The intelligence community believes their success is measured by blocking the president's initiatives.
Posted by Bannon`s War Room, Checked
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Bannon`s War RoomJul 27, 2026
No source addresses whether intelligence community members measure their success by blocking the president's initiatives; the claim rests on the speaker's secondhand account ('this is what we're told') and is presented as their own experience.
Our two reads of who says this, and how, disagree, so it counts as the post's own claim.
What was said
… And, Steve, look, you know, Catherine Harridge, I think, put out a very, very serious interview as well last night, where she was talking about this former senior CIA operations officer who's blowing the whistle now on the same thing: the shadow government. This is what we're told, is that there's a shadow government that believes that their success they measure success and I saw this when I was in the intelligence community, and this is one of the many reasons I had to walk away, was that they believe their success was blocking the president's initiatives. They believe their job was to, quote, "defend the United States," remember, "defend our democracy from President Trump." What do they mean by "our democracy"? They always mean the interagency. They always mean the regime. …
Bannon`s War Room · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. PolitiFact rated a viral video's broad claims of a shadow government puppeteering civil society as unsupported and lacking evidence, though it concerns a different video and a broader allegation than this specific belief.[1]
Context. A conspiracy-analysis piece rates the claim of a unified secret cabal that covertly obstructs elected leaders as unsupported, while noting the documented existence of intelligence agency abuses.[2]
Context. Yahoo reports that some released emails indicate intelligence members withheld information from the President's Daily Brief and described a 'shadow government,' but the documents are heavily redacted and contain unverified information, and nothing addresses how success is measured.[3]
Context. Trump's July 2026 accusation that intelligence officials ran a 'shadow government' to hide Chinese meddling is a political claim about a different matter, not evidence of a success metric tied to blocking initiatives.[4][5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 3 not rated, 1 rated low
- 1Viral ShadowGate video makes sweeping, unfounded claimspolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Is the deep state real? What's true and what's nottheconspiratory.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Trump Releases Election Documents Alleging Foreign Threatsyahoo.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4‘Shadow government’: Trump claims intel community bragged about hiding Chinese meddlingwfmd.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5President Donald Trump addresses the nation on election ...noticias.foxnews.com · rated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited for: context
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- The National Security Agency withheld information from the President of the United States in the fall of 2020.Can’t tell
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- The FBI counterintelligence director stated she was running a shadow government across the FBI.Mixed