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Fascinating Background – The CIA Was Misleading Witkoff and Kushner on Key Intelligence About Hamas During Critical Phase of Peace Negotiations
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 19 Oct, 2025 | Sundance

Posted on 10/20/2025 6:31:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A fascinating hour-long interview with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as they outline the backstory to the Israel-Hamas peace agreement in Gaza.

During a segment (prompted below) Witkoff and Kushner are outlining the step-by-step process as they engaged the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Egypt. Witkoff reveals how the CIA was briefing them both, multiple times a day, and the briefing itself was exactly the opposite of what Emir of Qatar and Presidents of Turkey and Egypt were telling them. The CIA intelligence was the exact opposite of reality. WATCH: [video at source]

What they are describing is EXACTLY why we outlined how ‘outside govt’ emissaries were/are vitally necessary to work around the control agenda of the U.S. Intelligence Community. This small example is stunning in magnitude when considered around the importance of the moment.

On a positive note, with Witkoff making this stunning public statement, we can now add a major datapoint to President Trump’s reference of NOT TRUSTING the CIA. Combined with the previous assertions of Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard on essentially the same level of outlook, this example of the CIA getting it wrong (misleading the administration) has long-range ramifications beyond the Hamas example.

With this backdrop for reference, surely now we can have an optimistic sense that President Trump doesn’t trust the CIA intelligence on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.


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KEYWORDS: cia; deepstate; egypt; leftism; qatar; trumpswar; turkey
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1 posted on 10/20/2025 6:31:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Not Shocked.


2 posted on 10/20/2025 6:31:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Still going rogue. Or is it rouge. 😊👍


3 posted on 10/20/2025 6:34:46 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: MtnClimber

Hard to imagine how difficult a President’s job is when he can’t trust his own intelligence forces.


4 posted on 10/20/2025 6:37:05 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: MtnClimber

The CIA is a joke. It no longer practices “situational awareness”. Americans, not the world’s “bad guys” are now their primary targets.


5 posted on 10/20/2025 6:37:06 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Beware the far-left "No Kings" backshooting DemonRAT Luigis. )
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To: MtnClimber
Can we count John Ratcliffe as one of Trump's worst appointments along with the three stooges at DOJ/FBI and the incompetent at OPM?
6 posted on 10/20/2025 6:37:25 AM PDT by Badboo (A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
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To: MtnClimber

Deep Staters gotta Depp State.................


7 posted on 10/20/2025 6:41:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

Was it because of treachery or just being dumbasses?


8 posted on 10/20/2025 6:42:37 AM PDT by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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To: MtnClimber

The big take here is that not trusting the CIA is no public policy. News will follow.


9 posted on 10/20/2025 6:44:24 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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TLDR: Witkoff and Kushner believed the Taqiyya liars over the CIA liars.


10 posted on 10/20/2025 6:47:15 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Red Badger

Bit by all means, don’t release any Epstein information, rt freepers?


11 posted on 10/20/2025 6:49:24 AM PDT by Oystir ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Not surprised, but its way, way, way to early for Witkoff and Kushner to be doing victory lap interviews.


12 posted on 10/20/2025 6:50:35 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Direct link to the video, synced to comment.

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff's extended 60 Minutes interview
Skip CTH completely.

13 posted on 10/20/2025 6:52:33 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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22:26 synced.
Sorry about that.
14 posted on 10/20/2025 6:55:28 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Hamas will not stop the terrorism. They will pause to restock and rearm.


15 posted on 10/20/2025 6:56:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Stop their paychecks, let them keep the red stapler. Lock them in.


16 posted on 10/20/2025 6:56:53 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: MtnClimber

Recall the Church Committee circa 1975?


17 posted on 10/20/2025 7:10:18 AM PDT by jamaksin ( )
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To: MtnClimber

IIRC, Ratcliffe has proven to be compromised in the past.

Wasn’t he the one who was texting classified info to someone while he was sitting in a meeting? (And Trump kept him in his position.)


18 posted on 10/20/2025 7:12:43 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: MtnClimber

In 1943, FDR decided that unconditional surrender was essential to bring the Germans and Japanese into line.


19 posted on 10/20/2025 7:19:07 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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It’s not a rattlesnake even though it has the tail, fangs, head, and coloration of a rattlesnake.


20 posted on 10/20/2025 7:23:51 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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