Paul Fleury

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"You shall know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free"

The Threat Of A Sleeper Cell
Enemy agents may hide for years before attacking.
By Bob McCray
June 9, 2025

For those who keep up with intelligence matters when they are released to the public, and are familiar with the Spy vs. Spy world of the Cold War, you will recognize the terms for intelligence agents, such as going deep and sleeper cells. For the rest of us, terms like an agent going deep generally refers to an agent who assumes an identity and cuts off all ties to his real life.

For a sleeper cell, an agent is let into another country, possibly as a refugee, and assumes a normal lifestyle, much the same as any other citizen. The sleeper cell agent will wait, possibly for years, before receiving a message from his country’s handlers as to when to take action against the host country. The sleeper agent may take on an unassuming job and fit in with the community, functioning like everyone else.

Depending on the scope of action the agent’s handlers have planned for their sleeper agent, which may run the gamut from collecting intelligence, to sabotage of power and water sources, cyber-attacks, and physical attacks. Another action the sleeper agent may take is that of a force multiplier, the term refers to an agent recruiting local citizens to the agent’s cause.

One of the most dangerous sleeper cells is the one that wakes up and comes out shooting. We have seen what a lone wolf shooter can do in creating mass casualties; a sleeper cell made up of a trained group would be a disaster. This is a real concern, considering Joe Biden and his left-wing band of idiots opened up the border of the United States, letting in millions. We can only hope the border is sealed and ICE can round up as many as possible.

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National Security: Islamic Terrorism after 9/11 / June 13, 2025
Israel Protects the World From the Islamic Bomb
Israel has long demonstrated that it will not tolerate the development of a nuclear weapon by the rouge Iranian Islamist State and is willing to strike its capabilities and leaders.

The election of Donald Trump in 2024 put an end to the Biden/Harris regime’s long list of historic foreign policy failures, which started with their deadly surrender and retreat from Afghanistan, which then green-lighted Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and all the death and destruction that has followed.

All of that blood is on the hands of those who elected this inept duo, and stopping that bloodshed will take years.

As I noted last November, Trump now has an enormous uphill political and policy slog to correct the colossal failures left in Biden and Harris’s wake, and it will take a long time to right those disastrous policies.

That was also true in Trump’s first term. In 2017, he had to start undoing Barack Obama’s incredibly dangerous Iran nuke deal in which Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry paved the path for the detonation of an “Islamic Bomb” in Israel … and the U.S.

The effluent of that “deal” is directly responsible for “Operation Rising Lion,” the latest Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says “will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.”

Notably, in addition to the precision nuclear strikes, Israel demonstrated once again its considerable intelligence and surgical strike capabilities by also taking out key Iranian military and nuclear scientists.

In short, Israel loudly projected that not only will it take out Iranian nuclear facilities, but it will eliminate the key personnel involved in the development of the Islamic Bomb.

In May, our military analyst Brent Ramsey outlined the current Iranian threat here and here.

But let’s review, in brief, how we got here. “In brief” means I won’t start with the Biblical Old Testament but with the most recent events leading up to this strike.

Iran opened the latest salvo with Israel when its terrorist Hamas surrogates in Gaza initiated a preemptive attack on Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023. That resulted in a massive counterstrike against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah, as well as strikes against their terrorist state sponsor, Iran, which has vowed for decades to destroy Israel.

Iran declared the strikes are a “declaration of war” and, as anticipated by Israel, responded with drone strikes, all of which (based on the information we have at present) were neutralized in the air.

Israel has long demonstrated that it will not tolerate the development of a nuclear weapon by the rouge Iranian Islamist State and is willing to strike those capabilities as it did in 2010 with the brilliant Stuxnet cyberattack, which disabled a large number of Iran’s nuclear enrichment centrifuges at Natanz. Israel demonstrated its precision strike capability in the two years that followed with the assassinations of four Iranian nuclear scientists in Tehran.

Fast-forwarding to 2020, Israel hit the Natanz enrichment plant again, and in November of that year, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist and the man behind Iran’s covert nuclear program, was assassinated in Tehran.

In October of 2024, a year after the Iranian/Hamas attack on Israel and subsequent Iranian ballistic missile attacks against Israel, the Israel Defense Forces took out Iran’s top-secret nuclear weapons research facility, Taleghan 2, in the middle of its Parchin military complex. That was just weeks after Israel demonstrated its incredible resourcefulness by taking out top Hezbollah leaders with exploding pagers.

