Badlands Daily: 5/14/26 - CIA Spied on Trump's Own Investigators, Cartel Ops Exposed
CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday energy with a show that is almost entirely CIA. Senate Homeland Security Committee holds an open hearing with CIA whistleblower James Erdman, and not a single Democrat shows up. Erdman confirms that Fauci personally injected himself into the intelligence community's COVID origin review, that CIA analysts concluded lab leak was the most likely explanation as of August 12, 2021, and that the conclusion reversed five days later for reasons the CIA refuses to document. The single most alarming admission from the hearing: the CIA illegally monitored the…
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