JEFF CHILDERS

The Bible, the world’s best-selling exposé on human folly and redemption, pulls no punches about disclosure. “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.” (Ephesians 5:11-13.)

Yesterday, the Daily Mail ran an NSFW article headlined, “Lurid sex chats among NSA agents exposed as intel chief Tulsi Gabbard vows to punish workers posting about ‘kinks, fetishes and polyamory’.” It’s gross. Super gross.

Early yesterday, anti-woke warrior Christopher Rufo dramatically exposed the NSA’s fruitless deeds of darkness. We’ve mentioned Rufo before— he’s the conservative filmmaker, pundit, and Manhattan Institute fellow who Ron DeSantis appointed to the board of (formerly) hyper-woke New College. Somehow, Rufo got hold of a transcript of internal message boards from inside the ultra-top-secret National Security Administration (including CIA staff).

It was an unprecedented, history-making peek behind the reinforced steel curtain of the U.S. intelligence community. Normally, the NSA operates in near-mythic secrecy, where even rumors struggle to surface. But this shameful scandal cracked the door open just enough to reveal something profoundly unsettling: not the cold, clinical professionalism we’re told guards our national security, but a bizarre cocktail of dysfunction, moral decay, and —in this case— straight-up juvenile self-indulgence.

I wonder how Chris got the transcripts. His article cited two unnamed NSA employees (one former). You must admit it’s curious timing—coming right after DOGE began collecting data and Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation as NSA chief. Just saying.

You may recall that I recently speculated about the power the Trump Administration would soon have to turn the Intelligence Deep State’s own weapon of leaking against it. I can’t say whether this is a strategic leak or not, but it sure is highly suggestive. You tell me.

In any case, what leaked was that some top-secret-clearance employees managing the Nation’s most classified systems and allegedly secure information also enjoy enthusiastically posting explicit NSFW comments throughout their joyful workdays, about things like their transgender surgeries, orgiastic fantasies, multiple-partner relationships, promiscuous overseas sexual adventures, and bizarre, pornographic proclivities.

Mind you, this is on the official, government, cryptographically secure internal chat server. All NSA and CIA staff could read it. But nobody complained until now.

I won’t quote any of the awful, stomach-turning material here, but you can follow the links if you are curious. If you do, put on your mud boots.

The response was swift, not to say coordinated. Within hours, Director Gabbard roundly condemned the spooks’ sexy chatting:

It used to be that harboring bizarre sexual kinks and revolting fetishes was an automatic disqualifier for top-secret clearance. Standards have obviously fallen faster than Senator McConnell navigating a steep marble stairway. I would go farther than most and suggest these concupiscient chatterers probably suffer from diagnosable mental illnesses, which apparently was a pathway to advancement in the Biden Administration’s intelligence agencies.

One employee insisted others refer to him using the pronouns, “it/it’s.”

I hope these employees didn’t respond to OPM’s email asking what they did last week. Nobody wants to read that. We already know anyway.

It was a devastating, carefully calculated takedown. Frankly, it explains a lot. But in the battlefield of public perception, this grotesque disclosure of what the NSA’s disobedient employees have been doing in secret will justify nearly any change that Tulsi Gabbard needs to make to reorganize the intelligence agencies.

This might be remembered as the moment when the public finally glimpsed the rot festering behind the glass and concrete walls of the intelligence fortress. A glimpse raising an even bigger, more uncomfortable question: If this is what we’re allowed to see—what’s still hidden?

Everything exposed by the light is becoming visible. It has only been a little over a month since the new Trump Administration took over. Get ready. The sun is rising on the dark side of the moon.