The summary of the story basically circles back to that NSA/CIA whistleblower intercept they previously were using to attack DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Now that the whistleblower’s lawyer (same lawyer as last CIA whistleblower, Ciaramella) has leaked the subject of the conversation was Jared Kushner the democrats really want to know the details.
Two foreign nationals (unknown countries) were discussing the U.S. position toward Iran. In their conversation they talked about Jared Kushner. Their conversation was intercepted by NSA/CIA using an “exceptionally sensitive surveillance method.” The intercept was written, evaluated and determined to be “gossip” but given to the ODNI, Gabbard.
The whistleblower was upset the intercept was not shared with the larger intelligence apparatus. Thus, they were angry at Gabbard. The ODNI followed the distribution for the whistleblower complaint, but not the underlying intercepted details of the conversation.
The White House has now asserted “executive privilege” over the content of the intercept, thereby bolstering the position of not sharing what was previously determined to be gossip. The DNI was asked for the details, and Gabbard has told the Democrats the White House has asserted privilege. The House and Senate Intelligence committee democrats are now big mad they don’t get to read the gossip.
(VIA WSJ) – WASHINGTON—The Trump administration told Congress it won’t share with lawmakers the classified intelligence that led to a whistleblower complaint against U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard, citing presidential claims of executive privilege.
In an email to Democratic congressional staffers sent on Feb. 13 and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Gabbard’s office said it was unable to provide the unredacted intelligence that underpinned the complaint “due to the assertion of executive privilege to portions” of the intelligence itself.
In a Tuesday letter to Gabbard, Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrats on the congressional intelligence committees, asked who asserted privilege over the intelligence report and on what basis.
[…] A spokeswoman for Director of National Intelligence Gabbard declined to directly address the decision to not share the underlying intelligence with Congress. She instead referred to a previous letter to lawmakers from the office’s general counsel that said Gabbard had met her requirements concerning notification to Congress about the complaint.
[…] The intelligence, which is at least in part about Iran, is said to derive from an exceptionally sensitive surveillance method. Officials have said any disclosure of the collection method could damage U.S. national security. Gabbard’s office ultimately shared the complaint with select lawmakers earlier this month, but redacted significant portions of it, also chiefly on grounds of executive privilege.
In the new letter, Warner and Himes said they weren’t able to confirm whether the discussion at issue was about Kushner because the version of the complaint they received was so heavily redacted. (more)
If I had to hazard a guess as to what is going on, based entirely on the current state of politics and what we know about how the IC and Democrats operate, overlaid against the domestic IC influence provocations currently underway, here’s my suspicion:
Bad actors within the CIA organized two friendly foreign intel officials to have a conversation. The script is about U.S. policy toward Iran, and the ‘gossip’ is that Jared Kushner is an Israeli intelligence asset, a blue sparrow, previously inserted into the Trump family. That ‘intercept’ would send everyone in the USA bananas regardless of truth or merit.
It sounds crazy, but that’s the level of conspiratorial nuttery, the sort of thing the IC would feed, to bolster the currently swirling year of crazy and further divide Trump’s base of support.
Whatever the underlying intercept consists of, it’s coming out of a highly political U.S. intelligence system; therefore, I would not give it any merit – unless, of course, you choose to cling to their prior construct of Trump colluding with Russia.
I am coming at the Candace Owen thing with an open mind considering one side saying she’s gone bonkers and has it in for TPUSA and Erika and the side that totally takes Candace’s investigation seriously. I have to say she is one heck of an investigator.
Having watched her last 10 shows I am not leaning towards the “She’s crazy” crowd. Who by the way, through their actions and reactions, protest a little too much. Anyway I would recommend watching as it is getting quite interesting. Everything Candace puts out she backs up.
If Candace is even getting close to the truth our world is even more bizarre than imagined. Anyway very interesting to say the least. Kinda fits in with the intrigue of this article and whats being hidden from us and lies used as facts.
