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  1. Timothy Snyder: "Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity.

    To see where we are, we must understand that people such as Tulsi #Gabbard, Kash #Patel, and Pete #Hegseth, had no business accepting their nominations, since they lack any qualifications. The fact that such people could be considered, let alone appointed, is a marker of superpower suicide."

    snyder.substack.com/p/on-super

    #Snyder #USA #Trump

  2. Timothy Snyder: "Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity.

    To see where we are, we must understand that people such as Tulsi #Gabbard, Kash #Patel, and Pete #Hegseth, had no business accepting their nominations, since they lack any qualifications. The fact that such people could be considered, let alone appointed, is a marker of superpower suicide."

    snyder.substack.com/p/on-super

    #Snyder #USA #Trump

  3. Rose, a veteran of the Afghanistan War, said that Gabbard and Vance have become, for Trump, "walking, living example[s] of someone that he has conquered. They will embarrass themselves, they will subjugate themselves, they will lie, cheat — it does not matter, just to be in his presence. And so certainly, I think that's part of the dynamic," Rose said. "In each of these instances, what these individuals have done is they have given up on everything that they believe in in the pursuit of power."

    ms.now/news/max-rose-tulsi-gab

    #Trump #Vance #Gabbard #GOP #USPol ##MSNOW #Whistleblowers #Democracy #Resist #Protest #VoteMidterms

  4. CW: #USPol

    Where we are today:

    Abigail Hauslohner -- @ahauslohner

    9:40 AM · Mar 18, 2026

    Pressed by Sen. @Ossoff on whether the intelligence community's had assessed that #Iran posed "an #ImminentNuclearThreat", as claimed by the #WhiteHouse, #Gabbard said:

    "It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat."

    and:

    Abigail Hauslohner -- @ahauslohner

    Gabbard, the #DirectorofNationaIintelligence, who had said she was briefing #Congress today to provide "the intelligence community's assessment of the threats" later said:

    "The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president."

    Dare I say 'wow...'?

    #Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu #DNI

  5. This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
    —rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.

    Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
    from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
    to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
    to his signature tariffs,
    on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.

    Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.

    That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
    —at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.

    But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?

    That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:

    The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
    to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
    —intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.

    This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:

    declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,

    then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.

    President Joe Biden extended the order,
    and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.

    This administration
    —whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
    —appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.

    The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
    but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
    the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
    from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
    to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
    to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
    to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
    to, finally, China hacking machines.

    Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
    —which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
    —and Serbia.

    The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
    Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
    last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.

    #Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.

  6. This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
    —rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.

    Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
    from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
    to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
    to his signature tariffs,
    on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.

    Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.

    That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
    —at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.

    But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?

    That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:

    The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
    to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
    —intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.

    This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:

    declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,

    then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.

    President Joe Biden extended the order,
    and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.

    This administration
    —whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
    —appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.

    The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
    but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
    the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
    from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
    to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
    to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
    to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
    to, finally, China hacking machines.

    Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
    —which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
    —and Serbia.

    The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
    Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
    last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.

    #Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.

  7. This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
    —rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.

    Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
    from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
    to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
    to his signature tariffs,
    on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.

    Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.

    That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
    —at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.

    But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?

    That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:

    The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
    to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
    —intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.

    This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:

    declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,

    then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.

    President Joe Biden extended the order,
    and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.

    This administration
    —whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
    —appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.

    The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
    but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
    the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
    from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
    to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
    to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
    to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
    to, finally, China hacking machines.

    Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
    —which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
    —and Serbia.

    The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
    Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
    last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.

    #Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.

  8. This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
    —rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.

    Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
    from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
    to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
    to his signature tariffs,
    on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.

    Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.

    That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
    —at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.

    But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?

    That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:

    The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
    to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
    —intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.

    This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:

    declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,

    then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.

    President Joe Biden extended the order,
    and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.

    This administration
    —whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
    —appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.

    The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
    but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
    the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
    from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
    to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
    to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
    to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
    to, finally, China hacking machines.

    Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
    —which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
    —and Serbia.

