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Army veteran and former law enforcement officer Cory Gautereaux, founder of the GOAT Initiative, joins the show to reveal what he’s uncovered while investigating activity along the US–Mexico border. Through grassroots intelligence gathering, recovered cell phones, and on-the-ground investigations, Cory has identified networks tied to human trafficking, counterfeit documents, and even communications linked to Chinese nationals coordinating border crossings. We discuss how volunteer-led efforts and technology are exposing gaps in federal enforcement that most Americans never see. This episode breaks down the evidence, the methods, and why Cory believes the border has quietly become a national security battlefield.
Check out GOAT Initiative: https://www.thegoatinitiative.org/
Chapters:
00:55 Cory's Journey: From San Diego to Montana
01:44 The Birth of Goat Initiative
05:52 Observations on Border Patrol and Immigration
14:00 Building Trust and Community Engagement
15:34 The Local Initiative: A Community Response
17:31 Eminent Domain and Border Control Issues
19:10 Building Trust and Community Relationships
22:23 The Goat Initiative: Scope and Operations
27:22 Filling the Gaps: National Security and Local Action
32:59 Evidence and Proactive Measures at the Border
33:14 Visual Evidence: Fires and Community Impact
35:52 Bureaucratic Incompetence and Personal Responsibility
39:19 The Breakdown of Community and Responsibility
43:12 Abdication of Responsibility in Society
45:26 The Role of Local Businesses in Community Safety
49:09 Observations on Immigration Patterns
54:53 Complicity in Policy and Bureaucracy
58:31 Trust and Responsibility in Law Enforcement
01:03:08 Chinese Immigration and Organized Processes
01:10:55 Coordinated Invasion: Understanding the Threat
01:14:28 Intel Gathering: The Role of Military and Asylum Seekers
01:18:41 The Impact of Bureaucracy on Border Security
01:24:30 Solutions and the Role of Private Contractors
01:29:27 The Need for Action: Congressional Responsibility
01:34:23 Future Threats: The Reality of September 11th 2.0
September 11 2.0 is just minute could be right now could be 10 years 20 years. It's going to happen.
They are here. They are all here. It's going to be very bad. But
what we learned from September 11th and agencies working together has been just completely
unraveled or blockaded. And I want to give you a good example. I'm not going to say who it is.
There's a task force that three different people from this task force have talked with me
without he conflicting with each other like they didn't know that we existed. And then I say hey
why don't you call this guy before you come talk to me. And they are in the same task force.
That should scare the shit out of everyone.
Welcome to the show first and foremost here at ArmyVat like you already said. Founder of Goat
Initiative working on human trafficking along the southern border. Randomly came across you
actually on X and was really thankful I did you have the genius idea of taking all of these
cell phones that you found you're able to get inside of them. I heard your your story about
plugging the Chinese cell phone into your your house and using it there which I have to
commend you for that level of bravery. But you know I can talk a lot about I can tell you some
stories about Chinese cell phones and deployments but we'll say that for other times. And but anyway
welcome to the show man I would love to start at the talk walk walk me into how you wound up
getting involved and reporting on this stuff and deciding you're going to start Goat Initiative.
So yeah the beginning was very weird so my wife and I had just had a baby when we left
we lived in the outskirts of the city it's an in San Diego it's called Elca Home it's another
city right outside of San Diego and we were tired of dealing with the homeless problem so we're
like let's go move further east so get some land it's it's nose up here we get we get all the
seasons here yeah we're about a 4,000 feet elevation so it's great and I love it we got found
a place in California in San Diego County 47 acres that we had a house that we could afford
like yeah let's let's do it right I'm gonna have my own shooting range here it's if you guys
were dropped here right now you'd be like wait this is not California that's that's what I that's
how I how I like it so we had been here for a very short amount of time and my wife's like hey
look at the neighborhood Facebook page it says there's a large group of Chinese people walking
down the freeway like what yeah sure and then they know oh look I'm looking so hop the truck
drive like two minutes down the road there's a large group of fucking Chinese people walking down
the freeway now where I live you are most of the people that live out here are very white very
native American or very messy so our group of Chinese people is like did it there's lots of buses
that come through so my first thought was okay maybe a bus broke down two or buzz or something
the Chinese tour group so my first thought was very innocent right like cool they had their
luggage it looked like they just got it literally looked like they were on a tour bus but when I
pulled it up there's no bus anywhere then then Border Patrol pulls up behind me and he hops out
and he looks at me stand next to me he looks at me and it's like it's going on man like I don't
I don't know you tell me what's going on and looking back now that interaction makes
complete sense because that's still the situation today almost like three more almost four years later
so I didn't I didn't really start getting involved then I was just kind of confused
and still learning my neighbors at that point we had been we just moved in so I'm talking to them
and I was talking to the neighbors like is this this normal for here I mean I'm from here there's
no way this is normal because we're used to normal illegal alien traffic from Latin America
and everybody's used to that here where you go go to Home Depot and they're right out front of
Home Depot it's just normal it's what I go up right now you go to Home Depot my my gun store
you know cones right next to Home Depot and there are no Mexicans no Central American South Americans
it's all military age males from African countries which is very very weird
and and and 80 there's a lot of patience so I didn't get involved until I know most people
know that we have really bad fires in California so I saw smoke one day
drove it was it wasn't popping up on any of the apps that I have so I drove down there
and there were about 10 fires and a couple hundred illegal aliens standing there
just letting the brush on fire you know piling it up making a fire to stay warm and I pay like
a thousand almost a thousand bucks a month for home insurance because of fire danger right so
I have my dad with me that that my dad was up at the house helping me with some stuff so he
drove out there and when I pulled up a border patrol agent pulled behind me and blocked me in
and then I see I'm I'm we're trying to figure out what the hell's going on obviously they're here
obviously they're making some sort of warming fire getting ready for the night because it's
going to be cold and windy and then border patrol comes up and we're just talking and this
fire starts to the wind catches it it starts to run and towards my truck and border patrols
I don't know 100 yards away talking to some people so I get in the border patrol agents
vehicle and I back it up so my dad could back up my truck get it out of the way and then we
like hey do you have a fire extinguishering your truck I gave mine to my dad and he's trying to
put it out border patrol didn't have one and at that point I'm like yeah this is not this is
not going to work for me I pay a thousand bucks a month for fire insurance and we're just letting
where's cal fire nowhere to be right what what year is this 2020 end of 2021 beginning of 22 I believe
okay so and I was going to ask you what what how far away from your house are you at this point
this is just a couple miles away yeah okay far enough to close enough to see just campfire now
obviously that it's black smoke because they're burning stuff and not supposed to be burning but
sure yeah there were a few of them so I was I was pretty pissed off at that point
you'd said before that this is what you'd experience with those 200 Chinese walking up the road
and the sort of cluelessness from the border patrol guy that is still kind of the same
these two guys just not getting intel the way that they should as far as people coming across
the border is that what sort of keep in this ignorance that's a challenging question to answer
there are a lot of very good border patrol agents I'm friends with a lot of very good border
patrol agents but I think we have to look at the makeup of the border patrol so what happened
during the Biden administration when they just let all of these people through really pissed off a
lot of guys my ATF agent from at the gun store is a former border patrol agent and some's really
got to be bad for you to go from border patrol to ATF right I give we give it what kind of shit for
that so as you should just a perfect example though what things were so bad you're going to go be
at ATF agent right right but a lot of people so you had a lot of new guys who just did what they
were told which it's this is kind of by design at this point seeing it now and then the guys in
the middle they either went to specialized jobs or they took their federal their federal credentials
and went to ATF or any of the other agencies right then the guys at the top retired they're
retired early or they just retired because they they weren't going to deal with it so you have a
force now that it they're between one it obviously this is an absolute right so but you have a
force now that they're between they've been on the job for between zero and four years and they
just do exactly what they're told they don't ask questions five years ago the border patrol if
you needed some somebody to track somebody you would call you guys right and did you could go to
the christ did you go to the border patrol tracking school or do you guys have your own
no i didn't uh the bulk of the tracking that i know just comes from the basic sear course
but yeah so i know the seals here i don't know if they still do but they used to go with border patrol
like kind of like a ride along but there would be a many many course that they would do with
tracking with border patrol it's bad as i don't think it's like that anymore the you'd
that is a perishable skill that you need to be using every day and when the the guys that have been
in for you know five to 15 years they left and then the guys have been there 15 to however many
years they're gone who's teaching you right you're touching on a you're touching on a big problem
right this is something you see in the military the guys rotate out in and out all the time they
retire and especially now like g-watt generation is getting older a lot of these combat veterans are
going to start getting out and there's a lot of leadership that's walking out the door there
it matters and a big way it creates a giant vacuum of institutional knowledge
yeah it's frustrated because i can you know we continue to see all this money being sent all over
the world when we need that money here in our own country to we have so many q-watt veterans that
would love to help secure their own nation right no kidding and they have the skills to do it
why are we not using funding for something like that i've talked about this for a long time actually
