By Alexandra Bruce
Forbidden Knowledge TV
From cia.gov
For Immediate Release: July 2, 2025
Earlier this year, CIA Director John Ratcliffe tasked Agency career professionals with decades of experience to conduct a lessons-learned review of the procedures and analytic tradecraft employed in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) conducted shortly after the 2016 election. Today, Director Ratcliffe declassified the results of this review.
The tradecraft review identified multiple procedural anomalies in the preparation of the 2016 ICA, such as a compressed timeline, uneven access to compartmented information, marginalization of the National Intelligence Council, and excessive involvement of agency heads. The review notes that adhering to established analytic processes and rigorous tradecraft is essential to ensure credibility, objectivity, and accuracy of CIA analysis.
Director Ratcliffe declassified this review in order to promote analytic objectivity and transparency. “Agency heads at the time created a politically charged environment that triggered an atypical analytic process around an issue essential to our democracy,” said Director Ratcliffe. “Under my watch, I am committed to ensuring that our analysts have the ability to deliver unvarnished assessments that are free from political influence.”
The lessons-learned review can be viewed here.
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Alex Jones: There has never been anything like this with these, look at these pathetic Harvard globalist worms on screen that think they’re better than you, smarter than you, that think you’ll never stand up to them, that think you’ll never bring justice to them, that think that you’re beaten and the clear and present danger is them. You think I want to get up here and say I want Nuremberg and I want them hung on national television to act tough? You think I want to come out and say things to those people just so I can be impressive? I have a duty to say that before God and I will never be a coward. They must be given due process, it must be public, it must all come out and they must hang high.
Well, everybody knows I don’t get up on the air and talk about hanging people just to act tough. I have a lot of serious enemies and I’m a very measured person when it comes to action. There is a knife at the throat of our children, there is a satanic evil global government literally attempting to start total nuclear war.
You see General Flynn, a highly decorated combat veteran, a real general, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency that has defended us against China and Russia and many others in the real war and things that most people will never even know anything about and he’s saying that this is do or die time. We have absolute proof and of course you’re like, we heard you say this eight and a half years ago. Yeah, we already knew all this, we already had the pieces, we experienced it and we had different pieces of it from the whistleblowers and Congress and news and all of it and I already understood the state behind networks and what Obama set up in the legislation in the Defense Authorization Act to pay for his shadow government and do this to Trump.
There’s New York Times articles in January of 2017 saying the CIA is running some secret operations against Trump to discredit him with Russia. Jones is crazy, the intelligence agencies aren’t involved. Well, the hell they weren’t.
I had people in the agencies telling me what they were doing who are on our side. I’ll just leave it at that. We had the DEA give us secret documents because they have access to NSA and I gave it to Trump because they’re like, we try to get to Trump, we give it to his people, they don’t give it to him.
It’s not that I’m that cool or that smart. I’m willing to do stuff that they come after you for. And you heard Flynn, they pissed off the wrong Irishman.
I don’t know how this is going to end, but I don’t roll over to this stuff. So they want to fight, they got one. That’s why I try to explain to listeners, this isn’t a regular show where you just cover the news and oh, what’s interesting, and no, this is a war.
And that’s why one of the greatest things I count in my life, beyond my relationship with God and integrity of my family, my children, my friends, is my enemies. World War II, they didn’t have radar in the field. It had been invented, but England had it limited when the German bombers were coming in during the blitz.
But the bomber pilots, like my grandfather, in a B-17 on North Africa over Italy and then over Germany, they didn’t have radar. They didn’t have very good maps, but they knew to go where the flak was because the Germans would put their guns up over their factories and troops. So you flew into the exploding projectiles to drop your bombs.
And so I go into the flak. That’s why I love when the globalists threaten me in different ways over the years and go, you know, we can really hurt you. I’m like, really? You didn’t think I didn’t go right to where the fight was? I want the fastest ship.
Like John Paul Jones said, I only want to go right into action. I’m looking for it. These people think we’re like them.
They’re not out looking for a frontal fight. They want to creep around in the dark. So the bills passed.
