COVID Controversy to CIA INTEL CIVIL WAR—The Deep State Explodes
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
1. Alleged Internal U.S. Government Conflict
- Tulsi Gabbard (as DNI) is:
- Attempting to reform and expose corruption
- Facing resistance from a so-called “deep state”
- The situation is “internal warfare” between intelligence agencies and political factions rather than normal governance.
2. Claims About Investigations & Intelligence Agencies
- Reports of:
3. Possible Allegations
- CIA “raiding” the office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Whistleblower accusations of:
- COVID lab‑leak cover-up
- Anthony Fauci intentionally misleading the public
- Assertions that:
- Intelligence findings were manipulated for political reasons
4. COVID-19 Whistleblower
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- A CIA whistleblower said the lab-leak theory was suppressed
- Fauci and others allegedly influenced intelligence conclusions
- Scientific and intelligence assessments were coordinated or altered
- Also alleges:
- Retaliation against those who supported the lab‑leak theory
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.3 | All right, let's just start with this really crazy breaking news swirling around the Director |
| 0:11.5 | of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and apparently growing tensions inside of America's |
| 0:17.5 | intelligence community. |
| 0:19.1 | Now, I want to be very clear from the start. |
| 0:21.7 | As of right now, when I'm taping this, there is, quote, no confirmed public report that the CIA |
| 0:29.4 | raided Tulsi Gabbard's office, but that seems to be changing pretty quickly. What we do know |
| 0:35.9 | is that multiple investigations and internal disputes |
| 0:40.2 | and intelligence community shakeups tied to Gabbard are escalating rapidly. And Washington |
| 0:48.2 | is now in full meltdown over all of this. So let me tell you what we think has happened so far. All right. And this is again, |
| 0:56.5 | coming from media reports, FBI investigators have been questioning current and former CIA |
| 1:03.9 | officials as part of a widening probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. And the |
| 1:10.7 | handling of intelligence tied to the 2016 |
| 1:13.2 | election. Now, that's coming from the New York Post, all right? And then at the center of all of this |
| 1:19.1 | is the DNI, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who has aggressively moved to |
| 1:25.8 | expose what she calls the politicalization of the intelligence community. |
| 1:31.4 | Now remember, Gabbard has spent months, okay, shaking up the intel world. |
| 1:37.4 | She has revoked security clearances from dozens of former intelligence officials. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm in favor of that. |
| 1:43.6 | She slashed offices she described as politicized and launched reviews in everything |
| 1:48.7 | from election security operations to taxpayer-funded biological labs overseas. |
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