On Wednesday, there was a big announcement from the House Intelligence Committee. The House Intelligence Committee chair tweeted a statement suggesting that there was a serious national security threat the American public needed to be made aware of.
This freaked everybody out because when vague national security related threats are made, suggesting they are serious enough they need to be declassified, everybody starts to have some palpitations.
As it turns out, it appears there is intelligence suggesting Russia is going to attempt to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite system in space.
Apparently, the Russians haven&#8217;t done it yet; the system is under development. We don’t know how far the technology has gone.
There are two questions: What would it mean if Russia actually were to do so? And, why are we finding out about this now?
To the first question: Presumably, America&#8217;s satellite technology would be seriously threatened, although if a nuke is detonated in space, it would not have the same ramifications as if it were detonated at high altitude. A nuclear weapon feeds on the air around it; it requires oxygen in order for it to continue expanding.
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So if a nuclear weapon explodes in a vacuum — if in space — it doesn&#8217;t have quite the same impact as a nuclear weapon at high altitude. Effectively, radiation is blasted out, which significantly damages or degrades pretty much all the satellites within the immediate orbit. It would create a sort of perennial hotspot in that place or cause satellites that pass through it to be significantly damaged.
As the largest single investor in space capabilities, the United States could lose $200 billion per year of real gross output from its space assets. Military space assets would be degraded over time. A nuclear weapon in space would do great economic damage.
Is this the kind of serious national security threat that requires everybody to go on panic mode for a full day where everybody is thinking, Oh, my God. I need my bunker? No.
Now to the second question, which is: Why are we finding out about this now?
Possibly to induce more support for Ukraine. I have sympathy for the idea of giving aid to Ukraine, but I don&#8217;t think that amount of aid should be $60 billion. I don&#8217;t believe the United States has an interest in allowing Russia to simply walk over the entirety of Ukraine. I think that has significant negative geopolitical ramifications for the United States and American citizens.
But scaring the American people into green-lighting an aid package by releasing information about a serious national security threat doesn&#8217;t seem like a great tactic to get people in your corner.
Ultimately, it&#8217;s going to alienate more people than it draws.
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A Palestinian dentist confessed that Israeli intelligence agents spent hours on the phone with him to warn him to evacuate his area and warn others before the area was targeted by the Israel Defense Forces.
On October 19, Mahmoud Shaheen, who lived in an area that had not been yet targeted, received a phone call.
“I&#8217;m speaking with you from Israeli intelligence,” a man told him in perfect Arabic, addressing him by his name. “He told me he wanted to bomb three towers … and ordered me to evacuate the surrounding area,” Shaheen recalled to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67327079" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a>. Suspicious that the call might be fake, Shaheen asked for a warning shot to be fired. A warning shot was then fired at a nearby building.
“I asked him to &#8216;shoot another warning shot before you bomb,” Shaheen reportedly said. Another warning shot was fired.
Shaheen tried to stall the forthcoming attack; he said the man on the other end of the phone said he would give him time because he didn’t want anyone to die.
“Why do you want to bomb?” Shaheen said he asked, eliciting the reply, “There are some things that we see that you don&#8217;t see.”
When a nearby tower was hit, the man on the phone told Shaheen, “This is the tower that we want, stay away.” After the bombing was over, the man told him, “We’ve finished … you can go back.”
Later the same day, another man called Shaheen telling him more buildings had been targeted and warning him to tell his neighbors to evacuate again, saying, “We want you to inform people to evacuate the area.”
“He even told me, ‘Take your time. I won&#8217;t bomb unless you give me permission,&#8217;” Shaheen recalled.
Mahmoud asked the man where the neighbors should go. “He said, ‘Either take them east or west,’” he remembered. “I said, ‘To take them east will be hard, because to the east of al-Zahra is Al Mughraqa — an already unsafe area. People were already scared to go there.’”
“He told me, ‘Take them west to Palestine Street.’ I suggested the University of Palestine and he said yes.”
The IDF has released recordings of other calls made to Gaza residents urging them to evacuate buildings. “In one recording, the local resident can be heard telling the Israeli officer that Hamas was <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-releases-recording-of-gazan-saying-hamas-shooting-at-people-trying-to-flee-south/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting at people</a> trying to flee south,” The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-man-israeli-agents-spent-hours-on-phone-with-me-to-evacuate-targeted-buildings/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
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IDF releases an audio recording of an officer in the Military Intelligence Directorate&#39;s Unit 504 — which specializes in HUMINT — speaking to a Gazan man, during which he describes how Hamas is preventing people from evacuating from the northern part of the Gaza Strip. <a href="https://t.co/VgMJO3SzVo">pic.twitter.com/VgMJO3SzVo</a>
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The U.S. Intelligence Community told reporters on Tuesday night that they now have &#8220;high confidence&#8221; that the explosion near a hospital in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaza</a> last week was caused by a rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists that suffered catastrophic engine failure and disintegrated as it fell to the ground.
Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, officials from America&#8217;s spy agencies said that contrary to claims made by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-and-news-orgs-that-promoted-false-palestinian-claims-that-israel-bombed-hospital">the media, Democrats, and the Palestinians</a>, the explosion was not caused by any Israeli munitions.
“We assess with high confidence that Israel was not responsible for the explosion at the hospital and that Palestinian militants were responsible,” one intelligence official <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-intel-agencies-believe-hospital-blast-caused-palestinian-rocket-bro-rcna122031" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters. “We assess with low confidence that Palestine Islamic Jihad was responsible for launching the rocket that landed on the hospital.”
The explosion in the parking lot caused &#8220;no observable damage to the main hospital building,&#8221; the report said, which is consistent with the type of smaller rocket that Palestinian terrorists typically fire vs. an aerial bomb or artillery shell fired by the Israelis.
“The damage at the hospital is consistent with what we would expect to see from a rocket and inconsistent with the larger craters and broader blast effects that we would expect to see … from an air dropped munition or an artillery round,” the official added.
U.S. officials said that, like Israel, they also intercepted communications from suspected Hamas terrorists that indicated that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was responsible for launching the rocket.
The officials said that the communications the U.S. intercepted were different than the communications that Israel intercepted and later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idf-releases-audio-of-hamas-admitting-islamic-jihad-fired-the-rocket-that-struck-near-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> publicly that show two Hamas terrorists blaming Palestine Islamic Jihad for the explosion.
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Based on the collected intelligence, &#8220;our conclusion is that there was a catastrophic motor failure that likely occurred which separated the motor and the warhead,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;The warhead landed in the hospital compound and that was the second explosion and a much bigger one.&#8221;
The official said that there was no indication that Israel shot the rocket down with the Iron Dome. Israel does not fire interceptors from the Iron Dome over Gaza for this exact reason.
The official also gave credence to various reports that have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-500-rockets-fired-by-palestinian-terrorists-have-fallen-inside-gaza">published</a>, including from Israel&#8217;s military, that many of the rockets that Palestinian terrorists fire end up malfunctioning and landing inside Gaza.
“The failure rate for these domestically produced rockets is pretty high,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;There are a lot of incidents in which they don’t make it out of Gaza. They land in the sea, they fail to reach their targets.&#8221;

