James O’Keefe on Wednesday released hidden camera footage that captured disturbing conversations between an undercover journalist and a Central Intelligence Agency contractor. Amjad Husaysi, an unsuspecting interviewee, said that during former President Donald Trump’s tenure, CIA leadership was “withholding information because they knew he would definitely expose it.” It claimed to have left democratically elected leaders in the dark. .
A CIA spokesperson confirmed to O’Keefe that Fuseisi was on his list.
LinkedIn pages currently being scrubbed The former Virginia-based manager at Deloitte, who previously worked for the firm, called his claims “ridiculous.”
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Mr. O’Keefe called Mr. Fuseisi “
Clearance of top secret/classified information”, suggesting that he “has worked for the CIA for over a decade, and his knowledge, position, and access have been and are corrupted by the CIA, its current culture, and its bureaucratic politics.” “It shows that they have a high level of awareness about it.” It has continued to use its powers for years to weaponize the CIA to spy on President Trump. ”
Mr. O’Keefe initially indicated that the CIA contractor was acting as a project manager for the cyber operation, but the investigative journalist later claimed that Mr. Husaysi, as he identified himself in the video, was a CIA program manager. A correction was announced.
China Mission Center.
“I work for the CIA,” Husaysi told an anonymous citizen journalist on camera, suggesting he had done so since 2008. “I run cyber operations. I’ve been doing it for a long time.”
At one point, he boasted that he was “fully tested” and had a TS SCI.
“I help out at the mission center,” the contractor continued. “Entire company”
Fuseisi explained that although he currently works for Deloitte, he is “based at the CIA” and previously worked at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“Okay, I’m a little nervous,” Fuseisi says after showing an undercover journalist what appears to be a green badge with a photo allegedly taken in 2013.
Chelsea Robinson, a spokeswoman for the agency, said:
Said O’Keefe Media Group claimed that “the individuals making these allegations are former contractors and do not represent the CIA.”
Mr. O’Keefe later seized on the agency’s indication that Mr. Husaysi no longer works for the CIA, noting that in a video taken last week, Mr. Husaysi was “waving the intelligence agency’s green badge.”
The investigative journalist implied that if Mr. Husaysi was a prime contractor, the termination would have happened within the past few days, quoting a former deputy director of national intelligence who said, “If Mr. “Individuals in possession of such materials are only permitted to legally possess them.”It is between official [sic] Employed as a contractor by the intelligence community. In the event of termination, your credentials will be returned to your home government agency and immediately destroyed. ”
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The journalist said to Fuseisi, “You said Mike Pompeo was working with other intelligence leaders.”
Fuseishi interrupted, “That’s right.”
“This is to withhold information from Mr. Trump,” the journalist continues.
After editing the video, Fuseisi appears to say, “That’s what my predecessor, Gina Haspel, did.”
Asked whether former CIA Director Gina Haspel withheld information from President Trump, Husaysi said: “And I think Mike Pompeo did the same thing.”
A former CIA contractor claimed that President Trump regularly called Russian President Vladimir Putin and provided him with information. When asked why he would do such a thing, Fuseisi said: “He’s a total idiot.”
In a video ostensibly filmed on a separate occasion, journalists pursued this issue and asked Mr. Husaysi. “So all the agencies, I mean all the agencies, got together and said, we’re not going to tell Mr. Trump.”
“The higher ups,” Fuseisi answered. “Please say this, senior staff. We’re talking about the director and his subordinates.”
“We tried not to give him information because we knew he would reveal it,” Husaysi said. “There are people who will give him the general outline, but never the details. Do you know why? Because he will divulge the details.”
This is not the first time someone familiar with the CIA has suggested that the agency was keeping secrets from a nation’s legally and democratically elected leaders.
Douglas London, who served as the top CIA counterterrorism official in the Trump administration.
Said The New York Times said in 2022, “We certainly considered, ‘What damage could he do if he blurted this out?'”
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was suggested In one example, early in his presidency, Trump informed Russian officials about Islamic State terrorist plots that Israel had relayed to Washington. This transparency greatly angered intelligence agencies.
Former CIA Director John Brennan
was suggested In March, he said the CIA and other intelligence agencies would likely return to keeping Trump in the dark if he secured the Republican nomination.
Brennan told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace that the briefing “doesn’t do any harm to the sources or methods of my former intelligence community colleagues in terms of providing information that could be used against Donald Trump.” I am confident that we will provide the same.” “I think it’s going to be an analysis that lacks the sources, the methods, the secrets that we’re most concerned about, the kinds of things that were in the documents that he had in the restroom and in all areas of March.” -A-Lago. ”
Brennan was one of the Intel alumni who signed on to the misleading Hunter Biden “Intel”
letter It affected the 2020 election. The letter appeared to be the result of an effort led by then-senior adviser to the Biden campaign, Antony Blinken, who said the Hunter Biden laptop incident “contains all the classic hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation. “There is,” he suggested.
Mr. Husaysi suggested that CIA officials not only keep the president in secrecy but also keep him under constant surveillance.
“We have human intelligence and we have people monitoring us.” [Trump’s] “He’s his ex-wife,” Fuseisi said. “He likes to use his cell phone.”
Asked whether intelligence agencies were still spying on Mr. Trump, Mr. Husaysi said: “We are monitoring everything. … Nothing happens unless someone is watching.”
Husaysi suggested that the intelligence community generally despises Trump and considers him “the biggest idiot,” but noted that there are a few holdouts who “deeply secretly love him.” . Mr. Fuseisi suggested that the few office workers who like the president are “rednecks living in remote, remote countryside.”
Mr. Husaysi suggested that the intelligence community did not trust Mr. Trump because of concerns that he would further exercise the powers given to him by the American people, and that the intelligence services did not trust each other. did.
Asked if the CIA was working with the NSA, he said, “No, they’re very territorial… They don’t like to share information.”
Fuseishi is furious
Following Fuseisi, O’Keefe said, “Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi have done some reporting about information being withheld from Mr. Trump.” It’s a crime.”
“No, I don’t know,” Fuseisi said. “Everything I said I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t have information. I don’t have knowledge.”
Confronted with a series of his famous quotes, Husaysi can be seen in the video raising his hand and saying: “I have an opinion, but I don’t know.”
O’Keefe later said that Fuseisi’s sudden alarm “could expose him to liability for violating federal laws, including internal agency rules and the executive branch ethics code, which limits what can be shared with outsiders.” He pointed out that this may have been the result of the recognition that “there is.” Contract agency. ”
CIA spokeswoman Chelsea Robinson said, “These claims about the CIA are completely false and ridiculous. “We provide intelligence support to policymakers, including the United States.”
“We specialize in foreign intelligence and do not monitor former presidents,” Robinson added.
Shellenberger, Taibbi and Alex Gutentag, citing “multiple reliable sources” close to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
report In February, it was announced that the CIA had illegally mobilized foreign intelligence to spy on Trump advisers before the 2016 election.
According to officials, then-President Barack Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan identified 26 of Trump’s associates as “targets for conflict, contact, and manipulation” by members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. identified. They were our own targets. IC and law enforcement – subject to collection and misinformation. ”
In response to O’Keefe’s video, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) said:
I was demanded to The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has called for a formal investigation into “the intelligence community’s alleged actions against President Trump.”
Congressman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.)
similarly shown He will demand an investigation.
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