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Mike Benz

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

The Atlantic Council has seven CIA directors on its board.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

It receives annual funding every year from the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marines.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

annual funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, which is a CIA cutout.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

It receives millions of dollars from U.S.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

taxpayers.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

It was also partnered with Burisma, by the way, this NATO think tank.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

It has seven CIA directors on its board.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And lo and behold, it is serving as the deputy arm for

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

of demores in Brazil, even creating network maps of who to be censored.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Same thing with institutions like the Wilson Center.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Same thing with institutions like the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which, by the way, is the institution that was run from 2014 to 2021 by a man named Bill Burns.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

You may be familiar with that name.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Bill Burns is the current director of the CIA.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

He left the Carnegie Endowment to run the CIA.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And the Carnegie Endowment has its fingerprints all over this Brazil censorship situation.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And it gets worse than that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

We have formal government programs now that are...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

essentially coordinated, quarterbacked by the State Department, but are sort of run at the operational level and funded by the State Department, USAID, and the National Endowment for Democracy, which is this CIA cutout, you know, basically created in 1983 when our then CIA director was complaining that the CIA had lost too many powers after the Church Committee hearings in 1976.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

So we needed to do CIA work through a non-CIA entity called the National Endowment for Democracy.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Hunter Biden was on the chairman's advisory board, by the way, of the DNC branch of that.