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Pentagon Waging Economic War vs China · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to talk for a minute now about this alleged,
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  SPEAKER_01: and not alleged because this is what's going to be happening, trade war on China.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it makes me sad to even say that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's something that we've been talking about since before Trump even came into office.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Biden administration was preparing two years ago for 2027 war with China.
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  SPEAKER_01: And unfortunately, I'm worried that that day may actually be coming sooner rather than later.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do I mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I go to another Indie Media award honoree,
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  SPEAKER_01: Kyle Lanzalone,
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  SPEAKER_01: both of Antiwar.com as well as the Libertarian Institute,
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  SPEAKER_01: and that's where this article comes from.
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  SPEAKER_01: His article is titled Pentagon to Develop Deep Cover Espionage Capabilities
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  SPEAKER_01: to Wage Economic War Against China.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what does that mean exactly?
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  SPEAKER_01: Deep cover espionage.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because our human intelligence resources and quality has not been very good as
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  SPEAKER_01: a country for a long time, just in case anybody knows.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what is Kyle saying here?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, he's saying the Department of War, war, well,
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  SPEAKER_01: technically it's still the DOD,
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  SPEAKER_01: but he's going along with the narrative here that they've changed it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Format of War is seeking to build a more robust deep cover spying program
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  SPEAKER_01: to wage economic warfare against China and other nations deemed adversaries of
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  SPEAKER_01: the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey guys,
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  SPEAKER_01: if you're looking to build a spying program,
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  SPEAKER_01: the first thing you shouldn't do is announce it in the media.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just say it.
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  SPEAKER_01: A half dozen sources familiar with the matter told the Washington Post that
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  SPEAKER_01: the Pentagon hopes to develop a next-generation espionage program
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  SPEAKER_01: that includes spies posing as business executives without any official affiliation
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  SPEAKER_01: with the U.S. government.
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  SPEAKER_01: Knox.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Pentagon plans to employ spies known as Non-Official Cover Officers,
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  SPEAKER_01: or Knox, who operate without an official U.S. government affiliation.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the...
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  SPEAKER_01: Pete Hanks if they've seen one too many Mission Impossible movies is all I'm saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what's going on here.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's literally like...
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  SPEAKER_01: He wants Ethan Hunt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Operating under non-official cover can be more dangerous than working
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  SPEAKER_01: under diplomatic cover because Knox lack diplomatic immunity if they're caught.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not the problem of Knox, but okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: The program raises legal questions because the Pentagon plans to operate
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  SPEAKER_01: under its Title 10 military authorities,
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  SPEAKER_01: which it used to conduct intelligence activities,
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  SPEAKER_01: including intelligence preparation of the battlefield.
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  SPEAKER_01: Multiple former officials told the Post that the new program would be operating
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  SPEAKER_01: under Title 60 military.
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  SPEAKER_01: The outlet describes Title 60 as a half joke about
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  SPEAKER_01: the Pentagon combining its Title 10 authorities with the CIA's Title 50.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
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  SPEAKER_01: The sources explained that the program is in the planning phase, but not operational.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: However, yeah,
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  SPEAKER_01: the Pentagon has already taken steps to develop the new operation,
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  SPEAKER_01: including naming Tom Rakusan a 39-year CIA veteran and now senior advisor
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  SPEAKER_01: to Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg as the head of the program
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  SPEAKER_01: that doesn't exist,
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  SPEAKER_01: assigning people from the Pentagon's intelligence service,
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  SPEAKER_01: and hiring former CIA officials.
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  SPEAKER_01: For an organization that's only in the planning phase but not operational, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Some former CIA officials told the Post that the move to establish
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  SPEAKER_01: the operation inside the Pentagon has irked some in Langley.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can imagine why.
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  SPEAKER_01: Raku-san just wants to build his own CIA down in the Pentagon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: As they've always wanted to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's only like...
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  SPEAKER_01: A part of the story, and it's all that I brought on this part of the story for tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I just thought it was interesting that they're announcing publicly in the news
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  SPEAKER_01: that they want to develop deep cover espionage capabilities using business people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe AI salespeople,
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  SPEAKER_01: maybe Elon Musk and Jensen Wang,
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  SPEAKER_01: and maybe they've already got their deep cover espionage capabilities
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  SPEAKER_01: in place via these businesses.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, everybody ready for war with China, everybody?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm certainly not,
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  SPEAKER_01: because I don't want to attack,
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  SPEAKER_01: and that would be a first strike attack,
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  SPEAKER_01: because they've never attacked us militarily,
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  SPEAKER_01: nor will they ever, because they're non-interventionist, is their policy.
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  SPEAKER_01: It would require some kind of an attack by us on them to start some kind of
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  SPEAKER_01: a major war, which they want to start as a trade war.
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  SPEAKER_01: Scary.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very scary.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a continuing narrative, considering they've got six times the population of our country.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, again,
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  SPEAKER_01: it reminds me,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I've said this before,
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  SPEAKER_01: of the line in The Matrix that China could literally sacrifice one person
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  SPEAKER_01: for every man, woman,
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  SPEAKER_01: and child in the United States and still have a billion and a half people left over.
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  SPEAKER_01: Would they be willing to do that?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing no.
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they have a lot more than 380 million people and that is asking to fight
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  SPEAKER_01: a losing battle in the long run.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again,
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  SPEAKER_01: there's a story of the war games that we ran in early 2000 in the South China Seas
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  SPEAKER_01: where we sent all our aircraft carriers there and
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  SPEAKER_01: within three weeks they were all sunk.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we had lost the war games.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they literally had to change the scope and the area within the war games,
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  SPEAKER_01: like in the movie Down Periscope,
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  SPEAKER_01: in order to come out with any kind of a victory from that war game.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a crazy story.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just before we go to ask you to contribute,
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  SPEAKER_01: just a reminder that Kyle Lanzalone is a member of the Libertarian Institute,
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  SPEAKER_01: but he's also a member of Antiwar.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: Kyle is an Indie Media Award honoree from the class of 2022
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  SPEAKER_01: for outstanding journalism,
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  SPEAKER_00: No!
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  SPEAKER_00: We just fucking lost the stream!
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess this isn't such an awful place Is that what you want me to say?
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll prove it's possible to sleep for days
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  SPEAKER_00: And I still think you're right here awake The cost of living isn't much to make
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  SPEAKER_00: But God,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's so hard to say And when they told you everything, I said, were you safe?
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