Tulsi Gabbard has national security 'experts' worried: 'DNI has access to every single secret'



There is a pattern developing with regard to President-elect Donald Trump's recent nominations: He announces someone apparently well suited to executing the agenda he successfully campaigned on; those with vested interests in the status quo panic; and establishmentarians viciously attack the nominees, pleading with nominal Republicans in the U.S. Senate to prevent their confirmation.

This pattern has been repeated for multiple picks, including former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Although virtually all of Trump's nominations have ruffled feathers, his choice of Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the director of national intelligence appears to have inspired a special kind of unease among Democratic lawmakers, the liberal media, and elements of the intelligence community.

The media

The Atlantic's Tom Nichols rushed to characterize Gabbard's nomination as a "national security risk," complaining that she previously suggested NATO might have had something to do with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and that Syria did not pose a direct threat to the United States.

"Gabbard is a classic case of 'horseshoe' politics," Nichols warned. "Her views can seem both extremely left and extremely right, which is probably why people such as Tucker Carlson — a conservative who has turned into … whatever pro-Russia right-wingers are called now — have taken a liking to the former Democrat (who was previously a Republican and is now again a member of the GOP)."

The Washington Examiner's Tom Rogan suggested that by nominating Gabbard, Trump — who was kneecapped in his first term by a malignant counterintelligence investigation and whose 2020 political adversary was given narrative cover prior to the election by CIA contractors and intelligence community alumni — "is putting his distrust of the intelligence community before the critical interests of national security."

After trotting out the Syria and Russia-themed attacks against Gabbard, then insinuating that she is a sympathizer with the communist Chinese regime, Rogan warned that if confirmed, she would supervise "all U.S. intelligence agencies' collection, analysis, and mission efforts and the production and dissemination of the U.S. government's most sensitive intelligence reporting and analysis. This includes knowledge of spies buried deep inside foreign governments and terrorist organizations."

'This appointment is sending shock waves here in the United States.'

Bill Kristol quoted Jonathan Last, editor of the neocon blog the Bulwark, as writing, "Making Gabbard DNI simply makes no sense. ... Or rather, it makes no sense for America. For Russia, DNI Gabbard makes all the sense in the world."

Last appeared particularly upset over Gabbard's opposition to fruitless foreign entanglements and ineffectual U.S. sanctions.

Dems and spooks spooked

"This appointment is sending shock waves here in the United States but also around the globe," John Brennan, former director of the CIA and chief counterterrorism adviser to former President Barack Obama, said in conversation with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.

Brennan, one of the signatories of the infamous Hunter Biden "intel" letter, likened the 18 intelligence agencies that Gabbard would oversee to an orchestra, suggesting that she likely doesn't even know what instruments are being played.

Former Bush adviser John Bolton, a key proponent of America's disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq, suggested to NewsNation's "The Hill" that with Trump's "announcement of Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence, he's sending a signal that we have lost our mind when it comes to collecting intelligence."

One former senior intelligence official who spoke under the condition of anonymity told Politico that the choice was a "left turn and off the bridge."

Another intelligence official warned that America's allies, including Israel, might withhold information from Washington if Gabbard were the DNI, adding, "What some allies share may now be shaped by political goals rather than professional intelligence sharing."

An unnamed "Western security source" similarly suggested to Reuters that Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand may be less forthcoming about the intelligence they collect, stressing that foreign nations believe Trump's appointments all lean in the "wrong direction."

Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger (Va.), a former CIA officer who now warms a chair on the House Intelligence Committee, suggested on X that Gabbard, who served in Iraq and Kuwait, would be an oath-breaker.

"The men and women of the U.S. Intelligence community honor their oaths by collecting the vital intelligence that keeps our fellow Americans safe. The global threats we face require a Director of National Intelligence who would do the same. Tulsi Gabbard is not that person," wrote Spanberger.

The former spook, echoing Nichols, appears to have unwittingly highlighted what has the establishment panicking, telling The Hill, "The DNI has access to every single secret that the United States has, every single bit of information that we know. … It's the keys to the intelligence community kingdom."

