CBS is reporting on events within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. As CTH previously outlined, Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte is following a very predictable path. {GO DEEP}
The part of the CBS report that tells the story is: “Six career and political intelligence staff were terminated and 45 were sent back to their home agencies, according to three sources familiar with the personnel moves.” … “One source characterized the cuts as thoughtful and methodical. No staffers have been removed from the counterterrorism group.”
So, who was removed? Well, I’m certainly not the Nostradamus of USIC, but if I were to hazard an educated guess it looks like the National Intelligence Council – Directorate of Analysis, just lost six political staff, and 45 people from the various liaison desks were ‘sent back to their home agencies.’
As we noted last year, Tulsi Gabbard took the National Intelligence Council (NIC) out of the CIA – fired the heads, then putting the assembly back under the control of the ODNI. However, highly political operatives within the former CIA-controlled Directorate of Analysis (the former home of Eric Ciarmella) were still problematic. It looks like Director Pulte just eliminated the remaining DoA rats.
The 45 returned to their ‘home agencies‘ were certainly from the liaison desks inside the DNI.
I’m not sure if that represents 45 from across all the desks, or the complete elimination of some overstaffed liaison desks. That said, given the nature of the leaking was recently to CNN (State Dept leaks to CNN), I am somewhat confident the State Dept liaison office inside the DNI is now empty office space. [Just a hunch 😂]
Please remember, our predictive public discussions at CTH are in the strictest confidence.
(VIA CBS) – Just over 50 career and political intelligence staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have been removed from their roles since Bill Pulte became the agency’s acting director, Friday.
Six career and political intelligence staff were terminated and 45 were sent back to their home agencies, according to three sources familiar with the personnel moves.
Pulte has been asking deputies and other directors for suggestions about cuts. Some of the ODNI deputies pushed for more cuts, but Pulte said that the 51 was enough for now, one of the sources said.
One source characterized the cuts as thoughtful and methodical. No staffers have been removed from the counterterrorism group.
No further firings are planned for now, two of the sources said.
The cuts follow hundreds of staff reductions last year by former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who stepped down last week. Last year’s planned downsizing sought to bring the office’s headcount from 2,000 to around 1,300.
President Trump has pushed for further cuts, directing Pulte to “execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office” in a Truth Social post earlier this month.
[…] Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence panels, warned Pulte against making large-scale staff cuts, calling it an inappropriate course of action for an acting official without national security experience. (more)
Senator Warner haz sad.
Meanwhile in related news: “This sets up a stalemate as several Democrats have said they will not support reauthorizing Section 702 while Pulte remains Trump’s acting DNI pick.” {source}
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No FISA (702)?
As Winnie the Pooh would say, “Oh, bother!”
How many arrested?
It’s the ONLY thing that matters…..
That would require the DOJ. I will take what I CAN get.
The doj works in slow motion…if at all. The fraud arrests are low-hanging fruit to make it look like the doj is doing something.
What about Jeanine Pirro?
Can’t we get a little help from a friend?
She can’t get a conviction or a true bill through the District of Columbia .
Well, some of us want more.
Obama and his shizhead wingman are the folks who need to be arrested wrt 702 criminality.
What can we do, dear sir?
It’s out of our hands.
It becomes clear that we have to accept what we can get, even if it is unacceptable and violates our righteous sense of justice and all which that justice demands.
The sewer which is the Deep State slowly, too slowly, is being drained.
It’s a start…
Unfortunately, as anyone that has ever dealt with a smudged up cesspool knows, once you start pumping it the more and more often you will have to do so. Eventually you will be pumping so often there is no choice but to replace the whole thing.
Exactly. When your root problem are the people that will impeach and convict you at the drop of a hat, you’ve got to keep everything very survivable-seeming all the way to the day that you can take the actions you really need.
I have come to recognize that this nation of ours is completely balkanized.
There is a plurality which despises the rest of us, the Constitution, and anyone who does not agree with their godless perversions and quick claim to the way they believe their ideologies should reign into perpetuity.
And they have infested and taken root within every filthy DC orifice.
We are rule and law abiding. They ignore every single one and give special dispensation to their corrupt cronies, donors, and paymasters. See their opt outs from the hideous O’Care and bioweapon vaxxxines for example.
