Mike Ritland

you have to see the State Department everywhere. They are not USAID. They're State Department. They've always been State Department. There's never been an inch of daylight. Now, let's sort of start with that because there actually is in the sense that it's a switch player between these other interagencies, and they have more flexibility to do this rogue work than State.

you have to see the State Department everywhere. They are not USAID. They're State Department. They've always been State Department. There's never been an inch of daylight. Now, let's sort of start with that because there actually is in the sense that it's a switch player between these other interagencies, and they have more flexibility to do this rogue work than State.

But they are fundamentally supposed to be a State Department function. They are independent, but they are supposed to be guided by State. And they only exist to advance the foreign policy stipulated goals set by state. But what difference does it make? Leave aside the flexible covert action under discrete democracy promotions.

But they are fundamentally supposed to be a State Department function. They are independent, but they are supposed to be guided by State. And they only exist to advance the foreign policy stipulated goals set by state. But what difference does it make? Leave aside the flexible covert action under discrete democracy promotions.

But they are fundamentally supposed to be a State Department function. They are independent, but they are supposed to be guided by State. And they only exist to advance the foreign policy stipulated goals set by state. But what difference does it make? Leave aside the flexible covert action under discrete democracy promotions.

Leave aside the accountability, get out of White House approval free card aspect of it. What difference does it make to shut down USAID if you move everything over to the State Department? It's a State Department role anyway. There was intense debate about whether even to make it an independent agency because it's fundamentally the State Department.

Leave aside the accountability, get out of White House approval free card aspect of it. What difference does it make to shut down USAID if you move everything over to the State Department? It's a State Department role anyway. There was intense debate about whether even to make it an independent agency because it's fundamentally the State Department.

Leave aside the accountability, get out of White House approval free card aspect of it. What difference does it make to shut down USAID if you move everything over to the State Department? It's a State Department role anyway. There was intense debate about whether even to make it an independent agency because it's fundamentally the State Department.

It's the same debate that George Kennan had with his peers in 1948 when they created the function for covert action in the first place for the CIA.

It's the same debate that George Kennan had with his peers in 1948 when they created the function for covert action in the first place for the CIA.

It's the same debate that George Kennan had with his peers in 1948 when they created the function for covert action in the first place for the CIA.

George Kennan was the guy who authored NSC 10-2, the national security memo that established the plausible deniability doctrine for the Central Intelligence Agency to do covert action, political warfare, economic sabotage, propaganda, and information black ops, the whole gamut of everything that the CIA is authorized to lie about so that our government can deny to us and to the world that they're actually doing it.

George Kennan was the guy who authored NSC 10-2, the national security memo that established the plausible deniability doctrine for the Central Intelligence Agency to do covert action, political warfare, economic sabotage, propaganda, and information black ops, the whole gamut of everything that the CIA is authorized to lie about so that our government can deny to us and to the world that they're actually doing it.

George Kennan was the guy who authored NSC 10-2, the national security memo that established the plausible deniability doctrine for the Central Intelligence Agency to do covert action, political warfare, economic sabotage, propaganda, and information black ops, the whole gamut of everything that the CIA is authorized to lie about so that our government can deny to us and to the world that they're actually doing it.

two months before George Kennan authored NSC 10-2 and gave us the national security structure that we currently live under. He wrote this memo that I talk about frequently called The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare. This is on April 30th, 1948. This was two weeks after the CIA's first

two months before George Kennan authored NSC 10-2 and gave us the national security structure that we currently live under. He wrote this memo that I talk about frequently called The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare. This is on April 30th, 1948. This was two weeks after the CIA's first

two months before George Kennan authored NSC 10-2 and gave us the national security structure that we currently live under. He wrote this memo that I talk about frequently called The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare. This is on April 30th, 1948. This was two weeks after the CIA's first

mostly unauthorized, covert action to rig and influence the course of and ultimately win the Italian election in Italy, which was the first election in Italy after World War II that pitted a US-backed, pro-Western candidate against a communist, Soviet-backed candidate. And the CIA did all sorts of dirty work in there.

mostly unauthorized, covert action to rig and influence the course of and ultimately win the Italian election in Italy, which was the first election in Italy after World War II that pitted a US-backed, pro-Western candidate against a communist, Soviet-backed candidate. And the CIA did all sorts of dirty work in there.

mostly unauthorized, covert action to rig and influence the course of and ultimately win the Italian election in Italy, which was the first election in Italy after World War II that pitted a US-backed, pro-Western candidate against a communist, Soviet-backed candidate. And the CIA did all sorts of dirty work in there.