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This is a personal thread.

It's about duty, honor, love of country, love of humanity - and STOPPING DONALD TRUMP.

It starts with this remarkable article. https://gregolear.substack.com/p/give-me-secrecy-and-give-me-death

Greg Olear and Lincoln's Bible explore a topic in the above interview that is far more explosive than the average person can perceive.

It's about the incredible professionals of intelligence and law enforcement, faced with the hardest choice of anyone's career - or life.

"Give Me Secrecy & Give Me Death" is about what we almost assuredly know from open sources about Donald Trump - that he is not only the asset of a foreign Mob and intelligence service, but likely a confidential informant of the FBI in Mob prosecutions.

And how dangerous that is.

In 1998, U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) fined Trump Taj Mahal Associates $477,000 for a couple years of "not complying" with money laundering rules.

Likely, that was negotiated. https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-announces-penalty-against-trump-taj-mahal-associates

Treasury FinCEN busts transnational organized crime and terrorist financiers. They handle even nastier elements of the world than IRS-Criminal. They don't investigate you for too many dinners out deducted on your business taxes.

And if you get off that easy, maybe you flipped.

That Donald Trump has been a front for organized crime like his father is not much of a secret. And yet he became president.

Just as in many countries, democracies have been seized by organized criminal elements.

How did this happen and who knew?

The most stunning historical development of the past 30 years - a multi-decade crisis - has been the merger of Russian organized crime, the Russian intelligence services, and the Russian state.

We were warned by this man, Sasha Litvinenko, that the world had changed.

Litvinenko was an officer in the Russian FSB (the domestic successor to the KGB) who warned Western intel services AND law enforcement that they didn't understand - Russia had become something entirely new in history: A Mafia State.

He was poisoned with polonium tea.

To understand how tectonic Russia's transformation was, you have to understand how nation-states dealt with security of militaries, spies, and organized crime:

Separately. Usually with discrete agencies. FBI for criminals, CIA for foreign intelligence - that kind of thing.

When Russian organized crime propelled Vladimir Putin to power, the rules of modern national security changed for the first time in 100 years.

The Mob was the State was the Intelligence services.

Not identical, to be sure - but centrally controlled, and DANGEROUS.

Understand that, while every true government servant in the U.S. and its allies is thoroughly dedicated to the same mission, cultures, attitudes, and techniques are vastly different.

FBI's history goes back to Al Capone.
CIA is a product of the post-WWII era.
NSA is [REDACTED]

FBI hunts spies on domestic soil, of course. But they're in a different section from organized crime. CIA is looking outward at governments, spies, terrorists. DOD has a different view.

Litvinenko told us THE WORLD DIDN'T WORK LIKE THAT ANYMORE. IT WAS ALL ONE THREAT NOW.

Russia had fused its best-in-class intelligence capabilities and the ruthlessness of its Mafiya and taken over a nation-state.

The totality of this change no longer fit any one single agency, in any country, and the threat was evolving at a breakneck pace.

Understand, especially, that government intelligence work does NOT look like anything in the movies.

These are tightly controlled, regimented bureaucracies that maintain strict roles and are fanatical about secrecy.

They don't do light speed evolutionary threats very well.

So imagine, if you can, working your tightly controlled role in an intel or law enforcement agency, and instead of a spy, a Mob thug, or a white collar financial criminal, you have to track a new hybrid.

Like, for example, Rudy Giuliani patron Dmitry Firtash.

Instead of Mob boss like Whitey Bulger (FBI territory) or a government agent you recruit like Sergei Skripal (CIA) or Wall Street-type criminal (IRS treasury) or an arms dealer, you get dudes that do ALL OF THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY.

WHO HANDLES IT? HOW?

Spies infiltrate, they don't buy half of downtown Cleveland. Captains of industry consolidate economic activity, they don't run spy operations. Diplomats don't run drugs.

Except when they do and they're all interchangeable. That's what Russia innovated.

SO WHO TRACKS IT?

This is the world that Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama inherited, along with their intelligence and law enforcement agencies understandably not designed for this new threat.

Forget terrorism. THIS was the real change in national security since 2000. And it's been a bumpy ride since.

This still may be abstract, but let me break it down as an intelligence analyst with over 20 years experience:

If the world doesn't match the design of your intelligence services, nothing will work right.

You can't collect, analyze, or disseminate properly.

If you're looking at a transnational criminal intelligence government syndicate where criminals, spies, and regimes used to be:

Nobody will know whose job it is, quite.
None of the questions will quite match.
The answers will be weird.
The policies will be hard to implement.

When the transnational organized crime threat doesn't match the shape of your intelligence and law enforcement, then even when professionals are ultimately dedicated, they still may not be able to get leaders to make the necessary decisions.

Which gets us back to Trump.

We arrive back at a few terrible problems that need exposure at long last.

Our intel and law enforcement agencies KNEW Trump was owned by foreign mafia and yet he became President.

It was not their fault. Their hands were largely tied. And yet - the truth must finally emerge.

I brought this to the world's attention in a thread about a month after the election, my personal reaction to people expecting the Intel Community to Save America From Trump, Now!

These were my colleagues. I knew they were BUSY. And doing far from nothing.

