Allison Gill is an ally of the Lawfare network and recently sat down for an interview with NSA whistleblower attorney Andrew Bakaj; the same attorney used by former CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella.
This interview appears to be taking place after Bakaj revised his statements to The Guardian forcing them to rewrite the central claim of the leak he provided. The Guardian rewrote their article removing the key claim within the intelligence intercept that a foreign intelligence person was in contact with a person close to President Donald Trump.
The revision now states:
[…] “The Guardian reported earlier on Saturday that the phone conversation was between a person associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump, based on Bakaj’s recollection of the complaint, which he confirmed over multiple calls. However, after publication, Bakaj said he misspoke.
He clarified his understanding of the complaint in a statement: “The NSA picked up a phone call between two members of foreign intelligence involving someone close to the Trump White House,” he said. “The NSA does not monitor individuals without a reason.” {citation}
This is not a small “revision,” it is essentially a rewrite of the central component to the whistleblower complaint. As it is now clarified two foreign people were intercepted talking about a person who knows Donald Trump. This could be any two foreign people gossiping or talking about anyone who is in the orbit of Donald Trump. That explains why intelligence analysts reviewed the NSA intercept, disregarded it and said it is hearsay likely just ‘gossip” according to New York Times reporting.
However, that said, Andrew Bakaj then appears on a podcast with Allison Gill during their effort to put traction to the claims, and Bakaj repeats the false statement. See video at 7:45:
…”So, in the spring of last year there was intelligence that was gathered by an agency that captured, um, activity that was being conducted by someone close to the President.”…
This is the same lie the whistleblower’s attorney Andrew Bakaj told The Guardian; that someone close to the president was a participant in the “activity.” This is demonstrably false through all other reporting.
The complaint alleges two foreign individuals were intercepted talking to each other about a person who Bakaj defines as close to the president, on the subject of Iran.
It could simply be two Germans or Israelis talking about Iran and wondering what Devin Nunes thinks about it.
The entire predicate claim is silly. Foreign officials and foreign intelligence officials talk to each other all the time about Trump and or his people.
This complaint is a fabrication, and the fact that the NSA Whistleblower included the TSSCI material in the complaint, literally outlining who was intercepted talking, is the reason why the complaint could not be shared or circulated without careful guidance by the DNI.
The whistleblower did this on purpose. If the whistleblower wanted to share his complaint with more people, he could have just avoided including the TSSCI aspect.
This is intelligence community Lawfare in action.
Dear Chairman @SenTomCotton , please call @AndrewBakaj to appear before the Gang of Eight, preferably with his client, play this video, ask him if what he says at the prompt is true? When he says, "no" refer him to the DOJ for prosecution and dismiss the complaint. 👇
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) February 9, 2026
With all due respect Sundance, IMO this is going nowhere fast. And…it’s a day late and a dollar short for those trying to get rid of Gabbard, especially if those Fulton County voter records are unsealed tomorrow per the Federal judge’s order.
Heard a little gossip this weekend that this week could be a real doozie for some of those lawfare folks with some pretty big revelations coming forthwith. And it could all be a bunch of bullhonky too. We shall see.
I’m generally weary of prognostications as they’re typically as accurate as that little critter that pops up every February 2nd or so.
“With all due respect Sundance, IMO this is going nowhere fast.”
Allow me to disagree.
That line of thinking is what leads to more of the malicious lawfare that Sundance is alerting us to, and advising about. We need less lawfare from these thugs, and the only way we get less is by prosecuting.
Rock’em and sock’em, Sundance!
If you do an internet search for almost any politically charged topic, you will be flooded with lawfare, anti-Trump, anti-MAGA stuff. That is the toxic environment in which your friends and neighbors are immersed. That is the stuff that tries to create your tomorrow.
So yes, please rock’em and sock’em, Sundance.
Yep. Fight back! AND “nip it in the bud.”
I think those of us who’ve been around and on this site, going back years now, fully grasp how the other side operates with their lawfare machinations, thanks solely to Sundance and his unrelenting and dogged determination to inform us.
However, this latest episode of the DS attempting to get rid of Gabbard doesn’t seem to be getting the traction as their previous operations did. That’s MY point. It’s kind of falling flat.
As far as any prosecutions, we’ve yet to see one. Nothing serious that is. So that’s a moot point. Hope springs eternal though. But not holding my breath.
Tulsi read all the docs on Barry and others did for years with the hoaxs on Trump, and either learned about their plans and strategies, or she learned them long ago. She is very sharp and determined to never allow those who did it, will get away with those crimes ever again.
Considering what the house used to impeach President Trump on in his first term, the d/s/c people don’t really care. They want to impeach him for being him, for undoing the things they worked so hard to accomplish for their overlords.
^I approve this message.^
Cotton is one of my Senators and I invite all here to watch him do nothing.
The folks at The Guardian seem to be a bit skeptical of him, too.
They made an effort at preserving their reputation:
“[…] “The Guardian reported earlier on Saturday that the phone conversation was between a person associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump, based on Bakaj’s recollection of the complaint, which he confirmed over multiple calls. However, after publication, Bakaj said he misspoke.”
