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Podcast Episode Notes: The Shawn Ryan Show - Episode #280 with Sarah Adams
Episode Overview
- Title: #280 Sarah Adams - If China Isn’t the #1 Threat… Then Who Is?
- Host: Shawn Ryan
- Guest: Sarah Adams, a former targeting officer and global threat advisor with extensive experience in counterterrorism and intelligence operations.
- Description: Discussion centers on global threats, particularly focusing on the nature of threats from countries like China, Iran, and terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS. The episode includes insights from Sarah's experience at the CIA and her current role as host of "The Watch Floor" at Vigilance Elite.
Key Topics Discussed
- Threat Landscape
- China as a Threat
- Discussion on whether China remains the primary threat to the U.S.
- Recent changes in U.S. national defense strategy downgraded China from the number one threat to a position of "strategic competition."
- Iran and the Supreme Leader's Stability
- Questions about whether Khamenei will be ousted as Supreme Leader of Iran.
- Sarah's assessment: Current U.S. negotiations with Iran revolve around nuclear diplomacy, not concerning the people's needs or desires.
- Biological Threats
- Discussion about a biological lab raid in Las Vegas involving an unnamed Chinese national and its implications for national security.
- Concerns about terrorist organizations potentially developing biological weapons.
- Terrorism in the U.S.
- Sarah outlines the ongoing threats from Al-Qaeda and ISIS, particularly their recruitment and operational strategies.
- The Homeland Plot: Ongoing concern of coordinated terrorist attacks on U.S. soil involving both Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
- The Role of the FBI
- Critique of the FBI's effectiveness in counterterrorism efforts, particularly in relation to intelligence sharing and action against identified threats.
- Disappointment over the FBI's alleged dismissal of serious threats and their ineffectiveness compared to local law enforcement agencies.
- Historical Context of Terrorism
- Discussion of the historical implications of terrorist acts in contexts like Somalia and Libya, including the failures of U.S. foreign policy to address local governance and extremist influences.
- Examination of the impact of U.S. military and intelligence failures in places like Afghanistan and the cycle of violence and terrorism.
- Personal Anecdotes and Experiences
- Sarah shares personal experiences, including a humorous encounter with law enforcement that involved her having health issues and being taken to the hospital.
- Mention of a bounty placed on Sarah by Hezbollah in Iraq, adding an additional layer of seriousness to her background in counterterrorism.
- Geopolitical Developments
- Updates on various geopolitical situations, including the rise of JNIM in North Africa, the status of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, and the dynamics within Iran and Afghanistan.
- Commentary on the corrupting influence of money from terrorist organizations and the challenges of stopping funding streams to these groups.
Conclusion
- The episode encapsulates a realistic and often alarming view of the current global threats facing the U.S. and its allies, emphasizing the complex interplay of terrorism, geopolitics, and governmental responses. Sarah Adams provides expert insight backed by her extensive background in intelligence and counterterrorism, revealing how these dynamics affect not only national security but also global stability.
Key Takeaways
- China's Threat Level: Reassessing China as a primary military threat reflects changes in U.S. defense strategy.
- Iran's Stability: Ongoing negotiations do not align with the will of the Iranian people.
- Homeland Security Risks: Al-Qaeda and ISIS pose significant threats, requiring urgent attention and action.
- Ineffectiveness of the FBI: Concerns surrounding the FBI's ineffectiveness in preventing terrorist threats on U.S. soil.
- Personal Resilience: Sarah's personal anecdotes highlight the unique challenges faced by those in the intelligence and counterterrorism fields.
Additional Resources
- Sarah Adams' Links:
- [The Watch Floor YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@thewatchfloor)
- [The Watch Floor Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/thewatchfloor)
- [The Watch Floor Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Watch-Floor/61586054787023)
- [Vigilance Elite Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/cw/VigilanceElite)
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOBio-Lab Discovery in Vegas
0:45 to 2:40
Discussion of the FBI's discovery of a bio-lab in Las Vegas linked to a Chinese national.
“So, I mean, you're spun up on the Homeland plot.”
Potential Biological Threats
2:40 to 4:30
Exploration of the implications of biological threats linked to terrorism and Al-Qaeda.
“One is just the fact that some of them are using chemicals as the detonator.”
Chemical Components in Bombs
4:30 to 6:40
Insights into how chemical components can be used in IEDs and the dangers they pose.
“And you can sign in like you're in his account.”
Epstein's Files and Child Trafficking
6:40 to 8:20
Discussion on the implications of Epstein's files and their connection to child trafficking.
“I mean, what do you make of this shit, though?”
Middle East Policy and Blackmail
8:20 to 10:20
Examination of how Epstein's connections may influence Middle East policy and blackmail.
“So Cutter is in control of the Middle East, right?”
Understanding Elite Corruption
10:20 to 12:20
A critical look at the corruption among elites and the normalization of their criminality.
“and you're making clothing, you can only make certain clothes to send to the United States and Europe markets, and you mark them CIA.”
Corruption in Leadership
14:01 to 15:00
Explore the corruption within global leadership and its impact on society.
“Would that change your opinion about Middle East policy?”
Analyzing Iranian Intelligence
16:30 to 19:01
Discuss the complexities of trusting intelligence from Iranian sources.
“Yeah, you're my boss now, so does that change, like, this interview?”
Challenges in Counterterrorism Policy
19:02 to 21:12
Examine the effectiveness of U.S. counterterrorism strategies and key personnel.
“we are getting ground truth from regular people in Iran, and so we are in a good situation.”
Current Issues with Taliban Funding
21:13 to 23:35
Investigate ongoing U.S. funding to the Taliban and its implications.
“Because they should be the biggest ally to stopping the plot.”
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The Broader Impact of Funding Terrorism
23:36 to 26:21
Understand how U.S. financial aid impacts global terrorism and local communities.
“So obviously the administration does not want to end the deal because they don't want to make it look like they messed up, even though it's a horrible deal and it should be canceled immediately.”
The State of U.S. Foreign Policy
26:22 to 28:00
Analyze the implications of U.S. foreign policy decisions on national security.
“Then of course I told you, the 47 million in counterterrorism dollars.”
Corruption and Hostage Situations in Afghanistan
28:00 to 30:20
Explore the corruption within the Senate and its implications on American hostages held by the Taliban.
“Obviously, the new administration came in, and Tulsi Gabbard pulled his security clearance, because he's a snake.”
U.S. Hostage Diplomacy: A Broken System
30:20 to 33:40
Discuss the failures of U.S. hostage diplomacy, including specific cases and law enforcement actions.
“Ayman al-Zawahiri, so he's being tortured and all that type of stuff.”
Influencers and Their Impact on Global Perceptions
33:40 to 35:30
Investigate how influencers are used by the Taliban and other governments to shape positive narratives.
“So she was the one, the head of ISIS was holding her, right?”
Al-Qaeda's Evolving Plot Objectives
38:08 to 42:00
Gain insights into Al-Qaeda's objectives for current and future plots and their strategic framing.
“Tune in Tuesday, February 17th, right here live on Patreon at 2 Central.”
Historic Connections to Current Threats
42:00 to 44:25
Explore the implications of historical figures in contemporary terrorist plots.
“And Jane might have brought him up, because he's running the CBRN program in Afghanistan.”
Al-Qaeda and ISIS Collaboration
44:25 to 46:09
Learn about the unlikely partnership between Al-Qaeda and ISIS in executing attacks.
“That's why Scott Mann says, hey, law enforcement, study Mumbai, right?”
New Structures of Terrorist Cells
46:09 to 48:28
Understand how modern terrorist cells have evolved in their composition and operation.
“Yeah, so as you can imagine, as we look into the plot, we're finding terrorists who deployed here for the plot.”
Terrorist Communication Tactics
48:28 to 50:46
Discover the covert communication methods used by terrorists to avoid detection.
“So I want to explain to you how a cell works now.”
The Role of TSA in National Security
50:46 to 53:25
Analyze the TSA's actions regarding security measures and their implications for safety.
“So, if you and I go to terrorist training camp together, we go in there under alias.”
Challenges in Counterterrorism Efforts
53:25 to 56:00
Examine the obstacles faced by counterterrorism agencies and recent developments.
“I also think a part of it is they want to test even the patience of the terrorists, because they want to make sure you can sit there.”
Terrorist Leadership Changes and Their Impact
56:00 to 59:34
Learn about key terrorist leaders being eliminated and their implications on homeland security.
“So he's literally in the German court system, a U.S.”
Understanding Continuous Threats
1:00:49 to 1:04:38
Explore the ongoing threat of terrorism and the numbers of infiltrated individuals in the U.S.
“One free breakfast item per box for one year while subscription is active.”
Challenges with Law Enforcement Coordination
1:04:38 to 1:10:01
Discuss the frustrations with law enforcement's handling of terrorist threats and community preparedness.
“Just like two days ago, the White House put out that the border's closed.”
Frustrating FBI Meetings
1:10:01 to 1:11:30
Learn about the speaker's disappointing experiences with FBI agents and their lack of action on terrorism threats.
“Neither of them knew anything about terrorism.”
Local Law Enforcement Preparedness
1:11:30 to 1:13:21
Discover insights on the effectiveness and preparedness of local law enforcement agencies against threats.
“So I don't want to say who's better than others, but there's a county near me that if something goes down, I'm just going to their county because they're so squared away and they're very focused on it.”
Challenges with Information Dissemination
1:13:21 to 1:15:06
Explore issues related to the distribution of critical threat information between government agencies and local law enforcement.
“And so the crazy part is, so NCTC and then the DNI, run by Tulsi, put this out for all law enforcement in the United States.”
Creating a Direct Line for Law Enforcement
1:15:06 to 1:16:40
Learn about a new app aimed at improving communication between law enforcement and agencies regarding threats.
“And you couldn't know it's 100 % true, no matter what.”
Al-Qaeda's Evolving Messaging
1:16:40 to 1:18:31
Understand the evolution of Al-Qaeda's communication strategies and their implications for public safety.
“Again, it's good to see, though, some of the government saw a problem when they were fixing it, which you don't see a lot.”
Analyzing the New AQAP Video
1:18:31 to 1:20:27
Get insights into the contents of a new AQAP video and its potential implications.
“So back in about 2012, Al Qaeda was like, we need to rethink how we do our messaging, because, you know, the US went very, very strong at Al Qaeda's media commission.”
Emerging Threats: Bombs and Tactics
1:20:27 to 1:24:00
Learn about the diverse range of bomb types and tactics that could be used in upcoming threats.
“And so I learned a few different things that were interesting.”
Understanding Bomb Threats and Procedures
1:24:00 to 1:25:59
Learn about the various types of bombs and the shortcomings in U.S. preparedness.
“I know, but it's getting people to do it.”
The Case of Romanoa Lakhunwa
1:26:00 to 1:27:29
Explore the background and implications of Romanoa Lakhunwa's case regarding vetting processes.
“but they're being failed by the federal government.”
Terrorism and Radicalization Myths
1:27:30 to 1:29:46
Discuss the misconceptions around radicalization and the background of terrorists.
“because they grew up in it, they understand it, they can operate in those environments, and they know what they're looking at.”
Life Insurance and Family Protection
1:29:47 to 1:31:54
Understand the importance of life insurance for protecting your family.
“No, they're not getting a little depressed and shooting people because American life is hard.”
The Evolving Tactics of Terrorist Groups
1:32:46 to 1:36:30
Gain insights into how terrorist groups adapt their tactics and training.
“Policies issued by Western Southern Life Assurance Company, not available in certain states, prices subject to underwriting and health questions.”
Weapons and Terrorist Operations
1:36:31 to 1:38:00
Examine how terrorists utilize weaponry and the implications for public safety.
“What I'm getting at is, I mean, obviously, terror cells have access to pretty much anything you want.”
Unconventional Warfare and U.S. Government Involvement
1:38:00 to 1:38:55
Explore unconventional warfare tactics and implications of U.S. government actions.
“But they brought in guns that could do more things.”
The Blame Game: Terrorism Funding and Perception
1:38:56 to 1:40:56
Discuss the manipulation of public perception through evidence planting and funding.
“So you know how I say we give this money to the Taliban.”
Ryan Routh: From Non-Profit to Notorious Figure
1:40:57 to 1:42:26
Learn about Ryan Routh's controversial activities in Ukraine and his subsequent actions.
“Like the 9-11 people who said the government did it, they want you to say that about the next attack.”
Investigative Failures and Government Accountability
1:42:27 to 1:46:47
Examine the failures of the State Department regarding Ryan Routh's activities.
“I know it's gonna air later, but they're actually going to give him a sentence in February 4th.”
Al-Qaeda's Target: Matiga Prison Operation
1:46:48 to 1:51:45
Understand Al-Qaeda's plans to free terrorists from a significant Libyan prison.
“But remember, there's that thing where there's the deer blind, it was like 12 feet up in the tree, and it was towards Palm Beach Airport, and it was where Trump brought in.”
The Threat of Terrorists Released: An American's Anger
1:51:46 to 1:52:01
Discover the implications of potential terrorist releases and the American response.
“Like, I could in a month maybe put a list 20-25 together, because people don't stay in that prison long.”
The Role of Al-Qaeda in Libya
1:52:01 to 1:54:02
Exploration of the influence of Al-Qaeda in Libya and the release of terrorists.
“Well, I find out where she got the list.”
Frustration with Political Inaction
1:54:03 to 1:55:12
Discussion on government failures to act against terrorism and political corruption.
“It's so, I just, I don't see red or blue Republican Democrat anymore.”
Geopolitical Landscape and Iran
1:55:13 to 1:57:34
Insights into Iran's political situation and U.S. diplomatic strategies.
“All right, so let's walk me around what's going on geopolitically around the world.”
Nuclear Negotiations and Public Safety
1:57:35 to 2:00:49
Examination of U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations and their implications for the Iranian people.
“I think because our government's doing this nuclear deal stuff, I don't believe it at all.”
The Human Cost of Abandoning Allies
2:06:21 to 2:12:24
A discussion on the consequences of the U.S. abandoning its allies in Syria and Afghanistan.
“I had a conversation with a good friend of mine who was there.”
Shifts in U.S. Military Strategy Towards China
2:12:24 to 2:15:25
Examining the recent changes in the U.S. national defense strategy regarding China.
“And remember, he does that stuff as a test.”
Al-Qaeda's Resurgence in Africa
2:15:25 to 2:20:00
Insights into Al-Qaeda's operations and territorial gains in Africa amidst global focus on other threats.
“Well, as you know, when everybody focuses one way, sorry, when everyone focuses one place on terrorism, it's just surging somewhere else, right?”
The Strategic Importance of Somaliland
2:20:00 to 2:22:30
Discover why Somaliland is critical for trade and military positioning.
“We got senior leaders flying first class around.”
Al-Shabaab's Rise and Threat to Somalia
2:22:30 to 2:25:22
Learn about Al-Shabaab's operations and their implications for Somalia's stability.
“But as we have been talking about, so Al-Qaeda...”
Personal Anecdotes and Threats
2:25:22 to 2:27:53
Hear Sarah share her personal experiences with threats from various groups.
“We really got to end fraud here to deal with this.”
Censorship and Controversy
2:27:53 to 2:30:06
Uncover the impact of Sarah's off-color jokes and the resulting censorship.
“So that was a really funny one that occurred.”
FBI Investigations and Political Intrigues
2:30:06 to 2:34:00
Explore the political motivations behind FBI investigations into Sarah.
“I actually was gonna, so they were bugging me, but like bothering me.”
FBI Encounters and Clearance Issues
2:34:00 to 2:35:00
Learn about the host's past interactions with the FBI related to foreign contacts.
“But it was really funny because they went overboard, like, oh, we should deal with stuff.”
A Hospital Encounter Gone Wrong
2:35:00 to 2:37:10
Discover a bizarre hospital incident involving migraines and police intervention.
“Uh, this is my favorite thing in the outline, I think.”
The Famous Hospital Incident
2:37:10 to 2:40:00
Hear the story of how a medical emergency led to unexpected fame in a hospital.
“to bring the terrorists that are injured in Libya to Europe.”
The Cop, My Mom, and a Broken Window
2:40:00 to 2:42:30
Learn how a cop assisted the host's mom after a hospital incident turned chaotic.
“So everybody in the hospital wanted to meet me because I beat up all these people in the hospital.”
CIA Series Involvement
2:42:30 to 2:43:40
Explore the host's participation in a CIA documentary and its implications.
“I'd like him to reach out to me, because I have no idea who he is.”
Current Threats from Terrorism
2:43:40 to 2:48:01
Understand the ongoing threats posed by second-generation terrorists.
“So I'm not like a star of the show or anything.”
Misinformation and Terrorism in Gaza
2:48:01 to 2:50:48
Explore the misinformation surrounding Hamas and terrorist threats.
“there's going to be a huge government press release and say, okay, Hamas, you have 60 days.”
The Role of Heavy-Handed Tactics
2:50:49 to 2:53:56
Discuss the effectiveness and moral implications of aggressive military tactics.
“I'm all about killing terrorists, Sarah.”
Challenges of Addressing Terrorism
2:53:57 to 2:56:20
Analyze the complexities of combating terrorism and the influence of international politics.
“And you're saying we're putting them in charge of shit.”
The Impact of Havana Syndrome
2:56:21 to 3:00:36
Examine the realities and consequences of Havana Syndrome on government personnel.
“For my birthday one year, I went to Peru and did the whole Machu Picchu thing.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:04Have you seen this, uh, FBI uncovers creepy home bio lab packed with mystery vials in Vegas raid. This is from Mario Knopfel's site. And then I looked. It's real. FBI agents stormed Las Vegas residents discovering refrigerators stuffed with unlabeled vials of unknown liquid, suggesting a clandestine biological operation. The property links to J.B. Zhu, a Chinese national already facing charges for flooding the market with unapproved COVID and HIV test kits. this raid echoes his prior california fiasco where authorities found pathogen labels for ebola and tuberculosis alongside a thousand neglected mice source futurism have you seen that yeah i did and they're saying the cdc has gone and tested some of this stuff and they found 20 different things inside these little vials and they're saying they found hiv TB, that there was one fridge or something that had like a sticker on the outside that said Ebola.
1:11So it's a little crazy. Well, I mean, concerning. So, I mean, you're spun up on the Homeland plot. Could this, I mean, it says Chinese National, which is not generally what you cover. But when I interviewed our mutual friend, Jane, she was talking about biological weapons that were being developed in caves. and then she actually didn't even want to go too in depth on how nasty that stuff was because she didn't want to she want to create a fear campaign you know yeah so could this be that's a complicated thing so at least from the ones the cdc has put out it does not match up with the ones in al-qaeda's labs so al-qaeda's labs it's like sarin anthrax modified fentanyl and that's at least not been any of the ones from this house.
2:03So I do believe Al-Qaeda has similar type of things on U.S. soil, but I have not seen anything to say that is an Al-Qaeda one. But yeah, I'd be very concerned because one of Al-Qaeda's is in Nevada. One of what? Al-Qaeda's is in, like, one of their labs is in Nevada. Holy shit. How do you know that? Because obviously we've been collecting on the plot and we heard about it. Where are the other labs? How many labs are there? So I don't know how many labs there are total, and not every lab has a chemical in it. That one does. Some labs are just to make like a suicide vest or IEDs, but unfortunately, some of the bombs do have chemical components.
2:45One is just the fact that some of them are using chemicals as the detonator. So they're binary. So you know like a glow stick. So there's a chemical in the vest and there's a chemical in a syringe for example. You insert the syringe, the two chemicals mixed together, it starts the detonation. So some bombs start that way. The best example is the aviation plot bombs. And then unfortunately Al-Qaeda is also saying they put a caustic chemical in some of these bombs. So, like, let's say they set it off on a subway. So if you don't die from the explosion, you will die from whatever this caustic chemical is if you don't get airflow quick enough.