As Iran brazenly continued to increase its nuclear enrichment capabilities, in March of this year, President Donald Trump sent a letter to Iran seeking to reopen negotiations for a nuclear deal. In April, Iran resumed talks with the U.S., and representatives from both countries met in Oman on April 12 and again a week later in Italy.

On May 16, Trump warned Iran it has to move quickly or suffer the consequences. On May 31, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that Iran had dramatically increased its enriched uranium stockpiles with 408 kilograms at 60% purity, which is one small refinement away from weapons-grade. That was a 50% increase in four months. The IAEA warned this was sufficient for multiple nuclear weapons.

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National Security / June 13, 2025
Who’s Funding the Anti-ICE Rioters?
Senator Josh Hawley is probing the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights over potential funding of the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, but other organizations are under scrutiny as well.

While Democrats and the Leftmedia seek to frame the anti-ICE protests and riots currently roiling Los Angeles as organic grassroots expressions of objections to the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce immigration law, the truth is that they are anything but spontaneous, organic, and uncoordinated.

As calls and plans have spread for mobilizing anti-ICE protests this coming weekend in cities across the country, Republican Senator Josh Hawley wants to know who’s financing this anti-American mayhem on the streets of Los Angeles.

Hawley has an idea of who the culprit is, and he recently sent a letter to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) in which he accuses the leftist group of providing “logistical support and financial resources” to the rioters. He writes, “Credible reporting now suggests that your organization has provided logistical support and financial resources to individuals engaged in these disruptive actions.”

The Missouri senator pointedly warns, “Let me be clear: bankrolling civil unrest is not protected speech. It is aiding and abetting criminal conduct.” Hawley was notifying CHIRLA that as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, he was launching an investigation into the group.

It’s a matter of record that CHIRLA helped organize the Los Angeles ICE protest a week ago — a protest that has descended into days of rioting. CHIRLA predictably has played innocent. “We have not participated, coordinated, or been part of the protests being registered in Los Angeles other than the press conference and rally,” a representative of the group stated.

Importantly, over the last several years, CHIRLA has been the recipient of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars via government contracts. In 2023, the organization received $34 million, primarily from the state of California.

However, CHIRLA isn’t the only organization to come under scrutiny; the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are also under scrutiny.

David Huerta, president of the California chapter of the SEIU, was arrested for his efforts to obstruct federal agents from accessing a worksite. “He was arrested for interfering with federal officers and will face arraignment in federal court on Monday,” U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli explained.

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India crash: Yesterday, a commercial aircraft crashed — in this case, a very reliable Boeing 787-7 — just 30 seconds after takeoff, killing 241. (Amazingly, there was one survivor.) It may have been an engine thrust issue (compressor stall or bird strike) because the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) is believed to have been fully deployed. Alternatively, an error in the flap configuration of five degrees may have resulted in insufficient lift. It is difficult to tell given poor video resolution of the aircraft before the crash, but the flaps do not appear to be extended as the plane reached 425' above ground level and 175 knots before losing altitude. With an ambient temp of 104 degrees F, an error in the flap configuration could be the issue if the pilot retracted the flaps before retracting the gear.

Headlines
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Feds nab man accused of dropping off masks to anti-ICE rioters in LA (Fox News)

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Hamas names "Ghost of al-Qassam" as its new leader after Israel wiped out his two predecessors (NY Post)

Humor: Newsom says it's his duty to represent the illegal immigrants who elected him (Babylon Bee)

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SPLC labels Focus on the Family a "hate" group: Once again, the Southern Poverty Law Center has demonstrated it no longer exists as an organization fighting against racial hatred, but rather has become a radical leftist organization pushing hatred against those who don't adhere to its radical social and political views. Furthermore, the SPLC has increasingly become an organization that hates orthodox Christianity. Recently, the SPLC labeled the conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family as a "hate" group. The SPLC explains that Focus on the Family "has long relied on its biblical worldview strategy to push back against LGBTQ+ progress and reproductive rights." The irony here is that the group guilty of engaging in hatred is the SPLC, as it promotes religious bigotry against a long-established Christian organization whose motto is "Helping families thrive in Christ."