    The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
    Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
    last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.

    #Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.

  9. This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
    —rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.

    Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
    from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
    to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
    to his signature tariffs,
    on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.

    Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.

    That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
    —at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.

    But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?

    That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:

    The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
    to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
    —intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.

    This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:

    declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,

    then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.

    President Joe Biden extended the order,
    and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.

    This administration
    —whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
    —appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.

    The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
    but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
    the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
    from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
    to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
    to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
    to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
    to, finally, China hacking machines.

    Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
    —which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
    —and Serbia.

    The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
    Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
    last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.

    #Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.

  10. Iran War Puts Tulsi Gabbard, Regime Change Critic, In An Awkward Spot

    misryoum.com/us/trending/iran-

    The former Hawaiʻi congresswoman was an outspoken critic of U.S.-led regime change wars. Then she went to work for Trump. Perhaps no other person in President Donald Trump’s cabinet has been more outspoken against war with Iran than his...

    #Iran #War #Puts #Tulsi #Gabbard #Regime #Change #Critic #Awkward #Spot #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  11. Iran War Puts Tulsi Gabbard, Regime Change Critic, In An Awkward Spot

    misryoum.com/us/trending/iran-

    The former Hawaiʻi congresswoman was an outspoken critic of U.S.-led regime change wars. Then she went to work for Trump. Perhaps no other person in President Donald Trump’s cabinet has been more outspoken against war with Iran than his...

    #Iran #War #Puts #Tulsi #Gabbard #Regime #Change #Critic #Awkward #Spot #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  12. Sen. Mark Warner on #FtN:

    "#DNI Sec #Tulsi #Gabbard claimed Prez. T*** directed her to be there (for the raid on the #Atlanta Board of Elections.) How did he EVEN KNOW a search warrant had been issued? Activities of the #FBI are not in his purview." 🤔

  13. 📰🇺🇸 "NSA (National Security Agency red.) wykryła rozmowę telefoniczną między zagranicznym wywiadem a osobą blisko związaną z Trumpem

    Informator twierdzi, że Tulsi Gabbard zablokowała agencji możliwość udostępnienia raportu i przekazała go szefowi sztabu Białego Domu.
    [...]
    Ta niezwykle wrażliwa informacja, która w ostatnim tygodniu wywołała burzę w Waszyngtonie, została przekazana dyrektorowi wywiadu krajowego (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard – jednak zamiast pozwolić urzędnikom NSA na dalsze rozpowszechnianie tych informacji, przekazała ona papierową kopię raportu wywiadowczego bezpośrednio szefowej sztabu prezydenta, Susie Wiles, poinformował adwokat Andrew Bakaj."

    Całość [EN]:
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

    #Trump #wywiad #NSA #DNI #Gabbard USA

  14. Democracy experts believe there is no longer any doubt about Trump’s desire to interfere with this fall’s elections.

    “We should not be waiting for the next shoe to drop,”
    said Wendy Weiser, vice-president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice.
    🆘“There is a full-blown effort to seize control of some of the mechanisms of our elections and to lay the foundation for interfering in upcoming elections.”

    The president has no power over federal elections,
    and the US constitution is not ambiguous on the matter.
    Article I, section 4 of the document gives states the power to run elections.
    Congress, the constitution says, can pass nationwide rules for federal elections.

    Nonetheless, Trump and his allies have suggested the president may still be able to wield some kind of emergency power to take control of the electoral process.
    “The president’s authority is limited in his role with regard to elections except where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States
    – as I think that we can establish with the porous system that we have,”
    #Cleta #Mitchell, a conservative lawyer and Trump ally said on a podcast interview last year.
    ⚠️“Then, I think maybe the president is thinking he will exercise some emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward.”

    Declaring a national emergency unlocks about 150 statutory powers for the president, including things like shutting down radio stations, suspending certain military regulations, and to sanction foreign countries.

    But none of those powers “even come close to giving the president any authority over elections”, Weiser said.
    “The president has zero emergency powers over elections.”