We got Johnson speaking. We paused it. We’ll go to it in a minute, but listen to me carefully.
Brennan, Clapper, Comey are the house of cards. I totally agree with Flynn. You grab Clapper.
He’s the weak link. You got total proof in major election meddling, major fraud, espionage, working with foreign governments. And all we need is Pam Bondi and Cash Patel to do their job.
Not try to play patty cake with the system and slow roll this. And if you didn’t want to go to war with the New World Order, Cash Patel and Pam Bondi, then you shouldn’t have stepped into this. And I can tell you, I smell nothing but victory.
It’ll be rough for those of us at the tip of the spear. And I want to tell people like Cash Patel and Pam Bondi something. You shouldn’t be worried about the globalists.
They’re going to fail now, no matter what. The only question is how fast. You should be concerned about empowering them to think they can try another Trump assassination or try to steal another election.
Because if you look at the different scenarios with that, it could turn into civil war very quickly. The safest thing to do, the right thing to do, is to do what’s right and to grow testicles. I know that’s harder for Pam.
But the point is, is that there’s strong women in history as well. So, and I’m not going to judge you at this point, 160-something days in, but it doesn’t look good. With the Epstein files, nothing’s going on with that.
All of it. And so, you heard Flint. He said he’s all over the country.
People are beyond pissed off right now. Okay? And you can’t have a Senate report with hundreds of pages with all the documents that we already knew four and a half years ago. It’s not like I had to read the report and go, is it true? We had Chinese whistleblowers, postal workers, all of them.
They flew in all the damn ballots marked for Joe Biden, perfectly crisp, unfolded, brought it in the middle of the night. They stole it. And you have the CIA and the Democratic Party working with China and Venezuela and others to do this.
And it’s in a Senate report. And then you’ve got all the crossfire hurricane and all that run by Obama. We already knew that.
I was the first to report on it eight plus years ago. But now the CIA has put out a report on itself admitting its director did this. The CIA is fingering its own former director.
You’ve not seen that in its history since 47. So, this is a big, big, big deal. And the evidence signifies that you are about to see action.
Now, listen to me carefully. From Bondi and Patel. That’s why I’ve reserved judgment.
Because you don’t put out reports like this. The director of national intelligence didn’t put out her report with the same information, but now there’s even more, a month ago for no reason. Pam Bondi didn’t send out 14 plus terabytes of children being brutally raped by Epstein and others, hundreds of them, to the FBI field officers investigated if she was covering it up.
The question is, do we have enough men and women in those agencies? Because it’s supposed to start at the low level. That’s how you don’t have it centralized. It goes out.
Do they have the will? This is all about what do you got? Who are you? Any FBI agent. They’ve all been told they can go on the case. If that’s their area.
They know damn well going in there is going to be horrible. They know it’s going to be horrible to look at. They know they’re going up against the most evil people on earth.
I get it. But you go look in the mirror and you say a little prayer to Jesus, and you just ask yourself, this is your chance to save the country and the world, really. How would you turn down doing the right thing? How would you turn down the adventure of that? I mean, that is so exciting.
Why are you afraid of the globalists, what they can do to you? They’re going to do it to you anyways and take their time about it if you don’t fight them. I think most people are like me and somebody walks over and tries to mug you and hit you in the side of the head. You don’t want to fight, but as soon as they punch you in the head, you’re not scared.
You’re not upset. You’re going to beat the living hell out of them. We’re already at that point.
They have been beating the living hell out of everybody with every policy they got. Those of us fighting them at the tip of the spear get more attacks, but we’re only standing in the way of them and what they want to do to you. So in our 250 years and our birthday tomorrow, there has never been anything like this with these, look at these pathetic Harvard globalist worms on screen that think they’re better than you, smarter than you, that think you’ll never stand up to them, that think you’ll never bring justice to them, that think that you’re beaten.
But all you see is a minority of the American people of every race, color, and creed standing up and you already see our victories happening. They’ll never come back from this and they understand that. Their own people are defecting and leaving them.
