The Daily Wire has exclusively obtained a newsletter from the office of Joe Biden’s National intelligence director. Joe Biden, or as he’s sometimes called &#8220;The Big Guy,&#8221; is, of course, the rhododendron currently running the free world on behalf of the Chinese, which is only fair since they&#8217;ve paid him a bundle in bribes. His Director of National Intelligence is Avril Haines, whose pronouns are “wang tsi co mao soy fang fang chu” and who served under CIA Director John Brennan, a communist, when the president was Barack Obama, an anti-American globalist. 
But not to worry, during her confirmation hearing, DNI Fang Fang reassured congress there were only some areas where she wanted to co-operate with the Chinese, like in collecting The Big Guy’s money and depositing it in one of his twenty shell companies so he has plausible deniability while he’s handing our border to Mexican cartels, who kill Americans with fentanyl, then launder their profits with the Chinese mafia inside the U.S.
 What was I talking about? Oh, yeah.
According to The Daily Wire’s crack investigative reporter Spencer Crack, DNI Fang Fang’s office puts out a newsletter called The Dive — DIVE — which guides the FBI, CIA and NSA on matters of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion — DEI — so that our intelligence officers can better keep America free for the untraceable banking of Chinese bribes.
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According to DNI Fang Fang’s newsletter, when American intelligence officers are reporting on terrorist threats, they should stop describing… I’m not making this up — they should stop describing the terrorists with phrases that may be hurtful to Muslim-Americans.
Now, the Daily Wire’s crack reporter Crack has also obtained secret files that describe a real-life incident in which DNI’s DEI DIVE helped CIA, FBI and NSA perform their duties.
Recently one of our top CIA Agents, Wong Fu Chi, received a warning that a young Iranian man was about to blow himself up on Wall Street while shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221;, thereby potentially damaging our banking system and preventing President Big Guy from collecting his money from China and secreting it in one of his twenty shell companies. Though it was the dead of night, Agent Wong quickly called DNI Fang Fang where she was sleeping at Congressman Eric Swalwell’s house to report that The Big Guy’s cash was facing a jihadist threat. DNI Fang Fang immediately dropped her riding crop, leapt out of bed and instructed Agent Wong that he should re-file his report after first removing the word “jihadist” which might offend some Muslim-Americans. Dutifully starting over, Agent Wong then said, “A young man from a foreign nation that intends to destroy the world in order to hasten the arrival of the Twelfth Imam or, sorry, I should just say the Twelfth Non-denominational Clergyman named Mohammed al-Mahdi or maybe just Bob al-Mahdi or let’s just call him Pastor Bob…” Unfortunately, at this point, Agent Wong’s report was interrupted by a shout of &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221; followed by a tremendous explosion.
In another helpful edition of the DNI’s DEI DIVE to FBI, CIA and NSA, the newsletter tells the touching story of an American intelligence officer who says — and as God is my witness this is a real quote from the DNI newsletter: “I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women’s clothes sometimes. My gender identity and expression make me a better intelligence officer.”
The officer goes on to explain that cross-dressing not only makes his intelligence work more incisive but also more becoming in a pink chiffon mini sundress with a naughty but nice sweetheart neckline that’s simply perfect for reporting on young foreign-born males who want to hasten the coming of the twelfth non-denominational clergyman Pastor Bob…  But at this point, the article is interrupted by a shout of &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221; followed by a tremendous explosion.
So, as you can see, we can all rest easy at night knowing that Congressman Swalwell’s mistress DNI Fang Fang has a cross-dressing Communist CIA Agent keeping watch to make sure no one uses offensive language while President Big Guy is being paid by China with the money they make laundering the profits Mexican gangsters collect for killing Americans.
All that said, I’ll now begin my satire.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1174-the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The below story is the second part of a series on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s DEI newsletter, “The Dive.” You can read part one, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">Biden’s Top Intelligence Agency Says Crossdressing Makes Man ‘Better Intelligence Officer,’ Internal Docs Show</a>,&#8221; here. 

