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We have been living, it seems, in a make-believe world where the president we elect and the cabinet members he’s chosen are mere placeholders operating under a system where the bureaucracy controls relevant information and may or may not share it with those at the top. Jeff Childers says now that USAID has been transferred to Rubio’s Department of State and all but the statutory employees removed, the next target of DOGE is the CIA.
Was it purely coincidental that Rubio unexpectedly shuttered USAID on Friday and Ratcliffe unexpectedly invited DOGE into CIA the following Monday? Behold the timeline of just what we can see:
— On his first day in office, Trump created DOGE.
— DOGE’s first project was to wood-chip the CIA’s global laundromat, USAID.
— Weird legal fights erupted over the obscure “independent” agency.
— DOGE -- solely under Trump’s control -- continued penetrating most of the government.
— The Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA Director.
— Ratcliffe immediately fired an unknown number of CIA staff. (Battlefield preparation?)
— The JFK disclosures were body blows against the CIA. (More battlefield preparation?)
— Trump declassified (not yet produced) Crossfire Hurricane. (Even more?)
— Yesterday, Rubio officially ended USAID by Congressional notice.
— Yesterday, Ratcliffe publicly invited Musk into the CIA.
So many questions! Why Musk, and not a regular DOGE team? Why announce it? Why is the media pretending this story is a nothing burger?
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Imagine a new, AI-powered, top-secret, digital DOGE dashboard at Langley that can show Ratcliffe everything in real-time: every dollar, every operation, every contract, every overseas asset being paid -- and only Trump’s team will hold the keys. Once such a dashboard were installed, the Agency’s permanent staff couldn’t play their covert games anymore. No more secret drug ops. No more unauthorized coups. No more backchannel slush funds.
No more resist Trump operations.
If DOGE can pull this off, the Agency will properly become an extension of the White House, rather than the other way around.
In other words, DOGE at CIA is the nuclear option. It is a breathtaking vision of a brand-new reality that could dismantle the entire postwar geopolitical model. Now, permanent, unelected bureaucrats and spies hold the real power, because they control the money, secrets, and the levers of influence, while manipulated elected officials come and go like figure skaters blissfully unaware of all the busy little crustaceans teeming right below the ice.
If CIA-DOGE integration is real, and it sticks, then the Deep State will evaporate into a shallow pond. The DOGE dashboard would collapse the financial hydra into a one-necked money chokepoint. It would move the levers of control back into the White House. No more shadow government. No more covert meetings between “resisters” discussing how to undermine the elected President and thwart his agenda.
To be perfectly clear: DOGE in intelligence suggests, not just draining the swamp, but the engineered desertification of the swamp.
