Posted on 02/02/2026 2:24:00 PM PST by Bratch
The Wall Street Journal is out with a very specific hit piece against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The article is 100% Intelligence Community insider lawfare against DNI Gabbard; however, in addition to being completely bogus the construct of the hit itself is very revealing.
The first CIA operation (2017) involved the National Intelligence Council (NIC sub-silo) and a Russian intelligence analyst, Eric Ciaramella. That was the creation of the fraudulent Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) written from within the NIC at the direction of John Brennan. The second CIA operation was the 2019 fraudulent Trump impeachment effort, again originating from Russian analyst Eric Ciaramella (anonymous whistleblower) who was represented by legal counsel Andrew Bakaj.
The current attack against DNI Tulsi Gabbard involves her May 2025 move to take the National Intelligence Counsel out of the CIA, and remove the heads of the agency, Chairman Mike Collins (friend of Mike Morrell) and Deputy Chair Maria Langan-Riekhof. {GO DEEP}
Within the current “leak”, structurally another false narrative, the Wall Street Journal frames yet another anonymous intelligence community whistleblower complaint, this time against DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Notice: the “anonymous whistleblower” is again represented by legal counsel Andrew Bakaj. The anti-Trump intelligence officials are running the same play.
As noted by DNI Spokesperson Olivia Coleman,
“This is a classic case of a politically motivated individual weaponizing their position in the Intelligence Community, submitting a baseless complaint and then burying it in highly classified information to create
1) false intrigue,
2) a manufactured narrative, and
3) conditions which make it substantially more difficult to produce “security guidance” for transmittal to Congress.”
WASHINGTON—A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.
The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint. Gabbard’s office rejects that characterization, contending it is navigating a unique set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.
[…] The complaint was filed last May with the intelligence community’s inspector general, according to a November letter that the whistleblower’s lawyer addressed to Gabbard. The letter, which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal, accused Gabbard’s office of hindering the dissemination of the complaint to lawmakers by failing to provide necessary security guidance on how to do so.
[…] Gabbard answered written questions about the allegations from the inspector general’s office, a senior official at the spy agency said. That prompted the acting inspector general at the time, Tamara Johnson, to determine the allegations specifically about Gabbard weren’t credible, the official said.
[…] The complaint includes a separate allegation about “an office within a different federal agency,” upon which the watchdog’s office wasn’t able to make a credibility determination, the representative for that office said. The Wall Street Journal couldn’t determine the identity of the other federal agency. (read more)
The Wall Street Journal cannot determine the “other federal agency” provenance, but we can.
The office was the “National Intelligence Council” and the ‘other federal agency’ was/is the CIA. The background context is exactly as we previously outlined {SEE HERE}.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard has been removing the Intelligence Community tentacles used to control political policy. The Intelligence Community and the downstream stakeholders hate her.
Here’s where it becomes important to understand the full context of what DNI Gabbard did in May 2025 to infuriate the IC. The CIA was running another impeachment operation when DNI Tulsi Gabbard intercepted it.
The issue involved President Trump and Marco Rubio designating Tren de Aragua (TdA) as a terror group operating as part of the coordinated effort by Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro. To undermine Trump/Rubio the National Intelligence Council within the CIA created analysis that contradicted the White House claim.
CBS Margaret Brennan was prepared to frame the narrative just before Tulsi Gabbard intercepted it.
Brennan saying to Rubio,
“Do you accept the intelligence community’s assessment that the Venezuelan gang is not a proxy force of the Maduro government? That was the National Intelligence Council assessment.
SEC. RUBIO:
“Yeah, that’s their assessment. They’re wrong. In fact, the FBI agrees with me that they are. We- we- the FBI agrees that not only is Tren de Aragua exported by the Venezuelan regime, but in fact, if you go back and see a Tren de Aragua member, all the evidence is there, and it’s growing every day, was actually contracted to murder an opposition member, I believe, in Chile a few months ago. So, one of the warnings out there by the FBI is not simply that Tren de Aragua are- are a terrorist organization, but one that has already been operationalized, to murder a- to murder a- an- an opposition member in another country.”
In early 2025 the CIA was working to kneecap the Trump administration’s moves in Venezuela. [I suspect, because the CIA funding mechanism involves money flows from the drug running that Venezuela supported.]
In essence, the NIC sub-silo within the parent CIA agency was weaponizing intelligence against President Trump in order to trigger a Lawfare attack. DNI Tulsi Gabbard intercepted the issue, removed the NIC agency from the CIA and dispatched the two heads, Mike Collins and Maria Langan-Riekhof.
That’s the sourcing for the “anonymous whistleblower” shot against DNI Gabbard in 2025, that surfaced in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Again, I will repeat…. Until the Trump administration puts full sunlight on the intelligence community operations; which includes retrieving, declassifying and sharing the sealed secret transcript of former ICIG Michael Atkinson; the various intelligence officials who are comfortable weaponizing their positions will continue trying to manipulate American politics. They are continually using the same playbook.
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This Democrat, deep-state / intel propaganda crap is so tiresome.
anonymous “whistleblower”
unknown charges
“Highly classified documents!” and intense national security! So don’t ever expect a justification or full story
Demands for investigation - by whom, we don’t know
And of course - PLENTY of MSM headlines.
The criminal left fears her so much they want to destroy her. Trump is aware of that and will keep her!
“anonymous ‘whistleblower’”
In today’s Bongino podcast there’s an interesting segment on the whole whistleblower situation. He hadn’t understood how it really worked until he was in the FBI. Usually, the seed is sown by left-wing media concocting a total lie.
“This Democrat, deep-state / intel propaganda crap is so tiresome.”
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Tiresome because no one is ever held accountable for anything. And so they keep lying, conspiring and plotting. There’s not much in the way of consequences to discourage it sadly.
Even the real life actual Nazis did not allow anonymous complaints, iirc. Anonymous complaints are even lower than real life Nazis
Team Biden didn't have any problem flooding our country with cartel members, organized crime gangs such as TDA and MS-13, rapists, Jihadists, murderers, Somali fraudsters, blah blah blah AND THERE WERE NO MASS PROTESTS BY CONSERVATIVES. Yet, when Team Trump attempts to EVICT them all, THE LEFT LOSES THEIR MINDS AND RIOTS !!!!!
Steven Bannon, Peter Navarro, Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, J6'ers, and other conservatives got RAIDED and/or RELENTLESSLY HARASSED BY THE FIB and/or ARRESTED and/or JAILED. But DemonRats seem to ELUDE JUSTICE because they are apparently ABOVE THE LAW.. WHY ?
Anonymous complaints don’t count for anything.
Anonyous “Inspector Generals” are just a figment of the imagination of far left drug addicts and Loony Toons.
Something tells me she found something in Georgia.
Yes. Where is the DoJ? It has been more than a year. Serious crimes were committed. Don’t tell me to trust the f***ing plan.
That's what made them career bureaucrats.
Bkmk
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