And for those who still thirst for a quick fix (I am regularly part of that group, too) I am still as aware as I was over three years ago of how unorthodox and horrible the options for the USIC were.

Totally against everything they stand for. https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/808065900511395840

You don't want a spookocracy. That makes us like the Soviet Union or East Germany. The USIC knows that because they studied those regimes. So they can't just "save us" from an election even where we were attacked.

But. This time may need to be different.

Donald Trump is a treasonous sack of shit willing to let millions die. Not because he's a "dictator" or a "narcissist" - because he's a piece of property. Transnational organized crime owns him outright.

He must be stopped, now more than ever.

Donald Trump has been a mortal threat since 2015, part of the hybrid national security assault we were ill-equipped to fight.

But now, his role as president is at the phase of mass graves of Americans.

What national security is here to protect.

Our entire national security and law enforcement apparatus exists to keep a lunatic owned by foreign enemies from being president.

Because that might lead to a person allowing a pandemic to slaughter Americans in a barely-concealed attempt to look "incompetent."

For those crying "why didn't Mueller do his job?" or "Where is this so-called IC of yours?," you don't understand - these silent professionals, never seeking self-aggrandizement, willing to die for our freedoms - they are sick to their stomach over this.

Understand this from the Intel perspective, this is a picture of a diseased criminal TAKING A SHIT IN FRONT OF A CEMETERY.

One of his first acts was to attack those Trump *knew* understand what he was. And desecrate the graves of their friends.

I'm tearing up just looking at this wall.

There are people you never met, never heard of. They died without saying goodbye to their families. They were perhaps tortured on the way out.

They did it for us.

Trump defecated on that duty and honor and brought a crowd to cheer him.

And now, in addition to everything for which they've given their lives, we may need to hope that the Intelligence Community may be willing to break tradition and tell us just why this photo - this pathetic, simpering blasphemy -happened.

Mitch McConnell will rot in hell for ignoring what Robert S. Mueller III told the nation and refusing to remove this traitor from office. Mueller and his colleagues did their level best only to be betrayed.

We now sit hoping for an unredacted report.

We expect, nay we are a better nation because our intelligence and law enforcement professionals stick to the rules.

But we have to ask this time at what cost. And to prepare for what may be a breach of protocol that could save civilization.

Americans still don't understand what he is. That is the fault of politicians, the media, propagandists - and of course his sincere supporters as well.

But some know the truth. That he isn't rich, he's Mob property. That's he's tasked with destroying anything his bosses say to.

Donald Trump was acquired by Russia when its Mob overtook the Five Families of La Cosa Nostra, his family's old owners. But now he's the joint property of murdering despots.

The intelligence communities of many allied nations know this.

The common people must know, too.

I know, like @LincolnsBible, the complexities and contradictions of what I'm suggesting. We already ask so much of such men and women. And this moment may call for yet more.

In 2016, I said I understood why the USIC didn't "act."
In 2020, I wonder if they must - lest we be lost.

I don't think American institutions will survive four more years of damage from foreign enemies being allowed to destroy us from within the White House.

I don't know precisely who would reveal what, when.

But I pray it is soon. The truth is simple and hideous.

Let it out.

I think we all do what we can, whether it's to wear masks and stay home, or take care of our neighbors or fight crime or rise up yell the truth from the rooftops.

We do our best.

Which makes me think about my own last four years.

My colleagues and I knew Trump was a unique danger in 2016. Few of us thought he'd be elected. Then he was.

I slept an hour a night for a month, talking to everyone. The Game Theory Thread (12/11/16) was a product of that.

Didn't think I'd still be writing every day like this.

Like many of my friends, my brothers and sisters in arms, I've been attacked personally, relentlessly for opposing this takeover. My own mind has been blown. Stressed. Brought to tears. Like so many of all of us.

But you wake up and you think - where else will we live?

Canada. France. Australia. Mexico. America. Ukraine. Even Russia. These are all beautiful cultures, beautiful people, promising futures - and the Global Mob cannot be allowed to own it, ever.

The future must belong to men and women of Civilization, and Love, and Compassion.

The future must belong to those who would gladly give their lives so other people's children might be free from fear, free from deprivation, free from degradation.

It must belong to those who refuse to buckle to corruption and evil and banal weakness.

That's us. That's now.

Our commitment to truth must equal our commitment to love, compassion, and civilization.

And this is where intelligence professionals come in - and with a word of warning. Truth is sometimes utterly hideous.

But we can handle it. Together.

It's time.

When I say ugly truth, I have to give an example. I did not flinch when I heard what they did to Jamal Khashoggi.

I know what "wetwork" is. (That's a Russian term.) It's hideous, but famous. I was sad - but not shocked.

That is the kind of truth Intel people bear. And more.

I wept openly when Notre Dame burned. That one was a left hook. There have been other moments. We can all only take so much before buckling some.

But we lean on each other. We can take it. We can do this - together.

The full measure of the necessary truth will require it.

Our mission is clear: Truth, Compassion, Law, Love, Civilization.

We have a great moment before us. Our routines are disrupted already. It is the right time for one more disruption: to expose the barbarism of those who conspired to brutally repress us forever.

We're ready to take this world back. But we're going to need some help. From each other. You free tomorrow?

God bless America, and all nations, and all individuals, not one single person left out.

Love ya.

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