The University Of Texas & John Brennan

So Texas taxpayers are, as we speak, paying CIA Director John Brennan to be a university advisor specializing on “the far right, populism and nationalism” https://t.co/Jqr4pmwEDo

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) March 19, 2026

… It’s also affiliated with the illiberalism Studies Program.

Plus, I have a massive surprise at the end!

Remember the Texas National Security Network? It’s the entire University Of Texas state wide campus’s and its orgs. They all work together interchangeably.

Part of this Network is the LBJ School of Public Affairs. LBJ is where ex CIA John Brennan, Paul Pope, and Stephen Slick run the Intelligence Studies Program.

Both Global Disinformation Lab cofounders (Ryan Williams and Kiril Avramov) are from LBJ.

Ryan Williams headed up the Global Disinformation Labs Project Evergreen. Where they used a Policy Research Project team from the LBJ School of Public Affairs to write a database of global policy responses to disinformation.

Brennan, Pope, and Slicks Intelligence Studies Project is at LJB and often sponsored events for the Global Disinformation Lab. Just one big happy family.

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