We might have some hope of redemption if those we elect to represent us weren’t cashing in on their positions and held any moral fibre. But they to a man and woman , with single digit notable exceptions, are political invertebrates. Sewer rats in suits who are quite content to swim in the sewage in which they operate.
I see no fix for any of this, outside of your suggestion.
Which I believe we can all agree is not possible.
What an unholy construct we’ve been turned into…
I understand the frustration from others Betsy but I am like you in this.
Even if we see the DOJ take action the judges just throw out the case.
If you didn’t despise John Thune enough, this should help push it over the cliff.
Re: The No Rogue Rulings Act
https://xcancel.com/Badhombre/status/2069511357699924039#m
Citizen Vigilante great movie. Dont pirate pay the 6.99.
All truth spoken.
Bet John would be on his list.
Just watched it — very satisfying.
It astounds me hownout of touch he and cronies are with the rising tide of rage
DJT posted a segment from Laura Ingrahams show tonight discussing this topic with two guests. Ending: this will be the reason GOP loses the Senate.
Thing is, losing the Senate is …well… the absolute end of the country or the beginning of reviving the Declaration of Independence.
Fox, like most of the narrative engineered media, is good at stating opinions, “this will be the reason the GOP loses the senate” as a fact. Fox’s brand of narrative engineering is only slightly different than the other alphabet narrative engineers. Many times it is what they refuse to report that is the most telling. Also, why do these people always think they are above getting fired or re-located? Regular citizens are fired and relocated all the time. Also Fox, WHO exactly is mad that they lost their jobs or are relocated? The American people aren’t upset that some political hack bureaucrat lost his job even if you tell us we should vote our senator out because of it.
I understand it, too, Patrick…in truth with my answer to our angry friend, I was actually talking to myself.
I have a difficult time keeping my fury under control as we watch these agencies do exactly as they please. As if America was their personal property, knowing as you say, that they have a get out of jail free card given to them by a malignant, corrupt ideological judiciary which has abused its constitutionally delineated powers…with absolutely no restraints.
What does that make us as a Republic?
I was talking myself down, my friend, in order to protect every ounce of peace I can hold on to in the face of understanding the moral/pathological degeneracy that is too deeply embedded in DC to rid ourselves of.
Betsy
Igt is like Congress exempting themselves from FISA searches. They know that they will still be searched. The folks that did the illegal searches will keep doing them. Congress knows that they will be compromised. Congress will have to “behave”. The cesspool is deep.
Another good example.
Being part Irish, I definitely understand your fury. Praying a Rosary helps me.
The leaking gives the scumbags the opportunity to mitigate and play defense before any serious investigation gets off the ground. The leakers are clearly saboteurs, which means arrests will never happen with them still in place. While I share Ret USMC’s feelings that we NEED arrests, getting the traitors out of the ranks is a great, necessary first step. I’ll obviously take it, but I hope there’s much more to come.
The root of this corruption is money…..
Remove the money, eliminate the corruption…
Kinda like rust….
Remove the oxygen, prevents oxidation…..
STARVE IT!
Arrests would certainly be nice, but getting the snakes out of the basement is always good.
Great….but ya still have to bring them in front of a corrupt judiciary…..before we do that, most of the judges need a Caribbean vacation….to Gitmo….
So long as the mobsters are sitting ’round the Police Capitan’s desk, ain’t gonna be many arrests.
It’s not the only thing that matters.
President Trump has made more progress in the last year and a half than any other President in my lifetime.
President Trump is draining the swamp. He is tearing down the old rules based international order. He is turbo charging America’s economy like nobody since Coolidge.
President Trump is WINNING! To denigrate his efforts and accomplishments just because there weren’t perp walks today is worse than silly.
It’s the epitome of Eyeore-ism.
1000 likes!
I know I’m dreaming but can we please have the public executions first? We know they’re guilty of treason/sedition, they know they’re guilty of treason/sedition so the only people that don’t know really don’t count cuz they’re brainwashed, TDS-positive HATERS!
Mr. Warner, would you like a mask before your execution…..like the one you wore doing the FAKE PLANDEMIC ?
I’m sorry. I love the truth that is coming out thanks to Sundance but as much as I want to see a somewhat peaceful form of “justifiable retribution” against all domestic enemies of our great country I just don’t see it happening.