i think you've ever brought it up on a on a podcast that why is there not a border patrol reserve
hmm that's actually really smart i mean border patrol has special forces don't they there's three
people right here that could do it special operations yeah absolutely um and maybe that just
means you lived here the border and you get a radio maybe that's all it is they used to do that
back of the day but now radio says you guys know our sensitive items so right yeah these are become
such a bureaucratic mess that you can't even give the fucking local guy a radio so he has to call
the same numbers that everybody else and uh this was during right around christmas time
the locals have resorted to calling me rather than calling border patrol because i pick up my phone
sometimes the phone the phone numbers don't even work so the local called me a couple of times
i remember just sitting there in my pajamas and phone drinking and phone drinking like what i
answer it and it's the guy down the road he's like hey i got a mom and and kid here in the clubhouse
it's a shooting club down the road and border patrols just don't answer the phone i've called like
20 times you have somebody you can call i called all the guys that i knew were not working that day
called station ring ring just kept ringing so i went down there and uh i knew that i would probably
run into a border patrol agent on the way there and i did and um as i'm because i was a mom and a kid
i was more interested than normal because sometimes the cartel will send children with a lone female
and they will pretend it's their kid but it's actually not um sorry i thought my dude on
district was on and it's not working it's okay so i went down there talk to them for about five
minutes and then saw saw an agent when i was in the area and i said hey can you give me a couple
minutes i'm gonna go talking to these people but you've got people down here and he goes yeah yeah
sure okay i never met the guy before so he gave me a couple minutes i interviewed them they
seemed harmless like i pictures of all their stuff pictures of their faces and uh he picked them up
but why are they calling me why is there not a number for locals there they're just some really simple
simple things that we could be doing and we're not doing and it's it drives me insane
do you feel like the bureaucracy is the point to drive this sort of incompetence
i think that wasn't made overnight this has taken decades for things to become this
entangled in nonsense and unless we ask these organizations and start from the beginning
mm-hmm i don't i don't see a good solution to untangling this massive bureaucratic web
throughout the entire government mm-hmm well you're essentially out there doing their job
for them because you've created a bunch of inroads to gather your own intel you've developed
relationships with people to where they trust you now to call either rather than the actual
organizations that they should be calling um how did you get to that point where the trust
that people should have in the institution is now sort of put in you and what you're doing with
goat initiative like like walk us back and then lead us into like how did you get into
establishing goat and being this person so i guess we're talking about the name because
everybody always asks me that so uh the goat initiative is is a you know it's a kind of a weird name
right but if i went to we're talking about nsc earlier if i showed up in Montana and and saw all
my friends there they they probably don't know my real name they i go by goat and i have forever in
the army all my army friends but i showed up they'd be like who the hell's court
all right i just went with it when i was trying to come up with the name got you um and then
there's a lot you know there's a bunch of different plot play on words that you could use
create a small time initiative but uh so to answer your question i am one of them i am a local
they're my neighbors so that's how it started i started right you know right here and then it just
kind of went out and then people realized that i was trying to trying to light on the situation
and and make sure that i couldn't get local media out here like i could not get them out here it was
and uh it's about maybe 45 minutes from there's from their stations drive but they wouldn't send
a news van out to cover any of this stuff so things just kept
not making any sense over and over the chinese people and the fires and where's cal fire
and then where's the new where's the media so i'm all right i'm just start taking pictures of the
stuff and taking videos and posting them and it uh kind of blew up pretty fast and i didn't
intend to do any of this stuff um but the trust comes from them seeing me all the time and then i
took uh i go going back to geowat right i took a play from the green breeze i'm like okay i'm doing
this why do i try to take over the north side of the border because we've lost that the
united states government has lost the north side of the border it'll take decades their generations
to repair the damage done and the damage that's continued to be done because they're going through
right now and um eminent domain using eminent domain to take people's property to build the wall
instead of coming through and going we're going to give you double we're going to give you five
times what fair marker value is and we're going to give you a radio now they're just coming in and
saying fuck you we're building the wall after hundreds of thousands of people went through these
people's property right who's in the right mind thinks that's a good idea eminent domain is such a
piece of shit law i i i don't agree with it at all and it's super frustrating like just the idea
that the federal government can come in and be like this is mine now because i need it and here's
pennies on the dollar get you know gtfo like that's a travesty and it ought to be it ought to be
outlawed the other part of the two is like i've said man like the the fact that the border is
this out of control the we could take the us military and push five miles into mexico and
demilitarize the shit out of it and then build a wall out away from people's property and not have
to internet eminent domain and then turn all of you guys that live there on the border like you said
into into these signals essentially and deputize people like you or allow you to create a border
militia or have a border reserve like you said like these are just no brain or things it's not
taking advantage of the resources that we already have available to us which is which is ironically
a symptom of bureaucracy that you're talking about anyway because bureaucracy just breeds more
bureaucracy it's it you know we established this one process to fix this other process and that's
not working so we're going to have a process to fix the process to fix the process that's like okay
but you know i'm right here i'm a g1 bit yeah exactly oh yeah we have to hire two two people to do
report and they need five people to do the printing and all that stuff yeah exactly so it's for us
it's just easy solutions right but and maybe the reserve is just a um observe in report maybe
we just start there here's the after you're right line you live here um if you see something say
something now i know that won't work well because like i said they've lost the north side of the
border so what back to what uh i was saying about the green braids i'm like you know what why don't i
i could i remember this is kind of how it started was and i wasn't thinking this far into it when
i did it i was just being a good neighbor the guy there's there are these border dogs it's
border horses border cows there's there's everything these border dogs go back and forth and this guy
on our side um kind of took them on and they were warning him of people coming across
great great asset for him he doesn't have any money so i would bring him dog food and then
something clicked i'm like you know what this is what the green braids do i'm just start bringing
these people shit and i'm going to be their best friends and they're going to tell me everything
because i'm a local i'm one of them i'm going to embed myself here born i mean i live here i'm
already done that but i'm just going to turn it up a little bit i'm going to get some donations when
i get the donations we will um a guy's truck broke down but i brought him a starter he needed a
starter in a battery um there it is just so easy for me to do because i'm here they see my face
all the time now if the government was going to try to do that even if uh i just i just
particularly remember some i think it was a national geographic they did on green braids
you know probably 20 on 20 something years 25 years ago i remember the the commander
who's a captain and he would go meet with the local leaders and he would take his helmet off and
take his glasses off right if bourgeois did that with the locals they'd probably fucking shoot him
damn they've lost it completely that's insane that's yeah now i mean Chris you could talk about
into that way more than i can absolutely with those relationships and how those relationships
are built right i mean there's you're talking about a lot of work right Chris yeah i mean he's
he's like the UW terminology for it is like building up an auxiliary but you're absolutely right
like you're just you're meeting with like what we would call key leaders or just people that have
access and placement because they're there on the border like that's where they live and then
you're just building facetime relationships with them just by and and it's not even
that complicated for you because like you said like i'm one of them like i'm one of you guys like
what you're doing is just really being what we call back in the day just being a good neighbor
and taking care of your own community by in order to to serve the end of your organization for
what you're talking about yeah you're you're building up an auxiliary if people that have access
and placement in the area and then just asking them to continue doing what they do which is just
protect their own community by you know passing information to you um which yeah it's
rocket science by any means it's it's actually sort of wild oh sorry go ahead quirk
well i was to see you said serving the end which is my organization but it's not the end is the
country the country's lost this and we need to keep it you know i don't we this is the dumbest
business plan i've ever had because i keep fucking paying to have this right so it doesn't really
doesn't serve us at all but it serves my children in the future yeah right and the the placement is
key leaders excuse me key leaders is not as important for us as placement and where these people are
right because so as you were talking about about that i was thinking okay well what if what if the
local board of patrol what if they got a new leadership and then they came to my house and talked
to me they're like yeah nice to meet you thank you and then they will leave when i go that was
fucking retarded well well why what's the point of that that guy's gonna be gone any year
waste my time i fucking live here i got a 30 year mortgage not going anywhere
well what i was gonna say is like what Chris was describing like about being a good neighbor it sounds
novel what you're doing but i think it sounds that way because we're so far removed from the idea
and concept of a militia in the way that it was intended originally it doesn't just mean
getting your buddies and some rifles and muskets and and banding together and training like that's
part of it but what you're doing actually is building a cohort of people who trust you and that
