EXCLUSIVE: Trump Has No Problem Seeing Comey, Brennan Behind Bars For Russiagate Hoax
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Has No Problem Seeing Comey, Brennan Behind Bars For Russiagate Hoax
‘Undercover’ Spy At Center Of WSJ Sob Story Is Actually A Public CIA Russia Hoaxer
The hit piece blasting Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard for outing omnipresent CIA agent Julia Gurganus is filled with falsities.The deep state is no longer deniable — thanks to Tulsi Gabbard
The term “deep state” has long been dismissed as the province of cranks and conspiracists. But the recent declassification of two critical documents — the Durham annex, released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and a report publicized by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — has rendered further denial untenable.
These documents lay bare the structure and function of a bureaucratic, semi-autonomous network of agencies, contractors, nonprofits, and media entities that together constitute a parallel government operating alongside — and at times in opposition to — the duly elected one.
The ‘deep state’ is a self-reinforcing institutional machine — a decentralized, global bureaucracy whose members share ideological alignment.
The disclosures do not merely recount past abuses; they offer a schematic of how modern influence operations are conceived, coordinated, and deployed across domestic and international domains.
What they reveal is not a rogue element operating in secret, but a systematized apparatus capable of shaping elections, suppressing dissent, and laundering narratives through a transnational network of intelligence, academia, media, and philanthropic institutions.
Narrative engineering from the top
According to Gabbard’s report, a pivotal moment occurred on December 9, 2016, when the Obama White House convened its national security leadership in the Situation Room. Attendees included CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of State John Kerry, and others.
During this meeting, the consensus view up to that point — that Russia had not manipulated the election outcome — was subordinated to new instructions.
The record states plainly: The intelligence community was directed to prepare an assessment “per the President’s request” that would frame Russia as the aggressor and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as its preferred candidate. Notably absent was any claim that new intelligence had emerged. The motivation was political, not evidentiary.
This maneuver became the foundation for the now-discredited 2017 intelligence community assessment on Russian election interference. From that point on, U.S. intelligence agencies became not neutral evaluators of fact but active participants in constructing a public narrative designed to delegitimize the incoming administration.
Institutional and media coordination
The ODNI report and the Durham annex jointly describe a feedback loop in which intelligence is laundered through think tanks and nongovernmental organizations, then cited by media outlets as “independent verification.” At the center of this loop are agencies like the CIA, FBI, and ODNI; law firms such as Perkins Coie; and NGOs such as the Open Society Foundations.
According to the Durham annex, think tanks including the Atlantic Council, the Carnegie Endowment, and the Center for a New American Security were allegedly informed of Clinton’s 2016 plan to link Trump to Russia. These institutions, operating under the veneer of academic independence, helped diffuse the narrative into public discourse.
Media coordination was not incidental. On the very day of the aforementioned White House meeting, the Washington Postpublished a front-page article headlined “Obama Orders Review of Russian Hacking During Presidential Campaign” — a story that mirrored the internal shift in official narrative. The article marked the beginning of a coordinated media campaign that would amplify the Trump-Russia collusion narrative throughout the transition period.
Surveillance and suppression
Surveillance, once limited to foreign intelligence operations, was turned inward through the abuse of FISA warrants. The Steele dossier — funded by the Clinton campaign via Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS — served as the basis for wiretaps on Trump affiliates, despite being unverified and partially discredited. The FBI even altered emails to facilitate the warrants.
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This capacity for internal subversion reappeared in 2020, when 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter labeling the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation.” According to polling, 79% of Americans believed truthful coverage of the laptop could have altered the election. The suppression of that story — now confirmed as authentic — was election interference, pure and simple.
A machine, not a ‘conspiracy theory’
The deep state is a self-reinforcing institutional machine — a decentralized, global bureaucracy whose members share ideological alignment and strategic goals.
Each node — law firms, think tanks, newsrooms, federal agencies — operates with plausible deniability. But taken together, they form a matrix of influence capable of undermining electoral legitimacy and redirecting national policy without democratic input.
