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Convicted NZ mosque murderer Brenton Tarrant was an intelligence operative

FBI Director Kash Patel travelled to New Zealand July 31, 2025 to open a dedicated law enforcement attaché office in Wellington. While the FBI has stationed personnel in New Zealand for several years, establishing a full legat position in the country will strengthen and enhance the longstanding cooperation with a key Five Eyes partner in the southwestern Pacific region. 

“The FBI has had a strong relationship and collaborated closely with our counterparts in New Zealand for years,” said Director Patel.

“Expanding the Wellington office demonstrates the strength and evolution of our partnership as we continue to work together to address our shared security objectives in the region.”

Although Kash Patel’s recent visit has not heralded any major incident in New Zealand there was an occasion when visiting US officials did precede an alleged mass shooting.

John Podesta, Hilary Clinton’s campaign manager and Obama counsel, arrived in New Zealand five days before the mosque massacre March 15, 2019 along with two members of the National Security Council. The number 14 emblazoned on the receiver of the rifle used by Tarrant coincides with ’14’ on Podesta’s right hand. The Christian fish symbol, known as an Ichthys, is an ancient symbol representing Jesus Christ

Now disgraced FBI Director James Comey flew into Queenstown on April 23, 2017 preceding a visit by suspected satanist John “mangled fingers” Podesta, who was Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager and Obama counsel, who coincidentally visited New Zealand March 10, 2019, five days before the infamous mosque shootings in Christchurch.

Podesta was attending a Global Progressives conference, heaping praise on Ardern while warning of a potential major online hack against her coming election?

The New Zealand Herald reported two members of the United States National Security Council visited New Zealand days before a media conference on March 10, 2019 where PM Ardern confirmed the Americans had visited, just five days before the massacre.

Ardern said the visitors were Asia defence experts—Matt Pottinger and Alexander Gray, but did not elaborate why they were in New Zealand.

At the media briefing a reporter asked Ardern, “Yesterday Podesta told us that New Zealand being a member of the Five Eyes network, New Zealand is a juicy target for cyber-attacks that could undermine our democracy. Do you agree with that?”

Ardern replied: “Oh, look, we’re not complacent, and certainly you will have heard me say that many, many times. We do need to make sure that we have the protection in place in NewZealand, either for direct attacks but also where New Zealand may be caught up indirectly.

“And so, regardless of what anyone else thinks or what any other member of Five Eyes thinks, we actually need to make sure that we’re prepared and vigilant.”

New Zealand’s mosque shooting happened on March 15, 2019, five days after the Podesta and two National Security members’ visit, and was allegedly carried out by an Australian shooter who has proven to be an Israei-trained assassin on a watch list since 2012. The assassin presented a real threat to then Iraqi President Bashar Assad according to Veterans Today.

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DNI Tulsi Gabbard Bars Intel Community from Sharing Classified Intelligence Regarding Ukraine Negotiations with Five Eyes Partners – And This Makes Perfect Sense

On Friday, CBS News reported that Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, banned US classified intelligence regarding the negotiations on Ukraine with Five Eyes partners.

The Five Eyes Alliance (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The organization has its origins traced back to World War II.

This information was leaked to CBS News by current intel operatives. They spoke under condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters.

They should be tossed out the door like the other dirty leakers in the intelligence community.

In 2018, The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that the Deep State was using foreigners to spy on then-candidate Trump in 2015 prior to the 2016 presidential election.  President Trump tweeted our report by Joe Hoft the following day and the fake-news mainstream media immediately attacked him for promoting what they called a “conspiracy theory.”

We later discovered more evidence in 2020 that we were 100% correct in our initial reporting.

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The truth about the Epstein saga and why puerile partisan perspectives perpetually miss the point

The public loves a villain. It gives us somewhere to point the finger, someone to shake our fists at, a name to pin to the dartboard. In the case of Jeffrey Epstein, half the country threw darts at Bill Clinton’s face, the other half at Donald Trump’s. And in doing so, both sides managed the remarkable feat of being right and wrong at the same time.

