The National Security Council 'Billets' and the Whistleblower Who Was Already Flagged

• 40:14Guest describes asking Mike Flynn for charts of the National Security Council on Trump's first day, revealing 292 'billets' or staffed positions across the agency.
• 41:23The NSC positions are filled by 'detailees' from the Pentagon, CIA, DNI, and DHS—the mechanism through which the Deep State maintains continuity across administrations.
• 42:03The 'inter-agency process' requires every decision to go through the CIA, State Department, and other agencies, creating a system where the Deep State controls policy regardless of who occupies the White House.
• 42:40Traditional CIA leadership comes from an elite credentialed class educated at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, operating with a mentality that they are guardians of the Republic.
• 43:20Tim notes that across Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, foreign policy never fundamentally changes because the neoliberal neocon apparatus—the Deep State—maintains control.
• 44:00Colonel Derek Harvey and Army Sergeant Higgins identified and ranked the most dangerous Deep State operatives within the National Security Council who should be removed.
• 44:19Eric Ciaramella, identified two years earlier as one of the most dangerous Deep Staters, later became the original whistleblower on the Trump-Ukraine call.

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