Patrick Byrne is back in the USA, dropping Truth Bunker Busters, when he isn’t being interrupted by his hosts, so I’m compiling the highlights, here.
What’s crazy is that he’s uncovered a lot of important information but he can’t seem to admit that the Venezuelan Regime is just another element of the all-encompassing Global Crime System.
Patrick had fled to Qatar, due to a $25 million bounty placed on his head by the Cártel de los Soles, the gang of Venezuelan military leaders, who he says not only run the Venezuelan government but to whom all of the infamous Mexican human-trafficking and drug cartels are subordinate.
He told Owen Shroyer that he’d been instructed a year ago by somebody, high-up in the DOJ to, “Not set foot in the United States until Donald Trump is President,” and that he’d been out of the US almost the entire last two years. He also said the United States “would not have survived” if Trump had not been re-elected. I agree.
I highly recommend that you also watch Patrick’s interview with Owen Shroyer. I have transcribed every word, beneath the video linked below:
(VIDEO: “Patrick Byrne on Signal Gate, the 2020 Election Theft & the Ongoing Coup Against President Trump” – Pub. March 30, 2025 by ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net)
Patrick has been on a whirlwind press junket over the past week, to promote his film, ‘The Enemy Within’ (Pay-Per-View), which he’d been unable to promote when it was released last November, because he was ill.
On his Telegram account, he posted a video from inside the deluxe The View Hospital in Doha, Qatar with its incredible views. He gave the facility a 5-Star Review, as someone who has spent for over 900 days of his life hospitalized, in a battle with cancer since his 20s.
What I found most interesting about last week’s interviews was his re-cap of the undeclared war through which we have all been living – the rotten corpse of an 800-lbs gorilla that is only barely acknowledged by President Trump’s March 15th Executive order, “Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua“ and that is not acknowledged, whatsoever in the unclassified 2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community.
Patrick’s interview with Alex Jones is also great and highly-recommended. The full transcript appears beneath this video:
(VIDEO: “Patrick Byrne: Major Revelations About Election Fraud that Will Devastate the Deep State” – Pub. March 30, 2025 by ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net)
Here are the merged bullet points of Patrick’s three interviews last week:
• We are basically living through World War 3, a “Bolshevik Subversion” being waged by China via Cuba and Venezuela, using electronic voting systems, with the help of 20 key traitors within the US Government.
• Whereas, the Clintons made blackmail the common currency of DC and the Bidens stand for pure corruption, Barack Obama – a 3rd generation CIA asset – and the Obama Wing of the Democratic Party are about overthrowing the US with a Bolshevik Revolution.
• “They have changed the arc of Western history and smashed it into a brick wall.” Sadly, most Westerners don’t know that they’re living in a Maoist PSYOP. As Patrick says, “It’s like trying to argue with a TV set.”
• These election theft operations have been ongoing for 20 years and 71 other countries have had their elections similarly stolen.
• Due to the US Electoral College, only six US counties that contain two thirds of the votes in their respective states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada need to be stolen in order to steal the entire US Election.
• Six secretaries of state of Swing States who oversaw the 2020 election need to be arrested.
• Last July, Gen Mike Flynn met with the Venezuelan, Chinese and Serbian system administrators who altered the Swing State elections, as directed by the Cártel de los Soles, the Cuban DGI and the CCP, stored on Huawei servers in Belgrade and Hong Kong. Juan O Savin has repeatedly said these individuals, the hardware and the original source code are all in protective custody.
• In “the single-digit months ahead – sooner, rather than later,” Patrick says the full details, including undeniable, hard proof of the theft of the 2020 election will have worked their way throughout the US Government and these will be made public.
• Venezuela sits atop the largest oil reserves on the planet and the Venezuelan Regime has looted $4 trillion out of there.
• The Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang are paramilitary enforcers of the Venezuelan Regime and they have invaded the US for terroristic purposes, many entering via Nicaragua using fake Colombian IDs.
• Establishment Republicans, like Harmeet Dhillon have been slowing down the prosecution of these crimes.