3:24Wow. And that's why we don't want to alarm people, because when you start talking chemicals, it gets people very scared. That's frightening and also fucking genius. I mean, unfortunately. I mean, to just have that kind of contingency plan for the people that are just victims and not dead victims, not KIA'd. I mean... And remember, now it's in a hazmat situation, so law enforcement can't immediately respond. Yeah, they can't even get there. Most cities don't even really have any kind of hazmat response. So now you delay the entire emergency response, too, which is also very smart. What are you doing in the city still?
4:04Are you nuts? I don't really live in a city. Okay, I mean, I've never been... So it kind of knows where I live, so it doesn't really matter what house I'm in. I would move if I was you. But, man, have you been tracking this Epstein stuff? I mean, I've been reading, you know, as people put out. I haven't been going into the mock-up. Did you see there's a whole mock-up Gmail? It's genius. A what? So someone made this website. It's like jmail.com. And you can sign in like you're in his account. And you can scroll through the emails as they're dated, go through the photos. it's all an exact copy are you yeah so you can search in the search bar like you're searching your email so you can type like the name you're looking for and it'll pull the emails yeah so it's a whole exact copy of it it's really interesting what is this where is this it's called jmail jmail it's just this copy of epstein's gmail holy shit dude people are really creative now some of the stuff you've seen in there what are you seeing i've seen a lot i know I mean, I've seen a lot.
5:07The one issue, as you know, is people who collect intelligence. Not everything you're gonna see is true. There's tips. Obviously, people flagging me on some of the terrorism stuff. Like, he put out one, and it says, Turkey is supporting Al-Nusra Front. That was 2013. We knew that in 2012. So he's saying real factual things in a lot of cases that are in the public at the time, but a lot of people are thinking, oh, he's given up all these secrets. And it's like, guys, he's rambling on to every single person about world events. But then they think he's a decision-maker on those world events. So I think that's been a discrepancy we've seen.
5:44Another one in the same email, he brings up ISIS and how the US kind of didn't do anything against ISIS when they went after. Remember in Palermo, when they went and ISIS did and they started destroying all the antiquities? Remember, there was one of these famous archaeologists and they tortured him to death because they had hidden some of them, and he refused to give up the location. So anyway, it was horrible, big news. US never went in and did anything, so he brought up how they did it then. But then there's no context. In 2013, we had no ISIS strategy. We all know this. Remember, Obama told the CIA, I don't want to hear about ISIS.
6:18So when CIA would send their presidential daily briefs to Obama, like, they could not include anything on ISIS. So people forget what was happening in real time. So now they're like, oh, US was working with ISIS. Like, no, we just had no strategy, because the president didn't give a damn about him. So there are a lot of things, I think, missing in context. I think the thing that matters most, though, is they have plenty of evidence that he trafficked children. I mean, what do you make of this shit, though? It's so frustrating. When it dropped, and I mean, I felt like I was in an algorithm fucking jail because it was every, it still is, every single post coming through there, it's this person was eating babies and this person was raping kids and this person got an STD and gave it to his wife and wanted some magic fucking antibiotic to slip her.
7:09Bill Gates. She should go back again. She should get more money for her divorce. Yeah, no shit. I'm serious. That's the first thing I said. What do you make of it? So I've asked you ever since you started coming on the show, I've been asking you, what do you think about these Epstein files? And I think it gets into, I think it gets into why we were maybe in the Middle East some, some of the stuff with Iran that's going on. I mean, it's looking more and more. I don't even know what to call it other than fucking blackmail. Does it make you question any of the stuff that you've been told or that you were diving into about, I mean, you're hard.
7:50I fucking hate Iran too. I hate them too. I don't think we should be interfering right now. But because of all this shit, I mean, does this make you think any different about Middle East policy and what's going on over there and who's really pulling all the strings? Well, if you read Epstein's files, the person pulling the strings is Cutter. I mean, Cutter's referenced 2 ,000 times in it. So I think people are choosing the ones they want to read and highlighting those, if that makes sense, instead of understanding. So Cutter is in control of the Middle East, right? So hold on, hold on. What does it say?
8:28What does it say? Well, it's like one of the main princes was really close to Epstein. But the thing is, people are making... So was the former prime minister of fucking Israel. Well, that's the thing. So the problem with this that people are not understanding is, unfortunately, the elites are extremely perverted. So I've known this for a long time. So none of this is surprising to me. Like, you stay away from the elites because they are not good people. They are in the positions that you're in because they're corrupt. They commit these crimes. They're involved in child trafficking. They're involved in corruption.
9:02Like, I have always viewed these people this way, if that makes sense. So, to me, this is that universe. So for them to act like, oh, Jeffrey Epstein is, like, blackmailing them all, controlling them, these people do this every day of their life, Sean. You didn't need Jeffrey Epstein to, like, lure them in to sleep with a 12-year-old. They're doing it in other locations, too. That gets ignored completely. They're not just doing it on Jeffrey Epstein's island. I would not disagree with you on that. They're doing it in the Middle East, they're doing it in Thailand. That doesn't mean they're on camera or on the other places that they go.
9:35They're all on fucking camera here. I just think that... I think it's way more common, unfortunately, than people realize. And I don't actually think he was doing it purely to blackmail him. I think he was doing it for influence, money, relationships. Like, a lot of these people are his friends, Sean. So I think everybody's calling it an intelligence operation. None of these documents show that at all, first off. No... Oh, I... Have you seen proof that he is an asset for an intelligence organization? I have not seen 100 % proof. It's people's assumptions. Even there's a picture, he's in this room and there's all these crates that say CIA.
10:15And people say, oh, it proves he's in CIA. That's not a room of CIAs. That's a room if you work for a company and you're making clothing, you can only make certain clothes to send to the United States and Europe markets, and you mark them CIA. He's literally in a clothing factory, and those are the bins with the clothing approved to sell to the US government, like certified industrial standards or whatever it's called. But because they say CIA is approved, look, he's in a CIA office, and CIA is marked all over. It's like, that's not a CIA location. So the problem is people are reading little pieces, and then they're making assumptions and assessments without the totality of circumstances.
10:55And remember, Trump said this was his concern with the Epstein files. Because think about this. One whole thing is this giant spreadsheet. I don't know if you saw this. And the spreadsheet was of you could call into this tip line and give tips on Epstein. And that's the one where they're cutting off feet. Now, when I was on the Benghazi committee, they would let me go through that spreadsheet because I didn't have to answer the calls. But they'd say, look at it. you worked in Benghazi. I would say 90 % of the people that called into our Benghazi tip line when I was on the committee were crazy lunatics and nothing they said was true.
11:29Now, you have this entire spreadsheet there, and then people assume everything in there is true. So we have to be a little careful with that. Now, 100 % Jeffrey Epstein, traffic children, rape them, unfortunately, with some of these contacts. These people, there's people in his contacts who run organizations who take care of orphaned children. They protect children without parents. I mean, it sounds like some of those children were coming from those locations, which is a problem because he's targeting children without means. So that's why everyone is like, oh, well, why do all these women not come forward?
12:07Well, years ago, they had to sign NDAs. They had to sign NDAs because they had no money to get the kind of lawyers you need to go up against the elite. So they take, what, 100K, that shuts them up. And that's why you victimize poor people. Man. Because they have no platform to ever come after you. I didn't even know about the NDAs. We just did this thing with this Christian camp, CannaCook. Have you heard about this? I mean, I heard your show covered it. Same thing. Settlement, NDAs. Can never talk about the sexual abuse ever again. They're trying to... They sent me a cease and desist. They want to sue me.
12:46They want a public apology. I said, sorry, I don't negotiate with pedophiles. Yeah, yeah, obviously. But why do we have a law system that someone can sign a paper from when they were a kid saying something didn't happen, and when they're 40 years old, they can't do anything about it? When you're young, you don't understand the legal system or any of... You don't understand. Nobody understands the legal system. So, yes, I find that very, very frustrating. But that's what a lot of these Epstein victims are stuck under. That's why people were hoping Congress were going to read, you know, the list of people who did harm against them on the floor.
13:26Because Congress doesn't fall under any of those rules. They can actually do that. But none of these women can who sign these NDAs. Like, they'll throw these law firms after them. So let me ask you this. Back to the Epstein stuff. because I love this about you and I hate this about you. You only go off fact. You don't look at any context. But I get it from what you used to do. But, I mean, how would your opinion, let's say hypothetically it comes out that Epstein was a Mossad agent. I think that that fucking dude was a Mossad agent. Would that change your opinion about Middle East policy? I mean, it would, but I haven't seen anything that he's a Mossad agent.
14:08And at the end of the day, everything I've seen is what every one of these people do. I know it sounds really horrible. Remember, I have met these world leaders. They're disgusting human beings. I know it's really horrible to say. I mean, you're right. You don't exactly have to blackmail them. They do these things publicly. They have these sex parties publicly. They bring children in all the time to the Middle East. I don't know why people act like you need a Jeffrey Epstein. There's girls on planes right now going to Saudi, you know, who are teenagers. So I just, I do think people think he's in the control of a universe when he's 1 % of a gigantic universe.
14:48And that's our problem, because we're letting these people rule us, we're voting them into power, and they are not like us. And we have to get people to understand there's elites and there's us. And you can't just say, oh, this one elite's different than the rest and they're going to save us. No, I'm sorry. You have to push them out in some way because they will never align with our values, ever. Yeah. Man. It's so fucking bad. I wonder if we even have a country anymore. It's so corrupt. But this is just one angle of the corruption, too. I mean, there's thousands of angles, sadly. I mean, they harm people in so many ways all over the world.
15:28Yeah. Man. Let's get to what we're here for today. Sarah Adams, former CIA targeting officer with years on the front lines of counterterrorism, known by your call sign, Superbad. Former senior advisor to the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi, co-author of Benghazi Know Thy Enemy, where you and your team identified the masterminds behind the 2012 attacks on our embassy. and now host of the watch floor the very first the very first podcast to be in the vigilance lead network congratulations thank you got you a little something what's this got you a little something whoa that's a fancy oh look at that 100 000 subscribers i didn't know they made these In one week.
16:21I'm really not prepared to be in this industry. But it looks great. Congratulations. Thank you. The first sign for my studio. Dude, you've been killing it. Yeah, you're my boss now, so does that change, like, this interview? I'm not your boss. No, no, this actually, now that I'm thinking about it, this is a little uncomfortable. You're a woman that cannot be ruled. Is this a power role in your position over there today? Yeah, like, I can't mess up this interview. This is very nice. Thank you. We are honored to have you in the network, and you are killing it. It's awesome. I knew you would. Your information is just out of this world.
16:57It's awesome. So, you know, we got a Patreon account. Yes. And now I'm in it, so I see every comment. I just let anyone else know that, too. So this is from Roland Morocco. A lot of intel coming out of Iran now is being provided by the National Council of Resistance in Iran. Can we trust the credibility of the intel due to the NCRI having their own agenda for Iran in the resistance? Yeah, I mean, just for the viewers, he's referring to MEC. And MEC really was designated for a long time a terrorist organization. It's not exactly aligned with if we want, like, democratic values in a place. But unfortunately, MEC has long lobbied in D.C., and they have put money in the pockets of a lot of our politicians.
17:55So as you can imagine, if you're talking about a free Iran or a post-Itola Iran, You're worried about Mech because they've made all these influences, and you don't really want to watch the country handed to Mech. You want the country to maybe go into some sort of democracy, or even have the king involved, and they put together some sort of joint-sharing government. So there are people who are concerned. When I was on the Hill, I got invited to... It was supposed to be an Iranian cultural event. It was like a holiday that day in Iran, and so I went to it, because, you know, there's gonna be food.
18:29Iranian food is really good. Right? Persians make good food. So I was like, okay, I'll go for the food. And the funny thing is I went in there, and I was in there about 15 minutes, and I realized, oh, my gosh, this whole event is hosted by MEC, and it was up on the hill. Um, so they, unfortunately, are lobbyists, just like the Taliban are lobbyists, and so you got to watch these people, because, like, he's saying, well, what about the information coming from them? Of course, then it's influenced. So he's making a very good point, and you always have to understand where information comes from so you're not just taking in the influenced information.
19:00Now, the good thing with Iran, especially because of Starlink, we are getting ground truth from regular people in Iran, and so we are in a good situation. We don't have to sit and wait around for this group to put out what's happening, because of Starlink, when someone can get to it and access it, we are getting, you know, what people are saying on the ground. So that's very, very good. Hmm. Interesting. How's our buddy Joe Kent doing? I mean, I think Joe's doing a really good job. My argument always with Joe Kent is, why do you take someone with his experience and put him in charge of an analytic organization?
19:35I actually would like to see Joe Kent in charge of our whole counter-terrorism policy, because you know who is. Sebastian Gorka! Our buddy, Sebastian Gorka. I know, like, you have Joe Kent. Why would you take a guy who never really worked terrorism and put him in the job when you have a Joe Kent? So that kind of frustrates me. Here's why. Here's why. You want to know why? Because Joe Kent has a fucking mind of his own. I know. That's why. He's not gonna... He cannot be controlled. He's true to himself, and that's why the fuck he's not in charge of all of it. I can't save the other for the other guy.
20:06Yeah, and so I find it frustrating because someone like him could be a lot more effective and they have him in charge of NCTC. So maybe we'll get lucky and they'll expand his role because I do think he could really go and kick some ass. I know, man. I know. I know. I talk to him still, but I'm not going to say anything. But yeah, I know you do too. We don't want to throw around people's gossip. The thing is, as you know, I've always shared information on this homeland plot all across the government. But as you know, different pieces of the government action it very different. Some do nothing. Some give you a hard time about it.
20:46Some are supportive. And so it's very, very frustrating. Really? Who's supportive? Well, to be honest. I haven't found that department yet. Well, to be honest, I feel the DNI has been somewhat supportive. I've actually felt Customs and Border Protection has been very supportive, and ATF has actually been supportive. Wow. Who hasn't been supportive? There's FBI, who the FBI is in charge of finding these terrorists on U.S. soil. So, FBI is the biggest hurdle to stopping the U.S. homeland plot, which is crazy. Because they should be the biggest ally to stopping the plot. Yeah, I mean, who, yeah. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen.
21:21It's the FBI, dude. I know, but it's like, you really don't want to stop a massive terrorist plot. You really just want to find these dinky dumbasses on the internet and say, we caught a guy who's inspired. Like, how do you have such little respect in your job that you only go for cannon fodder? Everybody's just looking for a pat on the back. I know, it's so pathetic. Nobody really gives a fuck. Oh, they should put me in charge of that organization. They should. It would be ended in a week. They should. Good, then we only have a week of not watching the watch for. I could come in and live stream Wi-Fi people.
21:56All right, let's move. So funding the Taliban. Yes, still happening.
22:04Still happening. You know what I'm getting tired of is watching all these politicians use it and bat it around on their fucking X account. I know. It's just, and you know what? I'm fucking sick of it. It's just like, just shut up and get it done. How about do that? It took, what, 36 fucking hours to withdraw completely from Afghanistan, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment, countless lives fucking killed, our allies being executed, having their heads chopped off, their balls chopped off, fucking murdered in front of their wife and kids. And then they murdered their wife and kids.
22:42That took 36 hours to make this decision. We're funding those people. We've been trying to get this push through for, what, two years now? Yeah. Two years. Exactly. And it's still just getting batted around on X. Hey, let's talk about it. Let's bring it up. Let's make it a fucking campaign thing. Let's not do anything about it. I'm fucking sick of this shit, man. Yeah. What is, how the fuck does it take two years to make a decision to quit funding the Taliban 40 to 87, maybe more now, 87 million a week? A week? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean, there's multiple hiccups in this, and it's so frustrating. So first off, the biggest chunk, the counterterrorism dollars, which is the 47, because the 40 is humanitarian.
23:30So the 47 million is in the Doha deal. The problem with the Doha deal is that was a deal brokered by Mike Pompeo and the last Trump administration. So obviously the administration does not want to end the deal because they don't want to make it look like they messed up, even though it's a horrible deal and it should be canceled immediately. So that's what it is. It's ego. So we're paying the fucking Taliban. Yes. Damn near a hundred million dollars a week because somebody doesn't want to hurt their fucking ego and admit that they made a mistake. Yeah. The other issue is. Wow. They're basically trying to get us not to talk about it.
24:08So like in the summer, Marco Rubio literally told Congress they stopped the money, which wasn't true. And that wasn't true. No, of course it wasn't true. He lied. Well, it gets better. So then he goes and tells, I don't know if you saw this a month or two ago, Anna Polina Luna, who's my congresswoman, that the money stopped and he ended it. She goes out and gives like a press conference. So then I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. So I actually got really pissed because she's like, Michael Rubio said we stopped the money. So I was like, screw it. So I actually put my own resources into collecting the next payment.
24:39And that's how I got the January 12th payment that we dropped off in the Doha office, 87 million cash. But I invested my own funds into collecting that payment to prove that was a lie. But can you imagine Americans are having to go overseas and collect intelligence to prove our government's lying to the American people? How did you... Hold on. How did you find that info? I collected it myself. How? In the Doha Taliban office. So, yeah. So, good luck sending the next payment, America. Don't tell Americans you've stopped because I'm collecting the next payment, too.
25:18And I'm almost to the point, I might steal a payment. Seriously, I'm getting really pissed off. Because what they do is the money goes there and then it goes out in multiple ways. Oh, I'm being... So you can basically hijack it and steal it. So I'm actually to the point, I might just steal 20 million for fun. I think that this whole, we're not paying our taxes movement is getting bigger and bigger and bigger by the day. I mean, I saw like the Somali stuff. You've seen that? Of course. Funding the Taliban, funded pretty much all of Somalia and the terrorist organizations that are there. Remember, that's just our domestic programs that go to people in America.
26:00But remember, we also fund the Somali government. So you're only seeing one pot even when we talk about the programs here and the scams here. We're also just giving billions to a failed state of Somalia. And some of that money goes to al-Shabaab as well. So the other thing people forget too is there's not just one pocket. So let's talk about the Taliban for a minute. So we talk about, and legend talks about humanitarian dollars, 40 million. Then of course I told you, the 47 million in counterterrorism dollars. We fund the Taliban through the UN on top of that, through the World Bank, through IOM, which is migration.
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26:35World Food Program, you know the World Food Program, as I said, brings all the food to al-Qaeda's terrorist camps. So we fund this hell, man, in multiple additional buckets in addition to the$87 million a week. So we have to go find every bucket and stop the money to every bucket. I mean, this is going to take years to end this money. It's insane. This is... Meanwhile, we've got people starving on the streets here. Our cities are a fucking wasteland. It's just... I just... What happened, man? Corruption. What happened? We put the worst people in our government and they stayed there.
27:17So where are we with this Taliban funding thing? I know it's, what, stuck in the Senate? Or what, they voted to vote on it or something? I can't even, it's just like, the fuck is this? Congress is a nightmare. So what it was, it was sitting in a committee in the Senate, and they had to prove it to go to the floor. So they finally moved it out of that committee and now it's gonna go to the floor. So we're still waiting then on a full Senate vote. Who's the one senator that's against this? So... I can't remember. Well, it wasn't exactly... There was a couple senators. The issue was a staff member, and his name is Tom West.
27:51So a lot of people know Tom West from during the withdrawal, because at the time, he was basically, like, the U.S. government's official representative to the Taliban. Obviously, the new administration came in, and Tulsi Gabbard pulled his security clearance, because he's a snake. He's a Taliban lobbyist. So she's like, you don't need a classified clearance. So then he got picked up by this committee in the Senate, and he now works on the Hill, because that's how our system works. And so he's a huge lobbyist. His wife is actually in a Taliban family. So this is corruption, enriching themselves, all that type of thing.
28:25So he's been the huge hiccup in the Senate. But there is also some sort of hiccup, and we don't know who it is, in the White House who's supportive of the Taliban. Because remember, we... Gee, I wonder who that could be. So remember, we have another issue. The Doha deal was done when? Exactly. Doha deal's a problem. But remember, besides the Doha deal, what's the other big problem? Who could be in the White House that has a huge ego that refuses to admit they're wrong about shit? Gee, I fucking wonder. Well, that's the other problem, though. We have Americans held by the Taliban. Think about it.
