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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Ian Masters

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4.7 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Trump's Deliberate Effort to Destroy the FBI is Going Great Guns with Patel and Bongino in Charge | Trump's Vengeance and Obsessive War Against Reality Over Russia's Help in Electing Him Has the Former Heads of the CIA and FBI Now Under Investigation | The Growing Danger of Nuclear From a Trillion Dollar US Nuclear Buildup Over the Next Ten Years backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,
0:17.9	and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.
0:24.9	We'll begin with what appears to be a deliberate effort to destroy the FBI from within to satisfy Trump by stopping investigations into white-collar crime and corruption,
0:29.9	as well as counterintelligence investigations into Russian subversion,
0:34.7	given Trump's apparent subservience to Putin.
0:37.8	With the senior FBI official forced to resign because he maintained a friendship with
0:42.5	former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Stroke, who is on both Trump's and Patel's
0:47.8	enemies list, we'll examine the toxic workplace at the FBI under the leadership of two dangerously unqualified and deranged
0:56.8	ideologues, Patel and Bongino.
1:00.3	Joining us is a whistleblower and former FBI special agent who Patel has targeted Jonathan Boomer,
1:05.9	who was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport on March the 17th, 2025, and charged with disclosing
1:12.8	confidential records, but is now out on bail. A 15-year veteran of the agency, in January of
1:19.2	2022, he filed a whistleblower complaint and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee,
1:24.6	accusing the agency of political bias and alleging numerous acts of
1:28.1	intelligence repression.
1:30.3	Then we'll investigate the DOJ's investigations into the former head of the CIA and the
1:36.0	former head of the FBI, which are driven by Trump's vengeance as a result of his war against
1:41.5	reality in his obsessive effort to try to create an alternative
1:45.7	reality to the very real fact that the Russians helped elect him in 2016.
1:52.0	Joining us is Kent Harrington, a former senior CIA analyst who served as National Intelligence
1:56.8	Officer for East Asia and Chief of Station in Asia. He has an article at his substack first and second thoughts.
2:03.9	Be careful who you vote for.
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