you can trust and you guys are keeping your community safe that's literally the whole point of
that and you're doing it in real time and it sounds rare because it is in nowadays but like this is
this literally the intent of the second amendment right is what you're carrying out
i want to be very careful with that though because we worked very hard to distance ourselves from these
more rogue militia type groups that's what i don't use that i agree with sir yeah certainly not
yeah implying that yeah absolutely this concept of of community leadership and community protection
what you're talking about if we you know think think think think of settling the west right you guys
establish a township and you and the other men in your community uh set up you know a security
onion you're keeping the town safe you guys develop a means of communication you know ways to
report all of this stuff that's what you're doing like that's just the way that it has been done
for a long time and we've sort of um exported all of those responsibilities to the federal government
who have absolutely abdicated those responsibilities so of course it's falling down on men like you
who have the ability of training from being a veteran a GY veteran uh and the leadership skills
to just go and do it and that's that's what i'm saying not that i don't mean like militia in the way you
know like to you to protect what you're doing absolutely it's not the way i intend to say you're
you're leading your community is the point of what i'm getting at it it's funny listening to you
explain it in depth and it sounds very technical and very um very thought out right but like Chris
you were saying i'm i'm just being a fucking neighbor makes it really easy i was being myself
talking on the neighbors and getting the information that's about as technical as i get
well i think i think that's a really good jumping off point uh and maybe for anybody that's
that's hearing about the go to initiative for the first time tonight can you give us the scope
of what your organization is and and what you guys are doing yeah so kind of frame it in i would uh
i would encourage everybody go to go to initiative.org there's lots of information on there
it is very difficult to explain everything that we have done in hard brewing because a lot of it
we can't talk about i'm not saying that to people to be douchey um it's there's just a lot of things
that are obsec related or or there are cases that we've been helping out with um it does sound
douchey not though now that i think about that uh we get you um so okay so what what we started
out doing was just you know monitoring situation taking pictures taking videos i was posting um
and then now where we're at we have um about 50 plus let's call them verbal
MOUs so so nothing nothing um on paper
on working directly with us right but we we are able to get back into some of these areas that
we're not necessarily supposed to be in because they know that the information that we get
will be passed to the appropriate people so a lot of this goes back to um
brana what you were saying where it's just men being men so if big border patrol had any idea some
of the stuff that we were doing we would be we would have been shut down a long time ago
but other men are going these guys are doing stuff that's out of our purview
but it's not in anyone else's purview maybe we should just let them go do their thing
and that has been extremely valuable for us and the country so let me give you an example
this passport that's just laying right here where this is from
Bangladesh i think people's Republic of Bangladesh
this is one of the hundreds from thousands that we found
let's say i picked this up and it's it is uh just to make it somewhat right this is a
Somal Bin Laden and he came in and for some reason he left it well this is better this is
Muhammad Arafat Hossein just a lot of names probably a good dude here for a better life right
totally probably a doctor where is he from praise place of birth no cally i don't know whether it is
um so let's let's say this was Somal Bin Laden and i go okay this is important
i call Washington directly and they'll send somebody here to come pick this up tomorrow
okay now let's pretend i'm cori the board of troll agent and i picked this up well first of all
i'm not going to pick it up because it's going to make my day longer because then i have to deal
with it where there's not really a good process too date for them to deal with this
in my opinion the easiest thing to do would need to get a trash can and put it at the station
and say everybody put all the shit that you find in there because that's better than nothing
but then what would happen to it well i found out what happened to it from a customer
he was the guy excuse me though it's tasked out to uh shred all the documents money
passports, personificates, everything and i said you guys put it into a database or something
first right he said no it was taking up too much space and they asked me to shred all of it so i
it's about the whole day shredding everything let's insane
i had a feeling that that's what was going on but i i didn't have any proof
so Joe can't uh sorry i'm going off of topic after question but Joe can't recently said there
was about 18,000 known terrorists in this country um i think we think it's probably at least double
that just based off of the known meaning all the documents they shredded are unknown all the godaways
are unknown right there's all unknowns um i've been cross referencing this stuff with Sarah Adams
if i find anything that's that maybe something that she's looking for i will send it over to her
but uh okay back to my example so you're the borrower so as you pick this up what do you what do you do
with it you bring it back to the station it's also a bit long you go hey sir here's a password and he
goes uh i got my kids got a baseball game tomorrow i don't have time to deal with that shit
or whatever how long is it going to take for it to get to Washington if ever
and that's one of the big places where we've come in we're we're the kind of the middleman
there the uh the go around yeah well you're you're filling in a gap uh it's not just in
competence you're talking about it i i can sort of relate to that because i was a cop in the
air force for almost 15 years and it what you were describing right remind me of like bust
busting a party right and you've got maybe three or four patrolman on duty and you've got 40
people at the barracks that you've got a process and every single one of those people gets their
own individual report they require their own individual processing and you've got six hours
lift and shift and there's absolutely no way you're going to get through 40 people and so what
happens you call a first sergeant maybe you drunk tank some people who are really blown uh everybody
else is handed off to the first sergeant no reports are filed nothing that happened is documented
and that's sort of the end of it but the what you're describing is an extreme because you're
talking about something that has national security implications and people that are coming into
the country you have no idea about and this is the the institution that the average American citizen
is expecting to be doing something about this and to know like you said there's shredding all
these documents because they a don't want to deal with it or maybe they don't have the capability
to with the the sheer amount that you're finding it's just like well what's the point in having a
process you know you guys like you said you're filling in a gap but you shouldn't have to necessarily
right but you you you are and we just happen to be at the wrong place at the right time I guess
I guess I'm kind of curious what like you you described you watched all of these fires getting
started from your home and you realized that these are all these illegals that were building fires
to stay warm what what you started finding or necessarily when this became really serious for
you with evidence wise what you were discovering and then reaching out higher above you to garner
necessary attention for this like what what were you finding or what necessarily inspired you to
actually take this deeper and become more proactive than you already were like more proactive
are you guys able to throw up a video while we're going or no
yeah Chris did you move or did you want to throw up a specific video yeah we got the video ready
here let's start with the one with the fires that you were talking about at the top of the show
so we can just kind of show everybody what you meant
so the the camera that we're using on that's this fire video is a color night vision they're not
too expensive they're actually really cool and I'm sure that you guys probably knew this before I
did but you're the the light art that your cell phone uses to lock on your face and unlock your
screen shows up from very far distance away and we didn't know that and we kept seeing flashes on
this camera what the hell is that and then we saw a group of six to 100 people and just flashes
everywhere I mean look like we're at the Super Bowl or something flashes everywhere I'm not going
to lie even when you were talking about this at the top of the show this is crazier than I was
even thinking about like this is a this looks like a bonfire right like you'd be having on the weekend
a group of friends this is a lot of people that's nuts that's just one that's just one of yeah
well you say one of many yeah we tell loads of you'll you'll see I'm just waiting on you guys to
tell me to play it yeah let's see play wow yeah so all those embers just going up and
here's the best part those plants in the background a lot of those are man's Anita which are
protected here in California I think I was you know if I were to go cut the man's Anita in my house
and burn them that burns people have told me that it burns really hot and for a while
yes so if I were to do that and get caught I would get fined yeah I also can't this is the best part
of this story so I after a couple days of watching this I call Cal fire and I said hey what are we
doing about these fires like I cannot have a fire at my house what are we doing they said oh well
we can't give them a ticket because we don't know where to send it they don't have an address
okay okay let me I'm not gonna repeat that back to you but I want to clarify that you could
just go out there with a hose and put that wet stuff on the red stuff right or we can't do that
those are warming fires I said what is a warming fire well if you have a warming fire that's not
technically illegal and I said I'm still not tracking man so if I go on my backyard right now
and I go roast marshmallows with my kids can I do that well you yeah you can do that but
you know you have to have a lid on it and if an ember takes off and catches your neighbor's
house on fire you're gonna be liable I'm like are you not seeing the correlation here man
what what is confusing about this I said well okay here's my address I give my address I said can
you write that down can you make sure that you put this into your computer system please
if there's ever a fire not on the actual structure of my house but in like the backyard or
something I want you to make sure that everyone knows it's a fucking warming fire you are ever
show up at my fucking house unless it's a structure no we can't do that can't do that sir
you're actually I'm not I'm not laughing yeah I was I was gonna say I'm not laughing to make light
of what you're saying or make light of the situation I'm I'm laughing to keep from being angry because