The Founders foresaw it and told us what must happen to save the Republic. In my mind it’s inevitable unless President Trump
uses his powers to destroy the Judicial Branch and all those that worship the Dems/RINOS who are destroying our country.
Folks say that a civil war would destroy our country. I say BULLSHIT! There are way more MAGA folks than the scum living in the cities. Look at the election map by county of 2024 or 2020 before the steal!
Yes, the evil ones have cells in our country and with people like Patel who still has kneeling POS working at the FBI as well as ANTIFA and BLM walking free then it is a battle…but a battle I’m ready to fight cuz I’m sick of Pride Month, I’m sick of Transvestites walking into our schools brainwashing our kids. I’m sick of everything the Left destroys.
We can’t even clean a freaking reflection pool without these miscreants walking in and destroying it? And President Trump says DC is safe? It may be safer but when people can pour shit into a pool and tear it up then we don’t have Law and Order in DC!
I love and respect our President Donald J. Trump and as many here agree he is the greatest President in my lifetime. He has stood at the frontlines and survived more than we will ever know. He is trying to save our country peacefully but when the legal, justifiable way is an impossible task what should he do?
THE END!
Whoops, looks like Congress got itself stuck in a Trumptrap.
I’m guessing that Tulsi left him a list.
Or someone else that we know well…
I am wondering why the cull was not done by her.
I would suggest, Tulsi Gabbard’s political future, has played a large part in her keeping herself distanced from such blatant MAGA Moves…
Came here to say exactly this. Was she obligated to pretend she was clueless? If so, these moves were long needed and likely precipitate some other dominoes that will soon fall.
Two different personalities. Two very different backgrounds. Both approaching issues in ways they are most familiar with. Tulsi was exposing the ones that were busy trying to bury bodies. Pulte is might get there too, but for now he’s starting with the ones that are just hanging around, leaning on their shovels.
My intuitive sense is that we have not seen the last of her in some role of the IC for Trump and those that follow. Her genuine step-aside for her husband’s health was appropriate, may he have a successful outcome, and leaving Pulte to run the abattoir at ODNI ensured the ugly splatter isn’t in her resume.
He’s checking it twice, seeing who’s knotty and not so nice.
Tulsi was there long enough to know generally who the subversive pieces of garbage were. Her assistant directors definitely had a map ready for Pulte. Next, would guess there’ll be an assistant director or 2 leaving very soon
Woo Hoo! Maybe the Big Ugly is starting to pick up steam? LORD, hear our prayers….. 🙏🙏🙏
Yes, PLEASE! Full speed ahead. Go Bill go. Clean out as many traitors and leakers and bad actors as possible in the next 5 months.
Amen to that mom
Interesting that Sundance has admonished us to keep predictions here in our strictest confidence today. Let’s obey that to a T.
Hmmm. what “prediction” did I make? I asked the LORD to bless the efforts of those who seek truth and justice, which is a pretty specific, but totally generic prayer, all at the same time!
Didn’t mean to imply that you were guilty of that vm! Just an accident of comment order. It’s a generic admonition for us all, 24/7.
You will know the Big Ugly starts when shots are fired. It will be a MIRACLE if we remove them without it.
“Senator Warner haz sad” made me laugh out loud.
He’s just such a foul, hideous human, inside and out, that it cracked me up. That conniving POS is too self absorbed to haz sad, but it paints a funny picture.
When the spittle, slobber and drool are present, it gives me the happies.
“Senator Warner haz sad” = MAGA haz glad.
Human?
By what definition??
Well this begs the question, if these people needed to go or be moved, why hadn’t Tulsi already done it ?
Why now after she’s left and an acting Director has just stepped into the role ?
It seems as though there is something below the surface which kept these people where they were until this “changing of the guard.”
FISA
That’s no excuse on Tulsi Gabbard’s part.
you don’t have enough information to make a logical conclusion concerning such. I am glad for her and her valiant effort.
Damn. That is harsh.
How about her husband getting a rare form of bone cancer? I am good with that reason.
Morton’s Fork from President Trump?
🎯
The intelligence network is big, and I can see where it would take time to identify who needs to go, and at what time you can safely get rid of them.
In my thinking she had to leave before she got to it. The surprise of her husband’s diagnosis changed her timeline.
GW …there are “Executive” Chefs and then there are “Sous”Chefs. Each have their own role in meal preparation.
I’m excited to see how it all comes together!
