Elon/DOGE Hits the CIA Today
USAID shuttered for good on Friday, Elon headed to the CIA on Monday. Is this the beginning of the end of the Deep State?? One hopes so.
From Coffee and Covid:
Of the big US platforms, only Bloomberg carried the narrative-bending story, headlined “Elon Musk Set to Visit Central Intelligence Agency Next Week.” Right on schedule.
Trump-aligned independent reporter Catherine Herridge broke the story on X early yesterday. All we know for sure —all they are publicly saying— is that newly confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe “invited” Elon Musk, personally, to come to CIA HQ on Monday to start discussing DOGE and efficiency. That’s it. Sounds boring.
But it was somewhat curious news because, until now, the security agencies were considered safely DOGE-exempt.
I believe that Herridge’s tweet was a muted declaration that Trump’s war against the Deep State just entered its final, conclusive chapter. [Doug here: one dearly hopes so.] And the outcome will change history forever— for better or for worse. Let me explain.
👻 Was it purely coincidental that Rubio unexpectedly shuttered USAID on Friday and Ratcliffe unexpectedly invited DOGE into CIA the following Monday? Behold the timeline of just what we can see:
— On his first day in office, Trump created DOGE.
— DOGE’s first project was to wood-chip the CIA’s global laundromat, USAID.
— Weird legal fights erupted over the obscure “independent” agency.
— DOGE —solely under Trump’s control— continued penetrating most of the government.
— The Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA Director.
— Ratcliffe immediately fired an unknown number of CIA staff. (Battlefield preparation?)
— The JFK disclosures were body blows against the CIA. (More battlefield preparation?)
— Trump declassified (not yet produced) Crossfire Hurricane. (Even more?)
— Yesterday, Rubio officially ended USAID by Congressional notice.
— Yesterday, Ratcliffe publicly invited Musk into the CIA.
So many questions! Why Musk, and not a regular DOGE team? Why announce it? Why is the media pretending this story is a nothing burger?
Let’s speculate a smidge. Has Herridge’s mysterious January 19th tweet come full circle?:
👻 One can imagine all the problems new CIA directors face upon entering the Agency. Like his predecessors, however loyal to the Administration, Ratcliffe entirely depends on CIA’s permanent staff to truthfully and transparently tell him what the Agency is really up to. That top-secret information is surely compartmentalized —especially the blackest (and most interesting) ops.
Director Ratcliffe has no login to see where all the money is going. Just what they tell him.
But, things are different this time. Having softened up the CIA, Ratcliffe is now bringing in DOGE, which can “efficiently” scoop all the CIA’s operations up into a single, controllable, digital, blockchained portal.
DOGE can make it so Ratcliffe can see for himself. He’ll no longer be spoonfed.
👻 Think about it: This isn’t about DOGE or efficiency or cost cutting. It’s about information control. It’s about access to a deliberately opaque, compartmentalized, self-financing black-budget machine that’s historically operated with zero accountability, even to its own directors.
Every CIA director since Dulles has faced the same problem: They don’t really run the Agency.
Career staff run it. Career staff who’ve been barnacled in place since the Cold War. Career staff who know where the money’s buried, who control the classified compartments, and who can easily “forget” to tell the Director things, or follow super-top-secret compartmentalizing commands.
Ratcliffe, like anyone assigned the Director’s chair, walked into a fortress within a fortress.
But DOGE can help him tear down the fortress walls.
👻 Imagine a new, AI-powered, top-secret, digital DOGE dashboard at Langley that can show Ratcliffe everything in real-time: every dollar, every operation, every contract, every overseas asset being paid — and only Trump’s team will hold the keys. Once such a dashboard were installed, the Agency’s permanent staff couldn’t play their covert games anymore. No more secret drug ops. No more unauthorized coups. No more backchannel slush funds.
No more resist Trump operations.
If DOGE can pull this off, the Agency will properly become an extension of the White House, rather than the other way around.
👻 In other words, DOGE at CIA is the nuclear option. It is a breathtaking vision of a brand-new reality that could dismantle the entire postwar geopolitical model. Now, permanent, unelected bureaucrats and spies hold the real power, because they control the money, secrets, and the levers of influence, while manipulated elected officials come and go like figure skaters blissfully unaware of all the busy little crustaceans teeming right below the ice.
If CIA-DOGE integration is real, and it sticks, then the Deep State will evaporate into a shallow pond. The DOGE dashboard would collapse the financial hydra into a one-necked money chokepoint. It would move the levers of control back into the White House. No more shadow government. No more covert meetings between “resisters” discussing how to undermine the elected President and thwart his agenda.
To be perfectly clear: DOGE in intelligence suggests, not just draining the swamp, but the engineered desertification of the swamp.
👻 If I’m right, this is war. When Musk strolls into Langley HQ, it will signal the final, climactic battle. The Deep State cannot let Trump seize the intelligence machinery. If he does, their decades-long system of autonomy, black budgets, and unaccountable operations dies forever. Not “set back.” Not “dismantled” so it can later be rebuilt.
Eradicated forever.
The CIA’s permanent staff, their global financial network, and the entire shadow government lose everything the moment their money and operations become visible and thus controllable by the White House. Their only option is to stop this, at all cost.
On the other side, Trump obviously understands what happened to him in his first term. He did not govern, he was governed— by an unaccountable, uncontrollable bureaucracy. They ran Crossfire Hurricane, UkraineGate, two impeachments, and countless other regime-change operations— because they controlled the machine.
And they gleefully survived his presidency intact. Trump knows he won’t survive this second round unless he finishes the job.
It’s not politics anymore. This is an epic existential battle, for both sides.
👻 What’s coming next could make the Trump 1.0 “resistance” look like kindergarten dodgeball.