Colonel John Mills is a national security professional with service in five eras in American history: The Cold War, the peace dividend, the Great Power Showdown, and now the Great power showdown. He s a former Director of Cybersecurity Policy Strategy and International Affairs at the Center for Security Policy, and he writes a lively column for The New York Times.
00:01:50.560So here is some breaking news I want to get your reaction to.
00:01:54.460Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna has announced that she is introducing the American Privacy Restoration Act to fully repeal the Patriot Act
00:02:05.060and strip rogue intelligence officers of their extraordinary mass surveillance powers.
00:02:11.860Since the passage of the USA Patriot Act in the aftermath of 9-11, she says,
00:02:18.180the intelligence agency officials have used their mass surveillance tools to settle personal scores, interfere in elections, and spy on untold numbers of innocent Americans.
00:02:30.840Colonel Mills, what is your reaction to this news?
00:02:35.060Well, we've gone through this so many times about mass surveillance.
00:02:42.260And, oh, my gosh, I think it's the Section 702, which was introduced in 2008.
00:03:28.700And then, you know, essentially the intelligence agencies, essentially the big three, depending on certain things, it would be NSA, the FBI, NCI, JTF, and DHS.
00:03:39.980They come together and they give a dog and pony show to Congress, and they reveal the magic of what can be had.
00:03:48.300And the collection capabilities have just grown exponentially.
00:03:52.180I'm no longer behind the curtain, don't know what their current status is.
00:03:55.320But I can assure you the capabilities from when we started in 2007 grew exponentially, and it's intoxicating.
00:04:06.380When the members of Congress get these briefs, most of them are almost drunk with what they receive, and they go, oh, boy, not only do I like it, I want more of it.
00:04:34.340And, again, they give these briefings that blow the socks off of these members of Congress, and they cave and fold and say, oh, yeah, this is, oh, yeah.
00:04:44.640It's intoxicating when they are exposed to the powers of what can be done.
00:04:49.840But all magic comes with a price, and just because we can do it doesn't mean we should.
00:04:55.360Yeah, look, I admit that I was not always a supporter of Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna.
00:05:00.780In fact, I was a critic, but I'm also a big enough man to admit that I was entirely wrong.
00:05:06.540She has turned out to be a MAGA firebrand.
00:05:09.220I think she's done an excellent job at trying to figure out what the government is holding back regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King.
00:05:22.400We talked extensively on this show about the fact that the disclosures from the National Archives have been limited to the JFK assassination records collection, but that there's substantial information, for example, still at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the IRS, the Army Intelligence, and other places.
00:05:46.460Again, she today is right on the money.
00:05:53.540It's not incidental that Judge Jeb Bosberg, the same judge who said Donald Trump does not have the constitutional authority to deport violent illegals who are in this country, is the same judge who oversaw the FISA court's warrants that were used to spy on Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
00:06:24.880I know there are neocons in the Republican Party who will not be comfortable with this.
00:06:31.120Yesterday, I saw Congressman Stubb from Florida also commenting on the fact that nobody from our intelligence agencies, not the Secret Service, not the FBI, has briefed him and other members of the House Intelligence Committee
00:06:47.760regarding what they know about the two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump, where, to my mind, we still have far more questions than we have answers.
00:07:00.500We can go through the questions, but they're mind-boggling.
00:07:04.560How is it that the state police, the local police, Homeland Security, and the Secret Service are aware that there's a man with a gun who's been seen with a rangefinder within the sealed perimeter of Trump's event for 92 minutes,
00:07:24.880but nobody informs President Trump's direct security detail, and therefore he was not evacuated as would have been the protocol?
00:07:35.320How is it that the state, local, and federal authorities are on three separate radio frequencies and cannot speak to each other?
00:07:46.620Why would they immediately hose down the roof where the man they claimed was the shooter shot from, destroying any DNA evidence?
00:09:19.480Oh my gosh, what was the coverup, uh, just exposed on, um, um, uh, but the, it's, it's willful on what is going on here with the, uh, with the FBI and their dismissive, uh, dismissals of motives that are, they're important.
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00:10:05.800Uh, I find the, uh, the attempted assassination in West Palm Beach even more troubling.
00:10:12.960Hard for me to believe that the, that the suspect, Ryan Routh, uh, who they tell us is indigent, they tell us he's behind in his, uh, in his rent payments, behind in his alimony, uh, lives, uh, in Hawaii.
00:10:29.620How does he afford to fly to the United States?
00:10:33.160How does he afford to fly to all these European capitals?
00:10:37.860How does he afford to, uh, fly to Ukraine where we've seen video footage of him?
00:10:44.060How does he obtain a gun when he's in Florida?
00:10:47.380How does he hide for some 18 hours outside Trump's West Palm Beach, uh, golf club, uh, undetected?