An internal newsletter sent by diversity, equity, and inclusion officials in the Biden administration&#8217;s top intelligence agency warns personnel not to use “problematic phrases” when discussing Islamic terrorism and foreign adversaries such as China, an <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/DF-2024-00143-WM.pdf">internal document</a> obtained by The Daily Wire reveals.
The unclassified newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, called “The Dive” and exclusively obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Daily Wire, argues in its cover story that the intelligence community needs to focus on &#8220;changing terminology related to counterterrorism,&#8221; because &#8220;words matter.&#8221;
&#8220;This article is about one of our goals: disentangling Islam from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism and extremist violence,&#8221; writes the author of the article, whose name was redacted from the document released to The Daily Wire. The article declares that it&#8217;s trying to remove &#8220;certain phrases to identify international terrorism threats that are hurtful to Muslim-Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;Some of the problematic phrases include, but are not limited to: ‘Salafi-Jihadist,’ ‘Jihadist,’ ‘Islamic-Extremist,’ ‘Sunni/Shia-Extremism,’ and ‘Radical Islamists.’”
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The article is part of the newsletter created by ODNI&#8217;s Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Office and sent out to personnel throughout the Intelligence Community, which includes the country’s most powerful executive agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as intelligence components within each branch of the military.
Among the other articles featured in the newsletter was the personal testimony of a man who enjoys dressing like a woman and says that crossdressing and his gender identity make him a better intelligence officer.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and U.S. Army veteran who fought in Afghanistan, said the newsletter is another example of misplaced priorities by the Biden administration.
“The Biden administration putting DEI above national security concerns is a tragedy waiting to happen,&#8221; Cotton told The Daily Wire after reviewing the newsletter. &#8220;Our intelligence agencies should spend their time finding terrorists, not worrying about whether they will offend them.”
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and U.S. Army veteran who fought in the elite Green Berets, said the guidance in the newsletter is &#8220;totally insane.&#8221;
&#8220;It is a return to the same Obama Administration head-in-the-sand approach to Islamic extremism that led to Obama calling ISIS the JV team,&#8221; Waltz said. &#8220;The same people are now running the Biden Administration, so it is no surprise they are making the same mistakes.&#8221;
The newsletter was published just months after Islamic Hamas terrorists <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-revises-death-toll-oct-7-hamas-attack-around-1200-2023-11-10/">murdered</a> roughly 1,200 Israelis during the October 7th terrorist attack. Meanwhile, the United States has experienced <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/us/politics/immigration-terrorism-watch-list.html">three consecutive year-over-year increases</a> in border encounters with those on the terror watch list amid an unprecedented border crisis that’s resulted in about 9 million <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters">nationwide encounters</a> and 1.7 million <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-may-have-lost-track-millions-of-migrants-crossing-southern-border-congressional-report">estimated gotaways</a> since Biden took office.
The newsletter states that the DEI office took guidance from the Muslim community when considering alternative terms.
“We took great efforts to engage with the Muslim community, academics, and members of our constituency across the country,” it reads. “In July 2023, we invited a renowned Islamic scholar, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf of Zaytuna College, to speak.”
It went on to pull from Islamic history to provide intelligence personnel with an alternate term to use to describe Islamic terrorists. “The term Khawarij means ‘outsiders’ and references a group of individuals in Islamic history who rebelled against Ali ibn Abi Talib — one of the rightly guided caliphs after the Prophet Muhammad’s passing,&#8221; it says.
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The article concludes that these word choices &#8220;have a direct impact on everything we do in our daily life, including our work.&#8221;
&#8220;We ask that employees spread awareness about the concern of the terminology we are seeing and utilize the substitute terms recommended to ensure we are inclusive, accurate, and sensitive,” it says.
But the ODNI newsletter didn’t stop at identifying “problematic phrases” pertaining to Islamic terrorism, in fact, the entire edition focused on purging “biased” terminology from the communications of the intelligence community.
Another portion of the newsletter went on to condemn the use of everyday terms like “cakewalk” and “blacklist,” accusing the words of being loaded with bias. Instead of saying “I’ve been blacklisted from this event,” for example, the ODNI newsletter tells personnel to say “I’ve been banned,” arguing that “blacklisted implies black is bad and white is good.” It claims that “cakewalk” should also be avoided because it allegedly “refers to a dance performed by slaves for slave owners on plantation grounds.”
The newsletter opens with a letter from the Editor-in-Chief of The Dive, whose name is also redacted from the document, outlining some of the efforts that have been made to make the IC’s language more inclusive.
“IC employee resource groups advocating for Asian and Pacific Islander heritage have been particularly successful in creating a new framework and language guidelines for how we talk about the People’s Republic of China,” one example reads. “This edition also has articles that speak to inclusivity more broadly, exploring gender identity, advances in accessibility, and diversity in leadership,” it explains, an apparent reference to the article later in the newsletter claiming that crossdressing makes him a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">better intelligence officer</a>.”
There’s also a DEI-themed word search with the terms “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” and “ally,” among others.
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“We seek to engage with officers across the IC, enlighten readers about advancements in DEIA, and empower every employee to speak their truth,” the end of the newsletter reads.
A spokesman for ODNI confirmed that the newsletter was sent out to every element of the Intelligence Community.
“The IC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (<a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/organizations/339-about/organization/diversity-equity-and-inclusion">IC DEIA</a>) Office manages the IC&#8217;s efforts to build a diverse and inclusive workforce, and as part of their work, they distribute The Dive, a quarterly magazine, to each IC element&#8217;s DEIA office and/or Equal Employment Opportunity office,” the spokesman told The Daily Wire.
The ODNI newsletter is only the latest example of the United States Intelligence Community advancing far-left ideologies. The National Security Agency (NSA) published an internal DEI glossary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">exclusively obtained</a> by The Daily Wire, that included terms like “white fragility,” “transmisogyny,” “settler colonialism,” and even the gender neutral pronouns of “ze” and “zir.”
Other federal agencies have poured millions of taxpayer funds into DEI initiatives, with the Pentagon spending as much as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda">$270 million</a> under Biden to advance the leftwing agenda. There’s also the State Department, which the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-department-forced-to-disclose-multi-million-dollar-cost-of-bidens-diversity-agenda">revealed</a> had spent over $77 million over two years under Biden on DEI programs, with hundreds of millions more in requests for DEI-related initiatives.
Documents obtained by The Daily Wire have also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-frantically-worked-to-finalize-climate-plan-during-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-emails-show">revealed</a> that top Pentagon officials were concerning themselves with a climate initiative when they failed to get troops safely out of Afghanistan in August 2021, where 13 Americans were killed in a terrorist attack.
The newsletter’s guidance to drop certain terms that have been deemed offensive bears similarities to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-contractor-urges-dhs-to-ditch-term-illegal-immigrant-says-jihadist-is-racially-charged">attempt</a> from the Rand Corporation, a federal contractor, to urge DHS to adopt “inclusive language” by dropping terms like “jihadist,” “looter,” and “illegal immigrant.”
Far-left beliefs on race and gender have been embedded within both the intelligence community and the wider federal government in large part due to executive orders from Biden that sought to institutionalize extreme ideologies into the operations of the federal bureaucracy. Former President Donald Trump has signaled that he may gut the federal bureaucracy through an executive order called <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees">Schedule F</a>, which would remove civil services protections from thousands of bureaucrats who threaten to undermine his agenda.
Others are preparing to fill in the gap left by outgoing officials, assembling a personnel database of those who might serve in the next administration through the <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> Presidential Transition Project, an initiative from the Heritage Foundation that seeks to “pave the way for an effective conservative Administration.”
You can read the entire edition of “The Dive,” titled “Words Matter: The Importance of Words,” here:
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence included TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese Communist Party-controlled company ByteDance, in its annual threat assessment.
The news comes as House Members are set to vote this week on legislation that would force TikTok&#8217;s parent company to sell TikTok or face being banned in the U.S.
TikTok desperately tried to stop the legislation last week by sending out push notifications to users urging them to call and harass their congressional representatives and demand that they not pass the bill. Members of Congress strongly rejected TikTok&#8217;s malign attempt to influence U.S. policy and voted 50-0 to move the legislation forward for a full vote in the House on Wednesday.
The unclassified <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2024-Unclassified-Report.pdf">report</a> reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC) and only &#8220;focuses on the most direct, serious threats to the United States primarily during the next year,&#8221; the report states.
The report highlighted numerous threats that communist China poses to the U.S., including economic, technology, weapons of mass destruction, military, space, cyber, intelligence operations, and malign influence operations.
In the domain of malign influence operations, China is seeking to &#8220;sow doubts about U.S. leadership, undermine democracy, and extend Beijing’s influence,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Beijing’s information operations primarily focus on promoting pro-China narratives, refuting U.S.- promoted narratives, and countering U.S. and other countries’ policies that threaten Beijing’s interests, including China’s international image, access to markets, and technological expertise.&#8221;
The report said that China is using social media to &#8220;exploit perceived U.S. societal divisions&#8221; to sow chaos and discord amongst Americans.
&#8220;China is demonstrating a higher degree of sophistication in its influence activity, including experimenting with generative AI,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;TikTok accounts run by a PRC propaganda arm reportedly targeted candidates from both political parties during the U.S. midterm election cycle in 2022.&#8221;
The report warned that China will likely try to interfere in the 2024 elections &#8220;because of its desire to sideline critics of China and magnify U.S. societal divisions.&#8221;
&#8220;PRC actors’ have increased their capabilities to conduct covert influence operations and disseminate disinformation,&#8221; the section concluded. &#8220;Even if Beijing sets limits on these activities, individuals not under its direct supervision may attempt election influence activities they perceive are in line with Beijing’s goals.&#8221;

