The full senate vote was 52-48. Senator Mitch McConnell (U-DC) was the lone republican who voted against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Tulsi Gabbard is now DNI.
Additionally, the Senate voted 53-47 on the cloture vote for Robert F Kennedy Jr as nominee for Health and Human Service Secretary. With senate debate now ended, the full confirmation vote on RFK Jr could come tomorrow.
WASHINGTON – The GOP-controlled Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to be President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, putting the former congresswoman in charge of the sprawling U.S. intelligence community.
The 52-48 vote was largely along party lines, with nearly all Republicans present voting in favor of Gabbard. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the former longtime GOP leader who has clashed with Trump, was the only Republican who joined all Democrats in voting against her.
Gabbard’s confirmation is a win for Trump and represents yet another example of his dominance over the GOP, where few have shown a willingness to step out of line.
After Trump announced Gabbard as his DNI pick in November, Democrats — and a handful of Republicans — voiced serious concerns about her 2017 secret meeting with then-President Bashar Assad of Syria; her sympathetic comments about Russia; her past efforts to repeal a powerful government surveillance tool, known as Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702; and her previous support for Edward Snowden, a former government contractor who leaked classified information to the press about those spying programs. (More)
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is the newest office in the IC system. It was created as an outcome of the Patriot Act and the office represents the pivot point of all IC information flows.
The CIA information is supposed to enter the DNI silo from outside the USA, and the FBI information enters the DNI silo from inside the USA. The combined information is then assembled and becomes part of the National Security Information (NSI) that is available to the Dept of Homeland Security.
As we have outlined, the Obama/Holder administration weaponized these information streams and the silos that control the outcomes. The DNI became an information laundry permitting the CIA (John Brennan) to conduct domestic political operations, while the FBI partnered with their “sister agency” (CIA) and ran political targeting operations against Obama’s opposition.
Attorney General Eric Holder then created the Dept of Justice National Security Division (DOJ-NSD), filled it with legal ideologues (Weissmann, McCord, Eisen et al), and that sub-silo of the DOJ then proceeded to take the weaponized CIA/FBI information and target Americans (and some foreign adversaries).
Political attack narratives were created from within the DOJ-NSD using false pretenses like the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) and the domestic surveillance of political targets proceeded through the use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act/Court (FISA/FISC). Meanwhile the FBI counterintelligence division ran cover operations for Hillary Clinton and other aligned political entities.
To ensure DOJ-NSD targeting operations were without review, the DOJ Inspector General was barred from having any oversight within the DOJ-NSD, under the justification of “national security.” From inception (’09) the DOJ-NSD was without any oversight, until President Trump changed the rules in 2017.
All of the Trump targeting operations originated from within the DOJ-NSD, including the surveillance of candidate Donald Trump through the use of the Title-1 surveillance warrant gained against CIA asset Carter Page. Nat Sec Advisor Michael Flynn was targeted using the pretense of FARA.
Throughout the Obama terms, the DNI (James Clapper) was presumably willfully blind to the activity. Clapper was a useful doofus, so it was not difficult. This is the background for the current status of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
Just as we now see receipts for the USAID silo as the front for CIA activity, so too was/is the ODNI the front for domestic intelligence operations by the same CIA operators. The CIA is behind it all.
For many years the CIA had to be careful about domestic activity, always working to cloak their internal operations. However, once the ODNI office was created, they now had a legally authorized door that permitted them to expand their operations without fear of scrutiny, under the justification of “national security.”
Here is where I posit a note to moderate expectations of sunlight from the IC silos of the DNI (Gabbard) and CIA (Ratcliffe).
♦ Be really cautious about expecting any sunlight, review or inquiry to penetrate the CIA silo.
I’ve studied the construct of these IC silos for years, and I have yet to find a process (only one way) that gets any information from within the CIA dark place extracted against their will.
The CIA silo was constructed to be an information filter. Information goes in, but only one method (Presidential Daily Brief) exists for information to come out. The President authorizes directed activity within the CIA through the use of “finding memoranda,” but the CIA operates all other activity without oversight.
The CIA gets instructions via presidential finding memos, which they act upon and keep in locked files, but the CIA never discloses any information unwillingly. The CIA is a complete dark hole, with an entrance but no exit.
It is a very unique silo. No oversight (by design), no accountability (by design), no method of financial accounting (by design), and only one physical person (no delegation of authority) with power to engage over the entire agency.
It’s very complicated.