I got a bit disenchanted with Candace when she started going down the rabbit hole about Kamala’s parentage. I didn’t stick with her long enough to form a final opinion but it was a bit much to me, and I was no Kamala supporter for sure
That is why I like her investigations….she touches everything. She is really determined to get to the bottom of CK’s death and who knew beforehand and who did it. If you are not the curious type then yes it would be a bit much.
No doubt she is onto something BIG, but will never see the light of MSM.
This one is a hum dinger ..
I have not, but will, read the article. I will say that there has always been something “OFF” about Erika since I first read about her; just a strong, gut feeling and do not trust her at all.
I am not a follower of Candace, but think that all of the uproar about her might actually point to her doing a good job, and probably a real truth-teller.
Interesting that you would say something is Off about her , Candace show from yesterday starts with a post about that same feeling many get to the point cant even watch her interviews because her affect doesn’t match what coming out of her mouth.
Here’s how I look at it. Let a widow grieve and adjust her life with her child without her father. Stay away from any negative opinions about the widow. It’s distasteful and doesn’t help that little girl who doesn’t have a father.
The person making accusations and innuendos is not a good person to be doing this to the widow and her child. No good person would do what Candace Owens is doing. Stay away from that energy.
You are so right Luis. Candace Owens really makes me sick with this witch hunt. It obviously is based on jealousy. CO even claimed that 2 days before Charlie was killed, he told her he wanted her back at TPUSA. He was killed to prevent her and Charlie on stage together.
This is about trying to destroy the midterms for President Trump. CO is trying to destroy TPUSA to ruin the midterms.
Well said. Have some kindness for the widow. It’s just COMMON DECENCY. I don’t understand why this is so hard for some people.
Candace has behaved abominably. Where I come from, she would be widely ostracized for such crass, disrespectful conduct.
Seriously?
She said she was an alien.
Wtf does Candace and Erika have to do with Jared, Tulsi, and the IC?
Candace is a clown; she has nothing of substance to offer, at least on a continuing basis. No offense, she puts on a clown show for a clown audience. This inquiring mind doesn’t care or need to know what it doesn’t need to know, that being never-ending trash talk
I am tired of all this bullshit.
It really is BS all of it…Why can’t they just live their life and let us do the same……the whole shebang ….govt all of it.
Amen TW, Amen! A group of finger-pointers; who are only group-followers NOT leaders (Dems/Main Street News/Influencers).
Since the anti-Israel theme is working so swimmingly to divide MAGA, I guess the want to keep a good thing going by creating lies and suspicion around the President’s Jewish SIL.
The lengths satan is willing to go is unfathomable to us humans. But if you happen to be an evil, power hungry schemer in the first place, manipulation games come easier, with these political clans.
I believe Warner has been compromised for some time now. Felt the same when Burr was there on the Republican side.
They were tighter than a pair of testicles.
Without getting into the weeds of the message, the tactic remains the same. Create a potential issue regardless of how deliberately false the information is. Leak it to the media with the intent of smearing President Trump’s administration.
The beat goes on.
I always think of Vonnegut’s ” So it goes”
WHY is there discussion about distractor Candace Owens on an IC thread about Jared Kushner?
I was wondering the same (although without calling Candace a distractor – I think she has made and proven many valid points).
Dipshit distractors doing dipshittery.
I haven’t figured out if they’re paid by the letter, word, or hour yet. 😂
Tulsi cannot fire the whistle blower. Neither can CIA head. That doesn’t mean “reorganization” is not in order to ensure that the department or team that whistleblower serves in is relegated to counting beans in the back room. It’s illegal to fire them. But it’s very legal to from time to time readjust the departments and teams for efficiency….
Five bucks the intel officials’ country or countries are Five Eyes members.
People will eat it up like candy. They know this. So many addicted to these conspiracies. They need that fix.
2 Thessalonians 2
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie
IMESHO, the word “Intel” and the name “warner” automagically form an oxymoron when used together.
