Will Patel and Bongino investigate this massive FBI scandal that nobody’s talking about?

April 17, 2025 (20 hours ago)1/2

Charles McGonigal may be the most corrupt FBI official in modern history—and yet somehow,his name has barely made a blip on the radar. This wasn’t some mid-level pencil-pusher.McGonigal was one of the top counterintelligence agents at the FBI’s New York field office. He was directly involved in the bureau’s most sensitive operations, including the infamous “Crossfire Hurricane” probe into (phony)Trump–Russia “collusion.”

And after that whole fraudulent mess, it turns out that ==he was secretly taking money from a Kremlin-linked oligarch]] and helping shake down Albanian oligarchs on the side. You can’t make this up, right?

Now here we are, with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino stepping into FBI leadership roles under Trump 2.0—which is great. Butsomehow, Charles McGonigal’s name is still off the radar. And that needs to change.

Because if we’re going to clean house, we need to clean all of it.

This isn’t some minor HR issue being swept under the rug. This is the rot at the heart of the Deep State—buried deep inside the FBI.

The Washington Examiner lays out just how deep this corruption goes—and just how quiet the system has been about it:

McGonigal, a high-flyer in the bureau, fell into disgrace and worse after his 2018 retirement from the FBI when it was revealed that, while serving as the powerful head of counterintelligence at the New York Field Office, he got into bed with a top Kremlin oligarch and shady Albanians. He did so for cash.

McGonigal wasn’t just dirty—he was embedded deep inside the FBI during one of the most politically sensitive times in recent history.

The Washington Examiner piece goes on:

In late 2016, his counterspy office in New York participated in the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin, the notorious Operation Crossfire Hurricane. Yet,just a couple of years later, McGonigal was on the payroll of Oleg Deripaska, a leading Kremlin oligarch who featured prominently in that investigation.

But it wasn’t just Russia.McGonigal had ties to a socialist prime minister, dirty intelligence operatives, and possibly millions in kickbacks.

The Washington Examiner piece continues:

In 2023, he was sentenced to four years in prison for illegally working for Deripaska. In early 2024, McGonigal received an additional 28-month sentence for concealing his $225,000 payment by Albanian intelligence… The Justice Department showed no interest in the wider implications of the case.

Dan Bongino actually discussed this case on his podcast back in early 2023. He even touched on the Albania angle. But curiously, that episode has now vanished from his archive. The Washington Examiner piece wraps it up:

We know that the deputy director is aware of McGonigal and his misdeeds. In early 2023, Bongino discussed the case, including its messy Albanian dimension, on his popular podcast. Oddly, however, that episode has since disappeared from his archive website. That’s not a good sign. (Dan must have been very right on some aspects of this. (Whistleblowers said that Ukraine was working with Albania mob on getting Trump)

Where is that podcast? Inquiring minds want to know and want to listen to it again.

https://revolver.news/2025/04/will-patel-and-bongino-investigate-this-massive-fbi-scandal-that-nobodys-talking-about/

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The bottom line is this: if Patel and Bongino are serious about cleaning house, they can’t just ignore this. The American people deserve to know who McGonigal worked with, who protected him, andwho else inside the FBI may still be compromised.

A popular X thread connects thedots between McGonigal and a major counterintelligence operation called Operation Ghost Stories, which targeted deep-cover Russian spies inside the US, and actually raises even more questions for Patel and Bongino to answer:

Why was Operation Ghost Stories shut down so suddenly—and were the Russians being protected?

Was McGonigal one of the agents involved? And did his presence compromise the entire op?

J. Michael Walker:

The FBI ran an aggressive, brilliant Operation Ghost Stories… It was suddenly shut down in June 2010, the day Bill Clinton gave his $500,000 speech to a Kremlin-connected bank.

The @FBI also approved a hasty, almost panicked, removal of those 10 Russian spies from the US, and returned them to Putin without trying to turn any of them or get a better deal. Why? The later “collusion” narrative as a deflection point or projection makes sense.

Find those who shut down Operation Ghost Stories and quicklyreturned the 10 Russian SVR agents to Putin, and we are likely to find some Russian spy penetrations of the US government.

Also, this post in Spanish lays it out plainly: this wasn’t just corruption—it was global criminal behavior:

Translation: Brookfield hired corrupt former FBI agent Charles McGonigal as senior vice president of global security… It’s an international mafia..!

“Brookfield hired corrupt former FBI agent Charles McGonigal as senior vice president of global security. While working for Brookfield, McGonigal committed financial fraud, money laundering, and other crimes. It's an international mafia!

