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WSJ’s Tulsi Gabbard Hoax Is Straight From The Russia-Collusion Playbook
The Federalist ^ | 02/05/2025 | Hans Mahncke

Posted on 02/06/2026 4:58:18 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

ulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is under attack again. A so-called “whistleblower” filed a complaint against her alleging wrongdoing so sensitive that its details supposedly could not be disclosed. The complaint was reviewed and closed because it lacked credibility. That determination was made by Tamara Johnson, a career official who served as the acting inspector general of the intelligence community during the Biden administration. That should have been the end of the story.

Instead, the secrecy surrounding the complaint has been repackaged as proof that something terrible must have occurred. The absence of evidence is now being marketed as evidence itself

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The real story is not the supposed scandal. It is the relentless recycling of the same hoax playbook and the media’s grotesque complicity.
1 posted on 02/06/2026 4:58:18 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Lots of truth to that., even secrecty itself can be weaponized and used to create chaos & sow distrust.


2 posted on 02/06/2026 5:11:42 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

It looks to me like this...Thanks to the media, just about anything can be made to look possible & proveable. As a private citizen, I can say this will probably be ignored by me anyway.


3 posted on 02/06/2026 5:25:08 AM PST by oldtech
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To: Robert DeLong

The article also has good reviews about Russia collusion hoax and Ukraine impeachment hoax.


4 posted on 02/06/2026 5:40:55 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Why is the Deep State Targeting DNI Tulsi Gabbard with Such Ferocity?

February 6, 2026 | Sundance

Each day more and more people are starting to realize/notice there are elements of the United States intelligence apparatus that are targeting Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.  The need for control is a reaction to fear, and Tulsi Gabbard has the DC Intelligence Community very worried.

What you will read below is something that was written back in 2024 about the potential for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), if President Trump were to win the election.  Subsequently, he did win; and while we are not saying this is the exact ODNI script that is being followed, we are certainly not disputing that either.

Read the roadmap below –Written in 2024– compare it to current events and decide for yourself if this is something that rings a bell and may explain the IC apoplexy.

[Prior Outline]

The ODNI was created as an outcome of the 9-11 Commission recommendations.  In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.

Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01.  DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. 

When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.

Here is the weird part.  The ODNI was formed in 2004, with the intent for the office to be the pivot point of a national security radar.   The DNI was intended to provide information to domestic agencies about foreign terror networks that would prevent something like 9-11 from happening again.  However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has never, not for one day, operated on this intent.   This is why they are such a critical position from my perspective.

The office was new, not established yet as a functioning silo, when Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived in 2009.  They quickly dispatched an idiot, James Clapper, into the operation so they could weaponize around the offices’ fulcrum point.

Prior to the DNI office existing, the CIA radar would sweep externally and then report to the Office of the President. The DNI was intended to take external radar sweep (CIA) and make it a full 360° circle, adding a sweep inside the USA that would be handled by the Dept of Homeland Security.

The DHS sweep and the CIA sweep would then be combined into a central collection hub called the ODNI.  Everyone with responsibility for “national security” could access the ODNI material. Essentially and presumably, post 9-11 nothing like jihadists practicing to fly airplanes would be missed again; at least that was the intent.

The weird part is that because the DNI was immediately weaponized, the office has never functioned to the purpose of its intent.

No one truly knows what the office possibilities consist of because no one has ever seen anyone try to functionally control the hub.  If you think I’m joking about the intent of Obama and John Brennan using the DNI watch this video. This is before Brennan became CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars into place.

For the intents of this outline the takeaway is how the DNI office has never been used for good.  In a strategic way, that can be used to our advantage if you are talking about leveraging silos against each other.

Example:  The DNI can assemble material from any silo. 

Meaning the DNI can reach into any IC silo and extract anything they want.  Under the original authorities given to the DNI, this authority exists.  So, let’s spread the wings on this office and do exactly what it is permitted to do, only this time extract for the purpose of showing the President what is happening in every silo.

In essence, the DNI *CAN BE* deployed like a super strong cross-silo inspector general’s office.  Force the other IC silos to comply with the demands of the DNI.  This has never been done. But the DNI has this unique power.

The DNI can make the FBI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, DoD, DoS and CIA provide anything and everything they demand.  Instead of the other silos using blocks and threats against the office of the President, use the authority of the DNI to get them without confrontation.   Then use the DNI to declassify the documents (if requested by potus), instead of the originating silo.

Can you see how the DNI office can be repurposed to be a seriously strong weapon in the toolbox of the President, against the schemes of those inside the various IC silos.

The DNI becomes much more important than the CIA Director, NSA Director, FBI Director, Attorney General, etc, because the DNI can just show up and say, “give me this.”  That’s the functional purpose of the DNI office that has never been exerted; let’s flippin’ use it.

Let’s use the office of the DNI as the central information hub that takes information from inside the corrupt silos, then provides that information to the President who puts sunlight upon it Each corrupt silo penetrated with disinfectant.  This could begin a process to pull down the shadow operations and let the American public see what has been happening inside our IC apparatus.