• CIA Director John Ratcliffe is a good guy but he’s probably in over his head and he misspoke when he told Rep Joaquin Castro last week that the “Intelligence Community” has no assessment that the US is being invaded by the nation of Venezuela. Ratcliffe does not speak for the IC. Ratcliffe speaks for the CIA.
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard oversees the Intelligence Community, including Ratcliffe and she implied to Rep Castro that the FBI and Kash Patel assess that Venezuela has invaded the US.
• The Alien Enemies Act does not require a declaration of war in order to be invoked. An invasion is suffice.
• Patrick’s godfather is Warren Buffett, he has been an FBI asset for decades and he’s arrived at all of the above through investigating the 2020 election theft – but he won’t breathe a word about the CIA, let alone MI-6 or the US Military. Patrick asked Alex Jones, “Who was behind this? Either China or the WEF?” Is he playing dumb?
• AIM4Truth.org and affiliated websites have shown since 2018 that these “Venezuelan” electronic voting systems have always been controlled by the British Crown and that these election theft operations are Globalist. The CCP is a Globalist operation and the US Government and Military are largely controlled by Globalists. How does Patrick not know this?
• CIA whistleblower, Gary Berntsen, who has worked with Patrick describes the Venezuelan Government as “A $2 trillion transnational criminal organization and the most well-resourced criminal syndicate in history. Through bribery and investments of its funds, it controls a dozen countries and world leaders. It has massive investments in the US and European financial markets and institutions.”
• Berntsen recently referred to the CIA with regard to Tren de Aragua:
Quoting Berntsen, Miami Herald journalist Antonio Delgado wrote: “The Venezuelan regime has assumed operational control of these guys [Tren de Aragua] and has trained 300 of them; they have given them paramilitary training, training them to fire weapons and how to conduct sabotage. They have given them all like a four- to six-week course. They put these 300 guys through that course, and then they were deploying them into the United States to 20 separate states.”
Berntsen explained that sabotage includes acts such as arson, and that recent patterns of mysterious industrial fires, wildfires, and urban blazes—notably in Los Angeles and other key areas—could plausibly be linked to these foreign-trained operatives.
“Many of these wildfires, industrial fires, the Los Angeles fires, taking advantage of wind and the local conditions, were started by arsonists. How many of them were paid or coerced by TdA or their surrogates?” Berntsen asked.
Even more disturbing than the operation itself is the claim that elements within the CIA have deliberately ignored or buried this intelligence. Berntsen revealed that two current CIA officials recently leaked false information to The New York Times, claiming there is no intelligence connecting Tren de Aragua to the Venezuelan government. But Berntsen says otherwise—and he has proof.
“The CIA doesn’t have the information because they refused to look at it,” Berntsen said. “We tried to brief them about this three years ago, but they were directed by the Biden Administration to ignore it. And now those officials are trying to undermine President Trump.”
According to Berntsen, he has already shared intelligence and source material with “elements of the U.S. government,” showing deep and sustained relationships between Tren de Aragua, Venezuelan and Cuban intelligence services, and high-level narcoterrorist operations.
X.com post by @DefiyantlyFree – March 28, 2025
I’ve linked the transcript of L Todd Wood’s excellent interview with Patrick with several interesting resources below.
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TRANSCRIPT
(Commercial break and small talk)
L Todd Wood: First, let’s talk election fraud. You posted something, and in fact, I brought it out. You said, “This could be something Harmeet Dhillon could look into, that is, if she’s actually interested in fixing anything.” And this is over the Pennsylvania – I think it was District 36, mail-in ballot issue – which is obviously, what’s going on. That was a Red District for decades, and all of a sudden it flips. What say you?
Patrick Byrne: Well, I think that she has… I’ll put it this way. You’re going to discover, I think big news coming out to the world, in the single-digit months ahead – sooner, rather than later. I want to put it that way. But the whole truth of what happened is now known and it’s working its way through all the channels of Government, and we’ll see how long it takes them to do the thing.