The McGonigal scandal is the Deep State in a nutshell—powerful, dirty, protected, and, for now, totally buried.

We believe Bongino and Patel are serious about reform. But this story can’t be ignored. It’s not just about one corrupt official—it’s about how deeply that corruption was embedded, how high it went, and who else may still be there.

McGonigal was the face of the FBI’s counterintelligence operation during one of the most pivotal (and sketchy) times in American political history. If this isn’t being investigated and exposed, then we’re not cleaning house—we’re just sweeping the dirt under a new rug.

Yes, McGonigal was sentenced—but that doesn’t mean the story’s over.

In fact, it’s just the opposite. The charges barely scratched the surface. There are still major questions about what he was really involved in, who he was working with, and how deep the corruption goes. Powerful people behind the scenes want this wrapped up and forgotten.

So, here’s the ask: Dan, Kash—it’s time to finish the job. Investigate McGonigal. Top to bottom.

https://revolver.news/2025/04/will-patel-and-bongino-investigate-this-massive-fbi-scandal-that-nobodys-talking-about/

Darren Beattie and Marco Rubio just fired Obama’s entire censorship army…

April 17, 2025 (a day ago)1/2

For years now, the left has weaponized the word “disinformation”—not as some shield for truth, but as a sword against political dissent. It became their catch-all excuse to silence opposition, throttle free speech, and label anything that didn’t fit their agenda as dangerous or false or a conspiracy theory.

And at the very center of that push was Richard Stengel, a man who proudly called himself the “chief propagandist” while he dutifully served under Obama as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy.

Two years ago, Revolver took a deep dive into Richard Stengel and the censorship machine he helped build.

Revolver:

Self-proclaimed propaganda chief and First-Amendment-hater Richard Stengel has been exposed… again.

Thanks to the Twitter files, Stengel’s project “Hamilton 68” — a propaganda campaign created by the political establishment to smear dissenting views as “Russian disinformation” — was proven to be a complete and total scam.

You can read the entire article below: Obama’s “Chief Propagandist” Richard Stengel is exposed… again…

Stengel’s role wasn’t some symbolic title. This man helped lay the foundation for what became a sprawling censorship machine inside the US government—a fine-oiled machine that worked hand-in-hand with social media giants, NGOs, and international “partners” to shape public opinion and silence what they couldn’t control.

But now, in a twist so sharp it almost feels poetic, Darren Beattie—the man who helped expose this entire apparatus through Revolver—has stepped into that same role. And unlike Stengel, Beattie isn’t using it to expand government control over speech—he’s using it to dismantle it.

The State Department just shut down the last remaining piece of the government’s censorship apparatus. All staff at the Global Engagement Center’s (GEC) R-FIMI were put on leave, 50 positions were eliminated, and Congress was notified that the program is over.That includes the termination of $65 million in funding.It’s done.

And in yet another poetic twist, the very group that Marco Rubio and Darren Beattie just shut down had once been investigating Revolver back in 2020—for the thought-crime of exposing the left’s “color revolution” playbook against the American people.

The Global Engagement Center (GEC) worked directly with theElection Integrity Partnership (EIP) to target dissent—including Revolver Newsand our investigative reporting on the left’s color revolution. We exposed this coordinated censorship effort two years ago.

Revolver:

As it so happens, one of themost aggressive examples of EIP’s censorship was directed at Darren Beattie and Revolver News for their reporting on a concept called “color revolutions” and for spreading the (truthful but subversive) narrative that color revolution professionals within the national security establishment were deploying the same methodologies domestically to harm Trump and Trump supporters that they would deploy overseas to undermine and overthrow so-called “authoritarian leaders” overseas.

A color revolution might be described as follows:

A “Color Revolution” in this context refers to a specific type of coordinated attack that the United States government has been known to deploy against foreign regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe deemed to be “authoritarian” and hostile to American interests. Rather than using a direct military intervention to effect regime change as in Iraq,Color Revolutions attack a foreign regime by contesting its electoral legitimacy, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging media contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the Western press.[Revolver]

https://revolver.news/2025/04/darren-beattie-and-marco-rubio-just-fired-obamas-entire-censorship-army/

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While Revolver News is now perhaps best known for our national narrative shaping reporting on the January 6 Fedsurrection, our reporting first gained attention for our so-called Color Revolution series, documenting ahandful of key color revolution professionals who were actively involved in neutralizing Trump’s presidency and electoral prospects in 2020, and deploying the same tactics against Trump that they used against so-called “authoritarian” rulers overseas in Eastern Europe.

