This article appears in the February 21, 2025 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed, Putin and Trump Talk, Deep State in Shock
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Feb. 13—The confirmation by the U.S. Senate of Tulsi Gabbard on February 12 as President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) occurred in spite of an all-out effort by operatives of the “secret government” to derail it. It represents a step forward in the effort to take power away from the operatives of the corporate cartels burrowed within the U.S. intelligence services. Think what you might about the Trump “revolution” disrupting Washington by what may seem to be random decisions, but the outline of an overall plan is emerging. The institutions previously run by trusted operatives of the permanent bureaucracy, directed by what is sometimes called the “Deep State,” are the target of President Trump and his allies. In the first three weeks of his Presidency, this disruption has heads spinning among those accustomed to having their way, who use official institutions to act for the private benefit of what President Dwight Eisenhower famously called the military-industrial complex (MIC).
A key to this battle has been the publication and circulation of a dossier by The LaRouche Organization (TLO), “The Liar’s Bureau,” which “names the names” of some of the leading operatives of the “secret government.” TLO developed special expertise in this, as its founder, U.S. economist Lyndon LaRouche, and his associates, have been targets since the 1970s of these networks. Among those involved in the attacks on LaRouche have been prominent figures, such as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former FBI and CIA Director William Webster, and the notorious Robert Mueller.
A hidden, guiding hand in this operation was provided by British intelligence networks, including the same GCHQ and MI6 offices which later played a leading role in shaping the lying narratives of Russiagate. For example, one American oligarch who served as an interface between U.S. and British intelligence networks was investment adviser John Train, who was the founding editor of the Paris Review. Train, a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies, organized the “Train Salon,” which included government and private sector operatives involved in the “Get LaRouche Task Force.”
Taking Down the ‘Liars’ Bureau’
Gabbard’s confirmation was an uphill fight and an important victory, but still leaves much to do. Those resisting Trump 2.0 will not give up in their attempts to constrain him, as they did in his first term, with Russiagate the key to that constraint. Not surprisingly, the networks in intelligence, justice and law enforcement which concocted and ran the fraudulent Russiagate scandal against him are the targets today of Trump loyalists. There are two arenas to watch.
First, will Gabbard’s confirmation be followed by that of Kash Patel as FBI Director? Like Gabbard, he made it through Committee hearings with a one-vote margin, with voting on straight party lines. They both survived a rough grilling from Senators of both parties, who threw the “Russiagate playbook” at them, with accusations they are unqualified, are conspiracy theorists acting for revenge rather than to serve the American people, and will threaten national security if confirmed. Gabbard was slandered as a “puppet of Putin,” while Patel has been labeled a “wacko.” Both received full backing of Trump.
The deeper fear they provoke in the establishment is legitimate: They are not a threat to national security, but a threat to those who run the “national security state,” precisely because they reject subservience of U.S. institutions to the “Special Relationship” with the City of London and British intelligence agencies, which were instrumental in running Russiagate in collusion with senior intelligence operatives in the Obama administration, such as CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, and DNI James Clapper. Their resistance to Trump’s agenda was backed by corrupt leaders of both political parties, and given full support by the major media cartels, with complicity of a pack of liars among the “esteemed journalists,” whose efforts were rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes and big paychecks.
USAID, the Center for Regime Change
Secondly is the campaign unfolding against the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This agency has a huge bureaucracy, with a $40-plus billion budget in 2023 and a global reach. USAID provides funding for “humanitarian aid” programs for health care, clean water, food assistance, energy security, etc., for more than 100 countries. Initiated by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, these are not necessarily subversive activities in themselves, but do come with expectations of loyalty to the U.S. Other areas of USAID funding are decidedly subversive, i.e., programs for “conflict resolution,” “anti-corruption” and the “promotion of democracy,” with a history of USAID operatives closely coordinating with CIA covert operations.
Funds for these are directly related to launching color revolutions and regime change coups, with USAID joining with other NGOs, such as the International Republican Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy and private entities, such as the Soros Open Society Foundations, to overthrow governments deemed unfriendly by the Deep State. The 2014 Maidan coup and its aftermath in Ukraine received heavy funding, with lead State Department operative neocon Victoria Nuland once blurting out that more than $5 billion was poured into the campaign to deploy that country as a battering ram against Russia. USAID has been especially effective in organizing intelligence and media in U.S. hybrid warfare “soft power” ops, through funding and organizing “civic opposition” groups, promotion of “free press,” and “election security” programs in targeted countries—in reality, electoral meddling and interference—such as Hungary, Georgia, Croatia, Belarus, Serbia, Romania, and numerous African nations.
The past director of USAID, Samantha Power, a leading proponent of the Tony Blair doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect” to justify regime change operations, is notorious internationally for her hands-on approach to color revolutions. Her two-day visit to Budapest in February 2023 to promote “alternative media” was singled out by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as an example of U.S. meddling. Power coordinated USAID subversion with NATO–European Union campaigns of censorship against leaders such as Orbán, who are attacked as “authoritarians” and “anti-democratic,” even when they win decisive popular mandates in elections.
As the USAID has become the target of Elon Musk and his DOGE budget cutters—DOGE is the Department of Government Efficiency—the mainstream media is attempting to limit the discussion of moves against USAID to the usual “left-right dualism,” with Democrats portraying USAID as a benevolent agency pursuing “humanitarian” goals, and Republicans snarling about excessive foreign aid. The real issue has, until now, been kept from public notice: That is, that the USAID is a vital part of the imperial geopolitical game of the trans-Atlantic puppet masters—and that’s why it is now a focus for the anti–Deep State activists of the Trump administration.
Trump-Putin Collaboration?
An added nightmare for the Anglo-American imperial geopoliticians was the announcement of the ninety-minute conversation between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 12. Early indications are that this break in the Biden-Blinken-London policy of non-communication with Russia since the February 2022 launch of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine may go beyond talks to end the war. Both sides indicated a desire for more intense diplomacy, including on economic policy, relations with the nations of the Global South and the crisis in Southwest Asia. The possibility of the inclusion of Chinese President Xi Jinping in the discussion in the future would be an opening for the consolidation of a new strategic and development architecture, with the prospect of peaceful collaboration replacing nearly two centuries of geopolitical confrontations and war.
It is that prospect, built upon the combined potential of the Gabbard-Patel confirmations and the assault against the USAID coup plotters to clean out the rot in U.S. intelligence, which is the cause of panic in the “liberal-democratic” establishment.
