The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Former CIA Spies: "The CIA Tried To Ban This Story!" We're Leaving The US by 2030!

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Aug 28, 2025
Andrew and Jihi Bustamante, both former CIA officers, unveil shocking secrets about a hidden mission to expose a traitor within the agency. They share how the CIA attempted to bury their story for three years and discuss their plans to leave the U.S. by 2030. The couple reveals the CIA's use of fake businesses for surveillance and offers intriguing coping hacks for managing fear and anxiety. They even touch on the controversial connections between high-profile cases, like Epstein, and broader issues of privacy and power dynamics.
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FISA Opens Broad Data Access

  • FISA requests allow courts to authorize data collection on Americans when probable links to wrongdoing exist.
  • Such warrants open access to phones, computers and cloud accounts for national-security targeting.

Privacy Is Mostly Illusionary

  • Privacy is conditioned; technology feels private but is often accessible to governments and adversaries.
  • Treat intimate or sensitive actions as potentially discoverable online despite short-term privacy illusions.

Airport Secondary Interrogation Release

  • After being surveilled Andrew endured a tense airport secondary screening and mirroring techniques to deflect interrogation.
  • Poorly trained interrogators bickering helped secure his release and allowed him to board his flight.
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