Because Epstein wasn’t a Democrat scandal or a Republican scandal. He was an intelligence scandal. And if there’s one thing the intelligence community does better than spycraft, it’s convincing the public that their worst behaviour is an isolated incident.

The reality is that Epstein’s CV reads less like “rogue billionaire” and more like “contract HUMINT officer”. HUMINT—human intelligence—is the art of acquiring sensitive information by exploiting human beings, and it’s as old as espionage itself. In the old days, that meant cultivating an “asset” through ideology, bribery, ego, or, when necessary, a little creative embarrassment. Blackmail was not an aberration; it was the business model.

The 1st Bush administration’s seduction of a senior Saddam Hussein insider in the run-up to the Gulf War is a perfect example. This is still not public knowledge, but a source that previously worked with special clearance gleefully recalled the tale, pleased it was such a “successful op”. The chosen target? The general’s own niece, who enthusiastically agreed to seduce her own uncle in exchange for an Ivy League education and a U.S. passport. She didn’t consider herself a victim. They convinced her this was just a wise and fairly standard price to pay if you wish to become upwardly mobile. When your workplace normalises such trades, you stop seeing the moral lines at all. Plus, incest is rarely frowned upon in elite circles; the Rothschilds even brag about their inbreeding so as not to “pollute” the bloodline.

This dark manipulation is hardly unique to the Americans. The KGB’s “sparrow schools” in the Cold War trained operatives — male and female — in the art of seduction, teaching everything from body language to pillow talk as tradecraft. East Germany’s Stasi infiltrated West German politics with so many “Romeo spies” that entire ministries were quietly compromised over candlelit dinners. The British, not to be outdone, ran “Operation Mincemeat” in WWII — feeding the Germans fake invasion plans via the corpse of a man dressed as a Royal Marine, complete with love letters from an invented fiancée to make the ruse more believable. The detail wasn’t just for flair; HUMINT works because it feels real.

Sometimes, the tools were even cruder. In the 1980s, the CIA quietly ran “compromising photograph” operations in multiple foreign capitals, sending attractive case officers or recruited locals to seduce embassy officials, then arranging for conveniently timed “hotel room maintenance” or “accidental” walk-ins by an agent with a camera. The resulting images, often staged to look far more salacious than reality, could keep an official compliant for years — no need to prove the indiscretion, just to make it plausible enough to ruin a career. In the game of kompromat, perception is currency.

Organised crime played the game too. The mid-20th-century alliance between the CIA and the Italian-American mafia was a perfect marriage of convenience. The mob controlled unions, docks, and gambling networks; the Agency controlled passports, prosecutions, and political pressure. Together they ran extortion schemes, some sexual, some financial, with a reach that extended from Havana nightclubs to Las Vegas casinos. When your “asset” already runs a blackmail racket, plugging them into HUMINT operations is practically turnkey.

Since the 1960s, if not beforehand, Israeli intelligence reportedly ran sexual blackmail operations in the United States targeting powerful figures tied to Middle East policy. Some accounts detail elaborate “honey traps” involving call girls, hidden cameras, and luxury apartments — the exact contours of the more famous Epstein operation that evolved from the same murky playbook. This isn’t conspiracy theory territory; former Mossad officials have openly acknowledged that sexual kompromat has been a “standard tool” in their kit. If Epstein’s Rolodex felt oddly international, this is why.

Epstein’s assignment was simply higher-end. Rather than seducing Ba’athist bureaucrats, he was hosting heads of state, royalty, and titans of finance in a world where everyone smiles for the cameras and everyone knows where the bodies are buried — because they helped plant them. His address book wasn’t a little black book; it was a nuclear deterrent.

Whitney Webb’s research makes this plain: Epstein was “middle management” in a sprawling transnational blackmail apparatus. His ties to billionaire Leslie Wexner gave him both funding and cover. His friendship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and even financial connections brushing up against Benjamin Netanyahu, linked him to networks with decades of kompromat experience. Robert Maxwell — Ghislaine’s father and an asset of Israeli military intelligence — had been playing the same game back in the 1980s, helping shuffle secrets through the Iran-Contra affair. Epstein’s methods weren’t innovative; they were inherited.

