Seeing Through a Glass Darkly

We’ve known we’ve been lied to for quite some time now. At least since COVID, which was a wakeup call. But for many of us, we knew well before then.

Now, at last, the Deep State is in the process of collapse, and the lying media is spiraling earthward.

However, we’re not on the other side yet, where we have a new system and means to gain truth—if that is something we ever get to before Christ reigns personally on the earth and rights all the wrongs.

So, for now, we’re “seeing through a glass, darkly” [I Cor. 13:12]. We’re getting only hazy views. I offer three examples today.

 

Border Detention Story

I have a friend whom I love, even though I’m learning that her views are much more liberal than mine; she’s been in a state of alarm since the November election, while I see pleasant surprises almost daily as a result of that election. She passed along a story on Facebook. It was detailed, and emotion-inducing. I found the original here. 

A woman named Jasmine Mooney, an actress turned entrepreneur from Canada, was renewing her work visa, as she had done multiple times, when she was detained and imprisoned. I had not seen news stories anywhere. I searched. It pops up in mainstream legacy (leftist) media sources. No conservative or independent journalists even mention it—not even to refute it. That may mean it simply isn’t worth the time. But I was curious, just out of respect for my friend who believes it really happened as told; could such a thing be happening, or are there other details?

Jasmine Mooney, after returning to Canada after her detention,
image from here

Almost all of the news articles reference Mooney as the source, or people who heard the story from her (parents and friends). That seemed odd. Eventually I did find one with an additional reference: a Newsweek story that went so far as to get a statement from an unnamed ICE spokesperson verifying that ICE had detained the woman, as per rules from the executive order “Securing Our Borders” of January 21.

The story, in short, is that this woman went to the border crossing at San Isidro, in southern California, expecting to be able to get her TN visa application processed there (TN visas are temporary work visas related to the NAFTA agreement). But instead she was sent to a jail cell, and then, days later, sent to another holding center in Arizona before getting released and sent back to her Canada home 10 or so days later.

She was detained March 3 and held until either March 10 or 14, and maybe returned home March 17; the dates seem uncertain to me. She published her very long story—about 3900 words—March 19. During her detention, her family and friends contacted media and government officials to make her plight known, which she says may be the reason for her eventual release.

She had processed work visas before, at that same location, and thought she wouldn’t have a problem. But, instead of just sending her away or telling her how and where to complete her paperwork, they treated her like a criminal. And we should all be outraged.

I have questions that maybe all the media who handled the story didn’t have. And that may be because I don’t believe the Trump administration is going out of their way to make life miserable for law-abiding well-intentioned individuals.

So, according to Mooney’s story, she had no reason to believe she’d have trouble getting this TN visa. But she had had her previous one revoked. A TN is a is a temporary noncitizen work visa that is granted for specific jobs and requires a time period with an ending date. Her previous one got revoked, and she went home to Canada for several months (I don’t know how long). But this was a new job with a new company, so she thought this wouldn’t be a problem.

But her story is that she is an entrepreneur. She sells a tonic called Holy! Water, a company she started—so she isn’t a new hire at a new company. And it appears the previous company was also her selling a tonic at a company of her creation. (One question about that previous visa problem had included the fact that hemp is an ingredient; I don’t know if this new company also has that possibly problematic ingredient, or whether that was really an issue, as she suggests.)

So it doesn’t look like she was hired by a new company; she’s just calling herself a new company.

And she’s in Canada, has had a problem with her previous visa, but assumes she can easily get a new one—not by getting it in her own country before traveling to the US, but by traveling to Mexico and coming in at the southern border without yet having the visa. And she does this just six weeks after President Trump’s “Secure the Border” executive order, which changes things significantly.

She says she was familiar with that location, because she had gotten a visa there before, accompanied by an attorney. This time she did not get an attorney’s help, even though there had been problems with her visa in the past.

Then she’s held, she says, in very bad conditions, like a prisoner, and as though she had been kidnapped.

