CROSSFIRE HURRICANE EXPOSED

THIS IS MAYBE THE BIGGEST STORY OF ALL…MUCH BIGGER THAT OPERATION KAKAMAIMIE AND ALL THE OTHER TRUMPIAN STORIES IN THE LAST DOZEN TRUMPIAN YEARS

JEFF CHILDERS HAS THE ANALYSIS BUT IT DEMANDS A SEPERATE GOLDTENT POST

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Independent media is having a moment. Remember Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the RussiaGate illusion Obama and Hillary cooked up that led to the Mar-a-Lago raid? Turns out it was only the beginning. Yesterday, John Solomon’s Just the News broke the story as an exclusive, headlined, “Trump targeted by four FBI code-named counterintel probes that ensnared hundreds of Americans.” Four! Corporate media completely ignored it, but early this morning (Q followers: at 12:57am, in case that means anything), President Trump reposted the story on Truth Social without comment.

Beginning in the summer of 2016, at the precise moment Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, Obama’s FBI launched a counterintelligence operation against him. They were having such a great time. The first operation was code-named Crossfire Hurricane, named after a Rolling Stones song with the upbeat lyrics ‘it’s a gas, gas, gas.’

The party was just getting started. Crossfire Hurricane was only the opening act.

Over the next four years of the Biden Autopen regime, the FBI ran three more domestic spying operations —using tools meant for terrorists and spies— against Trump and Republicans. They were each called: Round River, Plasmic Echo, and Arctic Frost. The ops ran sequentially, each successive “probe” starting as the prior one concluded, so that the spying continued in a single glorious, uninterrupted arc from the summer of 2016 until the final hour of the Biden administration on January 20, 2025, literally right up to President Trump’s inauguration.

Ten years. A whole decade of constitutional abuse. It wasn’t really four different operations. It was one ten-year operation, code-named “Spy on Republicans.”

Each successive operation swelled in size as the domestic surveillance increased. The final op, Arctic Frost, targeted nearly 400 conservative groups and thousands of Americans, including 1,200 persons specifically identified as being in “protected First Amendment categories” like lawmakers, defense lawyers, filmmakers, and journalists.

The article reported that “officials said the two middle operations, Round River and Plasmic Echo,” which sound like names for Dollar Store scented candles, “are just beginning to be declassified so Congress can be fully read in, and may produce some of the most troubling abuses.” These will be new, never-before-seen scandals.

At least a dozen members of Congress and their staffers were swept up in surveillance. Eight sitting Republican senators were surveilled. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called it “unconstitutional overreach that makes Watergate look like jaywalking.” Trump’s future White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, was targeted. A political consultant’s emails were penetrated via a classified subpoena two weeks after joining the 2024 Trump campaign— the subpoena captured, verbatim, “correspondence on The Trump Campaign’s private strategies and deliberations.”

Since the subpoenas were classified, the targets had no way to challenge them or even know about them. Judges signed off on them, too. (That’s a whole different problem. According to various reports, between 1979 and 2023, the secret FISA court judges denied only 12 FBI applications out of forty-two thousand.)

Kash Patel himself was surveilled (ironically, by the same FBI that he now runs). At least 1,200 Americans specifically identified in constitutionally protected categories were subjected to warrants, wiretaps, phone record analysis, or grand juries. The ugliest part is that the records of the four operations were all stamped “prohibited access” and kept out of FBI computer systems (paper only), and hidden from most rank-and-file FBI agents themselves.

According to the article, Director Patel has assigned a small team of agents to hunt for the files and uncover abuses, assisted by a handful of senior executives who can navigate the bureau’s Byzantine storage systems and unearth well-buried evidence.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told John Solomon that criminal charges are “indeed possible” under the Klan Act’s conspiracy against rights charge, which she noted “dates back to the start of the Ku Klux Klan.” The article noted that the FBI has been working with a grand jury in South Florida since last summer.

In 1975, the Church Commission found the CIA’s “Family Jewels”— hidden internal memos describing decades of unconstitutional abuse. That discovery led to the only major intelligence reform in American history: oversight committees, the (useless) FISA court, and a ban on assassinations. “Prohibited Access” is our generation’s Family Jewels scandal— except this time, the hidden files don’t describe what the FBI was doing to foreigners.

