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They didn’t lose power in 2017. They incorporated it.
For four years, there was a building five blocks from the White House where America’s real foreign policy got made. Not in the Situation Room. Not at State. In a consulting firm’s conference room at 2001 K Street, where tomorrow’s wars were priced for today’s buyers.
They called themselves WestExec Advisors. Most Americans have never heard the name. That was the point. While you voted for change, they were packaging continuity. While you debated ‘democracy’, they were selling it by subscription. They didn’t predict policy. They priced it, packaged it, and delivered it to clients who paid millions to know what your government would do before your government knew it would do it.
Today, the founders’ security clearances lie revoked. Criminal investigations circle closer. The architecture of their influence, which once placed more alumni in Biden’s cabinet than any single university, has collapsed. But unless we understand exactly what WestExec was and how it operated, another version will emerge. Because what they built wasn’t illegal. It was worse. It was legal corruption so sophisticated that it ran our nation in plain sight.
This is how they did it.
The Waiting Room
February 2017. Trump had been president for three weeks. The permanent bureaucracy that expected Hillary Clinton needed somewhere to wait.
Antony Blinken and Michèle Flournoy don’t panic (okay, they did).
They don’t resist (okay, they definitely did).
They incorporate.
WestExec Advisors, named after the closed street between the White House and the Eisenhower Building, files its paperwork in Delaware. Opens its doors on K Street. The founders read like a government-in-exile: Blinken, former Deputy Secretary of State. Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense. Sergio Aguirre, former NSC director. Nitin Chadda, former State Department policy planning staff.
They weren’t starting a company. They were building a time machine – a mechanism for holding power in escrow while selling glimpses of the future to the highest bidder.
The Price List
When Blinken was nominated for Secretary of State in 2020, financial disclosures briefly lifted WestExec’s veil. The partial client list explained everything:
BlackRock. The world’s largest asset manager, controlling $10 trillion.
Boeing. Desperate to know which weapons systems would be prioritized.
Facebook. Needing insight into coming content regulations.
McKinsey. The consulting firm that needs consultants to navigate DC.
Palantir. The surveillance company that would mysteriously receive massive contracts from agencies WestExec alumni would soon run.
These weren’t clients buying advice.
They were purchasing prophecy from prophets who would return to power to fulfill their own predictions.
The Seamless Transition
The stolen 2020 election didn’t bring Democrats back to power.
It brought WestExec back to power.
Antony Blinken: Secretary of State
Avril Haines: Director of National Intelligence
Lisa Monaco: Deputy Attorney General
Jake Sullivan: National Security Advisor
Jeffrey Prescott: Deputy National Security Advisor
Jen Psaki: White House Press Secretary
David Cohen: Deputy CIA Director
One analysis found WestExec alumni held more senior positions than graduates of any Ivy League school. This wasn’t just a revolving door. It was a permanent installation pretending to revolve.
Think about what this means.
Throughout 2018 and 2019, defense contractors paid WestExec for advice on “future procurement priorities.” By 2021, WestExec partners were setting those priorities. The contracts that followed traced directly back to advice purchased years earlier.
It’s insider trading, except legal.
Corruption, incorporated.
The China Betrayal
Here’s where the story turns from influence-peddling to something darker.
While the Biden/autopen administration publicly declared China our primary strategic threat, demanding allied unity against Beijing’s ambitions, something else was happening in the procurement offices.
According to 2023 whistleblower testimony now under federal investigation, state department procurement documents for Eastern European operations listed these approved technology vendors:
- Huawei Technologies
- ZTE Corporation
- Aventura Technologies
This deserves repetition, especially in light of this news.
The same administration calling China an existential threat approved Chinese intelligence-linked companies as vendors for US intelligence operations.
Aventura Technologies had been indicted in 2019 for selling Chinese-made surveillance equipment to the US military while claiming it was American made. FBI raids found evidence of data exfiltration to Beijing. Yet four years later, under an administration staffed by WestExec alumni, Aventura appeared on approved vendor lists.
Incompetence?
Or the fulfillment of promises made in consulting rooms to clients whose interests transcend borders?
The Ukraine Gold Rush
Since February 2022, over $113 billion in US aid has flowed to Ukraine.
One of the largest military transfers in modern history. Where did it go?
Follow the contracts.
They flow from the Pentagon and State Department to defense contractors, many of them WestExec clients. Raytheon’s stock rose 30 per cent. Lockheed Martin hit record highs. The specific weapons systems being purchased – HIMARS, Javelins, Patriots – were identified as priorities in WestExec advisory documents years before Russia invaded.
Michèle Flournoy, still a WestExec managing partner, sits on the board of Booz Allen Hamilton – recipient of $4.4 billion in federal contracts last year. She’s also a partner at Pine Island Capital Partners, which owns companies manufacturing equipment now flowing to Ukraine.
Watch the circle complete itself.
Advise clients which weapons to develop. Return to government to purchase those weapons. Leave government to profit from advisory work about the war those weapons are fighting. Repeat.
This isn’t about whether supporting Ukraine is right or wrong (okay, it’s 100 per cent wrong). It’s about who profits from that support, and how those profits were engineered years before the first tank crossed the border.
The Perfect Crime
WestExec’s genius wasn’t what it did. It was what it didn’t have to do.
It didn’t have to register as lobbyists because its partners would soon be making the decisions themselves. It didn’t have to disclose foreign interests because its clients’ interests would become American policy. It didn’t need transparency because disclosure requirements only kicked in after its alumni returned to power – by which time the promises were made, the policies were set, and the profits were allocated.
They found a legal sweet spot that shouldn’t exist.
Too connected to be lobbyists, too private to be government, too influential to be ignored, too dispersed to be regulated. They weren’t breaking the law. They were proving the law was already broken.
There was no smoking gun because the entire system was the weapon. They didn’t need secret meetings when the whole arrangement was legal.
The Reckoning
Today, security clearances revoked. Officially, clearances have been pulled from Blinken, Monaco, Sullivan, and dozens of others connected to what investigators call the “weaponization of intelligence.”
Criminal investigations are examining whether intelligence was deliberately shaped to justify pre-sold policies. Congressional committees are demanding documents showing how threat assessments aligned so perfectly with defense contractor wish lists. Foreign partners are questioning whether American intelligence can ever be trusted again.
But the real crime wasn’t what was illegal. It was what was legal. That a consulting firm could pre-sell American foreign policy. That tomorrow’s wars could be monetized today. That democracy itself could be reduced to a product sold to the highest bidder.
The Lesson
WestExec didn’t corrupt the system.
It revealed that the system was already corrupt.
As investigations continue, clearances fall, and consequences come, remember this: WestExec wasn’t an aberration. It was the logical endpoint of a system that treats governance as a commodity, democracy as a market inefficiency, and public service as a private opportunity.
The question isn’t whether individuals will face justice. Trust that the process is well underway. The question is whether we’ll close the loopholes that allowed a consulting firm to run America from a K Street conference room.
Because if we don’t, you can bet the next version is already incorporating. Already hiring. Already selling your future to clients whose names you’ll never know.
In Part II, we’ll dig into the permanent bureaucracy that made this possible. The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, where facts were fitted to whatever narrative WestExec had already sold.
The shell company needed a foundation.
And that foundation was so much darker than you can imagine.
Thank you for reading and sharing this. Nothing changes until the people know. And as always, eternal gratitude to whistleblower and patriot Tore Says for bringing the receipts and attention to this topic.
This article was originally published by EKO Loves You.