There could be some sort of Blackmail going on.
Sending these individuals back into their slime holes just like all the others who commit crimes and slither away until called upon again.
Unless they are never called upon again.
Irs a start.
Lois Lerner?
Retired.
Foiled again.
I was expecting a larger number.
If they move around remaining staff, it will likely result in more deciding they no longer like who they report to and what they are tasked with, and leaving voluntarily.
Trump comes from the real world. Move them to jobs they don’t like, under people they can’t stand, with reporting requirements that document poor performance and remove potential for career advancement, limit their ability to leak without getting caught, and make them wonder if they are next for firing – and watch them self-terminate.
If they quit, no bleeding-heart liberal judge gets a chance to reinstate them.
Gary Indiana is the eperfect place for them to do their kind of intelligance analysis. And having their high salaries located there would be great for the local enonomy which could use the help.
Thanks, now “The Music Man” is going to be invading my brain for the rest of the night, as I envision them selling musical instruments to the musically marginalized!
They are NOT bleeding heart Judges. They are Communist Judges.
That may represent a fair number of the people who’ve been hanging around ODNI, but not even a drop in the bucket of the whole IC. Not a droplet, not even the tiniest of sprinkles. There needs to be many thousands getting the axe across the whole IC.
Eye poking is better than nothing.
This is AWESOME! He wouldn’t do this if they supported the president.
Circling of the drain. Loud sucking sound.
If Bucky Warner haz sads, that’s all the endorsement the policy needs.
We may soon see strangers pop up on the average cable news channel not named FOX.
Don’t threaten me with a good time…oh bother!
No FISA 702? I’ll believe it when I see it.
If the Senate creatures don’t like Bill Pulte, then I love him.
Time will tell, but so far so good.
No 702?
No problem.
Time for a false flag event to prove the “need” for it?
I do not believe we could put anything past these idealogues.
(especially when they could “blame the President”.)
I think 2 FFs have already happened. The 1st was the attempt to disrupt the UFC fight at the WH. The 2nd was the very recent discovery of the green algae chemical weapons attack (they were manufacturing enough of that stuff to put it into every water feature in Wash DC). Unfortunately I think there will be more. But if Jeanine Pirro has her way the algae spreaders will spend at least 5 years in jail, so maybe consequences instead of no consequences will dissuade further attacks.
a Biden-appointd judge will decide that algae cultivation in public waterways is ‘free speech’ and will save the earth.
In response, PDJT could convert the reflection pool into a hydroponic garden.
The heck of it the ones they get are the peons who know nothing of value.
The key is consequences. If they are in jail, the USA becomes safer. Just like normal criminals….none should ever get to 35 arrests….3 arrests may be 1 too many.
“..several Democrats have said they will not support reauthorizing Section 702 while Pulte remains Trump’s acting DNI pick.”
Your terms are acceptable.
….’Oh please don’t throw me in the brier patch….’
Yep. Don’t tempt me with a good time.
Exactly!
With the dismantling of USAID and removal of State from ODNI, they are going back to their original mission: hosting Independence Day cookouts for ExPats at the Embassy and Consular missions. And I’m hoping the missions are reduced cuz we ain’t issuing more Visas.
“hosting Independence Day cookouts for ExPats at the Embassy and Consular missions.”
As long as Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) is cooking the burgers, I am OK with that.
Six fewer is certainly much better than six more…
Is there anyone here that can give me remedial lessons on the meaning of, “ sent back to their home agencies..” ?
Individuals who fill State or War or DOJ etc billets are assigned to work at the ODNI. They are NOT ODNI employees.
My curiosity is the 6 who were fired. Must not have been career Civil Service, but political appointees.
SD explains it in this post.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/20/pulte-factor-quick-reference-guide-to-media-leaks/#more-284573
Mark Warner, is that you? 😝
Wondering about security clearances.
Sundance and Crew thank you.
Always on the spot information.
Also, according to Pooh…
I logged on and found this good news.
oh noes, Director Pulte doesn’t have the “national security experience”. Oh Deary.. Lol
Woe is me.
Now he does.
Per the Ds & RINOs, national security clearance nor experience is necessary when it comes to receiving classified leaked documents for publication. Ask any Dem. /s
Keep it up, man, keep it up!
Well worth the read from Sam Faddis.
