I resigned from the CIA in 1998 because it was floundering, with no real mission. It looked like Al Gore would win the election. He was babbling about "environmental intelligence." Hillary had a suite of offices in CIA headquarters, ostensibly to research some human rights related case. I had a successful and active few years as an ops officer. The bureaucracy did not care, though. I was not a good bureaucrat. In the deadening government culture, not only was excellence not rewarded, it was generally punished. Non-producers got promotions and awards just as much as, or more than, producers. Kissing ass and playing politics was the way to advance. Busting ass and achieving results was threatening to those who played the game. Once I'd seen the inside of the government intel apparatus, I couldn't unsee it. No real, meaningful mission, craven office politics rewarded.
At that time, dot com was busting out all over. I saw an opportunity to apply the skills that I'd honed in human intelligence. I jumped off the government career track without a parachute. I resigned and took a 100% commission job as an executive recruiter--a headhunter.
With a generous dose of luck, dogged perseverance, and the ability to walk off abject panic, I ended up building my own head-hunting business, with start-up clients mostly in Silicon Valley. In my capitalist world, every penny that came in was due to my efforts and energy. I was rewarded for excellence--by more revenue, more clients, more referrals.
 It was the exact opposite of the government. Freed from "outside activity" restrictions, I also became politically active. As the alternative media took off, I networked my way to a couple internet start-ups: Newsmax and Breitbart.
As Newsmax built its management team, I worked with Chris Ruddy as his executive recruiter, placing a few key personnel. This relationship led to a column for Newsmax. For Breitbart, I was one of the original writing team on Pete Schweitzer's BigPeace website.
I thanked the lord every day that I'd escaped the government charade. At the tail end of the 1990s, the CIA's budget, and pretty much all military and intel budgets were not growing. CIA did a round of early retirements. Morale was low, offices were old. Equipment was not the latest and greatest.
Then 9/11 hit. Overnight the military/intel complex was energized. Candidates lined up to get in. Though the military/intel/law enforcement complex had failed grossly--they now had a mission. And that mission came with billions and billions of dollars attached to it. Congress shoveled money their way. The military, the Intel Community (IC), the FBI, all were showered with never-before-seen budgets.
Rewarded for failure? Or incentivized to do better? Doesn't matter. They got hundreds of billions of dollars after their failure. And were pushed to spend the dollars killing and destroying. The IC and the military were good to go. The FBI did a little re-inventing--creating an Intelligence function and perfecting their entrapment techniques.
The bureaucrats who'd been moping along in the 1990s, after the USSR fell, with no budget and nothing to do suddenly had sacks of gold dumped in their laps. They could spend money on anything, as long as there was some link to counter-terrorism or homeland security. New luxurious buildings popped up all over the DC area. Every intel office was equipped with the latest flat screen TVs, new computers, new office furniture, old buildings renovated, new amenities in office buildings. The government drudges in the intel community were in fat city.
They got used to living high on the hog. They traveled around the world in business class. They had conferences in resorts across the globe. As conflicts and wars raged, ginned up by the neocons and their vile lash-up with the PC-Progs (viz McCain/Graham and other neocons' cooperation with Hillary Clinton/John Brennan/Samantha Powers), blossomed across the Middle East, unlimited dollars flowed.
After 9/11, the initial rush of support and funds for striking al-Qaeda was co-opted. The whole MilIntel complex danced to the tune of the Neocons--more wars for Israel--that could not stop. Fat and happy with their billions, serving their hostile foreign masters--they kept prodding and poking, creating excuses to go to war against enemies of Israel.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, and always their boogey-man looming in the background--Iran. We descended into barbarity; Obama picked up where Bush/Cheney left off: drone-striking whole families out of existence. US citizens? No problem--he's got a list.
On 9/12/2001, I, too, was energized. Suddenly the IC had a mission. And it was a mission I was good at. And the bureaucrats needed my skills. I set aside my head-hunting business, and jumped back inside. For the next 5 years, I operated in places where there was a need for my skills.
After that whirlwind of years, traveling non-stop, I had to choose: keep operating or keep my family. I chose family.
By that time, LinkedIn had killed my head-hunting business. The real mission faded in about 2004, anyway. Now, back inside, with my business gone, I applied another of my skillsets--Instructional Design. I stayed inside the IC, building and facilitating training courses. But I also kept writing for non-PC-Prog websites. Entering the Obama years, I published a book chronicling my research that revealed the source of the anti-Normal-American PC-Prog belief system that drove the Obama cult. While I knew I was skating on thin ice, I avoided involvement in party politics.
