08/05/2025 / By Willow Tohi
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped a literary-sized bombshell on American democracy this week, confirming Cold War-era intelligence tactics are now targeting U.S. citizens. The CIA’s infamous Operation Mockingbird — once a tool for influencing foreign and domestic media — is, she says, alive and weaponized to undercut the Trump administration and distort public opinion.
In a July 31 interview with conservative host Benny Johnson, Gabbard described intelligence insiders leaking secrets exclusively to “friends” in corporate media, including Fox News and CNN, though their parent companies are owned by globalist-aligned firms like BlackRock (a World Economic Forum partner). “They believe their will is more important than yours,” Gabbard warned. “Weaponizing public records to sabotage elected leadership is an attack on constitutional order and the American people.”
This isn’t fringe conspiracy — Gabbard, a former U.S. Congressmember, has official authority to corroborate it. Nor is it limited to leaks: Today’s “Mockingbird 2.0” uses artificial intelligence, corporate surveillance and $900 million in federal propaganda funneled into media narratives during Biden’s pandemic response.
Gabbard’s warnings align with a 2024 House report that found Biden’s CDC spent taxpayer money to spread “erroneous” data during the pandemic. According to the Energy and Commerce Committee, ads exaggerated vaccine efficacy, underplayed children’s risks and partnered with Big Tech to monitor Americans.
Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said the campaign eroded trust in public health entirely: “They weaponized fear. Millions believed threats that either lacked evidence or were exaggerated.”
Perhaps most alarming: House investigators revealed the CDC distributed messaging that conflicted with FDA authorization — flagrantly violating its role as a regulatory body.
Gabbard’s claims gained credibility when former UK pandemic advisors admitted to exploiting psychological tactics from 2020–2022. A Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group (SPI-B) member told JonFleetwood.com: “Fear smacked of totalitarianism.”
The group’s psychologists inflated risks to justify lockdowns, even while knowing public resistance could weaken compliance. One member now calls the program “dystopian,” admitting, “We handed dictators a playbook.”
While the original Mockingbird relied on clandestine journalist recruitment, today’s iteration is digital, mass-scale and taxpayer-funded. Gabbard’s team identified five key mechanisms:
Operation Mockingbird’s resurrection serves as a eulogy for the American press’s perceived independence. The Church Committee’s 1975 findings — exposing CIA ties with the New York Times, Time and CBS — were labeled “conspiracy theories.” Now, Gabbard validates its continuation in digital warfare.
President Trump tapped Gabbard to dismantle this apparatus, and she insists his election victory was no accident. “The public sees it,” Gabbard says, “and that’s why this fight is personal.”
Gabbard’s revelation forces a reckoning: When government agencies use media as propaganda arsenals, democracy dies in darkness. Whether Mockingbird’s revival is a “covert program” or institutionalized overreach, its effects are clear — erosion of trust, facilitated censorship and a public increasingly weaponized against itself.
As Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch said, killing innocence mocks the very society that commits it. Tulsi Gabbard’s fight isn’t just about accountability. It’s about preserving journalism’s soul — and democracy’s future.
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