Posted on 03/14/2025 8:30:32 AM PDT by Signalman
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has announced her first major move since being confirmed last month, eliciting joyful reactions by MAGA supporters and certainly some appreciation from some of her affected colleagues.
Some of the biggest elements of President Donald Trump’s agenda have been stymied by actors within the federal bureaucracy who have “agendas” of their own, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Their obstruction was on display during last month’s botched immigration raid in Los Angeles after leakers tipped off the city’s largest newspaper, putting the lives of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement officers in jeopardy.
Now, Gabbard is using the power of the “deep state” against itself.
The national intelligence community will be “aggressively pursuing” leaks within the executive branch in the coming weeks, Gabbard said. Among the transgressions already identified are leakers sharing information with the Huffington Post, sharing information about Israel-Iran relations with the Washington Post, and sharing sensitive U.S.-Russia matters with NBC News, according to conservative reporter Eric Daugherty.
“That ends now. We know of and are aggressively pursuing recent leakers from within the Intelligence Community and will hold them accountable,” the former Democratic congresswoman said in a statement.
Some leakers have already been found, Noem announced earlier this month. Although she did not say where they were located, Tom Homan, the White House’s lead immigration liaison, suggested that evidence pointed back to the FBI.
As the Trump administration’s caustic purge of career bureaucrats has picked up speed, officials have had to contend with holdovers from the Biden-Harris administration working within the agencies now headed by some of President Trump’s top allies. Although many have resigned in protest, others continue to delay reform, as exemplified recently when many midlevel managers across the federal government directed their employees to ignore a request by Elon Musk to report on what work they had performed in the past week.
Some who worked for the Biden-Harris administration and are now on the outside are continuing to use their access to government sources to disrupt parts of President Trump’s agenda.
Pablo Manriquez, who previously served as a director of Latino and Hispanic outreach for the national Democratic Party, revealed this month that ICE was suiting up for a raid in northern Virginia, according to “Fox & Friends” hosts who called for the activist to face consequences for his actions.
“ICE RAIDS are planned for Monday & Tuesday in Northern Virginia, per multiple sources who tell us ICE has obtained between 75 and 100 judicial warrants,” Manriquez wrote on social media while including helpful tips on how to evade capture by immigration authorities.
Gabbard’s announcement is not the first expulsion of federal officials stymying the administration’s agenda. In February, she told Fox News’ Jesse Watters that more than 100 intelligence officials had been fired after taking part in “obscene” online sex chatrooms, the NY Post reported. The behavior occurred on a National Security Agency Intelink platform and amounted to an “egregious violation of trust.”
“When you see what these people were saying,” she told Watters, “they were brazen in using an NSA platform intended for professional use to conduct this — kind of really, really horrific behavior.”
Treason. Do something about it.
The easiest way to check for leaks - create 10 different plans, give one to 10 different suspects, and see which version makes it into the MSM.
Show me the scalps.
She should every democrat on the no fly list.
These leakers are on the same level as SWATers and the results can be similar.
“Holding accountable” had better include jail time, or I am done with y’all as another pack of virtue signalers.
Heads on pikes, dammit!
Yes, arrests speak louder than words.
Gitmo, baby!
“Some leakers have already been found, Noem announced earlier this month. Although she did not say where they were located...”
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How about Gitmo, or Florence Supermax?
Find them. Fire them, Prosecute them.
A well known tactic.
So... When does any of them go to prison? All talk and no action.
So after all that, what exactly is she doing? No arrests, no public humiliation? I’m watching a rerun of Jeff Sessions and all the loosers Trump used the first time around.
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i believe this is more like an “announcement” rather than a “major move” ...
https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1900525554039939309
Our AG will be getting arrest warrants for these traitors....... any......... day.......... now.......
Anyone removed, take away the security access also.
why can’t republicans understand that the J6 treatment isn’t only for democrats to use? no balls on this side means it’s only a matter of time until the dems start again. republicans cannot afford virtue signaling OR being nice guys. we are at war people...ACT like it!
Reminds me of when Tyrion Lannister told three different people inside his orbit he was moving Cercei’s daughter to three different kingdoms. When Cercei came to him angry about her daughter being moved to said kingdom, Tyrion knew who the leak was.
The problem, I would imagine, is that intelligence has a sort of chain of custody, and I should think it is very difficult to start generating false intelligence.
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