As we have watched things unfold, we have noticed that Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio seem to be the most effective at delivering results despite the efforts of the entrenched control mechanisms of the deep state intelligence community. Actions speak louder than words, and while the words of many are strong, it is the actions of Gabbard and Rubio that show focus.
Previously Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard removed the National Intelligence Council from the CIA and removed the heads. In the latest development, the intelligence apparatus is in a state of apoplexy because DNI Gabbard has experienced the politicization of the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s network (ICIG), and she is now taking bold actions around the silo control mechanism.
Before getting to the substance, it is worth reminding everyone of clear politicization within the ICIG when Michael Atkinson changed the CIA whistleblower rules in order to facilitate a false accusation against President Trump using CIA operative Eric Ciaramella and Alexander Vindman. Atkinson worked with his former boss in the DOJ, Mary McCord, to frame the construct of an impeachment against President Trump.
Also remember, Atkinson’s testimony to the House impeachment committee was sealed and classified by co-chairs Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler who were part of the framing. That transcript has NEVER been released.
In the latest development, DNI Tulsi Gabbard has installed a key ally, Dennis Kirk, into the ICIG apparatus. Kirk is in place to monitor the political operations of the Intelligence Community and report to DNI Gabbard so that she can eliminate the bad actors. To say the Deep State IC embeds are apoplectic would be an understatement. The Inspector General system within the Intelligence Community is a critical control mechanism for politicization of intelligence.
The leaks to the media are to the Washington Post, because this core part of the IC is a CIA element. The CIA uses the Washington Post as their public relations and narrative distribution network.
WASHINGTON POST – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard installed one of her top advisers to a position within the office of the inspector general of the intelligence community, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The move potentially compromises the integrity of the independent watchdog office while it is investigating the use of the Signal messaging app by top government officials to discuss classified details of a pending U.S. military strike against the Houthis in March.
The adviser, Dennis Kirk, was placed within the watchdog office on May 9, but reports to the DNI, according to one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Massachusetts), the leading Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to acting intelligence community inspector general Tamara A. Johnson on Thursday, demanding information about the appointment of Kirk, who was an adviser in the Office of Personnel Management during President Donald Trump’s first term and co-author of a Project 2025 chapter on the federal workforce.
Lynch said the Oversight Committee was informed of the appointment by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), a group made up of government watchdogs.
In a statement to The Washington Post, Gabbard’s press secretary, Olivia Coleman, accused the intelligence community inspector general of failing to fulfill “the responsibility to be an independent organization unbeholden to partisan interests.”
Coleman said that Kirk was assigned to the watchdog office as part of the transition team and found “evidence of overwhelming and intentional politicization by the current IC IG team.”
The office’s leadership, she said, has “bucked President Trump’s directives” regarding diversity, equity and inclusion, “slow-walked responses to Congressional Republicans while prioritizing responding to Democrats, abused taxpayer dollars for personal purposes, and created a workplace environment filled with politically motivated action,” she said. “This is unacceptable on all fronts, and the DNI is taking action to ensure the IG office is focused on fulfilling its mission.”
[…] “The purported appointment of the IC IG ‘senior adviser’ heightens existing concerns about politicization and improper conduct at ODNI, including the subordination of competence and accountability at the agency to political fealty to President Trump,” Lynch wrote.
[…] The intelligence community inspector general was set up by statute in 2010 to provide independent oversight over the now 18 agencies in the intelligence community. (read more)
Pay attention to when the ICIG office was constructed, 2010!
Barack Obama took office in January 2009, with the House and Senate fully controlled by Democrats (60 Senators) throughout 2009 and 2010. The establishment of the ICIG was part of the construct for the Fourth Branch of Govt.
Current DNI Tulsi Gabbard is working through a process to deal with the IC weaponization legacy we have discussed on these pages for quite some time. Again, one of the few cabinet officials actually confronting the constructs within the Deep State.
Keep watching.
Good for Gabbard! Developing a reputation for integrity and walking her talk!
When “Deep State IC embeds are apoplectic”, the world rejoices.
Please!!! Anyone assigned to clean out the embedded trash in the IC is going to get smeared and threatened. Just start at the top with the most tenured garbage and start reviewing every email, text and action. When they’re forced to hire their own attorney you know you’ve found the correct targets. If you can’t fire them for cause, chop off their access and suspend their security clearances. Then reassign them to remote out posts way outside of their peer support groups. The list of whistleblower will grow rapidly.
“Then reassign them to remote out posts way outside of their peer support groups.”
How about – reassign them to a private cell at Guantanamo……?
