spoken by the emissary, are the words of President Trump.

The IC cannot inject themselves into this dynamic; that is why this position is so valuable.

The emissary then hears the response from the intended person or group, repeats it back to them to ensure he/she will return with clarity of intent as expressed, and then returns to the office of the presidency and repeats the reply for the President.  The emissary recites back exactly what he was /is told.

This process is critical when you understand how thoroughly compromised the full Executive Branch is.  More importantly, this process becomes even more critical when you accept the Intelligence Community will lie to the office of the President to retain their position.

Read this next sentence slowly…. If the Senate confirms a director of an IC silo, then that director is demonstrably going to lie to the office of the President.

The Senate only confirms Intelligence Community leadership who are willing to LIE to THE PRESIDENT.    This is just a factual reality.

If the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) confirms them, they will lie.  That is the main role of the SSCI.

The people who constructed the Silos then metastasized the control rot within them, use the term “continuity of government,” to describe the true role and responsibility of the system.  This is not factually wrong.

Where people go wrong is misunderstanding what the “continuity” is that is being maintained.  Truly, the continuity of government is the priority. However, it’s the continuity of currently corrupt and immoral government we are now maintaining.

The CIA Director will lie to President Trump (they did, remember).  The FBI Leadership will lie to President Trump (they did, remember).  The AG will lie, the DNI will lie, the NSA will lie, and all the deputies therein will lie.

Washington DC puts it this way, you probably heard Bill Barr talking about ad-infinitum.  The IC leadership is responsible for maintaining the “continuity of government” at all costs.  The government is more important than The President.

If the continuity of government is maintained by lying to the office of the President, then so be it.  Or, as James Comey said when justifying his lies to the President and his manipulation on March 20th, 2017: “because of the sensitivity of the matter.”

You can get as angry as you want about this, it’s just the DC system that exists.  We must deal with what exists, not what we would pretend there to be.

If a candidate for an IC position is not willing to lie to the President, the Senate will not confirm him/her.   This is why President Trump needs an emissary.

The role of the emissary is critical, the qualifications for that role are extremely important.

Remember, this person is speaking on behalf of President Trump.  And representing the responding voice with a similar level of clarity.

The emissary must be of incredible moral character.  They must be honest.  The person should be entirely altruistic.  They must have exceptional judgement, possess no ego, be impervious to scrutiny or review. They must maintain themselves at the highest moral standards at all times and exhibit incredible judgement and wisdom.

Due to the nature of the position the emissary is extremely powerful; therefore, a disposition of humility is also critical.  The President must be able to trust this person without reservation or issue.  At the same time, the entire weight of the U.S. Intelligence Community apparatus will seek to compromise the emissary, as they try to put walls around the President who holds silo-busting power.

Honesty, integrity, humility, trustworthiness, unimpeachable character and exceptional judgement, establish the baseline of traits the emissary must possess.

This is a choice that will be deeply important to President Trump.  Fortunately, it is not a position that requires any confirmation or external approval.  Judgement, discernment, wisdom and silence are the strength characteristics.

From my perspective, I can think of only one qualified candidate, Dr Ben Carson.  Quite simply, there’s no one else who carries the level of trust necessary to engage in the role.  However, I could be wrong – I do not know the sum total of the people in the life of President Donald J Trump.

For the next position/person a little-known secret needs to be understood, perhaps revealed.

Within the global intelligence apparatus there is only one nation with tentacles that compare to the Israeli intel operation. The Mossad was created in both mission and specific operational purpose over many decades. They only have one rival, one quiet and almost unknown national intelligence apparatus that is practically more comprehensive than even the 5-eyes system. That nation is Portugal.

The National Security Advisor to the President is another of the key roles within the White House that is critical to defend against the weaponized Intelligence Community.  In a second term as president, we anticipate Donald Trump will again face opposition from both parties in congress and from every created silo operation in the administrative deep state.

Accepting in advance that any appointees to the Executive Branch agencies in charge of the Intelligence System, are not going to be able to change the outcomes from within those agencies, then strategizing how to confront the rogue intelligence state becomes a more honest exercise.

The National Security Advisor is going to have to navigate an intelligence community that is fully weaponized and adverse to the interests of the White House.  Every element of the IC, the “six ways to Sunday” team, will work actively and behind the scenes to undermine the office of the President.  Any attack vectors will be fully exploited, by the IC and nothing should be considered out of bounds.