They describe what the FBI did to an American president, his allies, his lawyers, four hundred conservative groups, and thousands of his fellow citizens. In 1975, Congress publicly investigated the CIA. In 2020, the FBI began secretly investigating Congress. The party in power —the Democrats— weaponized the justice system against its domestic political opponents. If this story were about Turkey or Brazil, the New York Times would easily identify it as “banana republic tactics.” If it bothered.

This kind of thing is literally the hallmark of authoritarian governance. It is a full-blown constitutional crisis. A lot of books will be written about this.

Matt Taibbi at Racket News broke the ugliest story: Prohibited Access files aren’t just classified. They’re ghosts. When an agent searches for them in Sentinel, the system returns a false negative— it doesn’t say “access denied,” it says the file doesn’t exist. The FBI confirmed this to Congress: “search terms that exist in Prohibited Access-status cases … will receive a false-negative Sentinel search response.”

That’s not a ‘security measure.’ Don’t make me laugh. It’s a cover-up architecture.

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi uncovered that there are no written rules for transferring knowledge of these files between administrations. It’s described as an oral tradition, passed down among senior officials, independent of agents below and political appointees above. An oral tradition! As though it were a family cookie recipe. For files that don’t officially exist.

For nine consecutive years, the FBI treated an elected President of the United States as a national security threat. The operations ran through four administrations — Obama, Trump’s first term, Joe the Cabbage, and into Trump’s second. That means the FBI maintained continuous surveillance of a sitting president during his own presidency. The executive branch was spying on the head of the executive branch. That’s not a rogue operation. That’s a parallel government.

Then someone buried those files in an illegal filing system to ensure nobody could ever find them. It would be funny if it weren’t so offensive. The FBI’s job is to find things, not hide them from itself.

Running off-books operations against Americans is a very strange way of protecting National Security. To say the least.

Calling it the “biggest political scandal in American history” feels inadequate since that phrase has been rendered meaningless by overuse. But for nine consecutive years, through four administrations and four code-named operations, the FBI treated the once and future President of the United States as an enemy of the state. Someone in the bureau stamped those files so nobody could find them. But we found them anyway.

In the end, they failed at failing. Their secret filing system is seeing the light. Four code names, nine years, piles of burn bags, uncounted secret SCIFs, and the only thing they caught was their own gluteus maximus. This cannot possibly stand without a forceful answer. Prepare for the Reckoning.™

The Good ‘Ol Boyz Club

An issue now gaining major attention in the United States: three Israeli brothers have been convicted on charges of sex trafficking and raping around 60 American women. The three brothers are reportedly business partners of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in the real estate sector, and were convicted today of raping at least 60 women. The brothers — Oren, Tal, and Alon Alexander — are known as strong supporters of Donald Trump. They attended election night events and White House gatherings. Some victims were drugged and transported across state lines, before being physically restrained and sexually assaulted. Oren, Alon, and Tal Alexander were found guilty on all ten charges, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion.

https://x.com/i/status/2031450665101242576

 

the dominoes are starting to lean….

From Quoth the Raven:

More concern in one area of financials keeps showing up every day.

According to people familiar with the matter, Cliffwater is now facing redemption requests exceeding 7% in its $33 billion Cliffwater Corporate Lending Fund, one of the largest interval funds in private credit.

Because the fund is structured as an interval fund, it is required to repurchase up to 5% of its shares each quarter if investor demand reaches that threshold. Management does have discretion to increase that amount to 7%, but anything beyond that would effectively require limiting withdrawals.

The redemption window closes Tuesday, and the firm has not yet decided whether it will meet the higher threshold or cap redemptions.

Cliffwater is the latest manager in the $1.8 trillion private credit market facing rising withdrawal pressure as investors grow more concerned about loan quality and exposure to sectors like software that could be disrupted by advances in artificial intelligence.

As I wrote about last week, this is exactly the dynamic many private credit managers have been trying to avoid.

When BlackRock began limiting withdrawals from one of its largest private credit vehicles after redemption requests surged, it highlighted a structural issue in the asset class. The firm’s $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund received redemption requests for roughly 9.3% of outstanding shares, but ultimately capped repurchases at 5%, meaning only about $620 million of nearly $1.2 billion in requests were actually fulfilled.