As the Obama debacle entered its second term, I became the first national writer to call out John Brennan for what he was--a vile, snake-in-the-grass, behind the scenes manipulator, spreading death and war in his wake. While I wasn't in Langley at the time (I was working in a military intel training program), I heard from contacts there that my articles on Brennan were posted on bulletin boards at Langley. So, I was known to Brennan and his underlings.
In the beginning of Obama's second term, Brennan was made Director of the CIA. He'd been rejected in Obama's first term when the Senate revealed his failures at CIA. The failure of his post-government multi-million-dollar analytical software--designed to "connect the dots," it failed miserably to do that in the case of the African underwear bomber. Brennan had gone on to suck up to Obama's handlers, and wormed his way into the inner circle. He was probably even more powerful as Obama's Counter-terrorism Czar than he would have been at CIA. But the slimy bureaucrat craved that title--DCIA. He got it in 2013.
In 2011, I'd accepted an offer to go back to CIA as a contractor in an Instructional Designer role. It was clear to me that the IC, at that time, was complicit in the Iraq WMD manipulations. But that war would have happened no matter what, as there were multiple valid reasons for attacking Iraq. But the politicization of the IC was not complete. My return was a huge mistake. Within two weeks of Brennan's arrival as DCIA, his security boys were knocking on my office door. I became the first (that I'd heard of) political purge in the Agency as the IC jumped off the cliff into the darkness that led to Brennan/et al's machinations against candidate Trump. I walked away with a clean conscience and a deep understanding of what Normal Americans were up against.
In 2015, when candidate Trump promised to stop wars and drain swamps, those sluggish IC bureaucrats, now morphed into the Deep State, were awakened. For the first time in American history, the military/intel/law enforcement complex was a political animal. The potential of losing the non-stop flow of cash was as terrifying as the potential of losing the perks they loved. But their reaction wasn't just about money. The Neocons had completed their vile lash-up with the PC-Progs after 8 years of fun with Hillary, Samantha Powers, and John Brennan. For the first time, there emerged a monolithic Deep State, advocating and implementing policies with no connection to American interests.
Finally, Trump pointed out that the emperor had no clothes. He publicly called out the insanity of the forever wars in the Middle East. He pointed out the insanity of constantly poking the Russian bear, and propping up corrupt Ukraine.
The Deep State ran non-stop operations against Trump, from the beginning of his first campaign through the Biden/Harris emplacement. It provided the grist for the impeachment trials. It provided a constant flow of leaks, fueling legacy media hits on Trump and his allies. In 2020, 51 reptilian suck-ups (including Brennan, Morrell, Clapper, Polymeropoulos, Sipher, Hayden, McLaughlin) emerged into the bright light of day when Morrell honchoed a disinformation operation against American media reporting on the damning contents of Hunter Biden's laptop. Using the American public's naïve trust in the IC, these Deep State denizens committed the first public act of election interference by the IC. They published a letter branding the true, confirmed reports of Hunter's laptop a classic Russian disinformation operation. Their letter, combined with the legacy media and social media’s collusion to kill the truth, effectively sank the Hunter laptop story, and paved the way for Biden's installation as president.
Four years later, with Biden's dementia out in the open, the PC-Prog/Neocon cabal handling the Democrat party installed Harris as its Defender of Democracy, the Deep State rears its lizard-head again. 741 National Security Leaders, former members of the CIA, DIA, State, branches of the military, and other beltway bandits have signed onto an announcement that they support a serious and capable Commander-in-Chief and because they believe that American democracy is invaluable, they endorse Harris's campaign for president. Many of the Dirty 51 slithered out to sign on to this one, too.
This is unprecedented. Never before in American history have representatives of the military, IC, diplomatic corps, and various other elements of what is now recognized as the Deep State banded together, in the open, against the interests of Normal Americans, to protect their never-ending wars, non-stop meddling in millennia-old conflicts around the world, and the pissing away of trillions of dollars collected from American tax-payers, angling to maintain the wars, the insane foreign policy detached from American interests, and the support of foreign powers hostile to Normal American interests.
If Trump's campaign is able to overcome the massive election manipulation surely planned by the anti-Trump forces, and Trump takes office, we are very likely to see more unprecedented events as the Deep State pit of vipers emerges to strike the new administration. Will they be subdued? Or will they prevail? Regardless, it's time to pop this pimple and squeeze the pus. Without that, our nation will have to deal with this abscess continuing to pump its poison into our culture.
Amen. It's do or die this time.
I gather from this essay that you think 9/11 occurred as reported. You put no credence in any of the theories of it being an inside job?