The leaders of the CIA, FBI, DIA, DHS and NSA will all lie to the President.   That’s what these institutions do now. They are part of the 4th branch of government, and they consider themselves omnipotent due to the structure of the legislative changes and oversight after 9-11.  Notice I left out the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI, I did that on purpose.

The NatSec Advisor to President Trump is going to have to work through an entirely weaponized fourth branch of government in order to survive it, let alone destroy it.  As a consequence, the Nat Sec Advisor needs to be a person with deep understanding of how the intelligence system inside Washington DC works, as well as carrying a profound distrust for them.

Any person who trusts any product created by the IC should be immediately disqualified from any position in our constitutional government.  Additionally, any person who intentionally maintains the system of pretending (Robert Mueller was honorable etc.), is automatically disqualified.

The National Security Advisor does not need to be confirmed.  The NSA person is unilaterally picked by President Trump, and the entire executive branch was just reminded by SCOTUS that POTUS is in charge of everything.  This should be a big arrow in the quiver of the NatSecAdvisor.

The National Security Advisor is also the chair of the National Security Council (NSC).  The NSC is the working group in the White House specifically tasked with formulating analysis on events from their skills on specific issues.  The National Security Advisor does the NSC hiring and firing.  Trump needs a lot of firing assistance.

When the IC was weaponized by George W Bush and Barack Obama, the DNI fulcrum point was never used much as part of the process.  The DNI sits at the center of all intelligence information and maintains the pivot on the National Security Radar that now sweeps a full circle.

Prior to the Patriot Act the national security radar swept outward from the border looking at national security threats overseas.  Back and forth, back and forth, the radar swept looking for foreign adversaries who might target the USA.  The Patriot Act put a ball joint on the radar that now conducts surveillance sweeps in a circle, including over all Americans.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was created to be the depository for all intelligence products.   Intelligence assembled on foreign threats (CIA) can be reviewed by domestic handlers (FBI and DHS).   When Bush created the office and later when Obama weaponized the office, they installed people who would just go along with whatever the FBI side and CIA side told them to do.  The ODNI was created to be the stupid pivot man.

However, looking at the system in totality, it is my belief that if a really smart person was in the ODNI position, they could control a great deal and even impede the activity happening both domestically (FBI/DOJ) and abroad (DoS/CIA).   I believe the DNI can crush the system, if the person really looked carefully at their power in the pivot location.

The DNI can control information.  The DNI can starve the beast.

Just like the State Dept and CIA work hand in glove to make a mess of the world, so too can the Nat Sec Advisor and DNI work together to deconstruct the domestic intelligence system.  In this process, information is the key.  The DNI can control the information, making it harder for the IC Silos to lie to the National Security Advisor.

[NOTE: control of information is also why the Director of the National Security Agency is also important.  The Director of the NSA is essentially the librarian for all data.  The librarian can control who enters the library if the right people in the Executive Branch (POTUS, Nat Sec Advisor and ODNI) give the Director of the NSA that power (executive action). More on that later.]

The National Security Advisor (hereafter *NSA) needs to be a person who has a comprehensive understanding of the Silos, and a willingness/desire to take them apart.

The *NSA needs to be exceptionally smart, profoundly insightful, intensely strategic, and with a comprehensive knowledge of the DC system.  The *NSA also needs to be stable from attack by the IC defense system.  The ideal *NSA will have an income from outside government that cannot be impacted by the schemes of the IC. The *NSA also needs to be very stable, grounded, logical and thoughtful.

This set of character traits, in combination with the knowledge needed, disqualifies almost everyone in DC.   Steve Bannon is a chatterbox who doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut, and he has a massive ego.  Kash Patel is not strategic enough and maintains the pretending game in order to present himself as a man of value.  Peter Navarro is loyal but has some of those key judgement issues that can be exploited by the IC, and he’s not very smart.

Former Nat Sec Advisor Michael Flynn disqualified himself from further consideration by poor judgement.  Don’t forget, Flynn was an agent for a foreign government (Turkey 2016) and never told candidate Trump, thereby setting the Trump administration up for compromise.  Flynn then claims he didn’t see the risk of an FBI interview in his office and never told the White House Counsel of his intent to be interviewed by the FBI.  You cannot claim Flynn is smart and reconcile that with his stupidity.

