CTH approaches this after being very concerned about Tulsi Gabbard’s ability. Not because of intent, but rather because we doubted she understood the scope of the IC opposition aligned against the office of the Director of National Intelligence.Posted on 06/18/2025 4:46:07 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
For the sake of urgency I’m going to talk in direct and bold terms about the targeting of Tulsi Gabbard. The IC system is attempting to remove her as a disruptive influence by using Iran as a wedge to get her out, but the issue they have with her has nothing to do with Iran.
CTH approaches this after being very concerned about Tulsi Gabbard’s ability. Not because of intent, but rather because we doubted she understood the scope of the IC opposition aligned against the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
She started out with these weaknesses, but she learned quickly – grasped the opposition– and has become a transformative force within the Intelligence Community. Director Gabbard’s recent efforts within the Intelligence Community Inspector General office is another feather in her cap of competence. Gabbard is now a threat.
If President Trump allows or supports the removal of DNI Gabbard, he is opening up the backplate of his armor, and making himself vulnerable. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Tom Cotton, the disassembled National Intelligence Council and a host of Intelligence Community embeds would like to see Gabbard removed. DC wants to see her removed because the traditional role of the DNI has been a willful tool of the Intelligence Community; Gabbard is not that.
As DNI Mrs Tulsi Gabbard has chased down intelligence community leakers, released the JFK files, released Joe Biden’s domestic terrorism surveillance plan, intercepted an NIC plot to impeach President trump (confirmed by Rubio), taken control of the Presidential Daily Briefing, and begun to confront the corruption within the IC Inspector General organization. These are actions, not words, and those actions speak boldly. Suffice to say, her effectiveness has placed a target on her back.
In the past few weeks, ever since she began intercepting the ICIG issues and using her own personnel to monitor the IC network, she has been targeted with several direct smear campaigns. It is obvious the targeting is coming from inside the intelligence apparatus, and perhaps even the orbit around/under CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
She did make a strange video about nuclear weapons contrast against the horrific outcomes in Japan, but that seemed to be more of a personal video entry expressing a deep concern about nuclear weapons from her own perspectives. I said it was weird when I saw it, but I put that into the context of ‘surfboard Tulsi‘, the DNI peacenik. No biggie.
However, with the Israel -v- Iran conflict encompassing the White House, there is a transparent objective to weaponize Tulsi Gabbard’s activity as a contrast against President Trump supporting military conflict in Iran.
This contrast is being stimulated by the same elements who want to see her removed for the reasons noted above.
The latest narrative du jour in the files includes:
WASHINGTON DC – […] Trump has increasingly mused about nixing Gabbard’s office completely, an idea he floated when he gave her the job. In the White House there have been discussions about folding its mandate into the CIA or another agency, according to one of the people familiar with his response to the video and two others familiar with the matter — though it’s unclear what that would mean for Gabbard. The Director of National Intelligence serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser and oversees the sprawling U.S. spy community. (link)
First, “nixing Gabbard’s office completely” is exactly what the bad elements of the Intelligence Community would love to see. Second, “folding its mandate into the CIA” is like a dream come true for the darkest elements of the IC and Senate enablers. And Third, “serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser” is false. That’s the job of the National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio.
If there is one hope amid this looming and increasing drumbeat to remove her, it is that Marco Rubio likely can see exactly what the motives and intentions are from his former colleagues. The elements targeting DNI Gabbard all come from SSCI Chairman Marco Rubio’s old tribe.
SoS/NSA Rubio might save her, as too may Vice President JD Vance. Both of them are at the perfect distance to see the assembled drumbeat against Gabbard for what it is. At least that is my hope.
I am not confident they will succeed removing her. However, what I am confident about is that if Tulsi Gabbard is removed, she will not be replaced, and that’s as good as a win for the bad actors trying to target and survive Trump.
President Trump has no more juice or influence in the Senate. That time is over. Trump has exhausted all of the political capital he held in the upper chamber. Every Republican Senator will now smile, nod and do whatever the heck they want regardless of how it impacts President Trump. This is especially true for the SSCI who would control confirmation of a DNI replacement. They don’t have to pretend any longer, Trump’s juice is gone.
If President Trump allows the Brutus crew in his orbit to isolate, ridicule and marginalize Tulsi Gabbard, he will be putting a significant part of his administration at risk. This is the Six Ways from Sunday crowd.
