12 FEB 2026: Drone Mystery on the Border // Tucson Kidnapping: Personal Experience // Canada Shooting // Border Wars: Latest Winners & Losers // Global: Iran, Syria, Nigeria, Cuba
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Thursday Headline Brief of The Wright Report, Bryan unpacks a mysterious 10-day airspace shutdown over El Paso that officials blame on cartel drone activity, though conflicting reports suggest something far more serious may have been unfolding along America's southern border.
He then shares troubling developments from Tucson following the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, raising broader concerns about cartel presence and sanctuary city policies in Southern Arizona. Bryan also covers a deadly school shooting in Canada tied to gender dysphoria and media language battles, escalating felony charges against anti-ICE agitators, a major court fight over detaining illegal migrants without bond, and renewed global pressure on Iran as President Trump considers military and economic escalation.
The episode closes with updates from Syria, Nigeria, and Central America, where U.S. pressure campaigns are reshaping alliances and squeezing hostile regimes from Havana to Managua.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
Keywords: February 12 2026 Wright Report, El Paso airspace shutdown cartel drone mystery, Ft Bliss directed energy test, Tucson kidnapping Nancy Guthrie, sanctuary city cartel presence Arizona, Canada trans school shooting media language debate, Title 18 Section 111 ICE felony charges, Fifth Circuit detention without bond asylum ruling, Iran nuclear escalation USS George H.W. Bush carrier group, ghost fleet tanker seizure plan, Syria al-Tanf base withdrawal, Nigeria ISIS U.S. trainers, Guatemala expels Cuban doctors, Nicaragua Ortega migrant flights crackdown
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| 0:00.0 | It's February 12th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.2 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News, podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | It's a Thursday headline brief, heavy on news, lighter on analysis, getting us one day closer to the weekend with events that, as ever, are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:33.0 | We begin with domestic news this morning, starting with a drone mystery on the border. And this is |
| 0:38.0 | quite something. CBS News, USA Today and others report that late Tuesday night, the FAA shut down the |
| 0:44.1 | El Paso International Airport in surrounding airspace for what was supposed to be 10 days. |
| 0:50.5 | Ladies and gentlemen, that is a near unprecedented amount of time to shut down that kind of airspace, |
| 0:55.2 | the equivalent to actually what we saw in the days after the 9-11 attacks. |
| 0:59.4 | Early flights were canceled on Wednesday morning. |
| 1:02.1 | Medical evacuation flights rerouted. |
| 1:04.2 | The FAA warned pilots in the area around El Paso that that area was, quote, |
| 1:08.7 | a national defense airspace and warned that the U.S. |
| 1:11.6 | government may use deadly force against any and all airborne aircraft. |
| 1:15.7 | Hours later, however, that ban was lifted. |
| 1:19.9 | The FAA and Department of War later explained that the ban was in response to a drone |
| 1:24.6 | incursion by the Mexican cartels down there. |
| 1:27.0 | They shot down the drone and then everything's fine. |
| 1:30.2 | But that's not quite the full story, or it certainly doesn't seem. |
| 1:34.0 | There's now reporting that it was actually a balloon that they shot down. |
| 1:37.5 | It was a case of mistaken identity. |
| 1:39.8 | Others say, no, no, the denial of airspace had to do with testing of a new anti-drone system at nearby |
| 1:45.5 | Fort Bliss that blasts objects out of the sky using a directed energy weapon, or probably just a laser, |
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