Larry Pfeiffer, former chief of staff at the CIA under the Bush administration, told The Hill, "Some of the statements she has made through the years that sound like they came right out of the Kremlin's talking points paper are a little bit alarming. Her cozying up to Bashar al-Assad and being an apologist for him as well just raise questions in my mind. Is that really the best person to put in charge of this very complicated, very sensitive operation that is the U.S. intel community?"

Jamil Jaffer, a former House Intelligence Committee staffer and national security prosecutor, told The Hill, "What is unusual here is you've got somebody who's had such a long and vociferous track record of saying things that are factually incorrect, that seem to give aid and comfort to U.S. adversaries and that undermine the very people they should be representing at the principals committee."

As with Hegseth and Gaetz's critics, those denouncing Gabbard appear to be exponents of the very worldview and policy conventions that Trump was effectively elected to obliterate.

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Stock market CRASH: What does Warren Buffett know that we don't??



Americans woke up on Monday morning to a stock market plunge after a bad day on Friday. The Dow plummeted hundreds of points, Warren Buffett is selling stocks like crazy, and to top it all off, Japan’s stock market had its worst day since 1987’s Black Monday.

Glenn Beck is understandably worried.

“Friday, we had a bad jobs report. We’re still not in a recession; indicators are showing that we’re headed towards one, but the indicators have been wrong before. We are headed towards one; we’re headed for a depression at some point,” Glenn Beck warns.

Glenn is concerned about what this might mean for ordinary Americans and the United States economy and consults financial expert Carol Roth for some advice.

Roth explains that while the Fed did not lower rates, it might be on the table in September.

“Normally, you would say, ‘Okay, the market wants the Fed to cut rates,’ but what happened is then we got a weak job report on Friday, and while sometimes the bad news can be good news for the market, in this case, they took it as bad news,” Roth tells Glenn.

“The Fed was behind the curve in terms of lowering rates,” Roth continues. “They felt like maybe this whole idea of a quote ‘soft landing,’ the idea that you can get the inflation down without wrecking the economy, is off the table.”

However, while it doesn’t look good, Roth says that “if there is any silver lining here,” it’s that the market did not open back up and continue to fall.

But there are still major indicators that something strange is going on, and one of them is Warren Buffett’s recent behavior.

“Another catalyst that we’ve seen is Warren Buffett,” Roth says. “He had lessened his position in Apple by about 49%.”

“That’s not lessening. That’s cutting it in half,” Glenn says. “He’s making some of the biggest sales he’s ever made. It’s almost as if he’s becoming bullish on America. What does he know that we don’t know?”

“Starting in 2019, he doubled down on Japan. So he has five really big companies and really big positions in Japan. So the day that we’re talking about Japan going down and at the same time the U.S. is going down,” Roth says. “It is interesting.”


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Secret Service scandal: MORE shocking security failures exposed by expert



In less than a week, analysis of the near-assassination of Donald Trump has exposed a number of failures on the part of the Secret Service team that was assigned to secure the rally and protect the former president from danger.

Glenn Beck’s head researcher and writer Jason Buttrill, who’s also a former Department of Defense intelligence analyst and one who’s “[worked] side by side with the Secret Service,” sheds light on the glaring holes in the failed protective operation.

Secret Service SCANDAL: Shocking Security Failures EXPOSED by Expertyoutu.be

“It should be almost impossible to pull off what happened on Saturday,” Jason tells Glenn.

Per standard protocol, “Secret Service [goes] out weeks in advance” in order to “set up a multi-tiered security plan.” Part of that plan involves fully vetting the first three tiers of people in front of where the protectee stands.

“They also identify further out threats,” says Jason. “They identify ... potential sniper positions going all the way to a thousand yards.”

Thomas Matthew Crooks fired, however, from “130 yards” out – a position Jason assures “would have been identified” prior to the rally.