In other words, the fund hit its maximum redemption threshold.

Private credit managers often frame these limits as a routine liquidity feature designed to match long-term loans with long-term capital. But the reality is much simpler: when investors want their money back faster than loans can be repaid, funds have limited options. The alternative is raising liquidity by selling loans — potentially at distressed prices.

That’s why redemption limits can become self-reinforcing. Once one large fund begins gating withdrawals, investors across the space start paying closer attention. Some rush to exit before similar restrictions appear elsewhere, which can increase redemption pressure on other funds.

And that pressure may now be spreading.

Cliffwater’s situation doesn’t necessarily mean a broader panic is underway. But it does show that the stress many investors assumed was isolated may actually be systemic — particularly in a market where assets are rarely traded and valuations often rely heavily on internal models rather than daily price discovery.

As I’ve said repeatedly over the last month, the cracks in private credit were already forming beneath the surface. When liquidity starts tightening in a market built on long-duration loans and limited secondary trading, redemption pressure can quickly become the catalyst that exposes those weaknesses.

Again, stocks close to this mess include any BDC name, any private credit name and popular tickers like KRE, APO, BLK, BX, ARES, OWL, just to name a few. Also, likely any BNPL names, any banks that are regional or smaller in nature, and commercial real estate — just to name a few…

Speeds Up The Timeline

I hope the war is pretty much over.  None the less, the expenditure of all the missiles, drones, bombs etc.  just sped up the timeline before the world runs out of available physical Silver.   Industrial demand and replenishment of all kinds of weapons and defensive systems is going to bring about a much shorter timeline to that end.

Canada Is a Toxic Asset…………..

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18DoQizPqU/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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BREAKING: President Trump just announced the war in Iran is ENDING “SOON” because there is “practically NOTHING left to target” ?

“Little this and that… Any time I want it to end, it will end,” Trump tells Axios

Iran’s missile and drone capabilities have PLUMMETED by up to 90%

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2031733087508295828

The Trend

Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announces that his family is leaving Seattle for Florida the same day Democrats passed an income tax on Washington state Starbucks corporate is moving to Nashville The wealth exodus is underway. Democrats have killed WA’s economy

Washington’s 9.9% Millionaire Tax Raises Fears Of Wealthy Exodus

AND

International Energy Agency’s 32 member countries unanimously agree to release 400 million barrels of oil from reserves —

sounds like lots but only 4 days worth. Fertilizer stocks up, inflation shit like the Covid on the way, shipping delays….phosphorus for heap leach copper … yup , should be in mop up stage with the war by Thursday, the son in law ‘feels’ it.

KAKAMAIMI JR MEMED TO DEATH

CARDBOARD AIYATOLAH KAKAMAIMI JR.

HANGING ON THE WALL AT THE WHITE HOUSE

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2031676370116301019

WITH ALL TRUMP IS DOING FROM MULLAH CONTROL TO CARP CONTROL…HE STILL HAS TIME FOR SOME FUN

I HAVE A NEW THEORY…THEY CLONED HIM…THERE ARE 5 OF HIM…NO WAY AN 80 YEAR OLD MAN WITH ALL THE TRAUMA AND DRAMA THEY PUT HIM THROUGH COULD BE THIS RESILIENT…NO WAY

Adriana Luna on the Pole

TheLastRefuge@TheLastRefuge2
3h
OK folks, here’s the question.

The House GOP (bipartisan issue) has the votes to block the mandatory FISA-702 reauthorization.
The Senate GOP complains they do not have the votes (bipartisan) for the SAVE America Act.
Should the House leverage the FISA Reauthorization, to force the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act?

In essence: Would you accept surveillance in exchange for more secure elections?

Average price of Silver YTD (Q1 2026)

AI told me it was $89 usd. That compares to $51.50 usd in Q4 2025. Yes, many miners achieved a higher sale price.

Even with energy up approx 46% from last quarter, Silver is up 72%. This is just a snapshot in time and may change.

The Silver miners are still looking good.

Ayatollah Press says Iran’s winning

US main stream “media” exists only to destroy America

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/ayatollah-press-says-irans-winning?