Lastly, Mike Flynn is a deeply connected friend and associate to General Stanley McChrystal.  I will say no more.

All of the previous names might be good additions to the National Security Council, but no way should any of those names get close to a position where their failure to deliver can cause damage to the larger goal.

As a result, there is a very small field of candidates, very small, who might be able to pull off the role of National Security Advisor.  At the top of that list is probably Devin Nunes.   I qualify with a “probably” because Nunes has one massive Achilles heel in my opinion.

Devin Nunes believes in the intelligence system.  He believes in the FISC and FISA (702).  Nunes believes in large aspects of the surveillance state, and he believes in the roles and responsibilities within government as it pertains to the Intelligence Community.

Nunes believes the system is good, and it is just being operated by bad people. This is where Mr Nunes and I diverge.  However, I am willing to undermine my position and say that perhaps we need a person who believes in government.  Maybe that’s the type of character trait that can be a good benefit.  I don’t know.  Maybe I’m too jaded and just want it all stripped down to nothing.

What I do know, is that Devin Nunes would never intentionally screw stuff up, and he’d never intentionally undermine President Trump.  Nunes is super loyal, and he loves our country.

I don’t know if he would take the job of National Security Advisor (he would probably want CIA director). However, with a strategic partner in the DNI office, Devin Nunes could give us a solid chance.

♦ White House Cousel – There are many very important positions related to the expectations we hold for President Trump.  Having spent years deep inside the actual workings of the current professional DC silos, I can tell you most of those expectations are very challenging to achieve.

In one 4-year term President Trump can set the cornerstone for a reconstruction effort that will take at least 15 years.  [Reference, Team Obama used 18+ years to create it (January 2007 to present)].

My goal is to describe the needs of some critical positions from a very practical, non-pretending, perspective of what happens within specific offices.  I already discussed two critical positions that do not require IC approval (Emissary and NatSec Advisor) now I outline a third, the White House Counsel.

The Office of White House Counsel does not need IC/Senate approval.

The Office of the White House Counsel (WHC) is the gatekeeper to the Office of the President.  The White House Counsel does not represent Donald Trump; the WHC represents the office of the presidency and the person fulfilling the duty of the presidency.   For the interests of an effective White House Counsel, who is president is irrelevant; they are guarding the office.

The WHC is critical because it is the advice and opinion of the lawyer in this role who can completely hamstring a President, block a President and ultimately control a President.  The WHC also party controls access to the Office of the President, if the person seeking access is determined detrimental to the “office of the president.”

Essentially a legal gatekeeper, with the job to protect the office of the President (not Donald Trump the person), the White House Counsel is very critical.  Understanding that lawyers in general are averse to risk, and understanding a White House primary lawyer would be exceptionally averse to risk, most White House counsel office holders are predisposed to create the concentric circles of protection around the office.

The WHC coordinates the collapse of the concentric circles when major crisis unfolds.  Starting on the perimeter the WHC organizes the people who will take responsibility for a major problem, with the goal in mind to keep the collateral damage as far away from the office as possible.  Like a mob lawyer, the consigliere will tell a person when they must take the blame -self immolate- and exit the White House for the good of the office etc.

That said, there was a very important facet to the White House Counsel’s office that failed in Trump’s first term.  This failure cannot be repeated.

In Term-1 the opinion of the White House Counsel was to block all declassification efforts that did NOT have the full support of the Intelligence Community (IC).  The IC always knows the White House is averse to risk and the IC weaponize the fear of the WHC against the office of the President.

The declassification process is a request by an agency, including a superior agency like the President of the United States, to the Intelligence Branch asking for them to release the information. The Intelligence Branch again holds full unilateral control.

If the head of the CIA refuses to comply with the declassification instruction of the President, what can the president do except fire him/her? {Again, GO DEEP} How does the President replace the non-compliant cabinet member?  They have to go through the SSCI confirmation.  See the problem?

In Term-1 the IC message to the WH Counsel was that if Donald Trump declassified any documents, they would use the DOJ (special counsel weapon) to attack the office of the president for “obstructing justice.”  The WHC was fraught with fear over what would happen and demanded that POTUS Trump stop trying to declassify information/documents the IC didn’t support.