that is such peak bureaucratic American government you Mr. Taxpayer you will follow the law do you
understand me or I will find your ass but all all these people that are just marching over the border
right like they know they can do whatever they want it's fine yeah well what I was gonna say about
it is it like it reminds me of the the law about being able to hunt if you're stranded if it's
out of season you kill a deer for survival right you're not gonna get in trouble but this isn't
that this is a fire that burns anywhere it doesn't matter it's gonna affect something you know it's
it's nothing you can control and you're you're saying it's bureaucracy to me I work for the state
of California okay and I work you you could call me yeah I can't really do anything about it uh
you know I don't work in that department you know what I mean yeah no what I'm getting at is
is I leave a think it's bureaucracy I think that this is what it's like obviously it's the bureaucracy
at play but it's a weaponized in competence it a lot the bureaucracy allows these people to
weaponize their incompetence they know better they're giving you the law to protect them because
they know that they can't do anything and it's this is this is sort of the frog in the pot of
boiling water you know this these laws get gradually more dumb as time goes on and nobody does
anything to change it because they seem like they're not gonna matter you like the thought process
behind this to somebody who has never been out in the field doing anything is like oh it's a
warming fire somebody is keeping themselves alive well that sounds good right well at the end of
the day you Joe citizen out there trying to protect your property from somebody on the other side
of the border as if in this situation that fire is gonna stop at the imaginary line on the ground
it isn't it's it's a you know it's a total failure of the laws we have in this country that are
meant to protect you as a person and rather they're they're putting you in a box that keeps you in
trouble you know I think the frog in the boiling water is a perfect perfect example of that
because but in this case the frogs are gay right southern border frogs don't you know those are
those are immigrant fires immigrant fires are good now sure can you imagine some like seven-year-old
division chief answering the phone and and saying that no you wouldn't but who was it who was
some new guy that's just doing what he's told right and that's the failure of this fucking country
is everybody's just doing their job right man well that that you could take that to so many you could
take that to so many different extremes right like you could take it to like the extreme of a war
crime I was just doing my job or I was just falling orders there could be something like this and
unfortunately I think so many people have gotten this mindset of why should I involve myself when
things seem like they're not making sense anymore because I'm just going to get myself in trouble
I could go home I have all the nice warm liquis and chouis that I could ever want and it's not
going to affect me that's this it's a stupid human thing we think like it's happening over there
like it's never gonna touch me ever and that's not true you know eventually it will
it goes excuse me it goes right back to the neighbor thing if you knew your neighbors you wouldn't
allow that to happen to your neighbor but you don't know your neighbors so you don't give a shit
it's a great point they these people aren't men they aren't making care of their community
their local community they aren't taking care of their immediate neighbors I mean if you knew
two or three houses two or three houses to the right and everybody knew all of those this would be
a much greater country but we just we don't seem to care anymore and where I live it's great
if somebody needs the you know the neighbor's tractor is broken then he's just going to use my
tractor like that's not even a question because he would do the same for me but that's not that's
not why that's just how it is and I don't that the breakdown is act is at home and then that
just expands everywhere else it expands to your job well I don't I don't need to do that because
that's not my job or I was just doing what I was told yeah we watched hundreds of thousands of
people walk across the border because people were just doing what they were told now but again
I have some great friends who tried very hard to keep these people I mean imagine imagine one guy
I'm trying to keep a hundred people from coming across it's just that's extremely dangerous
pointless but some of these guys were we're not just going to be able to go home and sleep at night
knowing that they didn't try something at least something you know so this concept you're talking
about I'm just going to say this real quick and then we can like kind of jump back into exactly
like what you were you were finding and lead into that but Tolkien writes about this actually
and he he talks about the abdication of responsibility if you remember if you've ever read the books
you watch the movie specifically you'll remember Baramir is defending us Giliath that's like one of
the last stands before the orcs make their way to Minas Tirith and if you read the books you read
that Tolkien talks about that there were cities even further out from a Giliath that were abandoned by
men and they were abandoned and this is what allowed the the the orcs and then the dammit the the
name of the help me out Chris Mordor to encroach on the the land that man owned and it was the
abdication and the the allowance of those cities to fall that allowed them to creep even closer
into the point where they were left with this one city of us Giliath between them and Minas Tirith
and and he makes a point to say that it's abdication of responsibility that I don't have to worry
about this and well we'll this is too much for me and you know I can just let this go and it's okay
because it's it's it may be a little more dangerous but it's still manageable you know and then
until you run out of manageable options and then you're left with the last standard us Giliath
but Tolkien talks about this this is this is a a concept that's as old as as human beings are and
just you know to be a man right outdicating your responsibility whether it's to take care of your
family whether it's with your job or or whatever you're talking about you're taking care of your
your community because you have a larger circle you've drawn around yourself and taking and let
people in inside that circle but this a very dangerous concept for people to and to for people to
bring into themselves and embody is is to abdicate things and when we live in a society that is so
established and we have all the niceties that we have here in America it becomes easy to do that
because you take the system for granted without realizing that men built that system it wasn't there
it was built by people who understood what responsibility meant you know so comfortable route
yeah comfortable route exactly well here your example is even more poignant because the the
steward right Gandalf tells him in the third book that you know his job was to defend the city
you know that's why he was there he was supposed to keep the throne until the return of the king
because authority is not given to you to deny the return to the king right but he was perfectly
fine to sit on the throne of gondor and feed men into the meat grinder over on and in osgiliath
and keep the fight over there but as soon as the fight wound up at the gates of ministerial that it
actually was there and he comes out of the throne room and looks over the terrace and sees the great
armies like what's the first thing that he says and he tells all the men drop your swords flee flee
for your lives and Gandalf has to step in right and Gandalf isn't supposed to be leading men
you know more of an angelic character but he has to step in because as soon as the fight became real
he abdicated that authority too because all of a sudden he was in the hot seat as it's all they
knew yeah such a good poignant example that you brought up I just wanted to nerd out on top of
your nerding out no I appreciate that Tolkien is one of those people who is he has a firm grasp
on not just humans but the culture of men very well the characters that he writes embody a lot of
those those characteristics but so the video you showed with the fires right I'd love to see some
of the other videos that you're talking about you're gathering in what you're doing is gathering
intel and you're building up a body of work that is eventually going to lead into you having
goat in it getting the attention of some pretty big people am I right you're correct but at the
beginning you remember I'm just some dude noticing something right right and talking to my neighbors
and then then branching out from my neighbors to their neighbors to their neighbors to their neighbors
and then yeah eventually things blowing up very quickly because I'm lots of people have covered a lot
of this stuff there's there's a ton of of reporters that have reported on this stuff I don't
I'm not a big fan of being called a reporter because again I live here this is just me being a
neighbor but I know like I said I noticed something weird and started looking and then I just turned
into something that I not necessarily ever wanted but here here we are yeah what uh let's let's
pull up another video of some of these things that you you were finding some interested to to hear
where this is going to lead eventually so this was the what's this kind of a kind of a funny
situation here ricks optics ricks thermal optics Chinese company they came and pitched some
items at my gun store and I said yeah let me take them I'd love to uh love to use them and test
them out this was the first time that my buddy Dan and I went out there at night and uh we had
these thermals so we're just learning how to use them and playing with them and then we at the
beginning of the video he saw some guys they were checking the integrity of the fence not the wall
the barbed wire fence that they just came through and with some dikes and and cut and uh we
we had no idea what we were in for at this point I just remember looking over at Dan and be like hey man
I only got a one mag so there's more people than bullets here right there's a kid yep so you'll see
this video keep going and then you'll see they go over to my truck later we found out that they
are they're told to go find border control because border patrol is gonna basically take them into
the country process them process them right and then drop them off down to the trolley station by my
gun store and they were free to go or the airport they were they were taken to the airport given tickets
all of the country it would so then I started seeing more and more and more what in the world is going
on this is just absolutely crazy we are paying there's my truck right there so they're going
over to my truck and then pretty soon there's about 60 Chinese people surrounding my truck
and that's when I looked at Dan and like uh yeah man I don't what I don't have a playbook for this
we were just invaded right in front of us there's no border patrol and it's you and me and you're
in electrician and I am the gun store so what what what are we doing right uh so we we calm down
for a second and I eventually set the alarm off on the truck and they were all looking around and
yeah a couple minutes more go by and then they finally dispersed but um girl got a uh her
wheeled luggage like she's gonna go for the airport right you know how we found a lot of these people