Further, for each potential sniper position, “They would have local law enforcement guarding those areas to make sure no one would gain access.”

“There’s multiple questions here that need to be asked,” says Jason.

“Knowing this entire complex plan, did the Secret Service designate those sniper positions?”

Assuming they did secure potential sniper positions, “Did law enforcement adequately man those positions?”

To that question, Jason says, “It does not appear so on the videos that we've seen,” adding that it was “tailgaters” who spotted the shooter and informed law enforcement of his whereabouts.

Glenn then brings up the fact that the Secret Service team in charge at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally has repeatedly stated that the roof from where the shooter fired “wasn't part of the secure perimeter.”

“To say as an excuse that it was outside the secured perimeter is absolutely ridiculous,” says Jason, adding that he’s personally witnessed the extreme lengths Secret Service will go to to ensure protection.

But there’s one more question that begs answering — a question Jason says is “the scariest.”

“Was there help given to the shooter?”

Jason isn’t the first to ask this question. Dallas Alexander, the world record holder for the longest confirmed sniper kill, has actually openly stated his belief that this was an “inside job.”

“Do you believe that is a realistic possibility?” Glenn asks Jason.

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Rep. Burchett gives 'Democratic operative' a much-needed burn and requests a grilling for Blinken



This week, Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (R) voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress and demanded an investigation into the former intelligence officials who misled the nation with an election-influencing letter about the Hunter Biden laptop in October 2020.

The Tennessee congressman also exercised his comedic muscles.

On Monday, a supporter online claiming Burchett's "humor is a national treasure" vowed to protect the congressman from the Ukrainian watch list of persons with apparently verboten opinions.

Burchett recently joined Blaze Media and other American individuals and entities on a Biden State Department-linked publication's list of Americans who have expressed apparently verboten views about American aid for Ukraine.

Burchett's initial response — "And what about my wit, charm, intellect and boyish good looks?" — did not go over well with one X user, who called the congressman a "traitor" to his state and to America.

The congressman wrote back, "Your sweet words melt on my heart like butter and honey on a warm biscuit and leave an indelible mark on the digestive tract of my heart."

Burchett evidently did not meet his quota for weekly bants with this brief online interaction.

Burchett shared a video to X Wednesday, wherein he can be seen walking past a young man in khaki shorts while on his way to ostensibly attend to his duties in the Capitol.

"Representative, will you commit to opposing a nationwide abortion ban?" asked the young man, identified by Burchett as a "paid Democrat operative" who daily "tries to trip me up."

Without missing a beat, Burchett responded, "Will you commit to putting some sunscreen on those legs? Man, I gotta wear welding goggles out here, they're so white."

— (@)

The former Knoxville mayor also publicly admitted to giving one of his customary monologues on video only to realize he had forgotten to hit record. When a commenter suggested the Republican "pulled a Biden," Burchett provided a note of clarification: "Except I know where the soft serve ice cream machine is in the Whitehouse (sic)."

Burchett did not, however, appear to be kidding when he asked House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) in a letter Tuesday to launch an immediate investigation into Secretary of State Antony Blinken and "certain former intelligence officials for interfering in the 2020 presidential election."

James Clapper, Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta, and various other former intelligence officials active in the Obama years penned an open letter on Oct. 19, suggesting that the New York Post's report on Hunter Biden's incriminating laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

The 51 signatories allowed Politico, other media outlets, and then-candidate Joe Biden to infer from their letter that the Post's story was untrue and "consistent with some of the key methods Russia has used in its now multi-year operation to interfere in our democracy."

The signatories of this election-influencing letter have proven unrepentant, even when confronted on multiple occasions with the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop and the accuracy of the Post's report.

In his letter, Burchett zeroed in on particulars in the Post's report, specifically that the laptop "contained emails suggesting [Hunter Biden] was attempting to provide Ukrainian energy officials access to meet then-Vice President Joseph R. Biden."