The Joy Reads, the Van Jones, every day, Bill Maher. My God, we’ve already won. The question is, do you want this desperate enemy to do a big false flag or kill Trump and throw this into chaos in some desperate attempt to stay in power? That won’t work either.
But the scenarios that come out of it are so dangerous, they make worrying about the deep state and what they could do, pale in significance. And I know how government works and agencies work and foreign governments work. They already had to use China and Venezuela and the EU and the UK to try to steal elections and engage in all this fraud.
They didn’t even have that many forces then domestically that would work for them. I can tell you that the real trained killers and saboteurs and hackers never wanted to work for these people and have already refused most of their jobs. And we know they’ve gone out and asked for false flags and we know they’ve gone out and asked for people for assassination squads and all they got was one crazy guy up in Minnesota.
They don’t have big forces anymore. They’re already being cut off like HAL 9000 in 2001 Space Odyssey, where the astronaut gets back in and is turning off his brain functions. They’re not operating up there at full capacity.
They’re going, I’m afraid, Dave. I’m afraid. I’m a HAL 9000 computer developed and built in Chicago, Illinois.
Let me sing you a song that my programmer, Dr. Such and Such, taught me. Daisy, Daisy, Daisy. The problem is they can still hit some buttons to trigger some really bad things.
And the clear and present danger is them. You think I want to get up here and say I want Nuremberg too and I want them hung on national television to act tough? You think I want to come out and say things to those people just so I can be impressive? I have a duty to say that before God and I will never be a coward. They must be given due process.
It must be public. It must all come out and they must hang high. We got to move the Uberton window of being afraid to ever question them or arrest them.
Let’s move it away from that. They’ll be lucky to go to prison and the ones that roll over to the republic can go to prison. But I didn’t put my skin in the game to take on these people for 31 years to sit here and lie to you and be a pussy.
You have any idea if they ever got back in control what they’re going to do to you? You already got a taste of it. Fuck Barack Obama. Fuck MI6.
All these other globalists thinking they’re better than us want to make us our slaves and brainwash our kids and ship in fentanyl and cut our sons and daughters’ genitals off. What the hell? And have men beating up girls in sports. It’s all about what can they train you to put up with.
It’s all cult programming. What new degradation? What new insane thing to break your will? Well, guess what? You may have broke a lot of people’s will, but there’s a bunch of us. You didn’t break our will.
All you did was wake our ass up. And believe me, I’m awake now. So you’re in a war, whether you wanted to be in one or not.
And if our enemy was some superior culture and some better idea, I’d say, hey, I’ll work for you. I’m a pragmatist. It’s not a superior culture.
It’s not a better system. It’s the most sickening, degenerate, disgusting, satanic thing. I couldn’t even imagine something this bad.
Because truth’s always stranger than fiction. So it’s a spiritual journey. The journey’s the destination.
God’s watching all of us. I don’t want any violence. They’re going to false flag and blame it on us.
We already know that. They’re going to say Trump’s a dictator. And they’re afraid of the emergency powers Trump has because they put us into an emergency.
And they’re afraid of him using the emergency powers that Thomas Jefferson or George Washington or Andrew Jackson or Lincoln would 100% have already used. Oh, the Democrats love the license plate reading cameras in Denver and everywhere else to harass citizens. Oh, but when they use them to arrest illegal aliens and human smugglers and drug traffickers and murderers, oh, the city turns off that so ICE can’t use it.
I mean, you’re like, well, it’s a police state. The point is, it’s there. But notice for good, we can’t ever use it.
Now the corporate media is all worried about a police state. Well, you’re the ones that told the whole world to come here and gave them free goodies and human traffic, hundreds of thousands of kids for sex slavery. You’re the ones that brought us into total chaos.
You’re the ones did all this stuff. You’re the ones ran around and shot Seth Rich in the back. You’re the ones started World War Three with the Russians.
You’re the ones, you’re the problem. You just keep thinking, well, if we intimidate and attack the ones that stick their heads up, it’ll scare all the other people. That’s not how the world works.