    The concern about the president using emergency powers has only been amplified by the presence of #Tulsi #Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, at the Fulton county raid.
    Gabbard, whose presence as an intelligence official on a domestic matter has caused widespread outrage, is said to be investigating voting equipment and foreign interference.

    Among others, Gabbard is briefing Mitchell and #Kurt #Olsen, another lawyer who was involved in Trump’s effort to overturn the election, on her investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.

    Mitchell declined to comment on those briefings, but said she understood Trump’s comments to be more about the need to change federal voting laws.
    “All of the election statutes need significant revision, updating, and reform. And many of us are working on that,” Mitchell said in an email. “Clearly there are far too many election officials nationwide who treat the law as optional suggestions. And have instituted procedures that are contrary to law. That happened in spades in 2020 and is all too common every election. Sloppy, poor administration and intentional disregard of basic statutory requirements. We see it everywhere.”

    There is no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020 or in any other election.

    The White House press secretary, #Karoline #Leavitt, has framed Trump’s comments similarly.
    Trump subsequently undercut those efforts to downplay his comments,
    criticizing Democratic cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta, saying:
    🔥“If they can’t count the votes legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over.”

    Beyond unspecified actions to take control of state election processes, there are other pathways for Trump to try to interfere in the election process.
    #Steve #Bannon, the influential conservative personality and former Trump strategist, has called for Trump to deploy ICE agents at the polls.
    Such an effort would violate a federal law that prohibits federal troops from being at the polls “unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States”.
    ❌“We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November.
    We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again,”
    Bannon said on his podcast on Tuesday.
    “And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.”

    The Trump administration has already shown its willingness to use emergency powers to try to expand the president’s authority.
    Last spring, the Trump administration invoked the
    💥"Alien Enemies Act",
    an 18th-century law that allows the government to deport immigrants without full due process.

    The United States, the government argued, was subject to an invasion by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
    Federal judges have since blockedthat order and expressed skepticism it is a legitimate invasion.
    Trump has also claimed he has emergency powers to impose tariffs, though the supreme court appears poised to reject that argument.

    Part of the reason Trump is talking about nationalizing elections now may be to try to get the public to accept an idea that is obviously illegal.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

  15. A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by
    Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard
    in a whistleblower complaint
    💥that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.

    The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing,
    behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it,
    with the whistleblower's lawyer alleging a Coverup

    wsj.com/politics/national-secu

  16. For some reason, Director of National Intelligence
    #Tulsi #Gabbard was at the FBI’s raid at an election office in Fulton County, Georgia, Wednesday.

    Gabbard was photographed at the raid while boxes of documents (and ballots) seized by the bureau were being loaded onto trucks.
    Authorities had a search warrant for the raid related to Trump’s long-debunked allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
    👉Gabbard’s job deals with foreign intelligence, so her presence doesn’t seem to make sense.

    Democratic Senator Mark #Warner, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
    issued a statement questioning what exactly she was doing there.

    “There are only two explanations for why the Director of National Intelligence would show up at a
    federal raid
    tied to Donald Trump’s obsession with losing the 2020 election,” Warner said.

    ♦️“Either Director Gabbard believes there was a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus
    —in which case she is in clear violation of her obligation under the law to keep the intelligence committees
    ‘fully and currently informed’ of relevant national security concerns

    —or she is once again demonstrating her utter lack of fitness for office that she holds
    ♦️by injecting the nonpartisan intelligence community she is supposed to be leading
    into a domestic political stunt
    designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.”

    Gabbard may have been there in an attempt to legitimize a conspiracy theory
    popular in right-wing circles
    (and the Trump administration)
    🤣that the Venezuelan government was involved in a plot to overthrow the 2020 election.

    The Justice Department has been investigating the false claim,
    debunked in a Delaware court in 2023,
    since November.

    ❌Is the Trump administration attempting to create a case out of thin air to validate the president’s 2020 election lies?
    newrepublic.com/post/205852/tu

  17. US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has described a Reuters report claiming that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin intends to conquer all of Ukraine and reclaim parts of Europe that once belonged to the former Soviet Union as “lies and propaganda.”

