It gets a little into the weeds; however, you might remember last year when DNI Tulsi Gabbard took the National Intelligence Council (NIC) out of the CIA and brought the analyst system under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
The NIC was where the sausage was made; where the assessments were constructed; where CIA Directors manipulated information through a very political system of control. The NIC is where people like Eric Ciaramella worked. This sub-silo was where intelligence was analyzed, informed, shaped, controlled and then presented for wider distribution.
The NIC was the weaponized information bureaucracy within the larger intelligence community. DNI Gabbard fired the heads of the NIC, took control and moved it out of the CIA where their analysis could no longer hide behind the black wall of the CIA. Gabbard put intelligence analysis back into a position where it could be scrutinized.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard then began scrutinizing prior NIC work product and having the non-political intelligence analysts look at the information. Yesterday she revoked the NICs Intelligence Community Assessment on Anomalous Health Incidents.
NEW YORK TIMES – Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, revoked two Biden-era intelligence assessments that cast doubt on the idea that the mysterious ailments known as Havana syndrome that American spies and diplomats had reported were caused by a foreign adversary, officials announced on Thursday.
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