The ODNI report and the Durham annex mark the first crack in the firewall shielding this machine. They expose more than a political scandal buried in the past. They lay bare a living system of elite coordination — one that demands exposure, confrontation, and ultimately dismantling.
Glenn Beck warns of looming lawlessness amid Schiff leak bombshell
Earlier this week John Solomon, founder of Just the News, reported a story alleging that a Democratic whistleblower, a career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, informed the FBI that then-Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) approved leaking classified information to smear and indict President Donald Trump during the Russiagate controversy.
The documents, described as "unethical," "illegal," and "treasonous,” claim the whistleblower attended a meeting where Schiff greenlit the leaks. Although the whistleblower reportedly relayed these concerns to the FBI multiple times between 2017 and 2023, the Justice Department declined to prosecute, citing Schiff's protection under the Constitution’s speech and debate clause.
Glenn Beck calls Schiff a “dirt bag” for exploiting this clause, which protects members of Congress from being sued or prosecuted for things they say or do on the floor of the House or Senate as part of their official duties.
“He is leaking this information, but he's leaking it on the floor of the House, and that way he can say, ‘I'm covered by the Constitution,’’’ criticizes Glenn.
The report also revealed that “some of the DOJ officials who declined to prosecute a rash of classified leaks during the Russiagate affair remain employed and in positions of power.”
“This thing is so deep and so nasty,” says Glenn, warning that if Schiff and other Russiagate accomplices aren’t prosecuted, a dangerous precedent will be set.
He warns that even Democrats who revel in attacks on President Trump should consider what could happen to one of their people if Republicans see the lack of accountability and say, “Oh, well, you're going to play that way? Well, we can do that, too.”
“The left is now moving towards no rule of law,” says Glenn Beck, citing Beto O’Rourke’s recent remark, “F**k the rules, we’re gonna win whatever it takes,” about Texas Democrats who fled to block a GOP redistricting plan.
“That's [Democrats’] message to people. That's not good,” he says.
To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the video above.
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No politics, just truth: What fuels Tulsi Gabbard’s MAGA stardom despite her leftist voting record
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has become something of a superstar in the Trump administration. She’s bringing the accountability the American people have been begging for.
Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker recently met with some of Gabbard’s personal staff, and they confirmed what the country is beginning to realize on its own: She’s the real deal.
“They're gushing about how resolute she is. The amazement in their faces when they talk about her — you never see that from anybody else … whether you're talking to the staff members of a congressman or you're talking about somebody that works at the FBI or works for one of the other agencies,” he tells Jill Savage and Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson, hosts of “Blaze News: The Mandate.”
After the “document dump of all the Russiagate information,” which was spearheaded by Gabbard and the DNI, “there are whistleblowers that are saying, ‘I want to go directly to Gabbard because I actually believe and trust her,”’ says Jill.
The work Gabbard is doing — diving into scandals like Russiagate, election fraud, and politically motivated leaks within the intelligence community — is critical, says Peterson, because “we need to know exactly how many people in Washington, D.C., are assets, either formally or effectively, of some part of our government or other governments.”
“The problem isn't just that the Trump administration doesn't select the right people. There aren't right people in that apparatus. You put a few right people in there, and they're in the middle of the darkness; they're in the middle of thousands of people who are actually just working for that apparatus,” he explains. “So someone like Tulsi comes in with courage, and then all of a sudden you are going to have whistleblowers coming to her because she just doesn't care. She's actually trying to do the job.”
That desire to courageously seek the truth — not MAGA politics — is what makes Gabbard so excellent at her job, says Baker, reminding the panel that Gabbard was “left of Hillary … left of Joe Biden in her voting record.”
“The way that her team explains that to me is that the politics don't exist in her job. She — and this is their words — doesn't care which way the truth goes. She's just intent on getting the information out to the American people, and whatever it reveals, it reveals,” he says.
“I don't know philosophically if I'm on the same team with Tulsi, but I want to be the same type of person in my job and in my investigative journalism. … I don't care where the truth takes me at the end of the day.”
To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.
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