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House Intel Chairman announces ‘serious national security threat,’ sources say it is related to Russia
CNN ^ | February 14, 2024 | Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, Annie Grayer and Kevin Liptak

Posted on 02/14/2024 10:37:24 AM PST by Reno89519

House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner has made information concerning a “serious national security threat” available to all members of Congress to review, the committee said on Wednesday.

While Turner and the White House remained vague on what the threat entailed, two sources and a US official tell CNN the threat is related to Russia. Multiple sources familiar with the intelligence characterized it as “very sensitive.”

One of the sources who has seen the intelligence confirmed that “it is, in fact, a highly concerning and destabilizing” Russian capability “that we were recently made aware of.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidensneoconbuttboys; miketurner; nationalsecurity; russia; trump; ukraineslushfund; vagueassurances; zelenskyworshippers
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To: Reno89519

101 posted on 02/14/2024 12:16:33 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: janetjanet998

There were claims last week that Russia was using Starlink. SpaceX denied it. But theoretically any network could be hacked and any device used to connect cloned.

But space based military threat sounds like a weapon, not a hack. Its still vague - unless they figured out a way to shoot lasers down to earth as others have implied, it could just be they have a way to hijack our satellites and or deactivate or take control of our drones and other coms. Something along those lines. Maybe we shouldn’t use hauwei chips inside our weapons and coms

And maybe we should not have made Russia a perpetual boogie man. Even Hillary! Tried to do a reset though I suspect she had personal motives. Nevertheless Russians are basically Europeans just a little east. White, Christian and with a lot of resources. Those who have said we should try rapprochement were right. They may not have a great leadership structure but we pushed them closer to China and Iran and India (and Brazil by extension) as a result of our policies. They would have done it anyway, but perhaps with less enthusiasm had we had a more effective diplomatic and economic policies other than demonizing them with fake stuff like election interference and trump collusion nonsense etc. Then blowing up pipelines etc. NATO advancement eastward. All kinds of silliness.

We can mostly agree Russia is a bad actor in its aggression against Ukraine. But a candidate for POTUS who doesn’t see the opportunity here to ratchet a lot of silly policies back is missing a great opportunity to create a dinner table election. Left may hate Russia and Christians but only fools want wars.


102 posted on 02/14/2024 12:18:39 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: allendale

“Congress still reeling from Jan 6 is duly alarmed.”

If they are reeling from that, they are far beyond pussy. Wait until something REAL goes down.


103 posted on 02/14/2024 12:21:25 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Reno89519

The 2024 swindle may be in doubt as planned by Soros and Obamy...

Time to raise some phony national security issues to make President Moron look good...

Happens every year of a presidential election...

The communists are getting the country all excited about this security meeting, will tell the congressional idiots some stuff, then the WH will leak it and blame the GOP House members...
Then charge them all with treason and name Obamy as the 2024 candidate...


104 posted on 02/14/2024 12:27:24 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Reno89519

If declassified would the public buy in? Fed gobt created intell?? Flat out ppppphoney.


105 posted on 02/14/2024 12:28:45 PM PST by whistleduck
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To: Reno89519

I won’t discount the possibility that Dems/WH are amused by this public announcement. The reverse could also be true and Turner may be trying to defuse a Dem plot to rile up the media and pundits with a top secret meeting followed lots of pressure to act immediately on these state secrets by the talking heads. I think Kirby basically admitted he had scheduled a secret meeting for tomorrow and that it was unusual for his office to initiate such a meeting. So Turner’s call to declassify the intel could be a way to cut through the crap; to pre-empt any vague tactics to jam Ukrain aid through or the like. If the meeting happens and the talking heads come out from their crypts, Turner already opened the door to ask “let us know the details so that the people can evaluate”.

It may be wishful thinking on my part, but some efforts to lift the fog over DC decisions (implicitly the various corruptions and self dealings and turf protections and outright lies by our agencies) is long past due. Everyone at least feels in their bones that there’s something odious wrt Ukraine corruption, with Jeffrey Epsteins videos, with Covid origins, you name it nothing is the way the MSM wants to portray it. It’s time for a reckoning and it could start with opening more doors to transparency and debate and less censorship and demonization and “secrets we can’t know about but must change our entire way of life” over.


106 posted on 02/14/2024 12:36:12 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Vermont Lt

Possible. See my prior post. It could be the reverse and Turner is trying to preempt a head fake planned by the Dems/WH/DS about something urgent that we aren’t allowed to know like Adam Schiff’s “secret proof” that sent us down a 3 year rabbbit hole for nought. We can’t know which it is yet, if any, and may never know.


107 posted on 02/14/2024 12:40:16 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: janetjanet998

That is all the background that I needed to know. He’s probably getting some crumbs off the Ukraine meal ticket table.


108 posted on 02/14/2024 12:42:08 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: monkeyshine

The timing just stinks. And the method is just irresponsible.


109 posted on 02/14/2024 12:47:07 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt

The entire thing stinks. It all smells of desperation. But there does seem to be a showdown coming over Ukraine and a divide between House and Senate priorities in general. So you just had to expect some forms of subterfuge to emerge. And both sides will have to play their hand.


110 posted on 02/14/2024 12:54:44 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Reno89519

How are we to believe anything our government tells us anymore?


111 posted on 02/14/2024 12:58:07 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Reno89519

Sources say it is related to Russia.

No word from Hillary and Obama yet.


112 posted on 02/14/2024 1:22:30 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: Ken H
I doubt that. They know exactly what they’re doing.

You have a point there.

113 posted on 02/14/2024 1:26:04 PM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: janetjanet998
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says “no need for public alarm” about undisclosed national security threat...

He oddly repeated it a few times within his 1-2 minute public statement.


114 posted on 02/14/2024 1:31:35 PM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Reno89519

Hahaha United States is funding lion’s share for war in Ukraine against Russia. Why would Russia not want to retaliate? Defies common sense.


115 posted on 02/14/2024 1:49:53 PM PST by Bobbyvotes (MAGA all the way with PDJT!)
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To: Bobbyvotes
Russian space weapons.

If only the former President would have seen this coming. Maybe if he had said something about future space weapons and needing a space force.

And in response President Trump was ridiculed and laughed at.

116 posted on 02/14/2024 2:09:16 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Reno89519

The Russians are going to drop moose on us from space—stunningly new technology.

Lol.


117 posted on 02/14/2024 2:10:26 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Vermont Lt

The Russians make them fast, but they only go straight.

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That doesn’t matter. They’re impossible to stop/destroy in flight.


118 posted on 02/14/2024 2:50:43 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

You need to read up some more. They’ve shot down a bunch of them.

They don’t fly faster than radio waves. If you can “see” them, you can kill them. It just takes a little more work.


119 posted on 02/14/2024 2:55:05 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Reno89519

If they can’t document and explain it, it doesn’t exist .... remember the Pee-pee tape that no one has ever seen.


120 posted on 02/14/2024 2:56:57 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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