00:10:55.680Uh, it just seems highly unlikely that the, that the, uh, intelligence agencies have no knowledge of Mr.
00:11:41.980This is, uh, this was intentional setups, uh, to, uh, uh, uh, they were trying to get President Trump out of the race one way or another.
00:11:51.500So this is just unacceptable, but this is, this is the, the absolute politicalization weaponization of these, uh, of these agencies.
00:12:00.020And we've just, you know, from, um, uh, all of these personalities through the years back to Russiagate, you know, we, we just had extremely toxic.
00:12:11.980Um, uh, uh, personalities that were involved with this.
00:12:15.720And this allows these sick people to penetrate.
00:12:18.700But again, uh, with Ruth and West and Palm Beach, I mean, come on, look at this guy's travel history and his background, uh, for Ryan here.
00:12:28.840It seemed to me that the, the intelligence agencies and law enforcement tell us that they cannot get into the encrypted information in the cell phone of Thomas Matthew Crook.
00:12:41.980That's the man that they say, uh, shot at, uh, President Trump and killed, uh, Corey Comparatori, the brave firefighter who died shielding his wife and daughter that day.
00:12:54.680It really aggravates me to see people on social media claim that nobody was shot that day, that the whole thing was a PSYOP.
00:13:03.400It particularly aggravates me when people said that I somehow arranged it, which shows that they're truly mentally ill.
00:13:09.460Uh, but it's interesting that Apple has refused to turn over the contents of Crook's phone saying it would be a violation of his privacy.
00:13:18.540Yet Apple was more than happy to turn over the contents of my phone to Robert Mueller and his thugs without even getting a subpoena.
00:13:28.620Uh, talk about the so-called double standard.
00:13:32.060Uh, and then, as I said earlier, uh, hosing down the roof of the building that Crook Crooks allegedly shot from before testing for DNA reminds me when they hosed out the back of the limousine in which John F. Kennedy was shot, uh, within an hour of that murder.
00:13:52.500I mean, it's the fact that this is a cover-up is, I think, extraordinarily easy to see.
00:14:01.480What I wonder is whether President Trump himself or his FBI director have demanded answers from the Secret Service because the public story really defies credibility.
00:14:14.480That Crook's acted alone seems unlikely to me.
00:14:17.340We've seen video footage of him and still photos of him talking on the telephone.
00:14:35.240Yet those in law enforcement take no action.
00:14:38.460And then it's pretty clear that the government's counter sharpshooter has Crooks or whoever was shooting from the roof, uh, in their sights.
00:14:49.000But instead of shooting and killing him, which is what the protocol would require in the case of a, of a presidential candidate, uh, who's a protectee of the Secret Service, they wait until he gets off eight shots before he's killed.
00:15:08.280It was the San Bernardino shooting from years ago where Apple, the public story is Apple would not help.
00:15:16.080I, I tend to believe I have a different view of it, but there's also, uh, now there is a lawsuit from the San Bernardino case where the FBI was able to get support to unlock the phone, uh, of the San Bernardino, uh, shooter from years ago.
00:15:34.040This was like 2016, uh, there was an Australian form firm named Asimus that it looks like the FBI contacted, uh, to unlock the phone.
00:15:44.520Again, I, I still think, uh, Apple may have, uh, uh, unlocked the phone themselves and, uh, that they wanted to play dumb and pretend they didn't do it.
00:15:54.400But, but come on, look, this is, we, we unlocked the San Bernardino shooter.
00:15:58.280Why have we not done the same routine to unlock, um, you know, Crook's phone in Butler, Pennsylvania?
00:16:05.260I mean, this is just, uh, we got a long list of, uh, gigs we got to go through, uh, at all these three letter agencies, but I mean, this should be at the top of the stack to figure out, uh, you know, who, who, who, you know, but what was going on in Butler?
00:16:21.020What was going, uh, on the, uh, Mar-a-Lago golf course, what was going on here and who knew what and when did they know it?
00:18:55.660The absolute destructive, corrosive, cancerous nature of DEI and CRT cannot be understated in its, its horrible effect in, uh, uh, reducing combat effectiveness of the Department of Defense.
00:19:14.220We are, uh, under Biden, we spent more than ever before and the military shrank and was less ready than ever, but we spent more than ever, but the military was less ready than ever.
00:19:26.840And I, uh, a, uh, former friend of mine, a general was just shooting his mouth off on, uh, LinkedIn today, and it shows the heinous nature of so many of these generals and admirals that, uh, they, they think nothing about what, uh, the Biden team was up to.
00:19:45.620And they, they applaud DEI and CRT, but how dare Donald J. Trump and MEGA transform the military into, back into its constitutional parameters.
00:19:58.240I mean, this is, we got, it's, we got a lot to do, but we're absolutely on the right path with Hegseth and we got to just jump on the gas pedal.