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) subpoenaed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/director-of-national-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of National Intelligence</a> Avril Haines, the Biden administration&#8217;s spy chief, on Thursday as part of an investigation into alleged government collusion with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/big-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Big Tech</a> companies, The Daily Wire can confirm.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has so far provided a &#8220;woefully inadequate&#8221; response to multiple requests by the judiciary panel and its Weaponization subcommittee for communications with &#8220;private companies, and other third-party groups such as nonprofit organizations, in addition to other information,&#8221; Jordan wrote in a cover letter for the subpoena.
Jordan contended that it is &#8220;necessary&#8221; for Congress to &#8220;gauge the extent to which ODNI officials have coerced, pressured, worked with, or relied upon social media and other tech companies to censor speech.&#8221; He stressed that the scope of the inquiry includes ODNI, and the result could be legislation that could exact &#8220;new statutory limits&#8221; on the Executive Branch being able to work with companies to restrict content and deplatform users.
&#8220;Publicly available information regarding the ODNI’s Foreign Malign Influence Center makes clear that records related to the Center’s activities fall within the scope of the Committee’s request for documents,&#8221; Jordan wrote, citing <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/05/05/foreign-malign-influence-center-disinformation/#:~:text=Andrade%2DRhoades%2FAP-,The%20Government%20Created%20a%20New%20Disinformation%20Office%20to%20Oversee%20All,%2C%20intelligence%2C%20and%20diplomatic%20agencies." target="_blank" rel="noopener">a report from The Intercept</a>. &#8220;Moreover, the Committee is in possession of documents that demonstrate that ODNI personnel were invited to meetings between major social media companies and federal government agencies, often referred to as &#8216;USG-Industry Sync&#8217; meetings. ODNI has yet to produce any records related to these or any other meetings.&#8221;
In concluding his cover letter, Jordan wrote that &#8220;given ODNI’s woefully inadequate voluntary compliance,&#8221; he was attaching a subpoena &#8220;for the Committee’s highest priority documents and information.&#8221; The Daily Wire has reached out to ODNI seeking comment on the subpoena to Haines, which features a deadline of 9 a.m. on February 9.
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Jordan&#8217;s congressional inquiry has also led to subpoenas against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-big-tech-executives-in-collusion-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Big Tech executives</a> and other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-subpoenas-doj-and-fbi-leaders-in-big-tech-collusion-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal agencies</a>, such as the Department of Justice and FBI, over the past year.
In the same vein as the &#8220;Twitter Files,&#8221; Jordan has released &#8220;Facebook Files&#8221; <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-releases-new-facebook-files-highlights-how-biden-admin-sought-to-suppress-daily-wire-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-releases-new-facebook-files-highlights-how-biden-admin-sought-to-suppress-daily-wire-content" data-sk="tooltip_parent">that claim to show</a> how the Biden administration pressured the social media giant to stifle speech the White House didn’t like, including limiting The Daily Wire’s reach on the platform and boosting the reach of legacy media outlets.
Other parts of the GOP-led House are separately looking into alleged government <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censorship</a>, including the Small Business Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-twists-screws-on-state-dept-in-censorship-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressing</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/state-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Department</a> over suspicions that the agency&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-twitter-files-twitter-and-the-fbi-belly-button">Global Engagement Center</a> (GEC) funded private entities to discredit small businesses and their owners over their political speech and views.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-us-state-department-conspiring-censor-american-media-companies-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> with The Daily Wire and The Federalist last month in suing the State Department, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-and-the-federalist-sue-biden-state-department-over-censorship-effort" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing the government agency</a> of funding censorship technology designed to bankrupt domestic media outlets with disfavored political opinions. The lawsuit seeks to put a stop to the alleged effort to boost censorship organizations that regularly target conservative media outlets with the stated goal of limiting ad revenue.
Amid a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">separate social media censorship case</a> brought by the GOP attorneys general from Missouri and Louisiana, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/social-media-protected-speech-lawsuit-injunction-148c1cd43f88a0284d5a3c53fd333727" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a White House official told</a> the Associated Press that the Biden administration “has promoted responsible actions to protect public health, safety, and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic and foreign attacks on our elections.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-unleashes-the-facebook-files-social-media-giant-censored-americans-because-of-biden-white-house-pressure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: Jim Jordan Unleashes ‘The Facebook Files’: Social Media Giant ‘Censored Americans Because Of Biden White House Pressure’</a>

