The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Sean Cahill & Sharyl Attkisson | 6/30/21
Episode Date: June 30, 2021Pat Gray joins to talk about the latest fugitive finally charged: a 69-year-old grandma who entered the Capitol on January 6. Climate protesters, including AOC and the Squad, blockaded the White House.... UAP witness Sean Cahill joins to discuss the newly released UFO report and explain what he’s personally seen. Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson joins to review the NSA allegedly spying on Tucker Carlson and how the government could smear anybody it doesn’t like with the power it has. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to the podcast today. We talk a little about, we've got a bunch of stuff going on today.
Is it the end of the Me Too movement? They may have reached the logical conclusion here.
We have a guy talking about UFOs and this report that has just come out from the government, Tucker Carlson, who is talking about being spied on about the NSA, by the NSA, excuse me.
We're going to go into his story and talk to someone Cheryl Akison who's also dealt with a,
similar type of thing.
And we talk about Glenn's new escapade.
He's got a vacation coming up and he's doing a car show.
We will tell you where it is and we will make fun of his car,
which is actually really cool, but I don't want to tell him that.
So here's the podcast.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
And the FBI and their race team, racing into action.
My gosh, they are just solving crimes and protecting the American people like
nobody's business.
Yes, they have finally tracked down
the notorious
Louise Lynn McNichol, or is it just Lois?
I think it may be Lois.
Lois McNickle.
Oh, man, when you hear the name Lois,
don't you think just young activist, right?
Well, apparently Lois,
the 69-year-old grandmother from Los Angeles,
was arrested yesterday and charged in connection to the January 6th breach of the U.S. Capitol.
Now, Lois, 69 years old.
Lois and her gang, Adeline, Myrtle, and Clara are just radical insurrectionists.
And Beatrice, don't even get me started on Beatrice.
You know what I'm saying?
These people are out of control.
You know what they did, right?
But she, hmm, you know what they did?
What?
They, Myrtle and the clan.
Yeah, Myrtle and Lois, both.
Mm-hmm.
Entered the Capitol.
Yeah, but they did it and Olive had the intent to walk around.
And when you've got Myrtle, Lois, Olive, Esther, Mabel, Gertrude, you know, Vera.
Gertrude.
Wait, wait.
maybe we shouldn't walk around
but Myrtle said, no,
we're walking around.
And we're going to do it for 10 minutes.
But Olive was like,
my hip hurts.
And Myrtle was saying to Adeline,
Adeline,
I know you just have all those gastronal and testinal problems,
but we got to walk.
We got to keep you walking.
And that says nothing about what Agnes was doing this entire time,
by the way.
Well, and Agnes,
don't let's not forget,
Agnes battles with
irritable bowel syndrome.
Right.
And so she was in the bathroom
for the entire time,
but inside the Capitol.
But in the Capitol building.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
Well, Hazel,
Hazel was helping Myrtle
because Myrtle has a touch of dementia.
And so Hazel is right there to say,
no,
no,
no,
but this is a,
a dangerous gang. This is the second
grandmother in this
FBI
roundup to stop
these dangerous insurrectionists.
And when I think of all
of the resolutions
revolutions around the world that were started
by unarmed grandmothers,
if I started down
naming them, I wouldn't be finished
until after July 4th.
Right? 24-7, I could just
name Myrtle
Ethel. It was
Adeline that started, of course,
the revolution in France.
Why do you think they call it Mertl Beach? How do you think it was
taken over? Amen,
brother. A stormed the beaches.
A stormed the beaches. A bunch of murders.
A stormed the beaches. That's how that town started.
Not a lot of people know that. Not a lot of people know that.
I couldn't sleep until last night after they
put her away. After they put her away.
after they put Lois away.
Then I finally got my first good night's sleep since January 6th.
No, she's out on the streets.
She is out on the streets.
No.
Yeah.
She posted Bond?
Let me.
Oh, my.
Yeah, let me.
No, listen, it's worse than that.
Oh, no.
49-year-old, unarmed grandmother of five was presiding in Indiana.
I don't know where she was present.
But anyway, uh, she was, uh, she was,
for the for the uh the uh the breach the insurrection in the u.s.
capital and she was the uh second now to be sentenced uh and she she could have
faced time in prison but she said that she was really sorry about what she did that
she said I didn't I didn't know I was breaking the law and gosh I wouldn't want to be
involved in now this is this is what people like Clara say
the time.
Gosh, I certainly wouldn't have been in the capital doing something that I didn't think
I was supposed to do.
