Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2022-08 to 2026-06.
Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Intelligence agencies have been weaponized to influence politics and target specific individuals through fraudulent investigations.
7 people · 6 episodes
Senior intelligence officials, specifically John Brennan, have engaged in dangerous practices including the abuse of power and lawfare.
“John Brennan has come as close to agitating for a coup as we have ever had in our country.”
PBD Podcast · Jul 2025 · 2 episodes · 1.6M views on this topicShe argues that the CIA historically lied to Congress and actively blocked investigations to cover up their involvement in political assassinations.
“what we know now for a fact is that the CIA did intentionally lie to Congress, did intentionally trying to stop the investigations or prevent evidence from coming out.”
PBD Podcast · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 407K views on this topicBarack Obama may have played a significant, underlying role in the orchestration of the Trump-Russia investigation narrative.
“So behind all of this, the one person that's quietly hoping this doesn't get any traction is one guy and that's Barack Obama. Yep. Forget about Brennan. Brennan's going to be like, "Yeah, whatever. Go." You know, but Obama, if this comes out, more things they find out and Obama's name is attached to”
PBD Podcast · Jul 2025 · 3 episodes · 1.9M views on this topicThe investigations into figures like John Brennan and James Comey should be expanded to include other key individuals involved in the Trump-Russia probe.
“And if we're going to talk about this guys, we have to like look at everybody. And I'm I'm going to list the names that they should all if this is opening like this, they should go after Hillary, Jake Sullivan, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe.”
PBD Podcast · Jul 2025 · 1 episode · 698K views on this topicThe US intelligence community and FBI deliberately engaged in a psychological operation to lie to the American public and influence the 2016 election.
“It was the intelligence community of the United States. The election people in New York and the media lied to you. They didn't lie to Russia. They didn't lie to Donald Trump. They lied to you.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Aug 2025 · 2 episodes · 301K views on this topicIntelligence agencies suffer from ideological indoctrination and personnel failures that degrade critical thinking and agency performance.
2 people · 2 episodes
The integration of woke ideology and DEI initiatives within intelligence agencies is dangerous and detrimental to their mission.
“imagine if you are a totally normal professional intelligence analyst and you're sitting at your desk taking all these threat streams that are flowing into you trying to make sense of this stuff and analyze these things and produce reports so that the most important decision makers in our country ca”
Shawn Ryan Show · Oct 2024 · 1 episode · 797K views on this topicShe argues that many intelligence analysts currently in the field are products of indoctrinated educational institutions and lack the ability to think critically.
“A lot of these people are coming from, you know, which schools. So, they're totally indoctrinated and they don't know what they're what they're talking about because they're not properly educated.”
Shawn Ryan Show · Jul 2025 · 1 episode · 609K views on this topicIntelligence organizations must maintain accountability to Congress and adhere to professional standards to ensure public and…
2 people · 2 episodes
The corruption of intelligence products by political influence and the subsequent distrust of the United States by international allies make the country less safe.
“If we are corrupting our intelligence product to meet the will of this president or if people are holding back from telling the truth, this country is less safe. And and again, don't take my word for it on this. The fact that some of our allies are not willing to share the same level of intelligence”
MeidasTouch · Feb 2026 · 3 episodes · 1.4M views on this topicThe Director of National Intelligence should act as a transparent interface for intelligence organizations and must not use political reasons to withhold reports from Congress.
“director of national intelligence is supposed to interface among the many different intelligence organizations that we have in different places around the government. She is supposed to be the person who pulls all that together.”
Heather Cox Richardson · Feb 2026 · 3 episodes · 646K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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