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From the looks of things, I would stand with Tulsi Gabbard over Tom Cotton. Personally I am perceiving Tom Cotton as part of the Deep State.. and someone who needs to be primaried OUT in Arkansas.
The little news-tart stinks of her CIA handlers.
Was she left out of the national security meeting in the situation room yesterday?
Too many older conservatives live in a 1989-2015 time warp. The podcasters are not a fringe as were the partisans of Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and Ron Paul. Their audiences exceed those of terrestrial talk radio. Lose them and the Democrats will retake the House and maybe the Senate. If the war continues into 2028, get ready for President Newsom or Harris.
Fracking rubbish!
Each of which resulted from political duplicity rather than any weakness or incompetence of our military forces.
That presents a clear view of the source of our vulnerability.
I used to read Sundance/The Last Refuge. But he was wrong in his predictions so many times. And he puts out so much verbiage every day. I don’t even bother anymore.
The video line from the pentagon to the situation room is both Sec Def and Director of national intelligence. If I am trump I am not trusting CIA or NSA any farther than I throw them, and perhaps keep them hanging in the lobby for the real discussion. With her separated from the cabal she could be a independent voice and not pro DOD can do, a separate list of downsides.
I would say from the reaction to everyone who has been briefed and was involved enough in SOP at the scale to know the status of IRAN, all the former military are in for the kill shot, end the war against the paper tiger with really big inaccurate rockets.
Knowing what IRANs proxies have done toward DOD for the past 40 years, I don’t think anyone is going to get Infront of the knockout deal. Would say a Dry Run with B2s and a navy strike packages are inbound tonight, and for reals unless they see signals the inner leadership circle of IRAN knows the gig is up and talking is about exit plans, MOAB tomorrow night.
After 3 to 5 MOABs and the most practiced event in navy planning by hitting the IRAN navy base at , there should be a pause to share the sat photos of a big bunker hold on Al Jazera, the real option is hitting the IRAQ navy at the straits of Hormoz to take them to a speedboat navy by next week. Decap strike I would not expect until a lot of calls are made by Arab proxies offering an out to Iran Army middle manager.
I would bet a lot of the Iran army leadership goes to Kish, far away from military targets and attempts to become Oman idented, but those dudes do not blend, walk like rich Iranian, or have any outside connections outside of Russia and Oman.
The house of Saudi, seeing the new world order, I would not underestimate some medal inducing for the glory raids while leadership is in family fragments.
The polls today self identifying republicans say Fry IRAN. 90 to 10 percent. Independents and Democrats Fry 85 to No Fry 15 percent.
Bibi needs to give the world press some intelligence that isn’t a cartoon. Some signals recordings of Iranians would hit the spot.
With anything looking like proof in the media, that is a 2 foot put for trump. He is working this for a few days as the DOD prepares, trump sees a day or two fishing for the Nobel prize if the Iranians decide it is time to go to the beach in Oman.
Gabbard has been a chameleon. 10 years ago she was a communist standing with Antifa and occupy fellow travelers on Indian land fighting oil pipelines.
She has been consistent in being a pseudo-Hare Krishna, not even part of actual Hare Krishna but part of an off-shoot Hare Krishna cult with a white guy guru.
Anyone who says Trump’s “juice” is gone is under estimating him.
He can smash Senators like bugs.
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She’s doing the job. The backstabbers are doing theirs. Keep kicking heads girl!
Given this sad track record, what are the odds the same mindset in the Defense and State Departments and the CIA would get us bogged down in a multiyear quagmire?
From the looks of things, I would stand with Tulsi Gabbard over Tom Cotton.
Agree. I used to like Cotton but he lost me over the last few years. Cotton’s pal was #2 at the NSC. He got relieved of his position along with Mike Waltz. I just don’t trust Cotton any longer.
I used to like Cotton but he lost me over the last few years.
He's another Trey Gowdy, and they both have weird hair.
That is a fact.
“Given this sad track record, what are the odds the same mindset in the Defense and State Departments and the CIA would get us bogged down in a multiyear quagmire?”
Patton said it best: The politicians never let us finish the wars. They always stop up before the war is truly won.
This isn’t hard. I and many other people predicted that exactly like last administration, the NeoCons would slowly kick out all of the non-war pigs over the first couple months.
First….Vivek
Next….all of Hegseths America First aides
Next….Elon
Now….Tulsi
Maybe her not being a Christian, or at least an Evangelical, is why she’s able to maintain her objectivity in matters regarding Israel. Although it should disqualify her from being President.
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