Nic McKinley

The short story is, and I've told this a lot of times on podcasts like Patrick Bet-David and stuff in much longer form, is I met the CIA, was working counterterrorism issues with a JSOC counterpart. We came across what I like to call smoking gun intel on a child trafficker that was moving children across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and basically selling them for whatever.

The short story is, and I've told this a lot of times on podcasts like Patrick Bet-David and stuff in much longer form, is I met the CIA, was working counterterrorism issues with a JSOC counterpart. We came across what I like to call smoking gun intel on a child trafficker that was moving children across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and basically selling them for whatever.

And we figured, like, okay, we now know this intel. Trafficking isn't our mission. It's somebody else's mission. We're going to write this intel up. It's going to go through the process and end up in the right person's hands. Well, it turned out there was no right person's hands for the intel to land in. And that made me really curious.

And we figured, like, okay, we now know this intel. Trafficking isn't our mission. It's somebody else's mission. We're going to write this intel up. It's going to go through the process and end up in the right person's hands. Well, it turned out there was no right person's hands for the intel to land in. And that made me really curious.

Human trafficking wasn't at the time a mandatory presidential reporting requirement. I don't think it is still to this day. And that got me really curious. And when you have access to systems at the Central Intelligence Agency, which like when you're at the CIA and you have the highest clearance that you can possibly get in the government, there's nothing that you can't reach down into.

Human trafficking wasn't at the time a mandatory presidential reporting requirement. I don't think it is still to this day. And that got me really curious. And when you have access to systems at the Central Intelligence Agency, which like when you're at the CIA and you have the highest clearance that you can possibly get in the government, there's nothing that you can't reach down into.

Now, if you start reaching down into classified programs that you have no business reaching down into, like some people are going to come knock on your door and ask you some questions. But beyond that, you can kind of get to anything that you need to get to. So I started hunting for who's

Now, if you start reaching down into classified programs that you have no business reaching down into, like some people are going to come knock on your door and ask you some questions. But beyond that, you can kind of get to anything that you need to get to. So I started hunting for who's

got the ball on the human trafficking issue and is running it towards the end zone and figured out that there was really nobody. And that then led me kind of deeper into learning about human trafficking. And I learned that dollar for dollar, the largest human trafficking market in the world is the United States of America.

got the ball on the human trafficking issue and is running it towards the end zone and figured out that there was really nobody. And that then led me kind of deeper into learning about human trafficking. And I learned that dollar for dollar, the largest human trafficking market in the world is the United States of America.

And that just blew my mind because I was just still thinking that a human trafficking was an over there issue, not an over here issue.

And that just blew my mind because I was just still thinking that a human trafficking was an over there issue, not an over here issue.

We're the biggest human trafficker because I was at our biggest human trafficking market, as in we have the most customers and we spend as a country the most money. on purchasing primarily children and young girls for sex. That is something that we, the United States of America, are the number one in the world on.

We're the biggest human trafficker because I was at our biggest human trafficking market, as in we have the most customers and we spend as a country the most money. on purchasing primarily children and young girls for sex. That is something that we, the United States of America, are the number one in the world on.

It's not even just being trafficked into the country. So when I learned that human trafficking in the United States, right? Dollar for dollar. Largest human trafficking market in the world. Hmm. My mind was blown because like, wait a minute, here I am in Afghanistan. We can kill people with flying robots from 6000 miles away, but we can't do anything about this like child trafficking issue.

It's not even just being trafficked into the country. So when I learned that human trafficking in the United States, right? Dollar for dollar. Largest human trafficking market in the world. Hmm. My mind was blown because like, wait a minute, here I am in Afghanistan. We can kill people with flying robots from 6000 miles away, but we can't do anything about this like child trafficking issue.

And I'm still thinking it's like, oh, it's coming across the border and things like that. And that does happen. Right. I mean, Trump is not wrong. It does happen. And there are traffickers who come in here and they bring children with them and they recycle children across the border and all that. But according to the DOJ, 86% of the victims in their cases are U.S. citizens.

And I'm still thinking it's like, oh, it's coming across the border and things like that. And that does happen. Right. I mean, Trump is not wrong. It does happen. And there are traffickers who come in here and they bring children with them and they recycle children across the border and all that. But according to the DOJ, 86% of the victims in their cases are U.S. citizens.

Over 70% of the human traffickers are U.S. citizens. So whether it's traffickers coming across the border or it's traffickers who are already in our country, they're preying upon our children. And the reason why is because of the Internet. I mean, in my day... you know, the creep, right, pre-internet, the creepy guy on the wrong side of town, everybody knew, keep your kids away from him.

Over 70% of the human traffickers are U.S. citizens. So whether it's traffickers coming across the border or it's traffickers who are already in our country, they're preying upon our children. And the reason why is because of the Internet. I mean, in my day... you know, the creep, right, pre-internet, the creepy guy on the wrong side of town, everybody knew, keep your kids away from him.