Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 20 July 2025

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 20 July 2025 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

July 20th, 2025

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.); acting ICE Director Todd Lyons; LA democrat Mayor Karen B ass.

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) … Sen. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) . Panel: Michael Allen, Marie “Garth Algar” Harf, Doug Heye and Annie Linskey.

MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Preempted by the 2025 British Open Golf Championship.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus (or is it Martha RaddishRep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.); LA democrat Mayor Karen B ass. Panel: Donna BrazileNut, Reince Priebus, Sarah Isgur and Molly Ball—same Ugly, shameless, Left-wing Propagandists and Fat RINOs!

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper (or is it Dana Bash?): Failed Leftist soy boy Beto O’Rourke (how is he relevant Tapper?); Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.); Adam Boehler, United States Special Envoy for Hostage Response. Panel: Bryan Lanza, Karen Finney, Jaime Herrera Beutler and Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.)—Tapper’s totally and toxically biased group of parrots!

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch! Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: Senate Majority Leader John Thune; David Sacks, former COO of PayPal, founder and CEO of Yammer, and interim CEO of Zenefits; Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.); Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.); Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and GOP Candidate for NYC Mayor Curtis Sliwa.

[gloryblaze]

The FBI’s been doing dirty work since it started. It’s as politicized as it gets. They need to fire most of them, maybe shift the absolutely critical remaining tasks that they can to the US Marshalls. They are a disgrace.

It has certainly morphed into a mess, but, again, it rotted from the top, and that can be changed.

"Critical tasks" is hard to define.

[gloryblaze]

.. My opinion is that we are aging. What say you?

True, and older folks don't appreciate some of the name calling that goes on, or the spoiling for a fight vs a discussion.

[Old West Conservative]

Oddly, web searches reveal that “FBI director” is the most common description of Kash Patel.

At least for those who prefer reality to illusion.

[rodguy911]

Yeah a mind-numbed robot like paid over 7 figures a year.

[rodguy911]

I can’t wait for the second go-round with Tulsi!

[rodguy911]

Any mention of SDNY having a truckload of docs?Bondi is also referenced to have made that claim.

[rodguy911]

You are right,I dobut there are many here not on SS.

[9YearLurker]

Mindlessly literal much?

[Old West Conservative]

No, just mocking you.

Always an easy lift, in your case.

[pugmama]

Here comes Tom Cotton and his Committee,trying to reduce Tulsi’s ability to gather intel info on her own. That didn’t take long.
I pray she has good security around her!

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/20/counter-attack-new-intelligence-authorization-act-seeks-to-curb-power-of-dni/

[9YearLurker]

Feeling nasty and snotty this Sunday, I see.

[Old West Conservative]

Look at you projecting!

[9YearLurker]

https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:oldwestconservative/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change

[rodguy911]

Counter Attack – New Intelligence Authorization Act Seeks to Curb Power of DNI

July 20, 2025 | Sundance | 115 Comments

The response from Chairman Tom Cotton and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to the action of DNI Tulsi Gabbard was predictable.

The SSCI has now framed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 [LINK] to modify the “responsibilities and authorities of the Director of National Intelligence.” [Section 402]

[SOURCE – Sec 402 LINK]

We knew this was coming. The Intelligence Community does not like rogue actors amid their ranks, especially if those people have cross-silo access. The silo system is designed to protect the Deep State. Any entity who can cross reference the inserted information becomes a risk to the enterprise.

Senator Cotton cannot directly oppose Tulsi Gabbard without exposing himself. Thus someone, not the SSCI, writes the legislative changes to the Intelligence Community rules and procedures and Tom Cotton simply advances them. That's the way DC operates.

Additionally, Chairman Cotton does not want the DNI to investigate or generate its own intelligence. Cotton demands the ODNI just accept and regurgitate the intelligence Tulsi Gabbard would be given by the other agencies; no independent review of analysis permitted. All of these actions push the Intelligence Community power center back into the CIA and away from the prying eyes of the DNI. That's the SSCI motive.

WASHINGTON DC – A top Republican senator is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, slashing the workforce of an organization that has expanded since it was created in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Under a bill by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the chair of the Intelligence Committee, the ODNI’s staff of about 1,600 would be capped at 650, according to a senior Senate aide familiar with the proposed legislation.

ODNI’s workforce was about 2,000 in January, but National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has already overseen a reduction of about 20% as part of the Trump administration's drive to shrink the federal workforce. The reduction in the staff Gabbard oversees could weaken her role in the intelligence bureaucracy.

[…] The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, exposed a failure to share information across spy agencies with catastrophic results. As a result, Congress established the ODNI to oversee all of the country's 18 intelligence services, including the CIA, and manage bureaucratic turf wars from a complex outside Washington, D.C.

What started as a relatively small office under the national intelligence director in 2005 has expanded over the last 20 years to include in-house analysis teams and centers focused on counterterrorism and counterintelligence. Cotton has described the ODNI as a bloated bureaucracy that should return to its original mission of coordinating the work of other spy agencies instead of producing its own reports and duplicating other agencies’ efforts.

“Congress in no way wanted yet another unruly bureaucracy layered on top of an already bureaucratic intelligence community,” Cotton said at Gabbard’s confirmation hearing in late January. “Unfortunately, 20 years later, that's exactly what the ODNI has become.”

Gabbard herself expressed support for downsizing the ODNI’s workforce at the hearing, saying she would work with Cotton and other lawmakers to eliminate “redundancies and bloating.” (read more)

In the lead up to the election I outlined what the DNI could do with untapped power already given to the office. DNI Tulsi Gabbard has been following a path close to that outline. Now, we see Washington DC responding to that affirmed power structure and actively working to neuter the DNI. A very predictable outcome.

The only intelligence silo more corrupt than the CIA is the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that oversees it.

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Hopefully, this won't stand. If the other intel agencies are so compromised it takes Tulsi Gabbard to do the job they are supposed to be doing than so be it.

Maybe DNI should be expanded and FBI be reduced and CIA all but gone.

I have a feeling the Warroom will be all over this and hope- fully the others,MELK,Hannity,Info wars,X22 and the rest will all come down on Cotton. He needs to go for sure.

Thanks very much pugmama for the link.

Next year will be a true contest of how good we can do in the primaries.Cotton is up for reelection next year,we need a superlative candidate to oppose him and then nationalize the campaign.Also, we need to demonize anyone who wants this guy back in.

[bray]

You hicks need PBS since you hicks don’t know how to use a computer or phone like your betters do.

[markman46]

Yes we are all getting old, I remember the days 1000 to 2000 responses to the Sunday shoes

[Alas Babylon!]

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, doggy!

I always wondered how they got that little tiny operator in the talk talk gizmo!

Guess I’ll just have to go outside and whittle a stick with my penknife or somethin, without the PBS News Hour telling me why I’m stupid...

[Alas Babylon!]

Yeah, those were the days.

We even had contests for the best comments and posts. Some really sharp people were here.

Now I sound like Grandpa Simpson:

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, Larri, there’s your galldang hunert!