# Badlands Daily: 5/14/26 - CIA Spied on Trump's Own Investigators, Cartel Ops Exposed

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661)
Published: 2026-05-14T17:40:16+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/badlands-daily-51426-cia-spied-on-trumps-own-investigators-cartel-ops-exposed/
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Duration seconds: 7470

## Resource

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday energy with a show that is almost entirely CIA. Senate Homeland Security Committee holds an open hearing with CIA whistleblower James Erdman, and not a single Democrat shows up. Erdman confirms that Fauci personally injected himself into the intelligence community's COVID origin review, that CIA analysts concluded lab leak was the most likely explanation as of August 12, 2021, and that the conclusion reversed five days later for reasons the CIA refuses to document. The single most alarming admission from the hearing: the CIA illegally monitored the computers and phone calls of ODNI's DIG investigators while they were executing work explicitly authorized by President Trump, and fired a contractor the day after he met with DIG. Alpha and CannCon lay out why the public hearing is preparation for a Fauci indictment and why the auto pen pardon is the central legal battlefield ahead. Anna Paulina Luna reports the CIA removed 40 boxes of JFK and MKULTRA files from ODNI while the DIG was being wound down. CNN drops an exclusive that the CIA has been conducting targeted assassinations of Sinaloa cartel operatives inside Mexico using car bombs, and CannCon and Alpha question whether the CIA is clearing the field for a competing cartel.

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