Staff Reports
An undercover video released by Sound Investigations has ripped the scab off a rotting relationship between America’s intelligence apparatus and the institutions that are supposed to hold power accountable. In the footage a man identified as Gavin O’Blennis, who says he worked for the FBI and now serves as a contracting officer at the CIA, boasts about using tactics to “set people up” and even claims undercover agents were embedded in the January 6 crowd, while naming high-profile conservatives as targets. This is not idle internet conspiracy anymore; it is a recorded confession that must be treated as the national scandal it is.
Conservative voices from across the country immediately seized on the video, and for good reason—this is precisely the kind of dirty, secret game Tucker Carlson and others have warned about for years. Benny Johnson and other commentators have amplified the footage, arguing that it proves what many patriotic Americans have suspected: a weaponized permanent bureaucracy using law enforcement and media to silence dissent. Whether you call it the deep state, the blob, or simply an entrenched Washington cartel, the effect is the same — free speech and fair debate are being strangled by unelected operatives.
We also have a documented history of intelligence agencies engaging in covert media operations, so these allegations do not arise in a vacuum. Investigations have revealed that the CIA once built and operated hundreds of covert websites and cultivated relationships with journalists and outlets overseas, showing the agency’s long-standing appetite for information control and influence. That historical pattern makes the claims in the undercover video far less shocking and far more plausible, and it should prompt every lawmaker with a spine to demand answers.
What conservatives are rightly asking now is simple: if the spooks can “nudge” narratives and subsidize lawsuits to bankrupt critics, who is really running America’s largest media companies? The line between national security and political warfare has blurred until you can’t tell where one stops and the other begins, and commentators like Tucker have publicly questioned cozy ties between intelligence veterans and top newsrooms. We deserve a full accounting of whether Fortune 500 media conglomerates are merely influenced by, or effectively controlled by, our own intelligence services feeding them spin.
Make no mistake: when government operatives are shaping headlines and orchestrating legal pressure on dissidents, this is not a domestic policy dispute — it is an attack on the republic. Left unchecked, the same apparatus that manipulates the press can manufacture consent for foreign adventurism and drag our sons and daughters into needless conflict under false pretenses. Patriots ought to be livid that the institutions meant to protect American liberty could be weaponized into starting wars and destroying lives.
Congress must tear away the curtain now — subpoenas, sworn testimony, and public hearings are the only remedy that will restore any trust in our institutions. Republicans, independents, and principled Democrats should join to demand the full release of records, contractor lists, and communications between intelligence operatives and media executives. If the press is compromised, then the people have been betrayed, and the political class that enabled this betrayal must be held accountable in daylight, not whispered about in back rooms.
This moment is a call to action for every hardworking American who still believes in the Constitution. Turn down the noise from the co-opted corporate outlets, stand with independent journalism that seeks the truth, and pressure your representatives to investigate until the facts are laid bare. We are the last line of defense for liberty, and we will not let our country be sold out by secretive men in shadowed offices.
