Oh, this is just awesome news. Republicans are going bananas. Democrats, led by senate intel vice-chairman Mark Warner are having fits and meltdowns. All of it because President Trump announced the appointment of Bill Pulte to replace Tulsi Gabbard at the end of the month as Acting DNI.
To make the issues even better, Democrats are now threatening to block FISA-702 reauthorization and stop the warrantless surveillance of American citizens unless Pulte’s appointment is withdrawn. Yes, read that again slowly if needed – it’s perfect. 🤣😂🤣
WASHINGTON DC – […] Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday to use his influence with the White House to reverse Trump’s move to install Pulte as overseer of the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
Warner, who’s been critical in building Democratic support for a bipartisan deal to extend FISA Section 702, made clear to Thune that all options are on the table to reverse what Democrats see as a dangerous Trump pick to lead ODNI. Pulte, who currently leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has no national security experience and has used his existing role to exact revenge on Trump’s political foes.
From Warner’s perspective, it’s impossible to convince enough Democrats to support a reauthorization of Section 702 when Pulte would be the one overseeing the program. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has also privately told senators that the Pulte appointment makes passing a FISA deal much more difficult.
Plus, Democrats believe they’d be doing Republicans a favor because they also see Pulte as unqualified for the job, even if few openly say it. As we scooped Tuesday, the White House had indicated to top Republicans that Aaron Lukas, whom Trump announced as the acting DNI 12 days ago, would remain in the role for an extended period. Senate Republicans felt blindsided. (more)
There is a particular stupidity within Washington DC, a genuine blind spot they don’t even notice exists, when it comes to issues attached to the Intelligence Community. I promise you folks; these IC people are genuinely ideological and not smart at all.
The bipartisan knuckleheads are so fraught with self-interest and the need for control, they cannot fathom how Bill Pulte would be elevated to Acting Director of National Intelligence just so existing Deputy Director Aaron Lucas doesn’t have to get bogged down in the quicksand of bureaucracy.
Pulte can attend the meetings, summits, foreign ministerial gatherings, go to the briefings etc. and keep Aaron Lucas completely unencumbered to continue the work begun by DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
Because the Intelligence system in Washington DC controls so much of the activity, and because DC is so territorial – filled with people who demand personal credit for everything that takes place, they have no concept that Pulte’s appointment might be something entirely different than the customary head of a silo they feel entitled to control.
The Intelligence Community in Washington, DC is filled with ideological stupid people. Trust me on this one; you give them way more credit than they deserve. [Watch first few minutes, it’s hilarious]
Knowing our esteemed Republirat Senators, they will be all for FISA and say they have to make so many concessions to the Demoncratics to get it passed! How else can they snatch back a defeat from a victory while making their usual ‘We tried’ excuse!
Hopefully Trump Vetos it at the end of the day anyway !
Trump is the one pushing to have it renewed even though it was used against him
Ultimately, he too falls for the ‘continuity of government’ ruse from the IC.
If you have a source for this, please give it. Otherwuse, be aware this is not his position.
He stated that FISA is important for the military in surveillance of foreign interests. He gave Venezuela as an example.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-urges-extending-fisa-program-as-some-lawmakers-push-for-privacy-protections-for-americans
Republican politicians are next to useless. Most are Democrats who live in red states (Tillis, Murkowski, Thune, McConnell, Capito, Cornyn, Crenshaw, Cassidy, Sasse, Kinsinger, Massie…) . Their job as they see it is to be elected and reelected, to take turns to vote with their Democrat comrades to pass “bipartisan” legislation, to get rich, to fool enough of us so that s/he might be elected president (Bush, McCain, Romney) or become vice president to an outsider (Bush, Pence) to keep him or her from upsetting the Establishment Applecart (Reagan, Trump). Sometimes s/he gets a cabinet position (Barr or becomes Speaker of the House (Ryan, McCarthy) or Senate leader (McConnell, Thune) so as to stall or stop legislation the Swamp doesn’t want. Some even make it to the Supreme Court (Roberts, Coney-Barrett) where they take turns working with the Leftist appointees to maintain the Democrat agenda (like ObamaCare or Tariffs). It’s easy to see once your eyes are opened and your brain is working. I have posted my rule before: Democrats put Party first, Self second and to hell with the Country. Republican (pols) put Self first and to hell with the Country AND the Party. It was/is inevitable that a majority of GOP voters would catch on after so many betrayals. Chickens always come home to roost unless a hawk gets them first. For so many years we have held our nose and voted for RINOs because the Democrat was always worse. This year, I think, a lot of voters have realized that yes, the Democrat is always worse, but what we end up with anyway is the Democrat agenda. Trump’s first term and his “loss” to Biden in 2020 showed us that we are only one election away from one-party oppression and loss of freedom, so we’re either going to have to go quietly into that good night or bite the bullet and kick the RINOs out and take the chance that the Democrats win in November. I think we’ve chosen the latter.
