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Whoa: DNI Gabbard Reveals Intelligence Community Conspiracy That Led to Trump’s 2019 Impeachment

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents Monday that she says show the intelligence community, along with certain Democrat congresscritters — think California Sen. Adam Schiff (a representative at the time) and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (CA ‑11) — used to justify the ludicrous 2019 impeachment effort of Donald Trump.

Democrats incredibly tried to take down a sitting president over a phone call because they alleged that Trump had requested Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky look into Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, who had been conducting suspicious business activity in the Eastern European country. They further charged that Trump used presidential power to unlawfully pressure the Ukrainians.

Gabbard says the new documents show that the case was manufactured.

In her tweet, she points readers to a lengthy press release on the official ODNI webpage that goes into more detail on the efforts to convict a duly-elected president, and she pointed the finger directly at former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) Michael Atkinson, who Trump fired in 2020:

During his preliminary investigation into President Trump’s July 2019 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, former IC IG Michael Atkinson did not follow standard IG procedures and relied upon politicized, manufactured narratives – only conducting interviews with four individuals: the Whistleblower, the Whistleblower’s friend who was a co-author of the January 2017 Russia Hoax Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and close colleague of disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, and two character references who had zero firsthand knowledge of the July 2019 phone call.

Ah, yes, Peter Strzok, the slippery former FBI agent who was a foaming-at-the-mouth Trump Hater. Gabbard had more:

Despite a lack of any firsthand evidence, IC IG Atkinson proceeded to take actions to weaponize the Whistleblower process and exceed his statutory jurisdiction by ignoring Department of Justice guidance and relying on only second-hand testimony to ensure the whistleblower complaint was released to Congress, referred to the FBI, and leaked to the propaganda media.

Then-House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Chairman Adam Schiff and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi used this false, second-hand narrative to create media intrigue and ultimately spark the basis to impeach President Trump in December of 2019.

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The Declassified Blueprint That Finally Exposes the Russian Memos and the Real Coup

Drew Thomas Allen’s Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup: The Declassified Story of the Trump–Russia Delusion is the book that previous authors on the scandal could only dream of writing. Published in 2026, it arrives with the full weight of Tulsi Gabbard’s declassifications as Director of National Intelligence, the Durham report, the Horowitz IG findings, and—most crucially—the long-buried Russian intelligence memos that the FBI received as early as January 2016 but chose to sideline.

While earlier works like Gregg Jarrett’s The Russia Hoax, Andrew McCarthy’s Ball of Collusion, and Lee Smith’s The Plot Against the President laid important groundwork, they were constrained by classified material. Allen’s book removes those constraints and delivers the complete, unvarnished picture.

At its core, this is not just another recap of Crossfire Hurricane or the Steele dossier. It is the definitive account that centers the Russian memos—the intercepted intelligence reports that explicitly described Hillary Clinton’s plan to smear Donald Trump by tying him to Russia as a distraction from her email scandal and Clinton Foundation controversies. These memos, which FBI leadership, including Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, reviewed, were not fabrications or disinformation. They were raw, internal Russian intelligence communications never meant for American eyes. And they were devastatingly accurate.

Allen meticulously walks readers through the timeline. By March 2016—months before WikiLeaks released the DNC emails and well before the FBI officially opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31—the Bureau had already received reports stating that “the Clinton staff, with help from special services, is preparing scandalous revelations of business relations between Trump and the ‘Russian mafia.’”

Another memo noted that Clinton had approved a proposal from her foreign policy advisor, Julianne Smith, to “smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal tied to the intrusion by the Russian special services.” The memos even referenced backchannel communications, suggesting Attorney General Loretta Lynch was keeping Clinton’s team informed about the email investigation. Rather than pursue these leads as evidence of corruption at the highest levels, the FBI buried them and pivoted to investigating Trump.

The contrast is staggering. When the memos implicated the Clinton campaign, senior officials dismissed them as “raw” and “likely not credible.” Yet the same FBI elevated Christopher Steele’s opposition-research dossier—funded by the Clinton campaign through Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS—into the foundation for FISA warrants on Carter Page.