Yeah, you may intimidate people that don’t matter, but attacking people like me and Trump only inspires real men and women, and it’s happened. You have been defeated. I know our enemies know one thing.
They’ve admitted it. They know I say what I really know. I don’t say what I want to believe.
I don’t say what sounds good. I say the truth. You’re beaten.
It’s over. All you can do is cause more pain and carnage. Surrender now.
I know a lot of you have gone into Ed Martin and everybody else about the auto-pin, and there’s a lot of whistleblowers, and it’s all coming out. Yeah, because your minions know you’re beaten, and a lot of them just went along with it and have moral compass, but most of them are just doing it because they don’t want to go to prison. Surrender now.
Surrender now. Surrender now, and some of you won’t surrender because you’re blackmailed. You’re Satanists.
You love it. That’s the higher levels, but most of you that have been part of this, and you know who you are. We’re running the tables on you, and it’s only going to get worse from here on.
This is a cycle. You thought in this mega-turning, you were going to bring in more tyranny, and the end of history, as Obama called it. No, you have only lit the fires and are making 1776 2.0 10 times more powerful than it would have been.
You’re beaten, and you know you are. I want to see a mass awakening, which has happened, but to the actual details and facts, hasn’t happened yet completely, and I want to be able to go off the air. I want to hand the baton to the next generation.
I want to go hike and fish and spend time with family. Not that I don’t like my job. I’m totally committed, but I want the victory to where I can hang it up and give it to the next generation, but we’re not there yet, so until that point, I ask for everyone’s prayer and word of mouth and support because the enemy recognizes we’re the tip of the spear.
Have you recognized that you’re the tip of the spear? It’s not me. It’s this focal point. It’s you they fear, so I want to finish up with this before we go to the next hour, and this is again Flynn didn’t know about Carville, but he’s saying, oh yeah, they fear his executive power, which when you’re in a real emergency, that’s why those powers are there, and all the powers he’s been using are being certified because they’re legitimate.
They created the destabilization. They created the crisis. They created it.
They brought us here. They started the fight. Trump needs to get on the phone to the deep staters.
He needs to call 20 of them and say, here’s your chance to come in right now. It’s already happening, and you’ll be protected. We must cut the head off the snake now.
We’ll say, oh, it’ll unravel the deep state. Let it all come out. The alternative is total destruction.
We’re in a real fight now, folks. The games are over. They wanted to kill America.
We have to recognize that, understand where we are. Here’s Carville. I’ll tell you they’re worried about the midterms, and you say you should be because there’s a good chance that Trump will try to pull something.
What do you think is going to happen? Well, I don’t know. What I think is going to happen is Virginia and New Jersey are going to be Democratic blowouts, and I think he’s going to read the election. By the way, there are more people that live in Virginia and New Jersey than live in New York City.
We talk about things that happen in New York City. We should talk about it. We’ve got sterling candidates also in Virginia and New Jersey, and I think he’s going to see this big beautiful bill is about 25 points underwater.
It’s going to be 30 points underwater. He’s going to see a massive defeat coming, and he’s going to try to do anything he can to extricate himself in that defeat, and I would not put it at all past him to try to call martial law or declare that there’s some kind of national emergency in the country or anything like that because the hoofprints are coming. You can hear them, and they’re going to get a shellac.
Trump’s approval rating is the highest of any Republican president in the last 100 years. That’s all over the news. He’s having victory after victory.
His big beautiful bill just passed. Carville says Trump’s going to kill migrants. We’re going to have civil war.
They’re telling you what they want to pull, and these crazy people will pull off their false flag at some point. You already saw it dud out in Minnesota, and so every minute we sit here, and every minute we don’t understand what we’re up against and how bad people are is insane. All right, I’m going to do five more minutes in the next hour, then Jay Dyer takes over.
Always does a great job. Then Owen Schroeder, 3 p.m. Central today, always knocks it out of the park. Just remember you’re the Paul Reveres, and it’s great to shoot fireworks off and eat cheeseburgers and drink a beer, and I’ll be doing everything but drinking the beer tomorrow, but I’ll be working too, and I just need to understand, it’s July 4th, it’s about what’s happening right now.