28:56Think about the last year. We've heard a lot about saving hostages in Gaza, even when no Americans were left. We had to save, obviously, hostages in Venezuela. When have you heard the administration talk about our Americans in Afghanistan this whole last year? When? One discussion. Never. It's insanity. That's a problem because someone in the White House is supportive in some way of the Taliban. Now, I don't know if you saw, but on September 5th, Trump actually signed an executive order, and it was something like state sponsor of wrongful persons. Did you see this? So anyway, it was an executive order to put different pressures on countries holding Americans.
29:36It would be like, cut off the money you're sending to them, block people with U.S. passports traveling there, et cetera. So they have this law in the books, and they're not using it against the Taliban. Well, why wouldn't you be using it against the Taliban? It was written to get Americans out of wrongful custody. We have two Americans alive in Taliban custody, and then we have a third that likely is dead and we need his body returned. So you have a law in place, and you can use it in Gaza, you can use it in Venezuela, but you can't use it in Afghanistan, so that's super, super frustrating. Who are they?
30:11So we have, obviously, Mahmoud Shah Habibi, who I've told you about. Al-Qaeda is charging him with the death of his last leader, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, so he's being tortured and all that type of stuff. And then we have Dennis Cole. He's an older American. So Dennis Cole's been in custody literally the last year. Nobody's hardly said anything about it. Just last month his family, I think, started talking about it. But Talibin, I don't even know if they've charged him with anything, so they clearly have no working court system. And then unfortunately the last person's Paul Overby. And he, I don't know if you know, he was a writer, and he actually wrote about the first Afghan war.
30:53So he put out a book, I think it was like Holy Blood in the 90s, and he wrote about the Soviet-Afghan War. Well, he was back over there. This is a long time ago now. He's been in custody or he's deceased for 11 years. So he went back over to do research for his book. He left Afghanistan traveling to Waziristan to interview Siraj Shadeen Haqqani, who helped capture Mahmoud Shah Habibi, and then he went missing. So they thought originally he was dead, and then do you remember that jerk David Rohde? No. So there was this guy, I swear he purposely got captured by the Haqqanis. So American David Rohde, and he was captured, and then all this stuff went on.
31:33These people paid off a bunch of people, and he gets released. So he gets released. Actually, Boone was on the team that picked him up when he got released by the Haqqanis. So people think he was rescued. He wasn't. He was released for a ton of money. So anyway, when he comes out, he says, I saw Paul in custody. So that was about 2019. but there are a lot of people, he's in his 80s now, Paul, so a lot of people think he's deceased, so the US government wants his remains in his case. So we know two are alive for sure. But again, no American knows any of these names, except maybe Habibi, because I've said it a couple of times, but it's very, very frustrating that no one cares.
32:09The other part is, so Habibi luckily has a$5 million bounty. There was a$5 million bounty to get Paul Dennis. There's zero bounty. How do you not have a$5 million bounty to return him if you have a$5 million bounty for the other two? Our hostage diplomacy is one of the craziest things you've ever seen. There's like no plan. It's all over the place. Tariffs get anything they want. How can nobody be talking about the fact that Taliban is holding American hostages while we pay them$87 million a week? And we have a law that can stop the money today, the one passed in September, if they're holding an American.
32:50And the White House is interfering with this too? Yes. They're allowing this to continue with the Taliban. This weakness towards the Taliban is like one of the most insane things I've ever seen. And remember, one of these Americans is literally being tortured, tortured. Like they've had to bring him to the hospital to revive him to continue his torture. Holy shit. I mean, it's one of the most frustrating things. And then even a lot of people in the government are like, we don't know if he's still alive. Dude's still alive, but he's barely hanging on because you guys won't fucking make a deal to get him released.
33:23I hope you do an episode on this. It's super frustrating. Yeah. It's just... I mean, the whole hostage diplomacy, you really should bring some people in, some of these families, or some people go do the negotiations. It is an entire train wreck. And we knew this years ago. Do you remember Kayla Mueller? So she was the one, the head of ISIS was holding her, right? I think it was Baghdadi. And she was, unfortunately, probably his sex slave or whatever. And the State Department told her family, don't say she's kidnapped, and they waited forever. And then they made all this stuff. And she ended up dying, right?
33:59And then the family came out after her and said, all the crazy stuff that went wrong. Bob Levinson's another great example, who died in Iranian custody. You know, they even passed the law, because that went so bad. So hostage diplomacy is just... insane. Like, we do not do this properly. And remember, these are Americans that we're trying to save in these places. Dude, I just... you know... Oh, man. When we gave those billions to Iran, we literally didn't make a contingent on Bob Levinson, who was alive then, being released. So we're handing this cash to all these people as they hold Americans.
34:38let's move on let's move on to you did a video on the most dangerous influencers i didn't get to watch that one yet what what what is but i know my name wasn't on the list no these are really dumb people sean sean so these are the influencers like again my name wasn't on the list they must not have a lot of followers to be the ones so these are the ones The Taliban actually reaches out to you and says, will you come to Afghanistan and film to help promote us? And so then the Taliban brings them into the country, like the Haqqani Networks, Bajri 313, escorts them around. And then they set up all these little sites.
35:19They set up like this fake little photo station for them. They set up a little coffee shop. They bring, empty everyone out of the mosque and bring them in, even though women can't go in the mosque. And so they film this fake version of Afghanistan and these influencers put out, oh, it's so nice there, it's so safe. It's like, please don't tell your dumb followers Afghanistan is safe. I do not want to go rescue more Americans who are being tortured in Afghanistan who your government does not care about getting released. This is happening everywhere. China's doing this too. Yeah, it's very smart because, I mean, tourism is super important.
35:50I don't know if you just saw in Venezuela this week, the new leader, you know, she was his deputy, put out an announcement, hey, I made this new head of tourism and it's like a young influencer. So these countries know we need these people to kind of paint us in a different picture, get the younger generations to look at us in a different way. It's a really good influence campaign. Not just done by terrorists, done by nation states. You see all the messaging? Is all the messaging just cookie cutter? Yeah, and it's all positive. You're almost giving talking points. And then, at least in Afghanistan, there's a lot of things you can't film, you can't say, you can't take pictures of, tons of restrictions.
36:33Man. I mean, just like if you were going to go to China, same thing. Propaganda, man. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow. Let's take a quick break. Okay. If you listen to this show, you know I care about performance and what goes into my body. We should have that same standard for our dogs, but usually feeding them fresh food means a freezer full of mess and prep time. You usually have to choose healthy or easy. That's why I switched to Sundays for Dogs. It was founded by a veterinarian, Dr. Tori Waxman, who got tired of seeing premium foods full of synthetics. Sundays is air-dried real food, meat, fruits, and veggies made in a human-grade kitchen.
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38:17We'll be discussing my latest visit to the Sean Ryan Show, as well as this week's intel brief on IRGC's Unit 840, one of their covert action arms. We'll host a Q &A at the end, so see you then. All right, Sarah, we were kind of talking about it a little bit at the beginning, but what is the update on the Homeland plot? Yeah, so should I just give a quick overview of the plot? Because I think that'd be helpful. So the first thing is the objectives. So the objectives are very simple. They're viewed a little more positively by al-Qaeda, so don't exactly think revenge. So the first objective is, of course...
38:58What do you mean they're viewed positively by al-Qaeda? I'll explain it to you. Okay. Because we view it as revenge, right? You would say this is a revenge plot. But I want to explain how they're framing it. Okay. So they say part of it is to honor Osama bin Laden. To us, we'd say that's in revenge, but to their fighters, they're saying, hey, you're going to carry this out in his honor. See how they make that positive? Another thing is we're going to honor all the Muslims who were detained over the last 20 years in counterterrorism operations by like the US military or the CIA or the FBI. So you're going to honor those people.
39:37And when you're training, they tell you they were unjustly detained because they say, look, I'm famous. I'm a senior al-Qaeda commander. I wasn't in prison, but they picked these guys, 30 and 40 year old random people in America and throw them in prison. And that's what they're playing with these recruits. It's very, very smart. They aren't attend. The last piece is all these fighters and Mujahideen came before you. Unfortunately, things went wrong and not all their plots came to fruition, like just bad things, right? All is will at the time. You need to honor them by bringing their past failures to success.
40:20Right now it's on you and on your generation, right, to finish this. So it's very, very, very smart. So that's how they labeled out their objectives. Well, think about how scary the last one can be. You're going to bring all failed plots to fruition. So the biggest This plot and the one most concerning in that is the aviation plot. So 30 years ago, there is this plot called Bojinka. Have you ever heard of it? Mm-mm. So it's fine. You remember Ramzi Youssef from the First World Trade Center? Okay. Okay. So before that, so Ramzi was involved in this plot. It was out of South Asia and what it was gonna be is the downing of 12 airliners going trans-Pacific to the United States.
41:06Well, what happened two weeks before the attack kicked off, Romsey had an electrical fire in his apartment, law enforcement showed up, found all the plans, and thwarted it. Also, when they raided the apartment, they realized, oh my gosh, they did a test run, and they blew up a bomb on the plane, and it only luckily at the time killed the bomber, and the pilot was able to safely land it, which is amazing. So anyway, so that's a failed plot, okay? So that's one of the plots now they want to bring to fruition. So it's 12 airliners over the United States. But it's even more than that. So they also are trying to pull in people from the failed plots so they can have their success.
41:50So they took the bomb maker. He worked on the coal bomb. He worked on the bomb for Bojinka, and he actually trained a couple of 9-11 hijackers. His name is Yazid Sufat. And Jane might have brought him up, because he's running the CBRN program in Afghanistan. Anyway, they brought Yazid Sufad in and said, you can make the bomb for this plot, because he made the bomb for Virginia 30 years ago. So they're bringing in all these old historic people to support this plot. It's very, very interesting. Another one I want to bring up super quick that they brought in, you remember the attack on us, you know, at Chapman Coast Base.
42:29okay so remember the cia was the cake bombing what the cake bombing which which attack the coast attack okay we lost obviously the two grs officers and then the five staff so it gets attacked all the time i know sorry the big one the big cia attack with the jordanian so the jordanian was originally supposed to meet the cia in peshaw remember he changed the location to Coast. Now, he was in Pakistan. The terrorist that moved him from Pakistan, in Miram Shah, over to Coast, is the terrorist who tested the bombs for the homeland plot. And guess where they tested the bombs for the current homeland plot?
43:11Coast. Yep. Camp Chapman. Holy shit. So, the bombs work. They tested them at Camp Chapman. And the crazy part is right now, Camp Chapman is literally a suicide bomber training course. They train 3 ,500 terrorists at a time to be suicide bombers in external operations. They don't stay in Afghanistan. The same camp that you and I were at. Is now a suicide bomber training camp. And so is Salerno. So the crazy part is... Salerno was when I was there. They had already taken that. Yeah, so the crazy part is they're training suicide bombers in that camp to and then those suicide bombers are leaving Afghanistan to go to all of our countries and our government knows the exact location of this compound right we know there's imagery of it we used to work there it's our compound and they're doing nothing how is this even real it's the craziest thing so anyway so the biggest piece of the plot as you can imagine is the aviation plate piece now remember how I told you they want to honor the people who are detained.
44:16So they want to strike like the CIA, the FBI, and the DOD in some manner. And the way it sounds like they're planning to do this is a siege on DC like Mumbai. That's why Scott Mann says, hey, law enforcement, study Mumbai, right? Because then you can learn how that's done. So that's another piece of the plot. The last piece of the plot's really interesting. So Al-Qaeda is running those pieces. So we have Saifal Adil, who's the mastermind. He's the one that did the 33 strategies that you guys talked about in your show previously. And then we have Al-Qaeda's military commission. Okay. So that's one piece.
44:51The other piece of the plot is run by ISIS's military commission, and that's in the towns where we live, work and play. And they really have a strong focus on veteran communities. And the whole purpose of this piece of the plot is to take, um, and make your town, right? You served in the military. They want to make you feel in your hometown how these terrorists feel that U.S. soldiers made their families feel in Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan. So this is very personal. This is like where people live, work and play, you know, kind of like supermarkets, train stations, etc. And the crazy part is they gave that to ISIS.
45:31Because remember, ISIS is mass casualty. So that'll be probably the deadliest piece besides the aviation piece. So it's crazy. So as you can imagine, because it's a half Al-Qaeda, half ISIS plot, FBI's like Al-Qaeda and ISIS would never work together. And they literally go tell law enforcement the plot's not real because the two would never work together, even though the two work together for years in Libya. They worked together in Syria. Yeah, they just won't get over old assessments and do anything about it. Sebastian Gorka's in tracking this stuff? Yeah. Well, Sebastian Gorka's in Kargikarni terrorism.
46:02So he is gonna be the guy that... He's gonna be the fall guy, him and Kash Patel. How could they not be? They've done nothing to stop this plot.
46:16How about these bolos you put out? Yeah, so as you can imagine, as we look into the plot, we're finding terrorists who deployed here for the plot. So we have given... I'm not gonna give the exact number, so the terrorists don't know how many I know, but it's well over a dozen, okay? So we found well over a dozen of these terrorists in true name, group affiliation, and then their nationality, giving it to the U.S. government. None of them have been picked up. So we decided to take two and put them out publicly. One is a Saudi. And he came here, and he's a commander for a piece of the plot. So how al-Qaeda did it is very, very simple.
46:52You know how we had, like, 19 hijackers? It was 20, but one fell off. Well, they said 20 is a great number. So we're just gonna make a number that are solely commanders. So just think of it this way, it's different this time. So they had one boss. So now every one of them is a boss. So let's just say we take the 20 hijackers. 20 hijackers have now replacements. They're all now commanders, and they all run teams under them. So this person's a commander, and he runs a portion of the plot, and he runs the teams under that portion. And there's a bunch of him. There's maybe like two dozen of these commanders on U.S.
47:26soil. So that's his level. So the other one released is a Somali, and he's very interesting. His father's super famous. His father's maybe number three or four of al-Shabaab. I mean, his uncle. His uncle is. So Fahd Khulaf, longtime friend of the bin Laden. So anyway, the bin Laden chose this Somali to come be a part of the attack because he's second-generation terrorism like him. So he is in charge of a bunch of these cells in the United States. And he's in charge of, it doesn't matter if it's Al Qaeda guys, ISIS guys, HTS guys, Libyan terrorists, it doesn't matter. He runs a big portion of the cell structure and his cell structure is the one in Louisiana.
48:11And Shamsuddin Jabber, who did the New Orleans attack, was inside one of his cells. Hold on, hold on. And before you go on, so you mentioned Al-Qaeda and ISIS before, but now Al-Shabaab is also in the mix. Yes. So I want to explain to you how a cell works now. So in the old days, if I told you there was a terrorist cell and I sent five guys and Al-Qaeda sent them, you would think it's a five-man Al-Qaeda terrorist cell. It's not that way anymore. They redid the cell structure. So now when I tell you this Al-Shabaab guy runs a bunch of cells, let's talk about a five-man cell he has. So he is a five-man cell, and it has a member of Ansar al-Sharia, Benghazi, who attacked us.
48:55I'm telling you who's really in the cell. There's an HTS member, which is a Syria al-Qaeda group. There's an Islamic State Khorasan branch member, right? That's out of Afghanistan, even though he's not Afghan, he's Bangladeshi. And then there's an ISIS terrorist. So now the cells are mixed, and they're mixed because the U.S. government looks at Al-Qaeda. They look at ISIS. They took HTS off the list. They're not even looking at them. And they're never gonna find five guys from five different groups collaborating because it's against their assessment. I told you, FBI is literally going around and telling law enforcement they don't work together.
49:33And they made their cells that way because, like, people are so arrogant, they just won't view something different. They can't think, oh, the terrorist could evolve. Of course they wouldn't change their tactics. I know. Why would they do that? I know. So it's really smart, but it's so hard to find them, Sean, because you have to look in this terrorist group. And then you have to look in this. I mean, I've been doing this a solid three years, and I haven't even found a fraction of these guys. Well, I mean, I think it makes sense that we're not finding them because I can't, sorry, I can't remember if you said it or if Jane Doe said it, our mutual friend.
50:11But, I mean, when we talked about how they're communicating and they're not using email, they're not using cell, they're only using human couriers. I mean, and they are unaware of each other with whoever's within the U.S. So even if you crack one of the cells, that cell has no knowledge of any of the other cells. Exactly. You could torture them to the point of death, but they have no information to give you. And it's more than that, Sean. And so, no wonder nobody knows. They've gone completely dark. Yeah. And it's even before that point. So, if you and I go to terrorist training camp together, we go in there under alias.
50:55So, I might be able to guess you're American, because you do have that weird accent. But I know you as a completely different name, so if I'm being tortured, I'll never be able to give you a real name. Because I never knew it. So even the people they trained with, they can't identify. I mean, it's clean operatives, and then there's a ton of covert operations in this plot. Like, it's almost like doctrine. Because remember, the person running the plot, Sy Falada, was special operations in the Egyptian military. People forget these things. Remember, one of the leaders of ISIS that people are lying at is dead, Gulmurad Kolomov, ran special operations in Tajikistan.
51:37So these people are bringing real military doctrine in. And I don't think a lot of people are watching these advancements. Man. Wow. Wow. What about the TSA? Stopping the screening for the bombs. Yeah. Well, so this is a problem. So if they would have never said anything, it might have been okay. But they basically said, hey, we're not scanning anymore for the shoe bomb. And then they started saying the locations. And Al-Qaeda, remember, the only problem with the shoe bomb is it got a little moisture in it and it didn't go off. So they fixed the problem really quick. But we jumped in, the US government, and put really enhanced detailed screening in for shoes.
52:23So Al-Qaeda is like, it's not worth it doing the shoe bomb, right? That's what happened in the past. Well, like six months ago, DHS and Kristi Noem was like, we're not scanning for shoes anymore. That was foolish. Well, Carter's like, good. We're going to put the shoe bomb back on the table. So they have prototypes right now of the new shoe bomb they're testing. So the shoe bomb is coming back because we are dumb enough to say we're not screening for it anymore. So they're going to make a visible bomb in a shoe and it's going to get on the airplane just fine. Because we have idiots who tell terrorists we decreased that screening.
52:53Well, I'm just curious. What are they waiting for? Why wait? Well, they're not waiting. So you have to look at it this way. It takes time to train everyone, right? It takes time to deploy everyone. And then when you deploy, you got to make your bombs. You got to do your pre-attack surveillance. And then remember, they want to choose a time that are weakest or not prepared. October 7th, they pushed an entire year. Those terrorists sat around waiting an entire year knowing, hey, we were supposed to do October 7th, 2022. I also think a part of it is they want to test even the patience of the terrorists, because they want to make sure you can sit there.
53:31When they train them, they do say, hey, when we sent the guys to Nairobi, remember the attacks on the embassies got delayed nine months, and nobody talks about that, in 1998, because the TNT showed up late. So even if they choose a date, things happen, and we've had actually things happen in the homeland plot. So first off, one of the command... You know, I said there's these kind of dozen, couple dozen commanders. Well, one of them, Faraj al-Hamasi, it's crazy. So he's Libyan, okay? He has to leave Libya and go to Turkey and then wait in Turkey to deploy here to come and then lead his cells, okay?
54:09So he leaves Libya. He throws his passport away because he gets a fake Syrian passport to travel with. I don't know where he threw this passport away, but there's this do-gooder in Libya that finds driver's licenses and passports and literally takes the passport, puts it up on a Facebook page, and says, hey, if you lost his passport, call me. I mean, that's an Al-Qaeda terrorist passport sitting on a Facebook page. Okay? Wide open to the world. So that's how I get his passport. So he goes to Turkey, and then do you remember when I was on the show, and do you remember when I talked about Ziad Balam?
54:43He's like the number two most important terrorist in the Benghazi attacks. He was caught. So he was caught at the airport in Turkey. He got sent back to Libya, and then I was doing a whole campaign to get the US government to get kept... hold him. He got released like 10 days later. Well, when he got caught in Turkey, this guy Faraj, because I guess he's not the sharpest, was like, oh, my God, a whole network's getting picked up. Ziad wasn't doing the homeland plot. So he freaks out, and he's like, we're all gonna get wrapped up by the Turkish government, and he leaves and goes to Germany, okay?