In 2028, the solid red state RINOs could be primaried away. This could be President Trump’s outgoing act of generosity. Sean Cassidy and Cornyhim were fired. More to go.
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Unbelievable! Understanding of a five year old along with his temper tuntrum.
If dems win Trump will be impeached….is that the chance you want to take?
We have finally figured it out.
On the other hand, there are enough Rino’s that love them some 702, they may be willing to do anything to keep it.
It’s funny because the 702 FISA is only used against the Republicans who are the idiots pushing for its authorization! 🤔
Hmm. 🤔
But what if our team IS actually using it to listen to known Dim traitors selling out our country to foreign enemies?
Throws an entirely different light…
I would presume the FISA courts are stacked with partisan ideologues like Boasberg.
Thats funny only one side plays hardball and it aint us.
Like Jarret, Rice et al?
Get behind the chatter and what’s behind DC keeping 702 is because that’s how they all get filthy rich from insider trading
For starters.
IC and Donors are pushing for FISA. They control republicans….seems they would all wise up including PT when it comes to their intelligence briefings …they lied to Trumo.
ISNT this the Brer Rabbit idea? Please, please, Mr. President: don’t make us cancel FISA 702. 😎😎😎😎
Thanks,
Knew if I kept scrolling…..
Same. Playing them like a fiddle!
HA! I just posted similar sentinent.
“ The Intelligence Community in Washington, DC is filled with ideological stupid people. Trust me on this one; you give them way more credit than they deserve.”
Exactly this.
I never found any of these people bright scholars.
They’re the biggest dummies I have ever heard.
Go back and listen to the “chocolate jesus” speeches.
Everything he would say was complete gibberish filled with buzzwords of the day.
All nonsense and the idiots buy all of it.
Stupid people following stupid people.
“The bipartisan knuckleheads…..”
You can’t detest these RINO rats enough!!
Yeah, I know, but I’m trying really hard.
yes we are!
That’s an insult to rats!
and in the meantime, paying them a lot of damned money.
Exhibit A: James Clapper.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
A simple GREED trait for their sticky fingers.
Hat tip. Dr. Michael Savage.
doofus states Ex Cathedra
……….pursue the presidents false claims about 2020 elections………
as if the question was ever heard
I had to shut him down when he said that. I am so sick of these richard craniums spouting their lies. That’s all the media can do is lie, lie, lie. They couldn’t tell the truth if their life depended on it.
They’ll be sorry to know their souls do.
the rinos are going to be puckering and clenching very hard over all of this.
The solution to the pollution…is make all the Silos, all the Departments smaller. The smaller the government the less harm is done. You need to find fewer honest people to make it run. You can get the budgets to be smaller. Less grift.
Remember the Trillion Dollar Shovel Ready Jobs….there were no shovel ready jobs. No Budgets after that so the Trillion Dollar Shovel Ready was reauthorized and increased EVERY YEAR. Where did it all go, where is it going. It is all GRIFT.
GRAFT
Grift / Graft
criminal / illegal
Potato / Potahto ….
Shovel ready jobs? Heck, there weren’t even any shovels.
Chyna was shipping the shovels to Harbor Freight by the boat load.
Yep…they keep repeating that the 40 trillion is our debt…..hey I saw no benefit at all.
Grift/Graft sooo Big and Good that Oh Bam Ah had to LOL about that fact in his WH meeting on his New Jobs scam with with Fellow Traveler, CEO, Bob Iger.
“Not a Smidgen of Corrupt”,…. right, Purple Lipped Light Giver?
More like a purple lipped lap lizard.
Blue lips
To our deficit.
OK am now onboard. Was concerned at first glance but if Sundance is correct (usually is) then this is a great move.
Especially like the D’s and their new opposition to 702 FISA re authorization. Perhaps with the D opposition the R’s will not be able to get enough votes to pass. Can not make this stuff up. Good theater coming to Capitol Hill.
