KHarblog: 2025-02

Radicals and subversives within the intelligence community

I had the great privilege and honor of working at NSA in 1974, working in Ops1 in NSA's R&D group.

As I said, it was an honor and privilege to work with such a great bunch of talented, dedicated, hard-working people.

We didn't talk politics (even though this was the time of Watergate), but they were clearly culturally conservative at least.

As I recall, homosexuals were not eligible for employment in the IC at the time,

https://www.nytimes.com/1961/07/29/archives/us-security-unit-ousts-26-deviates-walter-tells-of-dismissals-since.html

as an aftermath of the 1960 defection of Martin and Mitchell to the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_and_Mitchell_defection

Things have radically changed since that time,

according to a developing story.

Certain shocking allegations were reported on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 by Chris Rufo and Hannah Grossman:

https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-nsas-secret-sex-chats

https://www.city-journal.org/article/national-security-agency-internal-chatroom-transgender-surgeries-polyamory .

For responses from NSA and CIA, see

https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1894181424686641612

and

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1894104658295361945

Fox News and DNI Tulsi Gabbard are taking these allegations seriously.

"NSA investigates 'secret sex chats' under guise of DEI on internal agency message board"

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nsa-investigates-secret-sex-chats-dei-agency-message-board

Comment: Well, this will certainly get the attention of the IC.

Ah, this looks like the real deal:

"DNI Tulsi Gabbard moves to terminate, revoke security clearances of NSA employees tied to explicit chatrooms"

https://www.foxnews.com/media/dni-tulsi-gabbard-moves-terminate-revoke-security-clearances-nsa-employees-tied-explicit-chatrooms

Hear Gabbard state this herself, to Jesse Watters:

https://youtu.be/TLxpz_B28Lk?t=3m

NYT, 2025-02-28

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/nsa-chat-messages-intelligence-officers-gabbard.html

Some Rufo X posts here:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/02/25/secret-intel-community-sex-chat-discussed-libs-of-tik-tok-n2652729

I must say, I am surprised so many IC people were involved.

Over 100! Wow!

Another surprising thing:

That this matter couldn't be handled within the IC itself, either within the management structures of the agencies themselves or with their IGs (I believe each agency has its own IG).

Instead, whoever raised this issue had to go outside of the IC, to independent journalists.

They did not go to the Washington Post,

but to a well-known conservative independent journalist

to break this bombshell story.

According to Chris Rufo's whistleblower, the subversion of NSA extended far beyond a mere chatroom, to include a considerable part of its management structure.

2025-02-26

"Whistleblower:

There’s a Trans Cult Inside the NSA

An insider tells the story of the intel agency’s ideological capture"

https://www.city-journal.org/article/nsa-whistleblower-trans-gender-ideology-dei

"according to our whistleblower, these sex chats were just the tip of the iceberg.

This longtime NSA insider tells me that the ideological capture of the NSA began a decade ago.

Trans activists have

<b>entrenched themselves in positions of power,

pressured employees to undergo reeducation trainings</b>, and

compromised national security in the name of ideology."

My comment:

I think the issue goes far beyond transgenderism or homosexuality.

The bigger issue is cultural Marxism:

cultural Marxists in positions of power in NSA.

That would be a harder thing to root out.

Merely firing those who participated in sick chat groups would not be enough.

In any case, one thing is for sure:

that Rufo article will get the attention of the people at NSA :-)

The minerals deal is the tarbaby

Just an attempt to get the U.S. indefinitely entrapped in Ukraine.

What the U.S. should do is just STAY AWAY from Ukraine.

Ukraine's fight is not our fight.

We definitely should not be lured in by the promises of "Ukraine's resources."

If those resources are so great,

why was Ukraine begging the U.S. for aid in the 2010s?

Remember Joe Biden using the threat of denying Ukraine loan guarantees to get Ukraine to fire Viktor Shokin.

Ukraine is a never-ending tarbaby for the United States.

If Europe wants to spend its resources aiding Ukraine, that is its business.

I hope Trump does not lose sight of the big issue.

It is not getting reimbursed for what the U.S. has given Ukraine, or gaining control of Ukraine's resources.

It is ending the entanglement with Ukraine.

On the desire of some in the IC, and many in the U.S. establishment, to oppose Russia, Larry Johnson has some observations here:

https://sonar21.com/trump-and-europe-fail-to-realize-that-russia-has-a-vote/

"[a recently retired CIA case officer who is still doing contract work for the Agency]

voiced outrage at Trump “cozying up” to Putin and exclaimed:

“I’ve spent forty years fighting those bastards and Trump is surrendering.”