Or, I’m speculating, not knowing her (even as an actress I do not recognize her or the things she was known for), but we don’t have anyone corroborating anything except that she was detained at the border according to US policy.

She claims growing friendships with other women detained in these inhumane conditions, all with heartrending stories, about 140 who had overstayed visas and had tried and failed to reapply. One was a woman from India who had previously overstayed a 10-year visa by three days before heading home. Then, later, she got a new valid visa to come to the US to finish her master’s degree—but when she arrived she was handed over to ICE because of the previous three-day error. I have a hard time believing that ICE is hunting down people with valid visas in hand over a previous three-day error. Can anyone corroborate that story?

Women—who had all their belongings confiscated and were placed in bare rooms with nothing but a toilet—had access to pen and paper to send letters with Mooney when she was released, and several of whom had phones, which were used and shared to get word out.

So, what is true? I don’t know, but, possibly because of my biases, I look at this story—which I admit, if I had different biases, would seem plausible and therefore appalling—and I say it doesn’t pass the smell test. A story that long, in a publication that has to decide on space and timing issues, is published within days of her release—even though her health had deteriorated with the bad food and water conditions. And no one follows up with the questions and corroborations. And only Trump-hating publications mention the story, either before or after her release. Hmm.

Why would she lie? I don’t know why she personally would. But possible motives would be attention to her that would lead to attention for her product; or hatred of the US and/or President Trump and his administration. Or both or something else.

The point is, you might not be able to trust a story, just because someone is telling it.

 

JFK Files

The long-told government version of the Kennedy assassination is that a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot from a grassy knoll into the motorcade and killed President Kennedy. End of story. Except, there are questions.

People are poring over the files released last week, sometimes with the help of AI. And what we get are more questions than answers.

Glenn Beck covered many of the questions in his Wednesday night special this week.  One of the things he did was to experiment, using a gun that is the same make and model as the Oswald weapon—on a ranch in Oklahoma. The first shot, with everything stationary, Beck hit the target. Then the firing pin broke. They came back the next day, with a more modern but similar weapon, and had the target moving. And the ranch terrain wasn’t as smooth as a Dallas street, so it was a tougher shot. It was still doable—for a decent shooter, not necessarily a skilled sniper.

So it could have happened that way.

Except that there were three bullets. But one bullet was supposed to have gone through Kennedy’s back, turned upward, then exited and then hit the person next to him. And film shows the body moved as though hit from the front, at least with one bullet, which has always led to questions.

Oswald had been on CIA radar for a long time. They tracked his daily actions leading up to the assassination, always knowing where he was—except on that day. That day, oddly, they didn’t have any idea where he was or what he was up to.

And the gun—it was built, I believe, by US manufacturers—for Greece, because of help from the CIA. And it required specific ammunition, which would therefore have to have been accessed from Greek sources—or from the CIA.

Glenn Beck chalkboard referring to JFK assassination theories,
screenshot from here

The newest info was not in the JFK files. Here’s from the description box of the Glenn Beck video, and then we’ll look at the transcript:

Glenn speaks to Shane Stevens, the grandson of Billie Sol Estes — a Texas businessman with alleged ties to LBJ. In January, he gave a digital copy of a secret family audiotape to "The Alex Jones Show." The conversations alleged that then-Vice President Johnson hired Mac Wallace to kill JFK. But was the tape real, or an elaborate AI hoax? Glenn’s team asks a JFK expert to verify its authenticity and for the first time ever, Shane plays the chilling confession live in-studio.

OK, so what is said on that audiotape? This is confirmed to be Clifton C. Carter, former executive director of the Democratic National Committee, speaking to Billie Sol Estes (and, while the online transcript says Mac Wallace, it sounds to me like “Mike”):

Well, Sol, it’s been a pretty touch-and-go situation. Lyndon and I have had quite a few unpleasant words here lately over the deal that he hired Mac Wallace to assassinate the president. It’s been hectic in every way, but we’ve lived through it this far, and I guess we’ll continue to do so. Lyndon should have never issued that order to Mac. But we’ve had our differences, and I’m true blue to Lyndon, as I’ve always been, and tried to carry out every order that he’s ever given me, but this is one I’ll probably never be able to forget.