Steele’s claims (the “pee tape,” Cohen in Prague, Page’s alleged Rosneft deal) were never corroborated and later collapsed, but they were treated as gospel while genuine intelligence about Clinton’s scheme was ignored. This selective blindness wasn’t incompetence. It was deliberate.

Allen demonstrates how the operation evolved from a defensive Clinton campaign tactic into a full Obama administration effort. After Trump’s victory, the hoax did not die—it escalated. On December 9, 2016, President Obama personally ordered the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA).

Under CIA Director John Brennan’s direction, a hand-picked group produced a document claiming with “high confidence” that Putin interfered specifically to help Trump. This assessment became the bridge that kept the investigation alive.

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THE OPERATOR: A Counterintelligence Officer Built the UFO Disclosure Movement. He Never Left the Payroll.

There is a version of this story that is comfortable to tell. A patriot inside the Pentagon discovers the government is hiding evidence of non-human intelligence. He resigns in protest. He goes public. He fights for the truth. Congress listens. The walls begin to crack.

It is a good story. It has a hero, a villain, and a ticking clock. It has been told on Joe Rogan, on 60 Minutes, on the History Channel, in the halls of Congress, and in a bestselling book cleared for publication by the same Department of Defense that supposedly tried to silence its author.

We are not going to tell that story.

We are going to tell you what happens when a career counterintelligence officer, confirmed as recently as 2022 to be on the government payroll, builds an information architecture designed to control what you believe about the most extraordinary claim in human history. And we are going to tell you what happens to the people who ask the wrong questions.

THE RÉSUMÉ THEY WANT YOU TO SEE

Luis “Lue” Daniel Elizondo enlisted in the United States Army in 1995. He spent two decades as a Counterintelligence Special Agent. The formal designations are MOS 35L and 35M. The informal job description is this: you learn how to identify threats, recruit assets, manage deception operations, run information campaigns, and neutralize anyone who disrupts your mission.

His deployments included Korea, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and South America. He managed classified intelligence operations at Guantanamo Bay’s Camp Seven, the most restricted facility in the detention complex, running missions against al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Hezbollah. His final DoD performance evaluation, dated 2016, praised his ability to manage highly classified programs on a global scale. According to Keith Kloor’s reporting in Issues in Science and Technology, the evaluator noted his office had “identified and neutralized 6 insider threats” and “co-authored 4 national-level policies involving covert action.”

Read that last line again. This is not an analyst. This is not a bureaucrat who stumbled onto UFO files. This is a professional whose government formally evaluated him on his ability to write and execute covert action policy. Covert action, by definition, involves narrative control, plausible deniability, and the manipulation of target populations.

His employer assessed him as excellent at all of these things.

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Was Epstein working for Israeli intelligence? Mail show explores his close relationship with ex-PM, Israeli security in his Manhattan home…and emails about obtaining Mossad agents

Jeffrey Epstein‘s deep links to Israel‘s political, financial and security networks are revealed in a new episode of the Daily Mail’s Covert Connections podcast. 

They include an unusually close friendship with an Israeli ex-prime minister, Israeli security inside an Epstein-controlled Manhattan apartment, and emails about former Mossad agents – as well as investment in the country’s defence tech.

None of the connections provide a smoking gun for rumours that Epstein worked for Israeli intelligence, but together they show how the convicted sex offender maintained access to the most powerful elements of the Israeli state. 

The paedophile financier struck up an ‘unusually close friendship’ with the country’s former premier Ehud Barak, who served as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001 and Minster of Defence from 2007 to 2013.

Barak is one of the most prominent figures appearing in Epstein’s correspondence and even visited Epstein’s infamous island. 

Epstein invited Barak and his wife to his private Caribbean island, Little St James, with travel emails showing discussions about visiting in 2014.

Later that year, Barak’s wife sent a travel itinerary confirming a trip to St Thomas, near the island.

Days later, Barak emailed Epstein thanking him for his hospitality and complimented him on his ‘Great, impressive island’, although there is no suggestion that he was involved in any wrongdoing.

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US intel hid Chinese 2020 election meddling from Trump because they opposed his policies, memo says

Analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese influence efforts from President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, with analysts saying they didn’t want their intel used by “that vulgarian in the Oval Office” to pursue policies toward China they personally disagreed with.