But as it gets public, people should know that Harmeet Dhillon – we probably knew 20% of that truth, or 25% of it, on November 10th, 2020. Harmeet, by the time, two years ago she was introduced to it, there was 60% or 70% of what will eventually become known. We only had 60% or 70%. She wanted nothing to do with it.
She knew it was true and backed away, as well as all kinds of people in Congress. It was so radioactive. They all backed away. So, they’re willing to police-up little crimes. They’re afraid to take on things from a systemic point of view. And I worry that President Trump, doesn’t understand that. Many of these people he’s relying on had 50%, 60%, 70% of the truth for a couple of years – still did nothing.
L Todd Wood: And you’re talking about the 2020 Truth is what you’re talking about, right? The whole election.
Patrick Byrne: Yes, I’m talking about the truth of 2020.
L Todd Wood: Yeah. So we’ve got the blank ballots in Florida. We’ve got the mail-in ballots in Florida and across in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. We have the captured government in Arizona.
Is the new FBI head and is the new DNI, are they investigating? Is that why they’re quiet? Or are they just ignoring? I mean, what do you think?
Patrick Byrne: I have confidence in Kash Patel. I have confidence in Tulsi Gabbard. I’m fine with Pam Bondi and John Ratcliffe. I don’t think they’re the type of people who will bite the ass off a bear.
Pam Bondi seems to be trying to position herself to enter politics. She’s on Fox every night. She could be arresting people. They could be arresting people.
But I think that Kash Patel has the best interest of the country in his heart. It’s a shame, that I think John Ratcliffe is going to have circles run around him by the CIA. So they’re [Bondi and Ratcliffe] not going to bite the ass off a bear and get anything done. But Tulsi and Kash Patel will and it’s promising.
Did you see that Trump, a few weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago, when Pam Bondi said, “We’re not releasing Epstein files because it’s National Security.” The next day or a day or two later, it was announced that Kash Patel now had a direct line to Donald Trump. I think that was probably in response [to Bondi’s stand-down].
L Todd Wood: What was that whole Epstein? I mean, I was asking Jack Maxey in the first hour, what was that Influencer Op that happened at the White House? Do you have any idea what that was? I mean, why do that, right? Why bring out binders, which you knew was old information, would be discovered as old information and make everybody look stupid? I mean, what was the purpose of that? Do you have any thoughts?
Patrick Byrne: It was the folks in New York [FBI Field Office]. It was the folks in New York who did that. The guy that she fired and who then walked out to the applause of his office.
L Todd Wood: The FBI guy [James Dennehy].
Patrick Byrne: The FBI Guy. That guy should have been confined to his home and investigated!
So he [Dennehy] did that to make her [Bondi] look stupid. And then, she sent people up and they just raided the offices and they took everything in that FBI office about it.
L Todd Wood: Interesting.
Patrick Byrne: She didn’t know the material well enough to know that what he gave her was really quite anodyne.
L Todd Wood: But she was in Florida during this whole thing, during the whole Epstein thing. Shouldn’t she have known or shouldn’t she have read? You just think she was tricked and wasn’t up to the task?
Patrick Byrne: Yeah, I think that she was tricked and didn’t really know and they gave her some anodyne files filled with stuff that I think had been out for years.
L Todd Wood: Exactly, yeah.
Patrick Byrne: And she thought it was some big new thing. She didn’t really know the subject well enough.
L Todd Wood: Any insight on the JFK files while we’re on the releases? I don’t think it was all the information, but it was a lot. But there’s still much that’s still there, right?
Patrick Byrne: I hear that when you feed it into AI, AI comes out and says, “It was not a lone gunman and LBJ ordered it. And it seems to have been the CIA, the Israeli Mossad and using the Mafia.” Is that about the good summary of it?
L Todd Wood: I think that’s, yeah. And maybe that’s why the rest isn’t being released. Judicial corruption: Judge Boasberg and all of them. Is a District Court going to run the foreign policy of the United States?
