Judging Freedom - Leaked Docs - What_s the Truth_ - Larry Johnson

Episode Date: April 13, 2023

Hi everyone, Judge Andrew documents prepared by and for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his team is in fact a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman from Fort Bragg or Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and that this was originally shared amongst a group of teenage gamers, of all things. Is this even remotely credible? No, no. It's a lie. It's fabrication. The Washington Post, this first surfaced with a cat, Bellingcat. Bellingcat is a front for the British intelligence. That's where the story first surfaced Washington Post then picks it up And the Guardian then picks it up

All on the same day So this is a coordinated media strategy This is a disinformation campaign The documents are real I'm not saying that the documents are fabrications They are not But this cover story that's been manufactured To explain how these documents came to be produced, it just falls apart.

It most simply falls apart based upon one document in that mix, which is listed as CIA Operations Center report, top secret. I worked in the CIA Operations Center. I helped prepare those reports. That's an internal CIA document. No one on a U.S. military base anywhere in the world will have access to that kind of document for starters. Who or what is spreading the misinformation? Is this CIA feeding garbage to their friends in the American and British media? I'd put it above the CIA. This is elements connected to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, because that's the one place where you can bring together CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, all the key elements. They are the one place in the U.S. government where you can

assemble all this material. And the way this thing was so neatly packaged up, you know, until I saw that CIA document, I was inclined to believe that this was simply the act of a whistleblower wanting to flag the problems about the public discrepancy between what Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, and Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the lies they were telling in public as opposed to the actual reality of what they were being briefed on in top secret briefings every day. How embarrassed is the Biden White House, the Pentagon, and Langley CIA over these leaks? Some are embarrassed and horrified by it, but I think the strategy that's underway is this information was leaked with a variety of purposes to prepare the U.S. public for the crash landing that's going

to take place with respect to U.S. foreign policy, the crash landing in Ukraine, the crash landing in China. In fact, we're already seeing elements of just the, if you call it that. Are you saying this was a controlled leak done by management, not done by some Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning type. Yeah, by some elements within management who thought this was a good idea. I mean, this shows how both unprofessional and ridiculous it is, I mean, and dangerous. The information that was leaked about Israel, part of that comes from a FISA. It's got a FISA classification on it, which that doesn't necessarily mean this is Department of Justice FBI territory. So again, there's no way that some National Guardsman who's doing TDY at Fort Bragg would have access to that. And I'm not basing that upon what happened to me 40 years ago.

For 23 years, up until about three years ago, I worked in these skiffs, and I still have friends that do who are retired CIA and retired NSA and retired FBI, and I talked to them, and they're still seeing the material. None of them, none of them have seen anything like this, particularly that CIA Operations Center document or the FISA document. They have complete access to the high side, the top secret side. They have special access program SAP clearances. So that's why I say this thing is too tidy a package.

This has been wrapped up nice and neatly. This is like an episode of Law & Order, organized crime. All right. Speaking of organized crime, let me run an analysis of why the FBI is above. This is Tony Schaefer, who has not as much experience as you, but a good deal, who pretty much agrees with the arguments you and Doug McGregor and Ray McGovern and I have been making. Here's Tony's analysis about why the investigation is being done by the FBI rather than by the DOD itself. I mean, maybe you're going to say even the investigation is a fake, but here's what Tony

had to say. I'm anxious to hear your opinion on this, Gary. Remember who's investigating. The FBI will basically report whatever it's told. Think about that. That's maybe why they don't want DOD investigators coming in because they want to control the narrative. The FBI, as you know, Judge, is not an honest investigative organization. I know, but Lloyd Austin would have more control over DOD investigators than he would over FBI investigators. No, it's not about DOD. It's about the White House trying to control the narrative, Judge. That's what's going on. You got it.

Who benefits? Who benefits? Who benefits from the FBI coming in? The White House. Who benefits from information being investigated, but no one being found guilty? The White House. This is a fascinating analysis. What do you think, Larry? Well, I'm not clear that the DOD is not investigating, but you have to understand, well, you do understand the different authorities. DOD does not have the power to arrest. They're not 1811s. So the FBI will play a role in

that and they will have the lead role for arresting somebody that is found guilty of violating U.S. law. I mean, that's part of the reason the FBI is involved. But I guarantee you that both from DOD and from CIA and the Office of Director of National Intelligence, they're all, quote, involved in this leak and order to cushion the blow, because as you and I know, and everybody watching and listening to us now, Biden doesn't have a safe off-ramp from his dalliance with Ukraine. If the leaker is really somebody in April Haynes' office, she's the DNI, the Director of National Intelligence, then nobody is going to be charged. Right.