The IC was trying to take out Donald Trump and the WHC in essence supported their objective because the WHC was only focused on threat mitigation.  In term-2 these threats are going to be of even greater significance.  The IC is now in a zero-sum game.

The IC has evolved into the superseding, omnipotent 4th branch of government. If Trump wins, the IC are potentially going to be removed or at least greatly diminished.  Ergo, the IC will do anything to stay in power.  It is exceptionally critical for the next term Trump White House Counsel understand this. The next WHC needs to be as brave as they are legally smart and strategic.

The next WHC needs to be brave for the office, empowering for President Trump, and stand as a flea against a furnace created by the IC and Lawfare system if that is what’s needed.

The next WHC needs to look carefully at the recent SCOTUS decision about the unilateral power of the President within the Executive Branch and lean heavily into that decision; fully extending the power and influence of the Office of the President against the full system of every Executive Branch agency.   Each silo needs to be confronted, and it is going to take a very bold WHC to support this effort.

The recent Supreme Court decision gives tremendous power, ABSOLUTE POWER within the Executive Branch, to the President.  This is not a time for the WHC to be timid, afraid or risk averse.  This is a time for the WHC to spread the wings of the Eagle and sharpen the talons for use against corrupt and weaponized agencies.  In short, go on the attack.

Strategic support for the goals and objectives of the President and National Security Advisor, should be the primary filter of consideration for the White House gatekeeper.

The counselor must be smart, killer smart; brutally strategic; cunning and fully versed in how the dark arts will come against them.  Prior experience as a target by the same system they now confront should be considered an asset.

The person filling the role of WHC must have exceptional constitutional knowledge and capabilities to guide and counsel the key people in/around the office of the President.  Not with the intent to stop the objective, but with the intent to support the objective by telling the scouts and strategic weapons “what” they will face and “where.”

There are some really good lawyers who can fill this role; however, every top-tier candidate must be filtered through the prism of stability, background, the lack of attack vectors against them and keen judgement in all facets of prior political experience.  They must also have a disposition of attack, not defense.  The WHC needs to push forward, not guard as much.

For this reason, I would love to see a brilliant and snarky lawyer like Eric Dublier take the job; but I doubt he would take it.  Another strong possibility would be John Eastman.

John Eastman has been the target of the weaponized IC and Lawfare.  He has a brilliant mind, strong constitutional understanding, and, well, perhaps most importantly, he has a personal reason to be pissed off about the current status of our Executive Branch agencies.   In the position of White House Counsel, John Eastman Esq would trigger spontaneous ‘splodey heads just from the announcement itself.

A collaboration between John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark would be good strategic positioning.  However, President Trump needs to be keenly aware that a team of “professionally republican advisors” will try to steer his options toward lawyers they know will retain the status quo.

♦ The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) – Remember, my goal is to describe the needs of some critical Executive Branch positions from a very practical, non-pretending, perspective of what happens within specific offices.  This outline is going to be a little odd, because almost no one knows what the position of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is about.

The ODNI was created as an outcome of the 9-11 Commission recommendations.  In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.

Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01.  DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. 

When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.

Here is the weird part.  The ODNI was formed in 2004, with the intent for the office to be the pivot point of a national security radar.   The DNI was intended to provide information to domestic agencies about foreign terror networks that would prevent something like 9-11 from happening again.  However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has never, not for one day, operated on this intent.   This is why they are such a critical position from my perspective.

The office was new, not established yet as a functioning silo, when Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived in 2009.  They quickly dispatched an idiot, James Clapper, into the operation so they could weaponize around the offices’ fulcrum point.

Prior to the DNI office existing, the CIA radar would sweep externally and then report to the Office of the President. The DNI was intended to take external radar sweep (CIA) and make it a full 360° circle, adding a sweep inside the USA that would be handled by the Dept of Homeland Security.

The DHS sweep and the CIA sweep would then be combined into a central collection hub called the ODNI.  Everyone with responsibility for “national security” could access the ODNI material. Essentially and presumably, post 9-11 nothing like jihadists practicing flying airplanes would be missed again; at least that was the intent.

The weird part is that because the DNI was immediately weaponized, the office has never functioned to the purpose of its intent.

No one truly knows what the office possibilities consist of because no one has ever seen anyone try to functionally control the hub.  If you think I’m joking about the intent of Obama and John Brennan using the DNI watch this video. This is before Brennan became CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars into place.

