🚨 Hidden From The Public – May 14 2026

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Lead: The War Drags On

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Iran responded to the White House this week with a list of conditions for restarting negotiations. President Trump pushed back, posting: “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!”

The response included five conditions: ending the war across the region, lifting sanctions, releasing frozen Iranian assets, compensation for war damages, and recognizing Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

One thing was noticeably absent: nuclear concessions. Tehran has made it clear that the nuclear issue won’t even be discussed until the war itself is settled.

Iran isn’t about to give up its right to nuclear enrichment. Qatar’s former prime minister may have summed up Iran’s reasoning best when he recalled an Iranian official telling him: “Ukraine handed over its nuclear weapons, and look what happened to it.”

Iran looks around and sees nearby nuclear-armed countries (Israel, Pakistan, India), yet somehow it’s the only one expected to hand over its leverage and rely on international promises instead.

With Trump’s rejection of Iran’s core demands, we’re once again back at square one. And while this keeps the obvious geopolitical problems ongoing, there’s an issue on the administration’s side: the War Powers Resolution clock has been ticking.

In an attempt to reset the clock, this may be what prompted the Pentagon to consider renaming “Operation Epic Fury” to “Operation Sledgehammer.”

In the end, it may not have been needed because on Wednesday, the Senate failed to pass the Iran War Powers Resolution.

So we continue on…

CIA Seizes Declassified Documents

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This week, an active-duty CIA officer, James Erdman III, appeared before a Senate committee led by Senator Rand Paul, alleging that officials inside the intelligence community interfered with COVID origin investigations and hid key information from both Congress and the public.

About 20 minutes into the hearing, Erdman took a detour that most were not expecting.

He stated, “The CIA also took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MKULTRA files being processed for declassification by DNI Gabbard. The legislative and executive branches will continue to be misinformed if this type of behavior is not addressed.”

This reignited attention surrounding MKULTRA, the CIA’s infamous Cold War mind-control program.

According to Luna, these files were not supposed to even exist: “The CIA famously said that all [MKULTRA] documents had been released and others were destroyed, so these are allegedly those documents that apparently never existed.”

A little background on this… In 1953, MKULTRA was a top-secret CIA project described as a behavioral engineering program where tactics, LSD, and other substances were used in truth serum mind-control experiments. These experiments were often used on their own men, without their knowledge.

The goal was to weaken individuals and induce confessions with the use of psychological torture, brainwashing, and other techniques. This program is said to have been dismantled in 1973, but it may still be in existence and running under a different name.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna publicly demanded that these MKULTRA and JFK files be returned within 24 hours and threatened subpoenas if the agency refused.

If these records had already been ordered declassified, why were they suddenly taken back under CIA control? What exactly are they trying to keep from the public eye?

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News by the Numbers

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$29 billion. That’s how many billions the Pentagon has raised its estimate of the cost of the Iran war.

12. That’s the number of Dutch hospital staffers who were sent into a 6-week quarantine after mishandling blood infected with hantavirus.

$1.3. That’s how many billions the federal government is withholding from California in Medicaid reimbursements due to potential fraudulent billing practices.

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