To accomplish this approach the National Security Advisor to the President (NSA) [currently Marco Rubio], would be the person who tells the DNI what they are looking for. How does the NSA know what to look for?  Because the National Security Advisor is the head of the National Security Council (NSC).

Let the NSC monitor the silos with specific intent, perhaps with assistance from open-source research, then provide Trump’s NatSec Advisor with details on what appears to be happening and where.   With the approval of the President, the NSA [Rubio], then turns to the DNI [Gabbard] and says, “POTUS wants this, go get this.”

Raw, unfiltered, unredacted information.   The silo administrators end up in a fight with the ODNI, not the office of President Trump.  President Trump then uses the power of his office to support the demands of the DNI.

Under this approach the DNI has a lot more power; yet funnily, it’s power they already have – yet have never utilized.

[END of Prior Outline]

Does any of that track with what we are currently experiencing?

With DNI Tulsi Gabbard putting strategic pressure from the inside, and We The People putting accountability pressure from the outside, this Deep State intelligence nut just might begin to crack.

In fact, I might even argue that cracking is exactly what we are starting to see.


5 posted on 02/06/2026 6:12:30 AM PST by Bratch
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To: Kid Shelleen

They especially hate Gabbard and RFK for being turncoats and leaving the cult.


6 posted on 02/06/2026 6:14:14 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Wisdom from acting inspector general of the intelligence community during the Biden administration Tamara Johnson.

NOT


7 posted on 02/06/2026 6:17:37 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: oldtech
But this sentence is more important, because what the WSJ wrote won't affect me either, but the WSJ is the garbabge publication that I have said it was for decades:

The complaint was closed because it was not credible. Judging by the outrage the piece generated across left-wing media, most readers never reached that part.

And we both know who these people are, that the article is referring to. The Marxist/Bolshevik agitators.

Some of these supposed conservative leaning publication are a scam, and have been all along. National Review is another one that pretends o carry on the work of William F. Buckley.

8 posted on 02/06/2026 6:17:43 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Kid Shelleen

+1


9 posted on 02/06/2026 6:32:22 AM PST by sauropod
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To: Kid Shelleen
Yes, we saw ugly bug-eyed Schiff invoke secrecy into his claims that he has seen the evidence of Russian collusion.

The impeachment process was based upon a lie that Trump had threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine, over quid pro quo conditions, yet they insisted that there wa sensitive reasons surrouding the incident & why they refused to name the whistleblower.

But that one was a rigged showpiece to begin with, and in both instances secrecy was used to keep the truth hidden and the implications were all that were needed to attack Trump, and by estension, those who supported Trump.

So, yes, sercecy is often used to provide an excuse as to why the evidence can not be presented & shared with the American public.

10 posted on 02/06/2026 6:35:10 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Kid Shelleen

I hope people can see The Wall Street Journal is leftist.


11 posted on 02/06/2026 6:36:30 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Bratch

Interesting.


12 posted on 02/06/2026 6:39:53 AM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: bray

There you have it. The media can always be counted on to serve as attack dogs to dish out punishment for leaving the Democrat cult.


13 posted on 02/06/2026 6:47:10 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Bratch
What a detailed explanation. It certainly makes it easier for me to understand.

I have not seen the term “silo” used like this before.

Not being trivial, but it reminds me of the TV series on Apple TV, Silo. “Silos” as different entities. I guess that’s as far as the comparison goes. It does help me to understand the intelligence structure that you have so clearly described.

14 posted on 02/06/2026 6:50:03 AM PST by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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The WSJ’s editorial page USED to be conservative, but that was 30+ years ago. I used to read it almost every day. It had some great investigative journalism regarding the Clintons and Whitewater. But, that was then….


15 posted on 02/06/2026 6:53:58 AM PST by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Its the same Intel/Deep state game that has been played since Nixon and we have seen used on every Republican President since (esp. Trump) - create a rumor, demand investigation, pump headlines in the press, look for actions which imply illegality, leak those to press, etc. etc.


16 posted on 02/06/2026 6:56:53 AM PST by PGR88
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To: oldtech

You don’t hate the Wall Street Journal enough. Agents of Davos and the EU.


17 posted on 02/06/2026 6:58:06 AM PST by PGR88
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To: bray

Why isn’t there a mole to uncover thie whistle-blower? Follow that money and you’ll find a democrat donor and administration employee or official.


18 posted on 02/06/2026 7:20:25 AM PST by healy61
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To: Kid Shelleen

Nancy Pelosi explained this in pretty good detail, but of course the context is she was projecting this onto republicans.

https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/user-clip-pelosi-explains-the-wrap-up-smear/4785397


19 posted on 02/06/2026 7:20:46 AM PST by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
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To: healy61

It would be great if they were exposed.


20 posted on 02/06/2026 7:51:07 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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