Patrick Byrne: Well, Trump is right to ignore them. He should ignore them. It’s not a justiciable question. And he’s [Boasberg] absolutely wrong. I mean, it’s an Open-and-Shut.
Executive Order – “Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua“ March 15, 2025
In the language of the Alien Enemies Act, the whole question is, “OK, if we’re at war with a country, Donald Trump has, per the Alien Enemies Act, the right to take any male from that country, who’s in our country, who’s over the age of 14 and just round them up and send them home.” And he can do it, he just has to declare, he just has to proclaim it. He doesn’t have to answer to anybody.
And so the question is, “Are we at war with Venezuela?” Well, and that’s what the Judge is saying. Well, the language says, “If there’s a war or if there’s an attempt –” do you have that language handy, by the way?
L Todd Wood: No, but I have your post that you put up, where they were asking, “Is the US at war with Venezuela?” And Gabbard stated there are “conflicting assessments in the intel community” on that.
Patrick Byrne: Yeah, well, there’s really two interesting aspects to this: First of all, the legalistic people, like the Judge who’s saying, “We’re not at declared war.”
The language says, “If you’re at a war or if there’s an attempt by another country to infiltrate its people,” then the President has such and such right. Well, clearly the second clause, absolutely clearly, could have been written for today. Let me pull up the language of the Alien Enemies Act. It’s really worth hearing, because it’s black and white. It just shows you what an Activist Judge looks like.
50 U.S. Code Chapter 3 – ALIEN ENEMIES
L Todd Wood: Well, people don’t realize that these District Courts are authorized by Congress and they can be de-funded and taken down by Congress. So that seems like a likely avenue, if they had the will – which it doesn’t seem like Mike Johnson really does – I mean, he’s threatened it, but he’s made no action to actually do it, in the face of this judicial corruption.
Patrick Byrne: Yeah, it’s Mike Johnson. I think so many of these people are compromised, I got to tell you – or they’re Weak Sisters. They’re not really used to having to do anything in life that required a lot of courage. And I think a lot more courage is being demanded of them than they’re showing.
Yeah, but Trump absolutely has the right to do this. So, I know quite a bit about that subject, by the way. I can tell you about the Tren de Aragua for a minute, if you want.
L Todd Wood: Yeah, go ahead, please.
Patrick Byrne: Aragua Prison is the worst in Venezuela…The mastermind of the Venezuelan Regime, first of all, the Venezuelan Mafia is the Venezuelan Regime. It’s the place where nation-state turns into government. So, it is the Mafia of the Generalissimo, the Cártel de los Soles, because the generals wear suns on their shoulders.
So the mafia is the government. And the mastermind is a guy named Jorge Rodriguez, and his sister, Delcy Rodriguez, is the Vice President. And Jorge Rodriguez is a psychiatrist, in the footsteps of Hannibal Lecter. He’s a complete psychopath. And he and his sister went down to this Aragua Prison, I think it was 2009 or 2012, and they met with the gang leaders. And they said, “We’ll let you out, and you’ll be our enforcers.”
And a deal was made and since then, dissidents in Venezuela don’t have to worry only about the secret police showing up – they got to worry about these gangsters, who are going to show up and behead them and disembowel them and hang them upside down from a bridge.
It’s that kind of a gang. So it absolutely acts as an arm of the government. It was pushed here and actually, the power players were moved to Colombia. They were given Colombian fake ID, sent to Nicaragua, then the Sinaloan Cartel brought them up and infiltrated them into the United States.
And I know a lot about what’s going on in Venezuela and I don’t have that from the US Government. I have that from my Venezuelan colleagues. So that’s what’s really going on. That absolutely meets the language of the Alien Enemies Act.
What’s also funny, as you can find this clip also, when President Maduro of Venezuela came out a couple of weeks ago, and he said, and the clip was up in my Twitter feed, he said, basically, “Why are y’all getting mad at us for sending you these people? Check with your own FBI offices in Colombia. Check with your FBI offices in Panama. Biden told us to send you these people. He told us to give you our rapists and killers. Biden told us to. We’ll show you the proof.”