The revelation is found within a January 2021 report written by — and never before reported upon comments by — analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf, who conducted a review of the spy community’s handling of Russian versus Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. Among his conclusions was that intelligence analysts downplayed China’s actions because they had disdain for the “vulgarian” Trump and did not want to support the policies and priorities of the Trump administration toward China with which they “personally disagree.”

Just the News reported this week that the U.S. intelligence community has known since early 2020 that Beijing also gained access to American voter registration data and used that information to conduct opinion analysis related to the presidential election between Trump and then-former Vice President Joe Biden.

Chinese government election influence efforts in the 2020 election

This is not the only piece of evidence pointing to Chinese government election influence efforts in the 2020 election. Although much about China’s activities in 2020 remains classified, Just the News conducted a thorough review of publicly-available intelligence assessments, federal indictments, foreign government warnings, and cybersecurity firm analyses.

There is credible evidence that Chinese government-linked cyber hackers and Chinese social media troll farms took aim at the U.S. presidential election in 2020 and sought to undercut Trump during his run against now-former President Biden. There are also indicators that Chinese intelligence and law enforcement agencies — China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and its Ministry of Public Security (MPS) — also played a role in 2020.

Zulauf — a longtime intelligence officer — wrote in his January 2021 report: “Given analytic differences in the way Russia and China analysts examined their targets, China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the Administration’s policies, saying in effect, I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies.”

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Britain had meltdown when China hacked voter files, but U.S. intel kept it secret in America

The United States expressed outrage when Great Britain revealed two years ago that its voter registration databases were hacked by China in what became a global scandal. But it turns out the U.S. intelligence harbored its own secret at the time, knowing since 2020 that Beijing also gained access to American voter registration data, according to documents reviewed by Just the News and interviews with officials with direct knowledge.

“[Redacted] Chinese intelligence officials analyzed multiple U.S. states’ [Redacted] election voter registration data, [Redacted] to conduct public opinion analysis on the 2020 US general election,” stated a once highly classified April 2020 National Intelligence Council memo entitled “Cyber Operations Enabling Expansive Authoritarianism.” 

You can read that document here.

NICM-Declassified-Cyber-Operations-Enabling-Expansive-Digital-Authoritarianism-20200407–2022.pdf

That memo, heavily redacted and quietly declassified by the Biden administration two years after it was written, has escaped most public notice.

That means six years later that the U.S. intelligence community has yet to fully inform the American people or the Congress on the breadth of evidence it possesses of China’s actions, how Beijing got the data, and what operations it has taken or contemplated. 

The gap in public knowledge is particularly politically sensitive as the Senate this week debates a new election security bill that is a top priority for President Donald Trump. Officials told Just the News that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe are working to declassify a potentially explosive tranche of documents showing what China did, and who in U.S. government knew and when.

The secrecy surrounding China’s access to voter registration has been so persistent that even Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters, President Donald Trump’s point man for the 2026 mid-term elections, said he was unaware of the intelligence. “What’s crazy is the fact that China has access to these voter rolls, but we don’t,” Gruters told John Solomon Reports podcast in an episode set to air Tuesday.

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US Intelligence Community is Covering its Ass… What is Really Going On with the US War on Iran?

Let’s start with the big news from a US Intelligence Community leak to the Washington Post… John Hudson and Warren P. Strobel got the story:

A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment, a sobering assessment as the Trump administration raises the specter of an extended military campaign that officials sayhas “only just begun.”

The findings, confirmed to The Washington Post by three people familiar with the report’s contents, raise doubts about President Donald Trump’s declared plan to “clean out” Iran’s leadership structure and install a ruler of his choosing.

The report, completed about a week before the United States and Israel initiated the war on Feb. 28, outlined succession scenarios stemming from either a narrowly tailored campaign against Iran’s leaders or a broader assault against its leadership and government institutions, the people familiar with its findings said. In both cases, the intelligence concluded that Iran’s clerical and military establishment would respond to the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by following protocols designed to preserve continuity of power, these people said.