The Deep State’s Stay Behind Program Is So Far Being Remarkably Successful – The Swamp Is Winning
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/the-deep-states-stay-behind-program-9bc?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=746580&post_id=203272791&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ch1ue&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
That sucks.
Former CIA officer Faddis quotes Tulsi:
“I can attest personally that in my work as the Director of National Intelligence, the deep state is fighting us every step of the way…”
AND Magazine | Substack
Faddis was on Bannon. Enough said 🤨
Bannon? You mean the faker on the Epstein payroll?
I need opinions on Sam Faddis, straight arrow, or otherwise.
Thanks in advance.
Echoes of Tony Scaramucci.
Well I hope he confirmed the democratic party has no soul. It seems breitbart thinks they got one, and there is a fight for it.
I say that sailed in the late 80s if not sooner.
It sailed during Reagan. I watched it from a close up vantage point.
Wonderful!
Lets start Praying for Pulte now!! Tulsi has done her job superbly-now time for Pulte to pick the sword and fight on . I have been praying for this guy already. Prayer is a powerful weapon indeed!!!
To the war room.
They`re out there.
that did not post where it was supposed to, sorry.
Didn’t FISA 702 authority lapse last Friday? I’ve seen nothing about that if it did.
But if it did, would hope POTUS would give DIRNSA (NSA owns and maintains the 702 database) a direct order to block any usage of that database as long as the authority has lapsed.
Yes, it did lapse. Not that the lack of any legal authorization would stop the IC from spying on Americans.
The tech personnel brought in under Tulsi, Elon, etc. well may have installed software to monitor for exactly that probability.
Progress in the right direction hopefully. These matters take time, unfortunately.
Hmmm…FISA for SAVE Act passage? Or, can Senator Pune stop it still?
Acting DNI Pulte Removes 51 from Agency – Six Fired and 45 “sent back to their home agencies” … ???
Be still, my beating heart … now WHEN ARE WE GONNA’ SEE THOSE LONG AWAITED ARRESTS … ???
Hopefully before I die … but I’ll “wait” … and I’m 80 …
Slowly at first, then all of a sudden.
Make it so.
As Br’er Rabbit would say, “Please don’t throw me in that briar patch”.!
Waaaaahhhh!
No FISA!
😭
Well… now I’m really looking forward to declassifications relating to Warner.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m really looking forward to more people having exposure to Sundance’s great article on Warner, James Wolfe, Ali Watkins, and the leaked FISA.
It should be plastered on every conservative medium every tine Warner opens his mouth.
Incoming false flag operation against the American people.
By any means necessary, right ?
any means necessary, that, or seven ways from Sunday, or, are there plans to turn the celebration of Freedom 250 that is being promoted to happen in D.C. this week on their agenda ala J6 moves?
uh oh, I’ve entered panican territory. oops.
Abt….July 4th
“warned Pulte against making large-scale staff cuts, calling it an inappropriate course of action for an acting official without national security experience.”
Proceed full speed ahead with cuts galore!
Hopefully Plute is being advised by the right people. The Swamp is camouflaged.
Winning; tiny steps lead to bigger ones, still, this is in the winning column!
Oh no! They won’t reauthorize the 702 while Pulte is in office! I bet he can work around that problem.
Losing their 702 is sort of like taking the cell phone away from the kids. It really is better if they don’t have it.
Their friends just give them another.
Hopefully the ones being sent back to their agencies will have all access and clearances axed.
🔥🦎🥵
It’s a start.
President Trump posted (verse of the day 6/23/26 on the Bible app)
I see that the standard Pulte photo is to be of him with a big smile on his face. I take that to mean there will be many more firings to come And he’s enjoying the job. Go Pulte!
You can quote Poo when it comes to 702. I prefer Br’er Rabbit.
“Doan throw me in dat Briarr Patch!”
I don’t believe lack of a current FISA 702 is stopping the IC from collecting on whomever they want.
Exactly!
Lack of a current FISA 702 is stopping the IC from legally collecting on whomever they want.
Puts sand in their gears when they’re suddenly being held accountable for their actions, especially if it’s in a courtroom outside of their D.C. cocoon.
Well, then they’d be breaking the law. Pulte can monitor them and inform the DOJ of their crimes. This would be our best chance at firing, arresting, convicting, and/or imprisoning some of these losers.