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Mike Benz

πŸ‘€ Speaker
5109 total appearances

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The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

USAID blocks even its Senate Foreign Relations Committee Oversight Committee members, sitting senators, from accessing the grant details and the troves of classified documents that USAID sits on because It is – when I said when it's too dirty for the CIA to give it to USAID, that is not a joke. That's not an understatement. That's not hyperbole.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

USAID can do covert action without requiring the same presidential finding that's required of the CIA. So when the CIA wants to do a dirty deed, a covert action abroad, but they don't think the president will approve, or even worse, it directly targets the president's international allies or even the president himself by proxy –

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

USAID can do covert action without requiring the same presidential finding that's required of the CIA. So when the CIA wants to do a dirty deed, a covert action abroad, but they don't think the president will approve, or even worse, it directly targets the president's international allies or even the president himself by proxy –

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

USAID can do covert action without requiring the same presidential finding that's required of the CIA. So when the CIA wants to do a dirty deed, a covert action abroad, but they don't think the president will approve, or even worse, it directly targets the president's international allies or even the president himself by proxy –

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

they can simply walk over to USAID and have a USAID network carry out the logistics under the banner of humanitarian aid.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

they can simply walk over to USAID and have a USAID network carry out the logistics under the banner of humanitarian aid.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

they can simply walk over to USAID and have a USAID network carry out the logistics under the banner of humanitarian aid.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

So if they want to fund ISIS, if a rogue cell at CIA wants to support ISIS groups and the President of the United States wants to eradicate ISIS, then they can have USAID do humanitarian support in the region where they'll pay for the housing, they'll pay for the food, they'll pay for the munitions flows. and then it's not a CI covert action.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

So if they want to fund ISIS, if a rogue cell at CIA wants to support ISIS groups and the President of the United States wants to eradicate ISIS, then they can have USAID do humanitarian support in the region where they'll pay for the housing, they'll pay for the food, they'll pay for the munitions flows. and then it's not a CI covert action.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

So if they want to fund ISIS, if a rogue cell at CIA wants to support ISIS groups and the President of the United States wants to eradicate ISIS, then they can have USAID do humanitarian support in the region where they'll pay for the housing, they'll pay for the food, they'll pay for the munitions flows. and then it's not a CI covert action.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

It's just discreet democracy promotion that, oh, just so happens to go wrong being done by USAID. I posted an example of this from the first decade of USAID's existence. This was under sworn testimony at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1972.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

It's just discreet democracy promotion that, oh, just so happens to go wrong being done by USAID. I posted an example of this from the first decade of USAID's existence. This was under sworn testimony at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1972.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

It's just discreet democracy promotion that, oh, just so happens to go wrong being done by USAID. I posted an example of this from the first decade of USAID's existence. This was under sworn testimony at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1972.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

When we were at war in Vietnam and Laos in 1967, the CIA's mercenary army, backed by this commander Vinh Pao, it was USAID who paid Vinh Pao to purchase two CIA aircraft from Air America and Continental Air Services, which are two CIA proprietary airlines. This is all public and declassified aircraft.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

When we were at war in Vietnam and Laos in 1967, the CIA's mercenary army, backed by this commander Vinh Pao, it was USAID who paid Vinh Pao to purchase two CIA aircraft from Air America and Continental Air Services, which are two CIA proprietary airlines. This is all public and declassified aircraft.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

When we were at war in Vietnam and Laos in 1967, the CIA's mercenary army, backed by this commander Vinh Pao, it was USAID who paid Vinh Pao to purchase two CIA aircraft from Air America and Continental Air Services, which are two CIA proprietary airlines. This is all public and declassified aircraft.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

nominally in order to help economic development in the region that the CIA-backed paramilitary effective terrorist group was operating. They knew that that was where drugs were being shipped out of the Golden Triangle. So basically, USAID bought them the airplanes to be able to retail the opium from the Golden Triangle to Vietnam in order to sell them in order to fund their own mercenary army.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

nominally in order to help economic development in the region that the CIA-backed paramilitary effective terrorist group was operating. They knew that that was where drugs were being shipped out of the Golden Triangle. So basically, USAID bought them the airplanes to be able to retail the opium from the Golden Triangle to Vietnam in order to sell them in order to fund their own mercenary army.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

nominally in order to help economic development in the region that the CIA-backed paramilitary effective terrorist group was operating. They knew that that was where drugs were being shipped out of the Golden Triangle. So basically, USAID bought them the airplanes to be able to retail the opium from the Golden Triangle to Vietnam in order to sell them in order to fund their own mercenary army.

The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles

USAID has been doing this since the day it was born.