(VIDEO: “President Nicolas Maduro Urged Trump to Investigate Links and Financing of Tren de Aragua” – Pub. by teleSUR Feb 21, 2025)
Patrick Byrne: So that’s all one side of this. It absolutely does meet the Alien Enemies Act. And the thing that was very interesting in that clip, did you play that clip, by any chance?
L Todd Wood: No, I haven’t. No.
Patrick Byrne: It’s two minutes. Would you like to play it for your audience? It’s very subtle.
L Todd Wood: Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, send it to me.
Patrick Byrne: Oh, didn’t you just have it? The one you just showed, Tulsi Gabbard. I can pull it up on Telegram, maybe. Was that a video? Yeah, that was a link to a Twitter that had a two-minute movie in it. It’s really worth watching if you can watch the two minutes.
L Todd Wood: Let me see if I can find that. Yes, hold on one second. We will do that. OK, is that the two minutes with Scott Pressler?
Patrick Byrne: No, that’s not it. No, it’s Tulsi Gabbard.
L Todd Wood: I was looking at your Liz Harrington post. Keep talking. I’ll try to find it.
Patrick Byrne: OK, I’m trying to find it, as well. Replies.
L Todd Wood: Well, something came out, just this morning from a retired, Gary Berntsen.
Patrick Byrne: Yeah, we worked together for the last few years.
VIDEO: “Whistleblower from DOJ, FBI, DEA and DHS Exposes Shocking Roadmap of Foreign Control Over US Elections” – Pub. Oct 24, 2024 by ForbiddenNews.substack.com
L Todd Wood: So, he’s saying that the –
Patrick Byrne: We know the same truth. We’re talking about the same thing. Go ahead. What did he say this morning?
L Todd Wood: “The Tren de Aragua is no longer just a violent street gang. They may wear the face of criminality, but they are operating paramilitary training inside the US. A lot of the fires recently may have been started by them and that sabotage and other operations inside the US…The CIA doesn’t want to do anything about it,” essentially is what he’s saying.
Patrick Byrne: Yeah, this is compromised…We’ve worked together for several years, Gary and I. And he’s correct. It is absolutely an arm of the government. It’s an arm of Jorge Rodriguez and Delcy Rodriguez, the Vice President, the Grandmaster chess player on the other side, organizing to take down the US, the Grandmaster behind the Regime, the Mafia, and his sister, that’s who it answers to.
It’s very much on the Iranian model. That’s what the Iranians started doing a decade ago. Instead of having their secret – when there’s protesters, instead of the secret police showing up and sniping them, what happens is crowds of thugs show up with two by fours and beat the hell out of them and the government steps aside and says, “Well, it wasn’t us. It looks like some good, loyal citizens took-on these protesters.”
So they’re used to using this Street Gang Model, but the Tren de Aeragua was just not a street gang. It’s the most vicious – these are the guys who disembowel folks and hang them up from a bridge. They’re really the awful guys.
L Todd Wood: So, Boasberg wanting to stop the deportation is just showing his colors, right?
Patrick Byrne: Correct…I think this is a Bolshevik Revolution, what we’ve been going through, the last four years. And they’re still clinging to it. And the fake election of 2020 was simply one chapter in it.
L Todd Wood: Which was a Venezuelan company, you know, Smartmatic, right?
Patrick Byrne: Venezuelan company, yeah. Basically, the short version is Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. It’s bigger than Saudi Arabia. And so, a mafia centered on a general named Hugo Chavez – but an outright mafia – took over the country, got themselves elected the first time, and then just cheated and took over and corrupted. And they wanted to be able to pump that oil and keep the money…Gary thinks they’ve stolen somewhere between one and a half and $4 trillion, OK?
Well, I was in Venezuela seven years ago and while the normal people were starving, they were like living like kings; the military and government.
But if you’ve got that gig going and you’re going to be stealing $4 trillion over a generation, there’s something else you need to steal – and so, they stole that by corrupting and taking over the oil company of Venezuela, nationalizing it, it’s called PDVSA.