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Former Director of National Intelligence <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-ratcliffe">John Ratcliffe</a> said there should be &#8220;more transparency&#8221; following a congressional hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), popularly known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo">UFOs</a>.
The Biden administration &#8220;made the decision to really not reveal much and now you end up with House Republicans having to have these public hearings,&#8221; Ratcliffe said during an interview with Fox host Maria Bartiromo on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe there should be more transparency on this issue, but not full transparency,&#8221; Ratcliffe added. &#8220;The primary role of the federal government is to provide for the common defense and you know we don&#8217;t share all of the national security information with the American people, but the government should have done a better job.&#8221;
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Former Director of National Intelligence, <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnRatcliffe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnRatcliffe</a> was asked about David Grusch’s claims. He doesn’t deny them.
 “I’ve gone to the edge of talking about information that’s classified. I can’t go over that line. I just think they (Gov)could have put more information out…” <a href="https://t.co/o8J3ZBKR8h">pic.twitter.com/o8J3ZBKR8h</a>
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A House Oversight subcommittee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ufo-hearing-is-over-whats-next">held a UAP hearing</a> on Wednesday with testimony from David Grusch, a former U.S. military and intelligence official who has gone public with whistleblower <a href="https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegations</a> about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-testifies-he-knows-exact-locations-of-ufos">crafts of non-human origin</a> being retrieved and kept from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a>, and two Navy veterans who have come forward with claims about mysterious flying objects that appear to defy the laws of physics and could threaten national security.
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The Department of Defense released a statement <a href="https://twitter.com/GadiNBC/status/1684294693428027395">insisting</a> that its All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which has been tasked with investigating UFOs, &#8220;has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.&#8221; In addition, AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick said the hearing was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-ufos-uaps-pentagon-aliens-631ad4d174ee9559580935ec11afcf3f">&#8220;insulting&#8221;</a> to members of his team.
Ratcliffe, a former U.S. congressman who served as the final <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/director-of-national-intelligence">director of national intelligence</a> during the Trump administration, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-national-intelligence-director-john-ratcliffe-sounds-alarm-over-new-ufo-report">spoken out periodically</a> about UAP since leaving government.
In March 2021, Ratcliffe said <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-intelligence-chief-quite-a-few-more-ufos-detected-than-public-knows">&#8220;multiple sensors&#8221;</a> were picking up on mysterious flying objects with strange properties. He also claimed there were &#8220;a lot more sightings than have been made public.&#8221; Since that time, the federal government has stepped up efforts to investigate UAP sightings and <a href="https://defensescoop.com/2023/04/19/pentagons-uap-office-now-investigating-more-than-650-cases/">release some information</a> about hundreds of encounters, but Ratcliffe contended that the effort has been poorly managed by the Biden administration.
&#8220;Had the government managed this a little bit better, it wouldn&#8217;t be as controversial,&#8221; Ratcliffe said on Sunday.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of things that are unexplained,&#8221; Ratcliffe said. “I’ve gone to the edge of talking about information that’s classified. I can’t go over that line. This current administration would love nothing more than for me to trip over a classified-information line. I just think we could have put more information out to talk about all of that.&#8221;