There’s another couple of sentences from the description box that kind of summarize what we’re looking at:

Glenn argues that the JFK assassination isn’t just history — it’s a warning. From Benghazi to 9/11, COVID origins to Trump’s Russia probe, the same patterns of secrecy and deception persist. If the CIA or deep state got away with a coup in 1963, what’s stopping them now?

Which brings us to our third issue for today, the Signal chat scandal.

 

Signal Chat

There’s a lawsuit going on related to this already. I’m not sure of the pretext for that. No classified information was shared; no crime was committed. But maybe someone was hoping there would be, and some people will believe there was, just because of the gravitas the lawsuit seems to provide.

So, there was a chat group involving several top administrative officials on the encrypted platform called Signal. This is a common app. I’m in three Signal groups, all related to being a precinct chair—not terribly secret, but quick and easy for handling group chats (much better than the messy way my phone handles group texts). And, while one complaint is that text messages can be auto-deleted, mine remain, because that’s the default setting.

Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor, took the heat for the “accidental” invitation to join the chat group given to enemy news journalist for The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg (known for peddling the fake Russia-gate scandal, among false accusations of that type).

Here’s where things get murky in the world of trying to learn the truth. I’m looking only at “friendly” sources here, supposed conservatives, yet there is still plenty of murkiness to be found.

First I hear the general conservative news and commentary sources. They’re appalled that anyone could be so careless as to let this happen. But they’re also relieved that the story is a nothing-burger. No state secrets were shared, and the mission spoken of was successful. After the mission, Goldberg announces he had been lurking on the chat but wouldn’t want to share state secrets by sharing—but then he goes ahead and shares. He has, by this time, removed himself from the chat.

I’m waiting to hear more, because this “accidental” thing doesn’t ring true. Mike Waltz has never met Goldberg; he did not have his phone number. He had one staffer who could also have been the accidental inviter, about whom I see a thing passed along on Facebook, claiming that the staffer, Alex Wong, the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, is the culprit who added the enemy journalist. This source is passing along what Laura Loomer says (there have been so many sensationalist stories that Loomer has been wrong on that I read with some skepticism). Here’s what I read:

Alex Wong is Chinese, and he’s married to Candice Chiu Wong, also Chinese, who was one of the lead prosecutors of J6ers — under both Obama and Biden.

Candice served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for D.C., led the Violence Reduction and Trafficking Offenses Section, and was nominated by Biden to the U.S. Sentencing Commission — where she helped hand down extreme punishments to political dissidents.

She also clerked for far-left SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor — no surprise there.

Alex Wong himself worked for Covington & Burling LLP — the same firm President Trump stripped of ALL security clearance and federal contracts on Feb. 25, 2025, for their central role in the weaponization of government against Americans.

Further down it adds this:

This entire thing smells like a coordinated setup.

A Chinese-connected security advisor.

A DOJ insider wife loyal to Biden.

A disgraced law firm with a history of targeting conservatives.

A hostile journalist embedded in a secure chat.

All in the middle of a military op?

Then it calls for an investigation and for heads to roll.

I’ve never heard of Wong. I didn’t have any context to know whether this was true. But it seemed more likely than the “accidental” invitation version.

Alex and Candice Wong, image from KeyWiki

 

But then, in the comments, there’s a link to this Substack piece by @Amuse. It details Wong’s actual family history:

Born in New York to Chinese immigrants who fled communism, Wong is a product of the American meritocracy. His parents, Grace and Robert Wong, were among the thousands who left Hong Kong in the waning days of British rule, uneasy with the prospect of Chinese Communist Party dominance after the 1997 handover. Both were deeply skeptical of the CCP, having witnessed from afar the slow strangulation of freedom across the mainland. They came to America in the late 1970s seeking stability, liberty, and opportunity.

