America's intelligence agencies have transformed dramatically in recent years

with an increased focus on what they call violent extremism. Their

critics say however that the agencies are undergoing an

alarming case of mission creep that threatens the rights of American citizens.

In this episode we talk with former CIA officer Michael Waller, whose new book offers a deep dive on the way the CIA and

FBI went from Cold War heroes to deep state villains.

I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-Chief John Vickley.

It's Sunday, May 12th, and this is an extra edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now is Michael Waller, former CIA officer, and author of Big Intel, how the CIA and

FBI went from Cold War heroes to deep state villains.

Mike, thanks for coming on.

You bet. First, I wanted to ask you big picture

about your book since its theme is our topic today. What are your goals? What are you

trying to accomplish with this book? Well, the purpose of Big Intel began to document what happened, how did the CIA and the

FBI become radicalized and abused their power under Obama and Trump and Biden?

But in figuring that out, you realize this has a lot of ancient roots to it, going back 100 years.

So big Intel focuses on how critical theory, cultural Marxism, penetrated the CIA and later the FBI from roughly

around World War II when our first intelligence service was created in the OSS during World War II and then into the CIA afterward and much later the FBI and then how this whole group of it's not just bad actors but it's an ideological takeover of the FBI and CIA

of professionals who no longer believe in the American founding and in our

founding principles. Yet their job is to protect our constitutional principles,

and here they are reinterpreting them

on a way that does not put American interests first.

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