John Ratcliffe

Ratcliffe Faults Biden Administration For Lack Of UFO Transparency

Former Trump Spy Chief Wants 'More Transparency' After UFO Hearing

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Whistleblowers

A <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ODNI-Declassified-Report-on-CAI-January2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newly declassified report</a> released by a top U.S. spy agency raises chilling concerns that the massive amount of information available to the intelligence community could be misused and undermine constitutional protections.
The report, from a panel gathered by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, focuses on “commercially available information (CAI),” data that is available to the general public. The report warns that an explosion in the volume and sensitivity of CAI is being driven by digital technology advances, including location-tracking and other features of smartphones and advertising-based monetization models used by companies selling goods and services online.
“Today, in a way that far fewer Americans seem to understand, and even fewer of them can avoid, CAI includes information on nearly everyone that is of a type and level of sensitivity that historically could have been obtained, if at all, only through targeted (and predicated) collection, and that could be used to cause harm to an individual&#8217;s reputation, emotional well-being, or physical safety,&#8221; the report stated.
The report further warns that even though much of the data is &#8220;anonymized,&#8221; it is often possible to identify the individuals to which the information pertains. Matching up people and their sensitive data can result in serious risk, the report warned.
“Without proper controls, CAI can be misused to cause substantial harm, embarrassment, and inconvenience to U.S. persons,” it stated.
The report noted that “under the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes, and internal procedures of the intelligence community, CAI is generally less strictly regulated than other forms of information acquired by the IC, principally because it is publicly available.”
But it pointed out that times have changed.
“In our view, however, changes in CAI have considerably undermined the historical policy rationale for treating [publicly available information] categorically as non-sensitive information, that the Intelligence Community can use without significantly affecting the privacy and civil liberties of U.S. persons,” the report found.
Warning that CAI can be misused, the report states, “In the wrong hands, sensitive insights gained through CAI could facilitate blackmail, stalking, harassment, and public shaming.”
“The government would never have been permitted to compel billions of people to carry location tracking devices on their persons at all times, to log and track most of their social interactions, or to keep flawless records of all their reading habits,” the report stated. “Yet smartphones, connected cars, web tracking technologies, the Internet of Things, and other innovations have had this effect without government participation. While the IC cannot willingly blind itself to this information, it must appreciate how unfettered access to CAI increases its power in ways that may exceed our constitutional traditions or other societal expectations.”

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U.S. Spy Chief Report Warns Tech Devices Giving Intel Community ‘Unfettered Access’ To Americans Personal Info

U.S. Spy Chief Report Warns Tech Devices Giving Intel Community 'Unfettered Access' To Our Personal Info

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The FBI may have abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on the very congressman tasked with overseeing FISA, according to revelations at a congressional hearing Thursday.
Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said at a committee hearing that he has reason to believe that he is the unnamed congressman who, a recently declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) admitted, FBI agents wrongfully conducted a search on.
LaHood is leading a working group tasked with oversight and renewal of Section 702 of FISA, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-rep-lahood-says-unlawfully-monitored-by-fbi-under-fisa-during-hearing-director-wray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported. Last month, President Joe Biden asked Congress to reauthorize FISA provisions, calling it a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-asks-congress-to-reauthorize-fisa-surveillance-powers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;top legislative priority.&#8221;</a>
&#8220;I want to make clear the FBI&#8217;s inappropriate querying of a duly elected member of Congress is egregious and a violation not only that degrades the trust in FISA, but is viewed as a threat to the separation of powers,&#8221; LaHood said at the hearing, according to Fox.
&#8220;I have had the opportunity to review the classified summary of this violation, and it is my opinion that the member of Congress that was wrongfully queried multiple times solely by his name was in fact me,&#8221; he said.
The ODNI report covering December 2019 to May 2020 <a href="https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/documents/702%20Documents/declassified/24th-Joint-Assessment-of-FISA-702-Compliance.pdf">says</a> the FBI searched the name of a local political party and the name of a congressman, despite not being &#8220;reasonably likely&#8221; to reveal foreign intelligence or evidence of a crime.
An agent &#8220;conducted approximately [redacted] queries in [redacted] using only the name of a U.S. congressman. The 707 Report describes the specific facts that led the IA to conduct these queries. These queries retrieved unminimized PISA-acquired information, including Section 702-acquired products that were opened. FBI advised that no unminimized FISA-acquired information was disseminated or used in any other way. NSD and ODNI assess, based on these facts, that these queries were not compliant because they were overly broad,&#8221; it said.
FISA allows intelligence agencies to spy on foreigners, but the agencies have allegedly weaponized it to wrongfully target Americans, including political opponents. Warrants must be approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, but that court is shrouded in secrecy and appears to rarely reject requests for warrants.
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In 2019, the Department of Justice&#8217;s Inspector General found <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ig-report-finds-fbi-fell-far-short-made-serious-errors-in-fisa-application-to-surveil-trump-campaign">&#8220;serious&#8221;</a> abuses of the FISA process as the FBI targeted Trump officials. In 2020, FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ex-fbi-lawyer-to-plead-guilty-in-durham-criminal-investigation-for-allegedly-falsifying-evidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guilty</a> to falsifying evidence submitted to the FISA court to get a warrant to wiretap Donald Trump aide Carter Page.
A common thread in the Russia-Trump investigation run by Peter Strzok and other partisan FBI officials is the way it relied on people who were offshore or neither American nor Russian, such as former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele; Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor; and Trump aide George Papadopoulos, who became embroiled after speaking with an Australian diplomat abroad.
Last year, ODNI said the FBI conducted up to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-snooped-on-americans-data-at-record-pace-last-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3.4 million</a> searches of U.S. data drawn from the National Security Agency, a record high.
This week, Trump&#8217;s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn sued the government for wrongful prosecution, seeking $50 million. The FBI recorded a call between Flynn and a Russian ambassador, then attempted to prosecute him for lying when his recollection of the call differed from the transcript that, unbeknownst to him, the FBI had.
&#8220;Without the FISA warrants, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation would likely have been closed in its entirety, and the prosecution of General Flynn likely would never have occurred,&#8221; the suit said.