GoEasy … .to ….. SPLAT

https://x.com/altruafinancial/status/2031394998114267611

Subprime

“It Begins”

ConCarney

Politics

NDP MP Lori Idlout crossing floor to Liberals, PM Carney two seats shy of majority

Liberal censorship one step closer to passing  also. Careful of the tweets and the rainbow crowd that may be offended….

Any questions?

Chart by FinanceAlot

What Every Oil Crisis Has Done to Gold (and Why This One Could Be Bigger)

Goldbuzz

If this is paywalled just join for free. Rick’s analysis is worth a LOT more that Free…sheesh

https://www.goldbuzz.com/p/what-every-oil-crisis-has-done-to-gold-and-why-this-one-could-be-bigger?

GOP Senators opposing Save Act and /or Talking Filibuster

John Barrasso (WY)
John Boozman (AR)
Shelley Moore Capito (WV)
Susan Collins (ME)
Tom Cotton (AR)
Kevin Cramer (ND)
Mike Crapo (ID)
John Curtis (UT)
Steve Daines (MT)
Deb Fischer (NE)
Lindsey Graham (SC)
Chuck Grassley (IA)
John Hoeven (ND)
Jim Justice (WV)
John Kennedy (LA)
James Lankford (OK)
Mitch McConnell (KY)
Jerry Moran (KS)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Pete Ricketts (NE)
Tim Scott (SC)
John Thune (SD)
Thom Tillis (NC)
Roger Wicker (MS)
Todd Young (IN)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/heres-list-mark-meadows-reveals-which-senators-back/

ABOUT THAT FAILED BOMB ATTACK IN NTC

I COMPLETELY MISSED THIS STORY….INCREDIBLE

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-narrative-bombs?

DID SOMEONE SAY RESISTANCE

THER BUCK STOPS HERE ?

Silver is Fighting Resistance

Silver has a barrier to break through before it goes any higher. I have drawn it on this simplified chart to make it obvious. I don’t know why it is exactly but once a trader becomes fixated on a trade they cannot seem to see the obvious any more and they will try to avoid news that does not fit their internal narrative. Even when presented with facts and charts they often cannot be snapped out of the stupor or spell that has hijacked their mind. Its why so much money is lost in stock markets. Traders just get consumed emotionally once they have skin in the game and they cannot seem to see trouble coming until its too late.

Let me wake you up if you are all zombie-eyed about silver and advise that my forecast is for silver to fall. Todays chart is confirming my prognosis. Unless and until price decisively breaks through the line shown I will continue to be a bear. That does not make me right. Not yet anyway. But at least I follow a system that is objective.

MINES ?

REALITY CHECK

The latest claim that Iran is preparing to seal the Strait of Hormuz with naval mines reads more like propaganda than intelligence reporting.

Sea mines don’t deploy themselves. They require dedicated minelayers, support vessels, logistics crews, and operational staging platforms. Those assets must sail into position, lay the fields, and maintain them.

Here’s the inconvenient problem with that storyline: those platforms are no longer in play. Without ships and submarines capable of deploying mines, the concept of a large-scale mining operation is operationally impossible.

So the narrative that Iran is about to close Hormuz with mines collapses under the most basic requirement of naval warfare: you need vessels to place them.

No vessels means no mining campaign.

At this stage, Tehran’s threats about Hormuz are little more than information theater. The strategic balance in the Gulf has already shifted, and Iran’s ability to influence events there has effectively evaporated.

In simple terms:
No minelayers.
No blockade.
No leverage.

The era of Iran dictating terms in the Gulf is over. Game over and thank you for playing.

PATRIOT JOSH

CARP !

DOE Sec Wright …. lying tweets and huge market swings

“The US Energy Secretary just moved global oil markets with a single post and then deleted it.
Then the White House said it wasn’t true.
All of this happened in about 30 minutes.
…..”

https://x.com/_Investinq/status/2031458017300930937

One more reason to like Andean…

Will be much easier to add this to index funds on the US side.

Iran Warns U.S. It Has Huge Stockpile Of Supreme Leaders

The new “Supreme Leader” apparently turned out to be cardboard from day one.