The US foreign policy establishment is like a prehistoric bug frozen in amber.

They are trapped in the past.

They have a fixed image of Russia as

an authoritarian communist dictatorship and cannot accept the reality that

modern Russia has reverted to its nationalist, Christian roots."

Again, that is Larry Johnson's opinion.

BTW, Larry Johnson back in September 2024 took a detailed look at what Ukraine actually has in the way of natural resources:

https://sonar21.com/why-the-west-lusts-after-ukraine-back-to-the-future/

Politico takes a look at Ukraine's mineral resources:

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-bad-mineral-deal-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy/

Here is a counter to those who think it is the 1930s again,

with Putin playing the role of Hitler and Russia that of Nazi Germany:

"The Fallacy of '39"

https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2004/12/27/the-fallacy-of-39/

by Justin Raimondo.

This gives the flavor:

"from the New York Post to the New York Times, the op-ed pages of the nation’s newspapers are swarming with keyboard commandos who look upon Ukraine as the Russian Rhineland.

If only the West had stopped Hitler early on – but it isn’t too late to stop Putin!

...

Putin’s drive to smash the power of the oligarchs represents Russia’s final reckoning with the old Soviet ruling class.

It is a push to reclaim stolen wealth and finally break the power of parasites who have been feasting on the Russian body politic since 1917."

As a perhaps eccentric counterpoint to that POV, opposed to certain wars,

here is some really great music:

Handel, Esther close

https://youtu.be/klR0HN3rrV8

Anti-fascist violence

Examples:

2025-02-24

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/nigel-farage-news-reform-uk-cornwall-masked-protesters-tensions

"Mask-wearing protesters, who refused to talk to local police officers after gathering at around 3.30pm, vowed to shut down the Reform rally.

...

The group of "noisy" protesters were heard chanting "Nazi scum of [off?] our streets", with others accusing Farage of "racism". "

A 02-25 followup

"Nigel Farage calls for Antifa to be proscribed as a 'hate organisation' after Reform UK protests in blistering letter to Yvette Cooper

...

they held a disorderly protest which led to several people being injured outside of the venue."

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/politics-news-labour-reform-nigel-farage

Not violent, but disruptive:

2025-02-22

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20250222-far-right-rally-in-berlin-faces-antifa-resistance-on-eve-of-crucial-german-elections

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3327030/afd-and-antifa-both-want-nazis-out-in-berlin/

"The group then set to cross the Wiedammer bridge, but was faced with thousands of antifa protesters gathered on the other side of the river, beating drums and chanting "Nazis 'Raus!" or Nazis! Out!"

What law enforcement has to put up with

For a brief video, see

https://youtube.com/shorts/RiPt0dP1i8M

For a ~ 3 minute video, see

https://youtu.be/IuUPLNEL39k

or for a news report,

(you have to manually expand the URL) see

https://wjla.com/news/local/virginia-crime-registered-sex-offender-richard-cox-fairfax-county-police-video-body-camera-cam-footage-full-encounter-questions-safety-womens-locker-room-oakton-rec-recreation-center-transgender-civil-rights-lgbtq-lgbtqia

" “There’s so much confusion in there that it’s unreal,” a police officer said "

For a six minute YouTube video, see

https://youtu.be/UpG7yX68264

The attack on nuclear families and America's future

What is a nuclear family?

The classic definition is:

a father, mother, and their biological children.

If young men have their genitals, their testicles and phallus, surgically removed, they have no possibility of being part of the production of a nuclear family.

Likewise for young women who have their genitals, their vagina and ovaries, surgically removed.

I must say, doctors who perform such surgeries are absolute monsters, preventing the formation of nuclear families, which are vital to America's future.

Transsex activism in Arlington

For what transgender activism leads to, see

https://www.iwfeatures.com/profile/virginia-mother-slams-policy-that-allowed-registered-child-sex-offender-into-her-daughters-locker-room/

"school officials informed McDougal that they knew exactly who she was referring to in her complaint,

and that they had granted Cox access to the girls’ locker room because of

Arlington Public Schools’ policy allowing individuals, including community members, to use the school restroom and locker room corresponding with their gender identity.

Cox, they said, had identified himself as a woman, and therefore had to be granted access to all women’s facilities.

If McDougal and her daughter didn’t feel comfortable sharing an intimate space with Cox, they could use the private family dressing rooms instead, the concerned mother recalls being told.