How about just resign them
I’m thinking decorating Lampposts with them
just sayin 😉
Welll….at least give ‘em their day in court.
We’re not them.
Two days before Pentecost.
Even more rejoicing.
I wonder if she will be VP in ’28?
Why V-P ?
Why not something higher? 😉
I proudly voted for her in my left coast state’s primary in 2020.
She’s not a natural born citizen; so, apparently, you voted for her out of ignorance… I can’t condemn you for that seeing as I did the same thing when I voted for John McCain for president not knowing at the time HE was also not a natural born citizen.
“Natural born citizen” is not quite as simple as it might appear.
Being a citizen at birth–a natural born citizen–depends on many variables, including location of birth, but also marriage status of parents, parents’ citizenship status, parents’ previous residence location and length of residence, and more.
Here’s a guide, based on current law, CSIS officials use to determine citizenship status:
https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-h-chapter-3
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The main purpose of the CSIS, if not its sole purpose today, is to defend and protect institutions of the Deep State. If you doubt that, ask Sundance…
I believe John McStain was eligible for President as his parents were both US citizens but stationed in Panama, (where he was born) while his father was based there.
Obama on the other hand was totally ineligible.
Re “I believe John McStain was eligible for President as his parents were both US citizens but stationed in Panama, (where he was born) while his father was based there.”
Hillary’s lawyer, Philip J. Berg, brought suit against both Obama and McCain for not being Constitutionally eligible to serve as president. As per all such suits of the day, they were erroneously thrown out for plaintiff’s lack of standing.
Interestingly, McCain’s birth certificate was introduced and accepted by the court as evidence in his case. Said BC was never once denied nor disputed in any way by McCain. Said BC stated that McCain was born in Colon Hospital, City of Colon, Republic of Panama. Colon is located OUTSIDE the boundaries of the Canal Zone.
In order to attain the status of being a natural born citizen, one must be born on sovereign U.S. soil to two U.S. citizens. McCain is a U.S. citizen according to U.S. naturalization law due to being born to an American citizen; but, he cannot be a natural born citizen due to not having been born on sovereign U.S. soil.
Even if he HAD been born where he PUBLICLY claimed, in a U.S. Naval hospital on a U.S. Naval Submarine base, he would still not be a natural born citizen.
One, U.S. military bases are not sovereign soil because such locations are leased from the host nation, not owned by the U.S. government and the host nation always retains some sovereignty thereon.
Two, the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty which was the treaty signed on November 18, 1903 by the United States and Panama, establishing the Panama Canal, stated that persons born inside the canal zone would be citizens of Panama.
That made McCain a dual citizen with citizenship in both the USA and Panama.
Persons with dual citizenship cannot be natural born citizens. That would be in direct opposition to the very reasons the Framers made that requirement a part of the Constitution.
Their wish was that any U.S. President and Commander in Chief would have 100% natural allegiance to America and America only. Dual citizenship equals natural allegiance to two different nations.
Correct, Juan McStain was not constitutionally qualified to become POTUS.
Yes, and it’s sad evil forces have been so successful in confusing the truth relative to the one and only factually legal definition of natural born citizen.
Because it looks like Secretary Rubio is on his way to that slot and he has more experience. I am impressed with Secretary Gabbard and would like to see her as vp.
I think Rubio will get the nomination if he keeps going as he has. But he could revert to his old self and Gabbard could keep doing great, so things could change.
Neither Rubio and Gabbard are natural born citizens; i.e., not Constitutionally eligible to be either president or vice president.
Do we not care about that anymore, they both ran previously
Anyone who does not care is part of the problem.
After Obama, anything is possible in this country.
Didn’t stop Obama.
Did the fact that OJ Simpson got away with murder nullify laws against murder? Of course not. So, why should we forget the presidential requirements mandated by the Constitution, the most important legal document in American history just because of Obama’s usurpation of the office of president?
Which officials are responsible for compliance with that law?
Bottom line… WE THE PEOPLE!
Not being a natural born citizen, she’s Constitutionally ineligible to even be VP.
I registered as a dimicrat to support her in 2020…both corporate sides despised her then!
Same
I don’t despise her. She’s doing a great job. However, she cannot ever legally serve as president or vice president because she is not a natural born citizen.
Neither she nor Rubio are natural born citizens! Hopefully, you understand the importance of that fact…
Like that’s ever held any water….
In the entire history of America, it has “not held water” in only two cases (Chester A. Arthur and Barack H. Obama) out of our 47 presidencies.
You go, Girl! 👊🇺🇲
Go get them Tulsi
Bet they wish now that they had never put her on the no fly list.
It must be pretty hard to get removed? Is she still on the list?