And I don't think this was not a whistleblower-type leak. This was an intelligence operation-type leak. And, yes, they put out some damaging information. They put out information that in some areas clearly would appear to compromise some U. Judge, I've searched the Internet. I've been able to see about 12. So they keep saying, oh, there's 50. No, there's 100. Oh, Washington Post says there's 300.

I'd find anybody out there listening to you to go find those documents and provide a link where they exist. They do not exist. That's part of the storyline that's being put out. And they're trying to create this entire backstory that this was a bunch of right-wing, anti-Semitic, racist gamers. And that this is the crime of white people. You know, they're playing that card. That's the other thing that lets you know that this is a controlled operation. In furtherance

of that controlled operation, the Washington Post reports that, and it doesn't say how it found this kid, it found one of the teenagers in the gamer group and it interviewed him. And because of his age age it secured permission

from his parents we have the same clip of the interview that the washington post made available presumably there's a lot more you don't hear or see the washington post reporter asking questions you see the young man's answers at one point he refers to, which is either the true initials of whoever they want us to believe the leaker is or is an acronym for the nom de guerre. You know, these people have all kinds of crazy names that they use when they're on the Internet. I don't know exactly what OG stands for, but you'll hear the young man say it. Let's take a look and a listen at this interview. I want your thoughts on this. And the question I'm going to ask you as soon as it's over is, Larry, is this, don't answer it yet. Larry, is this real or is it faked? Gary. I would not call OG a whistleblower in the slightest.

I don't think that there was a goal nor some sort of accomplishment that he was looking for in sharing these documents. Of course, there's some anti-government sentiment, but that's not unlike most right-wingers in the modern day and age. O.G. was not hostile to the U.S. government. However, he had disagreed with several occasions, such as Waco and Ruby Ridge, and thought that the government is overreaching in several aspects. There was no heavy Snowden-like conspiracy here, like some people may believe. People were reading them and they were not commenting on them. They were just sitting there. He is not a Russian operative. He is not a Ukrainian operative.

I'll go as far to say he's not even on the east side of the world. Any claims that he is a Russian operative or pro-Russian is categorically false. He is not interested in helping any foreign agencies with their attack on the U.S. or other countries. He was a young, charismatic man who loved nature, God, who loved shooting guns and racing cars. It would appear as if he sort of grew angry with the fact that only one or two people were paying attention to these documents that he was pouring his heart out into. And as a sign of just anger, he just decided to post the full documents. He was a very smart man. There's no way in any world that he would not know that he knew that these were illegal. Larry, is this real or is it faked?

I hope the two actors they had doing that had their screen actors' cards up to date. I mean, Judge, how did they find these guys and find them so quickly? And the Washington Post found them before the FBI could? The way this works is somebody within, let's call it the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, related to either FBI, CIA, DOD, called up the Washington Post and fed them this story and gave them the kids' names. And these kids, you know, we'll find out someday who they really are and what their backstory is. But, you know, they've been enlisted in this.

Maybe they were fed this as a storyline and genuinely believe it. Maybe it was set up where these documents were posted on a military base would have access to that. And I'm speaking of that from CIA personnel I know that have clearances, that have access to high side machines, that cannot get that because that's an internal CIA document. That's not circulated for the rest of the intelligence community to look at. The reason that's prepared, I used to do it, is you're reading all the intelligence that comes in overnight and you write up a summary of what some of the key issues are, and you do it in a paragraph form, which is exactly what that document is. So when the analysts,

say for like, I sat on the Latin American desk, when the analysts from Latin America come in, they'll see immediately what were some of the high items that came in overnight. Could a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman conceivably have had the lawful appropriate security clearance physically to have had these documents? No, no, impossible. That would mean that even by this theory, he had to have gotten them from somebody else. Yeah, exactly. Everybody in the military, just because you joined the military doesn't mean you get a top secret clearance. And the elements that were contained in some of these documents are beyond secret and top secret. They get into what's called special compartmented information. get into you see designations such as tk

and si and g and those refer to special categories of classification so it means you really have a higher access than just mere top secret and i'd venture to say like 98 of the military does not have access to that kind of material it's a a very, very, very small number within the entire U.S. military that would have access to that. If this was a controlled, management-directed, politically motivated, let's save Joe Biden by preparing for the crash landing leak. Will anybody prosecute or will they find a fall person? I'm sure they'll find a scapegoat. You know, a week ago I would have said,