FBI May Have Used FISA To Spy On The Congressman Overseeing FISA, Whose Renewal Is ‘Top Legislative Priority’ For Biden

FBI May Have Used FISA To Spy On The Congressman Overseeing FISA

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Russian President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vladimir-putin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vladimir Putin</a> likely views a long war in Ukraine as his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-director-belittles-putins-ambitions-in-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best chance to achieve victory</a>, said a top Biden administration spy chief on Wednesday.
More than a year after Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion began, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-spy-chief-responds-to-balloon-controversy-were-going-to-see-more-of-this" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines</a> testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that there is a &#8220;grinding attritional war in which neither side has a definitive military advantage&#8221; over the other.
&#8220;If Russia does not initiate a mandatory mobilization and identify substantial third-party ammunition supplies, it will be increasingly challenging for them to sustain even the current level of offensive operations in the coming months, and consequently they may fully shift to holding and defending the territories they now occupy,&#8221; Haines said.
&#8220;In short, we do not see the Russia military recovering enough this year to make major territorial gains,&#8221; Haines continued, speaking for the U.S. intelligence community. &#8220;But Putin most likely calculates that time works in his favor and that prolonging the war including with potential pauses in the fighting may be his best remaining pathway to eventually securing Russian strategic interests in Ukraine, even if it takes years.&#8221;
Russia began what it called a &#8220;special military operation&#8221; in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukraine</a> on February 24, 2022, in a conflict that has led to tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions of people. Early on, Moscow&#8217;s forces managed to seize <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/russia-ukraine-war-key-events-year-russia-invaded/story?id=97255331" target="_blank" rel="noopener">roughly a quarter of Ukraine</a>, but the Ukrainians have been able to fend off their advance with the support of a coalition of countries led by the United States that has sent Ukraine billions of dollars of lethal aid and levied waves of sanctions against Russia.
Though there is bipartisan support for Ukraine, some Republicans in Congress are increasingly eager to cut the flow of aid. A group of House Republicans <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-introduce-bill-calling-for-halting-us-aid-to-ukraine-2023-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently introduced a non-binding resolution</a> calling for an immediate stoppage of U.S. financial support and a peace agreement between the warring factions.
Haines appeared before the Senate on Wednesday along with other intelligence community leaders, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CIA</a> Director William Burns and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> Director Christopher Wray, to testify about their new global threat assessment.
The <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2023-Unclassified-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest version of the assessment</a>, which is released annually, says there is &#8220;real potential for Russia’s military failures in the war to hurt Russian President Vladimir Putin’s domestic standing and thereby trigger additional escalatory actions by Russia in an effort to win back public support.&#8221;
Russian leaders have so far avoided actions that would broaden the Ukraine conflict beyond Ukraine’s borders, but the &#8220;risk for escalation remains significant,&#8221; the assessment says. Russia &#8220;probably does not want a direct military conflict with U.S. and NATO forces, but there is potential for that to occur,&#8221; it adds.

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Biden Spy Chief Warns Of Putin Seeing Advantage In Long Ukraine Conflict

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a>&#8216;s spy chief raised expectations on Friday for a future in which &#8220;high-altitude vehicles&#8221; will become commonplace.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/director-of-national-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of National Intelligence</a> Avril Haines spoke briefly on the suspected Chinese spy balloon controversy during an appearance at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Haines, who oversees the U.S. intelligence community, remarked on how &#8220;crazy&#8221; the situation has become in the past couple weeks.
&#8220;It&#8217;s so crazy. It&#8217;s really like an episode of &#8216;Veep,’ you know, on some level,&#8221; she quipped, referring to the HBO political satire show that starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
The discussion happened nearly two weeks after the U.S. shot down what it assesses to be a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina. Beijing claims the balloon was essentially a civilian weather balloon mainly blown off course, and accused the U.S. of <a href="https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/china-accuses-us-of-overreacting-when-it-shot-down-balloon/2969555/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overreacting</a> in shooting it down, but only after the vessel flew across a wide stretch of the United States.
Haines talked about how countries respond when getting caught in the act of spying.
&#8220;When a country is caught spying in a clear and obvious way, right? Like another country responds to it, and I think that&#8217;s appropriate,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think that it&#8217;s perfectly reasonable to have a clear and forceful reaction to a Chinese high altitude balloon — you know — flying over the United States and surveilling us.&#8221;
Haines then offered a glimpse of the challenges of a future of flying cars, similar to what one might see in an episode of &#8220;The Jetsons.&#8221;
&#8220;I think there is a question of — as technology improves as we start to see more high-altitude vehicles, in effect, that we&#8217;re going to see more of this,&#8221; Haines said. &#8220;And we&#8217;re going to have to understand that and manage it.&#8221;
On Thursday, President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/02/16/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-united-states-response-to-recent-aerial-objects/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delivered his first public remarks</a> about the Chinese balloon, as well as the three <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unidentified flying objects</a> the U.S. military shot down over North America in the days that followed. He said the U.S. intelligence community&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-that-three-most-recent-downed-aerial-objects-not-linked-to-chinese-spy-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">current assessment</a> was that the three objects &#8220;were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.&#8221;
After noting how the United States is &#8220;enhancing our radar to pick up more slow-moving objects above our country and around the world,&#8221; Biden also said he has tasked his team to develop &#8220;sharper rules&#8221; for how the United States will deal with &#8220;unidentified objects moving forward, distinguishing — distinguishing between those that are likely to pose safety and security risks that necessitate action and those that do not.&#8221;
Haines said she believes Biden&#8217;s approach, which includes ensuring that partners are kept in the loop, is &#8220;a pretty classic and appropriate way to handle&#8221; the situation.