No more list, the Quiet Skies program has been shuttered.
thx
Pay back is hell!
Exactly…that really pissed her off
I needed some good news! Thanks Professor Sundance!
God Bless Tulsi, and keep her safe. These people will stop at nothing to stay in power.
Go get them Tulsi!
If DOGE or any other entity is interested in exposing corruption/waste, I suggest reviewing all reports over the last 10 or so years filed with IGs for all agencies.
Might as well look at Office of Professional Responsibility and IA reports also.
SCOTUS just ruled (6-3) that DOGE can review Social Security records. They may be busy for a while.
To Bondi, Patel and Bongino:
Get off your rumps and do something productive to dismantle the DeepState.
Rubio and the classy Gabbard are showing you how it’s done.
Patel is making excuses.
Of what I saw of his Rogan interview, “trust me bro” is wearing thin.
Sorry, but they ALL look like vegetarians. But also Bondi has had some roles in the past which make her as questionable as Rubio and Gabbard. But this is the way Trump works. He gives people he likes a chance to do the right thing. And he gives his opponents the chance to do the right thing too. So far, it looks as if two of the three took Trump up on that opportunity…. and that Patel and Bongino didn’t understand that their jobs meant potentially laying down their lives and thus vulnerable to intimidation meaning weak to being compromised.
This is war. And anyone who joined the administration not fully understanding that should never have taken the job.
Its “The Apprentice” and the cream (Marco and Tulsi) is rising to the top, and that which is NOT cream (Kash, Bkongino and Bondi) is quickly showing its true natue.
Its down to Cahones, really. Each of them enters with the full backing and authority of the POTUS, some are able to take that awsome responsibility and authority and wield it decisively and effectively, and frankly fearlessly, thereby demonstratung they have what it takes to sit behind the resolute desk. And others, like Kash, Patel and Bondi demonstrate, much as a # of former POTUS’s , that they just don’t have what it takes.
I feel it’s not so much lacking cahones, it’s lacking something like confidence, Patel, bongino and bondi want to be adored and popular and invited to parties. They want people to know they are clever, they are desperate to be approved of. That’s all I can think when they all spend as much time as they do explaining themselves to media.
Re “I feel it’s not so much lacking cahones, it’s lacking something like confidence…”
Gee, I always thought lacking cahones was the same thing as lacking confidence. Silly me…
Is everyone forgetting, Marco was in the gang of eight!!!!
It seems too many are forgetting far too much these days. Seems like just last week, almost everyone here thought Elon Musk could do no wrong. Oh wait… that WAS just last week!
“They just don’t have what it takes.” Yes, one character has (or lacks) certain attributes needed in a leadership role. Discernment, good judgment, wisdom appear to be weak in K & P. I find Bondi harder to read as to why she appears to lack toughness. Didn’t have the steel against steel encounters to toughen her like Tulsi had; yet, PT repeatedly says she’s doing a good job.
My understanding is the trio is hard at work doing stuff behind the scenes and the fruit of their labour is playing out in GITMO. Military tribunal are happening, thanks to them, and won’t be announced until the Big Fish are caught. Enough of everyone’s whinging and moaning.
You forgot the /sarc tag for the sarc challenged. .
“Q” me once, shame on you.
“Q” me twice, shame on me.
LOL. No offense, but false hope is just that – false.
There’s no trusty plan and nothing is happening behind the scenes, unless of course you are referring to the Deep State who are plotting on how to kill everyone.
God works in mysterious ways.
Good job, Tulsi.
Tulsi Gabbard works in the tradition of Steve McGarrett. Book ’em all Tulsi!!
Tough Old Girl!
I’m thinking that her military service inculcated in her a great common sense, chain of command, patriotism, effectiveness under fire, etc. Those have superceded her Dim leftist tendencies.
I don’t believe Tulsi Gabbard has been “under fire” in the military sense. I’m glad she seems to be doing well in her current role.
President Trump‘s entire cabinet is excelling and at exactly the focus and timing that he has requested. I’m intensely proud of DNI Gabbard as well as all of the rest of them.🇺🇸
Outside of the DOJ (which is beyond repair no matter who’s there), Team Trump has been great.
No, it’s not. It needs a whole lotta “you’re fired, and you, and you, (repeat for a very long time). Then it needs someone who wants the job and has nothing to lose when the derp state tries to go after them for doing the job right.
Few and far between as the saying goes. Yet she’s one and she’s kicking the right rocks.
Make ém cry harder.
i wont be satisfied until some are gone, some in jail, and the rest in hiding or on the run for their lives.
Yup, cry harder!
