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Friday, October 10, 2025

A Trumpf loyalist is helping lead the CIA. The same Trumpf loyalist is also apparently in control of CIA's legal judgments. What could possibly go wrong? CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis (40) was an important figure during Dummkopf Trumpf's first term. In 2017, Ellis was accused of using his position in the White House counsel's office to feed sensitive information to one of the president's congressional allies. Two years later, then-LTC Alexander Vindman testified under oath that Ellis was one of the officials responsible for transferring the summary of the infamous 2019 call between Trumpf and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the National Security Council's top-secret computer server. Now Ellis abruptly demoted a career lawyer who had been serving as the agency's acting general counsel since January and installed himself in that role while retaining his position as the Number Two official at CIA.

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While at Dartmouth, Michael Ellis was the editor of the Dartmouth Review and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He graduated Yale Law School in 2011 and was President of the Federalist Society. Ellis also served as an intelligence officer in the USNR. Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Thomas Monheim and CIA IG Robin Ashton were set to depart before the Trumpf junta came to power in Jan 2025 and USSECDEF Pete "Hic!" Hegseth fired the USAF, USA, USN's top judge advocates general (JAG), paving the way for little oversight and potentially illegal military operations. During the George "Dubya" Bush administration and his "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT), "enhanced interrogation techniques" was the legal method by which CIA and DOD tortured detainees, a war crime. Then-D/FBI Robert Mueller expressly forbade FBI agents from conducting "enhanced interrogation techniques" which is ineffective anyway. Now we see the Trumpf junta conducting illegal XJK against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers in an effort to destabilize the Nicolas Maduro regime.

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Here is the 40-year-old Deputy Director of CIA and now its top legal official: media.executivegov.com

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-10 01:35 AM | Reply

There is nothing Trump approaches within a country mile that isn't sh*tified by his presence.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-10 05:58 AM | Reply

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