Extra to noting the veracity of the laptop, which helped get Hunter Biden convicted this week, Burchett referenced former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell's testimony implicating Blinken as having "played a role in the inception" of the intelligence officials' letter.

Morell told Congress that Blinken contacted him after encountering the damning Oct. 14, 2020, Post article, and that as a result of this exchange, he began drafting the letter with the aim to get it out before the Oct. 22 presidential debate, in which Biden used the statement to great effect.

"These findings suggest the Biden campaign conspired with former intelligence officials to mislead the American public and influence the 2020 presidential election," wrote Burchett.

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Hunter Biden's laptop got him convicted. Intel officials who called it Russian disinfo remain unapologetic.



Hunter Biden was convicted today in part owing to the verified contents of his laptop, which the New York Post reported on before the 2020 election.

A cabal of former U.S. intelligence officials released an open letter on Oct. 19, 2020, regarding the Post's Oct. 14 report about the discovery and damning contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, which the FBI had "verified" one year earlier.

Among the 51 signatories of the letter were:

  • James Clapper, former director of national intelligence under Democratic President Barack Obama;
  • Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA under Obama;
  • Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense under Obama and CIA director;
  • John Brennan, former CIA director under Obama;
  • Glenn S. Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency;
  • Richard H. Ledgett Jr., former deputy director of the NSA;
  • Jeremy Bash, the former chief of staff both of the CIA and the Department of Defense; and
  • Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA.

Their letter asserted that the Hunter Biden laptop story was likely a thing of Slavic fantasy — that the story had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

While Clapper, Brennan, and the other 49 so-called experts were willing to admit in the letter to both not knowing whether the Hunter Biden emails provided to the New York Post were "genuine" and having no "evidence of Russian involvement," they nevertheless suggested a "laptop op" designed "to discredit Biden ... would be consistent with some of the key methods Russia has used in its now multi-year operation to interfere in our democracy."

The letter was framed thusly by Politico and left uncorrected by the signatories: "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say."

According to the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, then-senior Biden campaign adviser and now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken got the ball rolling on this misleading and election-influencing letter. The letter was allegedly drafted with the aim of setting the narrative before the Oct. 22, 2020, presidential debate, wherein Biden ultimately used it to great effect. Blinken later denied conceiving of or soliciting signatures for the letter.

Even though the story was undermined by the letter and censored online, the laptop was real all along, and its contents — like those of Ashley Biden's troubling diary — were as authentic as they were incriminating. FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen made this especially clear in court last week.

'51 intelligence agents, that phony story. Remember?'

Former President Donald Trump recently suggested that the 51 officials who leveraged their perceived credibility and former status to shield Biden from the truth may soon face a comeuppance.

Trump was recently discussing false narratives spread by the Biden camp and broached the subject of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

"51 intelligence agents, that phony story. Remember? 'The laptop from Russia,' they said. And they should be prosecuted for what they did, okay?" said Trump. "Let's see what happens.

Ahead of Hunter Biden's criminal conviction, Fox News Digital reached out to the signatories of the October 2020 letter, asking whether they regretting misleading the nation. While some of the election-swaying former officials flatly say no, as in the case of Clapper, others doubled down.

Mark S. Zaid, an attorney representing Ronald Marks, Marc Polymeropoulos, Douglas Wise, Paul Kolbe, John Sipher, Emile Nakhleh, and Gerald O’Shea, suggested the letter was important and signing it was "patriotic."

Zaid even suggested that criticism of the letter amounted to disinformation but did not go so far as to pin blame on Russia.

"There continues to be by many a calculated or woefully ignorant interpretation of the October 2020 letter signed by fifty-one former intelligence officials concerning Hunter Biden's laptop," Zaid told Fox.

"A careful and objective reading of the document reflects that even today its content is accurate. It served as nothing more than a warning letter of what we have known for decades: certain foreign governments — including Russia — continue to try and actively interfere in our domestic affairs and our guard must remain vigilant. Every patriotic American should have signed that letter," added Zaid.