we followed the fucking luggage trails in the in the sand in the dirt the wheels how's
powerful we're we're good no you you go ahead these people were so previously normal illegal
immigration that I grew up with they would they would hike miles from the south try to be undetected
and then miles on the north undetected and try and get in right or they would find areas of where
the the walls integrity was jeopardized and they would sneak through real quick but it was very um
covert these people from us four years were driven up to the opening of the wall that's one of
the spots of the end of wall and just dropped off right there so they they came from Tijuana
in most instances came from Tijuana and from their hotel picked up almost like an uber service
with all their luggage and everything driven right to the wall dropped off I mean these people had
Gucci clothes on and what how can you claim asylum when you're dropping your passport on right
on the border and then coming across with clothing more expensive than my vehicle are these real
passports or are you able to tell if they're fraud I would say 95% of them are real okay but that is
a that is a tricky question because and I haven't found a good definition for this okay so
if you go to you and I could go to Turkey right now and get a real Turkish passport with your name
you know your name in my name is that counterfeit is that fraud what it's real right so
are are a lot of these real but but probably paid for yes actually like crappy counterfeit ones
are their passports are very hard to come by ID cards we have lots of counterfeit ID cards
hmm are these like counterfeit ID cards issued from ex-country and central or south america is that
what these are they all look like yeah they're Mexican immigration cards we actually saw the cartel
making them and and handing them out with with our religion are drawn and they were in the back of
the van making them and handing them out while they were driving cartel members in the back of
the van making fake IDs that's wild how accurate did they look they're pretty damn good they got
this time went on they got better and better mobile counterfeit service yeah but I had my
LinkedIn you should yeah I'm curious you you were talking about processing these guys and you
put that in air quotes what why would why put that in air quotes you talk about see the the
bourgeois processing these guys and air quotes can imagine both you guys you're you you pull
somebody over in a different country and they turn out to be somebody you want and you grab them
and and they're back back and you throw them in your the back of your patrol car with a couple of
their friends and that's it you didn't search them you look through their bag just put it back
there I thought for sure and there was going to be an ID in one of these and it didn't happen
but I thought for sure I made a point to talk to Washington about that many times we need to search
their shit before we put them in the vehicle what what are we doing this like standard transport
process yeah but we were getting complacent the complacency was just because these guys were new
they're brand new now I'm not saying they should have known that you got to search somebody before
you put them in the day of vehicle right but they were um Uber drivers at the time a lot of these
guys went and bourgeois dangled the you can go get your CDL and we'll pay for it and they did
and then they ended up driving the bus and dropping these guys off these illegal property airports
but you're the new guy right well aren't they gonna pay for my CDL why not why wouldn't I do it
maybe I could move up faster if I have my CDL they they
absolutely abused these new people by having them think they were doing something right
and what they did was incredibly wrong I use this example um were the people who drove the trains
to Auschwitz just as complicit as Hitler yeah it's like a guilt by association question that's
a tough one right you know there's a problem exactly you know it makes you wonder about some of the
local to your to your point right like to stick with the World War II thing when you go around and
you deputize I use that quote or that that term loosely a group of German men in a village and then
now you have them outhunting people right and they round them up and they're handed off to the SS
or some other you know division of the Vermacht and they get walked out into the tree line you know
what are you what are we really talking about here actually I'll give you real quick thing you know
I have I have a friend whose German his dad was was in the Vermacht he got pulled in when he was
16 at the end of the war when the Germans were losing Hitler knew they were losing it was like
every last man sort of thing and he said that you know his dad knows he had nothing to do with
anything that happened he was a teenager when he got pulled into the Vermacht at 16 but he hated
knowing that he was a part of it and it really begs this question it's you know all of these Germans
yeah like you could sit there and say that they knew what was going on I don't think all of them
did by any means I think that a lot of what happened during the 1940s in Germany was probably one
of these rumors that this happening over here and you know you you look at you tend to look at the
the Vermacht in World War II as the enemy they are the enemy but all of these Germans aren't
necessarily in line with the Nazi party specifically they're just Germans who are get get caught
up in these situations kind of like what you're talking about being taken advantage of incentivizing
this totally destructive behavior of driving illegal immigrants across into the country and handing
them off to nameless people like these are these are terrible processes you know but at the end of the
day you know I remember answering a question one time to a young airman when I was in Germany like
why why did the Americans let the Germans keep or put up all of these statues for World War II soldiers
and they're all over the place right and I'm like well because at the end of the day they're
they're just German citizens who aren't necessarily completely responsible for what the Nazi party did
or like weren't responsible the same way like you're talking about these these young people in
the border patrol are necessarily responsible for the poor policy decisions of a presidential
administration or the leadership of border patrol or whatever you know there's like two big extremes
but you were talking about World War II but that's just what it is I think most people get caught in
the middle of absolutely terrible policy it's the rock in a hard place of being the one person to
say I'm not doing this shit and then you're ostracized and maybe something even worse happens to you
or you wind up driving a bus full of you know illegal migrant kids and handing them off to people with
clipboards you know and you have no fucking idea where those people are going you just know that
you're getting a CDL out of it you know that's just this is like one of these terrible in between
gray zones of bureaucracy and civilization that shouldn't exist but it does because human beings
are human beings you know and it's it's an ugly part of who we are I think as people
I need to make more parallels to World War II because you you you made me remember some other
there's so much has happened in such a short amount of time it's hard to remember everything I
mean we could I could talk to about this for we could sit on here for the next two weeks and
we sure I still would have explained everything but the good the good real good agents that
we still work with today they were dropping off passports for certificates and you know
by decards and stuff out of my barn while I was sleeping they would leave this stuff there because
they knew that I was actually doing that we were actually doing something with it rather than
just going to a fucking shredder somewhere to this day that still happens because they have more
faith in TGI than they do in their own organization and they know that in just a couple years we
may have a new president and congress has done nothing to codify and make sure this doesn't ever
happen again which blows my mind that they still haven't done anything but it could happen again
just a couple years so TGI's relationships to the federal government should be more important
than anything right now because regardless of the administration I'm still the local guy I'm
still paying attention but the so going back to the World War II thing there there are a lot of
good guys that are trying to do something even though they don't have the power but you have the
influence especially with these new these new kids that are coming in so that leads me to the
importance of my gun store in this and I for a long time for probably almost two years I did not
mention my gun store because I didn't know anyone to think that I was trying to profit off of what
what we were finding what we were doing and then then one plan I just didn't care anymore but
the gun store is super important so California as you guys know is a sanctuary state San Diego
sanctuary city so that the local and state law enforcement cannot work with cannot legally work with
the federal government on anything immigration related now to California that means don't talk to
board patrol or ice basically that's the easiest way to think about it so with the gun store I'm
a law enforcement dealer so not only am I the the liaison for the community I'm also the liaison
for the state and local guys to the feds so I God put me in this perfect position to get everybody's
information and give it and disseminate it to the right people very quickly so guys will come
in and buy a gun and gun stores like a barber shop man you're just diary of the mouth so I hear
everything now my some might be exaggerated some and a lot of the guys are well that is come and
hang out in world they'll let me know what's going on and and I have a roll of decks full of
every agency you could think of at this point and it makes it it is just a massive force multiplier
to be able to it works the other way around too so if if the local guys see something I give to
them if the board of patrol guys or other federal agents out here see something out here that's not
really their jurisdiction I can let the local sheriff know or the local deputies know and we've done
we've done a ton of work you know behind the scenes that way which is great but these guys would
lose their jobs and it's happened before so they have to have the utmost trust in TGI that we
will not ever say anything and we wouldn't because they will lose their jobs that's an incredible
responsibility that you guys have and for them to have the trust in you to know to just go drop
those things off as something is going to happen you know it's you could look at it like a silver
lining that these guys know that there's going to be some sort of accountability or at least
the the storing of evidence right and that these these are the people that are trying to do the
right thing like you said like that's some some silver lining in this situation here but
you know at the end of the day it's it's not what should happen it's very it's very reminiscent
of just some of the back channels you learn about when you start discovering how our founding
fathers communicated prior to the American Revolution you know this is your you you're a trusted
you're a trusted agent for these people essentially and they they come to you with that stuff but
I'm interested you you have said several times now these large populations of Chinese people