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Biden Spy Chief Responds To Balloon Controversy: ‘We’re Going To See More Of This’

Biden Spy Chief Finds Spy Balloon Scandal 'Crazy' Like 'Veep'

China

Global Politics

Senators vowed to push back against the Biden administration for refusing to provide access to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-authorities-were-prepared-to-get-search-warrant-on-biden-over-classified-docs-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified documents found</a> at the residences of two presidents.
Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee left a classified briefing Wednesday with Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in an uproar, arguing they are being prevented from performing their congressional oversight duties for the sake of national security.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/politics/warner-rubio-senate-intelligence-classified-documents/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As reported by CNN</a>, Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) warned &#8220;all things will be on the table&#8221; to gain access to the documents as the committee was united in wanting to know &#8220;if there’s been any intelligence compromised.&#8221;
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsels to investigate former President Donald Trump&#8217;s and President Joe Biden&#8217;s handling of documents, which senators said was the justification the intelligence community gave to withhold information from Congress.
&#8220;The bottom line is this: They won’t tell us what they have until the special counsel allows them to tell us. That’s an unacceptable position,&#8221; said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-vent-intel-official-blocks-biden-trump-docs-rcna67550" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to NBC News</a>.
Lawmakers have been pressing the intelligence community to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/27/intel-officials-national-security-fallout-trumps-mar-a-lago-documents-00054006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conduct damage assessments</a> since the FBI raided Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago resort last year. The sense of urgency has only grown since classified materials were found in recent months at President Biden&#8217;s Wilmington, Delaware, residence and think tank office in Washington, D.C., dating back to his time as a senator and vice president. Last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-pence-takes-full-responsibility-for-classified-docs-at-his-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the public learned</a> classified documents were also discovered at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence.
Accusing the Biden administration of &#8220;stonewalling&#8221; Congress, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) signaled he is ready to turn up the &#8220;pain&#8221; by holding up Biden&#8217;s nominees — <a href="https://www.wral.com/senate-confirms-batch-of-us-attorney-and-us-marshal-nominations-after-cotton-lifts-long-standing-holds/20255196/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a strategy he&#8217;s used in the past</a> — or withholding budgetary funds, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3831525-cotton-vows-to-block-nominees-until-congress-sees-documents-seized-at-biden-trump-residences/">according to The Hill</a>.
“I’m prepared to refuse consent to fast-track any nominee from any department or agency and to take every step that I can on every committee on which I serve to impose consequences on the administration until they provide these documents,” said Cotton, who is also a <a href="https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/about/committee-members-117th-congress-2020-2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member of the Senate Intelligence Committee</a>.
Haines has yet to comment publicly on the standoff with senators, but she did talk Thursday about preserving &#8220;confidence&#8221; in the intelligence community&#8217;s work by conducting briefings with Congress on a bipartisan basis.
During a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library, Haines insisted she tries to emphasize “what we’re doing is for the nation and not for politics,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/dni-haines-biden-classified-documents-stonewalling-democrats-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Washington Examiner</a>. She also said: &#8220;If the public doesn’t trust us and believes that we are biased politically or otherwise frankly in a way that is illegitimate, then people won’t pay attention to the warnings that we have — it makes us less effective from a national security perspective.&#8221;

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Growing Standoff Emerges Between Senate Intel And Biden Admin Over Classified Docs