In response to McTurtle’s attack on DNI, Gabbard:
“The DOJ’s power of investigating corrupt Fed Govt power is not an option; it is an obligation, and one we cannot pretend to misunderstand,… even if it requires AG, Bondi to now investigate the spouse of Senate leaders for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices act, specifically with China’s CCP.”
Careful of your criticism’s Mitch,…. they may well come back to bite you and Yours.
Fatal Fantasy.
💀🙏💀
That’s right Mitch, don’t go up the down staircase…
Hilary is lurking. Watch your back.
the b is lurking with my murdered mother’s kidney! There is a story that Bernie Sanders gave her a kidney which I believe to be a lie. Can anyone confirm this lie?
Or back up near a pond.
This is why we need term limits. Deep State is a waste of humanity! Actually, repeal the 17th Amendment!
The Babylon Bee https://babylonbee.com/news/ailing-mcconnell-carried-into-senate-by-6-pallbearers
What an awesome response!! Go Tulsi!
That is the worst photo of Tulsi I’ve ever seen.
I think The-Decrepit-One’s problem with Tulsi is all about China, as well as his past skullduggery.
Pixels and Paint,
Make her what she ain’t.
“To ensure DOJ-NSD targeting operations were without review, the DOJ Inspector General was barred from having any oversight within the DOJ-NSD, under the justification of “national security.” From inception (’09) the DOJ-NSD was without any oversight, until President Trump changed the rules in 2017.”
This is insanity, and no other healthy system works this way.
It’s evident the DOJ-NSD is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CIA, which is why they have no oversight.
Had none.
We’ll see what happens.
How’s this one of Major Hula-Tan, zeph?
“I am hopeful also because of the goodness in people and the naturally compassionate nature of people. However, I will tell you from firsthand experience that what we talk about is the national security state, and the military industrial complex, this cabal of warmongers that extends not only within government but outside of government, extends to many powerful media outlets. They are incredibly powerful and don’t have any qualms at destroying those who try to get in the way of their power, and they’ve got a lot of tools. They’ve got a lot of tools to do that, which I think is why President Eisenhower chose to include this in his farewell address as a warning, because the only recourse, the only real power that has the ability to destroy them and stand up against them is a free people living in a free society, exercising the rights that we have enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”
Rest in the Vine: “Why Tulsi Gabbard Is The One To Fix The DNI” by Sam Faddis
I wish that the world was so good that we could be distracted by Tulsi’s appearance.
But it aint.
I just care that she does her job well.
That’s all anybody wants, ….. really.
And yea, she’s still hawt.
McConnell’s (skulldiggery) involvement(s) with China runs so deep that I wonder if he and his wife speak Manderin at home?
Notice how he took his faithful pledge to the CCP right down to one of his last votes. Absolute disgrace.
And for how many years was he the Senate majority leader?
I wonder if Mitch will vote for Kash? They are still holding this up!!! Is it me or is President Trump actually looking more like a REAL President. His face is becoming more Lincoln Washington like.
McTurtle is worse than useless – he is a danger to the republic.
I wonder if Mrs McTurtle has renewed her Xhinese passport – when’s the next flight out of DC for Shanghai???
Judging by that boot he’s wearing, the Turtle is not long for this world.
Give him the clot shot! That’ll finish him off!
Due to Chinese? American? Or natural causes??
“Oh, I so happy. She bring me to room and play with my wingwong. That’s why I do bad things.”
Obviously he won’t.
All brought to us by Allen Dulles, Harry Truman and the democrat party.
You don’t mention the religion of the others but you made sure to mention the “Rothschilds” “Rothschilds” is code for “Jews”.
How about, for just once, you actually provide a link to a reputable source proving the Rothschild family is involved in nefarious deeds?
Rothschild is code for Rothschilds, Boogey.
It’s an inbred family of Satanists, just like the Windsors.
Average Jews really ought to be insulted by being associated with them in any way, in anyone’s minds.
You want dirty deeds? Look what Nathaniel Rothschild did in the aluminum wars, teaming up with Oleg Deripaska to impoverish the UK.
From Gab a.i.: Yes, there are indications that President Harry S. Truman later expressed regret over the founding of the CIA. In a 1963 op-ed piece for the Washington Post, Truman wrote that he was “disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment” and that it had become “an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government.” This suggests that Truman felt the CIA had overstepped its intended role and scope.
Don’t forget that Pres. Reagan deeply regretted falling for the “border solution” he agreed to do.
The Triumvir-Rot.
I hope Leaky, Sneaky, and Freaky never get a decent night’s sleep for the rest of their miserable lives.
