CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Wednesday that the agency inherently controls U.S. presidents, as most agency employees tend to work in Washington, D.C. longer than the U.S. head of state does.
President Donald Trump vowed to reorganize agencies such as the CIA and FBI. While discussing his time at agency on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Kiriakou told Carlson how CIA agents can continue their “deep state” plans even if they don’t “like” the current occupant of the Oval Office.
“I know we’re getting far-field, and we will get back to your story, but it doesn’t sound like, so if you look at the org chart, the president controls the CIA. But you’re describing a situation where the CIA kind of controls the president,” Carlson said.
“This is another problem. It’s that presidents come and go every four years, every eight years. But these CIA people, they’re there for 25, 30, 35 years,” Kiriakou said. “They don’t go anywhere. So if they don’t like a president or if a president orders them to do something that they don’t want to do, they just wait because they know they can wait him out, and then he’s not going to be president anymore. They can continue on with whatever plan the blob or the deep state wants to implement.”
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