    Source: Gabbard on X (Twitter)

    #gabbard #nationalintelligence #putin #ukraine #eu #usa #fogofwar #reuters

  18. US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has described a Reuters report claiming that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin intends to conquer all of Ukraine and reclaim parts of Europe that once belonged to the former Soviet Union as “lies and propaganda.”

    Source: Gabbard on X (Twitter)

    #gabbard #nationalintelligence #putin #ukraine #eu #usa #fogofwar #reuters

  19. US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has described a Reuters report claiming that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin intends to conquer all of Ukraine and reclaim parts of Europe that once belonged to the former Soviet Union as “lies and propaganda.”

    Source: Gabbard on X (Twitter)

    #gabbard #nationalintelligence #putin #ukraine #eu #usa #fogofwar #reuters

  20. US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has described a Reuters report claiming that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin intends to conquer all of Ukraine and reclaim parts of Europe that once belonged to the former Soviet Union as “lies and propaganda.”

    Source: Gabbard on X (Twitter)

    #gabbard #nationalintelligence #putin #ukraine #eu #usa #fogofwar #reuters

  21. US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has described a Reuters report claiming that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin intends to conquer all of Ukraine and reclaim parts of Europe that once belonged to the former Soviet Union as “lies and propaganda.”

    Source: Gabbard on X (Twitter)

    #gabbard #nationalintelligence #putin #ukraine #eu #usa #fogofwar #reuters

  22. #RussellVought is 'more dangerous' than #Gabbard,#Hegseth: Democratic Senator - Invidious yewtu.be/watch?v=8hahzcrcaE8

    This is from February 2025.

    Whatever else is going on in that crazy country KEEP AN EYE ON RUSSELL VOUGHT , the #Christofascist loonie behind #Project2025.

    He and #StephenMiller are to be watched and STOPPED !!!!

    #USCoup #NaziUSA #ChristofascistUSA

  23. Tulsi Gabbard against unprecedented Obama and ‘Osbournes’ Cultural Impact: Morning Rundown star-news.press/wp

    ,Tulsi Gabbard against unprecedented Obama and 'Osbournes' Cultural Impact: Morning Rundown star-news.press/wp, 2025-07-24 11:03:00 Elizabeth Robinson #Tulsi #Gabbard #unprecedented #Obama #Osbournes #Cultural #Impact #Morning #Rundown

    star-news.press/tulsi-gabbard-

  24. Tulsi #Gabbard è 8ª Direttrice dell'Intelligence Nazionale dal 12 febbraio 2025.

    Le sue dichiarazioni sul #programmanucleareIran sono state rese pubbliche nella sua audizione davanti alla commissione #Intelligence del Senato americano il 30 gennaio 2025. Durante questa udienza, Gabbard ha risposto a domande sul programma #nucleare iraniano e ha espresso la valutazione dell’#intelligence #Usa
    secondo cui l’#Iran non sta attivamente perseguendo un’arma nucleare.

    perplexity.ai/search/e-vero-ch

  25. Tulsi #Gabbard, dirigente dell’intelligence USA, davanti al Senato americano ha dichiarato che l’#Iran non sta attivamente costruendo una bomba atomica. In particolare, Gabbard ha riferito che i servizi di intelligence #USA ritengono che l’Iran non stia perseguendo attivamente un programma di #arminucleari e che la guida suprema Ali #Khamenei non abbia autorizzato il programma dal 2003.
    Fonte: Perplexity
    #programmanucleareIran

  26. #Gabbard placed top adviser inside the #ODNI’s watchdog office, officials say
    
Director of National Intelligence #TulsiGabbard installed one of her top advisors within the office of the #InspectorGeneral of the #intelligence community while it is investigating the March leak of a #Signal chat among top #Trump ofcls about the Houthi bombing campaign, compromising the #watchdog office’s integrity, officials & lawmakers say.

