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A recent video released by Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin is drawing strong criticism after former CIA operations officer Bryan Dean Wright and Fox News host Jesse Watters described it as a coordinated propaganda effort directed at members of the FBI, CIA, and U.S. military.
The segment aired on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime,” where the two discussed the message of the video and the implications for its intended audience.
Watters opened the discussion by asking, “Host of the Wright Report podcast, all right, Brian, these Democrats is this seditious what they’re doing,” prompting Wright to explain why he viewed the video as deliberate and calculated.
Wright said, “It is. And look, we need to be very, very clear about Slotkin and who she is, so she knew what she was doing when she put that together. As a former CIA operations officer, my job was to go out in the field and collect the Intel conduct the operation. Her job as an analyst was to figure out whether or not things like propaganda operations were successful, if they were effective.”
He said Slotkin’s background provided her with the skills needed to structure a targeted messaging campaign.
Wright said, “So she has seen her fair share of propaganda operations, and she knows how to pull those off and make them effective. So if you think about it through that lens, if you watch the video again, one of the first things that she and the others do is they establish credibility and authority. They talk about who they are, working for the CIA and working for the military.”
Wright outlined what he said were multiple stages of the messaging campaign.
He described the next stage by saying, “They then move into the next phase of the propaganda message, which is, there’s a crisis. They create a crisis for the listeners inside the FBI and the CIA and the military. And they say that there is a threat, not just abroad, like we might face with face with China or Russia or al Qaeda, but inside of the country, the threat is here. Who’s that threat? Donald Trump.”
He said the video then introduced a call to action.
“Then they provide the solution as part of their propaganda campaign, which is, rise up, say no,” Wright said.
He pointed to what he described as subtle messaging designed to create plausible deniability while still urging action.
Wright continued by saying Slotkin knew the impact of the structure she used.
“The point is, Miss Slotkin knew exactly what she was putting together with her little propaganda video. Now, whether the others were also seditious with her. I don’t know, but she knew, because she and I both work the agency. We both know propaganda ops, and that’s exactly what her video was all about.”
Wright said that framing is intentional.
“Yeah, well, that’s exactly what a CIA officer who was putting their propaganda operation would do if you’re going to put a message out into the world, it’s not going to openly call for a seditious or an unlawful order. You’re going to see that information and then give it a little bit of a wink and a nudge, which is precisely what Slotkin did here,” he said.
“So the cover, the disguise, of course, was to say, Oh, it’s just unlawful orders that we need to know about. The game here, of course, is that there was no unlawful order, nor has there been.”
https://www.lifezette.com/2025/11/ex-cia-officer-says-dem-sen-slotkin-ran-propaganda-op-aimed-at-fbi-and-military-watch/