ZimFeb 5
Steve Herman
The CIA is up to something and Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is the longest serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, doesnโ€™t like it but canโ€™t tell us about it.
Feb 4 at 11:58pmWeb
Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 5

@newsguyusa

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Republican billionaires buying another pointless oil war or coup"

Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran

Nigeria
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2509365/cia-reportedly-confirms-nigerias-president-tinubu-as-active-asset

Syria
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/venezuela-iran-trumps-donroe-doctrine-escalates-us-push-control-worlds-oil

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/us/politics/trump-syria-oil-fields.html

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/behind-the-lines-syria-part-one/

Mexico
https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2025/11/03/trump-escalates-tensions-with-plans-to-deploy-troops-and-cia-agents-in-mexico/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/world/americas/russian-spies-mexico.html

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/how-dark-fleet-tankers-helped-mexican-cartel-build-fuel-smuggling-empire-2025-10-22/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-senate-confirms-ex-cia-officer-johnson-ambassador-mexico-2025-04-09/

Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-annexation-destabilizing-canada-1.7479890

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-china-foreign-source-recruitment-1.7531667

https://www.thebureau.news/p/exclusive-jfk-files-reveal-cia-targeted

https://www.economist.com/international/2025/03/16/donald-trump-v-the-spies-of-five-eyes
https://archive.ph/4hRQL

CIA activities in Iran - Wikipedia

Show threadHavyhh2Feb 5
@newsguyusa @Npars01 ...we need a volume two of "Legacy of Ashes"....
Show threadHuntn00Feb 5
@Npars01 See the mountains of gold? Itโ€™s their yo-yo to play catโ€™s cradle with, cause we let them. ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ˜”
Show threadKallistiFeb 5
@newsguyusa Well if Holden Bloodfeast, respectable bipartisan, is concerned, then it *must* be bad
Show threadWillFeb 5
@newsguyusa
Yikes ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
Show threadJonas TrostleFeb 5
@newsguyusa doesn't he get immunity from the speech and debate clause?
Show threadBodhipaksaFeb 5
@jonas_trostle @newsguyusa Presumably not for divulging classified information.
Show threadAsomivFeb 5

@bodhipaksa @jonas_trostle @newsguyusa

Heโ€™s immune for anything he says on the floor, even if classified.

Gravel v US aka Pentagon Papers

Show threadBodhipaksaFeb 5
@Asomiv @jonas_trostle @newsguyusa Interesting to know!
Show threadAnonaxFeb 5
@Asomiv @bodhipaksa @jonas_trostle @newsguyusa
He is legally immune, but presumably if he crosses the line (currently, even if he were a private citizen this would not be illegal) he risks consequences from fellow Senators, such as being removed from the Intelligence Committee. I hope that in his last few days in office when he decides to retire, he spills all the classified info that he's been hinting at for a while.
Show threadzbrownFeb 5

@Asomiv @bodhipaksa @jonas_trostle @newsguyusa key point of course is *on the floor*

Parliamentary freedom of speech is an ancient concept, but one that only protects conduct in debate (wherein it may become necessary to be critical of the State) with usual rules applying as soon as you step outside โ€” something that some MPs, and presumably Senators and the like as well, have forgotten over the years to their detrimentโ€ฆ

Show threadRichard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿšดโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ“ท ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธFeb 5

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scrapping the World Factbook ?

Show threadEdelruth, PBS Passport HolderFeb 5

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Never seen an intelligence committee member send an SOS before. That's what this feels like.

Show thread๐‚๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ƒ๐š๐Feb 5
@Edelruth @newsguyusa Wyden has a reputation for these signals: https://www.justsecurity.org/42341/ron-wyden-lights-batsignal/
Ron Wyden Lights the Batsignal

Thereโ€™s a reason privacy advocates are fond of Sen. Ron Wyden, and its not just because he routinely champions legislation aimed at protecting civil liberties. From his perch on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Wyden is uniquely well situated to spot intelligence programs that strain the limits of the law or unduly encroach on Americansโ€™ privacy. [โ€ฆ]

Just Security
Show threadThomas P. MoonisFeb 5
@newsguyusa seems bad
Show threadFediThing Feb 5

@newsguyusa

Is this a typical thing that US senators might do? ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

Show threadSnoopJFeb 5

@FediThing @newsguyusa no, it is out of form to send a public letter immediately at the same time as a private (classified) letter. It signals that Ron Wyden expects his letter to be ignored or met with extremely bad faith of the sort the administration has made their norm, and he wants the public to be aware of that.

A last-ditch attempt at getting them to play ball, perhaps.

Show threadbouriquetFeb 5
@newsguyusa The list is getting longer:
- Venezuela
- Greenland
- Iran
- Epstein connections to who knows what intelligence services
- election interference via Russia
- Canada
- Mexico
- Cuba
- Georgia and whatever Tulsi is up to
- fill in the blanks or wait a few weeks
Show threadBeccaFeb 5
@bouriquet @newsguyusa tl;dr: WWIII is going just peachy
Show threadxs4me2Feb 5

@newsguyusa

Ah, guess they want to send Trump to St. Helen finally.

Show threadisolFeb 5

@newsguyusa

They're planning a movie:

"C.I.A. - Cute, Intelligent, American
MELANIA Volume 2"

Show threadTom ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธFeb 5
@isol @newsguyusa ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
Show threadMatthew MartinFeb 5
@newsguyusa Using the CIA to end democracy in the US?
Show threadskuaFeb 5

@newsguyusa

Does Tulsi Gabbard having the whistle blown on her, Intersect with the CIA?

#CIA #TulsiGabbard

Show threadRuth O'DayFeb 5

@newsguyusa

Former Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has been making noise the past day or two about Canadians uniting and the need to break away from dependency on the Usians.

Normally he pals around with people like Orban in his role as chairman of the so-called International Democracy Union.

I wonder if he knows what Wyden knows.

Stephen Harper says Canada mus...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-reduce-dependence-americans-9.7074933

Stephen Harper says Canada must urgently reduce its dependence on the U.S. | CBC News

Speaking at an Ottawa gala late Wednesday, former prime minister Stephen Harper said that Canada must urgently pivot in the face of an erratic U.S. president and reduce its dependence on the American market to protect its sovereignty and the continued functioning of the economy.

CBC
Show threadsoup2nutsFeb 5
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Show threadSteven SandovalFeb 5
@newsguyusa Classified Epstein stuff, I imagine.
Show threadSteve Foerster ๐ŸŒFeb 5
@newsguyusa Consider how damning it is that people here can readily list a dozen illegal things Wyden could mean by this and that none of them sounds out of character for the CIA.
Show threadCassandraVertFeb 5
Ratcliffe has kept a pretty low profile this term, though he's surrounded by noisy clowns so it's not as hard as it might have been in other eras.