55:13So now he's sitting in Germany, gosh, year and a half, waiting to find his pathway to come here to do the attack. And he's outside of a sports bar, and some guy started talking crap about soccer or something, and he stabs like five people. He's in prison. So the crazy part is, so he gets detained, he gets detained, as you can imagine, with his Syrian passport. So he's detained literally as Mahmoud Mahmoud. I kid you not. This is how dumb the Germans are. So Mokwin Mokramud, and then of course he changed his date of birth. And so I reached out, I live in Florida, and we have a consulate for Germany in Miami.
55:52I reached out and said, guys, here's his passport. You have a Libyan in custody. You're running through your judicial system as a Syrian. Never got back to me. So he's literally in the German court system, a U.S. homeland attacker that knows key pieces of the plot. He was going to command a piece of the plot and nobody's doing anything with him. But it helps at least, it messed up. You got to put a new guy in charge. Now, also some senior leaders got killed. Remember how I told you the ISIS military commission is running the attacks where we live, work, and play? Veteran communities is a good example.
56:26So he's dead. So in March of this year, he was in Iraq, running the military commission, and his mom is a very famous terrorist, and we actually talked about her recently on the watch floor in our ISIS women video. So, his mom got harbored by Abu Mohammed Jelani, the head of Syria. So, there's now a terrorist president in Syria. And he said, come live in Syria, her name's Najma, and I'll take care of you and you'll be safe. So, she moved into Syria and he's been harboring her. So, her son, Abdullah Maki, said, okay, my mom's been in Syria for a few months. It's safe. I'm going to leave Iraq and go visit my mom.
57:04And as he was leaving Iraq, the U.S. bombed him and killed him. So, he was running an entire piece of the homeland plot. He's dead. He wasn't killed for the homeland plot, but it helps us. Another really good example is, remember I told you there's all these terrorist groups making up cells, okay? So one of the terrorist groups making up the cells, and you'll know this group, is Tariki Taliban Pakistan. TTP, the Pakistani Taliban. So how all these groups worked is just super simple. It's like the head of either the military commission or like the military chief who chose the attackers, okay? Very simple.
57:41In every group. Doesn't matter. So he was the head of TTP's military. So he chose the homeland attackers. Well, Pakistan killed him this fall in a strike. So he's gone. And then there's one more. So there's one more piece of the plot. So there was the aviation in D.C. and all that stuff. There's the attacks where we live, work, and play. And then IRGC went to Al-Qaeda and said, hey, the U.S. has an authority to do homeland plot. Can we just lump in President Trump's assassination into the entire plot? So now the assassination of Trump for the death of Qasem Soleimani is literally in Al-Qaeda's homeland plot, but still run by IRGC.
58:26So the individual running that, I've talked about him on the show before, his name is Mohammed Kazemi. Well, Mohammed got bombed by Israel last summer, because he was also one of the key masterminds of October 7th. So the good part is, three very senior leaders are taken off the battlefield, helping this plot, and then one local ground commander is taken off the battlefield. And there could be, you know, maybe a few got caught by immigration enforcement traveling here, you know, didn't get here. We do know a couple dozen have not gotten here yet for one reason or the other. Like, they're not on U.S.
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1:01:33I mean, it just... I don't know. I know they have patience, and I know they can be sophisticated. I guess I just related that to when we were over there and it's like, oh, it's getting hit again. Oh, we're getting hit again. Oh, this is the third fucking time tonight we're getting hit. And so I just, I don't know. Crazy assumption of mine to think that they would be impatient wanting to attack us. Yeah, I am going to explain a piece of that, though, because it is really important you're thinking. First, I'm going to talk about one thing. So obviously there are dates, right? There's dates for certain things.
1:02:10So they had to have all the pre-attack surveillance training, bomb making done by like the third week of December of 2025. So right now they are operationally capable to pull off an attack, if that makes sense, because they've done every pre-attack thing. But here is the part we don't really talk about publicly, because I do think once the first major thing happens, the US will be America and we'll stop whatever happens. But what the plan is from the second generation of terrorists is that the waves never stop. So there's this big plot I told you about, but then in two or three months later, they want to put another major attack in and keep doing it.
1:02:54And so when Joe Kent says there is 18 ,000 terrorists on U.S. soil. Did you just say 18 ,000? Yes. Last time we talked, we were thinking it was 1 ,000. Yeah. Waive always thought it was about 8 ,000, but he actually testified recently that it's 18 ,000 known Islamist terrorists on U.S. soil. So, what a lot of people are like, well, why aren't they attacked yet? Some of them are for those future waves. Holy shit. So, Al Qaeda put 1 ,000 in the first wave, as we know. but there's future waves. And there was a meeting ISIS actually had. So maybe the US was putting out a lot of propaganda, like, we're gonna get the worst of the worst and take off all these people out of the United States.
1:03:37So ISIS started freaking out and they had a meeting and they're like, we need to figure out how many actually terrorists we have in the United States that could get wrapped up in these operations. And they realized they had over 2 ,500 ISIS members. That's just Syria and Iraq in the United States illegally. So that doesn't count anyone on a green card because they sent a lot through the program, just like the Afghanistan one. It's just as corrupt. They sent, you know, Iraqis through who are ISIS, people who got recruited here, etc. So that's just one terrorist group. So we also have to remember these numbers are massive.
1:04:20I mean, 19 to 9-11, and Joe Kent says there's 18 ,000. And we have no mass campaign to wrap these people up and deport them. So they had that meeting to discuss the number. Do you know since then there's been no concern by al-Qaeda or ISIS about the people being wrapped up? And they're still sending terrorists over the southern border. Just like two days ago, the White House put out that the border's closed. Call me. The border is not closed. Al-Qaeda's moving people in Nogales, they're moving people in San Diego, they're moving people over in Los Ebinos. Have you ever heard of the GOAT initiative?
1:04:53Corey, who runs it. So it's really interesting. And there's a lot of this along the border. It doesn't matter which one you're talking about, but there's all these Americans who go out and they collect these documents that get discarded. So he goes out and collects, like, passports. So we talk about, you know, the Pakistani ones, or the Libyan ones, or the Afghan ones, and I engage with him to see if they match up with any of the terrorists we found. And then they go, just two weeks ago, they filmed people climbing over the border wall. So our government's telling the American public, like, hey, the border's closed.
1:05:22Well, the border's closed maybe if you're a poor person from Latin America. The border's not closed if you're part of a billion-dollar terrorist organization who can just pay the Sinaloa cartel to bring you through a tunnel. Yeah, I was just going to say, I mean, we have no idea how many tunnels. Yeah, they're working with Sinaloa. They're working with TDA. And it's just like, it's super, super frustrating that our government's not seeing the totality of this, even just when we're talking about the cartels of terrorism, cooperation down south.
1:05:5218 ,000 terrorists. Yeah, that's known. They didn't know. So the terrorists I gave them, they did not know any of them were on U.S. soil. So there's tons they don't know. Holy shit. Are you still speaking to law enforcement? Yes. All over the country? Yes. How's that going? We're almost done, because we were just going to do a year of it, because, you know, at the end of the day, at a point, they need time to prepare. and if you don't get to tell them like a week before an attack happens. So we have one left, but yeah, so we've done a ton. I actually brought a bunch of the coins. I'd love to show you them today.
1:06:28Yeah, I think... Do you have them? In a box over here. Yeah, I think you guys stole it from me, so you might have it. There you go. Yeah, so this is crazy. Yeah, so...
1:06:41And this is just the people who gave me coins. I'm not a big coin person, but here's all the coins we've gotten. Oh, this is for you. This is from Iowa and they wanted me to give you one of their patches. I have one too though, so you don't have to give it back to me. Thank you. But look, someone gave me socks.
1:06:58I know. North Carolina. But yeah, so anyway, so yeah. So all these are, all these are. We met all these people to discuss the Homeland Plot. So the crazy part is, and I hope Americans understand this, you have proactive people in your country. The FBI isn't leading this. These are good people on the ground saying, we need to prepare our communities, screw the FBI, we're going to get ahead of this plot. And they have people like me and others coming in and telling them about the plot so they can train and prepare their communities. Yeah, there's some cool ones in there. So we've been preparing like sheriff's departments, police chiefs, heck, we've been with gang units.
1:07:36Is it? Nice. Yeah, we've been preparing gang units because, you know, gang units work the streets. You've been everywhere, Florida. Oh, yeah. We've been in New York, Pennsylvania. Alabama. Yeah, we've been to Tennessee a lot. We can't, like, blow off Sean's friends. Hey, I told everybody over here, well, we did that one together. Yes. Unless you've been here since. Yeah, I've been here numerous times since. Have you really? Yep. To our sheriff's department? No, to your state. Good. Yep. And to your university system. It's good to know they're taking it seriously. Yep. FBI. Yeah. So there's a few good FBI here and there, but very few.
1:08:22Wow, that's a lot of points. Tampa FBI, we're screwed. I guess I probably shouldn't. Your FBI is very good, though. Remember, I met with your FBI. Yeah, they're cool. Yeah, your people are squared away. Wait till you see who they sent me in Tampa. Oh, my gosh. I got to do this. I got to do this. So they send these. So I have a threat, okay? So I inform FBI and I form my Sheriff's Department. And then I was working for Air Force at the time, so I inform OSI. So my Sheriff's Department was at my house that night, so good job. FBI showed up about four days later, and then OSI three weeks later, even though they were in my town.
1:09:01And I work in an Air Force office in a government building. But anyway, so yeah, sorry, but you're not gonna crack anything. So, say, send these two guys to my house. I kid you not. One is FBI, but he's not an agent. I don't really understand what he is. And the other guy's like a detailee to the FBI. So the detailee, I'd say, is about 60 years old, and he starts off... A detailee? Yeah, like, I think he works in... You mean like... Like a local police officer. Okay. I bet you meant... Okay. Oh, don't worry, though. It's worse. I'd be fine if he was a local police officer. He, his first sentence to me is, hi, I'm a January 6 expert.
1:09:38He's like 60 years old. What does that mean? I know. First off, what's that mean? But whoa, whoa, you worked like a 30, 40 year career and that's what your expertise is you're selling to me. So of course I roll my eyes. So then the other guy didn't know much about anything. So I sit down. I'm a January 6th expert. Dude, that was... Get the fuck out of here. That was the first minute. This is about terrorism. This is the first minute of the tone. Neither of them knew anything about terrorism. What? So I sit down. It's a very frustrating conversation, not going anywhere, but I tell the other guy, hey, you have a Libyan that you guys gave millions of dollars to in the United States, and you guys should go talk to him about this threat to me, because he would be able to collect information on it.
1:10:19He goes, that's above my pay grade. It's above your pay grade to go meet an FBI asset that lives in Virginia? So anyway, so they go... It was a horrible conversation. So they go to leave, and the January 6th expert goes, I know you have my card, but if something goes down here, call 911, don't call me." And I was like, what? So he leaves, and Boone was there, because I had Boone come to the meeting, because he knew about my threat. And I go, why does this guy think I'm gonna call him? And I went over and put his card in the trash. So that was my only meeting with them. But I did meet with two other people in my Tampa office, about Ryan Routh, and they were just as bad.
1:10:58So anyway, FBI, if you live in Tampa, you're on your own. there is no useful FBI there. What is that? I mean, just, what does that mean? I know, but also he wasn't... I'm a J6 expert. He wasn't 25. Okay, that has no relevance. It has zero relevance. But also, your entire career, that's the one thing you're gonna spit out to me as your expert. Like, not like counterintelligence, something? So yeah. So anyway, they sent the A-team to, I guess, help me out. So. Wow. How are the local law enforcement guys? So the local law enforcement is good. Are they preparing? Have you seen improvements? Have you gone to the same place twice?
1:11:39So yeah, so it varies, as you know. So I don't want to say who's better than others, but there's a county near me that if something goes down, I'm just going to their county because they're so squared away and they're very focused on it. Oh yeah, you got that Sheriff Brady, right? Well, we do, but... Is it Brady or Grady? We have Grady, but it's actually not Grady. Grady doesn't have a lot of interest from what I've seen in terrorism, which is interesting. But Grady has. I'm not gonna be... I don't want to put people down. But Grady's county is like... He can find a criminal every five minutes.
1:12:13So he's got stuff to do. It's not like he's under work. I mean, all these criminals go there. So many human traffickers are in his county. I mean, it's crazy. I lived in that county for a bit. It was like a little bit of a cesspool of Florida. So, but no, but there are some rock stars. who have been training. There's a lot of teams who've broken up their tactics, and they're doing different things that they've taken on from knowing about the Homeland Plot. But as you know, everything's personality specific. So you can go five miles to the next area, and that law enforcement agency isn't prepared at all.
1:12:48It's really fascinating to watch. I would, I mean, I would... There's not giant, like, there's not states just mandating everybody to do it. So... because FBI isn't being supportive of it. So the interesting thing is, so Joe Kent finally came in, um, and I think he started his job in August, okay? So in September, he actually put out an unclassified memo to law enforcement, I don't know if you saw this, and it said, hey, there's a Homeland plot from Al-Qaeda, and he put in kind of some evidence that was, like, more unclassified. And so the crazy part is, so NCTC and then the DNI, run by Tulsi, put this out for all law enforcement in the United States.
1:13:34I went around the country this entire year, you know, even since September, and I never met anyone who didn't have this... I didn't meet anyone who had this memo unless they saw me post about it. So what I've learned is two things. One is, what they do is, so the DNI puts stuff out, and it goes to these fusion centers. Have you heard of these? All these states have fusion centers. So, like, in Florida, we got one, Central Florida, but then there's multiple ones. So, INFRA goes to these fusion centers, and then they disperse it to law enforcement, and a ton of these fusion centers decided not to put out the INFRA from NCTC.
1:14:08So, I started... How do they even have that authority? Well, so I started asking around, and at one of them, I asked the guy, and he said, well, we were distributing it, and FBI came to us and said, don't put out that stuff from Joe Kent. It's not true. There isn't a Homeland plot. So, FBI was telling fusion centers not to disseminate an official memo from inside the NCTC, from inside the government. Yeah, there seems to be an issue with Patel and Kent or something that I don't know about. But that's not the only one that told me. Numerous ones said, yeah, FBI told us not to put out. JTTF said don't release it.
1:14:46And so the frustrating part is we have people inside of our own government stopping the dissemination of info. So, but I don't know if you saw. I don't understand why you would stop that. Me either. Even if you, because you, you could not know that it's 100 % not true, no matter what. And you couldn't know it's 100 % true, no matter what. But why would it be bad for local law enforcement agencies all throughout the country to be prepared for what might happen. Sounds like it's going to happen. You've done a ton of research, but why not be prepared? And the crazy part is when you look at the evidence...
1:15:30How is that fucking harmful? I know, and all the evidence they put in that memo is forward-facing. You know, it's like AQAP's video from June. You can go get the video and watch it. I'll tell you about it today. But, so yeah, it's super, super frustrating. Well, I don't know if you saw a couple days ago, Tulsi was speaking to some sort of sheriff's association. National Sheriff's Association, did you see that? I'm concentrating on pedophiles right now. No worries, no worries. You're on terrorism. She works at everything, I know. So she announced in that, which was super interesting, hey, we're making an app, an unclassified app, that law enforcement can come to it and see all of our postings and get the stuff directly from us.
1:16:10So the interesting part is they probably also saw there was a problem, and now they cut out the middleman. So there's gonna be an app, and if you're in law enforcement, but you can go straight to it, you get it. So you don't have to wait for someone else to hand it to you. So it's very, very, very smart. So luckily, they saw a problem and they're fixing it, thankfully. What's the name of the app? When's it going to be out? I don't know. She just announced it like a couple days ago. It came out because she was telling the Sheriff's Association. We'll figure this out. I just want to make sure everybody knows about it.
1:16:35So we'll pull the clip and put it in right now. We are close to being able to release an unclassified mobile app. It'll allow you, men and women of law enforcement, who are doing the hard work on the ground, working the streets, working in the field every day, to send information directly to us, to provide us with tips, to provide us that real-time, your real-time picture of the threat environment, so that it feeds into the national picture that we are integrating across the interagency here. Again, it's good to see, though, some of the government saw a problem when they were fixing it, which you don't see a lot.
1:17:13I like Tulsi. Yeah. I like Joe Ken. So I think that they want to really move the ball forward. It's just giving them the freedom to do so. Man.
1:17:30Oh, and then... Oh, fuck, Sarah. Oh, you know, it's even... Let me take a breath. It's even better. So the director of FBI was down in Texas speaking at an event with law enforcement. I don't know if it was a sheriff's association or what. and he called the Homeland Plot clickbait. So we have the head of the FBI going around telling law enforcement that an Al-Qaeda plot is clickbait. Interesting. Yeah. I do want to talk about the video, though. Could I do that really quick? Yeah, yeah. So when I was on here before and Jane, we talked about AQAP's first video talking about the Homeland Plot. That was December 2023.
1:18:06Well, then that head of AQAP died, and there's a new head of AQAP. his name is Saad Al-Awlaki, but he's not related to Anwar Al-Awlaki, just the same last name. So Saad put out a new video about the Hololand plot in June. It was on the internet like the last one for a little bit of time, so pretty much nobody's seen it. So the interesting part is when you watch the new video, and I want to explain really quick why it's coming out of AQAP. So back in about 2012, Al Qaeda was like, we need to rethink how we do our messaging, because, you know, the US went very, very strong at Al Qaeda's media commission.
1:18:45The first detainee debriefing I ever went to was in Pakistan. It was a member of the Al Qaeda military commission, right, in Pakistan. So Al Qaeda's like, we need to keep the focus off where we keep our media commission. Let's put everything out through the Yemen branch. So starting in 2012, they put all of this major plotting out and the messaging around it through the Yemen branch. So the US still thinks all this plotting's coming from AQAP, when no, it's just passed through them. So even though this video's from AQAP in December 2023 and in June 2025, it's from core Al-Qaeda, so just to be clear.
1:19:19So anyway, the new video has some different things than the old one. The old one had a lot of focus on the aviation plot and the old one taught you how to make the invisible bomb. Now the new one actually does show... We watched that at the sheriff's office. Yes. So now the new one goes up, it does a little more. It shows more locations, more targets. There were some targets in the first one, like, um, you know, Biden was in it, Elon Musk, et cetera. So the new one is updated. So now it shows, like, Trump, Vance, Pete, Marco Rubio, because, you know, the new administration. Elon's on there again, poor guy.
1:19:57Elon. And then it shows more locations. So you see Washington, D.C., you see New York City, you see Philadelphia. But really interesting, after Philadelphia, there's two shots in a small town. Really? Yes. So the small town ends up being Johnstown, Pennsylvania. So I made a really good relationship with this detective. She lives maybe an hour from it. And so she mapped out every possible target there could be in Johnstown. And so I learned a few different things that were interesting. One is it's a 12 % veteran population, right? That's pretty high. What's the population of this town? Very small.
1:20:38I don't know, maybe 20K, 30K. 20, 30 ,000? Very small. I mean, maybe one or two stoplights type of city. The other part is - One or two stoplights? It's not very big. You're probably looking at 10 ,000 or less. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So I haven't been to this city. Very odd that they would - It's just like a little - Let's look it up. Do you have your phone around you? Yeah, it's a little downtown. Mine's out there, but we'll look it up. But yeah, it's very small. Um, and... But they have a huge VA hospital. They have, like, a kind of a private airport the military sometimes uses. Like, there is some stuff there.
1:21:07Now, the other thing is, it's about 20 minutes north of where Flight 93 crashed. The last thing that is super strange, and I don't know if it connects at all, this town is very famous for an event that happened many, many years ago, and it was this massive flood. And so the interesting part is, how this plot's working is, you know, we have the homeland plot, but there's all these other plots, okay? So October 7th was plotted with it, and some of the homeland trainees trained with them, and then they plotted for Syria, they plotting for the homeland, they're plotting some embassy plots, they're plotting an India plot.