Oh my gosh, an emotionally unstable woman and all the old hippies…
1 love 2 Sundance always Johnny on The Spot
A lot of people were skeptical of ODNI Gabbard being in 47’s cabinet. Hmmmm, I don’t hear their voices now.
We’ve had the football yanked out from in front of us so often, can you blame us?
Concurrently, Kash Patel is blabbing – why???
1. Found a ‘secret room’ at the FBI w docs and drives ‘hidden by Comey’
2. Gives the Nellie Ohr excuse – SOL
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1931057166192116174
It looks like Tulsi isn’t intimidated.
Military background!
She’s the only woman I’ve seen that I could possibly vote for as POTUS. I said possibly…..
harriet hageman
HONEY BADGER DON’T GIVE A SHIT!!
Deep State Apoplectic – good!
Thank you, Sundance!
Thank you, Tulsi!
And of course, thank you President Trump!
Rubio – Gabbard 2028
Too soon??
Yes, too soon for me. Things are changing on a weekly basis, and we’re not even at 6 mo. into the administration.
Can we please stop jumping on bandwagons, and fully support President Trump right now? It will all play out. I’m getting disgusted with those who are already treating PDJT like a lame duck.
Yes, the big problem coming up is the 2026 mid-term. Can we elect a MAGA-Republican House and Senate? Got to go contrary to history to do it.
That should be the focus for anyone with sense, and if they really care about MAGA.
People on the right have a tendency to think only elections for President matters. That’s where they focus all all their energy. That is why they don’t vote in midterms or special elections. Then they complain when they see no results to their short sighted voting habits. They don’t seem to realize we have to start locally. If you are not focusing locally you are not focusing. Start with your school board.
Thank you, Peoria. Focus on what’s right in front of you.
The rot runs deep in DC’s IC. Can we bring back Tar and Feathering for each FBI, DOJ, state department, and CIA official who is corrupt. I know, I know, we’re going to need a lot of feathers.
Toss them in the la brea tar pits.
I’m impressed. I still doubt everything I see and hear to at least some minor degree. I’m probably not alone in the feeling that we can’t believe anything fully if only as a means of keeping our heads on straight when shocking things occur. I think it is for that reason many of us kept a position on or near “the fence” when things between Musk and Trump occurred. (Of course now that some dust has settled and there are reports of aids on both sides trying to arrange a call where Trump refused. But as the heat of the event has dissipated, it’s clear Elon F’d himself and whatever “others” were involved, their plan failed.)
I guess the point is, I don’t want to fully trust Gabbard or Rubio for that matter. Of course I’m glad when they do the right things. I’m glad that Gabbard decided it was important to “watch her watchers” simply because as her role as oversight and coordinator of national intelligence, she would be correct in also seeing as the ICIG as yet another intelligence agency which needs to be watched as much as any other.
She has an honest & nice smile. With perhaps a hint of successful revenge …
Honey Badger don’t give not sheeits
On the 81st anniversary of D-Day, no less.
GBU, Director Gabbard and GBA!
Meanwhile: “… The move potentially compromises the integrity of the independent watchdog… “ quoth the NYT. Irony much?
Sundance, I’d love to get your thoughts on Mike Benz’s X comments specifically regarding Ukraine and the influence still be applied by former Deep State personnel such as Victoria Nuland, Mike Pompao, Jeffery Sachs, and Hillary Clinton, that are all part of Columbia Universities SIPA Program as well as a number of other Universities in the US, including Indiana, Harvard, etc. Truly depressing.
Have a ink to Mike Benz’s X comments?
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1930568736370573409
Thanks!
Sundance, may The LORD continue to BLESS and Keep you!
ERIC Ciaramella oh wise one
I like that she isn’t on fox news every day gossiping and scolding. She’s doing the things.
Hell hath no fury……Gabbard remembers.
World’s greatest dad is on his way back to MS-13 Nirvana to be charged with having a margarita with Chris Van Hollen AND weapons/drug trafficking stateside, to be deported after serving his term
Hope he doesn’t Epstein himself, right Judge Boasberg?
Burn it down, Ma’am!
I frankly didn’t watch it, but nevertheless gather that one of the lessons of The Apprentice is ‘you never know’.
Someone can have a stellar resume, and yet when tested, fumble it totally. And, someone your really doubtful of, when put in the right position can shine.
Right now, its looking like Rubio/Gabbard 2028 and not sure I have any problems with that.
Haven’t seen the second half with the replacement players, yet.
Everywhere you turn
Him and his Adams apple are everywhere where there is a hint of corruption against PDJT.
And…is that a wig?
what a precious beautie….
That’s hard to take this early in the AM.