that you've witnessed at the border and I'm I'm really interested to learn more about how you wound
up with like Joe Kent Tulsi Gabbard at the at the border and then when you started to learn more
about the Chinese involvement at the border the CCP the broader you know presents that they have
down there the the main area that we were working in at the time was just it was almost exclusively
Chinese people it's nice it there would be groups of two to five hundred just out here in the
wilderness and so because we're seeing Diego and and the gun store that I have a lot of
team guy friends and I wanted to bring some of them out just because they they seem very insulated
lately after the Eddie Gallagher stuff they're like you just stay away from social media so they
they had they had absolutely no clue what was going on at all and I brought them out there
and they lost their minds they were like this is this is the first time we were in Iraq this is
exactly what it what it feels like we're everyone's looking at us everyone wants to kill us
and so I started infecting these that's the wrong word but I started infecting these groups
and I would bring sheriff to sheriff's deputies or some CHP friends and finally everybody started
going well what what what are we doing not that they could do anything but the the they started
paying attention and then they started following what we were doing and they go okay well we can do
something we could do a quarry that's easy we just tell him what's what we see but the Chinese
thing was was very different and that's what caught my attention at the most to me you know we
will know about terrorism well we'll live through that continue live through it but the the Chinese
people and what they were wearing and what they were doing they would come across and immediately
well well Chris you get to a new area what are one of the first like three things you're going to do
like when I get to like in a military sense like if I go if I go to a semi-permissive area
yep oh well I would you know obviously establish some type of security find a place to to hold up
like a base of operations of some type and then establish calms back to wherever my hire is
guess what the first fucking three things they did were those things every time and light of fire
but yeah obligatory every time they come across they would they would take a little walk around
take a little lap of the area get a get an overview of where they were at set up their spot
because they didn't know if it was going to be immediate pickup or a couple days and then they
would get their phones working multiple phones most of them had at least two phones
yeah that's not a normal person no well what you're describing is a SOP right and that requires
training somebody is teaching these people something I'm interested if you can go into what sort of
information you were finding on these phones and really just break that down for us and if we could
lay bare this sort of process that these guys are following they'd be great
so we got into one of one of the the phone you were talking about the beginning of the show
was it was an iPhone it was pretty new it was nicer than the one that I had at the time
after we broke into it I got I had the idea of using that one just to document everything because
the camera was better than the one that I had on my phone yeah I know I'm going to document
their own stuff you said they're sending it back there anyway so they're just watching me through
the camera so that one was was right out just right off the side of the road Dan found it and
we plugged it in it charged it and trying to like look at the smudges to see if I could
figure out what the password was and then I googled what's the most common remote that
the beginning iPhone password or something like that right and it was one two three four five six
so I did one two three four five six and the phone opened okay and that led to
yeah I thought at the time I thought it's just like finding a flash drive on the ground and then
I just plugged it in my computer right yeah but at the same time nobody else would do anything so
you know that that got us into now we're in over 200 different telegram shots that are that are
completely how to exploit their informational chats on how to exploit the generosity of the United
States government almost exactly like what you saw in minutes that kind of stuff
I'm fascinated about all of the items that that you're finding documents electronics
like your passport right if anybody's ever traveled especially internationally like you don't
lose your passport it goes in your traveler's pants a protected pocket it gets zipped up it's
it's a precious document and you're finding these things discarded electronics discarded electronics
that aren't individualized but they're left in their factory default state like to me this
this means that people are being briefed like you were talking about brain and this is
SOP after you get through the border discard your documents discard your electronics don't be found
with them on you right and and you said Cory that you watched them set up and they were they were
working multiple phones which means they have a drop phone a throwaway phone like that you have it
now but but like this it this is yeah that's where I was going with this like are I'm wondering
if this is the SOP that they're being briefed is do you think this is because of the and I'm
gonna quote like you did the processing that they knew that they were gonna go under oh you have
a you have a document explaining it this is the SOP it was put out their holy cow
NGOs in every language you could think of we found it in Russian whatever this is
Chinese or Mandarin I guess and English so the the way that we found this let's see if you can
you see that at the top there kind of
so what I noticed on here was 1632 they just they just popped out to me 1632
that's the grid coordinates for here 1632 wait a minute so then we translated it we translated
the Mandarin one and it's 12345 different end of wall locations in San Diego County right where to
come in where the end of the wall is where you just walk you just walk across this was a massively
globally coordinated invasion and I wish we would treat it like that I was just gonna say that
that this the what you're describing is it's what's worth man I hate when my stupid brain does this
it's it's very well you said coordinated already but it's sophisticated that's what I was looking
for it's very sophisticated it's sophisticated to the point where you're saying well this is
military like resources from the CCP or whomever who's coordinating this and so my next couple
questions for you are this like demographically obviously you're talking about these guys with
Chinese people the people that are coming in are Chinese are these military age males first and
foremost are we talking about like young women with kids right people that you could actively I guess
say like yeah they're seeking asylum because it's a mom and a three-year-old or these military
age men and then when you're looking through these chats and you're you're translating the language
in them who are you finding they're communicating to are these uniform PLA are these CCP officials you
know are the people they reporting back the way that somebody will report to a handler like what
are we what are we talking about here so the way I've figured that out was when I'm going through
the pictures on this specific phone and I'm noticing I was in an army aviation so I didn't do
land now right if I was doing land now it was a bad day for everybody we did air now I don't know
what you want to call it navigating in the air and we had checkpoints right so as I'm going through
these pictures you know I'm like why why is he taking a picture of just himself in front of that
prominent landmark and again and again and they're taking points he's taking pictures in front of
checkpoints and sending them back showing that he's made it to that checkpoint it's like he's
vetting the process yeah so I mean you guys can only imagine what's going through my head as I'm
fine as I'm finding this stuff out on my own right and I'm I'm like the only dude at this point
with me and a couple of friends Chris and Dan were we're we're going through this stuff trying to
get a hold of everyone anyone that would listen two people we got to hold two people James O'Keefe
was one he made a movie about all this stuff and the other one was my friend Geo Geo was a
Marsock Marine and Geo this will this is leaves up to your other question about Joe and Tulsi and
all these other people that we we brought out Geo was a I brought up Eddie Gallagher earlier he was
on Eddie Gallagher's team he was the Intel guy on Eddie Gallagher's team he vouched for Eddie Gallagher
rather than against him like the other guys and worked very hard to get him out and during all
that he made a lot of a lot of big connections and he did some private private security work and
met a lot of these people and then he ended up becoming a political consultant and there's a guy
that ran for mayor here in town listening to Larry Turner great guy Marine he didn't
didn't win but anyway great guy and so Geo would go to city council and you know go yell at
everybody on the city council and he was just a force to be reckoned with in San Diego and I
remember seeing him on Instagram yeah follow him on Instagram yeah and I had like three followers
at the time right so I'm trying to get a hold of these people so Geo and and James O'Keefe got back
to me but Geo was like wait what what's going on nice sitting pictures and stuff and he goes
bro let me call you it's he calls me and we talk about he says I'm I'm coming out there because he
he was doing kind of what I was doing but downtown with all the homeless and the fentanyl and then
everything just kind of intertwined with the drugs so he brought Larry Turner out and we looked at it
together looked at the problem and people are just crossing right you know we went to the camps
and Geo said the same thing a lot of these other guys did like these these people all want to kill
us all they're just have that look in their eyes and he was very uncomfortable as was Larry
and then Geo spent a ton of time with me and he produced these intel reports for us and he tried
to try to he was basically TGI's intel guy before TGI was even a real thing right because
awesome I'm just some dude walk around taking pictures and picking up trash and he was so massively
unbelievably helpful and then he would line up these big people to come out he so he was running
Joe Kent's campaign that's how he got Joe here and Joe's great dude I wish he was at an
organization where he had a an action arm because I feel like we would be a lot further along
in the world if if you gave him a gun again or a hammer or something and then that led to Tulsi
coming out and Tulsi came out for two full days like we were we were in the truck for
by 10 12 hours both days and I took Tulsi from far east border all the way into downtown we met
with Larry Turner Larry's also sdpd cop which retired now but Larry took us around we're all the
all the drug issues downtown and it was great Tulsi was actually making a documentary about it
which never never aired unfortunately for for political reasons like I suppose
hmm but geo was was extremely helpful to everything and he he was the kind of the missing
piece for us with getting these big names out here and and the intel side of things he had
intel he had more sources about the stuff that we were doing than we did on both sides of the border