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For the intents of this outline the takeaway is how the DNI office has never been used for good.  However, in a strategic way, that can be used to our advantage if you are talking about leveraging silos against each other.

Example:  The DNI can assemble material from any silo.  Meaning the DNI can reach into any IC silo and extract anything they want.  Under the original authorities given to the DNI, this authority exists.  So, let’s spread the wings on this office and do exactly what it is permitted to do, only this time extract for the purpose of showing the President what is happening in every silo.

In essence, the DNI CAN BE deployed like a super strong cross-silo inspector general’s office.  Force the other IC silos to comply with the demands of the DNI.  This has never been done. But the DNI has this unique power.

The DNI can make the FBI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, DoD, DoS and CIA provide anything and everything they demand.  Instead of the other silos using blocks and threats against the office of the President, use the authority of the DNI to get them without confrontation.   Then use the DNI to declassify the documents (if requested by potus), instead of the originating silo.

Can you see how the DNI office can be repurposed to be a seriously strong weapon in the toolbox of the President, against the schemes of those inside the various IC silos.  The DNI becomes much more important than the CIA Director, NSA Director, FBI Director, Attorney General, etc, because the DNI can just show up and say, “give me this.”  That’s the whole functional purpose of the DNI office that has never been exerted; let’s flippin’ use it.

Let’s use the office of the DNI as the central information hub that takes information from inside the corrupt silos, then provides that information to the President who puts sunlight upon it.  Each corrupt silo penetrated with disinfectant.  This could begin a process to pull down the shadow operations and let the American public see what has been happening inside our IC apparatus.

To accomplish this approach the National Security Advisor to the President (NSA), would be the person who tells the DNI exactly what they are looking for.

How does the NSA know what to look for?  Because the National Security Advisor is the head of the National Security Council (NSC).

Now you see why I say put the strategic scruffy people like Mike Flynn, Kash Patel, etc etc in a stripped down NSC.

Let the NSC monitor the silos with specific intent, then provide Trump’s NatSec Advisor with details on what appears to be happening and where.   With the approval of the President, the NSA then turns to the DNI and says, “POTUS wants this, go get this.”

Raw, unfiltered, unredacted information.   The silo administrators end up in a fight with the ODNI, not the office of President Trump.  President Trump then uses the power of his office to support the demands of the DNI.

Under this approach the DNI has a lot more power; yet funnily, it’s power they already have – yet have never utilized.

Unfortunately, the DNI needs to be confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee – so, this factors into who could achieve the position.  [NOTE: Ric Grenell is too valuable in another position.]  John Ratcliffe might be a possibility, but I’m not sure he would be strong enough to go up against the system he knows well (and on a character issue he’s bff’s with Trey Gowdy).

Preferably we really want an outsider in this role, yet any true outsider is going to face massive scrutiny getting through the nomination filter.

My gut tells me that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey might be a strong candidate, and as DNI he can build on his reputation for confronting DHS manipulation.

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey exposed the DHS manipulation of social media and has pushed the envelope against the Deep State/Lawfare attacks against Donald Trump.  Bailey has used the power of his office for good purposes, and that provides me with cautious optimism he could do the same at a federal level in the position of Director of National Intelligence.

♦ The next position to outline be a combination. The Secretary of State and the CIA Director.

The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant. The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The Director is the Chef.  The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys. Ukraine is a big tipper.]

Only a small number of Americans understand the relationship between the U.S. State Dept (DoS) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).  However, as more people understand how these two agencies operate, then people have a much more accurate context for how both agencies are viewed by the rest of the world.

Almost every deployed CIA operative has a cover profile within the State Dept.  The foreign service missions of the DoS and CIA are so enmeshed there is literally no way to separate the functions of their agencies. [Go back to the Benghazi Attack for an operational reference] CIA/DoS have to be viewed through the prism of connection.

To better understand this concept, I use the following metaphor:

♦ The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant. The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The Director is the Chef.  The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys.

The tables and chairs are assigned by the Maitre D’ according to their value.  Countries viewed as more important get the best tables.  The menus offered to each nation are completely different.  Israel has a table in the kitchen.  To get the best experience, tips (bribes) are required for everyone, from the parking valets outside, to the sommelier, to the server.   Currently, Ukraine is the biggest tipper.