I am going to have to change my morning coffee to an Irish Coffee…
mmmm. Jameson…
Oh, sorry. I was drifting.
Tulsi “legit” Gabbard targeted. Something not right here. Maybe it’s because I’ve been paying attention for too long now. If I ignore my gut I might be able to pretend better. Caption this and will check back in some time in the near future.
Every time scum is exposed dirtbag obama is the underwriter.
Obama’s scumbag legacy continues.🦨
Don’t forget that Holder was his self-proclaimed wingman, and Obama pretty much admitted Valerie Jarrett was the brains of his administration.
The woman is getting it done. (Hey, Patel! Take notice!)
By damn, maybe Tulsi should be our next POTUS.
Tulsi Gabbard is blessed with a deep calming voice. She will never, luckily, sound like screeching Hillary. Kristi Noem has the same blessed deep voice.
Interesting problem. How guarantee the independence and integrity of the watchdogs!
Funny in some ways. I recall a day early in my career where I served as an aide to a major command Flag Officer. The cycle rolled around to the command’s turn in the barrel. The IG, a two star, was well known at the time for ripping ***holes – often arbitrarily. So, we get to the readout to staff. The IG 2*Star doesn’t disappoint. He reams everyone up, down, left, right in colorful language. He finishes and exits in a flurry. His remaining staff look-around to ensure he is gone. They then pull out cards with reaming scores ranging from 1 to 10 (worst case). Our staff rolled in waves of laughter.
In the short-run, Tulsi took the correct step.
In the long run, how is accountability maintained?
I have a question:
Where was the cia when S. Korea was taken over by CCP through the latest elections in S.K. in all appearances? I saw no notice of it in any news from D.C.
Present Danger China. (Tulsi was mentioned in passing in this segment.)
CPDC Webinar Explores Xi’s Alleged Influence in South Korean Election and Its Implications | EpochTV
Isn’t any of this actionable via firings without benefits or even criminal prosecution? Don’t these actions constitute fraud on American citizens and theft of taxpayer dollars?
Coleman said that Kirk was assigned to the watchdog office as part of the transition team and found “evidence of overwhelming and intentional politicization by the current IC IG team.”
The office’s leadership, she said, has “bucked President Trump’s directives” regarding diversity, equity and inclusion, “slow-walked responses to Congressional Republicans while prioritizing responding to Democrats, abused taxpayer dollars for personal purposes, and created a workplace environment filled with politically motivated action,” she said. “This is unacceptable on all fronts, and the DNI is taking action to ensure the IG office is focused on fulfilling its mission.”
Your question regarding firings is legitimate.
Unacceptable, destructive behavior used to be an actionable offense that merited termination from any organization.
See… This is what I don’t “get” …
Why aren’t the bad apples having their retirements canceled, or appropriated to repay taxpayers for their malfeasance?? Where does their qualified immunity end? Why are they judged by a LESSER STANDARD, rather than a HIGHER STANDARD?
Everything is upside down. Evil is rewarded, good is punished. When does THAT get fixed?? Our gov’t tinkers around the edges and hope the loutish, slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging taxpayers are satisfied with the crumbs they are thrown, as the perps lean back & laugh at those taxpayers, knowing the next grift is in the works to ream them out once again.
I’m disgusted. Why weren’t these plans mapped out post Nov 2024, to be executed at lightening speed upon being sworn??
Tulsi seems to be the Real Deal. Punish them all, Ma’am! If they give you any trouble, release their identities to US! We will see how badass they think they are!!
Stephen F Lynch – congressman from Massachusetts since 2001. Net worth is “only” around 1.5 million. Move along, commoners, nothing to see here.
I really enjoyed the part where Kirk found overwhelming evidence of disobeying Trump, misusing funds, giving funds to dem groups, slow walking the dissolution of DEI, etc. and Lynch complains that may ‘politicize’ the office.
You cannot hate the deep state enough. Lynch is a liar. The found overwhelming evidence of corruption and they get upset at Kirk.
Clowns
“…and removed the heads.”
Yikes!
(Just kidding.)
Constructed 2010, deconstructed 2026?
“CIA operative Eric Ciaramella and Alexander Vindman” should read “CIA operative Eric Ciaramella and Ukronazi traitor Alexander Vindman”.
“Again, one of the few cabinet officials actually confronting the constructs within the Deep State.”
And with perfect hair.
*oops…text was garbled .
IC INSPECTOR GENERAL (ACTING)
Tamara Johnson
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/leadership/inspector-general#:~:text=Johnson%20is%20responsible%20for%20the,leadership%20role%20through%20September%202021.