Signatory Greg Treverton, former chair of the National Intelligence Council, said, "What we said was true, we were inferring from our experience, and it did look like a Russian operation. We didn't, and couldn't of course say it was a Russian operation. Enough said."

Michael Hayden, who intimated late last year that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Al.) should be removed from the human race, simply hung up the phone and dodged subsequent requests for comment.

The Post noted that Panetta defended the letter in July 2023, saying he had no regrets about signing it.

"I signed that letter for one reason, which was to make the American people aware that the Russians deliberately were engaged in a disinformation campaign in the United States and trying to impact on our election and trying to impact on our ability to have free and fair elections," Panetta told CNN.

Concerning the letter's additional spin in Politico, Zaid told the Post, "With respect to the Politico story, had I been representing my clients at the time I would have certainly asked for them to modify their headline as it is too categorically and broadly asserted a conclusion that the letter did not."

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CIA confirms contractor in damning footage was employed by agency but denies his claims about the agency's approach to Trump



James O'Keefe released hidden camera footage Wednesday of an undercover journalist's troubling conversations with a Central Intelligence Agency contractor. The unsuspecting interviewee, Amjad Fseisi, claimed that while former President Donald Trump was in office, the CIA leadership "kept information from him because we knew he'd f***ing disclose it," thereby leaving the democratically elected leader in the dark.

A CIA spokeswoman confirmed to O'Keefe that Fseisi, listed on his now-scrubbed LinkedIn page as a Virginia-based manager at Deloitte, formerly worked for the agency but called his allegations "ridiculous."

The interviewee

O'Keefe introduced Fseisi as "a senior intelligence officer with a top-secret / sensitive compartmentalized information clearance," suggesting he "has worked at the CIA for over a decade, and his knowledge and his position and access show he has a high-level awareness about the agency, its current culture, and how it has been corrupted by bureaucratic politics and how it has over the years and continues to use its powers to weaponize the CIA to spy on President Trump."

While O'Keefe initially indicated the CIA contractor served as a project manager in cyber operations, the investigative journalist has since issued a correction noting that Fseisi was, as he identified himself in the video, a program manager at the agency with its China Mission Center.

"I work for the CIA," Fseisi tells the unnamed citizen journalist on camera, indicating he has done so since 2008. "I do cyber operations. I've been doing it for a long time."

At one point he brags about being "fully vetted" and having received TS SCI.

"I help the mission center," continued the contractor. "Across the entire enterprise."

Fseisi explained that he presently works for Deloitte "but based out of the CIA" and that he previously worked for Lockheed Martin, for Northrop Grumman, and for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

After showing the undercover journalist what appears to be his green badge with a photo he indicates was taken in 2013, Fseisi says, "Okay, I'm getting a little nervous now."

Chelsea Robinson, a spokeswoman for the agency, told the O'Keefe Media Group that the "individual making these allegations is a former contractor who does not represent CIA."

O'Keefe has since seized upon the agency's indication that Fseisi no longer works for the CIA, noting that in the video taken last week, Fseisi "waves his intelligence community green badge."

The investigative journalist intimated that if Fseisi is a former contractor, then his termination must hake taken place in the past several days, quoting the former deputy director of national intelligence as saying, "An individual possessing a contractor Green badge is only allowed to lawfully possess it while official [sic] employed as a contractor to the intelligence community. Upon any termination, credentials are returned to the home agency and destroyed immediately."

The interview

The journalist says to Fseisi, "You've said that Mike Pompeo was working with the heads of the other intel agencies."

Fseisi interrupts, "That's correct."

"To withhold information from Trump," continues the journalist.

Following a video edit, Fseisi appears to answer, "His predecessor, Gina Haspel, did."

When asked whether former CIA Director Gina Haspel withheld information from Trump, Fseisi responds, "And I believe Mike Pompeo did the same thing too."

The ex-CIA contractor alleged that Trump would routinely call Russian President Vladimir Putin and provide him with intelligence. When asked why he would allegedly do so, Fseisi said, "He's a f***ing moron."