McDougal agreed the private family dressing room was the safest option for her daughter.

Noticeably, many of the other moms did as well, McDougal said, because the line to the private dressing rooms suddenly became long ahead of swim class each day."

I wonder why the real women and girls had to use the family dressing room if they wanted to avoid having to see a man naked.

Why wasn't the weirdo required to use the family dressing room, and stop bothering real women?

Oh, right. Because he wanted to see and be seen, in the space normally reserved for females.

With the approval of the Arlington authorities.

For an example of transgender activism, see

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/02/19/lgbtq-group-urges-more-support-for-aps-transgender-students-amid-federal-investigation/

Death in Germany

"at least six people were killed and 300 more injured when a refugee of Saudi origin drove a rented car through a crowd of revelers at a Christmas market."

https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-afro-germans-hope-for-a-better-future/a-71645742

Sounds like terrorism to me.

Why do American Democrats hate Russia?

Can't you understand and respect Russia's need for security?

Is that too hard for you to understand?

The Republican/Democratic difference on peace and war

It is really clear that Donald Trump wants to end the Russia/Ukraine war.

Joe Biden kept it going, proclaiming "As long as it takes".

Kamala Harris, as a presidential candidate, made it clear that that was her intent also.

The difference is starkly clear.

Democrats are for perpetual, totally unnecessary, $millions wasting, thousands killing, conflict with Russia.

Over who controls Kyiv?

Good grief.

What Arlington County just doesn't get

That men, i.e., humans with the normal male genitalia of balls (testicles) and a penis,

just don't belong in the usual spaces reserved for women, notably rest rooms and locker rooms.

Why is that?

Because it's impossible to know the motivations and psychology of that person.

Is that person

a rapist,

a pervert,

or a nut job?

Who knows?

Whichever he is, he doesn't belong in women's spaces.

The people who make the rules in Arlington just don't get that.

It doesn't matter who or what people identify with.

What matters is what they ARE.

It's really that simple.

For Arlington dithering over this, see e.g.

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/01/18/charges-against-sex-offender-for-w-l-girls-locker-room-incident-prompt-statement-from-gop/

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/01/22/new-superintendent-addresses-arrest-of-sex-offender-for-incidents-at-w-l-pool/

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/02/03/arrest-of-sex-offender-for-indecent-exposure-in-locker-rooms-sparks-aps-debate-on-gender/

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/02/14/developing-dept-of-education-announces-investigation-of-aps-transgender-policies/

For the related issue of biological men competing in women's sports, see e.g.

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/02/12/aps-transgender-policy-faces-dilemma-after-change-in-athletic-leagues-rules/

Male genitilia in women's locker rooms?

Is that what the left wants?

How disgusting!

Washington Post and "advocates"

This is a classic Washington Post headline:

"Advocates worry that migrants sent to Guantánamo are entering a ‘legal black hole’ "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/08/guantanamo-migrants-trump-deportations-noem/

Advocates for what?

Why should anyone care?

Let's face it,

the Washington Post is an advocacy organization for the left wing.

Not another penny for Ukraine

Question:

Should Lviv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv

be part of

1. Poland

2. Lithuania

3. Austria

4. Russia

5. Ukraine

6. Ruthenia

or be independent?

For general information, see

"In Lviv, according to the Austrian census of 1910, which listed religion and language, 51% of the city's population was Roman Catholics, 28% Jews, and 19% belonged to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv/

May God bless each and every one of them!

As to who controls Lviv today, who cares?

That is not the business of, nor is it important or relevant to, the United States.

So why was the United States sending literally billions of dollars in aid to the current government of Ukraine to influence who controls Ukraine?

Enough of this insanity.

Let the Eastern Europeans decide for themselves how they shall be organized.

That is not, and should not, be the business of the United States.

My love for Germany and Russia

There are two subjects I know at least a little about:

mathematics and music.

In each subject, Germany and Russia have made great contributions.

In mathematics, it is impossible to give examples understandable to those without an advanced education, but I will just mention three names:

Gauss, Euler, and Vladimir Voevodesky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Voevodsky

For more Russian mathematicians, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_mathematicians

Music is much easier for the general public to appreciate.

For Germany, a shining example is BWV 71:

https://youtu.be/w-Q0MnkwUuU

https://youtu.be/ZqQTMEtQTOA

(What great videography!)

For Russia, a great example is Mussorsky's "Great Gate of Kiev":

https://youtu.be/xX4t4XLZjXM

Watch the middle-aged Valery Gergiev at the peak of his form,

giving a truly magnificent performance.