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CNN, MSNBC Parade Discredited Spooks to Smear Trump’s Peace Talks

Corporate media networks have turned to former intelligence and defense officials to criticize President Donald Trump’s recent diplomatic efforts to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Trump hosted a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday and then welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the White House on Monday for discussions on peace.

CNN and MSNBC have featured several former officials who previously advanced discredited narratives, including on the Hunter Biden laptop and the Steele Dossier, to question Trump’s strategy.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton appeared on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins on August 8, where he criticized the decision to host Putin in the United States.

“The only better place for Putin than Alaska would be if the summit were being held in Moscow,” Bolton said.

“So, the initial setup, I think, is a great victory for Putin. He’s a rogue leader of a pariah state, and he’s going to be welcomed into the United States.”

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The intelligence community – our protector or the perpetrator?

There is a peculiar alchemy in the world of intelligence work. Spend long enough marinating in the culture of suspicion, and reality itself warps. Every handshake is a coded exchange, every silence conceals a plot, and every stranger is a potential assassin in disguise. In this worldview, the universe is an endless chessboard of threat and counter-threat — and the only sane response is to move first, hit harder, and never, ever let the other side see you blink. It is a mindset that breeds not guardians, but paranoiacs with security clearances; not peacekeepers, but professional arsonists armed with plausible deniability.

The public is told these agencies are our shield — the last line between us and anarchy. We are sold an endless parade of threats, each requiring more secrecy, more surveillance, and more latitude for shadowy actors to do “what must be done”. The problem is that the line between protector and perpetrator has long since dissolved. The very institutions that claim to keep us safe are often the ones creating the dangers they then heroically “save” us from.

Domestically, their aim is less about defending liberty than managing the population. The FBI’s COINTELPRO operation wasn’t dismantling terror cells; it was dismantling dissent. Civil rights leaders, anti-war activists, and union organisers were wiretapped, infiltrated, and in some cases blackmailed into silence. Martin Luther King Jr, whose crime was speaking too effectively against injustice, was subjected to surveillance so obsessive it bordered on psychosis. Across the Atlantic, Britain’s Special Demonstration Squad embedded officers into protest groups for decades, with some maintaining romantic relationships under false identities. When the truth emerged, it was less James Bond and more EastEnders meets Kafka.

The same tactics persist in modern form. Peaceful protests find themselves salted with plainclothes agents who mysteriously seem to be the first to throw a brick, conveniently inviting a police crackdown. Whatever did happen to Ray Epps? In Canada’s 2022 trucker protests, there was no need for water cannons — the financial system itself became the weapon, freezing bank accounts and cutting people off from their own money for the crime of political disobedience.

If their behaviour at home corrodes democracy, their conduct abroad burns entire nations to the ground. The CIA and MI6’s fingerprints can be found in coups and covert operations from Tehran to Tegucigalpa. In 1953, Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown not for tyranny, but for the heresy of nationalising oil. In 1954, Guatemala’s Jacobo Árbenz met the same fate after challenging the stranglehold of United Fruit. Chile’s Salvador Allende was replaced in 1973 by Pinochet—a dictator whose “economic miracle” was fertilised with blood and electrocution.

The pattern is too consistent to be coincidence. In the 1980s, the CIA armed Afghan mujahideen in their jihad against the Soviets, among them a young Osama bin Laden. A generation later, the United States would spend trillions allegedly fighting the monster it had helped to train. And in 2003, a dodgy dossier on Iraq’s mythical weapons of mass destruction became the casus belli for an invasion that killed hundreds of thousands, destabilised the region, and paved the way for ISIS.

The 21st century has not brought restraint. The 2014 Maidan uprising in Ukraine was no spontaneous people’s revolt; leaked phone calls revealed U.S. officials selecting preferred leadership like items from a takeaway menu. Ukraine is now the front line in a NATO–Russia proxy war, its cities shelled and its young men fed into the grinder of geopolitics. In 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines were blown apart — a surgical strike on Germany’s energy supply. Officially, no one knows who did it. Unofficially, the silence from Washington speaks volumes.