In a video ostensibly taken on another occasion, the journalist presses the issue, asking Fseisi, "So the agencies all kind of, like, all got together and said, we're not going to tell Trump."

"The higher-ups," answered Fseisi. "Put it this way: the executive staff. We're talking about the director and his subordinates."

"We kept information from him because we knew he would f***ing disclose it," says Fseisi. "There are certain people that would give him a high-level overview but never give him any details. Do you know why? Because he'd leak those details."

This is not the first time that a person with insider knowledge of the CIA has indicated the agency kept secrets from the nation's lawfully and democratically elected leader.

Douglas London, who served as a top CIA conterterrorism official during the Trump administration, told the New York Times in 2022, "We certainly took into account 'what damage could he do if he blurts this out?'"

The Times suggested that in one instance early in his presidency, Trump informed Russian officials of an Islamic State terror plot brought to Washington's attention by Israel. This transparency greatly angered the intelligence community.

Former CIA Director John Brennan suggested in March that upon Trump securing the Republican nomination, the CIA and other intelligence agencies would likely go back to keeping him in the dark.

"Now, I'm pretty certain that my former intelligence colleagues will provide briefings that are not going to do any type of damage to sources and methods in terms of providing information to Donald Trump that he could misuse," Brennan told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. "I think it's going to be analysis that will be devoid of the sources and methods, the sensitive things that we are most concerned about, the types of things that were in all those documents that he had in the bathroom and all those areas in Mar-a-Lago."

Brennan was among the intel alumni that signed the misleading Hunter Biden "intel" letter that impacted the 2020 election. The letter, which appears to have been the product of an initiative driven by then-senior Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken, suggested the Hunter Biden laptop story had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

Fseisi not only suggested that high-ranking CIA officials would keep the president in the dark but that they keep him under constant surveillance.

"We have human intelligence and we also have people that monitor [Trump's] ex-wife," said Fseisi. "He likes to use burner phones."

When asked whether the intelligence community was still spying on Trump, Fseisi answered, "We monitor everything. ... Nothing goes by without somebody watching."

Although Fseisi suggested the intelligence community largely despised Trump and thought he was the "biggest f***ing idiot," he noted there were a few holdouts who "really do love him inside." Fseisi suggested those few company men who liked their president were "rednecks who live out in the middle of nowhere, in the sticks."

Extra to intimating that the intelligence agencies don't trust Trump over fears he may exercise more of the powers granted him by the American people, Fseisi suggested the intelligence agencies don't trust each other.

When asked whether the CIA works with the NSA, he said, "No, because they're very territorial. ... They don't like sharing information."

Fseisi clams up

O'Keefe followed up with Fseisi, noting, "Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi did some reporting on the information that was withheld from Trump. It's actually a crime for the director of the CIA to withhold information from Trump."

"It's not — I have no idea," said Fseisi. "Everything I said is unbeknownst to me. I don't know. I have no intel. I have no knowledge."

Confronted with a series of his own quotes, Fseisi can be seen in the video throwing up his hands, then stating, "I can have an opinion, but I don't know."

O'Keefe later noted that Fseisi's sudden caution may have been the result of his realization that "he could be held liable for violating internal agency provisions and federal laws like the Executive Agency ethics provisions, which restrict what he may share with others outside of his contracted-to agency."

CIA spokeswoman Chelsea Robinson said, "These claims about CIA are absolutely false and ridiculous. CIA is a resolutely apolitical institution that provides intelligence support to policymakers including the president of the United States, irrespective of who occupies the office."

"We are a foreign intelligence-focused agency and do not monitor the former president," added Robinson.

Citing "multiple credible sources" close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigation, Shellenberger, Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag reported in February that the CIA illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to spy on Trump advisors prior to the 2016 election.

According to the sources, then-President Barack Obama's CIA Director John Brennan identified 26 of Trump's associates as targets for members of the "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance to "'bump,' or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation."