In a bizarre allegiance ceremony, instead of the leader himself, a cardboard cutout is being passed around and kissed by officials.

When the leader is in a coma, it seems the cardboard version is perfectly adequate for official ceremonies.

At this point, in this system, even cardboard can apparently rule

30 sec dont miss

https://x.com/i/status/2031414591863886222

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3 minute clip explains the situation with Kakamaini Junior

https://x.com/i/status/2031373892279837078

Paying for experts…..

So, so I just saw this GoldFix Pm guy on substack talking about how he is now recommending some miners….and you have to sub (pay) to his substack.  He was putting a few names out there, and guess what?  I already own them, too funny.  OK.  I’ve subbed to many of these people and have been unimpressed with many.  Beware people who haven’t done this, and now are doing recs.  There are many “free” quality resources.  I like Don D, he does great analysis, talks to these people, and you can sub to his stuff for free I think.  I did his substack for $80?  But most of his stuff on X is for free if you just follow him.

I used to sub to Casey resources, what a waste of money.  He had a few good ones over the years, but many clunkers as well.  Liberty Gold, jeez, can’t believe that dog is still around.  What, they’ve been drilling for 15 years….give me a break.  Buy producers, producers in the near term (next 2 years), or developers sitting on 2 million ounces plus that are near a producing mine already from one of the majors and in a jurisdiction where they won’t kill you if you don’t pay them protection money.  Or just buy JNUG or NUGT which would give you leverage on the miners as well.

This is a trend play, if you are in you will do well.  If you are out, you won’t (unless you find a better sector to be in for the next 2 years, good luck).  You don’t need to pay anyone to get good advice if you want to buy individual miners, doing a little work yourself and knowing who to listen to will get you where you need to be.  BIGGEST RISK – Obviously, the big picture doesn’t work out, but right behind that is KNOWING WHEN TO SELL.  I got the greedy pig disease last time, but won’t this time.  Use Ratios and common sense and you will know when to jump off the train before it plummets into the ravine.

 

Go Queazy

Shares of Canadian subprime lender Goeasy fall 50% on guidance of surging loan defaults and write downs Sub prime lending is often first to drop near the end of a credit cycle

Don’t go home, don’t go to eat, and don’t miss this mining renaissance………

There were Don D’s pics from the PDAC conference…first three are up big on above average volume.  Buy now or kick yourself in the ballz later….

Note number 2 on this list….good ole LG.V…it goes down less on drawbacks and launches above the rest on rallies.  Just what you want in a junior….

You know what they say…

looks like silver stocks are back on the menu boyz!!  Hope you bought the dip.  Here are the ones that are Don D’s favorite silver stocks that are beating SILJ today.  You want ones that beat the indexes on up days.

Maybe not Vizla due to bad security and geographic issues, but make sure you look at location before you buy.  Don’t want ones deep in the heart of cartel land.  Watched Don D’s interview with GGD.TO CEO, and it was good.  Bought more of that one on the dip and today.

Precious Metals – Rest Of The Week & Beyond

Gold consolidated yesterday and is now ready to move up to, and attack it’s highs.  Rocket Man(aka Silver)  Had a very positive upward reversal yesterday and might stay in a tight range today, before exploding higher.  I say might, because that may be wishful thinking.  Rocket Man will soon be escaping Earth’s gravitational pull, and when it does, new galaxies, far, far away will be where he is headed.

Trump appears unfazed by the killing of 160+ elementary school girls at the start of the war.

“Whatever the report shows [on who struck the Tomahawk missile against the school], I will live with that report.”

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2031148687787741409

AND

Investigation Suggests US Navy Likely Behind Attack That Killed 150 Schoolgirls In Iran

It’s looking more and more like the US Navy was responsible for killing more than 150 Iranian schoolgirls in the first hours of Operation Epic Fury, according to separate analyses of new video performed by research firm Bellingcat and the New York Times, who each tapped weapons experts to study the footage.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/global-force-good-us-navy-likely-slaughtered-150-schoolgirls-iran

 

Iran dictates end of war, not US and Israel, commander says

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603103050

AND

IRGC Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari: WE ARE READY FOR 10 YEARS OF WAR WITH THE U.S.” “…AT LEAST 10 YEARS!”

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2031174411252814233