Why would the Dems want to stop FISA 702? One, they are bluffing, trying to elicit the response they want from the administration. For example, accuse and then blame the President of allowing terrorists’ communications to go unmonitored thereby exposing the country to terrorist attacks.
Two, they know that it will soon be turned on them because the current DNI and the acting AG have the goods and they can obtain the warrants no matter what judge is in charge of or sitting on the FISA court in DC. Warner’s “performance” today indicates he had a big night on the town before the testimony or he’s aware of some big hurts coming; and he may be in the crosshairs.
I want to see several atomic hammers of truth dropped on these traitors; 2020 elections criminal activity, the unlawful impeachment, the conspiracy that has gone for over 10 years and continues to this day.
The Democrat wanted Gabbard gone, so they got what they wanted, why are they so unhappy?
As for the Democrats wanting to now kill FISA Section 702 it is the only thing I have agreed with the Democrats on in over fifty years, if even that short of time, but I have a hard time remember further back that than.
Democrats are always so unhappy because they keep looking into mirrors.
Oh happy days are here again
We can sing our songs of cheer again
We can sing them on the internet
And on our private telenets
Happy days are her again.
Tom Cotton is still trying to gaslight everyone on the “original intent” of the DNI role.
The role was never designed as a he describes, he just wants to be able to continue to control the process with doofuses like Clapper.
It was designed to put Tune&Cotton in the exact position they now find themselves in.
The Observed.
I made a comment about Cotton yesterday and wish I would have said this. I commented he was incoherent in saying Tulsi would revert the position back to what it used to be.
He was incoherent, but your point is so much more important.
He’s doing major gas lighting and managed to slip that psst some of us… We can’t take our eyes off the road for even a minute!
I love that everytime Tom Cotton opens his mouth more people become aware of the sleaze oozing out of it.
He’s becoming like Thune, McCain, McConnell, Issa, etc.. anyone paying the slightest amount of attention is well aware of their duplicity.
This is the most hilarious “news” in a long time! Oh pls cancel 702 reauthorization and make Warner and Shumer wear the responsibility.
They are saying: “We love 702 when OUR guys are in control, but you have someone like Pulte and boy oh boy, does 702 feel like warrantless searching of US citizens.”
If you think they are bad at IC, you should see the local county Mensa candidates.
Be grateful that you don’t have to work with 435 philanderers, thieves, liars, adulterers, drunks, and about 10~15 dementia patients every day. Count your blessings.
I used to work at a place that closely resembles that description. Thank God I’m retired now.
Where was this? just wondering.
Maybe Pulte would be “acting” for 6 months or so until Tulsi’s husband gets better (hopefully, pray for him), and then Tulsi can return.
All the collective hair-on-fire reaction from the left and right tell me this appointment is EXACTLY over the target.
And they can’t do anything about it.
They are writhing & gnashing their teeth about it – that’s something that shows who they really are & what they’re really about better than almost anything.
Same exactly with their knee-jerk apoplexy over Trump’s anti-weaponization fund; all the guilty weaponizing perpe-TRAITORS did the same self-implosion over that one a few days ago; Sunlight.
Keep it up criminals… exposing yourselves is the Righteous thing to do.
That’s the best part of the whole thing!
“what about our Allies overseas?” They are going to be just as appalled as Mr. Cotton is my guess. Fuming, foot stomping mad, they all have something to hide from “the people they serve”.
DC is going to have to bring back the “fainting couch’ as necessary furniture in their meeting rooms. And order up smelling salts from the Congressional Pharmacy stat.
Yes, good point. President Trump said the military needs FISA for surveillance of foreign interests.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-urges-extending-fisa-program-as-some-lawmakers-push-for-privacy-protections-for-americans
By Noon today I expect another Democrat will have smacked Warner up the back of his head to wake him up.
I love Sundance’s analysis, but even more, I love the optics and ironies on this one. After DECADES of DEI hires across the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, MAGA FINALLY gets its own Premium-Quality, Top Drawer, USDA (and POTUS!)-Approved DEI hire to be the NEXUS of Intelligence and Information gathering.
The only candidate who would be a better fit in our POTUS’s strategic prescription to cure our Great Sovereign nation’s ills is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent!
Give the truly collegial atmosphere that this amazing cabinet fosters day in and day out, I expect to see further integrated efforts never seen in DC in support of our Great Commander in Chief.
