24. Trump vs the CIA: Purging the Deep State (Ep 1)

The Rest Is Classified

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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How do politicians control the CIA? What happens when politics affects the way it is run? And how often does the White House clash with Langley? Trump is trying to bring the CIA more directly under his control. He wants to reduce the size of it and re-order it's priorities. But he's not the first President to try to interfere at Langley. This week on The Rest Is Classified, David and Gordon look at Trump's CIA reforms but also take an eye to history to look at Jimmy Carter's CIA reforms that led to Halloween Massacre... ------------------- Order a signed edition of David's latest book, The Seventh Floor, via this link. ------------------- Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ www.nordvpn.com/restisclassified It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @triclassified Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The scene is January 21st, 2017.
0:11.8	CIA headquarters at Langley, the original headquarters building lobby.
0:21.5	I want to say there is nobody that feels stronger about the intelligence community in the
0:26.2	CIA than Donald Trump.
0:28.1	There's nobody.
0:29.5	Very, very few people could do the job you people do.
0:32.8	And I just want to let you know, I am so behind you.
0:36.1	And I know maybe sometimes you haven't got the backing
0:38.0	that you wanted. And you're going to get so much backing. Maybe you're going to say,
0:42.2	please don't give us so much backing. Mr. President, please, we don't need that much backing. But
0:46.4	you're going to have that. And I think everybody in this room knows it. No, I just want to say
0:51.1	that I love you. I respect you. There's nobody I respect more.
0:55.8	Thank you. You're beautiful. And now, fast forward to November the 9th, 2024, in a video
1:03.8	released just days after his re-election.
1:10.5	Here's my plan to dismantle a deep state and reclaim our democracy from Washington
1:15.6	corruption once and for all. First, I will immediately reissue my 2020 executive order,
1:22.1	restoring the president's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats, and I will wield that power
1:27.3	very aggressively.
1:28.8	Secondly, we will clean out all the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence
1:33.1	apparatus, and there are plenty of them. The departments and agencies that have been weaponized
1:38.3	will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target
1:43.4	and persecute conservatives or the
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