no, I don't think that's what's going on because some of the material is so sensitive. But now based upon the additional material I've seen and this neatly wrapped up story that is broken by the Washington Post and the Guardian. Again, simultaneously, one in England and one in the United States, this is an intel operation, pure and simple. All right, switching gears. Our friend, a man whose work you and I and most folks watching us now admire, Cy Hirsch, reports that the CIA is aware of Ukrainian officials

skimming U.S. aid and that the skimmer in chief is President Zelensky himself. Is this likely true? Is it believable? Very believable. I think the real key element in the size story is the fact that the Ukrainians are buying the oil from the Russians. Can you say that again? Yeah, the Ukrainians are buying the oil from the Russians, which means they're sending U.S. taxpayer dollars back to Russia. So the Russians in this case are operating like the loan shark and the Ukrainians are the guy that needs to borrow at the 25% VIG so that they can pay their gambling debt. Why would Putin allow Russian oil companies, we're not talking about a gas station, so this must be huge quantities of oil. Why would he allow this transaction? Doesn't he want to

starve out the Ukrainian military? He does want to do that, but this is, you know, this is a way that Russia can further weaken Ukraine. Just the simple fact that they're having to buy it from Russia. They don't have another source and they're taking U.S. taxpayer money in the process. I mean, there's some real sweet irony in that as far as the Russians are concerned. So the report by Cy Hirsch says that Bill Burns, the head of the CIA, the last time he visited President Zelensky, which was about three or four weeks ago, if memory serves me correctly, complained that the CIA identified about 35 generals who were skimming. And of course, it told President Zelensky what the CIA knew about

his own skimming. Within about 24 hours, 10 of those generals were sacked. The others are still there and continued the skimming. This is American taxpayer dollars. Rand Paul in the Senate and Thomas Massey in the House proposed an inspector general who would actually receive the cash and put it in a Ukrainian bank. I don't know how they actually get the cash. I don't know how the money gets there. But Senator Paul and Congressman Massey's proposals weren't even permitted to be voted on in the Congress, so the money just goes there. How does cash get from Washington to Kiev? Is it wired or do they have greenbacks in a cargo plane like they did in Iraq and they physically fly the cash over there?

Well, both ways is how it's done. It depends if it's CIA money or DOD money. But the flow of the cash can't be – it's going to go from bank to bank, and you can track it and monitor it. Remember, CBS 60 Minutes was reporting on this a year ago, that there was this diversion, significant diversion of U.S. equipment. They estimated only 30 percent was getting to the frontline troops. So this is not really new.

I think what Cy was highlighting, though, is that there are elements within the intelligence and military communities that are just completely disgusted with the Biden administration, the incompetence of Jake Sullivan, incompetence of Blinken. And they're trying to put the word out, which also may help explain, be another source for this information, this controlled leak that has been, that has taken place that we were talking about at the outset. So these are not, what Sai's writing about and the leaks, these are not unrelated. These are all different threads of the total fabric. What is the probability that President Biden is aware of all this? The controlled leak, the absurd explanation for the leak, the missing 400 million, the graft in Ukraine,

the president as the grafter in chief. Does old Joe know this? If he did, he forgot it. He's not running the show. I mean, he's not running the show here. This is the elements that are connected to the Blinkens and the Clintons. I believe personally that the Clintons are involved. Because when you look at the heritage of the Jake Sullivans and the Anthony Blinkens, they always go back to a Clinton foundation, to a Clinton reality. But this is, you know, you've got institutions in Washington that have been dependent upon the war machine. And that's what got Donald Trump into trouble.

He tried to stop, slow down that war machine. And that's one of the reasons they've been going after him and trying to get rid of him. So here we are now where the wheels are coming off. You know, the United States has thrown everything it has short of nuclear weapons at Russia, and we haven't stopped them. Instead, the opposite has happened. Russia and China have united, and they're working together. They're bringing about peace in the Middle East and key areas, Yemen, Syria. So the

United States, what we once had as control, is slipping away. And I think that overall, these leaks is a symptom of desperation. That's what's driving it. But within it, part of their desperation is they put out such a silly story to claim that a 21-year-old National Guardsman from Oklahoma or Kansas who was TDY temporarily assigned to duty at Fort Bragg was able to get some of the highest classified material out of the skiff when he wouldn't even hold the clearances to get into the building? Please. Larry Johnson, always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you very much for your time and for your analysis today. Thanks, Judge. Wow. If you like all this, like and subscribe. Colonel McGregor at three o'clock

Eastern this afternoon. As you know, more as we get it, Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.