""Virginia Sen. Mark Warner blasted Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as “not competent,” moments before she dropped a report alleging that the Obama administration stoked election interference claims in a “treasonous conspiracy.”"
This latest attack on Obama is nothing more than another example of Trump's distraction tactics to distract from his corruption and involvement with Epstein.
#TulsiGabbard #USIntelligence #Trump #Epstein #USPolitics #Obama
Breaking: Early US intel suggests strikes on Iran missed nuclear sites. Developing story. #Iran #USIntelligence #Geopolitics
Read more: https://ndpost.org/global-geopolitics/initial-us-intelligence-suggests-strikes-on-iran-did-not-hit-nuclear-sites/
When #CNN becomes part of the problem with #misinformation and #hate:
Here the CNN headline: #Israel says #Iran was racing toward a bomb. #USintelligence says it was years away
So, CNN blasts out an unverified statement just to put the Israeli government/#netanyahu into miscredit knowing the kind of reaction that kind of a headline will invoke in the #USA, but also worldwide. That is blund #antisemitism.
Speaking of important signs the Pork Reich is preparing for war on an extremely short timescale: how else do you explain Trump throwing his own DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, under the bus to assert that he was pretty sure Iran was on the verge of manufacturing a nuclear weapon? This is of course despite a March annual assessment by UIS intelligence stating Iran was not even trying to make a nuclear weapon, and was at least three years away from being able to do so.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/trump-iran-israel-nuclear
Trump brushes off US intel reports on Iran to align himself with Israel
"Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, delivered a concise verdict during congressional testimony this March: the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and supreme leader Khomeini [sic] has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003”.
As he rushed back to Washington on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump swatted aside the assessment from the official that he handpicked to deliver him information from 18 US intelligence agencies. “I don’t care what she said,” said Trump. “I think they were very close to having one.”
Trump’s assessment aligned him with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, who has warned that Iran’s “imminent” plans to produce nuclear weapons required a pre-emptive strike from Israel – and, he hopes, from the United States – in order to shut down the Iranian uranium enrichment program for good."
Speaking frankly, I couldn't give a single rat's ass about the palace intrigue going on in isolationist wing of Trump's America First coalition. If those nazis were dumb enough to convince themselves the guy who refused to pull us out of Iraq or Afghanistan, and assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani to try and start a war that would boost his 2020 election prospects, actually gave a flying fuck about their faux anti-war rhetoric, they are absolute fucking rubes and get what they deserve. Of far more interest to us here is the apparent isolation of Tulsi Gabbard; she was nowhere to be seen as key Trumpenreich war cabinet officials met at Camp David last Sunday and Trump's familiar pattern of shutting out minions who say things that are inconvenient for his agenda seems to be in full effect. It might have even caused Gabbard to have some kind of breakdown, because she recently vague-posted on social media about the impending threat of nuclear war, although it was unclear who she felt represented that threat most.
Even more telling however, has been the Trumpenreich's embrace of Israel's false propaganda narrative of an Iran on the verge of assembling a nuclear bomb. An embrace notably being conducted by both formerly anti-interventionist Trump minions in the Pork Reich, and key warmongers in the Swine Emperor's military command.
"Gen Michael Erik Kurilla, the head of US Central Command who has forcefully campaigned for a tougher stance on Iran, told members of the armed services committee in the House of Representatives last week that Iran could have enough weapons-grade uranium for “up to 10 nuclear weapons in three weeks”.
Yet a CNN report on Tuesday challenged that claim. Four sources familiar with a US intelligence assessment said that Iran was “not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon” and that the country was “up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing.”