These people make me sick.
So, she said, quote, I would have never been there.
I had a clue that it was going to turn out the way it did because it was never my intent
of being part of anything that's so disgraceful to the American people.
Wow.
Well, you would be, you would rest well.
like Stu and Pat, if you didn't know that she's back on the streets today.
Oh, no.
The attorney, no, the attorney had her read books like, bury my heart at wounded knee.
She also had to watch Netflix mudbound and documentaries, slavery by another name,
and Tulsa Burning, the 1921 race massacre.
And that was part of the deal that she could go free.
Hmm?
What? I hadn't read that part of it. Is that true? They had her watch the Tulsa riot thing.
Barry my heart at Wounded Knee.
Okay.
Netflix mudbound, documentary slavery by another name and Tulsa Burning the 1921 race massacre.
What did he do about why?
What did that have to do with anything? What did that have to do with the January 6th incident?
Oh my gosh, Stu, I'm not going to be able to sleep at night knowing that Pat is free.
he's free to
gather now with
Olive and Hermina
Oh my gosh
Well we only brought him on the air today
Knowing that in behind him
The forces are gathering to put him in prison
He's he's not facing the door
So they can kind of walk in as a giant squad
And arrest Pat
And haul him off so that we can get good night's sleep
Because of his obvious support of the January 6th instance
By the way
Pat how many grandchildren do you have
now how are they doing i have 10 they doing i have 10 you have 10 great which uh 10 grand children
yeah makes him a danger all ready you the day he gets a walker look out america
look out yeah now uh i want to i want to just share with you um yesterday the secret service
had to arrest dozens of of youth uh and they were there's no problem uh these guys uh 500 people
blockaded or blocked every entrance to the White House.
They demanded a fully funded civilian climate corps be put back into the infrastructure bill.
They marched to the White House, blocked the entrances, send a message to Biden that no climate, no deal.
They want that human infrastructure in there, the free college, free universal child care.
AOC was there.
She was among the attendees telling the crowd that politicians can't break this promise to us anymore.
They're setting up a world where they don't have to live in it.
That's why this matters.
That's why we fight.
And as a result of your hard work, we have folks in the Senate.
We have folks in the House, not just me, not just like they say a tiny group of the squad.
We have critical mass of people saying, no climate, no deal.
So they were arrested.
Some of those were arrested.
But they were just given a glass of warm milk and sent home.
Their parents were called.
And they said, hey, we appreciate the activism that these kids are learning in school.
And we're proud of them.
So they'll probably be back.
And you know, it's weird.
This is a Soros group.
This is the sunrise movement.
And the sunrise movement is a radical environment.
environmentalist group funded by George Soros.
Now, what did Ethel and Lois and Myrtle and Olive do, Pat?
I mean, really, what did they do?
What was the worst thing that you remember from, I mean, besides, you know, people being
shot, you know, not the people that were protesting.
Right.
Well, they were the one shot, but the ones doing the shooting were the Capitol Police.
one of the worst images that I saw was they took over Nancy Pelosi's office.
Yes.
Their feet up on the desk.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
Really disgraceful.
Yeah.
Not an insurrection, but really disgraceful.
Yes.
You know, it's weird.
The sunrise movement, November 30th, 2018, 51 people took her office and camped out in her office.
office and 51 people were arrested from the sunrise movement doing the same thing,
uh,
which is weird,
uh,
that we haven't really heard of that.
Yeah,
that didn't seem like a day that almost ended our democracy.
Did it?
Nobody's saying that, uh,
was it November,
November of 2018?
Our democracy nearly came to an end and we don't even talk about it.
Because the exact same thing.
happened on that day in Nancy Pelosi's office.
Of course,
I don't know that anybody carried her podium out of the house.
We're exaggerating a little bit here.
I don't think any of the Loises did the really bad things that happened in the Capitol.
I mean, look,
there's video of people assaulting police officers and that is never going to be okay.
But there are a lot of people who, I mean, look,
but why aren't they leading with this?
Why are they arresting and harassing the grandmothers?
So it's ridiculous.
Yeah.
Look, if this is all they have, right?
If at the end of the day, they're not arresting the people.
And there were some.
It was a minority of the crowd, though.
And this is that always gets left out.
It's a small minority of the crowd who did the really bad things there.
There were people who just sort of wandered in.
Should have known better probably.
But generally, they were not insurrectionists.
It's the dumbest thing in the world to refer to the overwhelming majority of the people who
were there as insurrectionists.
It's insanity.
I think I talked to you, Glenn, about this.
It may have been off the air.
But I listened to an interview with a socialist writer.
And they were like, you know, guys, we should probably not call this an insurrection because, you know, the next time we do it, they're going to call it an insurrection.
Like, this was just a riot, is what he said.
And I think that's a fair description as to what you saw.
It was a damaging riot.
It was bad.
you know, there are a lot of people who do deserve to be punished because of it.
But, you know, there's also a bunch of grandmothers who wandered in there for four minutes.
And you can't, it does seem like they're leading with those arrests.
Maybe they're the easy ones.
Maybe those are the people who are confessing.
I don't know.
But it does seem to be going about it backwards as far as priority should go.
Well, the judge said he didn't want to send the signal that everybody was going to get probation.
Just that Lois and the other grandmother, they came in and said,
said, well, I would have never had anything to do with it.
It was like that.
And read those books and watched the documentaries.
So, not everybody's going to get that soft treatment.
I'll tell you that right now.
I hate to do this again, because we've already done this on the air.
But are you really telling me they asked her to watch a Netflix documentary?
Yeah.
Like, that's a real part of the story.
You're not, that's not part of the joke.
No, it's incredible.
Hang on.
Let me get this story.
One more time.
This has to be a joke.
No.
Here it is the unarmed grandmother, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Capital building.
She was there for 10 minutes, according to the court documents.
She made an agreement that said that she was wrong.
She was ashamed of the savage display of violence that day.
I would have never been there, blah, blah, blah.
The attorney bizarrely had her client read books like,
burn my heart at wounded knee and watch Netflix mudbound and other documentaries, slavery by
another name and Tulsa Burning, the 1921 race massacre.
The content was referenced in Hermia Culpa to the court, which apparently was vital
in the agreement for probation.
So the attorney did this.
It wasn't a punishment necessarily from the court.
as part of the, as part of the plea.
So she is really super sorry.
In fact, she's watching these things.
Unreal.
Wow.
Unreal.
Wow.
Wow.
Welcome to America.
This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
So Chief Kahill was the chief law enforcement officer on board the USS Princeton in 204 during the Nimitz
Strike Group, Tick-TAC, UAP, UAP encounters.
A UAP is something that means UFO.
It's just the government's acronym for what we know to be UFOs.
There was a report that came out last week.
It was nine full pages.
My gosh, how long did it take them to put nine pages together?
But they say things that I find very, very puzzling.
If you read the report, don't worry, nine pages.
Who would read it?
It talks about if this is true, if these things, when we come down to it, they're going to fall into, I think they said, one of five categories.
You know, it's going to be weather balloons.
It's going to be some sort of natural occurrence.
It might be, you know, one of our planes or objects.
It might be a foreign military's objects.
or it'll go into a other bucket.
Well, it's kind of the other bucket that I'm kind of interested in.
And maybe Sean can give us some insight on this nine-page UAP report.
Welcome.
Welcome, Chief Cahill.
How are you?
Good morning, Glenn.
Oh, you sound so serious.
Gosh.
I, we're going to, we're going to kind of go a little bit.
We're interested in UFOs and I like to talk to people who are not interested in UFOs.
And so you might be the perfect guy because you talk to people who are UFO lovers.
They want it to be true.
I just want the truth.
So can you help us find that?
Well, I can say that for the people who are doing,
disappointed in the nine-page UAPTF report, I would ask them to change their perception a little bit.
The first aspect of that report was that it was to go to Congress.
So the nine pages, while I don't want to make it sound like a gift from Congress,
I was quite happy that they immediately turned around and gave us the unclassified portion of it.
Now, like a lot of people, I'm most interested in what's in the classified annex,
and there have been a lot of rumors that are circulating around about it.
but there's a lot in that nine-page report that we can immediately dig into.
And it harkens back to 2004 when I was on board Princeton.
And it speaks a great deal.
If we focused just on that Tic-Tac case where I was present today,
we would show a perfect example of why the UAPTF was formed
and the kind of data that we're looking to deliver to not only our leaders,
but to the American people, is the real data.
So can you give us, can you take us back,
to when you were on the Princeton.
And tell us what happened, that whole experience.
Yes, in 2004, when I was stationed on board Princeton,
as the chief law enforcement officer,
what we called the chief master at arms in the Navy,
I helped coordinate ships movements over a period of days
with senior chief Kevin Day down in the combat information center.
He had been picking up anomalous contacts on the Aegis radar system
that were coming in at suborbital altitudes,
then going down to 80,000 feet.