    #law #corruption #Project2025
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  27. Today’s summary (feeling done)

    Other than the colossal #NationalSecurity breach by the whole of #Trump’s #intelligence & #defense cabinet secretaries (yeah…, other than than Mrs. Lincoln how was the play?) today’s news:

    #TheAtlantic / #JeffreyGoldberg releases everything:

    masto.ai/@Nonilex/114229022768

    #Gabbard & #Ratcliffe lied through their teeth in the #House

    masto.ai/@Nonilex/114229262055

  28. Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on #Signal

    The statements by #Hegseth, #Gabbard, #Ratcliffe, and #Trump—combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal texts—have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.

    msn.com/en-us/money/news/here-

    #SignalGate #Trump2.0 #YBIYBI #BlackMastodon

  29. Rep #JimmyGomez, #Democrat CA, asked if #Gabbard or #Ratcliffe had any info as to whether #Defense Sec #PeteHegseth had been drinking the day he texted clearly #classified information on #Signal.
    Gomez’s question resulted in an explosion of feigned indignation from Ratcliffe–accusing Gomez of inappropriate behavior. Gomez replied #Hegseth’s alcohol abuse was a concern to Americans & he’d sworn in his confirmation hearing he’d quit. Yet, Hegseth recently appeared at a podium in Europe w/a drink.

  30. Well done Rep #JoaquinCastro!

    During the #House #Intelligence Cmte hearing, #Castro asked #TulsiGabbard why #Venezuela was not included in the annual #ThreatAssessment Report. Castro cited #Trump’s invocation of the #AlienEnemiesAct to conduct #MassDeportations & Trump’s claim that he could invoke the #AEA because he believes we are at #war with Venezuela. Castro asked #Gabbard that if we are at war with a country how is it possible that they didn’t warrant entry in the assessment.

    #law

  31. "#NationalSecurity advisor has taken full responsibility for this, & the National Security Council is conducting an in-depth review, along w/technical experts working to determine how this reporter was inadvertently added to this chat," #Gabbard testified this morning.

    #TulsiGabbard maintained that #classified info was not shared, but called the conversation "candid & sensitive."
    #law #SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #JDVance #Hegseth #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller

  32. Director of National #Intelligence #TulsiGabbard, #FBI Director #KashPatel & #CIA Director #JohnRatcliffe are testifying before the #House Intelligence Cmte again Wed amid fallout over senior #Trump national officials sharing messages about a #military strike over an unsecured group chat w/ #TheAtlantic’s #JeffreyGoldberg.

    #Gabbard addressed the #Signal fiasco in opening remarks, referring to #Waltz’s previous comments & noting that he has “taken full responsibility.”

    #law #NationalSecurity

  33. Senator #AngusKing, grilled #Gabbard on why #ClimateChange had been excluded for the first time in the #ThreatAssessment report.

    Gabbard again said the only included the highest threats.

    King rattled off the MANY effects of Climate Change that threaten security. Migration, famine, poverty, social & political tensions, etc.

    Then he directly asked if she ordered that climate threats be excluded. She said no.

    The reason 100% is #Trump’s war on “wokeism”

    #NationalSecurity #kakistocracy

  34. Daniel L. Davis is a retired United States Army officer. He was one of the earliest military officers to publicly criticize the War in Afghanistan.
    Davis is a Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities, a Foundation of the Koch brothers.
    Davis was selected by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for appointment as deputy director. On Wednesday, the Jewish Insider magazine ran a story against Davis ; neoconservative radio jock Mark Levin helped spread the Jewish Insider story to his 4.9 million followers; within hours, Davis was informed there would be no job.

    thecradle.co/articles/gabbard- 🧵

    #Koch #isolationism #foreignPolicy #USWars #israelLobby #Gabbard #StandWithIsrael #proZionism #ADL #USPol #USPolitics #JewishInsider #NationalIntelligence #DNI #administration

  35. The last and only remaining nuclear arms deal between the U.S. and Russia
    —the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, otherwise known as New START
    —is set to expire on February 5, 2026.

    The deal capped the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the two nations could deploy, as well as the number of land and water vehicles used to deliver them.