Note the key sentence as far as them making an effort to protect their reputation:
“based on Bakaj’s recollection of the complaint, which he confirmed over multiple calls.”
The guy said the same thing over several calls.
Then, he changed it.
Why?
It appears the folks at The Guardian are skeptical as well. I don’t keep up with them. I expect they dislike President Trump, which would be at least one reason this guy spoke to them.
However, it would seem self evident that the writer HAD to talk to his boss before publishing anything different from the original story……..and that sentence is not in there by accident.
Yep, spot on. I read it as The Guardian going into “CYA mode”.
How close is it to 110% is it that the old careerists put the youngsters up to this for plausible deniability? If something sticks, great, if the boy gets in trouble, “was a wayward loose independent. I don’t know anything about it.”
Tom Cotton will make all of the alphabet network shows to explain his tough position WHILE he does nothing.
He’s a Lindsey Graham re-do.
As a lifelong Republican, I am sick and damn tired of watching my party sit on their hands while watching the DemonRat Socialist Party continue to do as they please, robbing us blind, stealing our children’s future and destroying our culture. I believe it’s called “professional courtesy”.
Is he like Miss Sissy Graham and offers a free reach around to his democrap friends across the isle?
I used to work in the U.S. SIGINT system, at the Top Secret Codeword level.
I know very well how closely information about intercepts is guarded, and why that is.
This story is putting a source of intelligence in the greatest jeopardy.
(Actually, almost certainly destroying it.)
Whoever leaked it needs to be tracked down and prosecuted for egregiously violating the laws which protect SIGINT information.
Can those blabbermouths who have publicized it also be prosecuted?
This is not “whistle blowing”, but sabotage of a collection method.
Before people are granted access to Special Intelligence,
they must sign a document affirming that
they are aware of the penalties for divulging such information to unauthorized people.
It’s time to enforce those penalties in this matter.
Further details have now been revealed:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/politics/kushner-gabbard-iran-intelligence.html
“It was a discussion last year between two foreign nationals about Iran, not an unusual topic for American spies to study.
But an intercept of that communication, collected by a foreign spy service and given to the United States, has now become a flashpoint within the intelligence community and between the administration and Congress.
The reason is a single name that came up in the discussion: Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law.
“The previously unreported mention of Mr. Kushner in the discussion came after members of Congress were briefed last week about a classified report filed by a whistle-blower regarding the intercept, according to people familiar with the material. The whistle-blower has accused Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, of limiting who could see the report and of blocking wider distribution among the nation’s spy agencies, people familiar with the complaint said.
“The whistle-blower report was drafted last May, while the Trump administration was deliberating about a strike on Iran. At the end of June, the military bombed Iranian nuclear sites on Mr. Trump’s orders.”
How did the NYT obtain what they claim?
This shows a clear-cut violation of the laws controlling the disseminate of COMINT.
My failure to proofread:
“disseminate” should of course be “dissemination.”
Honker…
FTA, “ … involving someone close to the Trump White House,” he said.” If this ‘someone’ was standing in Lafayette Square, this would not be a lie, as they would be close the Trump White House. Lawfare construct or Dad joke?
Sundance how to heck do you make every article intriguing with details on what the DS always does, but showing how they are shafting themselves.
Bravo Sir! Bravo!
This crap will not stop by itself. Consequences has to be dispensed, for it to end.
Same scum, time and again.
Maybe someone in the video – who talks a lot but says nothing of useful substance –
could get a job that produces something useful..and not on the taxpayers dime$.?
…hmm…like
maybe curvey pretzels?
( if one gets the metaphor )
Love thy neighbors
Anyone want to bet that someone in the IC got two of their 5-eyes buddies to completely stage this conversation for NSA interception?
I won’t take that bet.
“Dear Chairman @SenTomCotton , please call @AndrewBakaj to appear before the Gang of Eight, preferably with his client, play this video, ask him if what he says at the prompt is true? When he says, “no” refer him to the DOJ for prosecution and dismiss the complaint.”
“So let it be written, so let it be done!”
Bakaj is a punk. A weasel. I learned to be leery of his immature bullying type in 4th grade recess. The problem is that he and most of our politicians and government services never matured much beyond the 5th grade level.
You go, Sundance. If this kind of crap gets ignored, the usual scandal nonsense will crop up in our totally unprofessional mass media establishment. While the so called whistleblower complaint is demonstrably incorrect, our demonstrably partisan media will advance it into the biggest news story of the year, because they have the loudest voices who are aloud to be heard. This is an example of media crap that is targeted for the mainstream outlets by the IC community Lawfare Gang. It cannot be stopped as long as there are any members of the IC Lawfare gang still operating with the tacit approval of the Goobermint IC.
As a CTH reader, I have never been fooled by this kind of garbage posing as fine dining for the media. Thanks again, be careful , and stay after the truth !.
“… the same attorney used by former CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella.“
Oh wait, what’s this?