um I wish I could name some of them because you guys would know them but they were they were so
helpful and then unfortunately geo took us on life so that that's uh I don't think very many people
knew what how helpful he was to teach us it's very uh it's very set I'm glad we can humanize him
here and talk about what he did and how much he loved this country and was trying to keep it safe
I think that's a great way to talk about him yeah he was he was very frustrated with everything
that was going on but he was methodical in the ways that he went about trying to solve these
problems and uh yeah I don't think we'll ever be able to fill fill those shoes it's it's been
extremely difficult for me to try and pick up the slack on on this stuff that I have you know we
had an actual intel guy right they're doing it and now we have you know me right
you had uh Tulsi was able to come down and see the border with jokin like you guys were talking
about were you able to pass along like what you were finding uh from these telegram chats like you
let me back it up here real quick I can't recall it I don't think you'd answered whether or not
you were able to figure out the the people that these guys were reporting back to you were
able to figure out if this was some sort of handler or if this was this was this military
leadership like PLA intelligence you know the the one chat this one chat that this dude was in
that led to all the other ones was actually run by the by the ccp and it was a repository of
information at one time there were um about I think two or 25 I think it was like 22,000 people
in in this chat 30,000 pictures 5,000 videos and hundreds of pdf's the pdf's were instructions
on on all kinds of different things 22,000 if you guys have a chance if you watch my congressional
testimony I talk about all this in there and it uh because it was it feels like it was 20 years
ago now so I talked more in depth and then my written congressional testimony is a lot more in
depth um more in depth than I can remember about what happened at that time now
it's insane this is it's a coordinated invasion there's no other way to put it like to to say it
completely and totally plainly this is intentional and attentional undermining of the united states
and in putting people in forward operating positions for something broader like there's there's
no other goal here right yeah obviously there's intelligence collection that happens in real time
all day every day like you'd said before right when we we were talking before that these guys are
taking pictures you said of um Edwards I think Edwards Air Force Base wasn't that one of the
ones that you were talking about southern California there's vandenberg down there there's always
very sensitive sites obviously you know anything about vandenberg in Edwards uh uh SpaceX was
another one that you'd said where they were taking photos of this intelligence collections
reconnaissance all this stuff but obviously these guys are inside the countries operating when you
think of sleeper cell I think the first thing that our generation tends to think of is maybe like
jihadist terrorism but at the same time if you're talking about all these military age Chinese
males well if the things were to go hot in the Pacific uh what what the Chinese are going to have
people here in the country that are going to so discord and create chaos because it now forces
us to deal with it here on the home front as well as trying to manage whatever the hell is going
on NATO paycom so this is exactly what this is this is quite literally opening the gate and letting
the enemy behind the wall and then allowing them to hang out until the opportunity presents itself
to cause chaos so this is the most illogical and dangerous thing that anybody anybody with a brain
can say like why are we doing this it makes no sense it doesn't make any sense and then where
we are tasking these guys out I'm not going to give the actual numbers but
the wall the border wall right now has probably way less that the amount of agents you think
are there protecting the border right now because a lot of them are tasked out all of the country
to go do bs bureaucratic clean-ups of the worst of the worst right how about we seal the
fucking wall first like let's let's stop the bleed and then go from there triage
it's frustrating to watch well you're bringing up a really important thing and that's obviously
the Trump administration is making a huge point on the fact that they've sealed the border
and and no you know illegals have crossed since they've been in in power and have sealed the border
but we know and you're there on the ground that that's not necessarily the case that they're
they're still people trickling through right yes it's of course it's way better way better than
working down the road and seeing a couple hundred people standing there having fires with their
moving on luggage not seeing that anymore but they're
we will never have a perfectly secure border ever it's not possible right sure yeah North
Korea still coming to South Korea they come through the landmines we could put landmines
other they still come across but it sure could be a lot better and there's a lot of technology
that we are not using that TGI is using now just very simple like raspberry pie stuff that's
very simple oh wow okay talk about obviously I'm sure you guys could figure it out very
familiar with Linux yeah and I don't know why we're why we're not using this simple stuff like
that the again it's a bureaucratic nightmare right the they they are bidding on stuff that's so
expensive and and it has to be all of the government it has to be built to these government
specifications and then they have to go through through all of this crap to make it
US government approved and by that time it's already antiquated and they've already developed
something against it on this outside whereas an organization like mine I don't have any rules
right just don't do things super illegal that's basically the rule right or don't get cut
so we can develop something and nobody will ever know about it and we just keep using it until
they figure it out and then we shift fire on the next afternoon we have something different
rather than another two years away and I think they need to you haven't asked me this yet but
I'm going to answer it anyway what's the solution probably I agree well I was just actually was just
it's so funny you said what's the solution you said private contractors because I was literally
thinking in my head you're building something in flight when a plane already exists to solve this
problem but it's not being used like you're creating a new solution a solution that already
exists it's just not being employed and you're doing it better right like they're
exactly you're building it in flight like as if you're if you're resorting to raspberry pies and
you know I I have a bunch of thoughts in my head about what you're doing using a raspberry because
I've made a bunch of raspberry pies okay you know I there's I know what you're able to do
if that's what you're resorting to like this is like an eighth grade level project you're talking
about right for border security the you damn well know the US government could be doing a hell of a
lot more if you're using raspberry pie like just saying it's and it hats off to you in every every
ounce of respect ever like that's exact it's just I I hate that you have to do this shit because
the things that we have in place all the money dedicated to all the training all the personnel
right that goes to these organizations and these people right who are professionals and not
doing their job is is absolutely bonkers to me what was the reception of your congressional
testimony oh that's a good question who are you really enjoying it yeah absolutely okay committee
wise though did anybody actually talk to you post post hearing right it's sort of like a solutions
conversation so if you I think Chris sent you guys the like five minute video but if you did
if you end up getting bored somebody watch the whole thing it's actually a good one because my
my friends sister in law I don't know if you remember this when the so in the chat
we read that the illegal aliens were told to go find the buses and get on the buses well I don't
know if you remember them getting on the school bus do you remember that yes yeah that was my one
of the kids was my friend sister in law so she testified with me in that in that panel of people
that testified right but I was asked if I would be willing to share any of the stuff that I that we
had found and my you know it's kind of like talking to a cop when you're up there you just say as
much as you when you when they're asking you questions you just say as much as you really need to
and that's it but I said so I didn't want to say yes and I didn't want to say no so I said yes
I would be happy to talk about that in closed session yes that is something we would we would like
to do okay that never happened yeah figures I just I'm talking to really congressional members today
who still don't understand how bad this was and continues to be they've asked me what I think we
should do that's well first off that's that's nuts yeah just some dude fitting in a barn right now
yes yeah I say I say that's nuts and it's not like a shot at you and who you are like it's you're
doing things that other people should be doing it's nuts that they're asking yeah yeah exactly you
know but to me it goes back to everything we Chris and I say about Congress specifically just being
the absolute weakest branch of the government right like this is these are the representatives of
the people should be representing our interest protecting interest so your whole fucking reason
for being is that role and here you are presenting evidence you it just it just goes to show you to
the separation between what these people who these people think they are and the interests they serve
versus what it should be and this is the total inverse of the way it should be and I ask the question
what's the incentive here to not act right who at the end of the day has the most to gain from
their inaction and just letting you just be out there doing what you're doing like who gains from
this is obviously not the American citizen we let me answer that question with a question
and then we should I think there's so much more that we can talk about um sure I think we should
we should it ended after this if you guys are cool with that and then I'm more than happy come
like we already got into the chart trafficking or organ harvesting or any of the other stuff yet
yeah absolutely I'd love to make this a series if you had a math if I if you had a magic wand
right now let's say you were a congressman right and then I come to you okay what do you do
if I had a magic wand fixed problems well okay the magic wand meaning meaning uh
that you are the congressman not the you have the magic wand after you're the congressman
you're the congressman I come to you I tell you about all this stuff boom what do you do
well I would I form a I would form a committee I would ask for an intel briefing from somebody
at the FBI DHS I would I would send out either subpoenas or indictments and then I would have them
sit in front of me and be like so this is testimony that we have on this situation what is your
organization doing about this I want to know and I want to know what you know about it because I'm
now very interested to know do you know more about it than this random guy from a barn in southern
california that came in here and sat down and showed all this stuff to me I want to know that
that's what I agree with you okay let's say that they've kind of done that more or less
