MIKE BENZ: IRI, started in 1983 by the newly formed National Endowment for Democracy, was created under Ronald Reagan at the request of his CIA Director William Casey to win back the powers the CIA lost under Jimmy Carter and the 1975-1976 Church Committee hearings, the 1977 Halloween Massacre

you don't really get to be Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, overseeing the CIA, unless you are in the CIA.  --Mike Benz

With Rubio out as GOP head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, how cool would it be if @RonJohnsonWI or @BasedMikeLee got the keys to that kingdom... https://t.co/uMPn8TTEsY

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) November 16, 2024

He's also a board member on the CIA wing of the GOP.  Our famous notorious International Republican Institute, IRI, the political the main conduit, the political back channel between the Republican Party and the Central Intelligence Agency.  That's what the IRI is, started in 1983 by the newly formed National Endowment for Democracy, which was created under Ronald Reagan at the request of his CIA Director William Casey to be able to win back the powers the CIA lost under Jimmy Carter and the 1975-1976 Church Committee hearings, the 1977 Halloween Massacre, and the massive budgets to the CIA by saying "We're not going to have the CIA do this anymore.  We are going to create a National Endowment for Democracy, which will be fully funded by the State Department, and it will be backchanneled by the CIA, and it will do under the banner of Democracy what the CIA used to do under the banner of spycraft.  And they created two of their four cores for political liaisoning to make sure that both sides of the political aisle supported the CIA's activities.  On the Democrat side, it was called the National Democratic Institute, NDI, run by the former Democrat, Secretary of State, Madelaine Albright.  On the Republican side, it's called the International Republican Institute, the IRI, one of the single worst institutions in the world that is together with the NDI jointly responsible for most internet censorship.  They're the ones who created Brazil's censorship state.  They're the ones who've lobbied the EU for the EU censorship laws.  Theyr'e the ones in a significant part responsible for the Australia misinformation lobbying voted on this year.  Bad, bad hombres.  CIA information control, Cold War style.  But the enemy is not Communism, it's populism; it's us.  But I guess you don't really get to be Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, overseeing the CIA unless you are in the CIA.