1:21:44So all these plots are going kind of like trainings concurrent. Well, remember, the October 7th plot was called Al-Aqsa Flood, which is really interesting. We don't know the name of the homeland plot, but we actually found it really fascinating because the town didn't have anything super significant besides the veteran, which could matter. But then they had this massive flood. So Al-Qaeda puts this weird messaging in that you're going to figure out and learn after the fact, right? The 2023 video has so much of that. So it's maybe we're just supposed to see something after the fact or the name is going to be pulled from that, who knows.
1:22:19But, um, these videos are... so important. I'm telling you, I'm going to law enforcement, and they've never seen these videos. They've never watched the invisible bomb be made. Um, and it's very, very frustrating, because it's like, it's right there. Yeah. I'll kind of put it out for you. So there is another thing in that video that's interesting. So, there's this thing where they do a bunch of shots, and they're doing shots of like a little booby trap on a door. So they do a shot of like a sticky bomb. Okay? You know, like a normal sticky bomb. The interesting part is when you go pull up the literature on that sticky bomb, it's maybe like six or seven years old.
1:22:59It's from Inspire. When you look at the image, the bomb is set up off by a wind switch. So I've never... A wind switch. So I did a research and I could not find any sticky bombs set off by a wind switch. So this is fascinating. So we've been telling people there's 100 % gonna be sticky bombs in this plot. But this is another thing you have to keep in mind. So this wind switch, just as you move, it sets off the bomb, because then the air hits it. It's like almost a piece of cardboard flap. So the one thing is we have hardly any law enforcement that looks for sticky bombs on their car. They might go to lunch.
1:23:36They don't look for a sticky bomb. We have cars that sit around and nobody takes them until emergency happens, and then they drive them all off, right? So there's little things like that too. We talk about the invisible bomb, which is a big deal and a big innovation, but we forget things like a sticky bomb. And the terrorists that are building them are gonna use them in this plot, and we don't even have law enforcement looking on their own vehicles to see if there's a sticky bomb. So we don't even have all the basics. And the other problem is... I mean, that's an easy fix. I know, but it's getting people to do it.
1:24:07Send the dog to the parking lot. Well, it's wrapped in the silicon again. You don't think a dog can sniff that out? We've had it tested and they can't. No. Are you serious? Yep. Yep. So, yeah, that worked. I mean, Al Qaeda did it, they tested it, but there have been people who tested it here, and they say, yep, that works, they can't smell it. The dog might act somewhat different though, so you could have a slight change in behavior, but they are not alerting on them. So, big problem. But these sticky bombs, if you're looking in your car, you're not gonna miss them. It's not like invisible. Now, the other issue is, so we have these all kind of bombs.
1:24:44I just don't want people to only look for sticky bombs because there's going to be regular suicide vests, regular IEDs, there's going to be pipe bombs. Just think of every bomb. But then we have the invisible bomb, which is special because it goes through the magnetometers. You can take them to the airport and go to secure spaces. But then we just have normal suicide bombers besides these. So in a normal suicide vest, but think about it. We don't have these suicide bombers in the United States. I'm going to these law enforcement places, they do not have standard operating procedures for suicide bombers.
1:25:14They have no training on suicide bombers. And remember, some of these suicide vests have chemicals in them. They don't even have hazmat. So there's just simple pieces of this plot. If you don't go out and sit and tell people, they're not planning or preparing for them. That's why you got to travel around to as many as you can and say, hey, hey, hey. And once they start seeing and understanding it, they're like, oh my gosh, we got to do these things. but it's like our government's not actually putting anything out to tell anybody.
1:25:43Man. Every time we talk, I just get fucking enraged. But you saw, I mean, there's people trying, there's a ton of police and sheriff doing this themselves, putting these things in place. Very proactive. I mean, a lot of communities have teams who are really on this, but they're being failed by the federal government. I just don't understand why the FBI is so against these law enforcement agencies preparing for a potential terrorist attack. I mean, we've already seen stuff. I mean, there's a National Guard guy that got, you know, killed in D.C. I know you're tracking that. Oh, yeah. So that one I spent, obviously, I had to look into that one because he's former CIA.
1:26:31Yeah. So, yeah. So that's Romanoa Lakhunwa. So the interesting thing is, like around 2007, so his birthday's wrong here, just so everybody knows. Because if you go through the dates, it's like we recruited him at 12 years old, we didn't. But you know how foreigners change their date? Mm-hmm. So just FYI, the ages the U.S. government has for him is incorrect, but who cares? Almost every foreigner in this country, the wrong, birthday's wrong. So anyway, around 2007... Well, a lot of them from third world countries, they don't even know one. Yeah, they just make it up. When I was in grad school, I was mentoring a guy from the Emirates.
1:27:03And he said, oh, I just made my birthday a couple years older, so when I came here, I could drink. He just made up completely. And nobody cares. That's, you know, so it's not all nefarious. So anyway, so he goes and he trains at Eagle Base. So he gets, he's from Coast. So he gets, a lot of people don't understand. So what the CIA did is they were recruiting, and I know you know this, I'm just explaining to people. They recruited people from areas where there's a lot of terrorists and terrorism, because they grew up in it, they understand it, they can operate in those environments, and they know what they're looking at.
1:27:38So he's from Coast, recruited in one of these areas. So he goes up, he trains Eagle Base, and then he doesn't get deployed back with the Coast team, he actually gets deployed down to Kandahar, and he's at Gecko. So he was on one of our teams, it's true, at Gecko. Now, what a lot of people get confused about is... you can be, have a background check to work for CIA, right? If you're overseas, heck, you can be a terrorist and work for CIA. But that doesn't mean you're vetted to come and live in the United States. So he was never vetted by CIA to come here. So that's one thing that kind of gets lost.
1:28:18People are like, CIA brought him here and all these type of things. This really didn't happen. The other thing is that really frustrates me. So everybody's like, yeah, he came here. He couldn't fit in. He was a loner. He's playing video games all day. But what they're lying to you about is, and this really frustrates me, this is why we have no vetting. His brother is a... He's dead now. His brother was a member of Islamic State Khorasan province. So his brother, Hayatullah, started in the TTP, who we just talked about, and he was in a rock-side agency working, and then he gets recruited by ISKP, and then he becomes one of ISKP's main recruiters in the eastern portion of Afghanistan.
1:28:58Well, as you can imagine, he's already on Pakistan's radar because of the TTP time, and then he's recruiting on these terrorists. He's also recruiting Pakistanis. So they basically, like, take him out in summer of 2022. But we brought Rahman Uli here prior to that. So his brother was a member of TTP, then ISKP, and still got him in the United States. So we are doing no proper vetting if we're just letting in the siblings of terrorists. I mean, it doesn't surprise me. Yeah, it's just super, super frustrating. So, unfortunately, that's what kill him. But again, everybody's like, oh, he got depressed here and he got radicalized here.
1:29:35You don't get radicalized in America when you grew up in a house and your brother was a TTP terrorist. Like, you were radicalized in your damn home. Um, you grew up in coast. You're recruited because you're from an area with terrorists. So we have to get Americans to start understanding, too, what a terrorist is. No, they're not getting a little depressed and shooting people because American life is hard. They've lived way harder lives. So. I didn't even know that was a narrative. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, he was sitting around playing video games all day, Sean, and got just so depressed. That'll do it to you.
1:30:09I know, those video games. People just need to get the fuck out of this country for... And they don't understand evil. Did you... Where was that one... Oh, man, this maybe was six months ago, maybe.
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1:33:56All right. Yeah. So I was talking about, what was it, Bondi Beach, Australia? I mean, when you look at that video, I can't remember how many people were killed or hurt or any of that stuff, but when you look at how proficient that guy is at operating a bolt-action rifle with speed, I got six years as a SEAL and nine working as a CIA contractor, and I can't fucking operate a bolt to action like that. That shit's terrifying. I mean, these guys are fucking training.
1:34:55I mean, and they're honing these skills, and a lot of times, this is what they're doing full-time, and I try to explain this to people, because I get all these people, oh, have them come to my town, I'll take them on. I'm like, these guys are training in advanced urban warfare, they're training seven days a week, they're training in small teams, and we don't have law enforcement that even trains that way. We have drills in this country for one active shooter, well, what are you gonna do when it's ten? You have no plan for that. What about five more at another location in your town? You don't have a plan for that.
1:35:26So the crazy part is they're investing so much time into this training because things did go wrong in the past, especially bomb making, right? So they were like, we got to be proficient on these things. We have people in law enforcement who need to try over and over again to pass the basic proficiency. We can't have... You can't go up against these guys with basic proficiency. You got to put the time, the money and effort into training people. and until they come here and operate in one of these teams and like shock everyone that's when everybody will put in the training budgets in but that's what that's too late then then you have tons of dead americans and so it is this very frustrating thing and he's such a good example i don't know why everybody's not showing that because that's a restrictive environment he still took the time he went to a range he did that training we should be watching for stuff like that watching those little things that they're improving on to be proficient at why it's also Also showing that they're going to use what's available to them.
1:36:24You know what I mean? Because where did that guy come from? Yeah, well, so he was an Australian citizen. No, but he grew up there. His father immigrated there. So he was an Australian citizen. What I'm getting at is, I mean, obviously, terror cells have access to pretty much anything you want. You know what I mean? But they're using – I guess what I'm saying is they're resourceful and they're using what's available to them in the immediate environment and getting very proficient with it. Nobody uses a bolt-action rifle like that. It's for hunting. It's for sniper – it's for long-distance shooting.
1:37:01He just turned a bolt-action into an effective – I mean, it's – I've never seen anybody do it like that. Yeah, but you are right, depending on the location. So if you're being deployed to Europe, for example, you spend a lot more time training on knives, like a ton of time training on knives, because you're likely going to use knives as part of your attack, because it is a little harder, even for terrorist groups, to get the guns and weapons they need. But yeah, the United States, I mean, they're just training on... I know every time I bring up guns, I say I'm wrong, but you know, like fully automatic, long gun type of things.
1:37:37Semi-autos. Semi-autos, see, I understand. But there is, remember, they brought the guns here. So this is another problem I'm trying to get people to understand. Oh, they brought guns into our country? Yes. Why would they do that? Because we have different restrictions on some of our guns. So if they bring the guns in here, it won't have all the restrictions on, like, the speed and stuff. So I'm really bad with guns. This is why no one ever gives me a gun. But they brought in guns that could do more things. You want a gun, Sarah? No, no, no, I'm fine. I know a guy. But then they brought some bigger guns in, too.
1:38:07So I don't know tons about guns, but you know, like, things that have, like, the.50 caliber rounds. I know everybody's, like, painting at my gun talk. But, so, yes, so they brought their own. They did bring some guns. But some of the guns they brought in, they brought in because they say property of U.S. government. Because they want it to be on the scene, and then the public blame the government. So some, doesn't, and nothing special about the gun, but it's marked. Rightly so. Wow. Wow. Wow. You caught that, that they were planning on using guns that say property of U.S. government to fucking kill us with?
1:38:46Yep, they moved them to Afghanistan. 100%. Holy shit. I mean, holy shit, they're going to fucking kill us, but... It's not just guns. It's... You know how I say... That is... I mean, it's... Again, it's actually fucking brilliant. It is. It's even more though, Sean. So you know how I say we give this money to the Taliban. See, this is the kind of unconventional warfare that we should have been fucking doing ourselves this entire time. I know. Right? It is. What they think we're doing, we don't do. So long story short, there's Taliban money. Legends explain to you the 40 million humanitarian, it goes, becomes Afghanis.
1:39:24But the counterterrorism dollar is at 47 million stays U.S. cash. So some of that U.S. cash has been brought back into this country. So when you look at those bills, they're gonna go straight back to the Treasury that did the shipment, because we have barcodes on our dollars, and you're gonna know that that money was given from the U.S. Treasury to the Taliban. And it's gonna prove the U.S. government funded the attack. That's the level this attack is planned at. Every fucking... So then the public sees that, they're gonna put that out, and you're gonna be like, yeah, like, how do you argue that?
1:39:59It is the money the US government gave. How are you going to argue the US government had funded this and didn't know about it? They'll hide it. Yeah, but I'm saying they put in real evidence, which is crazy. I know, but it will never hit... It's not just a conspiracy. I guess what I'm saying is the weapons, somebody will probably pick that up. The cash, I just don't see that getting to the media. Yeah, but the terrorists are going to put it in the media. Because everybody just wants to protect the institution to continue their power, right? Yeah. So, I mean, we see it going on right now with all kinds of shit.
1:40:38I know. I have an interview cooking that's going to reveal a lot of that kind of shit. All these fucking people that protect institutions. And they're not all way up there. it's also the lower level people that want to protect the institution and it's it's it's so i don't think that that i don't think that will hit yeah it might not hit you'd have it would have to be somebody who doesn't want to protect the institution that leaks it which will but it's just the idea they're planting evidence so if you want to dig into it you can prove tons of evidence that the u.s government funded it supported it backed it and that's the win they want they want you to be like someone who...
1:41:18Like the 9-11 people who said the government did it, they want you to say that about the next attack. Because they don't want you to focus on Al-Qaeda. They want you to bring down your government. That's the whole point of it. They want you to not trust your government and say, my government can't keep me safe. My government is funding terrorism. News flash, we're already there. I know. Well, the interesting part is... Some of us. ...remember, terrorist organizations are also religious organizations. So actually, religious-wise, a Taliban cannot take money from us. So they actually had to basically make an edict to allow it.
1:41:51They're allowing it because the money is going to be a part of a deceptive campaign, and then you can do it if you're going to use it for deception. And Americans just don't understand this at all. But the terrorists do, so this money they're going to use in deceptive practices, and then it makes it okay under their Islamic principles. And so there's so many things, even not understood. We fought these guys for 20 years, and we still don't understand even just some of those basics.
1:42:24Ryan Ruth. Yes. Let's talk about him. So, yeah, so... Well, this is... We're filming today. I know it's gonna air later, but they're actually going to give him a sentence in February 4th. Oh, really? Tomorrow. Yeah, so tomorrow. I just have to say the dates, because I know it's... We're not still airing tomorrow. But the interesting part is, so, um, you know, we talked about him previously, because I put out a bolo on him, like, way back in, like, May of 2023. But if... Did you really? Yes, because he was causing... Remember, at the time, I was running a non-profit in Ukraine, and he was, um...
1:43:00So the thing is, Ryan Routh went to Ukraine to be a fighter. Of course he got there, and you have to actually have real bona fides to join the Legion. He tries to join the Legion, like, you have no background. You can't be in the Legion. So what he did is he went to Kiev, and Kiev kind of has like a, I don't know, I would call it like a central market area of town, and he was hanging out there all day. He would hold up a sign with like his phone number, and so he was telling people, reach out to me, and I'll put you in touch with groups. And so I was one of the groups, and he would act like he's associated with us to put volunteers into our group, and of course, we didn't take anything from this crazy guy.
1:43:36Well, then he decided, oh, I'm gonna be like a... I'm gonna be like a PMC or something. So then he makes up this whole ruse, I'm gonna bring all these foreigners in to fight in Ukraine. So he makes like a nonprofit, he puts the same phone number all over the place. He starts calling like Afghan commanders, hey, give me some of your fighters. This is the guy, this is the guy that tried to kill Trump on the golf course in Mar-a-Lago, right? Yes, yes. This guy was able to... No, I'm not telling you. Okay. This is what he's trying to do. He's trying to recruit Afghans, people from Africa, etc. Well, of course, the Ukrainian government's like, we're not going to give any visas to Afghans, because if we did Afghans on our soil, people are going to think we're the most horrible people.
1:44:25Because think about it. Terrorists just took over the country of Afghanistan. If the Ukrainian government brought a bunch of Afghans in to fight and they'd be killed by a bunch of Russians, the whole world would be like, why are you using Afghans? You're taking advantage of these vulnerable people. So the Ukrainian government said, hell no, we're just not issuing these visas for any group. You could even have been a General Petraeus asking. So it was no across the board. So Ryan Ralph didn't care about the facts, and he started literally getting Afghans to illegally come towards Ukraine, thinking they're going to fight.
1:44:57And of course, if they got there, Legion's like, you can't fight here. Our government said no. So he starts running these schemes. He's collecting, he's telling Americans, oh, I'm helping in Ukraine, he's collecting donations. Not huge sums, but this is funding his life there. So then, so here's kind of where this part of the story comes in. So I report him, so I first report him publicly, and then my chief information officer, my NGO, reports at the State Department. I talk to a couple other people, an Afghan commander, another NGO, and they report to the State Department. So of course this all happens, Ryan Ralph, tries to assassinate the president.
1:45:35And so my bolo comes out because people start sharing it. Hey, there's this bolo a year ago. And so the press start calling me. So that was September, 2024. So all this press, these press outlets reached out to me and I told them that little bit of my story. But I told them, we sent these complaints to State Department. So they call State Department. They're like, we have nothing on record about Ryan Routh. Nothing at all. He's not even in our system. Well, then there was like a FOIA request. I want to say it was Daily Caller, and it just came back like a month ago. And there's tons of stuff in State Department files on Ryan Routh, and they were literally investigating him.
1:46:14And they lied to the press when they called about me saying, we don't have his name anywhere in our files. Just like what I was talking about with the cash. Yeah, so they lied to the press. And it was funny, one of the guys in the press called me back, said, I just talked to State Department. His name isn't the Ike. I can promise you... To protect the institution. Exactly. And I said, I can promise you, a year or two, you'll hear it's in there. Because every truth takes about two more years to come out. That's just how it works in the government. But, so yeah, so with Ryan Routh, but it's really interesting.
1:46:43One other thing about him, about that plotting didn't come out, and it should, so he did the whole thing that we all know on Mar-a-Lago. But remember, there's that thing where there's the deer blind, it was like 12 feet up in the tree, and it was towards Palm Beach Airport, and it was where Trump brought in. I didn't even see that one. Okay, so yeah, so law enforcement found this deer stand in the tree, and they're like, oh, we think it was to assassinate the president. Ryan Routh built that deer stand. That's why we never heard any follow-up on it, because everyone's like, who made the deer stand?
1:47:16And then they come back around and say he built the deer stand, because he can build stuff. He has a background in some carpentry. But anyway, yeah, so he's hopefully gonna get life in prison. They don't have a death penalty or anything like that on the table. but anyway but yes state department lied but it's just another great example are they are they investigating it now or the butler one i don't know any how any of those investigations going but obviously that would be what fbi good luck you know my opinions on how well fbi investigated benghazi i mean i would not if if you told me fbi was investigating anything for me i would either pay money and just have someone investigate it i'd be like okay i'm never gonna get answers that's that's my level of optimism i think that's probably just about everybody's level of optimism and we want it i'm fine if you reform the fbi but it's never happening so i'm at the point just disbanded yeah um i'm fine we have a lot of great law enforcement in this country we can do a different organization bring in some quality people geez what's the updates on So, we're still working the investigation because there's so many damn terrorists.
1:48:27You know, one of the really frustrating things happened last summer. So, Al-Qaeda did this operation, this operational plan, and they were gonna basically attack a prison where a bunch of our terrorists are held. So, it's called Matiga Prison. It's just in Tripoli. Do you remember kind of like when Benghazi happened, there was like a real airport, and that's where Team Tripoli went out of. Well, then there was a military airport. So that was Matiga. The real airport ended up being, like, bombed by terrorists and it closed, and then Matiga kind of became the prison. I mean, the real airport, but it had a prison always in it.
1:49:03So terrorists are kept in this airport prison, okay? So this is where pretty much all of our Benghazi attackers are who aren't with General Hofdar's custody. So anyway, Al-Qaeda was going to go and overrun this prison and release our terrorists. So we found out about it and put it out publicly. And there was a lot of pressure on the Libyan government. Hey, you're going to let Al-Qaeda just attack a prison and free all these people. So then the Libyan government went to Al-Qaeda and like, we got to do this a little more quietly. We can't have a massive attack on the prison right now. The international community is paying attention.