Here is a clip of Revolver News’ Darren Beattie famously calling out Norm Eisen, a notorious color revolution professional and key hatchet man against Trump:

You can read the entire article below:

DHS-Linked Org Deploys Dangerous New Censorship Tools Against Revolver News for Color Revolution Reporting

But as we mentioned earlier, that entire Obama-era censorship machine has now been dismantled. Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, took to X to announce what may be the most significant blow yet to the government’s speech suppression network.

As many of you know, Mike Benz is one of the leading voices exposing the censorship-industrial complex.He did a great job breaking down just how monumental this development really is.

Mike Benz:

This historic development today was made possible by @SecRubio and Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy @DarrenJBeattie, as part of a complete restructuring of the State Department’s activities and capacities to prevent the abuses and weaponization of the past.

The development today is the State Department’s initiation of a RIF (Reduction In Force) that will permanently end the positions at GEC / R-FIMI, so there is no more reshuffling of positions or simple renamings of the office to carry out the same malign censorship efforts.

While GEC was formally sunset late last year after a showdown in Congress to deny its reauthorization, the Biden State Department got around this by putting GEC’s staff and operations under a new name: the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office (R-FIMI).Last month, @SecRubio andActing Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy @DarrenJBeattie terminated 100+ contractors that R-FIMI worked with, which formed a deep partner web between censorship operatives in the private sector and the muscle of the US gov’t to go after speech.

But in gov’t, it’s easier to terminate a contractor than a public employee.The structuring of today’s move as Stage 1 of a RIF to eliminate the office and dissolve the office entirely prevents the possibility of bureaucratic delays that come from contesting firings.

Secretary Rubio and Acting Under Secretary Darren Beattie didn’t just cut staff—they ripped out the entire censorship apparatus by the root, leaving no room for it to be quietly renamed or resurrected later under a different banner.

And that’s the key.This wasn’t a surface-level fix—it was a structural demolition of Obama’s speech-policing legacy.

These two are committed to promoting free speech in America, and that’s what every American should want, regardless of what side of the aisle they’re on.

Look: (pic)

Still, we can’t let our guard down. The fight for free speech is far from over, and the forces that built this censorship machine in the first place aren’t going away quietly.

But make no mistake—this move marks one of the most significant victories yetin the battle to Make America Great Again.

https://revolver.news/2025/04/darren-beattie-and-marco-rubio-just-fired-obamas-entire-censorship-army/

>>22928547

Anons you have to watch Stengle video, telling people there to teach their students on how to use and employ propaganda, He loves propaganda.

Watch Stengle refuse to answer the African's man's statement and question, why did the US cut off the global south and fill us with propaganda?

>>22928512

I don't get why Trump is blaming Putin, when he knows that Ukraine will not do it. But Sundance said that Trump needs to give Putin a hard time every once in the while for the press.

>>22927947

Maybe she was in shape many years ago, they obviously don't have standards

18 Apr, 2025 13:34

Massive Russian strikes target Ukrainian military-industrial complex – MOD

The attack focused on drone production sites and airfields, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow

Russian forces have carried out long-range strikes on Ukrainian drone production facilities and airfield infrastructure, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has announced in a regular report.

The attacks were launched early on Friday using drones and precision-guided missiles, targeting key components of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, according to the ministry.It described the operation as a success.

The statement noted similar attacks carried out by Russia since last Saturday, aimed at various military targets.It mentioned weapons plants, airfields, munitions depots, military training centers, and buildings housing Ukrainian troops and “foreign mercenaries.”

Friday also marks the expiration of a US-mediated moratorium on attacks against energy infrastructure.

On March 18, President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian Defense Ministry to suspend strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities for 30 days. The moratorium was agreed during a phone call with US President Donald Trump in support of Washington’s peace mediation efforts.

While Ukraine publicly supported the arrangement, Moscow has accused Kiev of numerous violations of the partial ceasefire, including attempted drone strikes targeting vital gas infrastructure deep inside Russian territory. Moscow characterized the attacks as evidence that the Ukrainian government cannot be trusted.

When asked on Friday for comment regarding the expiration of the moratorium, Kremlin spokesman DmitryPeskov stated that “the month has indeed ended,” adding that “at this point, no further directives have come from the commander-in-chief.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/615954-russian-strikes-ukraine-military-production/