The architects of one of the most damaging political hoaxes in modern U.S. history are still inside the CIA — and a former agency insider says that another hoax by the Deep State against President Trump is a very real possibility.
Former CIA operations officer Bryan Dean Wright revealed this week that at least two of the operatives who helped craft the 2016 Russia collusion narrative against then-candidate Donald Trump remain employed by the agency today.
“At least two still do work there,” Wright said, adding that one remains a direct CIA employee — holding what’s known as a “blue badge” — while the other is a contractor, carrying a “green badge.”
These aren’t nameless bureaucrats. These are the same individuals who, under the direction of Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan, helped assemble the 2017 intelligence assessment that falsely painted Trump as compromised by the Kremlin. A newly declassified report shows that assessment was written by just five CIA analysts — all operating inside a Brennan-controlled “Fusion Cell” designed to push the narrative of Russian election interference.
“These men thought they knew what was best for America, and they didn’t give a damn what voters like you thought,” Wright said, underscoring that their loyalty was to a political mission — not the truth.
That loyalty, it seems, hasn’t been purged.
The revelation raises urgent questions: If these same operatives are still in place — still shaping intelligence products, still briefing leadership, still influencing the culture of the agency — what’s stopping them from doing it again? What’s preventing another manufactured scandal targeting President Trump or this time, whoever his successor is in 2028. Will it be JD Vance or Marco Rubio this time?
Wright argues that Brennan’s 25-year tenure at the CIA left a deep cultural imprint, ensuring that his political operatives would outlast him. “The rot at the top didn’t just walk out the door with Brennan,” Wright warned. “It trained a generation of operatives who still see their job as ‘saving the country’ from voters they don’t trust.”
This isn’t a personnel issue. It’s a national security threat. Leaving these individuals in their posts gives the intelligence community the same power to weaponize misinformation against political enemies — a power they’ve already proven willing to abuse.
Current CIA Director John Ratcliffe has said Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, Hillary Clinton, and others should face “serious legal consequences” for their roles in the scandal. But accountability hasn’t come yet. And until it does, the risk of another intelligence-fueled coup against an elected or aspiring conservative leader remains dangerously real.
If the Deep State could pull off Russiagate once, why wouldn’t they try again?