Folks, the intelligence on Iran's nuclear capabilities didn't change, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been claiming they're on the verge of building a nuke since at least 1992, if not longer. Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program, they aren't in any danger of building a nuclear weapons program anytime soon, and Trump is simply embracing Israeli intelligence's lies to manufacture consent and further his political objections. You don't need to manufacture consent for an attack you don't intend to conduct, or a war you don't want to fight. Thus, the obvious conclusion here is that the Swine Emperor wants a war with Iran, and his fascist flunkeys are working to deliver on that desire for their Führer. Tulsi Gabbard appears to have gotten caught in the crossfire, but the Christian Zionists and assorted other corpse farmers in the regime don't really care because she's already served her purpose for Trump; convincing absolute fucking muppets who don't read the newspaper that Trump is an anti-interventionist president who would end the "forever war" era of American politics. Sucker fascists fucked around, and now, unfortunately we're all gonna find out - at least if Trump gets his way here.
#Trump #Fascism #Imperialism #Israel #Iran #War #NuclearWeapons #Propaganda #ForeverWars #TulsiGabbard #USIntelligence #BenjaminNetanyahu
@RichardJMurphy
"US intelligence sources said in March this year tt #Iran didn't hv a #nuclear #weapons program tt threatened #Israel.. There isn't, in other words, any self-defence justification for Israel undertaking these attacks. Iran's nuclear installations aren't, according to te best #USintelligence, a threat to it.. this attack must be seen for what it is, which is yet another #diversion by Benjamin #Netanyahu to deflect attention fr his own trials for #corruption, & now from #Gaza" 1/2
Here is a thought-provoking opinion piece by William J. Barber, II and Leah Greenberg
Keep things peaceful, stay safe.
@newsweek
"In a disproportionate show of force, an authoritarian leader deployed troops to an American city in response to citizen protests. This leader could not tolerate resistance to his extreme policies—he wanted to project power precisely because he was losing control. The spectacle was designed to draw the people's attention back to him. But it failed. Instead, the people learned that they could live without a king.
"While this could be a description of this week's events in Los Angeles, it's also a fair report on the news from Boston in the summer of 1775. King George III had sent troops to suppress citizens who were protesting his abuses of power. Our country's fight for equality and freedom, which has inspired democratic movements around the world, was born out of a city under occupation that refused to bow to a tyrant."
#Trump #DonaldTrump #POTUS #USPolitics #USMilitary #USIntelligence #MilitaryParade #NoKings #NoKingsDay
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wont-kingunless-we-bow-opinion-2084503
Happy Birthday P01135809
#P01135809 #Trump #DonaldTrump #POTUS #USPolitics
#USMilitary #USIntelligence #MilitaryParade #NoKings #NoKingsDay
If it worked, and the information was accurate, I would be all for it. But Trump doesn't WANT to understand, and the information is coming from very suspect sources.
It appears that the revised DHS website is attempting to establish a cult of personality around Kristi Noem.
What other regimes have done this in the past?
#DHS #ICE #ICEQueen #KristiNoem #Immigration #USPolitics #USMilitary #USIntelligence
https://www.dhs.gov/
The more things change, the more they stay the same apparently. Back when I had a little less gray in my hair, one of the many horrifying scandals to come out of the Bush Administration during the War on Terror/9-11/Iraq War era, involved the suppression of intelligence and intelligence officials who refused to support the Bush-Cheney administration's position that Iraq had, or was on the verge of acquiring, weapons of mass destruction. This mattered because although the Bush government employed a "throw a plate of spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks" method of manufacturing consent to invade Iraq, the central portion of their legal and diplomatic argument, revolved around the admin's repeated assertion that US Intelligence had actionable information that Saddam Hussein had WMD's or was about to finish building them. Of course, the entire thing turned out to be a lie; Iraq didn't have WMDs, the intelligence supporting the lie was nonexistent, and warmongers who supported the war crafted a narrative that "bad intelligence" had lead Bush-Cheney to ruin. The fact that even that was a lie, wouldn't come out until later; as it turns out US Intelligence had actively told the White House that they *didn't* think Iraq had or was capable of producing WMDs, and the administration had ignored, sidelined, and removed anyone in the intel community who told them so. That story was of course small potatoes compared to the original story about "bad intelligence" and to this day many informed observers still believe the spies told lies and the White House was "duped."