On the oversight aspect the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the control mechanism to approve/install the Secretary of State. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the control mechanism to approve/install the CIA Director.  Everything therein and thereafter is a system of pretending it is something else.

The Dept of State (DoS) is so large there’s no way of addressing the inherent institutional corruption.  The Secretary of State can control a small portion of DoS operations, but that’s usually only the geopolitical stuff we see discussed on television, in print media or in press conferences.  The business functions of the DoS take place within a network of carefully guarded silos.

Perhaps, the first step in advancing an American-First policy, is to just stop the various administrative offices within the Dept of State from doing anything, literally anything.  The challenge within DoS is massive, complex and complicated.  I’m genuinely not sure what the Executive Branch mechanism is to do it, but we need to close the restaurant for a few months and do a deep cleaning.

On the back of the operation is the kitchen, the CIA.

It is a popular DC sentiment to say the CIA Director is the most powerful person within the intelligence apparatus.  As the viewpoint is shared, it is the established secrecy within the mandate of the institution that gives them power.

Essentially, the CIA was created to be a place where dark arts (lying, spying, manipulation, tradecraft) would be approved and used at the discretion of the institutional leadership.  As a consequence, there is no check on the CIA operational agenda. They are permitted by function and mandate, to lie to everyone about what they are doing; this includes the Office of the President.

Because they are essentially an unchecked intelligence silo within a government that has allowed the institution to hold unilateral power and self-policing, the CIA has a power within the apparatus unlike any other member.

Inside the business model of foreign policy as a restaurant, the CIA are in control of the kitchen.

Together the DoS/CIA operate a shadow government, looking out for their best interest while generating power through large multinational institutions (corporations), spy agencies (5-eyes), banks, non-governmental agencies (NGAs) and various influence operations.

The activity of the CIA/DoS construct takes place regardless of who is president.  Any hope of busting up this corrupt system is going to take a lot of strategic pounding while confronting the supportive element within the Senate at the same time. [Note this is why repealing the 17th amendment would make the work infinitely easier – and also why the 17th amendment was created by banking interests.]

When you stand back and look at the challenge of confronting the DoS and CIA, you can easily see why the Emissary was the first most important person I noted.  If you are going to confront the domestic corruption within the DoS, you need the Emissary as a contact for specific foreign government leaders.

Under my approach, the interim foreign policy of the USA shifts away from Foggy Bottom and directly back to the White House.   This provides space to destroy the system through domestic confrontation.

A new State Dept Secretary is going to have to push intensely and forcefully to support the goals of President Trump while understanding the internal effort is going to be much less glamorous, but historically far more important.

♦ The Secretary of State needs to have an understanding of the scale of the system underneath them, a comprehensive understanding of the opposition they will face from within that system, and the fortitude to keep playing whac-a-mole until the heads of the sub-silos are slowly removed.  The person in this role needs to be a ‘high energy, smart, multitasker.’   The odds are all against them.

♦ The CIA Director needs the same type of understanding, and an impenetrable ability to put the USA interests above the interests of anyone else who has a table in the kitchen. Given the relationships within the aligned Western Intelligence Services, this is going to be a nerve-wracking challenge.  As much as I want the CIA candidate to know the scale of the problem they will face, in one important way it might be more beneficial if the person didn’t know the scale of opposition they will face.   This is a dark place.

This is a four-year plunge into one of the most corrupt enterprises at the heart of the DC swamp.  The DoS/CIA are the guards of the drain.  The drain is underneath decades of bile, silt, muck, scum, filth and horrible stuff.

Our candidates for these jobs need to be high-energy and full of equal parts determination, fortitude, piss and vinegar.

My recommendations are pictured below:

Continuing our discussion around the challenge to Trump staffing in 2025, we now shift focus to the FBI Director, Deputy Director and Chief Legal Counsel positions.

However, in order to appropriately discuss this critical silo, it becomes very important for everyone to understand the current status of the FBI as the organization has self-identified.

For those who followed the 2016 campaign of President Trump and then watched the 2017 attacks organized by the DOJ and FBI toward the incoming Trump administration, you may agree with me that a complete disassembly of the FBI is now warranted. I will walk through the process, but first it is important to understand just how bad the corruption has become:

RECAP: The FBI relationship with Antifa is exactly what we have previously discussed on these pages.  There is no way for Antifa to operate as a domestic extremist group, without the expressed support and willful blindness of the FBI.  Quite simply if the FBI wanted to stop the violent and extremist activity of Antifa, they could do that easily.