The other thing they stole is they stole the election system, the Election Commission, and they made it one you could cheat in, and then, they commercialized it. It’s a company called Smartmatic, and Smartmatic technology is in everybody’s computers, now.
So to me, Tren de Aragua is just the next stage. First, they hit us with espionage, then they rigged our election systems, and now, 20,000 Tren de Aragua. They’re not just killers. The south of Venezuela has been turned into a terrorist training camp, and they’ve trained these people to be cell leaders. Cell leaders! So it came up yesterday in Congress.
The Democrats are saying, “Under the Alien Enemies Act, Trump only has the authority to throw these people out, if we’re at war with Venezuela.” Are we at war with Venezuela? Well, first, they’re wrong. He has the authority, just because of that Tren de Aragua story I just told you. They don’t have to be in a “declared war”.
But secondly, something very subtle comes out of this video. Let’s watch it. That’s a long preamble. Go ahead. Here we go.
(Roll video of Rep Joaquin Castro (D-TX) questioning Trump administration intelligence officials)
Rep Joaquin Castro: I want to ask about the Alien Enemies Act, real quick while I have time. The President has used the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime authority last used to detain German and Japanese nationals during World War II, to summarily deport people accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. To invoke this law, the President must demonstrate that the United States is under invasion by a foreign nation or government.
They have alleged that we are under invasion by the Venezuelan government. The idea that we are at war with Venezuela would come as a surprise to most Americans. The unclassified version of the Annual Threat Assessment the Intelligence Community just released makes no mention of any “invasion” or “war” that we are fighting with the nation of Venezuela. You would think our nation being at war would merit at least a small reference in this Threat Assessment.
Director Ratcliffe, does the Intelligence Community assess that we are currently at war or being invaded by the nation of Venezuela?
CIA Director John Ratcliffe: We have no assessment that says that.
Rep Joaquin Castro: Thank you. In invoking the law, the President alleged that Tren de Aragua is, quote, “undertaking hostile actions against the US at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro Regime in Venezuela.”
Director Gabbard, does the intelligence community assess that the Venezuelan government is directing Trinidad and Tobago’s hostile actions against the United States?
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: There are varied assessments that came from different intelligence community elements. I’ll defer to Director Patel to speak specifically to the FBI assessment.
Rep Joaquin Castro: But let me ask you, so you’re saying there are conflicting assessments that have come from the IC?
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: That’s correct.
Rep Joaquin Castro: OK. Thank you. We’ll take it up in closed session.
L Todd Wood: So there you go, Patrick.
Patrick Byrne: Yeah, that’s a lot of things happening there. Where do you want to start?
L Todd Wood: Well, go ahead. You have the insight on that video. Well, first of all, he’s wrong. I’m looking up the language of the act of the Alien Enemies Act, I have in front of me, and it says: “Be it enacted, that it should be lawful for the President at any time to order….” Anyway, I’m trying to find the specific language.
Well, take a look there. I’m going to play this 30 second video. You can find exactly what you’re looking for. This is the Venezuelans being deported.
(Roll video of planeload of Tren de Aragua gang members aboard an airplane, being flown to prison in El Salvador, shouting “¡Viva Maduro! Viva la Patria!” [“Hail Maduro! Hail the Homeland!”] and applauding and laughing).
L Todd Wood: So that was on the airplane recently. But go ahead.
Patrick Byrne: Interesting. They’re not going to be so cocky when they find out what El Salvadoran jail looks like. Here it is: “Be it enacted that whenever there shall be a declared war between the US and any foreign nation OR any invasion – OR invasion – of the United States of America…”
So, I’m sorry. First, they’re using that language and saying, “Well, is there a ‘declared war’? No! Trump hasn’t declared a war.”
They’re leaving out that it says “OR any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted or threatened against the territory of the US by any foreign nation or government.” And the President should make “a public proclamation of the event”.
All of this: “Males from 14 and up from that nation who aren’t citizens can be deported.”
