CIA Whistleblower Says Intel Shadow Government is Blocking Trump and Shielding China [WATCH]

A former senior CIA operations officer is now putting words to what millions of Americans have suspected for years, that unelected intelligence officials have been quietly treating themselves as the real power in Washington.

James Erdman III, speaking with investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, described a culture inside the intelligence community where career officials see themselves as the “adults in the room.”

That phrase always seems to show up right before the voters are told their choices need adult supervision.

Herridge displayed papers marked “DRAFT” and referenced an email reportedly tied to FBI Foreign Interference Task Force Lead Nikki Floris.

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The message allegedly stated, “I am basically running a shadow government inside the FBI right now.”

Herridge then asked the obvious question. “Is there a shadow government?”

“There’s certainly people who believe that they are the adults in the room, and they’re here to make sure that the political leaders that are in charge, we can’t let them do anything too crazy. We’re here to make sure we temper their worst tendencies,” Erdman replies.

“I think that in effect, what you have are people who act as a shadow government, whether they know they’re doing it or not.”

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That answer should chill anyone who still believes elections are supposed to mean something.

Erdman is not some random commentator yelling into the void, he is a former senior CIA operations officer describing how powerful bureaucrats can quietly resist the elected commander in chief.

According to Erdman, that resistance showed up in multiple ways during President Trump’s time in office.

He pointed to opposition inside the system to Trump’s election integrity efforts and to attempts to shape or soften what made it into the President’s Daily Brief, especially when the subject was China.

That is not a minor paperwork dispute.

The President’s Daily Brief is supposed to give the president the clearest intelligence picture available, not a curated narrative from officials who think Trump cannot be trusted with facts they find politically inconvenient.

Erdman said there was hesitancy in the system when it came to confronting China while Trump was in office.

Given the Washington establishment’s long record of treating Beijing like an investment partner instead of a hostile communist regime, that claim lands with a lot more weight than the usual media fact check crowd will want to admit.

The China angle also brings to mind retired Army General Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

According to the book “Peril,” Milley privately assured Chinese General Li Zuocheng near the end of Trump’s first term that the United States would not strike China without advance warning from him.

“General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time,” Milley purportedly said.

“It’s not going to be a surprise.”

For normal Americans, that sounds less like steady leadership and more like a bureaucratic class deciding it can freelance foreign policy when it dislikes the man elected by the country.

In any sane capital, that kind of conduct would trigger serious accountability, not cable news praise and book tour rehabilitation.

Erdman also defended then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, saying she was one of the few officials willing to pursue real intelligence community reform in line with Trump’s directives.

“I think she’s (Gabbard) the only one who actually conducted IC reform and did exactly what President Trump was asking her to do,” he said.

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That matters because the permanent class in Washington does not fear speeches, press conferences, or strongly worded letters.

It fears reform, exposure, and losing the ability to bury information until it is politically safe.

The election interference issue only makes the story more explosive.

Newly declassified documents and recent statements from Trump have pointed to Chinese Communist Party access to personal data connected to roughly 220 million American voters.

Trump has alleged that intelligence collected by the FBI in 2020 was buried by rogue officials, and that it included claims about China trying to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.

“Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China’s activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden,” Trump said.

He also cited the alleged FBI message at the center of this growing scandal.

“Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running a ‘shadow government’ to keep intelligence about China’s election meddling from becoming known.”

The media will do what it always does when the deep state gets caught with its hand in the machinery.

It will pretend the story is too complicated, too old, too partisan, or too dangerous for ordinary Americans to understand.

But the issue is painfully simple.

If unelected officials inside the intelligence community are blocking, massaging, burying, or slow walking intelligence because they dislike the president voters chose, then the constitutional order is being replaced by bureaucratic veto power.

Erdman’s account does not sound like a theory anymore.

It sounds like a warning from inside the walls, and Washington’s permanent class is not going to enjoy the sunlight.

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