Needless to say, I am VERY Happy with this hire! 🙂
Asked Thune to use his influence with the White House…
ROTFL…
“Hi John…what? Oh…sure…when the full, un-amended SAVE Act hits my desk, we can talk about that.”
“Have a wonderful day, John.”
As author J. K. Rowling said in another context, “I love it when a plan comes together.”
Which she stole from Hannibal of the A Team.
The A Team aired in Scotland?
Pity there aren’t some kick-azz shows on now in the UK.
“No evidence so they’ll try to gin up something…” Who’s the queen of denial there? I don’t watch tv so I’m asking what that woman is doing there inventing denial of what the Sunlight is about to show… apparently knows what’s coming.
Our people should be *hammering* the question…
WHY is it ‘Dangerous’? How is this person Dangerous???
WHY is it ‘Dangerous’? How is this person Dangerous???
WHY is it ‘Dangerous’? How is this person Dangerous???
Smoke and mirrors from the Dems. They have to have fisa in order to spy on everyone. Along with the traitorous rinos You watch it will get passed.
The only way to end FISA 702 is to use it against the uniparty, and only then will they agree to end it.
If need be President Trump I bet, has serious backup to Pulte.
I bet the person will be as bad a$$ as Tulsi.
The Deputy DNI, Aaron Lukas.
Talk about your win-win situations.
Say you will pull Pulte if Thune gets rid of the filibuster and passes the save act. When he does what you have asked and it is what he should do, leave Pulte right there anyway. Just say sorry, I need a man who fights for my side and the American People.
Maybe don’t even say sorry because you are not sorry at all. You are very happy to have killed two birds with one stone.
Agree 100%. Sorry I changed my mind, like you do with all of those promises you make to your constituents and don’t keep. All’s fair.\
Just say his acting term is limited and then he will be gone. Meanwhile I’m looking for his replacement. Has to be someone at least as good.
I like the way you think, except I’d rather Trump would tell Thune and friends to pass the Save Act or he will have Pulte focus on possible reasons why Thune refuses to represent the American people.
Oh, THAT would be sweet!
You sound like A dirty-trickster politician and I agree with you, leave Pulte as DNI…bill
but the IC community was correct on spotting and preventing:
The IC has done a terrific job in preventing all those civilization-wrecking problems.
What??
Oh, it’s not the way I thought?
/ sarc. off /
If I did as badly at my job, I would have been fired. And former employer would demand I repay the wages I accepted while doing a bad job.
Perhaps they assisted in all these events?
It’s a question because I currently do not have evidence to corroberate.
Betcha’ someone does.
To be expected when the IC is stacked with Political Actors and DEI failures. We’re all on our own now when it comes to Foreign Threats,….. and Domestic Psy Ops.
Not my comment…..weanie.
Mark Warner, John Cornyn, John Thune, Tom Cotton – they have one thing in common. They’re all too stupid to know we know how stupid they are. If they think America wants fisa 702, they’re even more brain dead than we thought.
While lacking “technical experience” …. Bill Pulte is a businessman and knows how to “manage” as a Chief Executive over a major enterprise.
This could be interesting as Bill Pulte would play a major role in the actual reorganization of the IC ad the Executive “Manager” type ODNI … if he is properly supported by “real live” MAGA Oriented Loyalists. Additionally, nothing precludes having Tulsi Gabbard on hand as an Executive Advisor.
Also, he is no dummy so do not sell Pulti short on the ability to properly act as an ODNI, again if properly supported.
Our PR/Ad Agency in Houston had Pulte Home Builders as a client in Texas in the early ’80s,….. they were great at their Biz then, and still are today as America’s third largest home builder with the brands,… Pule Homes, Del Web, Centex, DiVosta, among other brands.
Bill Pulte certainly knows how Common Sense Biz in the USA is suppose to work and hopefully He will “Kick Some Swamp Ass”,…. as our Treasury Sec., Bessent says now.
Confirms he was the right choice…they are fearful…
Which quote do I use here? ‘Go ahead, make my day’? ‘I double-dog dare you!’?
Seriously, I know 702 is useful, but it’s also probably unconstitutional, and it has been ‘best used’ to attempt multiple Presidential coups. Let them.
lol! The ultimate checkmate move by Trump.
So tell me, those who know, were those FISA’s working both ways over the last 12 years?
Unlike some state constitutions, the US Constitutions does not have a “single subject” requirement that only permits legislation that addresses one matter (yes, the courts do interpret that rather broadly).
