I have armed civilians in five countries. I wrote the cable for the sixth in September. I am a case officer in the CIA's Near East Division. I have held this post for thirty-one years. My performance reviews describe me as "consistently exceeding expectations in partner force development." I want to be precise about what I do. I identify civilian populations with grievances against their government. I assess which grievances are exploitable. I write a cable recommending a covert action finding. The finding goes to the president. The president signs. I receive a budget. I purchase weapons through intermediary nations who sign end-user certificates stating the weapons are for their own military. They are not for their own military. Everyone who signs knows this. Everyone who signs has always known this. The genius of the certificate is that it is true when signed. The weapons are for the ministry's border patrol. For twelve months, this is a fact. On month thirteen, it is not. The certificate has expired by then. I have sat in hotel rooms in three countries while a man I will meet once signs a document stating these weapons are for his ministry's border patrol. He does not look at me. I do not look at the weapons manifest. We are finished in eleven minutes. I take the certificate. He takes the routing number. We do not shake hands. The first time was before me. Tehran. 1953. Operation AJAX. Kermit Roosevelt did not arm civilians. He bought them. A million dollars for the whole operation. Overthrew Mossadegh in four days. Reinstalled the Shah. The Shah lasted twenty-six years. Then came 1979. The revolution. The hostage crisis. Forty-seven years of American policy defined by a coup that cost less than a Georgetown townhouse. I was not born yet. But that operation built my division. I inherited its funding line, its intermediary networks, its end-user certificate templates. The templates have not changed. The letterhead has. Afghanistan. 1979 to 1989. Operation Cyclone. We provided over two billion dollars in weapons to the mujahideen. Stinger missiles. Kalashnikovs. Training manuals. I wrote three of those manuals. The one on field medicine was thorough. I was proud of it. My performance review cited "exceptional initiative in capability development." The mujahideen bled the Soviets for a decade. I received a commendation. I rotated out. The Taliban formed five years later. From the mujahideen. Using our weapons. Using the organizational structures we taught them. Using the Stingers we provided. They took Kabul in 1996. They hosted bin Laden. They are in power today. We offered up to six figures per missile to buy the Stingers back. We had provided them for free. We recovered perhaps three hundred out of twenty-five hundred. The rest are still in circulation. Some ended up in Iran. This is called "program wind-down." The field medicine manual appeared in a captured materials index in 2014. Translated into Arabic. The tourniquet chapter was unchanged. I am told the techniques remain effective. I have not asked in whose hands. I was in Ankara by then. My cable noted the transition as a regional development. I did not write the next cable. 1991. We broadcast on CIA-funded radio for Iraqi civilians to rise against Saddam. The Shia rose. The Kurds rose. We had encouraged them. Then Saddam sent helicopter gunships. We watched. The no-fly zone did not cover helicopters. We had not specified helicopters. This was the second time we abandoned the Kurds. The first was 1975. We armed them against Saddam on the Shah's behalf. Then the Shah made his deal with Baghdad. The Algiers Agreement. Overnight, our program ended. The Kurds were slaughtered. Henry Kissinger was asked about it. He said, "Covert action should not be confused with missionary work." I have it framed above my desk. I have read it every morning for twenty-six years. I was in Amman by then. Libya. Two sentences. We armed the rebels against Gaddafi. Gaddafi died in a drainage ditch on camera. The rebels kept the weapons. The weapons migrated to Mali, to Syria, to a dozen countries we did not intend. Libya became three competing governments and open-air slave markets. My lessons-learned contribution was four pages. I was in Doha by then. Syria. Timber Sycamore. 2012 to 2017. One billion dollars. The largest covert action finding since Cyclone. We trained and armed moderate rebels. The moderates defected. Sold their weapons to al-Nusra. Al-Nusra rebranded. The weapons ended up with groups we were simultaneously targeting with Predator drones. We were arming and bombing the same people. One of my trainees appeared in strike imagery four years after his graduation from the program. Different flag. Same Kalashnikov. His field-strip technique was correct. I had taught it to him personally. The strike was approved in eleven minutes. I did not flag the overlap. This is called "force disposition change." Every weapon has a serial number. Every serial number traces to a purchase order. Every purchase order traces to a cable. In 2016, a photograph appeared in a Conflict Armament Research report. I recognized the serial number prefix before I read the caption. The man holding the weapon was not a moderate rebel. The weapon was the same. The man was the same. The category had changed. The cable was mine. I flagged this in a cable. The cable was acknowledged. The program continued for two more years. I rotated out. I was in Langley by then, writing the lessons-learned document. We produce one after every program. They all say the same thing. We have never incorporated one into the next program. We remember perfectly. The lessons are not the point. The document is the point. The document allows the next finding to say "informed by prior operations." Page three of every lessons-learned document since 1989 recommends a blowback assessment window extending beyond the operational review cycle. I have written page three six times. It has never been incorporated into a finding. It does not need to be. It only needs to exist. My performance review covers twelve months. Blowback takes eighteen. I have never been present for the consequences of my own operations. Not once in thirty-one years. I initiate. I cable. I am reviewed. I am promoted. I rotate out. The next officer inherits the aftermath. Their cable describing the deterioration becomes the intelligence justification for the next finding. That finding is assigned to someone like me. The end-user certificates look the same. The letterhead changes. My hall file says "exceptional initiative in capability development." Six words. It does not specify which capability. It does not specify who developed it next. I sleep well. I mention this because people assume otherwise. I am aware of what happens to officers who speak outside channels. I am also aware that I rotate out in March. Every fact I have stated is available in open-source reporting. I have disclosed nothing. I have only arranged. Now Graham on Hannity. He calls it a "Second Amendment solution." He said it without a classification marking. Without a finding. Without an end-user certificate. Without an intermediary. On Fox News. At nine PM. I have spent thirty-one years in rooms where the fluorescent lights hum at a specific frequency and nothing is recorded. I write cables marked TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN. I brief the Gang of Eight in a SCIF with no windows. I use phrases like "partner force enablement" and "indigenous capacity building." Graham called it a constitutional right. On Fox News. At nine PM. He said "there is no need for boots on the ground." He said "help is on the way." He was describing an intermediary purchase order routed through a Gulf state intelligence service with a false end-user certificate and a twelve-month shelf life before the weapons appear in hands we did not intend. He was describing my career. He did it in eleven words. He is describing a covert action finding against a government that exists because of a covert action finding. In my experience, senators do not describe operations on television before the finding is signed. Iran has nearly ninety million people. A domestic security apparatus that crushed a nationwide uprising in 2022 in under three months. Mandatory sentences for weapons possession. The logistics would require every intermediary network I have ever built, simultaneously, for years. I have never written a finding for a population this size. The models do not scale. I noted this in my cable. It was acknowledged. Afghanistan was twenty-five million. Five years from first Stinger to flag change. I have not been asked for an Iranian timeline. Timelines become findings. Findings become budgets. Budgets are reviewed in twelve months. He said it like it was a sentence. It is a career. I know because it is mine. My last cable was sent in September. It was acknowledged. My review will cover the first twelve months. I will not be present for month eighteen. I will retire with a full pension next year. I have a certificate on my wall from the Director of National Intelligence. It says "For Exceptional Service to the Nation." It does not specify which nation benefited. Above it, the Kissinger quote. I have read it every morning for twenty-six years. It has never once been wrong. I rotate out in March.