Leading a really huge (Japanese) orchestra.

So wonderful that Mussorsky, Ravel, Valarie Gergiev, and the splendid Japanese orchestra could combine to yield this magnificent performance.

(Giving credit where it is due.)

Note the brilliant alternation between the woodwinds and the horns,

with the timpani intervening.

May God bless the German and Russian people,

and preserve them from harm.

Forever and ever.

Empathy? Cruelty? Empathy for whom?

See this Sally Jenkins column:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/02/05/trans-athlete-ban-trump-executive-order/

"sauerbraten", Sally?

Are you biased against Germans?

I happen to like sauerbraten.

Is there something wrong with that?

Sally Jenkins concluded

"Whatever you think about trans athletes, surely the subject, in which so much science remains undetermined, calls for empathy. These executive orders, as they’re written, are barbarism."

"Undetermined science"?

That is an absurdity.

The difference between men and women is well understood.

For example, women can bear children, men cannot.

Men have penises, women have vaginas.

Is that too hard for Sally to understand?

Of course there are some gray areas.

Infertile men and women.

The very rare people who have truly mixed sexual characteristics.

But those rare exceptions should not invalidate the basic dichotomy between men and women.

Which should exclude people with truly male sexual characteristics and abilities from competing athletically with women.

Who is controlling Arlington, Virginia education?

At one level, it is

"Superintendent's Cabinet and Organizational Chart - Arlington Public Schools"

https://www.apsva.us/departments/superintendents-office/superintendents-cabinet-organizational/

Three black people (two black men, one black woman), three white women, one Hispanic man.

Not a non-Hispanic white male in sight.

What do non-Hispanic white men know about mathematics, or how to teach it? (Sarcasm)

(I have to say, that photo is the left's idea of diversity.)

But to whom else is Superintendent Durán going for advice?

See

https://www.equityinedpartners.com/about , and

https://www.arlnow.com/2024/09/25/school-board-eyes-65m-budget-increase-for-more-staff-and-pay-raises-in-fy-2026/

These are the people giving advice on how to teach mathematics?

These are the people who will help America compete with the Chinese?

I think the point here is:

What is Arlington prioritizing?

When I was growing up in the 1950s, competing with the Russians was a very big issue (an issue raised by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_crisis ).

In the 2020s, is competing with the Chinese a priority?

And how does that compare with equality of racial outcomes?

(An issue I don't think the Chinese need to worry about.)

Let's face it.

Arlington, Virginia politics is dominated by political correctness, at the expense of all else.

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As to Arlington's ability to control spending, please see

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/02/06/new-aim-audit-reveals-deeply-concerning-issues-in-handling-of-2m-from-county/

https://www.arlnow.com/2023/01/24/breaking-former-arlington-teachers-union-president-arrested-in-fairfax-county/

" “Calibre CPA Group was hired to conduct an audit of the funds. After six months of reviewing the activity, it was determined Gant embezzled $410,782.10 throughout her tenure as president,” the release said. “Detectives were notified and began their investigation, while working closely with the accounting firm and AEA to review the documentation. Detectives determined Gant provided herself with multiple bonuses and used debit cards for unauthorized purchases.” "

A pattern here?

"prescribed hormone therapy drugs"

For the source of that title, see

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/judge-blocks-trumps-executive-order-on-transgender-prisoners-00202521

Just who is paying for these "medically required" drugs?

This is a glaring example of how female impersonators, doctors, drug companies, and judges are conspiring to raise costs for all of us.

Remember, those drugs don't come for free.

And are most certainly not necessary.

Transgender filth in Arlington VA

See

https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/04/virginia-residents-ask-school-overlook-transgender-sex-offender-caught-girls-locker-room/

"Virginia residents are rallying against parents who spoke out about an Arlington Public Schools (APS) District policy that allowed a serial sex offender to watch young girls change in a high school locker room for months.

The transgender proponents called on the district to maintain its policy allowing men to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms if they claim to be transgender"

What utter filth.

The simple solution to this problem:

Don't allow men in women's spaces.

Is that too hard to understand?

And please, enough of denying the biological difference between men and women.

And screw Francisco Durán's commitment to "gender identity".

That is purely a matter of psychology.

What matters is biological sex.

A person can change who or what they identify with on a moment's notice.

They cannot change their biological sex, no matter how much is spent on hormone "therapies" or plastic surgery

(i.e., paying doctors and drug companies for unnecessary products and services).

More detail on the locker room story: