Al-Qaeda should be worriedâbecause Director Kent isnât going to fall for the bullshit intel youâve been peddling into our government through Afghan and Syrian channels.
How does Al-Qaeda do this?
First, both the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Julaniâs regime in Syria maintain liaison relationships with the U.S. governmentâwhether itâs State, CIA, DoD, it doesnât matter. They exploit those relationships by feeding us âintelligenceâ that serves their agenda. For example, the Taliban pushes narratives and fake reporting and locational info related to AQIS and ISIS-K and those get reported into our systems and treated as verified facts. The collection posture then gets geared to those groups and it prioritizes them even when core Al-Qaeda is the biggest threat emanating from Afghanistan.
Then come the double agentsâincluding womenâwho pose as activists, former military allies, or journalists. Many of them are living in the U.S. under refugee status. They publicly present themselves as anti-Taliban or anti-terrorist on social media, but behind the scenes, theyâre actively feeding misinformation to officials across multiple U.S. agencies. And getting paid for it mostly by the Haqqani Network! Their mission is clear: cover for Al-Qaedaâs operations and obscure the warning signs of a planned homeland attack. Theyâre the ones whoâll call me crazy. Just make sure they donât know where you live in the U.S.âbecause yes, theyâre passing that information straight to Al-Qaeda. I look forward to the day this is clearly understood and we can deport every single one.
The last piece is signals collection. Terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Syria now hold deliberate planning meetings to script what they say on phonesâknowing it will be collected by agencies like NSA or GCHQ across the pond. These staged conversations are then funneled into highly classified intelligence channels (FBIâs new term, haha), and once again, treated as credible and reported out as classified facts. Itâs disinformation laundering at the intelligence levelâconfirmed, circular, and deliberate. But our government still refuses to believe terrorists are smart enough to pull it off. Why? Ego.
Our intel collection has been completely compromised by terrorists. Iâll say it until Iâm blue in the face: the CIAâs Afghanistan Department is one of the main culprits. Theyâve neglected their first and primary role as counterintelligence officersâagainâand failed to protect this country from the next wave of attacks coming from the second generation of the Bin Ladens.
The Senateâs delay in confirming a director for NCTC put Director Kent at a massive disadvantage right out of the gateâforcing him to catch up in what may become one of the most devastating intelligence failures of our time. He cannot fight this alone. Itâs time for peopleâa lot of peopleâto step up and help him charge directly at the threat Al-Qaeda now poses.
We need warriors, not bureaucrats with their heads buried in the sandâbefore itâs too late.
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