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A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.

haha the WSJ is extremely anti Trump but at least they mention that he was armed unlike the NYT which insanely published an article without mentioning he had a gun.

The suspect who allegedly bit the finger off of an HSI agent in Minnesota today has been arrested and is in custody. I have directed my federal prosecutors to file charges for this HEINOUS assault on our brave law enforcement officer.

Dude illegally didn’t even have ID on him dressed in tactical gear and they expect us to believe he had his 9mm and all those extra mags just getting his Saturday steps in on the way to work. NGMI

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It was an honor to receive the U.S. Special Envoy Ambassador Tom Barrack @USAMBTurkiye , and the Commander of the United States Central Command @CENTCOM , Admiral Brad Cooper. We discussed a range of issues aimed at supporting the political integration in Syria, preserving the country’s territorial integrity, and creating a safe environment for all components of the Syrian people, in addition to ensuring the continued efforts to combat ISIS in the region. President Donald Trump @POTUS and Ambassador Barrack have played a sincere and active role toward the Syrian people in their pursuit of resolving the crisis and achieving a better future for Syria and all Syrians. We remain steadfast in our goal of one united Syria for all Syrians.

I visited northeast Syria today with @CENTCOM Commander Admiral Cooper for substantive conversations with @MazloumAbdi and the SDF. Forward momentum for @POTUS’s vision of “give Syria a chance” by allowing Syrians to unite with all Syrians in a renewed effort for cooperative peace and prosperity.

If you've never seen it, you should watch this. Not with an eye to the failures of that administration but to see how we once believed America was a great country. youtube.com/watch?v=d6sGMV60…

Please take some time to watch this one. Frank is a Champion of West Point - because he has seen, felt and understands. We have the very best gathered here at West Point for 4 years to learn from the very best Faculty, Staff, TACs, TAC NCOs and Coaches … to win for our Nation.

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