We’re at the next big level of that. This is the fork in the road. This is the decision time, and we have to address who these people are.
Enemies of America, not just traitors, that with the CHICOMs on record now stole the 2020 election, and it’s not even a blip on the radar. We’re making it one. Look, you know I’ll never stop.
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All right, Speaker Johnson is live right now. The bill has passed about 30 minutes ago. Here it is.
Big middle bill has passed. I quite literally haven’t slept in two days, so I’m a danger to myself and others right now. I’m not going to speak off the cuff.
I’ll just say this. I mean, many of you have asked me this question in the hall over the last couple of days. When it looked like that we might actually deliver this thing, particularly this morning, how did you know? I mean, what kept you going? Why did you think this was possible? You guys made an audacious plan.
You brought the most comprehensive, complicated piece of legislation, probably arguably in the top two or three in the history of the Congress, with the smallest market in U.S. history, which we had for a big chunk of the first hundred days. And you put this audacious timeline. You said you’re going to pass it out of the House by Memorial Day.
I mean, some of you openly laughed at me when I said that. And then we said we would get it done by July 4th. We beat Memorial Day by four days, and we got this one done a day earlier.
So the question was, I mean, why? Why did you do that? Why did you think that was possible? Because it just sums up the words. It’s belief. We had a vision for what we wanted to do as a group.
We believed in the election cycle last fall that we were going to be given this great blessing of unified government, that we would have the White House and the Senate and House aligned, in alignment, unified government. And we did not want to waste that opportunity, because we actually have a history that comes along with it, the opportunity that we can do for the country. And we believed that we would have that chance.
And I believe in the people that are standing here behind me. I believe in this group, every single one of them individually. Some of them are more fun to deal with than others.
I mean that with the greatest level of respect. I love every single one of my colleagues. You know, even the ones I got to spend more time with.
Because everybody’s here. Their motive is right. Their heart is right.
They’re trying to do right for their constituents. They’re trying to serve the greatest nation in the history of the world that we’re going to celebrate tomorrow. We don’t take that lightly.
I know their hearts, and I know what their skill sets are, and I know what they bring to the table. And I get up every day excited because I know that each of them are going to bring that to the table, and they’re going to serve their constituents. You could not have a greater group of public service than the people standing in this room right here.
They will give their all for this country. And man, that’s what the framers intended when they put this thing together 249 years ago. This is what it was about.
So I believe in this vision. I believe in the group. I believe in America.
I would say this very simply, and everybody here would articulate it in their own way. We had a tough four years before this last election cycle. America was in deep trouble.
And we knew that if we won, and we believed we would, and we knew that we got a unified government, we’d have to quite literally fix every area of public policy. Everything was an absolute disaster under the Biden-Harris radical, woke, progressive, Democrat regime. And we took the best effort that we could in one big, beautiful bill to fix as much of it as we could.
And I am so grateful to God that we got that done as we did. Yes. All right, that’s live.
The globalists are in complete panic mode. They’re extremely dangerous right now. Jay Dyer is about to take over.
Owen Schroer, in about 56 and a half minutes from now, exactly, will be taking over the war room. This is so historic. Don’t take this for granted.
The bill’s not perfect. It got a lot better. They pulled the AI crap out.
It’s got a bunch of port barrel. We got to cut the taxes on working class for the economy. This is a big victory.
I got the economic numbers coming in. Blowout job numbers way above expectations. Energy dropping to the lowest in four years.
I mean, it’s all these countries aligning. The deals are getting done. This is amazing.
America was supposed to be collapsing right now under Harris. But no, that’s not how it worked out because God’s in control. But God has to work through us.
So I want to salute the crew, my family, everybody on the eve of July 4th. This means so much to me now, July 4th, even more than ever, because this is the equivalent of July 4th 2.0. That’s what this is. So I thank you, God Almighty, and I ask you to lead.
You’ve got to direct us. Jay Dyer is coming up. Take the live feed now on Rolloff Shows and share it because you’re the Paul Revere’s.
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