Then the piece continues about his wife and her family history, which was similar, with parents who left Hong Kong because of Beijing’s encroachment on civil liberties. Then we look at work history, which is clearly not that of a Chinese asset:

Wong graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in literature and French, then earned his law degree from Harvard, where he served as Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He clerked for Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a legal icon of the conservative movement, and later advised Mitt Romney on foreign policy. As a senior advisor to Senator Tom Cotton and later as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Korea in the first Trump administration, Wong crafted some of the toughest, most clear-eyed policies against Chinese expansionism and North Korean belligerence….

He helped formulate the Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy, pressed for maximum pressure sanctions against Pyongyang, and was instrumental in organizing the Trump-Kim summits.

Then his wife’s work history:

Also a Harvard graduate, Candice clerked for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit. She served for nearly a decade as a federal prosecutor, leading efforts against human trafficking and violent crime. Her lone involvement in a January 6 prosecution? A violent rioter who confronted police and endangered lives—not a peaceful protester swept up in bureaucratic zealotry. In 2022, she was nominated to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, earning confirmation with bipartisan support.

I did a quick online search. Wikipedia shows Alex Wong more like the Substack version, while it does include that his name was mentioned in relation to the Signal story. A KeyWiki online bio of his wife is also closer to the Substack version, although, in addition to clerking for Sandra Day O’Connor and for Kavanaugh when he was a circuit court judge, she did also clerk for Sotomayor. It may be that, when a young lawyer gets a chance to clerk on the Supreme Court, you take that job regardless of for which justice. So that wasn’t a lie, but among the rest of the info, it’s not as damning as implied.

So that leaves me wondering how the name got added, if not by Waltz or Wong, neither of whom, it seems to me, would do so intentionally and probably couldn’t have done it accidentally. I was picturing some Deep State CIA operative getting hold of the phone of one of them, and physically doing that.

But then, I heard more discussion on Glenn Beck's Thursday radio show (we seem to be thinking along similar lines this week). Apparently Signal is an app that is government approved—in fact, it comes pre-installed on the devices of government officials—even though there is already an encrypted secure app for them to use. Maybe Signal handles group chats more easily.  Signal was recommended—pushed?—by CISA during the Biden administration; CISA is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which reporter Michael Schellenberger showed to have been involved in censorship projects, including the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the COVID lab leak theory.  And we know (confirmed by the JFK files) that the CIA has been spying on Americans and trying to manipulate policy for many decades—maybe since its inception, but at least since Eisenhower. And they don’t have to “wiretap” physically anymore; they can do so much with phones and various devices. So—because they have been unworthy of trust—we have to ask, did the CIA use a backdoor or some other tech means to put Goldberg on the group chat, hoping to make the administration look careless and/or nefarious?

Glenn Beck talks about the history of Signal:

Signal itself has an interesting background. It was developed by an organization called Open Whisper Systems. They received millions of dollars in government funds…to create Signal. The funds flowed from—wait for this one—the Open Technology Fund, a government organization that was created back in 2012, under the Obama Administration, under Radio Free Asia.

Coincidentally, funding for Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was cut by the Trump administration March 15, as unneeded relics of the Cold War. [However, a judge has stepped in to temporarily bar Kari Lake, President Trump’s senior advisor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, from moving ahead with shutdown plans there.] 

And coincidentally, the Signal issue came up the day before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence met for hearings, making all the discussion about this issue, rather than whatever the hearing had been set to discuss.

 

So, what is the takeaway from these three stories? When a story comes out, step back, wait for more information, and think it through from a couple of additional points of view. We may not get to the truth right away, maybe not ever in some cases. But we’re less likely to be taken in by lies. The challenge is to be skeptical without becoming cynical. Cynicism takes away hope.

We’re in a revolutionary time of taking back our constitutional republic, and there’s a lot of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth from the beasts that are losing power, so that means things look messy for a while. But this is a very hopeful time.

So, I guess, hang on and enjoy the ride—like you might “enjoy” a roller coaster that’s a couple of levels too intense for you.