And then what was spectacular was they were immediately translating down to the sea level.
And then there were groups of them proceeding in a southerly direction against the wind.
This was so strange and worrisome to Kevin that he began a series of diagnostics.
He and a radar tech named Kevin Voorhees both rebooted the system numerous times.
They double-checked everything, triple-checked.
And finally, Kevin went to our captain and said, sir, I'm pretty sure that we have real contact.
that these are not ghosts in the system based on the upgrade.
And because we were the area-
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Let me just make sure that I have this right.
So these objects were up almost to outer space,
but in our atmosphere.
They came down to 80,000 feet.
I guess that's unusual,
because, I mean, how many things are up suborbital?
And then it went down to sea level.
This is highly unusual.
Well, it's highly unusual and it's frankly impossible for most of our vehicles that aren't ballistic weapon systems.
Because to de-orbit a craft requires a certain specific set of maneuvers to re-enter the atmosphere.
So not only were these appearing beyond where the Aegis radar system could pick them up, they were in space.
They were then translating down to an altitude that even our best aircraft don't operate very well at.
okay so wait wait so when we enter we have to we have that blackout period where you know we're we're really kind of on fire when we're coming back down in so they didn't enter the same way they didn't experience those things well at the time we didn't we hadn't yet heard of what we're called the five observables that came out of a program called a tip that louise alizizizalizondo ran but what we did witness was what was called
hypersonic velocity and instantaneous acceleration.
Those are two of the five observables.
And there are two means of actions that we have zero craft in our arsenal that can do that.
So there was nothing about this that matched anything that we understood.
And then to have them immediately go to sea level and then kind of make a lazy flight southward,
almost as if they were a flock of balloons, this is one of the things that gets the debunkers into it,
because they like to cherry pick and say that there were 20 or 30 different things happening at once
that conflated to confuse the military that there were UFOs.
But that's not the case.
Kevin sent a sortie of S-18s out to Air Defense Commander,
so our captain had that authority to order that.
And Commander David Fravor and his wingman pilot, Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich,
made their way out to this area.
And then around it were these tic-tac-shaped objects that were matte white in color,
approximately 30 feet long with no control surfaces, no means of propulsion, no markings whatsoever.
And they were darting around instantaneously like ping pong balls.
So wait, let me see if I understand this.
So there's some big object, the size of a 737, and these ping pong balls, these tic tacks, are circling it?
So are they speculation here part of propulsion or something?
or are they separate aircraft or whatever it is.
I had to speculate, but if I were to speculate immediately,
I think one of the feelings was that they were either observing this area of water
or they were tending to something that was in the water.
I can say that I've participated in follow-on investigations
with Lou Elizondo down in Mexico and Ensonata and off of Guadalupe Island,
where the Tic Tacs were witnessed going into the water.
and the folks we spoke to down there see these all the time
it's a very interesting situation down there
but what we encountered that week was unlike anything we had ever seen before
towards the end of the exercise after the night that the pilots returned with
the gun camera footage before we had seen it on board Princeton I was out on
the port side bridge wing with the port watch or excuse you had a port watch
at approximately 45 degrees up in the sky at 2,000 feet off the Port Bow,
I saw five to seven lights in a completely clearing cloudless sky.
It was about 10 o'clock at night.
And these five to seven lights all moved towards the center of the circle of the center
of their formation that they were in and each instantaneously disappeared.
I say that they blinked out, but they didn't show any kind of movement or propulsion.
This action completely matched what we were seeing on radar.
and completely matched what the pilots returned with on the gun camera footage.
The next morning, when myself and the other Chief Petty officers and the Chiefs and us
witnessed that video, we were astonished.
We knew that we had the chain of emails that came with it where the operations officers on the ships were immediately debunking everything.
We know what birds look like at sea.
We know what balloons look like.
We know what other aircraft look like.
We know what the lighting configurations are.
these things did
stuff that we just can't do
and we had the electoral
optical data, the eyewitness
testimony, and the infrared
data to tell us about it, not to mention
the radar.
The best of the Glenn Beck program.
So on Monday night, here's
what Tucker Carlson said on his
program.
But it's not just political protesters
the government is spying on. Yesterday we heard
from a whistleblower within the U.S. government
who reached out to warn us at
The NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications
and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take the show off the air.
Now, that's a shocking claim, and ordinarily we'd be skeptical of it,
is illegal for the NSA to spy on American citizens.
It's a crime.
It's not a third world country.
Things like that should not happen in America.
