Tulsi Gabbard labels CNN ‘propaganda arm’ of spies
The Director of National Intelligence says the network’s anonymous CIA sources are exactly the people “we need to root out”
RT | February 27, 2025
Newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has accused CNN of acting as a “propaganda arm” for disloyal intelligence agents, calling the network’s report on potential retaliation by dismissed spies an “indirect threat” to President Donald Trump’s administration.
As part of Trump’s broader effort to downsize and restructure the federal government, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has recently offered so-called buyouts to its agents. In a report published Monday, CNN, citing unnamed sources, claimed that some senior CIA officers were “quietly discussing” how the dismissals “risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.”
“I am curious about how they think this is a good tactic to keep their job,” Gabbard told Fox News on Tuesday.
“They are exposing themselves, essentially, by making this indirect threat – using their propaganda arm, CNN, that they’ve used over and over again – to reveal their hand,” she continued. “Their loyalty is not to America, not to the American people or the Constitution; it is to themselves.”
The director of national intelligence stressed that such disgruntled employees are “exactly the kinds of people we need to root out, get rid of, so that the patriots who do work in this area, who are committed to our core mission, can actually focus on that.”
Gabbard also claimed that many within the intelligence community had reached out to her personally, expressing support for Trump’s efforts to “clean house” and refocus on the core mission of serving the American people.
A former US congresswoman from Hawaii, Gabbard rose to national prominence in 2016 when she resigned as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to endorse Bernie Sanders for president. She later ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, advocating against US military interventions abroad, which she argued were harmful to service members like herself and detrimental to national interests. As tensions with the Democratic Party escalated, Gabbard left the party in 2022. After two years as an independent, she joined the Republican Party and endorsed Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump’s nomination of Gabbard for the top intelligence role in November sparked criticism from establishment figures, who labeled her a security risk. Despite the backlash, she was confirmed earlier this month by a 52-48 Senate vote, with only one Republican, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, opposing her appointment.
In January, the Senate also confirmed another Trump nominee, John Ratcliffe, as director of the CIA in a 74-25 vote. Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman and ex-director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term, is known for his skepticism of intelligence agencies and his criticism of investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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A New Era Of Mass Armies Approaches
BY IAN WELSH | SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
The army, or a part of it at the war college, has perked up and noticed some of the lessons of the Ukraine war, and that it’s a war that the US military could not fight. They’ve missed a lot of things, or felt they couldn’t/shouldn’t write about them, but they’ve figured some stuff out and written about them in a new report, “A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force” by Lieutenant Colonel Katie Crombe, and Professor John A. Nagle.
The entire thing is worth reading, but I’m going to pull out three of the main points. The first is that a volunteer US military can’t fight a real war.
The Russia-Ukraine War is exposing significant vulnerabilities in the Army’s strategic personnel depth and ability to withstand and replace casualties.11 Army theater medical planners may anticipate a sustained rate of roughly 3,600 casualties per day, ranging from those killed in action to those wounded in action or suffering disease or other non-battle injuries. With a 25 percent predicted replacement rate, the personnel system will require 800 new personnel each day. For context, the United States sustained about 50,000 casualties in two decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. In large-scale combat operations, the United States could experience that same number of casualties in two weeks. (emphasis mine)
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Re “propaganda arm”: Tulsi, what about Fox News…for what/whom does it propagandize? Recommendation: divorce yourself from FN….
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The repubs – whether ‘maga’ or not – are now giving guidance to their bought-and-paid-fors to not host town halls anymore. If they do decide to have an event, they send their own ‘reps’ (our alleged ‘reps’ now send other ‘reps’ to represent them to us) – and if the rep for the rep doesn’t like what she sees – like a lot of justifiably angry citizens – she just leaves:
https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/rep-jeff-hurds-staffer-left-event-site-after-seeing-crowd-at-dolores-public-library/
This is happening everywhere, but we don’t see any articles about here.
We also haven’t seen any articles about the planned wholesale destruction of social security and medicare (they’ve already essentially privatized the latter). A third of US citizens of all financial stripes depend on social security
If you’re in a rural area, good luck getting packages when the USPs is completely privatized. DeJoy – first appointed by Trump to destroy an entity that most Americans love – was kept on by Biden and now that the job is almost complete, he resigns.
No articles about any of this here.
I am on SSDI – I work as well (god forbid I didn’t – you should just shoot me now, right?). Looks like this will be going away soon.
Social Security was created because things were so bad last time the ‘economic libertarians’ were in control that people were sick and dying en masse in the streets. This is not a good look for a nation, so…
Atheo, are you going to help any of your readers by providing more thorough information about what is happening in this country?
It’s hard to imagine you yourself don’t know people – friends, family members – whose lives are being systematically ruined by all of this.
How are your finances, sir? You good to go when everything is private, nothing comes for ‘free’ there are no public spaces and everyone is in a constant state of confusion and precarity?
You mentioned once that you were concerned about all the suicides. Do you expect the suicides to stop now that everything is being dismantled and privatized?
By the way, what happened to all those cuts at the War Department? Still waiting.
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Which do you expect most to come first, cutting SS or War Dept? I have yet to see anything definitive on either.
The fact that a hostile crowd can be assembled in Durango is not particularly surprising.
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‘The fact that a hostile crowd can be assembled in Durango is not particularly surprising.’
So it is your belief, atheo/aletho, that the pushback from repubs on the ground isn’t real?
I know it’s real because I see it everyday around me.
You evaded the substance of my question.
How do you feel about the Trump-led republicans putting out guidance to avoid townhalls?
I mean, you’re a Vermont guy, after all, right?
I remember writing to you years ago and you checked my IP address and told me that you knew I was from NJ.
Weird, but hey, you can’t be too careful, right?
Incidentally, what is your name?
My name is Dan Kelly.
Let me ask you this ‘aletho’:
Do you personally believe in social security or any type of government/state/nation safety net?
Do you know anyone personally who depends on these things?
I remember Ron Paul saying that the churches can handle all the ‘left behind.’
I imagine that’s the belief here as well.
Trump HAD to assure his base that he wasn’t going after SS, Medicare AND Medicaid. He is now going after all these things.
They just announced that they are closing half the SS field offices in the country. This so that we the people can’t do anything in person.
Medicaid, incidentally, is necessary for the vast majority of health care in rural areas in this country.
It ain’t just the darkies.
Your turn.
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“I remember writing to you years ago and you checked my IP address and told me that you knew I was from NJ.”
You must be recalling someone else.
Ron Paul’s position on SS was not reducing participant entitlement.
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