Citizen Intel: Sovereignty, Standards, and Natural Law
If you’re new, start here. This is what Citizen Intel is and how we operate.
Citizen Intel is a pro-American sovereignty project grounded in originalist constitutionalism and natural law theory.
I’m Chad York—former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst (TS/SCI, read into multiple Special Access Programs) and now a private investigator. I track down fraudsters for a living. So, when I watch “breaking news” on the widespread fraud occurring at the highest and lowest levels of society, I don’t see random chaos—I see familiar mechanics: deception, laundering, incentive structures, regulatory capture, narrative control—and weaponized migration leveraged as a strategic vector within foreign influence operations and criminal enterprise activity.
Core criminal behaviors—persistent cross-culturally across human history—adapting in mode and method to the prevailing social, technological, and political context of our time.
Western societies reduced criminality over centuries through evolving legal institutions, urban stabilization, and cultural shifts toward self-restraint, enabling the conditions for sustained civilizational progress, with socio-ethnic homogeneity historically reinforcing cultural cohesion while robust individuality promoted as a shared civic framework within society, enabling sustained civilizational progress.
Socio-ethnic homogeneity coupled with robust individualism are the linchpins.
The moral center
Citizen Intel aims at restoring an American Republic that can defend itself through socio-ethnic sovereignty, preservation of individuality, constitutional loyalty, lawful symmetry, and ending “legal plunder” posing as public policy— as Frédéric Bastiat wrote in The Law, “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
Deeper yet, Citizen Intel’s highest purpose is the one metric a functioning society can’t fake: the wellbeing of children. Whether government policy, social institutions, and civic discourse are “working” is settled by this test: if they are, we should see the results—safer neighborhoods, stronger families, and greater stability for the next generation. A core ethic rooted in Natural Law is the Best Interests of the Child standard in American family law: an evolving principle that prioritizes a child’s safety, stability, and wellbeing in decisions affecting the child and the family unit. Citizen Intel applies that same lens upstream—to rules, incentives, influence, and power—so “legal plunder” is permanently ended and never again written into a child’s future.
In order to ensure victory on this front, Citizen Intel seeks to rebuild an intelligence-literate American citizenry—trained to verify sources, track mechanisms, follow the money, and resist narrative capture rather than submit to blind obedience.
What you’ll get here
This publication has two purposes:
Doctrine:
Tradecraft you can actually use—source verification, analytical discipline, pattern recognition, network mapping, and narrative execution.Investigations:
Publications where I apply the Citizen Intel doctrine to real-world events and current affairs—clearly separating verified findings from speculation and opinion.
How to read Citizen Intel
If you’re new, start with Doctrine. My aim is simple: teach you to see what I see and do what I do—so we can build a serious, method-driven community producing coordinated, evolving, evidence-based Investigations over time.
If you came here from X, understand the difference: X is the headline-and-commentary layer—my perspective in real time, plus updates when new work drops. Substack is the investigative archive and operating manual—Citizen Intel in full.
Ultimately, Citizen Intel seeks to rebuild an intelligence-literate American citizenry because an informed citizenry is the Republic’s first line of defense.
Substack: citizenintel.com
X: @CitizenIntelX