During her Senate confirmation hearing to become Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard mentioned an Obama-era CIA program called “Timber Sycamore.” The program gave weapons and training to Al Qaeda affiliated groups with the goal of toppling the Assad regime in Syria. But the American people and many soldiers fighting in the Middle East were kept in the dark. What other secrets are government bureaucrats still hiding from us? Is the CIA connected at all to the Benghazi tragedy? And would Tulsi Gabbard reveal the truth as DNI? Glenn and Stu discuss.
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GLENN: FBI agents are starting to pack up their desks. As fear of FBI mass firings swirl. That's -- that's sad.
And good. I'm glad.
Benjamin Netanyahu just arrived in DC. He said that he's meeting with Trump. And they hope to redraw the lines in the Middle East.
That's an interesting thing. I think Donald Trump is absolutely headed that way. The USAID headquarters have been closed.
Thank you, Donald Trump, for that. And there was something else.
Oh. And Mexico just came out.
The Mexican president just talked to Donald Trump.
And that 25 percent tariff?
Well, that's on hold.
She said, I talked to Donald Trump, we had and a great conversation.
And he put that on hold.
And I'm sending 10,000 troops to the US/Mexico border right now.
So I've got that under -- and Justin Trudeau. God bless his soul.
He's going to talk at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Yeah. Who is a good Prime Minister?
What a joke. Now, let me tell you about -- I just told you about USAID. And how that is a CIA front.
And Donald Trump is going to do two things with DOGE. He's going to cut all the bad guys. Try to find them.
He may not find all of them. But he will find a lot of them
Oh, did I mention that the FBI people are clearing out their desks.
Getting ready for a firing.
Anyway, he will clean out a lot of the mess, and a lot of the black ops that are happening.
And he will also cut the budget.
So he has that going for him. Now, the left and the Deep State. They're a little freaked out.
If they could have shredders at their disposal, 24 hours a day. I don't think there would be a lick of paper left, in I forget these agencies.
Consider some of the questions that have been swept under the rug. All the way back to Obama.
Let's see. Consider the American lives that are lost, overseas.
Consider the foreign lives lost. Consider the regimes that have changed.
And the chaos that is spread all over the world, in our names, with our tax dollars.
Now, consider what Donald Trump's team has pledged to break and uncover.
So if you listen to some of the confirmation hearings in the Senate, you might hear a little sneak peak at what's to come.
Tulsi Gabbard over on Friday, revealed for many Americans, they don't know about it. It's a clandestine, Obama program, that sought regime change in the Middle East.
And unloaded over a decade of violence and chaos.
Listen to this.
VOICE: Senator, as someone who enlisted in the military, specifically because of al-Qaeda's terrorist attack on 9/11 and committing myself and my life to doing what I could to defeat these terrorists. It was shocking. And a betrayal to me. And every person who was killed on 9/11. Their families. And my brothers and sisters in uniform.
When as a member of Congress, I learned about President Obama's dual programs that he had begun. Really, to overthrow the regime of Syria.
And being willing to -- through the CIA's timber sick more program, that has now been made public. Of working with and arming and equipping al-Qaeda, in an effort to overthrow that regime, starting yet another regime change war in the Middle East. DOD train and equip program, again, begun under President Obama, has widely been known, looked at, and studied that ultimately resulted in half a billion dollars being used to train who they called "moderate rebels," but were actually fighters working with and aligned with al-Qaeda's affiliate on the ground in Syria.
GLENN: Hmm. That's weird.
Most Americans have never heard about Obama's Timber Sycamore. It's possibly the largest gun running and training operation our little spy agencies have ever pulled off.
How many people died in Syria, as a result of this? How many people died all over the Middle East?
How many terrorists received weapons and training from our government?
Al-Qaeda?
We know that many of those same terrorists now control the government of Syria, right now.
And the horror show is not over yet.
Why haven't we heard about this?
Why does every school kid know about Reagan and Iran-Contra, but not Obama and Timber Sycamore?
It is because it not only reveals terrorists receiving our training and weapons, that we supplied. But it also reveals American lives that have been lost.
We still don't know the full details on what happened in Benghazi.
Why is that?
Why is it that Hillary Clinton and Obama made sure of that?
That wasn't part of some gun-running operation to Syria, was it?
Is this part of the peace of the fallout from Obama's Timber Sycamore?
Why was the US ambassador even in Benghazi? Why was there a State Department annexed in such a dangerous place? And why was it so unguarded?
Why was there a secret CIA substation there? Why was it kept so low-key?
Why didn't the military respond? Why were they so quiet and ineffective? Were they trying to keep Obama and Clinton's little secret hidden?
And all at the cost of four American lives. Say their names. They like to say that. Say their names.
Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Sean Smith. Tyrone Woods. Glen Doherty.
They still deserve justice. We deserve answers. I just want you to know, what's happening in Washington, DC, right now, is because cutting the budget.
But it has a dual purpose. In everything they're doing. They're cutting the heart out of these secret ops. They are exposing what our government is doing. By moving USAID over to the State Department. USAID can't that have.
I mean, I don't think of the State Department as someplace that's clean and has a good agenda.
But apparently, that's being cleaned up as well.
What is it we are going to learn, over the next few months?
What is it we're going to see exposed?
It's quite amazing. It is quite amazing.
By the way, Sunday, yesterday, Musk wrote, that career Treasury officials are breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress.
Oh, boy. What's this? Apparently, the Treasury Secretary, the new one, has allowed the department of government efficiency to gain access to the federal government's payment system.
Okay. Wait a minute. So USAID won't allow the DOGE officials any access to their aid programs? But the Treasury is like, yeah. Open up the books!
They discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers, at Treasury were structured to always approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups!
They literally have never denied a payment in their entire career.
Not once!
So why do you have them.
And why would they be told that? My gosh, this house of cards is going to come crashing down.
They are in -- they're going to have serious issues.