Especially Freaky, – Brennan.
P.S. We can add Rod Rosenstein in that pic as “Geeky”.
Maybe a good thing I’m not POTUS, because now that Tulsi is confirmed, would likely summarily fire the CIA leaders, and take control of the building with a few dozen Federal Marshals in tow, and a few squads of SEALs for backup. It’s part of the Executive branch, but has been acting independent of the American people and our elected leaders.
Of course this situation is untenable and an existential threat to our freedom and civilization, as demonstrated by the fact that the attempted Trump assassin, Ryan R0uth, had been in Ukraine, and also met with multiple members of Congress. It’s close to a hundred percent guarantee that he is a CIA asset, and was sent by them to assassinate DJT.
Maybe a good thing I’m not POTUS, because would likely summarily fire the CIA leaders, and take control of the building with a few dozen Federal Marshals in tow, and a few squads of SEALs for backup. It’s part of the Executive branch, but has been acting independent of the American people and our elected leaders.
Of course this situation is untenable and an existential threat to our freedom and civilization, as demonstrated by the fact that the attempted Trump assassin, Ryan R0uth, had been in Ukraine, and also met with multiple members of Congress. It’s close to a hundred percent guarantee that he is a CIA asset, and was sent by them to assassinate DJT.
Scattering it to the winds didn’t work.
I can appreciate your approach of a full on military style decapitation strike.
Followed by a very DOGEy occupation and disassembly.
whoops, browser went haywire momentarily.
The fbi and cia: deep-six the deep state and start over.
There’s so much corruption and commie group think holdovers you would need SEAL Team 60, or 600 because SEAL Team 6 wouldn’t be big enough.
McConiac, just like his hero McCainiac, putting self before Country.
McStain famously chose his final destination with his thumb.
I feel McConnell just did the same.
I’m eager to see them reunited.
1.0 may have already done so.
2 week disappearance.
Technically, Mitch MaoConnell didn’t vote “No”.
He voted “Whatever”–whatever Beijing ordered him to vote.
McConnell Announces Sale of Kentucky to China; “Hongtucky” Will Become Country’s 24th Province
I said it in these pages and I will say it again. Because this Gabard and secdef Segheth were confirmed, RFK Jr will not be confirmed. He is the last for a purpose. By having him last, the senate can vote not to confirm him because the senate demonstrated a strong desire to support Trump and his agenda, but, now can claim that although we support Trump and work with him, we cannot support RFK because of fluoride or whatever.
If RFK is confirmed then he will expose how the food industries and pharma have poisoned us and, in particular our children, in order to make an obscene amount of money. They deliberately harmed us with the full knowledge and active participation of the regulatory agencies and politicians to make money.
This means that they directly induced cancer, heart ailments which includes fatal outcomes, adhd, autism, obesity, and a litany of other diseases to sell pills and medical procedures.
RFK Jr will not be confirmed to protect their sordid, disgusting and vast criminality.
I disagree.
None of the Rino’s want Shanahan funding their campaign opponents.
If the DS could block a nomination, it would have by now.
Team Trump has them all under submission.
RFK Jr will be confirmed tomorrow.
They are actually saving Kash for last, because he is the one they fear above all others.
Ok Ok
Good points
He knows too much! Make him an absentee appointment!
Nope. Disagree.
Its in the bag.
I agree with your analysis, just not the conclusion.
From what I’ve read, he’s likely to get confirmed.
Wrong Ragle I beg to differ
Trust the Prez, he has the power.
I think that would have been the game plan if Elon Musk wasn’t willing to fund MAGA candidates against the RINO Senators in Red states. That’s why Trump is likely going to get his entire Cabinet choices.
In part.
In part I suspect it is a function of Congress knowing he holds their Kompromat.
Play MAGA for me.
If they do he will still be working in HHS, and pulling the strings as an underling.
I’m not sure when it started, but I’m totally digging the (U-DC) labeling.
I would love to see the Kenyan get “the art of the deal” treatment!
If I was Tulsi I would be looking for retribution considering how the deep state treated her.
That’s just me.
The kick backs that mean they can never retire without consequences.
Nancy Pelosi
Annual salary: $223,000
Net worth: $202 million
Mitch McConnell
Annual salary: $200,000
Net worth: $95 million
Chuck Schumer
Annual salary: $210,000
Net worth: $75 million
Elizabeth Warren
Annual salary: $285,000
Net worth: $67 million
Samantha Power
Annual salary: $180,000
Net worth: $30 million
They have coupon clipping parties in the break rooms.