So Thune can draft a bill that includes the SAVE Act and the 702 renewal and put it before the Senate. Once passed, it goes to the House.
When the CIA planned, funded, and facilitated the “ISIS” terror attack on the Crocus Theater in Moscow in March 2024, I wrote friends about how transparently obvious the CIA backing was and how Moscow would know it was us because the CIA agents are all idiots. I then explained Moscow’s intel agencies are far more intelligent than ours and they would respond with a “more deniable attack on our infrastructure similar to the East Palestine train derailment.”
Three days later, the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed when a barge that the Biden administration was adamant “was definitely not hacked” crashed into it. There are no coincidences.
Not sure how that would hurt the IC, but interesting nonetheless.
It wouldn’t, but it was a close-to-home (near DC) attack against our national economic interests.
1. The ISIS terrorists were paid half up front (ISIS conducts violence for ideological reasons, not $5k)
2. They fled the scene (terrorists always try to inflict maximum damage and give their lives for their cause. They almost never flee)
3. They were given valid Ukrainian passports
4. They were told exactly where and when to cross into Ukraine (the CIA claimed they picked up “chatter” and told Russia where to find them so the Russians could find the Ukrainian passports on them)
The point was to make Russia think that Ukraine was behind the attack, so Putin would strike deep into Ukraine and the USA/EU could pass more funding bills to steal more money from taxpayers.
It was transparent because the CIA is staffed by idiots and Russia’s FSB is not.
You know the FSB’s staffing?
One would think that the Uni-party IC Cabal would be pleased to have a novice such as Pulte at the helm because he would be too stupid to catch them at their traitorous games.
I wonder why Pulte triggers them so much?
I think it is because Tulsi’s number 2 can continue what he’s doing instead of becoming acting director and more of a figurehead.
Thank you.
I feel like I fully understand this now.
No wonder the creatures are pooping their panties.
All those mortgages used in derivatives of the name of the Arizona governor. Like that? And Big “Tish?”
GREAT FIND! That’s kinda what I was thinking…. actually I wish I could think like that! 🙂
Devine NUNEZ This is huge
He would be Huge – Bigly – in that DNI post.
If the democrat scum is concerned then Trump is directly over the target. This is a good thing.
Puking pencilnecks and a homely pantload; hilarious.
Bricking their tightie whities, yes. 😆
— “Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday to use his influence with the White House . . . ” This is just too rich. Influence? Warner must be smoking some pretty strong weed.
— “From Warner’s perspective, it’s impossible to convince enough Democrats to support a reauthorization of Section 702 when Pulte would be the one overseeing the program. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has also privately told senators that the Pulte appointment makes passing a FISA deal much more difficult.” No FISA? Break my heart.
The Discombobulator has struck again! 🤣
The Pulte pick is glorious. Trump once again is three to four steps ahead of the life long idiots up on capital hill and in the IC.
Please don’t throw me in the briar patch!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Trump has found the cheat code on confirmations. After you get your initial one confirmed, replace them with Acting for 210 days at a time. Sundance’s point about how the Acting Director can do the PR part and have the Assistant do the dirty work is also valid.
Save Act leverage.
MAGA
Floor it Mr President! Give’em hell! I’m at the point where I enjoy their squealing and crying. I’m sick of these people. Time to pay the piper.
“Pulte, who currently leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has no national security experience and has used his existing role to exact revenge on Trump’s political foes.”
This corrupt “reporter” states that as if it’s a fact, not just the unhinged rantings of mentally unstable Leftists.
I certainly hope so.
Is this a signal they have captured all the nefarious mortgage info?
A lot of people blame President Bush for the Iraq WMD fiasco. When Bush asked the CIA Director about Iraq WMD, George Tenet replied, “It’s a slam dunk, Sir.” As you recall, Tenet was appointed CIA Director by President Clinton and President Bush carried him over into his administration…probably a bad idea to have “career professionals” continue their games.
But what’s also interesting is that John Brennan served as Executive Assistant to then-Deputy Director George Tenet (1995–1996), Chief of Staff to CIA Director George Tenet from 1999 to 2001, and then as Deputy Executive Director of the CIA from 2001 to 2003, and eventually CIA Director under President Obama.
Maybe Mr. Pulte can figure out where this WMD claim came from and whose fingerprints were all over it and used to set up the Iraq war and the President. I think Mr. Brennan is going to have a lot of explaining to do on a number of issues.