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Barack Obama’s DNI Clapper Told Intel Leaders to Compromise Standards for Trump-Russia Report

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper pressed the intelligence community to maintain a unified narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump, even as the National Security Agency raised concerns about the process, according to newly declassified top secret emails.

The emails, disclosed Wednesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, reveal that Clapper described the Obama administration’s effort to finalize a revised intelligence community assessment on “Russia Election Meddling” as a “team sport” that might require the community to “compromise” its standards.

The correspondence shows former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers warning that his agency lacked adequate access to the intelligence underpinning the report’s conclusions.

In a Dec. 22, 2016, email to Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former FBI Director James Comey, Rogers wrote that his team had concerns about the pace of the process and the lack of transparency.

“I know that this activity is on a fast-track and that folks have been working very hard to put together a product that can be provided to the President,” Rogers wrote.

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CIA Leakers Weaponize ‘Sources And Methods’-Talking Points To Target DNI Tulsi Gabbard

Insiders within the Intelligence Community (IC), and specifically ongoing operators within the CIA, are targeting Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard…

The least understood issue right now, is how isolated and alone Tulsi Gabbard is on her mission to bring sunlight to the Intelligence Community weaponization and corruption.

…”There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”…

The IC uses various media leaks and narrative engineers as the tools against their enemy; in this case DNI Tulsi Gabbard.

The most common arrow in their manipulative quiver is the term “sources and methods.” 

The Washington Post notes how the Intelligence Community is upset about DNI Tulsi Gabbard compromising their ‘sources and methods’ by releasing the House Intelligence Report that deconstructed the Russiagate Intelligence Community Assessment.

What has them so upset is Tulsi’s release of the House Intel report. This is the report that drove the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago in an effort to retrieve it from Trump. This is the report that outlines how the CIA fabricated the Russiagate claims. Tulsi is being targeted for releasing this specific report. That tells you how important it is to the CIA.

WASHINGTON DC – […] The document that Gabbard ordered released on July 23 is a 46-page report stemming from a review begun in 2017 by majority Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. It takes issue with U.S. intelligence agencies’ finding earlier that year that Russian President Vladimir Putin developed a preference for Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton and aspired to help him win the election.

[…] The House report is the most sensitive document the Trump administration has yet released, and details of how its publication occurred have not been previously reported.

[…] The document contains multiple references to CIA human sources reporting on Putin’s plans. Such sources are among the agency’s most closely guarded secrets. After the report was completed in 2020, it was considered so sensitive that it remained in storage at the CIA rather than on Capitol Hill.

[…] as the Trump administration prepared to release the report publicly, there were multiple versions of it circulating, some with more redactions to protect sensitive information, current and former U.S. officials said. Gabbard, who has led the administration’s effort to relitigate the 2016 campaign, pushed to release as much as possible, they said.

“CIA put forward their proposed redactions and edits to the document,” said a person familiar with the process. Gabbard “has greater declassification authority than all other intelligence elements and is not required to get their approval prior to release.”

Trump then approved the publication of the version from Gabbard’s office “with minimal redactions and no edits,” this person said.

[…] It is unclear exactly how Trump gave his approval, or if he examined the competing versions of the House report beforehand. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. (READ MORE)

~ The HPSCI Report is Here ~

The HPSCI report release is what is driving the CIA bananas.

Despite efforts by Donald Trump to declassify the HPSCI report before leaving office, the CIA never released it.  No one except the internal Intelligence Community (CIA/DNI) had seen the HPSCI report until Tulsi Gabbard released it on July 22nd.  This is a key point, because the HPSCI report touches on all of the other declassified evidence recently released.

The authors of the HPSCI report had reviewed all of the same information John Durham reviewed.  The HPSCI report walks through the entire construct of the Intelligence Community Assessment ordered by President Obama on December 6, 2016.

Arguably, because of the underlying evidence reviewed to produce it, the HPSCI report is the most critical of the declassified release in the last few months. The HPSCI report walks through the timeline, as the ICA was created between early to late December 2016.