I mention this now of course because Trump's Director of National Intelligence, noted fake peacenik, Islamophobe, and cult member Tulsi Gabbard, just fired two high ranking intelligence officials, and moved the National Intelligence Council under her direct supervision. Why? Well it sure does look like it's because a FOIA request turned up a NIC memo confirming that US intelligence disagreed with Trump's fascist propaganda arguing that the gang Tren de Aragua were working for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro; a central pillar of the Trump regime's argument that they have a right to deploy the Alien Enemies Act to do fascist mass deportations and a bunch of other authoritarian buillshit.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tulsi-gabbard-trump
Gabbard Fires Intel Officials After Memo Counters Trump Lies About Migrants Sent to El Salvador Prison
"While an ODNI spokesperson told The Hill that "the director is working alongside President Trump to end the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community," critics framed the firings as "the DEFINITION of politicizing intelligence."
"I am concerned about the apparent removal of senior leadership at the National Intelligence Council without any explanation except vague accusations made in the media," Congressman Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, told The Washington Post. "Absent evidence to justify the firings, the workforce can only conclude that their jobs are contingent on producing analysis that is aligned with the president's agenda, rather than truthful and apolitical."
The NIC leaders were fired after last week's release of an NIC memo confirming that U.S. intelligence agencies never agreed with Trump's claim that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro controls the criminal gang Tren de Aragua. The April 7 document states that "while Venezuela's permissive environment enables TDA to operate, the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States."
Look, I'm not going to ask readers to offer up sympathy for creepy American spymasters; this is a country that engages in offensive espionage, political and social subversion, and activities we would call terrorism if someone we didn't like were doing them, so there are no good guys in this story. With that having been said however, we're looking at clear evidence that the Trump regime itself absolutely knows their fascist "invasion" arguments, on which much of their paper-thin legal justification for doing a host of blatantly unconstitutional activities, are complete bullshit; and they're prepared to politically punish Trump's own intelligence agencies for not agreeing to lie for them. This is, or should be, a major scandal on par with Bush's Iraq War lies; and yet curiously the focus in the media seems to be how bad it is to train your intelligence agencies to not tell you bad news the president doesn't want to hear.
Obviously, I knew Trump's invasion was a lie, and you knew Trump's invasion was a lie. But now the whole world knows Trump's invasion is a lie and we have the documents and statements to prove it; so why is anyone pretending this isn't just fascism?
#Fascism #TulsiGabbard #Trump #DNI #USIntelligence #CIA #TrenDeAragua #Invasion #FakeWar #AlienEnemiesAct #Bush #IraqWar #Propaganda #ConspiracyTheories #IdeologicalPolicing
Here's an oldie but goodie
#SignalGate #USPolitics #USMilitary #USIntelligence #Hegseth
Sourcce: @technologyreview
From the article: "The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, confirming reporting by MIT Technology Review.
"The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. "
#Trump #DonaldTrump #Putin #VladimirPutin #USPolitics #USMilitary #USIntelligence #Oligarchy #HandsOff #50501movement
#DonaldTrump #Trump #Republicans #MAGA
#Democrats #HandsOff
#USPolitics #USMilitary #USIntelligence #NSA #CIA #DIA
U.S. Fires National Security Agency Director and Deputy in Major Shakeup
#NSA #CyberCommand #USIntelligence #TrumpAdministration #NationalSecurity #Cybersecurity #TimothyHaugh
U.S. Fires National Security Agency Director and Deputy in Major Shakeup
#NSA #CyberCommand #USIntelligence #TrumpAdministration #NationalSecurity #Cybersecurity #TimothyHaugh
ICYMI: U.S. Intelligence Report Identifies China as Primary Military and Cyber Threat https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/03/us-intelligence-report-identifies-china.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #USIntelligence #ChinaThreat #CyberSecurity #MilitaryStrategy #CyberWarfare
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