kind of not not to that extent but now what I guess you take the intelligence and information
you've gathered hope that it's actionable develop a plan present that plan before congress
pass a bill to enable people to act on your behalf as the congressional body of this country
and then establish a committee of oversight to make sure that that happens and then be transparent
enough to post results online and ensure that that is followed all the way through to the end
until the the problem is the most resolved it could be I guess is what I would say if I had
in a perfect world the ability to do any of that you know yeah I would try to maybe get a bill
going through that would give DHS or FBI or CBP the ability to create some type of task force
to go after that specifically in the area like like the enable yeah enable the executive branch to
go do what it needs to do like give it give it some teeth on it I was just just going to say that
congressional backing real teeth the executive doesn't have to put an EO out that the next president
would just smack right down that's my solution to if and and I've pitched this
a hundred different different ways now and I've pitched I don't need to be in charge of it
I don't care I want to live here where I live and just if I'll just keep doing what I'm doing
and just keep being a neighbor are the easy to do if I got paid to do that that would also be
cool or at least I can reimburse at least reimburse my guys for all the work and money they've put
into it at minimum reimburse these guys but I have the task force between the all of my contacts
from through the gun store and the neighbors here I already have the people I could start a
task force in the next 30 minutes well Trump I think Trump right correct me if I'm wrong Chris
floated the idea of letters of mark dude if you put something out for a bunch of GWAT vets and
said hey here's here's all these people on border states the border security alliance any of these
people right and say report here sign up here whatever it is if in market it's GWAT vets you
would have that done in a week right like you would what 100% I know that there's people especially
if you're offering to pay people to do this it's kind of like you know this solution about like
school shootings put a put a couple of put a fire team of GWAT vets at that school nobody's
shown up you know like you could you could solve that problem easily like you said you'd have a group
of people in 30 minutes you know bat saying all up respond knowing knowing the office that Joe
Kent sitting in right now to sort of knowing that he's he's been out there and he's seen it I I
hope knowing the type of guy that he is that he's doing something about it from his vantage point as
well so that's another tricky one right because it's there's no action arm of the NCTC so who
is the action arm of the NCTC in in around about way well I'm I'm more I guess alluding to the
ability to sit there and understanding like he's sitting at the nexus of where the
intelligence would come through and then networking across the executive branch and feeding that
into people that can go out and turn it into action that's what I'm saying your arm when you when
you pushed it over and you tried to network with me try that again let me see yeah yeah yeah yeah
that's what up right there gets cut off it disappears yeah in the into the void
and I think there's a lot of it's it goes back to bureaucracy again right I think
yeah everything wants to do anything and everything he can for this country and as he already
has more than more than most people probably anyone I know his wife is well paid the ultimate sacrifice
for his country yeah yes yes and it's getting held up somewhere there I mean it's getting held
up somewhere in many places it's stuff's getting held up stuff that happens in San Diego it does not
border related it does not even make it to Washington because I will tell them stuff and I'm like wait
what and you're getting bothered how do you not know this so there there are just these gatekeepers
everywhere and again I don't know how to how to flush that out without
there you go no I think I think you've done such a good job of like
giving the scope to people of like what the problem really is because you've been
hammering on bureaucracy so much I feel like most Americans kind of have like early 2000s like
prime time TV hangover like they've seen shows where the FBI is like they're the awesome dudes
that work late into the night and they're you know they have the the best labs and these dogs that
just go out bulldogs that are you know like chasing these dudes down and and and they remember
the show 24 and they think Jack Bauer is like what every freaking federal agent is like and we'll
give his life for the country and then you know what I mean like and that's just not what
the federal government is like it's largely staffed of dudes that can't be bothered to answer
their phone after 5 p.m. and come rolling it at 9 a.m. and they just want to it's it's what we do
in in the army Brandon it's it's make the slides green as long as the slides are green and my boss
is happy then I'm happy and I can clock out of here and make it to my son's baseball game right and
it's so much easier to deal with a problem when all of a sudden it clacks off and we go oh wow
I did know that was happening man now I got to go on site and deal with it there I was saying
it the other day when I was like you know is there a case that the FBI could start that doesn't
come from Nick Sorter Nick Shirley or Cam Higby how come those are like every single time you
report on something now all of a sudden the FBI is on it and is investigating it do you have any
open cases that don't come from on the ground journalists or reporters or freelance guys that are
just operating Twitter pages Corrie's school and iPhone passwords and getting in you know what I mean
like there are still busy looking at white Christian nationals right oh well yeah you know now
you're talking about Merrick Garland and his vendetta gets Catholic school moms but Corrie
here at the Trump Trump got in you're disappear right right right right that are
that are not letting that go because in a couple years they might have somebody wants to bring
it back so they're just going to put it over here on their desk yeah not in the shredder classic
kick the kid well Corrie thanks for so much for coming on man this conversation was enlightening
I know there's going to be a lot of people that are going to listen to this they're going to be like
holy shit I can't believe this is going on and even more so I can't believe that nobody is doing
anything about it uh that that has the institutional authority to actually do something about it
and uh like you said the things that we could talk about um we've talked a lot about organ harvesting
we talked about harvesting babies and things like that in the show would love to get your
even more in-depth analysis on that and what you found that supports that going because there's
still people who deny that this is even going on which I think is insane to sit there and deny
that it's going on and I'm sure that you'd invite people down to the border and show them first
hand if you could if they would show up right most people just want to be contrarian but I would
love to make this into a what's that some some try not to read the comments but sometimes I do
and I will uh the people that are very critical I will invite them out every single time I will
invite them out you know not one person has ever shown up yeah well it's easier to keep your head
in the sand true I want to bring before we go I want to bring up something real quick um
um the september 11 2.0's just meant it could be right now it could be 10 years 20 years it's
going to happen they are here they are all here mm-hmm it's going to be very bad but
what we learned from september 11th and agencies working together has been just completely
unraveled or blockaded and I want to give you a good example I'm not going to say who it is
there's a task force that three different people from this task force have um talked with me
without deep conflicting with each other like they didn't know that we existed
and then I say hey why don't you call this guy before you come talk to me and they are in the same
task force that's scary yes everyone that should scare the shit out of everyone yeah yeah
or this should be the easiest communication ever right like that's that's nuts uh I want to try
this in a series I'd love to have you back to continue talking about this uh and I would like
to post what some of what you found on our social media pages as well any any information I think
that we can put out there is going to raise awareness at the very least and uh the network that
Kristen I have some of the people I know would would love to talk to you probably too and help boost
that message and uh some of the worth of Kristen I do behind the scenes trying to fix some of these
problems too you you line up right in some of these these avenues but I really want to thank you
not just for coming on the show but for what you are doing and the way that you're keeping
American safe and trying to keep American safe uh this is uh it's a rare thing to see somebody
actually take that much responsibility in their own hands and no shocker to me that it's a veteran
uh so thank you genuinely for being here and that's what you're doing
it could yeah as an Air Force vet absolutely you army guys you know absolutely amazing uh even
though we we kill more people because we have bigger bombs you know what I mean but uh anyway
yeah absolutely thank you so much if you guys want I do have uh the goat initiative promo video
that you sent over uh if you want to go out on that let's play it so thank you guys for having me
here's the video boom thank you guys
carried out massive precision strikes on the green key nuclear facilities
some of those text messages that flash on the screener absolutely nuts uh I'll just say real fast
on my way out of the Air Force I saw a lot of new airmen who are we're Chinese and barely
spoke English and to me it made absolutely no sense just knowing what I know about the way
the Chinese view of the United States how long they've been at war with us in their own mind right
the things they do uh uh why we allow those those people in like it's just it's it's risk mitigation 101
you know it's not about it's just already here for people oh that's racist it's like no like
if somebody's coming into the military and and they are from a country that wants to completely
destroy hours like that just should be a no-brainer man I can't even let somebody from China onto
an Air Force base or Iran onto an Air Force base if they're visiting right like they are on a
banned country's list why are they in listing you know it's just it's crazy makes no sense to me
anyway we can talk about that next uh citizens are in the Chinese military yeah exactly
well then how many of these these people that are American journalists in China right they're all
paid to be there and create propaganda you know it's Mao Maoist level propaganda now it's g-thought
you know but anyway next the next conversation these countries have ever offered to be me to stop
doing this which is kind of frustrating you know I wish they were right right here come on down you
could well Cory again thank you so much for coming on the show uh please hang out after after we
stop but uh guys check out the go to initiative dot org you can follow Cory on X you're also on
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