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The Fall Of The Israel Lobby—And Christian Zionism—Has Begun

My homily last Sunday was entitled The False Doctrine Of Christian Zionism Is Starting To Fall Apart.In this message, I said:

It is the Epstein case that is creating the cracks in the lie of Christian Zionism. Make no mistake about it: The Epstein pedophile network and the Israeli genocidal wars in the Middle East are indissolubly linked.

The reason the ruling class in Washington, D.C., and New York City are so determined to support Israel no matter how demonic its actions might be is directly due to Epstein’s (the Mossad’s) blackmail campaigns. And the members of Congress that are not blackmailed into submission by the Mossad are bribed into submission by AIPAC.

Americans put Trump in office because they saw the filth and corruption of Washington, and they thought Trump was truly different. Now, they are awakening to the truth that Trump has been neck-deep in Israel’s corrupting clutches all along. And they are also now seeing Israel for the vile, demonic state that it always has been.

The truth about Epstein, the truth about Israel, the truth about the Mossad, the truth about Netanyahu, the truth about Congress, the truth about Trump and the truth about Scofieldism-Dispensationalism is now beginning to shine through the cracks of Christian Zionism.

From Candace Owens to Clayton Morris to Tucker Carlson to Piers Morgan to Joe Rogan to Larry Johnson to Max Blumenthal to Phil Giraldi to Judge Andrew Napolitano to Pepe Escobar to Scott Ritter, and on and on, they are all courageously shining the light of truth on the deception of Christian Zionism.

Short videos from my podium at Liberty Fellowship are circulating

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Operation Mockingbird 2.0? — Tulsi Gabbard Confirms Intel Agencies Still Using Corrupt Media to Undermine Trump and Push Propaganda

Investigative journalist Benny Johnson confronted Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard with a question that many Americans have been asking for years: Is Operation Mockingbird still alive?

Gabbard confirmed that the current Trump administration is actively battling rogue intelligence operatives embedded deep within the federal government who are coordinating with corporate media to undermine the will of the American people and sabotage the President’s agenda.

Though Gabbard carefully avoided using the term “Operation Mockingbird,” her remarks left no doubt.

Operation Mockingbird was originally a CIA program to infiltrate and control major news organizations, using planted narratives, compromised journalists, and covert funding to steer public opinion in favor of the regime.

Though it was allegedly shut down in the ’70s, Americans have seen its fingerprints in everything from the Trump-Russia hoax to the coordinated censorship of COVID dissidents to the Biden laptop cover-up.

Gabbard’s comments all but confirm: the same forces that fed lies to The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post during Obamagate and Russiagate are still hard at work—leaking classified intelligence with political motives.

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Flashback: See How The Media Spread Russian Hoax Lies As Obama Intel Agencies Created Them

Using a declassified document released this week, it has never been easier to see how the propaganda press partners with politicians to hoodwink the public and shape the political landscape.

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, released a 2020 Oversight Investigation and Referral report about a 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) titled, “Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election.”

It showed that under the direction of former President Barack Obama, then-CIA Director John Brennan and a handful of intelligence agents slapped together an ICA in two weeks, soon after Hillary Clinton lost the election. The ICA was used as the foundation of the Russia collusion hoax — the lie that Trump and Russia together cheated to win the 2016 election.

But the ICA was a terrible foundation for such a claim, because it was hastily written and had sketchy sourcing, including the fabricated and now debunked Steele dossier; and a six-word fragment of a sentence that mentioned Trump out of context. The report shows that intelligence agents argued with Brennen, telling him not to use information that was substandard, unclear, of uncertain origin, biased, or implausible.

The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland have an exclusive, must-read report with details on the strenuous objections high-level intelligence officers had to including the Steele dossier as a source for the ICA. Brennan included it anyway. Soon Obama and the propaganda press were passing off the suspect ICA report as solid proof of collusion.

With the HPSCI report in hand, rereading the corporate media articles that were used to spread the Russia hoax shows just how corrupt the media lies were. And instead of issuing correction notices, The New York Times and Washington Post are now doubling down on the hoax.

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