1:49:36So this is what's crazy. So the prison is run by this organization called RADA. They're called the Special Deterrence Forces. They're almost like a militia. They're more capable than most militias in Libya, but they're not completely clean. So, like, that's where Ziad Balam was taken, and he was treated like a king while he was inside for the 10 days. So anyway, they're holding it. They get a letter from an American who works for the UN. Her name is Stephanie Curry, and she hands this letter to the head of RADA, and it says, in good faith, you know, for your relationship with the UN and the United States, please release these 56 people.
1:50:20So it said, please release them in good faith. So the Radha guy looks through the names, and of the 56, 50 are terrorists from ISIS and Al-Qaeda, including Benghazi attackers. So I don't have the list, but I know some of the ones they were focused on is, so one of our terrorists, his name is Hisham Abu Sidra. We call him Kubeb during the attack because that was his kunya. When he was captured a couple of years ago, he was the head of ISIS in Libya. Okay. So this is one person. Another one is Mohammed al-Gharabi. When he attacked us in Benghazi, he was the head of Al-Qaeda in Benghazi. And then the last one, Ayman Bouamoud.
1:50:58So he, first off, is related. Remember how I said FBI paid off that witness to frame the mastermind? So he's his cousin. But then two years after our attack, he kidnapped the Jordanian ambassador. So anyway, so this list has 50 terrorists. So Rana goes back to this chick, Stephanie Corey, who works for the UN, she's an American, and says, this whole list is terrorists. We can't release these people. Well, I find out about it. And this prison is very important to me because a bunch of my attackers are in it. There are like three people in the entire West who give any damn about terrorists in this prison.
1:51:36If you ask me to write a list of 50 terrorists sitting in that prison today who are actively inside, I could not do it. So I'm like, there's no way an American woman could sit down and write that list. Like, I could in a month maybe put a list 20-25 together, because people don't stay in that prison long. I told you, Ziad was only there 10 days, so sometimes they rotate in and out. So I was like, what the hell? Where did she get this list? Well, I find out where she got the list. So in Libya, there's this grand mufti. His name is Al-Sadiq Al-Ghrani. So he's the religious authority in Libya, but he's a member of Al-Qaeda, and he's a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, of course.
1:52:17And he has oversight of all religious stuff to do with the Libyan government, but it's not like America and it's separate. So he's also involved in oil industry, any kind of governance, trade, right? Because religious role in all of this. He gave her the list. So a member of Al-Qaeda gave an American a list of terrorist release that included some of our 2012 Benghazi attackers. Did you hear anyone do anything? What, Mike Walz runs the UN? Nothing. Like, why are we having Americans trying to get Benghazi attackers released? Like, I'm so angry about this. It's so hard as it is to get these guys detained, I can't even tell you.
1:53:00But to know people who worked for my own government, like, I'm perfectly fine getting Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists. It's the head of ISIS in Libya. You know how many people he killed? I just... I just... And then I have to be collecting and trying to counter these stupid activities. That's the crazy part. There's also no entity in the U.S. government trying to do anything right. No, I think we could all see that. Yeah. And that's another thing. We get all these people that run for office. Oh, yeah, the UN's corrupt. They fund terrorism and do all these things. They get in. They do nothing about them.
1:53:35They don't defund them. They keep letting this stuff happen. What, we're going to at least 50 terrorists because some - What I was getting at earlier, too. It's just fucking talking points for them to put on X. I know. That's all this shit is. I know. I'm not talking about Tim Bircher. I think Tim Bircher is a good fucking man. But all these other people just batting this shit back and forth. It's like, shut up. Yeah. And do your fucking job. And they don't want any facts. You know what the fuck we voted you in there for? No, yeah, they don't. It's so, I just, I don't see red or blue Republican Democrat anymore.
1:54:08No. I don't see any of that. I just see. It's not. You're either a piece of shit or you're not. Yeah, I mean, it's the elites versus everyone else. Because Kim Timberts is no elite. And that's really what the world is. I mean, all these people, you know, I went and worked on the Hill and saw it. Like, these Congress people, they'll go and they'll say bad things about each other. Then they're at dinner together. I remember the first time I went to a congressional lunch, and it's like, there's Republicans and Dems, they're all coming up and hugging each other. And I'm like, wait, on TV, these people were hating each other.
1:54:36They make plans about who's going to say what. It's all a game. Jeremy called WWF wrestling. It's literally WWF wrestling. They will keep their system in place and protect each other's parties no matter what. There is no draining the swamp. And it's just a frustrating thing to watch. and so many people idealistic, where they love the person they voted for, and it's just like, you just feel bad, because they're going to be so disappointed when they find out. Yeah. I know. I know. I can't, I just... Let's just move on. Perfect. All right, so let's walk me around what's going on geopolitically around the world.
1:55:20Oh, gosh, the whole world? What's going on with Iran? I mean, Iran is a very complicated thing, because so much of our government has this belief, you know, in the strong man, right? It is better to back a government with a strong man, because we know exactly what we're getting. So even though I feel like the majority of Americans, and of course I am, with the people of Iran, our government isn't really supportive of that, because they're like, we can negotiate with them, We can send them money. We can keep them at bay. We know how to deal with them We do not know how to deal with or what kind of control or influence we're gonna have with the next government that comes in So we have this tough situation where unfortunately all these people are dying the other thing that's happening That's very frustrating.
1:56:10So first off. I'm gonna talk with that So that means we're talking about our deals right now with Iran or nothing to the people it's nuclear diplomacy. Because nuclear diplomacy is where you can fall back, pretend you're doing something, and then it, you know, you make a deal and you say, hey, we solved something, and it doesn't do anything for the people. So that's what we're doing. But what happens with the people, and this is something that was different than all the last times, our government said, don't hang people publicly. So the frustrating thing now is they're doing extraditial killings, right?
1:56:40They'll just walk in and shoot some in the head. They're injecting people and killing them. So we have no concept now of how many people are being killed after being detained before they'd at least go to death row and be hanged. And you can monitor it in some way, but we have people getting murdered in the streets. And you know, in the streets, it's not just Iranians. There's Iraqi militias. There's Afghans. I mean, it's crazy because Iran has an Afghan brigade. People don't really talk about it, but the Fethoun Brigade. So anyway, there's all these terrorists and bad actors killing people in the streets.
1:57:13But then even when they end up in a hospital or in custody, they're now being extra judicially killed. And we're basically telling them to do it. Like, just don't do it publicly. As of this recording, Polly Market says there's a 19 % chance that Kameneo, who am I saying I'm saying that wrong, will be out as supreme leader of Iran by March 31st. What do you think? I think because our government's doing this nuclear deal stuff, I don't believe it at all. Now, if our government had said, we're done negotiating with the government Iran, we only negotiate with the people, I would say he'll be out 80%.
1:57:50But now that they're like, no, we're gonna... Like, the deal's weird if it's true. Like, they're gonna give us a little bit of uranium, and then we're gonna be like, okay, it's all good. But the people, like, can't afford to live. They're oppressed. Terrorists are running their country. there's people killed with no crimes. Like, none of that is being addressed. And so that's super, super frustrating. So I think he's... If we had handled it differently, I would say that. But how I'm watching it, it's a nuclear deal. I don't think anything's changing. I don't think a 19 % chance is a great. I know, but it's...
1:58:25You think it's less than that. Oh, I think it's 2%. You think it's 2%. Yes. Now, a month ago, I would have said it's 19%. But now that I've seen this weird nuclear deal, I know the government's... What is the nuclear deal? Well, I mean... So, well, our government is negotiating. It would be interesting to see how polymarket's percentage changes after this. Yeah, sorry, polymarket. But our government is negotiating with Iran, okay? But the negotiations happening right now with Iran are about nuclear. They started negotiations when these protests started, and they're about the nuclear program. They're nothing to do with what any of the protesters are asking for.
1:59:02That's what I'm saying. That's why I know he's staying in power because that wouldn't be the deal you'd be working on. You don't need to make a nuclear deal with the guy you're kicking out, right? If this guy's going to be done in a month or two, we've got to make a new nuclear deal with him. He's going to be gone. We can end the whole program a week after he leaves. So, yeah. So that's why I know it's a game now. So we don't, we don't, that's all a facade too. We don't give a shit about the, I mean, I give a shit. I know. The U.S. government doesn't give a shit about those people. Give a shit about the people of Iran.
1:59:29Do you think we should have bombed Iran back in, when was that? When was that? It was in the summer. We were in Dubai. We were flying home and we could see the... 100%. So the thing is, and Iran knew this anyway, we were always gonna bomb Iran when we found out they hit a certain level of enrichment or they could get close to putting... How did we find that out? Because here's what's interesting to me, and I can't tell you who told me this, not on air. Not one of our intelligence agencies fucking said that they were enriching uranium. It was Mossad that came along and told us that. Well, the first thing is you have to remember, Mossad has way better axis in Iran than we do, just to be honest.
2:00:09I have some better axis in Iran than the US government does. So we have to be really honest about that. The US does have bad axis in Iran, so they've always had to rely on other people. So that's no conspiracy. Think about it. That's Iran's greatest enemy. They have the best axis here, just like we had the best axis in Afghanistan when we were fighting the Taliban there, because that was our enemy. So you have to view it in that lens. Okay. So that's not a conspiracy. But wouldn't, I mean, remember early on in Afghanistan when we would go into these villages and we would just take somebody's word for it?
2:00:38Oh no, they're the bad guys. Not realizing that these people, these two groups have been battling each other for a thousand years. I mean, so, you know what I mean? That's not exactly what's happening in this case. So I will tell you, they were 100 % enriching and the U.S. government also has information that they're enriching. It's not just from Mossad. That's 100 % not true. I mean, I even had access to a guy who had a family member in the program. The program is real. The program is much farther along than our government was aware. And I think they were caught a little bit with their pants down and realized it is more advanced than we thought.
2:01:18Remember, for like 15 years they kept saying it's not advancing. Sorry, a program does not not advance for 15 years. So our government just kept rolling the same assessment over into every year, and I really do think Trump saw it and said, holy crap, we are so behind in our assessment on this, we gotta hit them now. I do believe they had enriched that much. I personally believe it. Remember, I used to work around in the CIA. So, there's so many conspiracy things around Mossad, but you have to look at the facts of the situation. They have been enriching very successfully. Luckily, we've been tripping them up over the years over and over again, and Mossad has done it plenty, taking other scientists and stuff, but the enrichment still slowly kept happening.
2:02:00People act like, what, all that time, nothing improved? That doesn't make any sense. I mean, they brought in people, you know, they brought in Libyan scientists after Gaddafi fell. They obviously always brought in Pakistanis, so they have the capabilities and always had it to make it happen. And so I think that's just the whole current anti-Israel propaganda. Well, who are they more a threat to, us or Israel? Well, they're more a threat to Israel, but I'm telling you, to say no one in the US government believed in the enrichment isn't true. I'm just telling you. There's not no analyst in the US government who didn't believe in enrichment.
2:02:32That's just... That's an assessment put out in the wild for the public, but that's not real. You know? Unfortunately. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm skewed, but reading these Epstein files and all the racial remarks towards Americans and Christians is just... I mean, that's the world. Remember, the world's run by the Muslim Brotherhood. The world's not run by America, and people need to realize that. I hate to let people know, but we are not the top of the pyramid.
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2:06:20Let's go to Syria. Interesting. I had a conversation with a good friend of mine who was there. Actually, he's got a coin right over there that he brought me back from. He's a JTAC. He bombed the shit out of ISIS over there. Working with the Kurds. Yeah. Called me up the other day. But I don't work with them anymore. All upset. Should be. He's like, dude, all the people that we were working with there are now being fucking slaughtered. I know. It's horrible. And I said, I'm sorry, man. Like, I hate that you're going through this, but every single veteran generation in America goes through this.
2:07:01We go, we pretend like these people are our allies, we abandon them, and then they all get fucking slaughtered. This is what we just went through in Afghanistan. It's already happening in Syria. Kurds are never gonna work with us again. What's going on over there? We let them be slaughtered in Iraq, like, in the 90s, and they still came back. But, I mean, it's the most horrible thing. I know. I mean, we knew this was gonna happen, though, when we backed the new government that was led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani. Remember, that was an Al-Qaeda operation to take Syria. So Al-Qaeda took the country of Syria, and the Muslim Brotherhood put in all the leaders, okay?
2:07:36So that's just simple. Now, when we ended up backing this Al-Qaeda leader, then, of course, he started doing genocides. So he did genocides against the Druze, the Alawites. So we knew it was coming for the Kurds. I even reported out maybe in October or November that they put on the calendar that in January they're gonna start the Kurdish genocide, which they did. So we told that months in advance it was happening, and the Kurds knew this. And so they first started, and they were just pushing the Kurds out of a neighborhood they run in Aleppo. But if you even see... So they displaced like 150 ,000 people.
2:08:12This was just a few weeks ago. If you see the narratives coming out of the US government, it's crazy. They're so pro-terrorist. They say they were doing clearing operations in these neighborhoods. These are purely Kurdish neighborhoods. There was like, even the New York Post, they showed a video of one of the tunnels, because as you can imagine, the Kurds were in this neighborhood during Assad, too, so they built tunnels so they could escape when Assad would come and kill them. So they're showing these tunnels, and like, look at these terrorist tunnels in Syria. They're called Kurdish tunnels, terrorism tunnels.
2:08:44So our government's leaning in really strong also to put out a propaganda that this new Syrian government's a democracy and it's our new partner, it's our ally. The exact same thing they did with the Taliban when they left Afghanistan. But this is crazy. They're doing all these genocides. We're inviting this guy into our country. He's cut people's fucking heads off. I know. And he's slaughtered thousands since taking over. Also, what they're really being dishonest about, and I would love your friend's opinion. So also, Jelani's guys and HTS, because he still runs HTS, went in and they broke out all these ISIS prisoners in these camps.
2:09:18Our government is not telling us how many ISIS prisoners got released. Like they started saying maybe 150 got released. I've already heard from inside Syria the number is over 1 ,500. ISIS terrorists are released. The U.S. government is not like putting them on a list, going and trying to recapture them. And then Abu Muhammad al-Julani's sister, because she's a terrorist, was in one of these camps. And he not only had her broken out, He then flew her via helicopter to his palace. Okay, so we can see this, but our government can't see any of this is happening, and that's our ally. So they're gonna fund Abu Muhammad al-Julani to fight ISIS when he just released 1 ,500 members of it.
2:09:58Like, they're lying to the public that they're fighting ISIS. So I don't know if you saw the event in December. Why? Why are they... Why would they lie? They did the same thing in Afghanistan. I know. What a 50-page report. So, yeah, so our government right now, remember, they give$47 million a week to the Taliban to fight ISIS. So I asked the logical question, well, are they fighting ISIS? And we did an entire investigation for a whole year, and we put a 50-page report showing their fake ISIS operations. So they're telling our government they killed this guy, our government will handle$20 million for some dead guy, and the guy's completely alive.
2:10:34We showed tons of examples of that in the report. So no one in our government is actually going to confirm the information. So it's funny. We did these attacks in Syria about a month ago now. And it was like, oh, we found all these locations from the new government of ISIS that we didn't know of. And so what they did is the new government did like they buried weapons caches in the desert. And we hit them in areas ISIS never operated in. So we're running fake ISIS operations. And then we had the horrible incident. We're running fake ISIS operations. In Syria. And we're running fake ISIS operations through the Taliban in Afghanistan, which in Afghanistan are extraditional killings.
2:11:16We're killing innocent people and marking on a board somewhere in the DoD that we killed 12 members of ISIS. It's totally fraudulent. We did the same for years in Somalia. So anyway, but in December, we lost the two National Guardsmen from Iowa and their interpreter. Our government's even lying about that. They're telling you an ISIS terrorist did that. That was one of Abu Muhammad al-Julani's men. And then they say, oh no, he just joined the force. And then they realized right away he was an insider and they're about to sideline him. He'd been working with them for 11 months. About two months prior, they moved him to that unit.
2:11:55And then think about it. If they know you're ISIS and an insider, why would they deploy you with the U.S. troops when they came? So anyway, so since then, our government has lied to the American public. There's an ISIS attack. It's an Al-Qaeda attack. And then we've literally carried out strikes on ISIS two or three times now. And they're telling the public is in retaliation for that attack. When it's Abu Muhammad al-Julani who you got to take out for that attack. But he's our new ally, so we're going to cover up that he's involved in killing American soldiers. And remember, he does that stuff as a test.
2:12:27What can I get away with? What can I get away with? What can I get away with? So you got to think about it. If you get away with killing Americans, of course you can go slaughter Kurds. And he knew that. That taught him, go in and get them. And we're allowing it. And we will continue to allow it. Yeah. Because that's who we are. Our government does not have the moral compass of the American people. Yeah, that's no shit. Man. What's going on with China? And then remember, I told you though. Oh boy. No, it's just a reminder. The head of ISIS is literally harbored in Syria by Abu Muhammad al-Julani.
2:13:13So anyone saying we're fighting ISIS and the head of ISIS is in Syria and nobody's talking about that is feeding you a bunch of shit. That's all. So China's interesting because China, I don't know if you saw the recent national defense strategy, but it's changed. Really? How so? So China was previously kind of viewed as, like, our number one military threat, and they moved it back to strategic competition. What? Yeah. So now our biggest military threat is, like, threats to the US homeland, but China's no longer our number one military threat. So now it's back to deterrence, dominance, but it's...
2:13:51So it's from the economic side they're back to targeting China, which is interesting. And then, of course, always a cyber piece. So now with a new strategy, the government's changed. So we're not really focused on kind of one-upping the Chinese military. We're focused on economic-related things, which some of these are very, very good, but we still got to focus on the military. So it's, um, let's get rid of some of our dependence on China, right? Let's make stockpiles of rare earth minerals, for example. Let's find different supply routes for maybe AI infrastructure, telecommunications, those type of things.
2:14:28But yeah, so yeah, it's back to economic strategic competition. So that is a big change. I'm surprised not a lot of people picked up on it, actually. Man, I didn't know anything about that. Yeah, it was just in the last week or two. What we ought to be focused on is our power grid when it comes to China. And hopefully now - Strategic competition? The good thing about the shift in policy, if it's done in that way, then the focus should be not allowing China to have access to our grid or own ports of the port. So if they really do shift and focus on those things, it will be huge wins. It's just we haven't done that well strategic competition in the past.
2:15:14So I hope someone's going to change that. Because if we just go back to the way we used to do it, we were failing.
2:15:25Jan, I am surging in Africa. Yeah, I mean, as you can imagine. I haven't heard anything about this. What is this? Well, as you know, when everybody focuses one way, sorry, when everyone focuses one place on terrorism, it's just surging somewhere else, right? So JNIM is basically Al Qaeda's main affiliate in North Africa, if you ignore AQIM and Al Shabaab. So it's kind of equal to them, but it's a whole different group. And JNIM is really interesting because it doesn't need as much money as other terrorist groups. They make all their own income. They have gold mines. They actually have a tax infrastructure.
2:16:04People have to pay them for protection, almost like if you lived under a mafia. So what they've done is they've been really smart and they targeted what that kind of the collapsing governments in the weak states. So Mali, Burkina Faso, and then you saw we got kicked out in Niger. So they start now to kind of play around in Niger. So they're slowly having really massive gains in these locations into Al Qaeda. They're viewing it as the caliphate plan. You know, let's take Mali, let's take Burkina Faso. So, and it's been like a really successful initiative and nobody's paying attention to it. But also, it's very interesting.
2:16:42I want to say it was about four months ago, a very famous terrorist showed up in Burkina Faso. His name is Abu Muhammad al-Masri. We talked about him previously. He's the father-in-law of Hamza bin Laden, but he's a terrorist that I told you, the U.S. government believes he's dead. So the terrorists did this really interesting ruse. They fed misinformation to us, and Israel ended up carrying out an operation on him in Iran. And they teed up the assassination the terrorists did for the anniversary of the 1998 attack, so August 7th. So think about it. If you kill a terrorist on the exact anniversary of the attack, wouldn't you as a man with common sense be like, this seems too perfect?
