Shocker. /s
Posted on 07/26/2026 12:06:44 PM PDT by Signalman
Veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge reported during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” that a senior member of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s Director’s Initiatives Group, known as the DIG, described a pattern in which intelligence community officials acted on the belief that they needed to protect a globalist perspective by limiting certain information provided to policymakers, including President Donald Trump.
Herridge’s comments came amid discussion of recently declassified federal documents related to intelligence assessments from 2020 concerning China’s election influence operations. Those records, which were released in connection with a primetime address by President Trump the prior week, included internal communications indicating that some intelligence reports had been edited to remove references linking China’s activities to the 2020 U.S. election.
One November 20, 2020, email from a Strategic Intelligence Analyst in China and North Korea Strategic Assessments stated that officials had “deliberately massaged our one pending PDB (President’s Daily Brief) to avoid any direct links to the election.”
Herridge noted that she had reviewed the materials and found consistency with earlier whistleblower allegations that intelligence about China’s multi-domain influence efforts—aimed at impeding then-President Trump’s re-election and denigrating him as a candidate—had been suppressed or altered. In the same interview, Herridge connected these developments to broader observations shared by a source within Gabbard’s investigative team.
“In the last week, I’ve been speaking with a very senior member of Director Gabbard’s investigations team known as the DIG. And what they told me is that they did see a pattern where there was a sense or a feeling in the intelligence community that they just knew better,” she explained.
“They had to save President Trump from his own instincts, from his own tendencies, and that there was very much a globalist view. And they had to preserve a globalist view. So, whether it was downplaying or suppressing intelligence about the threat from China, whether it was giving a pass and calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation, there was this level of a bureaucracy, a kind of conspiracy that was making decisions about the kind of information that should be reaching policy makers and ultimately the commander-in-chief.” The DIG, established under Gabbard’s tenure as Director of National Intelligence, had examined multiple topics, including the origins of COVID-19, Crossfire Hurricane, Anomalous Health Incidents also known as Havana Syndrome, and domestic surveillance practices. Gabbard’s team had previously assessed certain Biden-era intelligence community assessments as containing analytic shortfalls, such as selective exclusion of information and reliance on limited sources.
Herridge’s source indicated that the pattern observed by the DIG extended across these areas, reflecting decisions about which intelligence reached senior officials.
Herridge also referenced related details from the declassified materials involving Nikki Floris, then a senior FBI official handling counterintelligence matters related to foreign interference. Instant messages attributed to Floris described internal dynamics within the FBI.
Herridge reported that Senator Ron Johnson confirmed to her that in August 2020, around the period when intelligence on China’s activities was under discussion, Floris provided a defensive briefing to Johnson and Senator Chuck Grassley. According to Johnson, the briefing concerned potential Russian disinformation and was viewed by him as an effort related to inquiries into the Hunter Biden laptop. Herridge noted the temporal overlap with the suppression of China-related intelligence reporting.
Additional details from Herridge’s reporting included findings that some intelligence assessments contained handwritten notes or track changes referencing domestic political considerations, such as concerns that certain information could assist then-President Trump’s re-election campaign.
She further described instances in which reports about China’s influence operations were kept out of the President’s Daily Brief or altered in confidence levels. Independent cybersecurity assessments from the period, later declassified, had indicated increased Chinese activities targeting the U.S. election environment, though formal documentation by agencies including the CIA under then-Director Gina Haspel was limited according to the whistleblower accounts.
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“officials acted on the belief that they needed to protect a globalist perspective”
Trump desperately needed to defeat our biggest enemy; our own CIA and other ilks before starting the war in Iran.
Shocker. /s
Find them, arrest them and put them in prison, preferably underground.
In one of the few markets without a NewsNation affiliate. The CBS affiliate in the Upstate is leaving to join NewsNation.
The unelected unaccountable Deep State has been been calling the shots since before they called that lethal one on President Kennedy.
That worthless Jennifer Griffin is part of the renegade intel agencies.
We need a complete purge as soon as possible.
One = the other
So it’s well known that election interference in 2020 was being carried out by Chinese and North Korean agents.
But the REAL interference was through DIG which omitted the levels of influence.
Where are the firings !!!!
Speaking of August 2020:
And They Called US Traitors! Kash Patel BUSTS 2020 Election Wide Open with This BOMBSHELL of a Discovery
twitchy ^ | June 17, 2025 | Sam J.
Posted on 6/17/2025, 2:43:22 PM by DeplorablePaul
FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday evening turned over to Congress an intelligence report raising concerns that China had mass-produced fake U.S. driver’s licenses to carry out a scheme to hijack the 2020 election with fake mail-in ballots for Democrat Joe Biden.
The newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 weren’t corroborated or fully investigated and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies at about the time that then-FBI Director Chris Wray testified there were no known plots of foreign interference ahead of the 2020 election in which Biden defeated Donald Trump, officials told Just the News.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
Acceleration
substack Kunstler.com ^ | 7/17/2026 | James Howard Kuntsler
Posted on 7/18/2026, 1:09:04 AM by MacNaughton
Strange to relate, in last night’s speech to the nation on election chicanery, President Trump managed to both overwhelm and underwhelm public expectation. He touched on voting machine shenanigans, registration skullduggery, cyber-fuckery, labor union toolery, ballot fraud, and especially China meddling.
Internal CIA / FBI docs at the time said that China’s policy around the 2020 US election was to “leverage all domestic and foreign elements” opposed to the President to prevent his re-election. The Intel bunch never sent that memo to the White House. They were too busy pushing fake Russia meddling, fake impeachment, and a fake Covid-19 pandemic. Then they declared that the 2020 was “the most secure election in history.”….
The big take-away was that US Intel agencies withheld all this intel from the President of the US, Mr. Trump, in the lead-up to the 2020 vote. Yes, there really is a Deep State, as seen starkly in a now-declassified memo from the then-chief of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, one Nikki Floris, who wrote “I’m basically running a shadow government at this point” by hiding information from POTUS. Ms. Floris is now employed as Microsoft’s Director of Insider Risk (former Deputy Attorney General under “Joe Biden,” Lisa Monaco, is President of Microsoft Global Affairs.)
According to the NY Post’s Miranda Devine, in August 2020, Nikki Floris also tried to hoodwink Senators Chuck Grassley and Rob Johnson, telling them the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian op — a gag later ratified by fifty-one former intel officers (including five former CIA Directors) who signed the notorious October letter to the news media. All of this activity, Mr. Trump averred, amounted to a cover-up of a conspiracy by members of the permanent bureaucracy to overthrow the government. And that is exactly why more than one federal grand jury is convened in Fort Pierce, Florida, right now, to sort out who, exactly, is going to account for these rather grave crimes. The new document release is apt to accelerate the work of US Attorneys there, since declassification is the biggest routine holdup in the process.…
———-Acceleration
substack Kunstler.com ^ | 7/17/2026 | James Howard Kuntsler
Posted on 7/18/2026, 1:09:04 AM by MacNaughton
WTH isn’t Nikki Floris ARRESTED????? She admitted she ran a SHADOW GOVERNMENT!!!
Yes, but on a more serious nature, Griffin lost her hair when she had breast cancer.
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