According to explosive testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, the CIA is being accused of taking back 40 boxes of JFK and MKUltra files from the office of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard—documents reportedly being prepared for declassification and public release.
A CIA whistleblower, James Erdmann III, has claimed the agency not only seized the files, but also monitored the computers and phones of Gabbard’s investigators as they examined an alleged cover-up surrounding the origins of COVID-19. Let’s be abundantly clear: Tulsi Gabbard has been doing exactly what the American people deserve—pushing sunlight, accountability, and truth in a government too often addicted to secrecy. All those who are attacking Gabbard should be looked on with suspicion as deep state shills. She has been incredibly brave and effective in her role at DNI, and all those who are trying to subvert her—such as the reality-detached ghoul Laura Loomer—should be ashamed of themselves.
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou told Fox News the agency has no authority to overrule either the president or the Director of National Intelligence. He said the files are mandated for declassification and that Americans have a right to know what is inside. Representative Anna Paulina Luna says the CIA has 24 hours to return the records or face a subpoena.
She called the seizure deeply troubling, especially because President Trump had ordered full declassification of JFK records. The CIA denies bad faith and calls the hearing political theater—because that is what CIA spooks always do: they lie and deny. But after decades of secrecy, destroyed records, and discredited denials around MKUltra, the JFK assassination and virtually everything else under the sun, Americans deserve the right to know. They can no longer be allowed to hide under the cloak of national security. It is time for the CIA to face the public scrutiny it has been skirting since its inception.
