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Government Corruption
CIA Deep Staters Reportedly Tried To Stop Tulsi Gabbard From Revealing Truth About Russiagate
2025-08-08
[Daily Caller] Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard revealed the shaky and outright fabricated intelligence undergirding claims Russia aspired to elect President Donald Trump in a report with few redactions over the objections of bureaucrats at multiple intelligence agencies, according to a Washington Post report.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other agencies reportedly invoked concerns about the exposure of "sources and methods," the paper reported, citing anonymous people "familiar with the matter." Two former CIA officials who concluded in 2017 that Russia aided Trump told the paper they stood by their assessment.

The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Having reached the point where neither denial or open admissions are appropriate.

Gabbard has accused former President Barack Obama and his then-intelligence chiefs — CIA Director John Brennan, DNI James Clapper and FBI Director James Comey — of a conspiracy to undermine Trump and disregard the will of the American people in the 2016 election.

The 46-page report, dated September 2020, was based on 2,300 hours of investigation and 20 interviews in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at CIA headquarters. CIA higher-ups would not permit the report to be transported from CIA grounds until recent weeks when CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Trump intervened, the Post reported.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  Send them to a 'stan and lose the paperwork....or assign them to work in an unheated hanger in Alaska, with no internet or cell service. Doing paperwork by hand.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2025-08-08 21:02  

#9  /\ Comments 8 and 9 certainly lead the pack.
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-08-08 18:43  

#8  Polygraph might show that someone is lying. But we already know that about these people.
Posted by: Megabyses   2025-08-08 16:21  

#7  Polygraph, drugs, waterboarding...Why bother with all that? Just fire the whole lot and put them on a blacklist to prevent them from ever working for the government again.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2025-08-08 16:00  

#6  Tulsi Gabbard is a Threat to America’s National Security

DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:

“I wouldn’t trust Tulsi Gabbard with my garage code – let alone America’s intelligence command center. But once again, Donald Trump is playing games with our national security and risking the safety of Americans while taking a wrecking ball to our economy. Tulsi Gabbard’s hearing was a disaster, and if confirmed, she will be a disaster. Americans deserve better.”
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-08-08 15:10  

#5  ^ MARTIN HEINRICH
United States Senator

A national security risk
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-08-08 15:08  

#4  If they have knowledge of or participated in thwarting Tulsi, a temporary suspension of their security clearance is definitely not what I am looking for. It is worth reviewing who was telling us that Tulsi was a security threat. Those people need to end up under a microscope.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-08-08 10:54  

#3  The threat of a poly is oftentimes all that is needed. Suspension of access (security clearance) is also a good tongue loosener.

"You don't have to be part of this mess Leonard. We know you were simply following orders. Tell us where you think it all went wrong and that Portland position could be yours."
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-08-08 06:29  

#2  You can fool a polygraph.

Drugs and waterboarding (or other means).
Posted by: Mullah Richard    2025-08-08 05:26  

#1  Sounds like the next step for some folks may be a polygraph.
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-08-08 01:23  

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