This means the war in Iran is not going well and the US IC is beginning the Washington game of, “Don’t blame me, I warned you not to do it.” I don’t know if Tulsi Gabbard authorized this leak, or if it came from senior analysts from the four principal agencies that were involved in writing this classified report — i.e., the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and the National Security Agency. It is important to understand that this report was produced by the National Intelligence Council, aka the NIC, and it is under the direct control of Tulsi Gabbard. In any event I see this as a clear signal from people involved in producing this report that they will not be the scapegoats when the Iran war turns into a debacle for Donald Trump

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Leaked spy report warns Trump’s Iran war faces disaster

A leaked classified report by the National Intelligence Council has shed an unfavorable light on Donald Trump‘s decision to strike Iran, warning that military involvement could be disastrous. 

In just one week, tensions have dramatically risen in the region, starting with a joint military operation conducted by the US and Israel against Iran. 

The strikes took out Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as Iran retaliated by targeting US military bases in the Gulf Cooperation Council. 

Trump has stood firm on the military attack, but a report completed by the NIC just a week before raised doubts about the US’s ability to overthrow the regime. 

The NIC is a federal government agency that reports to the Director of National Intelligence. NIC members bridge 18 intelligence agencies with policymakers to provide analytical assessments. 

Three people familiar with the findings told the Washington Post that Iran would likely respond to Khamenei’s death by following protocols to preserve the regime. Sources said it was ‘unlikely’ that Iran’s opposition would seize control.

Khamenei’s successor has yet to be named. Iran’s Assembly of Experts and high-ranking members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been tasked with naming his replacement. 

The ayatollah’s son, Mojitaba Khamenei, is rumored to be assuming the role, but Trump has previously called him ‘incompetent’ and a ‘lightweight.’ 

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Rep. Luna Believes Jeffrey Epstein Was Running an Intelligence-Gathering ‘Honey Pot’ Operation Based on New Testimony

Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna believed that the disgraced financier was not merely a predator, but the epicenter of a foreign intelligence-gathering “honey pot” operation, and that key women connected to his network should be questioned as co-conspirators in child sex trafficking.

Based on fresh testimony and files uncovered in the House Oversight Committee’s probe, Luna declared that the notorious sex trafficker was operating a sophisticated “honey pot” intelligence-gathering scheme, likely designed to blackmail powerful politicians and business leaders for economic and political leverage.

Luna, who has been at the forefront of this investigation as part of her role leading a task force on government secrets, didn’t mince words in her post on X:

“Based on our congressional investigation it is my professional opinion that Jeffrey Epstein was running a honey pot operation. I am calling on Oversight to bring these 4 women in for questioning as co-conspirators to child sex trafficking.”

During a fiery press conference following former President Bill Clinton’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee, Luna elaborated on her findings.

“What I will say is it has become very evident, even in the last 24 hours, through lines of questioning, that Jeffrey Epstein was running an intelligence-gathering operation. In my professional opinion, I do believe it was a honeypot operation,” Luna said.

She went further, suggesting that Epstein’s web extended to targeting high-profile figures like the Clintons themselves for sensitive economic intelligence.

“I do believe that Jeffrey Epstein was targeting many politicians, many influential people, especially in regards to economic policy,” Luna added. “I do believe that it was possible that not just (Bill Clinton), but Secretary Clinton as well as a number of other people were targeted.”

But Luna didn’t stop at vague accusations. She named names, calling out four women she believes were active participants in Epstein’s child sex trafficking network, not victims.

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Former Polish intel chiefs charged over ‘Israeli spyware’ use

The former directors of Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW) have been charged for allegedly using Pegasus spyware, the national prosecutor’s office has announced.

After Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government took over in late 2023, it launched multiple inquiries into the alleged use of the controversial software developed by the Israeli-based NSO Group. The new authorities have claimed the program was widely used by the former Law and Justice (PiS) government to spy on opposition politicians. Former officials, however, have insisted the accusations are politically motivated.

The head of the ABW, Piotr Pogonowski, and the ex-chief of the SKW, Maciej Materka, are both now facing accusations of breaching their official duties, the prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. The charges, which carry a penalty of up to three years behind bars, are related to the alleged use of Pegasus without proper clearance and “without checking whether this system meets the requirements of information protection,” the prosecution said. Both former officials have denied any wrongdoing and refused to testify, it noted.

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