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Posted on 10/07/2025 8:38:37 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday announced the release of newly declassified documents detailing how then-Vice President Joe Biden and his team sought to bury a 2016 intelligence assessment that painted a deeply unflattering picture of his diplomacy in Ukraine — and raised concerns about his family's business ties there.
"Today, I declassified CIA intelligence regarding Ukraine after determining it is in the public interest," Ratcliffe wrote Tuesday morning on X, linking to the now-public report.
The revelations come amid heightened scrutiny of Biden's past dealings in Ukraine — including his own admission that he pressured Kyiv to fire its top prosecutor while Hunter Biden sat on Burisma's board — and are expected to intensify Republican-led probes into alleged politicization of U.S. intelligence.
The documents include emails and internal communications indicating that Biden's office intervened to stop the distribution of the assessment, which Ukrainian officials described as highlighting "bewilderment and disappointment" over his lack of substantive engagement during a 2015 trip to Kyiv.
RealClearInvestigations also reported Tuesday that Biden's visit — billed as a high-profile push against corruption — left Ukrainian leaders frustrated and skeptical, particularly as U.S. media reported on Hunter Biden's lucrative board position with Burisma Holdings, a gas company long accused of corruption.
One blunt assessment concluded that the situation "undermined the credibility" of Washington's anti-corruption message.
A Feb. 10, 2016, email released alongside the report shows an official in the Director of National Intelligence's office telling CIA briefers that Biden "would strongly prefer the report not be disseminated," citing conversations with the vice president and national security adviser Colin Kahl.
The following day, Biden spoke with then–Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and stressed the importance of anti-corruption reforms — without acknowledging the suppressed assessment.
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Pam Bondi is being grilled by the Senate- she just stuck it to blumnethal of CT when he was going for the gotcha question and brought this very topic up....
A lot of people don’t like her but she was great with blumenthal...and he was lecturing Bondi said, “I’m not going to be lectured to by someone who lied about being in the military in order to get elected”....it was a WOW moment...
Bkmk
Zelensky has explained this as a "Veteran's Benefit".
WOW Indeed!
LOL, so that explains why Russian advances have slowed to their slowest rate ever? Okay
Russia's Ukraine advance slowed further in September, analysis shows
The Russian army's advance in Ukraine slowed again in September, especially in the Donetsk region, according to an AFP analysis of data from the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
In one month, Moscow's forces seized a total of 447 square kilometers from Ukraine, accelerating a slowdown that began in August, the ISW data showed.
Russia controls more than 19% of Ukrainian territory, including areas Moscow-backed forces took after 2014.
Moscow's forces had been speeding up their advance earlier in the year, peaking in July, when they took 634 sq km — the strongest showing they have made since November of last year.
Last month, Russia initially made rapid progress — but that advance largely came to a halt by the end of the month, with only about 30 sq km conquered between Sept. 20 and 30.
From October 2024 to September 2025, the Russians took more than 6,000 sq km, nearly three times more than in the previous 12 months, according to data from ISW, which works with the Critical Threats Project.
But they have been largely stalled in the Donetsk region, the main theater of clashes with Ukraine's army for the past two years.
Moscow gained 181 sq km there in September, one of its smallest advances in a year, and the lines have been virtually frozen since the middle of the month.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/02/world/russia-september-advance-slow/
None of that will end up in the Brandon liebarry.
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