Don’t forget the NYC bartender who went from a net worth of $0 to $30M in 6 years in Congress.
Where do these numbers come from?
And still had student debt that she whined she needed help with. Ugh
McConnell can’t be shown the exit soon enough.
Old sack of a man refuses to die without making everyone else miserable first.
The biowarfare labs will all be terminated.
https://truthsocial.com/@Clandestine/posts/113991954158583919
They’re stalling on Kash.
They’re hoping to breach the computers and erase evidence with the help of their Crooked Judges.
“Hundreds of millions of dollars-worth, much more than that, in just a short period of time. We want to weed out the corruption. It seems hard to believe that a judge could say, ‘We don’t want you to do that,’ so, maybe we have to look at the judges.”
Yes, Kash is getting stalled so they can have time to wipe any evidence leftover of FBI wrongdoing from the past ten years. I assume many, many dark secrets are lurking within FBI headquarters the Deep State wants hidden from Trump.
I hope that instilled them with fear. I’m sure they all have skeletons in their closets.
“Gabbard’s confirmation is a win for Trump and represents yet another example of his dominance over the GOP, where few have shown a willingness to step out of line.”
Nov 8, 2019 … Trump: “I caught the swamp. I caught them all. Let’s see what happens. Nobody else could have done that but me.”
“Play MAGA for me.”
Vibe shift.
Exit ramps closed.
https://truthsocial.com/@cowboyw2b/posts/113988552938234722
I support Tulsi and feel she will serve with honor as she has in the past!
Sen McConnell is a National Disgrace to the Republican Party, Congress, Kentucky long-time resident and American citizen!
The US Congress is almost totally useless as so many are immoral, liars, cheats and not patriotic.
If POTUS Trump cannot succeed in reducing corruption, the USA will perish from BANKRUPTCY in 20 more years.
The resistance to Trump by Democrats is their Cloward-Piven Final Act to DESTROY AMERICA aand ALL AMERICANS!
Yeah, but you know, China loves him ..
McConnell needs to be put out out to pasture ….Useless Rino
McConnell needs to be put
out out toin the pasture.FIFY
Most everyone on this site is conservative and shares conservative views. However, if we sat down and actually compared our beliefs, we would find differences. Give the lady a chance.
Honest question. Since Tulsi was not on the short list for DNI what is the best case scenario for We The People with her being confirmed? What’s the best we should hope for in this struggle of bringing sunlight to the rot/infestation that is the federal government, and getting it cleaned out? Is there any hope with her confirmation? Or is the only hope…at least it won’t get worse?🫤
Given his advanced stage and fragile health, digging his own grave is a pretty smart thing from Mitch McConnell to do.
God’s in Control!
No worries!
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It’s not complicated.
The CIA works for the European monarchs. They are just a branch of MI6.
All the Western intelligence agencies work for the family from Saxony that is immune from prosecution of any and all crimes under international law.
An uncomfortable truth which opens a whole other bag of worms.
The table in the kitchen writes the menu.
The tables in the dining room are on the menu.
She is a former World Economic Forum Young Leader. I’m sure she’ll do her job with distinction.
The dems lit the fuse on her tampon. She is going to go ballistic on the ultra left. I do believe she is a Rino at heart. Time will tell.
I still think that she is a good solid American citizen and that she deserves our benefit of the doubt. And, she was picked my POTUS Trump. Who am I to questions him?
I have met her a few times and have been involved with her in trying to stop the deep state when such things were not popular. I have a pretty high opinion of her.
The Turtle won’t be around much longer. He is rapidly degenerating into Biden Territory. He is kind of like McCain at the end of a too long career.
Mitch McConnell is a lipless, bug-eyed, ugly excuse for a man. I read awhile back, not sure if true, but does make some sense, that he was caught in Thailand frequenting places that specialize in little boys. As a result this was leveraged against him, and this so-called marriage he’s in is as fake as fake can be. I think his wife’s sister is also a high ranking member of Chinese intelligence. Now combine that with all the shenanigans that went on during the Clinton administration with the handing over of military secrets to the Chinese, and no one ever faced the music on that, plus Dianne Feinstein’s limo driver was a Chinese spy that drove her around for years. Then you have fart-face Swawell having an affair with a Chinese spy, and that jackass is still in the Congress. They don’t even pretend to hide their treason anymore.
McConnell begs MAGA to help him get reelected and then he turns into a bigger swamp rat than he ever was.