In response to O'Keefe's video, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) requested that the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government open a formal investigation into the "concerning actions allegedly perpetrated by the intelligence community against President Trump."

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) similarly indicated he would be requesting an investigation.

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Biden DHS touts Russiagate hoaxers as members of new intelligence 'experts group'



Peddling false narratives that benefit President Joe Biden appears to be a smart career move in the nation's capital.

Congressional investigators indicated in May that ahead of the 2020 presidential election, a senior Biden campaign adviser got the ball rolling on the bogus "intel" letter that sought to discredit the New York Post's damning Hunter Biden laptop story. That adviser, Antony Blinken, ended up becoming secretary of state.

On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that several ex-Obama officials, including signatories of the notorious "intel" letter and exponents of the debunked Russian collusion narrative, would be joining the DHS' new Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.

In a statement, the DHS indicated the group, which will meet four times a year, "is comprised of private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government's intelligence enterprise to DHS's [Intelligence and Analysis] and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator."

"The security of the American people depends on our capacity to collect, generate, and disseminate actionable intelligence to our federal, state, local, territorial, tribal, campus, and private sector partners," said Mayorakas, who has failed to prevent over 5.8 million illegal aliens from stealing into the U.S. since Biden took office.

"I express my deep gratitude to these distinguished individuals for dedicating their exceptional expertise, experience, and vision to our critical mission," added Mayorkas.

Among the group's 17 members, three signed the Oct. 19, 2020, letter claiming that "the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden's son Hunter ... has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

Those signatories are John Brennan, former director of the CIA and chief counterterrorism adviser to former President Barack Obama; James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence under Obama; and Paul Kolbe, former senior operations officer at the CIA.

Then-candidate Joe Biden used the letter to great effect, referencing it in the final presidential debate with former President Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, saying, "Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani."

FEC records reportedly indicated that Clapper and Kolbe also donated to Biden's 2020 campaign.

Brennan and Clapper worked particularly hard for years to paint former President Donald Trump as a Russian asset and his administration as compromised by Russia — corrosive claims that the Mueller and Durham reports demonstrated to have been false.

For instance, Clapper, who became a fixture on CNN as a national security analyst, told the liberal network in December 2017 that Russian President Vladimir Putin "knows how to handle an asset, and that's what he's doing with" Trump.

Brennan was a particularly vociferous proponent of the Russia hoax, even though he admitted behind closed doors to know better.

He penned an Aug. 16, 2018, New York Times opinion piece, stressing, "Mr. Trump’s claims of no collusion are, in a word, hogwash. The only questions that remain are whether the collusion that took place constituted criminally liable conspiracy, whether obstruction of justice occurred to cover up any collusion or conspiracy, and how many members of 'Trump Incorporated' attempted to defraud the government by laundering and concealing the movement of money into their pockets."

Even when confronted with the prospect that he had been wrong for years, in August 2020, Brennan nevertheless interpreted the Mueller report to show "collusion between the Trump Campaign & the Russians."

Special counsel John Durham later revealed Brennan's public statements concerning the Russia hoax conflicted with testimony he gave on the matter as part of the investigation, reported Just the News.

Other members of the DHS' so-called expert group include:

  • Rajesh De, who served as White House staff secretary and general counsel of the U.S. National Security Agency in the Obama administration;
  • Tashina Gauhar, a former Department of Justice attorney who was reportedly deeply involved in the applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that were used to spy on the Trump campaign and has been accused of sitting on failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's emails with Andrew McCabe;
  • David Kris, nominated by Obama for assistant attorney general in charge of the DOJ's National Security Division — a post he held from 2009 to 2011; and
  • Francis Taylor, another Obama nominee who served as under secretary of homeland security for Intelligence and Analysis at the DHS from 2014 to 2017.

Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Ken Wainstein claimed, "The Experts Group will be an invaluable asset as we navigate through this evolving threat and operating environment and continue to strengthen our efforts to protect the Homeland."

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