    Legitimate international disarmament would, of course, be a good thing.

    But whether or not Putin would actually follow through on diminishing his nation’s nuclear stockpiles is unclear.

    For decades, Russia has spent millions working to replace and upgrade its strategic and non-strategic nuclear systems.

    As of early 2024, Russia possessed a total of 5,580 nuclear warheads,
    the most of any country in the world, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

    The nonprofit organization argued that the war in Ukraine had drastically depleted Russia’s “conventional forces,” pushing it to deepen its reliance on nuclear weapons for its national defense systems.

    “Russia’s nuclear modernization programs
    —combined with frequent explicit nuclear threats against other countries in the context of its large conventional war in Ukraine
    —contribute to uncertainty about the country’s long-term intentions and have generated a growing international debate about the nature of its nuclear strategy,” read a Bulletin’s column.

    The global security group further argued that the U.S.’s ballistic missile system could stand in the way of Russia’s eventual nuclear disarmament,
    claiming that the missile system “constitutes a real future risk to the credibility of Russia’s retaliatory capability.”

    Some of Trump’s domestic decisions prior to entering the White House were reportedly “thrilling” to Russian mouthpieces.

    #Margarita #Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, mocked American politicians in December for their stupidity while claiming that some of Trump’s more unqualified choices for his cabinet
    —such as one-time DOGE co-chair nominee Vivek #Ramaswamy and director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi #Gabbard
    —are friendly faces that bring the Kremlin “lots of joy.”
    newrepublic.com/post/190605/do

  36. Gabbard reverses course on key intel-gathering tool as nomination teeters

    News: Former Rep. #Tulsi #Gabbard (Hawaii), who is Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence,
    is changing her tune on a key intelligence-gathering authority she once sought to repeal as her Senate confirmation hangs in the balance.
    Gabbard’s past criticisms of #Section702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act have emerged as a central issue in her confirmation process,
    leaving GOP senators — including some in leadership — increasingly skeptical about the former Democrat’s confirmation prospects.

    Section 702 of FISA authorizes the targeted collection of foreign intelligence information from non-U.S. persons located abroad.

    In her first public comments since being nominated, Gabbard told us that she now supports Section 702,
    -- saying the program is “crucial” and “must be safeguarded to protect our nation while ensuring the civil liberties of Americans.”
    “If confirmed as DNI, I will uphold Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights while maintaining vital national security tools like Section 702 to ensure the safety and freedom of the American people,” Gabbard said.

    In private meetings, senators are questioning Gabbard about legislation she introduced in 2020 that would repeal Section 702.

    However, Gabbard now appears to be walking that back, citing Fourth Amendment protections implemented since then to prevent the incidental collection of Americans’ data

    If confirmed as DNI, Gabbard would need to certify the statute annually in order for intelligence collection to continue under the 702 program.

    Next steps:

    Gabbard’s public statement is likely to reassure Republicans who are on the fence about her nomination.

    But there are a handful of other issues that have come up during her meetings with senators,
    including her views on #Ukraine,
    as well as #secret #visits to Syria and Lebanon while serving in Congress.

    There’s also the fact that Gabbard’s foreign policy views are anathema to defense hawks.

    Gabbard isn’t expected to get any Democratic votes,
    so she can’t afford to lose more than a few Republicans.

    Senate GOP leaders were hoping to schedule Gabbard’s confirmation hearing for next week,
    but paperwork-related delays have caused that to slip,
    likely into the following week.

    The Intelligence Committee is instead starting with former Rep. John Ratcliffe’s nomination to serve as CIA director.

    punchbowl.news/article/senate/

  37. I don't know enough about Stefanik to comment on her, but taking the time to meet well-known friend of the Butcher of Damascus and agent of the Russian Despot, gives the fascist scum an appearance of legitimacy that they absolutely do not deserve.

    Fetterman is enabling fascists.

    #Tulsi #TulsiGabbard #Gabbard #Stein #SamStein #FascistEnablers #uspol #uspolitics #Confirmation #resistance #FascistTakover