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Citizen Podcast

257 | Morgan Lerette

Citizen Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Society & Culture, Education

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Army veteran and Blackwater operator Morgan Lerette joins the show to talk about going to war with the cartels, the tragic amount of migrant children lost at the border, and how private contractors have ballooned up to their own giant military force.


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0:00.0

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It's about keeping everything

0:55.0

secure. When Katrina hit in 2004, they opened up that door for the internal stuff, FEMA, right? So

1:02.1

Blackwater was helping in Katrina under FEMA contracts. And then they've just slowly gotten their

1:09.1

foot into the point now that it's permeating everything.

1:12.6

You have private military contractors at federal buildings.

1:15.5

Remember the riots in like 2020?

1:18.0

A ton of private military contracting jobs because what they did is they took the federal agents

1:22.5

and they started swarming them to like federal buildings.

1:26.1

And then who took over for those federal agents

1:28.2

contractors and the whole concept of contracting is you do it when you need them and then you downsize

1:35.0

that just shows me that in the last 20 years there's not there's never been a conscious effort

1:40.3

by the government to say we need this many people we have to hire them you have to

1:45.0

train them we have to do it let's go welcome to citizen we got a special guest today

1:57.4

Morgan Lorette girls guns and greed you've been on before but we're

2:01.9

going to talk about some other stuff today what's up what's happening dan well you said living the dream

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