But unfortunately, they do happen, and in this case, they did happen.
The whistleblower, who is in a position to know, repeated back to us information about a story
that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails.
There's no other possible source for that information, period.
The NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons.
The Biden administration is spying on us.
We have confirmed that.
This morning we filed a FOIA request, a Freedom of Information Act request,
asking for all information that the NSA and other agencies have gathered about this show.
We did it mostly as a FOIA request.
formality. We've also contacted the press office at both NSA and the FBI. We don't expect to
hear much back. That's the way that usually goes. Only Congress can force transparency on the
intelligence agencies, and they should do that immediately. Spying on opposition journalists is
incompatible with democracy. If they are doing it to us, and again, they are definitely
doing it to us, they are almost certainly doing it to others. This is scary.
and we need to stop it right away.
Now, the NSA has responded on June 28, 2021.
Tucker Carlson alleged the National Security Agency
has been monitoring our electronic communication
and is planning to leak them in an attempt
to take this show off the air.
This allegation is untrue.
Now, listen to this.
Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target
of the agency,
and the NSA has never had any plans
to try to take his program off the air.
NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States.
With limited exceptions, e.g. an emergency. NSA may not target a U.S. citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes targeting.
Somebody who knows an awful lot about this is Cheryl Atkinson, who has been spied on herself by the United States.
government investigative reporter and host a full measure with Cheryl
Atkinson and also the author of slanted hi Cheryl how are you
hey Glenn how are you I'm good I'm good I don't know how people come to this
leaning toward the NSA I mean everything that has happened recently and quite
honestly if you want to be a free people you shouldn't give the benefit of the
out right away to the government on something like this.
What do you think is happening?
I've, yeah, I've tracked the proven instances.
These are just the ones that have been reported publicly through documentation,
you know, pre, actually for decades, but starting in the 2009 time period,
we know the government was proven to have spied on members of Congress, their staff,
journalists.
We know that intelligence officials gave false information on these questions when they
testified to Congress. So again, like you say, the default position should be, we know this is
being done and has been done. And if they can prove otherwise or are upfront and forthright
with their information, perhaps we could listen to that, but they never are. Yeah. They,
we, we know that they have the ability to capture all communications in the United States.
we know that they do capture all communications, but they say it's just on the meta level.
However, if you're wanting to target somebody, it's not that hard to do it.
And the NSA says, unless it's an emergency, well, if the United States government is convinced that the largest insurrection ever to happen since the Civil War was January 6th, and that came from Trump supporters.
And Trump supporters watch and listen to me, Tucker Carlson, you.
Well, then doesn't that qualify in some twisted way to a dirty government that, yeah, they have the right to spy or to read emails and texts?
Of course, they do.
They will find a way to justify whether they believe it or don't believe it.
they can find a way to put down on paper the necessity at least make the argument that this is something
that they must do and they're authorized to do for national security. But because it's done in
secret and through the FISA court where we usually never know what the justification is that's
presented and we're never meant to know, we can't say whether they did it properly. We can't tell
whether they manufactured information like they did against Carter Page, the Trump associate to
spy on him. But I would say, Glenn, you know, I've been talking about this for years since I got
the forensic proof that it happened to me without them ever being stopped and nobody being held
accountable. Of course we can expect more of the same. There's been no change, no deviation from the
path of illegally and improperly spying on people. And in my case, you know, I learned through courts,
I still have a case pending, but through a lot of court action over the years, I learned that
Government officials enjoy a great deal of immunity from their crimes or acts that they commit or oversee while in office.
Congress would have to change the law to actually hold them accountable for some of these surveillance abuses.
And none of that's been done.
It is truly terrifying when you think and read, excuse me, what the president, the White House at whitehouse.
has just put out on the way that they're going to attack domestic terror.
They openly say they're going to be working with high tech to find those people who are
insurrectionists, extremists, but also all those that they may have infected or affected
and who the leaders are.
Well, all you have to do is define things a little different.
than the average American, which we're learning new definitions of everything right now.
So it's really more likely than possible.
When you see that and nobody is reacting, how do we save freedom?
Well, it's a good question.
And that's the problem with this crisis and confidence that's been created in our institutions
and our law enforcement and our intelligence agencies.
so many people think there are double standards, political motivations, that, you know,
it would be one thing if a trusted agency announced they were legitimately looking at these things,
but we see through recent efforts and history and contexts that too often they are not,
and that they're violating laws and policies to do the things that they're doing.