That seems to cut. Would you? I just described the story of Delcy and Jorge Rodriguez, the Tren de Aragua, them getting sent here – whether or not Biden asked them to do it. Does that count, under the language of a foreign “predatory incursion”.
L Todd Wood: Obviously, a predatory incursion. You’ve got an armed force in the United States.
Patrick Byrne: They’re catching them with missiles, with, like MANPADS, Man-Portable Anti-Aircraft. You know? Yeah! You would think that that’s Black and White, but this is where lawfare comes in. With lawfare, “the process is the punishment.”
They know they can tie this up in the court for two years. So it’s effectively, a lot like you get to overrule the President. And suddenly, you got some District Judge who thinks he runs National Security.
However, it turns out – I mean, it’s no coincidence. These judges are all it’s the same judge ,in so many of these, these assignments are supposed to be random. They’re obviously not random! And these same judges show up, in so many of the key cases.
L Todd Wood: So where does this go from here? Do you think it goes directly to the Supreme Court or…? I mean, this is something that should be an emergency hearing. I would think.
Patrick Byrne: It should. And to be honest, if the Supreme Court finds the right way, I’m not even sure that I’d recommend Trump following them. We’re we clearly may come to a place, it breaks, but we can’t – but with these people, these Bolsheviks are destroying the Constitutional Order.
Another thing going on in that tape is interesting. That, you know, the Congressman asked John Ratcliffe, “Has the Intelligence Community come to an assessment that we’re with Venezuela?”
Well, so one thing that’s interesting is the CIA and John Ratcliffe say “No.” And from Tulsi Gabbard’s speech, one would infer that the FBI and Kash Patel is saying “Yes”.
L Todd Wood: So that’s important, because she’s above the CIA now…The buck stops with her, on what the President sees, right?
Patrick Byrne: Yeah and that’s a very deep thing, that there’s a disagreement and it says wonderful things for the FBI and Kash Patel they they are correct about this. And I know they have the intelligence that would confirm that to them and they’re correct.
So that tells me that John Ratcliffe – I worry that John Ratcliffe isn’t going to be up for the job. I worry that the CIA is going to ring circles around him. The fellow’s a lawyer from Texas did a bit of prosecuting. He’s not up for –
L Todd Wood: He’s got a history of not timely acting on things, let’s just put it that way.
Patrick Byrne: (Laughs) Yeah. In addition, another thing to note that’s kind of inappropriate is, you know, there are 17 different intelligence agencies in the United States Government.
Every [US Government agency] – the Commerce Department has a small intelligence agency – there’s, of course the Central Intelligence Agency. And for decades, the head of the CIA wore two hats. He both ran the CIA, that pillar, that big pillar among the 17, the DIA that everything – he wore that hat and he was Chairman of the Board.
Since 9/11, that got reorganized and the hat of Chairman of the Board was taken from the head of the CIA. And they created this new thing called the Directorate of National Intelligence – and that hat is now Tulsi Gabbard.
So the truth is, John Ratcliffe, he was asked as if, “Did the Intelligence Community…?” He should have corrected them and said, “Speaking for the CIA, no, we have not concluded that we’re at war with Venezuela,” or that they’re behind this – that Tren de Aragua, where the question is, “Does Tren de Aragua, were they’re taking orders from the [Venezuelan] government?”
They are – but it was kind of inappropriate for him not to respond. Well, the question was inappropriate, because he acted like he was speaking for the Intelligence Community. He wasn’t. He was speaking for the CIA. Tulsi speaks for the Intelligence Community and she made clear it was a divided opinion.
L Todd Wood: That’s really important. Is there anything else you wanted to get out? I’ve got to go to a break, but is that it you want to talk about, or is there anything else?
Patrick Byrne: Nope. Sorry, I was a little late coming in and hope we got something novel out of that.
L Todd Wood: You did. The points you brought up are really key. So Patrick, thank you. We’ll be in touch. I really appreciate you coming on.
Patrick Byrne: How about that?
L Todd Wood: Take care. We’ll be back with the SCIF.