The Federalist–WSJ’s Gabbard Hoax Is Straight From The Russiagate Playbook:
“… First, make an allegation against a political target. The allegation does not need to be supported by evidence. It does not even need to be coherent.
Second, wrap the allegation in extreme classification. Make it “super sensitive,” bury it in a restricted annex, or otherwise render it inaccessible.
Third, leak the existence of the allegation and let the secrecy do the work. The absence of detail generates intrigue, classification becomes a proxy for gravity, and that gravity is then presented as proof.
This is exactly what CIA Director John Brennan, DNI James Clapper, and FBI Director James Comey did with the Obama-ordered Intelligence Community Assessment in 2017. The objective of that assessment was to saddle the incoming president, Donald Trump, with the Russia-collusion narrative. The method was to launder the fraudulent Steele dossier, which alleged collusion between Trump and Russia, into something that appeared official.
In a manner uncannily reminiscent of a le Carré plot, Brennan, Clapper, and Comey solved the problem of how to launder a known fabrication into an intelligence product by embedding it in a highly classified annex of the ICA. The mere fact of its inclusion was then leaked to the media, with CNN breaking the story just days before Trump was sworn in, ensuring his presidency would be immediately engulfed by a manufactured scandal. That is how a lie that the FBI already knew to be false acquired the appearance of gravity solely because it was secret. …
It is no coincidence that The Wall Street Journal’s attack arrived just days after Gabbard was present at the FBI raid on the Fulton County election office. …
Gabbard’s work is the opposite of performative. That dedication has unsurprisingly earned her powerful enemies, and she now faces these attacks largely on her own. …
The real story is not the “scoop” or the supposed scandal. It is the relentless recycling of the same weaponized secrecy playbook and the media’s grotesque complicity each time, deployed to suppress anyone pursuing real accountability. Gabbard’s work cuts through that pattern, and the intensity of the backlash against her only underscores the point.” …….
Dems can’t stand that Tulsi will not be broken. She is smart, tough and beautiful.
America thanks you, Tulsi! 🙏🏻🇺🇸💪🏻
A spy agency secretly snooped on some other spies gossiping about yet another possible spy, so now the spy-committee is mad they were not included in all the spy conversations.
May Director Gabbard continue in her mission
with
Honesty
Integrity
and
Courage
I believe the hand of God is upon her.
One of the responsibilities that I would give to “the ODNI” is to properly evaluate information and to prevent the distribution of “hearsay.” If it is noise, then it should be treated as noise and not dumped into a primary communications channel.
These people basically intercept everything. But “everything that you intercept” is not “intelligence.” If it is placed into the wrong internal channel, though, it might be treated as such. (And this might distract from or interfere with the real stuff.)
The ODNI should not be expected to have to deal with everything – an impossible task, which is why there is “staff” – but this cue-ball was heavy enough to wind up on her desk and I think that she is handling it appropriately.
Yep I agree.
Warner I think got the stock tip to invest heavily in Johnson and Johnson stock. That company I believe sells many products for incontinence. Too bad they don’t sell a product to cure insanity.
Nice try, IC traitors!! We’re not allowing your BS diversionary tradecraft innuendos while we’re working toward bringing an end to Islamic terrorism. Sit down & STFU Senator Warner!!!
The Dems should now demand a special prosecutor to investigate the executive action of withholding vital intelligence information covering up the involvement of the President’s son-in-law in Middle East affairs.
I’m so tired of radical Democrats,
MAGA the only thing right now that maters is getting legitimate voter ID enshrined and a vast majority of these ancillary issues will disappear including those who oppose the Constitution and rule of law. Epstein was a red hearing and so are many of these other of these pop up events. The DOJ’s primary focus should be on keeping the lawfare instigators from undermining the Constitutional authority of the Executive Branch. Also given the window of opportunity there isn’t enough time or number of prosecutors to to deal with the retrobates, seditionists and traitors to bring them to justice at this time. The legislative focus should be on voter ID and nothing else.