Investigative journalist Benny Johnson confronted Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard with a question that many Americans have been asking for years: Is Operation Mockingbird still alive?
Gabbard confirmed that the current Trump administration is actively battling rogue intelligence operatives embedded deep within the federal government who are coordinating with corporate media to undermine the will of the American people and sabotage the President’s agenda.
Though Gabbard carefully avoided using the term “Operation Mockingbird,” her remarks left no doubt.
Operation Mockingbird was originally a CIA program to infiltrate and control major news organizations, using planted narratives, compromised journalists, and covert funding to steer public opinion in favor of the regime.
Though it was allegedly shut down in the ’70s, Americans have seen its fingerprints in everything from the Trump-Russia hoax to the coordinated censorship of COVID dissidents to the Biden laptop cover-up.
Gabbard’s comments all but confirm: the same forces that fed lies to The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post during Obamagate and Russiagate are still hard at work—leaking classified intelligence with political motives.
Transcript via RealClearPolitics:
BENNY JOHNSON: The media being used as a propaganda mechanism—we saw it flatly. I mean, I think it’s the smoking gun, quite frankly, of the Obamagate narrative and the Russiagate narrative. That it was so baked in, that The New York Times and Washington Post went and ran with it.
Some would say that that’s part of Operation Mockingbird. Some would say that that’s part of what we learned in the Church Committee—that the intel agencies were using media outlets as their mouthpieces, and that those mouthpieces would parrot the official narrative.
And I wanted to ask you: is this operation still going on? Are you aware of the intel agencies working directly with media outlets in order to push prescribed narratives that may or may not be true?
TULSI GABBARD: It’s something that we’ve already had to deal with, Benny, within this administration—where there are people within the intelligence community who believe that their will is more important than the will of the American people, and will weaponize intelligence by leaking it to their friends within the mainstream media with the intent of undermining President Trump’s agenda.
It is not one that he hasn’t already talked about in every rally and town hall that he did throughout the campaign. I don’t even know how many there were. But President Trump is enacting the very thing he promised the American people he would do in this election.
So people in the intelligence community—they may agree, they may disagree. That’s not the point here.
As intelligence professionals, as people who work in the national security space, in the intelligence community, they are required to fulfill their mandate—to their oath to the Constitution of the United States and to the President of the United States, who was duly elected by the American people.
Those who leak intelligence to their friends in the mainstream media with the intent of undermining the president who was elected by the American people—none of these intelligence professionals were. They are subverting the will of the people and therefore undermining the Constitution.
BENNY JOHNSON: It’s wild that you’re still having to deal with that. Call it what you will, but Operation Mockingbird—just incredible that they were just out with it. That they were using the media as government organs to push propaganda. And it’s still happening today.
TULSI GABBARD: This is why what we’re doing is so important, Benny. And this is why President Trump’s mandate in this is really critical. By exposing the truth—by exposing the bad actors within the intelligence community and in the political space who are weaponizing intelligence to advance their own political interests—is so important.
To be able to turn the light on in places that have been dark for far too long, expose the truth, and drive accountability. That’s the only way that we can actually shift this and begin the work to try to restore trust in the intelligence community.
WATCH:
SCARY: Tulsi Gabbard CONFIRMS That ‘Operation Mockingbird’ is STILL Ongoing inside the CIA and she is actively trying to Shut it Down.
Tulsi says Deep State intel agents are still actively colluding with left-wing media outlets to attack President Trump from within:
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 31, 2025
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