If you've just got money sitting in home equity or in an IRA or, you know, you've been investing in stocks for the last 30 years and you've got a nice nest egg built up, they're not going to pay any attention to you at all unless you start buying, well, I can tell you exactly.

And look, the United States government has built a computer facility in the Utah desert so massive.

It can store every phone call, every text message, and every email sent or received by

every single American for the next 500 years.

And the man who confirmed that, a 14-year CIA veteran who captured one of Al Qaeda's

top operatives, just sat in that chair right over there and told me things about your money,

your home, and your privacy that I genuinely was not prepared to hear.

So this former CIA operative, former Capitol Hill staffer, he's the only CIA officer who

went to prison in connection with the agency's torture program, not for doing the torturing,

for telling the public it was happening.

And I didn't bring him on today to retell his story.

He's done that brilliantly with Rogan, with Tucker, with Diary of a CEO.

What I wanted to know is the stuff that keeps people like you and I up at night, what

does the government actually know about our money?

And what point does your home equity or your retirement account put you on someone's

radar? And if the government decides you're a problem, is there anything that actually protects

you? And his answer is not in the realm of what you were thinking. He told me there are four

specific purchases, completely legal, that immediately trigger government attention. And one of them is something you do regularly.

He told me about a former deputy attorney general of the United States

whose family made one small financial move 20 years ago

and is still paying fines for it today.

And he told me what happened to his own finances after he blew the whistle.

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