So there's this great sense of this feeling of hopelessness and even chaos, I think,
among those who would like to believe that there's a sense of law,
fairness and that our intelligence community and law enforcement officials are going to be doing
things fairly.
But I think a lot of people know that that's not been the case.
You have, you know, we've had Soros's people and everybody else.
I mean, I've people going through my garbage, et cetera, et cetera.
And they have done a good job of smearing me.
Can you describe to the American people the difference between what's happened to me and
then what's happened to you or could happen to Tucker if the United States government is doing it?
Well, the United States government, as you know, has every tool at their disposal,
every advanced form of technology, access through the telephone companies,
which they have been requiring to cooperate with them since prior to 2001 on collecting different kinds of surveillance.
I did a story that surprised me at the time on the former head of Quest,
which is a phone company back in the day that he said that they were all,
all these phone companies already had dark contracts prior to 2001 from our intelligence agency
worth hundreds of millions of dollars to collect information.
And he said that in 2001 prior to the terrorist attacks, by the way,
he was brought into a skiff because they would have these meetings,
a skiff of secure facility.
He would have meetings with intelligence officials.
And for the first time they asked them to do something,
he said on U.S. soil collecting customer information for them, that he said was clearly unconstitutional
and illegal. This is, again, 2001 prior to the 9-11 attacks. And when he refused to do it, the other
phone companies, he said, went along. Not only did they cancel their super valuable dark contracts
with a company, suddenly he found himself charged by the federal government with insider trading,
and he went to prison for a time. So I think this is a really dangerous thing. The government
has these tools and this potential, I would call a blackmail material at their disposal.
And then I would also point out to your listeners, Glenn, it's not just one operation, somebody
that goes through an NSA database improperly or FBI agents that turn in false information
for a wiretap. There are many operations we now know about, including in my case,
some of the spying that was done on me was done through a rogue team out of the Baltimore U.S.
attorney's office under Rod Rosenstein. And we know that from a former federal agent involved,
as well as the forensics. So there's all kinds of teams, dart groups, rogue operations that
could be doing different aspects of this kind of spying and all connected to the government.
Give me some hope. What is being done to, I mean, I've had, I've had congressmen and senators
come to me and say that they have been, they've received veiled threats from the intelligence community.
One, they're in small groups.
People have come in and said, we have some information that some of your colleagues,
and you may be in this room, are working with foreign governments,
and we just want you to know for your protection.
We are monitoring things, but just know that we're on it.
And they received that as a threat.
One of them said, are you telling us you're monitoring all of our communications?
And the response was, I'm not at liberty to say one way or another.
And they took that as a threat, whether they're following through with that or not.
they were members of Congress that truly believe that they are being watched and listened to.
And when you have that kind of a system against you, you have no chance of doing the right thing, you know, in Congress and standing for the people.
You don't stand a chance.
Well, let me tell you a couple of incidents that have been documented.
We know that in 2009 that the intel community, the NSA, secretly recorded.
and listened in on Democrat Congresswoman Jane Harmon because somebody ultimately leaked her name to the press as well as some recordings.
Same thing happened to Dennis Kucenich, a congressman, another Democrat.
This happens to both parties.
This is not something that's isolated to one over time.
I mean, it's a fact.
And then I was told some years back by a staffer for a top member of the Senate, kind of similar to what you're saying,
that they were called in these staffers by intel officials and told, we're going to be,
looking at your phone records. Again, this is something people kind of accept now in a way, I think,
which they shouldn't. This is stunning that our intelligence agencies would be listening in on members
of Congress and their staff. This is something that should never happen. And the staffer told me they
were just stunned to be told that this was going to happen. And I said, well, did anybody in the meeting
and maybe congressional staffers speak up and tell these intelligence people not to do it? And he said,
no. And I said, why not? He said, we were afraid we would look guilty of something if we did,
because supposedly the intelligence officials were looking for leaks to the press or something.
So nobody wanted to say no for fear of looking guilty. And this was years ago. I think they've
been doing that ever since, and we're probably doing that prior to that, and collecting all kinds of
information that, yes, could conceivably be used against members of Congress and their staff.
Cheryl Atkinson, if you have not seen her investigative work recently, make sure you follow full measure.
It comes out once a week, and it is really good.
Also, her books are tremendous.
Her latest is slanted.
You can find her at Cheryl Atkinson.com.
That's Cheryl Atkinson.com.
Or you can follow her on Twitter at Cheryl Atkinson.
Thank you so much, Cheryl.
Appreciate it.
God bless.
Thank you.
Take care.
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