2:17:29But our government never thought it. So our government has him as dead. So he's alive. So he's running these operations for JNIM from core al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, but he deployed and he's on the ground at Bakuna Faso, which is crazy. This is one of the most famous terrorists in the entire world. We aren't even targeting him. And that's why these operations are going so successfully, because he's running it. Like he was on the key masterminds of the 1998 plots. So it's just this frustrating thing. He also got put on and he's now the number two on the military commission for JNIM. But think about it.
2:18:04If you're a terrorist and you convince America you're dead, well, then no one's collecting on you. And Al-Qaeda has done this very, very successfully. I found this other famous terrorist recently. His name's Abu Jihad al-Masri. So you remember when there was the huge airline plot and then we all had to go to like the three ounce liquids? You know. So there was a terrorist that we went after for that. Rashid Ralph, okay? So he goes and he's hiding in Waziristan like everyone else, and we bomb him, and when we bomb him, everyone said, hey, we also killed this Abu Jihad al-Mazri, who was one of the heads of al-Qaeda's external operations.
2:18:40He didn't die, so that was, I don't know, 10, 15 years ago. So think about it. If you have a head of external operations, alive for a whole other decade, and you don't know what he's doing, what was he able to succeed at at that time? The government's not collecting on him. What's he been leading? Who's he been working with? Where has he been going? Some of these terrorists, it's really interesting. They have fake documents and they're getting on airplanes and they're traveling all over the Middle East. Some of the United States' top 10 terrorists. Like a really good example, his name is Hamza al-Ghamdi.
2:19:14So Hamza al-Ghamdi right now is the head of al-Qaeda's military commission, right? Pretty much. I mean, we were printing them passports. Yeah, well he's flying all over. So he is on the... Legend broke that, right? Yeah, he's on the most... Yeah, so that's one thing. Taliban's making these people passports. But just think about it. Head of Al-Qaeda's military commission, one of the top 10 most important terrorists in the world, is flying on airplanes. Nobody knows it's him. Like, that's how bad the system... So it's not even just that they're making all these passports for terrorists. The senior leaders are traveling around.
2:19:51No one's got a clue. So it's just a super frustrating thing. He used to be Bin Laden's bodyguard. Our government is missing everything. So they think people are dead who aren't. We got senior leaders flying first class around. We have groups meeting and our government doesn't even know the two groups even have a relationship. Like, terrorists have advanced why we ignored them. And we're really gonna be hit hard because of this.
2:20:21Somaliland. Yeah. So there's a... Obviously, everybody's talking about Somalia right now, but Somaliland was really interesting because they're not a recognized country, even though they should be. They're somewhat of a democracy. They follow our rules. They keep terrorism out. But Israel decided to recognize them, and then it became a big hoopla, right? Why do you think they decided to recognize them? Because where Somaliland is, it's super critical for trade, and it's a really great place to have a port. To be honest, we should have a port there, we should have a military base there. And Israel's not the only one.
2:20:59UAE's been trying to make the same deal, so the port matters for the region. I don't think they're gonna turn it into a beach town like Gaza. No, no, it's trade. Now, remember, Somalia is corrupt. Terrorists are getting close to taking over, and we can talk about that. and you have no guarantee if you have access to the port today, you're going to have access to the port six months from now if Al-Shabaab takes over. So you also, if you're a government, you have to start positioning for the next port location. So that's a huge problem. And you have to remember, in Somalia, Al-Shabaab actually runs some of the ports.
2:21:41So when you pay the port fees to go into that port, you're giving the money to Al-Qaeda. So our government can lie all they want about it, but you're funding a Terry's group by just using the port.
2:22:20So anyway, Somaliland is the best regional option, if you don't want to use Somalia. Because Somalia is a corrupt landscape, as we all know. But as we have been talking about, so Al-Qaeda... Can you use Yemen as well? You can use Yemen. I mean, I know it's infested, but... You would do both. You know, you could stop in Yemen and then you could stop in Somaliland, you know, if you're shipping or something. So I would prefer both if I was running things and making deals for my government, just FYI. Now, with Somalia, so for the whole last year, Al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab has had this operation to take Mogadishu.
2:22:59And they've done it very successfully, and nobody's talking about it. Remember the Hamza al-Ghamdi, who I told you has been traveling all around? He actually went there, I think it was like November 2024 now, made this whole operational plan. And so what they're doing is they're slowly moving in on Mogadishu from every direction, taking cities, taking roadways. So if you put a circle around Mogadishu and you're like, where's Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab, the closest point is 10 miles away and then it's about to 40 miles away. So they have encircled the city within 10 miles in some locations. Other locations, about 40.
2:23:33And so they're going to go in and take Mogadishu. And nobody's really being honest about this. So in about 2022 and 2023, there was huge operations against al-Shabaab, and they lost tons of land. In 2025, they regained everything they lost during those counterterrorism operations. So anyway, a lot of people are getting very, very nervous because, you know, locals on the ground are saying, oh, it's in within 90 days, who knows? Al-Qaeda's goal is to take it within 2026. It was a two-year plan. We're now going into the second year. But as you can imagine, a lot of stuff's happening. Even the government's freaking out on people in the government.
2:24:11So people in the government are literally starting to make deals with al-Shabaab. They're handing off money to them. So some of the money our government's giving to the Somali government is getting funneled and diverted to al-Shabaab because they're thinking about their future. If Al-Shabaab takes this over, if I don't start making a deal with them, I'm dead. So everybody's starting to think, what are we going to do if Al-Qaeda takes this country, sadly? And then people start to make deals and plans around it. It's a huge problem. Yeah, it sounds like it. Yeah. Oof! It's a mess. And then there's a whole other piece.
2:24:44Now, you know, we have like all this fraud in the United States. What fraud? Yeah, I know. And then, as you know, a lot of the remittances are going back to Somalia. A lot of people keep saying it's going to Al-Shabaab. It really isn't. Al-Shabaab is a multi-billion dollar organization. But it's going to these Somali clans and tribes and even militias. Well, none of them are designated terrorist organizations. So if you don't stop the money here, you're not stopping the money going there because there's no law enforcement or precedence. So it's a crazy thing. So we can't exactly stop the money in the Somalia angle.
2:25:22We really got to end fraud here to deal with this. Our money's just going to keep going there. I got news for you, Sarah. Never going to happen. I know. It's never going to happen. I mean, they build these government programs for fraud because also the people running them commit fraud against them. Sadly. Oh, fucking government's a fraud operation. I agree. Give me some of the craziest things that have happened to you over the past year. Oh, my gosh. That's a tough one. So, well, one of the funniest things is, so I have a friend from Iraq, and he reaches out to me one day, and he said, hey, did you know Hezbollah in Iraq has a bounty on you?
2:25:59And I was like, what? Because I know people after me. Al-Qaeda's after me. ISKP's after me. I was like, Hezbollah in Iraq? I still don't know why. And he said, yeah, but it's even funnier. So there's a bounty, but then they also have a deal. If you want to collect the bounty, you can come to Iraq and have citizenship in a certain province." I was like, wow, this is sounding more appealing to somebody. Because, you know, you got to make sure they're gonna pay you. So anyway, so the funny part is, by the end of the year, it kind of kept going like a lotto. And so it's now like$350 ,000. So Boone's been joking, like, when it hits up to a million, we might want to think about this.
2:26:38Like... Frauding it, frauding it, right? Because, yeah, so anyway, so I have this massive growing bounty, and if you want to live in Iraq, you can collect on it. So, I mean, it's kind of a nice perk. You don't seem worried. Well, I have worse people. Remember, the number two of Al-Qaeda's military commission is trying to kill me. I think that's a little worse than Hezbollah in Iraq. No offense, Hezbollah. So that was a funny thing. And then I was in an ISKP video, which was super funny. Can we see the clip? Yeah, I'll get it to you. Well, remember when I went on Chad's show, Robichaux? They took the clip of me talking, but because I'm a girl, I'm like, I'm like shaded out.
2:27:21So I had no idea it was an ISIS video. And then this investigator in Netherlands, Peter, reaches out and said, hey, you know, you're in an ISIS video. Because I never would have found it. My face is blurred out. But yeah, it's super funny. So the funny part is ISIS put the video out and they didn't know I was doing the operation. Remember I said I did a whole year investigation? So they put this video out with me in it, which legitimizes me. Think about it. And then, like, a few months later, I released my whole ISKP report. So anyway, they now do have, like, monthly updates on my information going out, so it's super funny.
2:27:53But thanks for legitimizing me, Issa. So that was a really funny one that occurred. And then, so I made an off-collar joke about India, and I got banned. Yeah, I saw that. So, I guess I'll do it again, but I don't know. I don't know if you want your YouTube channel banned, so maybe I don't repeat the joke. Tell me offline. Okay, I'll tell you offline. I don't want to get banned in India. Yeah, it was just a joke about their Air Force. But anyway, it wasn't even that bad of a joke. But anyway, so I made a joke, and that's all I did. And then I get a message from Twitter that India's Minister of Information, you know, the official title, has banned you in their country.
2:28:34So yeah, if you're in India, you can no longer see my content on X. Wait, okay, what was the joke? It was a joke about their Air Force and they banned you? Yeah, so India's been having a problem where they crash a lot of fighter jets or they come down. And I mean, it even happened in just an exhibition. So anyway, it's this joke. I'm sorry. So somebody was talking about Bagram and about U.S. coming and bombing Bagram. I said, we're not planning to do that, but there's a huge attack being planned in India. So India will likely in the future come and bomb Bagram as a retaliation if they don't crash their planes on the way.
2:29:19And that was my one joke. And that's the only thing that I said. So the funny thing is, I got banned in India for saying that they're going to try and crash a flight or ship. We're not much better. I mean, just look at Boeing. Yeah, we have Boeing. They're killing all the whistleblowers. And I talk all the time. The whistleblower shouldn't have said that. The whistleblowers are mysteriously dying. They're dying of unforeseen circumstances. Plus, I talk every day about Al-Qaeda taking down 12 airplanes in the United States. And I'm not banned in the United States. But yeah, so anyway. Yeah, but that was really, really, it was kind of funny because I was like, where did this come out of?
2:29:55So we had to go figure out because it said, we can't tell you why. And so I was like, I haven't even posted about India. And so, yeah, and then it was that. It was just an off-color joke. But keep your planes up. Man. And your phone got bugged. No, it wasn't bugged. You're on your way to getting banned. No, no, no, it wasn't bugged. I actually was gonna, so they were bugging me, but like bothering me. Oh, shit. I was gonna say, good thing. Don't send any rumors. Good thing we got you that Glacier phone. Yeah, good thing. No, so the thing is. So you mean annoying you. Yes, yeah. Okay. Well, the funny part is, so as you know, I've already told you I had these meetings with FBI, the Ryan Routh team, and then the January 6th expert and whomever.
2:30:42And then I always randomly have sent stuff to FBI's Benghazi team of rock stars. So FBI has perfect access to me. They've been to my house. But anyway, so in May, FBI shows up. I remember I was working at the Air Force, at my bosses in D.C., my bosses' bosses. Like, people who might not even know who I am, right? And they show up and they're like, oh, we're having an issue with Sarah Adams, we want you to pull her clearance. And so, it's my senior boss, and that senior boss literally is in charge of innovation, okay? Did you get your clearance pulled? No, my clearance didn't get pulled. So, I'll tell you, it's a funny story.
2:31:19I was gonna welcome you to the club. Yeah. No, so he's smart and pulls in a lawyer. So him and a lawyer sit down with the FBI, and they're concerned, of course, and they're like, can you tell us why? So they had nothing. They said, oh, we heard she said on a podcast she didn't share something with us. And my senior leader is like, I know this girl has shared so many things with the government, so it's funny. They come back to me after, and they're like, can you tell us every agency you shared with in the last year or two? And I went through, it was like 15 organizations in the US government I have shared information with in the last two years.
2:31:54So anyway, they had this whole meeting. FBI can't say anything clear to them. They're asking me to get my clearance pulled. My senior... So my senior leaders then tell my boss, and they're like, they're like, um, it seemed political. Like, does someone not like her? What's going on? And so my boss tells me, I'm like, it's gotta be Sebastian Gorka. Oh, man. I mean, who else? Who else is going to the FBI? Because remember, he was telling the National Security Council that I'm on drugs, that I'm putting out misinformation. He told them that Scott Mann was like a financial scammer. So he's made up all these weird rules.
2:32:30So yes, it was really funny. So I told my boss, that's the only thing I could think of. That guy just can't win. So I don't know if it's him. It could have been Patel too. Remember what he did to me with the Sam Shoemate thing? Yeah, yeah. He made it sound like we were making all this shit up. I know. It was a big psyop. And then the fucking... And then the FBI comes out and says the fucking email was real. I know. And then that Ryan McBeth dude, like I think he was an army intel analyst, apologizes to me and says, I fucked up. I was wrong. And Sebastian Gorka, what's his position again? Head of counterterrorism.
2:33:05Yeah, head of counterterrorism. Oh, now he's got a new job. And reposts a post of a man who apologized to me for being wrong. And that's who's running the counterterrorism center. No, but Sebastian Gorka has a new job I totally forgot. He's also the head of... You get promoted? He's the head of aviation threats against the US government or something like that. We got to put the tweet up. He tweets this shit out there to me like, I have a fucking psyop or some shit. Yeah, yeah. He posted this new job update on LinkedIn. Oh, we'll put this stuff up. So now I want to say for the record, I don't know for sure if this is Gorka, but Gorka did tell people I was on drugs, so that's a fact.
2:33:46So it still could be Patel, because he's so thin-skinned. You're such a drug addict. So yeah, I know, me. Holy shit. So anyway, so my bosses decided it was political, so they kind of left me alone on it. But it was really funny because they went overboard, like, oh, we should deal with stuff. So then they were like, oh, with your foreign contacts, you have to submit every foreign contact who's a dual national. So that was like some work. But anyway, so yeah, it was... So nothing came of it, but it was, like I said, FBI's DC office showed up at mine. I'm like, they know where my house is. They've been in my house.
2:34:25Why did they not just show up at my house? So it was, they were trying to like, shake me down a bit. Another thing is, is multiple times, FBI's try to come at me from different directions, as you can imagine, for our sources. Oh, I would imagine. Which we won't give them, because they'll get them killed, because they're idiots. But usually it's a ploy for our sources as well. Jeez. But anyway, yeah. So no, I didn't get my clearance pulled. But I don't even need it now, I work for the Sean Ryan Show! I know, right? I should get it pulled so we can do an episode on it. You gotta have a clearance to work here.
2:35:00No. Uh, this is my favorite thing in the outline, I think. Oh, no. You beat up a cop and some people at a hospital. What is that? See, this is the problem, people, when you get hired somewhere. So I got hired, and then you brought on someone to work in my team. She's my producer, Diana. So Diana's like, oh, I want to get to know you, which I never should have believed this. And she's like, film it. So, you know, film it and talk about yourself. And so it had all this stuff in it, so I bring up this story to her, and then now I have to talk about it, because I filmed it. Because even if I don't say it now, you're just gonna roll the clip.
2:35:39And so I don't trust you guys anymore. So now I gotta tell this story, because I told it to Diana, who I love. But, so, no. So I did meet up a cop, but it wasn't exactly illegal. So what was happening is, it was actually a medical problem. So I was at CIA. So this was maybe like when you're in CIA's like post-Osama bin Laden or before. So about three weeks after we captured Osama bin Laden. So we have a timeline. And so I'm at work, and I go to my boss and said, I'm feeling really weird, like my arm's not working, and my head feels strange, and she's like, oh, you need to go home. So I go home, and I'm at home, and then I'm feeling okay, and two hours later, like, parts of my body aren't even working.
2:36:20So I was like, I better go over to one of those clinic places. so I go to the clinic and the lady's like it sounds like you're having a stroke I'm like I'm not having a stroke and she's like well it's gonna be so she sends me to a hospital I spend four days there and they say it's not a stroke uh you were attacked by migraines I kid you not I gotta tell you one story though can I do a side story so okay so I won't say the hospital because I don't want you to get sued again so every time a FedEx letter shows up I I tell the team, like, oh, for shit, we're getting sued. You'll be sued. You'll be sued after this one.
2:36:54Yep, we're getting sued. You'll be sued after this one. So I was like, I'm just never going to go to the hospital again. Well, I'm doing my Benghazi investigation, okay? And there's this terrorist, and he's an al-Qaeda member, long-time member of al-Qaeda. He lives in Bosnia. He's Libyan. And he's the guy doing all the travel reservations to bring the terrorists that are injured in Libya to Europe. Because if you're injured in Libya and you're a terrorist, you're not going to go to the doctor. In Libya, you can go to France or Germany and go to get real medical care, because, you know, al-Qaeda and ISIS get these perks.
2:37:26So he flies al-Qaeda and ISIS members to Europe. So I did some looking into him, and as one of his brothers works for the Libyan government, his other brother works in that hospital. Holy shit. Yeah, his brother literally works in that hospital, who got me wrong, by the way. I said, I would not go to the hospital, I won't send him in. so anyway I go home it's a few days later and I decided to go to Target because nothing else to do in Northern Virginia so I go to Target and I'm actually talking to Boone because he's in Aden he's in Yemen right so I'm on the phone with him and all of a sudden I say to him I don't know where I am and he goes you're going to Target I said fundamentally I know I should know where I am but I have no clue he's like pull over so I pull over into like a business parking lot and So this is end of May, beginning of June, after Bin Laden.
2:38:18And I start doing snow angels in the parking lot. There's no snow. So someone in the office building sees me. Maybe Sebastian Gorka was right. No, no. I'll tell you, there's a policeman assessment coming along here. So I'm doing snow angels. Apparently, I don't remember any of this. I'll tell you the parts I remember. And then, so the cops get called, and this cop shows up who's squared away, because they thought maybe it was someone on drugs. He's like, she's definitely not on drugs. He can't control me, because I beat him up. So, he calls in backups, which is like some padded van. So I do remember this part.
2:38:53So I remember some people shoving me in a van, but that's all I remember. So in my head, I'm probably thinking it's like Terrace or something. So they shoved me in this van, and then they bring me to the local hospital, which is the county over from me. So luckily, it's not the hospital the Terrace brother works in. So they go to this hospital, and I beat up four people going into the hospital. So they end up putting me under and I had meningitis. Oof. Yeah. So I had Lyme's, and if you don't deal with Lyme's, they can become meningitis. This is something I learned, didn't know. And they didn't test for Lyme's in the county I lived in, but they figured this out.
2:39:29The next county does. So anyway, long story short. So I'm under for about two weeks, okay? So I come to, I get a visit, someone from my work comes to visit, my mom tells me who's visiting, and then people start stopping by. So I have no idea I beat up a cop or these orderlies. And so all these people start coming in who work in the hospital. I was super famous in the hospital. And they all come in and I find out they all rewatched me again and again on the surveillance video in the hospital beating people up. So they're all like, oh, you're famous here. We're all so happy you're okay. Oh, we all want to meet you.
2:40:01So everybody in the hospital wanted to meet me because I beat up all these people in the hospital. And they all watched the video. Oh, shit. Oh my god, it was so embarrassing. And then the other thing is, like, my mom didn't bring me bottoms, so I'm walking around the hospital, famous, with my butt hanging out everywhere. I'm like, Mom, like, I'm out of it. Put some boxers on me. So anyway, so... Oh, so no, it's even funnier. So my mom... So the cop takes my phone, and Boone is on it. And so Boone's like, I'm useless, I'm in Yemen. So he's like, call her mom. So the cop calls my mom and tells him I'm there.
2:40:37So my mom gets to Virginia and doesn't know how to get in my house. She literally calls the cop I beat up. Can you break me into my daughter's house? And he broke her in the back window. Holy shit. So good cop. Oh, man. The cop actually, later on when I came to, my doctor said the cop saved my life. I would have been dead within 30 minutes if he would have made a different decision, like brought me to the police station. So the funny part is, so I'm in the hospital like two weeks, and then I leave, but it's like a TBI. So I can't... I can think fine, but my body... So if I could say, grab the water, so I would say it, but my hand would not do it or something.
