John Kirk (J. Kirk) Wiebe is a former senior intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency[1] [2] and whistleblower on the matter of NSA mass surveillance of Americans. Kirk managed data collection, processing and analysis programs and has criticized the NSA's mass surveillance policies that continue today. Wiebe also agreed with Bill Binney's technical assessment that it was not true that the Russians had hacked the DNC's webserver in 2016.
Wiebe is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and has supported TruetheVote's claims of election fraud during the 2020 United States presidential election.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kirk grew up in northern Indiana, near Lake Michigan. After graduating high school Weibe enlisted in the United States Air Force and spending four years with the intelligence branch from 1963 – 1967. After the Air Force Kirk attended Indiana University, receiving a master's degree in the Russian language in 1974. Kirk then took a position in the National Security Agency (NSA), retiring in October 2001[3]
In September 2002, Wiebe, along with William Binney and Edward Loomis, filed a request for the U.S. Defense Department Inspector General (DoD IG) to investigate the NSA for allegedly wasting "millions and millions of dollars" on Trailblazer[4] Loomis and Binney developed a competing system, ThinThread, which was shelved when Trailblazer was chosen instead.[5] The Whistleblower's complaint noted Trailblazer's ineffectiveness and unjustified high cost compared to their alternative ThinThread.[6] According to Wiebe, Trailblazer was the greatest intelligence failure in NSA history due to the loss of intelligence during the years Trailblazer was being developed.
As a member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Wiebe agreed with colleague Binney's view that the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Russia hacked the DNC's webserver in the 2016 presidential election was wrong, and that the Democratic National Committee e-mails were downloaded locally and leaked by an insider instead.[7] [8]
The VIPS colleagues argued that the metadata in files associated with the DNC hack were altered to add Russian fingerprints, and that file transfer rate proved they were transferred locally.[9]
The memorandum from the VIPS colleagues was promoted by Breitbart and Fox News. President Donald Trump would then request Mike Pompeo to meet with William Binney.[10]
J. Kirk Wiebe was involved in supporting TrutheVote's assertions about election fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election, primarily focused on dirty voter rolls that contained people who were not eligible to vote.
Wiebe would also go on to explain why voting integrity activist and business man Mike Lindell did not have the data required to prove election fraud.[11]