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A couple of weeks ago there was a story that the CIA raided the office of the director of the NSA and seized information regarding the CIA. Trump was in China at the time. About a week later the NSA director resigns. I waited for it to turn into a major story and get some kind of explanation, but silence.

It seems like an extraordinary story and I don't understand why there isn't a hullabaloo. Did I hallucinate it? Who runs this country?

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Anna Paulina Luna is the only one claiming that the CIA raided the office of the DNI. No other trustworthy sources are reporting this and there's been no independent verification. Anna Paulina Luna is a lunatic who says outlandish things with no regards to truth.

There might be a mix up on the details.

The FBI raided the home of John Bolton who was a former National Security Advisor for the first Trump administration. (not directly part of the NSA and definitely not the director of the NSA). Bolton has become a vocal critic of Trump since he was fired in Sept 2019.

Trump's DOJ has a track record of prosecuting Trump's vocal critics. eg. Former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general Letitia James

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_John_Bolton

There has been no legal action taken against current NSA director General Joshua M. Rudd or his recent predecessor, William J. Hartman

> Trump's DOJ has a track record of prosecuting Trump's vocal critics.

And many Americans claim they have freedom of speech!

(Of course the little guys speech is "free", they aren't important. But the moment the little guy critical of Trump is in a position of power or influence, watch how quickly he is silenced.)

The DNI, not the NSA.

Because nobody reputable reported on it?

Reputable reporters know that publishing those stories leads to break-in burglaries where everyone is killed and nothing is stolen.

Or with hands tied and two gunshot wounds to the back of the head and its ruled a suicide (Gary Webb)

Or crawled into a suitcase and zipped it up = suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams

> A subsequent Metropolitan Police re-investigation concluded that Williams's death was "probably an accident"

My sides

You think that reputation was earned without submission to intelligence agencies?

The media is tightly controlled.

> Who runs this country?

American Thought Control.

Crazy crackpot schizos aren’t the only ones listening to the voices in their heads.

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