Remember, the objective of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was to resecure what they perceived as physical evidence President Trump controlled showing how the DOJ and FBI action in 2016 was targeting him using the power of their law enforcement and intelligence agencies.   In the background, the origination of all the DOJ/FBI/IC targeting goes back to the ’15/’16 FBI exploitation of the NSA database; this is not a contested discussion issue – it’s just continually forgotten.

The FBI was using their access to the NSA metadata of all Americans, to conduct surveillance on political candidates that might be a threat to the power structures that exploited the secrets within the electronic records of all Americans.  The FBI was, almost certainly still is, conducting domestic surveillance and tracking Americans just like the German Stasi or Soviet KGB.  It’s still happening, but we are not supposed to talk about it, or something.

The raid on Mar-a-Lago, just like the Robert Mueller investigation, was part of a long standing coverup operation.  The FBI was looking for what Trump took with him as evidence of the weaponized system that targeted him.  The FBI wanted that back.  The FBI was willing to use deadly force to get it back if that’s what it took.

The modern FBI is the police agency of a weaponized U.S government, with a direct and purposeful mandate to keep the American people under control through strict surveillance and a violent police state.

Understand and accept this with great seriousness, there are no honorable “rank and file” inside this organization.

Every member of the FBI is a participant in the weaponization of power and government. The members are jackboots recruited from ideological college campuses for exactly the purpose of supporting a Stasi-like police state.

Through the past several years, we have discovered how the FBI worked inside Twitter, Facebook and social media to control information, remove content and manipulate opinion on behalf of the U.S. government – all activity political.

We have also learned the FBI took active measures to suppress information about the Hunter Biden laptop and control any negative consequences for the Biden regime – again, political.  These are not disputed realities.

The U.S. Dept of Justice and FBI are now political institutions that have abandoned their originating mission in order to become the domestic equivalent of the Soviet-era FSB. Their joint targeting mechanisms have been redesigned to support the interests of corrupt DC politicians, specifically the interests of Democrats.

It was in June 2022, when Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter [pdf HERE] to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray, notifying them of whistleblower allegations from within the FBI that senior leadership in both Main Justice and FBI are involved in a coordinated effort to cover up criminal activity related to Hunter Biden.

The whistleblower allegations, in combination with the documented history of DOJ and FBI misconduct, culminate in Senator Grassley stating:

“If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law. Attorney General Garland and Director Wray, simply put, based on the allegations that I’ve received from numerous whistleblowers, you have systemic and existential problems within your agencies.” (LINK)

Grassley was admitting what has been visible for years.

Senator Grassley is telling the corrupt DOJ-FBI leadership that people in the organizations are outlining the detailed behavior of their corrupt leadership.  However, with zero oversight involved, and with Democrats in charge of all committees that would be responsible for such oversight, and with institutional media in alignment and agreement with the corrupt institutional intents of the DOJ/FBI, the frustrating question becomes, “and“?

I mean, who are we kidding?  If Republicans were in charge of the Senate Judiciary, Reform/Oversight, or Intelligence committees, do we really believe that anything would be different?   Before responding to that cynicism, remind yourself, they were for four years, January 2015 through January 2019, Republicans in charge of oversight.

It was exactly when Republicans were in charge of Main Justice and FBI oversight that Main Justice and FBI were targeting political candidate Donald Trump.

In July 2021, the DOJ OIG produced an absolutely damning Inspector General investigation of FBI conduct in the rape and sexual assault of U.S. Gymnasts, revealing how FBI agents facilitated Nassar’s sex crimes by taking no action despite numerous witness statements to them.

Worse yet, the FBI never reported the sexual assaults to local law enforcement… and to top it off, the rank and vile FBI agents lied during the investigation of their conduct, and the DOJ under AG Bill Barr, and now under AG Merrick Garland, refused to prosecute the FBI liars.

The entire IG report [Must Read pdf Here] reveals layer-upon-layer of FBI wrongdoing, misconduct and false statements in an effort to cover up their activity when the internal investigation of their conduct began.  This report is a total condemnation of the FBI rank and file.  It really is quite stunning.