2:41:15So for two weeks, I'm like crawling up and down the stairs in my house, because I'm afraid to walk, because there'll be times the foot and knee don't do what it's supposed to. So I'm like home, I can't drive, and then I'm finally able to drive and stuff. So I go into CIA two weeks part-time. So this is where it even gets funnier. So I go in two weeks, and then I finally can go back full-time. I'm normal again. And so I go back in that week and they say, hey, we need to deploy people to Pakistan because after Bin Laden, you know, that's when they sent all those people home, we need volunteers for Pakistan.
2:41:47So of course I said, I'll go to Pakistan. So my boss then gets this thing that I volunteer for Pakistan. And she's like, dude, you were just gone three months. With meningitis, you're going to Pakistan? And she said, you can't go to Pakistan. You have a medical problem. I said, first off, my doctor was Pakistani, so I'll be just fine. And I said, and then I used the rules of CIA against her. Remember, the CIA, you go for your physical every, what is it, five years? And I said, I'm still in my physical window. You can't stop me from going. So then I deployed to Pakistan. Nice. Yeah, so I worked for a couple of weeks, and then I went to Pakistan.
2:42:22Yeah, it was crazy, so. Oh, shit, that's awesome. So yeah, I beat up a cop and did not get in trouble for it, and he broke into my house. I actually, if he's watching this, I'd like him to reach out to me, because I have no idea who he is. I hope he does. I'll bet that happens. Yeah, I'll come brief your department on the homeland threat. That would be cool. Yeah. All right, what's this Disney thing? Doing a Disney show or something? Oh, yeah. Well, it wasn't Disney. Disney pissed off. You know I worked at Disney in college. I didn't. Yeah, yeah, that was my job. I was like that annoying person when you walked in the gate and I took your family photo.
2:42:59Holy shit. That was me, man. Do you have any of those? I don't. Uh-uh, you're one of those people don't buy them. We went on commission, man! You're one of those people that don't buy them. Let's put me through college! So, no, so, um, gosh, maybe a year, year and a half ago now, I got reached, contacted, because there was a CIA series being put together, and it's called Inside CIA Secret and Lies. And it was going through a number of different CIA operations, and they were bringing the different CIA officers who worked them to explain to the public how the operations worked. So I got called about a terrorist named Moola Dadudalang.
2:43:36I think you know him. He was famous for anyone who worked in Afghanistan. So I'm in that episode. So I'm not like a star of the show or anything. So I'm in the episode on him, but it's really cool, because it's about the people who did it to spy ops, which I love spy ops. So anyway, that comes out the end of February, and Disney and Hulu picked it up, so it should be... That's awesome. ...airing on that. Yeah, so it'd be fun. The funny thing is, and I hope I make him... When did you say it comes out? I hope I make him worried. I think it's February 26th. It's super soon. Holy shit, that's awesome.
2:44:04Yeah, so the funny part is, so I'm in the episode for Moola Daduda Lang, but I'm actually working and targeting his son right now. Wow. So I wasn't doing it when I filmed it. So his son's name is Raybar, and his son is working on the U.S. homeland plot, because we killed his father. A lot of people are forgetting the second generation is coming after us. And there's, in Afghanistan, you know, there's like, core al-Qaeda, right? Like the bin Laden, the leadership. And then there's AQIS as the group that targets India. But then they made a whole new branch. It's called al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. And you know when you hear, I bet legend says it, like al-Qaeda's making all these camps in Panjshir.
2:44:43That's the element of al-Qaeda, building all the terrorist camps in Panjshir because they want to kill all the Tajiks and push them out and take Panjshir. But he's in that group of al-Qaeda, which is interesting. So we don't even... Our government doesn't even work on that branch of al-Qaeda yet. And it's been operational for years. um so anyway yeah so yeah i work against his son wow which is funny can't get rid of these people i'm almost 50 and i'm still working these fools so i'm gonna retire soon jeez oh man how's masood doing so i mean i've not heard anything out of the nrf well i mostly track on i'm really solid because he's the one that kind of puts out the intel side of things i'm less on the fighter side Now, there's two units on the ground in Afghanistan.
2:45:29So there's the NRF and then the Afghanistan Freedom Front, AFF. And they're the two that are like blowing up Taliban checkpoints and those type of things. So they have constant ongoing operations and they sometimes are doing joint. You might not, they might say this was NRF or AFF, but it might be a joint operation. So they're doing constant operations, but it's like one, two, five, six Taliban. It's not like they're hitting the GDI headquarters or something. So, they're still moving along, but as you can imagine, the resistance has to have some sort of external backing, even if it's like a Tajikistan.
2:46:04And it just doesn't happen because you cannot take on the Taliban with being backed by the US government. We give the Taliban so much money, so much legitimacy, no one's gonna take on the Taliban until we cut off the money. And they all know this. I mean, if they hit us in the home plan plot, and the Taliban takes credit,
2:46:31we would still fund them. Yeah, but they won't take credit. AQAP is going to take credit, and we're just going to carve it by Yemen. Yeah, but we'll still fund them. I mean, Hamas, all those leaders of Hamas, remember, they're like, this Hamas leader lives in Qatar, and he's worth$30 billion, and this one's worth$8 billion. They are worth that much money because U.S. government put that money into them. Like, it's like, guys, Hamas didn't make that money on their own. It's all money from the US government going into them. So it's a very frustrating thing. Like, I just wish... I want to stop every penny to Afghanistan.
2:47:05Because as you know, if you say, oh, I'm gonna stop this bucket, they'll be like, well, we gotta do humanitarian, we gotta do this. And once we hand them the money, we don't know where it goes. So that's why it has to be like a dead zero. Somalia's gotta be zero. Like, Gaza, zero. And now we're gonna invest in... Have you seen the Gaza plan? Looks like they're going to turn it into a resort. Yeah. Besides that, I mean, yeah. So when you look at the... There's a whole PowerPoint. I actually wish I had the numbers off to my top of my head. So there's one PowerPoint about how much it's going to cost.
2:47:37It's like billions. There's billions for security. There's billions to build the buildings. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But what I'm hearing out of terrorist circles... So our government... So in that briefing, I think Kushner, but also Whitcoff is saying it. They're saying, we're going to disarm Hamas in 100 days. Have you heard this? I've heard a lot of things. Okay. So this just recently came up. So we're going to disarm Hamas in 100 days. So there's chatter that at the 60-day mark, there's going to be a huge government press release and say, okay, Hamas, you have 60 days. Well, what they're doing behind the scenes is they're telling Hamas, hey, we're going to roll you into the security forces, into the military, thousands of you.
2:48:17So we're gonna pretend we took the weapons from Hamas and we're gonna make them the heads of the police and the heads of the military and they're gonna run all that in Libya like we did in Tripoli. So in Tripoli, in, I'm sorry, that was Gaza. In Tripoli and Libya, we did the exact same thing. We let Al-Qaeda take over all those institutions and lead them. So we're doing the exact same thing in Gaza. Hamas is gonna run the entire security sector and no one's being honest about it. So we're gonna tell American people we disarm them, it's peace. And we're gonna give them a nicer place, put billions of dollars of investment into them.
2:48:56And we're gonna make a terrorist group a thousand times more powerful. The whole thing was a real estate play, wasn't it? I mean, it's a whole lot of things. I mean, remember, we can't ignore the fact this was a planned Al-Qaeda Iranian attack. And remember, that was a dress rehearsal for the homeland attack. And I think everybody keeps forgetting that because this anti-Israel stuff. What they did in October 7th, they plan to do here worse. And we have to take that serious because Israel did not take any of this serious. They got some of the info, and I know some people who gave them info about the terrorist training in Afghanistan, but they thought it was a smaller incursion, one they could take care of.
2:49:38They never thought... You know what ended up being about 7 ,500 terrorists? that infiltrated at one time, 7 ,500. And we know we have 18 ,000 here. So we have a lot of Americans not taking that attack serious. When that was a first phase, and our homeland attack is another phase of this. And there's other phases, like India's after ours. But these are massive scale attacks being planned. And nobody is taking it to the terrorists because they're focused on the policy. They're talking about Israel. You know, it's like... I mean, when you see what happened there, it's pretty fucking bad. I mean, we spent a long time in war zones.
2:50:19I've never seen destruction like that. The entire fucking place is gone. They did the exact same thing. So that's how you got rid of Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Benghazi. Exact same operation Israel did. Israel did on a larger scale. You do neighborhood by neighborhood, you make them evacuate, and you go in. And this is unfortunately how you have to get the terrorists. We don't have the stomach to go after terrorists. that way. Is that how they're gonna do it here? So, who? Take it neighborhood by neighborhood, evacuate everybody and just decimate the whole fucking country? I'm just telling you. I'm all about killing terrorists, Sarah.
2:50:53There's a lot of misinformation coming out of Gaza. A ton of those videos are from Syria. Remember, I work Syria. A ton of Gaza videos I've seen. I'm like, guys, this is Syria. 2012, 2013, 2014. There is a lot of misinformation out of Gaza. There's a ton of misinformation currently out of Syria. So, you also have to really be careful with this misinformation especially those numbers are not, there is not 60 ,000 children killed. So we have to be honest about who's also feeding us misinformation because that benefits the terrorists. Remember, the only people winning in all this is the terrorists.
2:51:26Hamas is getting more, Muslim Brotherhood is getting more popular, Al-Qaeda got Syria, Taliban got Afghanistan. Every year the people winning are the terrorists, and nobody's talking about it, they're talking about Israel. Even if you're right, even if you're right, We're not a serious country because we're fucking paying the terrorists. So you can't tell me that going and carpet bombing fucking Gaza is going to solve shit when we're sitting here. I mean, that's where the flag came from, from legend. $87 million a week to the fucking Taliban. How much to Somalia? Like, all these, like, we can't just go in there and fucking carpet bomb everybody.
2:52:01Right, but they - Like, we're not even being serious. We're not even being serious. We're still fucking paying these people to kill us. I know, but at the end of the day, you also... So, if you're American, they say you can't go into Afghanistan after 9-11, like, who are you to say Israel can't go in and hunt down... 7 ,500 terrorists are very hard to find. Like, who are you to say you can't go in and get the people who did this to you? Like, that's another issue. Like, we can't be... Like, we can't on one side do what we want and then be the morality police on the other side, because we don't like the person doing it.
2:52:33I had this problem so much as you can imagine in Libya. Because remember, the person who went after my attackers is a warlord. According to the press. He's not. He loves his country, he's a patriot to his country, General Hoftar. Well, General Hoftar went in heavy, obviously trying not to kill civilians, but he went in heavy on those terrorists, and there's people who have him up for war crimes for it. Well, I don't think he committed one damn war crime, right? He was very effective. His city was controlled by terrorist groups, and now there's not even an indoctrination camp in the entire city.
2:53:07That's how successful he was. But in the ICC, he's got charges for war crimes. So that's what I'm saying. Everybody has a different view of how this is done, and everybody says their way is better, but there's only very few victories. He's a victory. So what do you call that then? Because honestly, at the end of the day, the thing I care about most with terrorists is you don't get the second and third generation. In Benghazi, we don't have to worry now there's a second or third generation. He ended that. We're not ending that. Afghanistan, second generation is a thousand times bigger than the first generation.
2:53:41We're screwed with what's coming out of Afghanistan. We are so screwed what's coming. It's so much bigger than it was on 9-11. That's a good point. So you have to sometimes do things with a heavy hand. Now, with Hamas, you can't do with a heavy hand because half the international community supports them, backs them, finances them, funds them. Remember, Hamas has been... And you're saying we're putting them in charge of shit. Well, also, Hamas has been reestablishing in a dozen camps in Afghanistan. So they're in Afghanistan camps, training. No one's bombing them. So the problem with Hamas is they get so much support from the international community.
2:54:13They're only going to be stronger and more powerful. Like, we're not going to be able to get rid of Hamas because there's so many. Even the fact that you're saying, you know, like, it's just, when in there, we did that, we decimated the place. In your mind, it's justified. Because it's not as decimated as you think. A lot of that isn't. So we go in there, we do this shit, we fuck all these kids up, and innocent people, and then we put the people that we went in to go kill and destroy that did October 7th in charge of the place. That's what we do. So what, so we can do it again? Yeah. Was that fucking on purpose so we can go do it again?
2:54:52The problem is, a lot of our government is pro-Islamist. I know it's a bad way to say it, pro-Muslim Brotherhood. And as long as Muslim Brotherhood puts money in the pockets of our politicians, we're always going to have these deals. You've got to remember, these kids in Gaza, Hamas took over in 2006. Their entire education system is terrorist training. Like, the second and third generation in Palestine, you're screwed already. Like, did you see any plans from Kushner then for deradicalization programs? Zero. Like, we have people making decisions on what to do in these places that don't even understand terrorism.
2:55:30They don't even understand the people there and what's gonna happen and what they're gonna do. That's why Egypt, Jordan don't want to. They don't give a fuck because it's beachfront property. It's about money. Yeah. It's Ali. Remember, the terrorism fight made people a ton of money. We were done in Afghanistan in two months. We should have pulled out of Afghanistan two months later. We were done. We toppled the Afghan government. Bin Laden moved to Pakistan. There was zero reason to stay in Afghanistan one more day later, but it made people a lot of money. All right. I got you something I forgot to give you.
2:56:07You got me something. Yeah, yeah. What's this? I don't recognize this bag. That's right, something new. Ah, you know, someone made a comment in one of my posts about s'mores and I thought it was code. I was like, I don't know what the Sean Ryan s'mores are. So I'm not gonna respond. I'm trying it. Oh, wait. It's like crack. Oh, I went for Sean Ryan now. I can have drugs. So, you know what's funny? For my birthday one year, I went to Peru and did the whole Machu Picchu thing. And they give you a drink, and I didn't know the drink was like cocaine or whatever. So I did have cocaine when I was at the CIA, but not purposefully.
2:56:50Oh, shit. What do you think about this Havana Syndrome stuff? I'm not very concerned. Hmm. This is good. I think one of your interviews got hit with Havana Syndrome. Do you know about that? We'll do that off record. Say that again? One of your interviews. Oh, yeah, that Mark... No, no, no. Not Mark. One of your actual interviews. The one you did in Vienna. I think you guys got hit by Havana Syndrome. Why do you think that? I'll tell you off record by someone in your crew that I thought got hit on the team. Someone in my crew? Someone with you then, when you did Masood. I think it was a target on Masood.
2:57:26Anyway, Havana Syndrome's real. Very concerning. As you saw, the oldest person with Havana Syndrome just died. Oh, I didn't see that. Oh, yeah, he died like a week ago. He's had it since the late 90s. Holy shit. Yeah. So, um... Did you always think this was a real thing? 100%. No shit. Because I know people with Havana Syndrome. And the thing is, you have to remember, Havana Syndrome isn't something that just affects everybody. It's targeted at the best and brightest in our government, and it's only really been targeted certain places, right? We got Cuba, Vienna, um... DC. DC. And I've always thought it was Russia.
2:58:08You know, even when I went... Remember how I worked at the airlines for a few years? I went and worked JetBlue, and JetBlue was using one of the hotels that I knew agency people were targeting. And I told them, I said, I believe in Havana syndrome. I'm very concerned about this. I don't want any of your crew members being targeted, being near them. And they actually banned the hotel from use. So they listened to me and cared and don't put their people in that hotel, which is what everybody should do. You should care about your people. Our government is not caring about their people, and they're putting them back in these environments, and then someone else gets hit with it, and someone else gets hit with it.
2:58:40Sir, if you want to know what the government thinks about our people, just look at the veteran population. I know. So I'm very concerned about Havana syndrome because, like I said, it's so easy to take out the best people that way. And there's no repercussions. Our government's never done anything against Russia for it. I thought it was always questionable, and then this Venezuela thing, would Trump call it the discombobulator or something? The discombobulator. Yeah, I don't know if the discombobulator is Havana syndrome Because remember, we have things like... Sounds like an energy weapon, though.
2:59:10Well, we have super high-frequency things. You know, like, I don't know, if someone tries to go maybe on a nuke base or something. You know, we have the super high things, and then you could use on a crowd, too, protesters, and then they can't move. Yeah, I mean, a lot of the... When I did the anti-piracy shit... Those things. The poor Brits that were on other ships, we had guns. They have, like, little satellite things that'll blast you with a sound wave. Yeah. That didn't work well for him back then. Yeah, so the sound waves have always existed in some form. I mean, did Trump use Havana Syndrome?
2:59:43Who knows? But it's... most of the community believes it exists. The problem is, is the CIA has not given up a lot of the information they know about it. There's not like a joint community effort to really solve it. And because the government hasn't wanted to be honest about it, I swear sometimes I think it's so they don't have to pay people. It's like, it just continues. So you have to worry. I had a friend decide not to go to Vienna, because they're like, I don't want to go serve there for two years and risk Kavana syndrome. So it's a frustrating thing, too, because I know people who left the CIA because they didn't want to risk Kavana syndrome.
3:00:20I know people in the CIA who their whole life and career was ended because they had it. Wow. Because it affects your central nervous system. And if it's really extreme, like you can't really think, you have trouble trying to talking and walking, Like, people are in disability from it. Did the guy die from Havana Syndrome? Yeah. That's a... So, the problem is, with Havana Syndrome, it'll then affect you in other ways. It gives you cancers and stuff like that. And I think he died from one of the cancers from his Havana Syndrome. Holy shit. So, um, and that's a whole other thing. How many cancers we have in the military and the CIA?
3:00:56I mean, it's astronomical if anyone sat down and put it together. And then what's the... Where did all the cancers come from? Because the percentage is much more higher than the normal Americans living in their towns. Oh, I remember being in Kabul in the wintertime. And, you know, they'd burn tires and shit and anything they could find to keep warm. And I remember just spitting in my sink and my spit was great. Yeah. And I was like, I can't fucking believe it. I know tons of people who's dead from cancer and I'm in my 40s. And they're in their 40s. Oh, man. And we had a younger CIA girl die. She was like my age.
3:01:36I don't know her, but she's friends with another friend. She died of Havana Syndrome, I think, last year. Holy shit. I didn't realize people were dying from this. Yep, yep, yeah. Fuck, man. Are you going to do an episode on that? I can do an episode on Havana Syndrome. I'd love to. That would be interesting. We've got one coming up pretty soon that's going to be really good. Oh, you're bringing someone on who has it? Okay, good, good. Yep. but um well sarah as always fascinating interview uh unfortunately fucking enraging too but man um thank you for coming thank you for all the info and uh we'll be watching the watch floor so cheers
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For years, Sarah Adams has worked where threat warnings begin, not where they end.
She is a targeting officer and global threat advisor with deep expertise in counterterrorism, threat network analysis, and overseas intelligence operations. Sarah served in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Counterterrorism Center, as well as in the Near East and Iran Operations Divisions, working complex operations against both state and non-state adversaries.
Her deployed field work spans Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Across those theaters, her focus has remained consistent: identifying, assessing, and disrupting terrorist networks, hostile state activity, and emerging threats to United States and allied interests.
After leaving the CIA, Sarah served as a Senior Advisor to the United States House of Representatives following an executive appointment from the Agency, applying operational experience directly to national security policy, oversight, and accountability. She later led research and development initiatives for the Department of Defense, advancing innovation, tradecraft modernization, and intelligence capabilities with enterprise-level impact.
She was deployed to Libya in 2012 and is the co-author of Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy, a cold-case, open-source investigation that identified the al-Qaeda operatives responsible for the attack on the U.S. Mission Compound and CIA Annex in Benghazi.
Today, Sarah is the host of The Watch Floor at Vigilance Elite, a podcast focused on emerging threats, global affairs, and homeland security risks for everyday audiences. The Watch Floor delivers need-to-know insights, explaining what matters, why it matters, and what comes next.
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