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John Ratcliffe, who served as Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, lashed out at FBI Director Christopher Wray after the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
Prior to serving at National Intelligence, Ratcliffe served as a Texas GOP Congressman, during which time he questioned Wray when he testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the FBI’s surveillance of Carter Page. Wray took over as head of the FBI in August 2017 after former Director James Comey was fired.
On Tuesday, after the revelation of the FBI raid, Ratcliffe tweeted, “Wray already admitted that the FBI fraudulently obtained multiple warrants to illegally spy on Trump as a candidate and during presidency. If yet another FBI warrant to raid Trump’s home doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, Wray may be the last FBI Director.”
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Wray already admitted that the FBI fraudulently obtained multiple warrants to illegally spy on Trump as as a candidate and during presidency. If yet another FBI warrant to raid Trump’s home doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, Wray may be the last FBI Director <a href="https://t.co/Xv4hRDmiFs">https://t.co/Xv4hRDmiFs</a>
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In 2020, Wray, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee, acknowledged that the Justice Department and the FBI illegally surveilled Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Ratcliffe asked him about the FBI’s response to the report from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who had slammed the DOJ and FBI for 17 &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-review-indicates-carter-page-fisa-was-especially-problematic">significant errors and omissions</a>&#8221; regarding secret surveillance court filings targeting Page.
The filings depended on the dossier created by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, “who’d been hired by Fusion GPS, which in turn was hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign through the Perkins Coie law firm,” <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-director-carter-page-was-surveilled-illegally">The Washington Examiner</a> noted.
Wray stated to Ratcliffe,  “Political bias has no place in today’s FBI.”
Judge James Boasberg, the FISA court’s presiding judge, had noted that the DOJ acknowledged there “was insufficient predication to establish probable cause to believe that [Carter] Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power.”
Ratcliffe pointed out that the IG report acknowledged, as did the Department of Justice and the FISA report, that there was illegal surveillance with respect to at least several of the FISA applications targeting Page, because there was not probable cause or proper predication.
Ratcliffe turned to Wray, “Correct?”
“Right,” Wray admitted. “We have accepted every finding in the Inspector General’s report.”
Ratcliffe contended that the Obama administration had “weaponized the FBI for political motivation and purposes. I just wonder whether or not you’re going to be able to put the genie back in the bottle.”

FBI Director Wray Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee

‘Wray May Be The Last FBI Director’: Former Director Of National Intelligence

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A new U.S. classified intelligence report states that Russian President Vladimir Putin underwent treatment in April for advanced cancer.
The report also stated that an assassination attempt was made on Putin in March, after Putin had launched an invasion of Ukraine in late February.
&#8220;Putin&#8217;s grip is strong but no longer absolute,&#8221; one of three intelligence officers from three different intelligence agencies who read the report told <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-putin-treated-cancer-april-us-intelligence-report-says-1710357">Newsweek</a>. &#8220;The jockeying inside the Kremlin has never been more intense during his rule, everyone sensing that the end is near.&#8221;
One official came from the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), one served as a senior officer for the Air Force, and one came from the Defense Intelligence Agency.
&#8220;What we know is that there is an iceberg out there, albeit one covered in fog,&#8221; the DNI officer stated.
The DIA officer added, &#8220;One source of our best intelligence, which is contact with outsiders, largely dried up as a result of the Ukraine war. Putin has had few meetings with foreign leaders. &#8230; Putin&#8217;s isolation has thus increased levels of speculation.&#8221;
Photos of Putin consistently sitting at the end of an extremely long table with the others at the meeting at the other end of the table have led to speculation regarding Putin’s health.
The DNI official pointed to the recent meeting Putin had with French leader Emanuel Macron: &#8220;There was no shaking of hands, no warm embrace, and we noticed that.”
A photo of Putin not sitting upright in his chair while gripping the table with his hand during a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in late April contributed to speculation that Putin was suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
“The May 9 &#8216;Victory Day&#8217; <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/putins-parade-shows-he-going-continue-whatever-cost-ukraine-1704959">appearance</a> was next, where a noticeably bloated Russian leader sat slumped,” Newsweek noted, adding, “Three days later, Ukraine&#8217;s head of intelligence Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov told U.K. Sky News that Putin was in a &#8216;very bad psychological and physical condition and he is very sick.&#8217;”
“Is Putin sick? Absolutely,” the senior Air Force leader surmised. “But we shouldn&#8217;t let waiting for his death drive proactive actions on our part. A power vacuum after Putin could be very dangerous for the world.&#8221;
&#8220;Even if they agree that the intelligence [that Putin is dying] is reliable,&#8221; the senior DNI leader says, &#8220;they can&#8217;t bank on an expiration date nor signal their support for a Russia without Putin.&#8221;
&#8220;Both President Biden and Secretary of Defense <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/lloyd-austin">Lloyd Austin</a> have let slip their desire not only for regime change but also the fall of Russia, and both have since walked back their indelicate statements,&#8221; the report added.
&#8220;A nuclear-armed Russia is still a nuclear-armed Russia, whether Putin is strong or weak, in or out, and not wanting to provoke him or his potential successor into thinking we are hell bent on their destruction is an important part of continued strategic stability,&#8221; says the DNI official.
The DIA leader argues that in some ways, &#8220;Putin being sick or dying is good for the world, not just because of the future of Russia or ending the Ukraine war, but in diminishing the mad man threat of nuclear war.&#8221;
Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov <a href="https://www.tf1info.fr/international/exclusif-serguei-lavrov-ministre-russe-des-affaires-etrangeres-sur-tf1-et-lci-la-france-arme-activement-l-ukraine-y-compris-avec-des-armes-offensives-2221351.html">denied</a> that Putin was seriously ill, saying, “You know, President Putin appears in public every day. You can see him on the screens, read his speeches, listen to his speeches. I don’t think sane people can discern any sort of symptom of disease in this man.”
&#8220;Putin is definitely sick &#8230; whether he&#8217;s going to die soon is mere speculation,&#8221; the DIA official concluded. &#8220;Still, we shouldn&#8217;t rest assured. We shouldn&#8217;t answer our own mail, if you will, believing only the intelligence that affirms our own desired outcome. He&#8217;s still dangerous, and chaos does lie ahead if he does die. We need to focus on that. Be ready.&#8221;

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Putin Has Advanced Cancer, U.S. Intelligence Report Says

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