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A former National Security Agency (NSA) employee pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to sell classified national defense information to an FBI employee he believed to be an agent of the Russian Federation.
Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, of Colorado Springs, faces a possible life sentence after he pleaded guilty today to six counts of attempting to transmit classified National Defense Information (NDI) to an officer or agent of a foreign government, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-nsa-employee-pleads-guilty-attempted-espionage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Justice.
His <a href="https://www.justice.gov/media/1320846/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plea agreement</a> states that federal prosecutors agreed not to request more than 22 years in prison, but the U.S. authorities said the judge would ultimately determine his sentence.
Dalke <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nsa-russia-spy-classified-colorado-dalke-51c4b13ef035f3dca8b62c433e6149d5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> admitted to the charges during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore, where he answered the judge’s questions concerning the terms of his deal and acknowledged he has been taking medication for mental illness over the last year while in custody.
Dalke, an Army veteran, worked as an Information Systems Security Designer for the U.S. intelligence agency, which focuses on gathering and analyzing intelligence and counterintelligence from foreign and domestic sources.
During his short employment with the agency, authorities said Dalke obtained three documents classified as Top Secret//Sensitive Compartmented Information. According to court documents, the information he planned to give to the purported Russian agent included military offensive capabilities of an unnamed country and other sensitive U.S. defense capabilities.
“Dalke admitted that between August and September 2022, in order to demonstrate both his ‘legitimate access and willingness to share,’ he used an encrypted email account to transmit excerpts of three classified documents to an individual he believed to be a Russian agent,” DOJ officials said in a news release. “In actuality, that person was an FBI online covert employee.”
In August 2022, Dalke requested $85,000 in exchange for all the classified information, which unknowingly told the FBI online covert employee would be of value to Russia and would disseminate more information in the future when he returned to the Washington, D.C., area.
Federal authorities arrested Dalke on September 28, 2022, at Union Station in downtown Denver after transferring five files — four containing classified information— using a laptop computer and instructions provided by the covert FBI employee.
The other file contained a letter, which said in Russian and Cyrillic characters: “My friends!” and states, in part, “I am very happy to finally provide this information to you. … I look forward to our friendship and shared benefit. Please let me know if there are desired documents to find and I will try when I return to my main office.”
The FBI arrested Dalke moments after he transmitted the files.
According to court documents, Dalke requested a 9-month leave of absence shortly after he began working for the agency to help a family member with a medical condition. But when the agency denied his request, Dalke submitted his resignation.
After leaving the agency and giving the classified information to the undercover FBI employee, court documents state that Dalke reapplied to work at the NSA.
Last year, Dalke’s federal public defender reportedly downplayed his clients&#8217; access to the top secret information since he worked for the intelligence agency for less than a month.

Former NSA Employee Pleads Guilty After Trying To Sell Classified Information To Russia

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> inappropriately searched for information on a U.S. senator using an intelligence provision intended for monitoring foreign nationals, a court opinion released Friday shows. 
The opinion from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said that the FBI improperly searched a database for information on an unidentified U.S. senator, state senator, and judge. The FBI conducted the searches under powers derived from Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but the conditions for the searches were not met, the judge said, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4110850-fbi-improperly-used-702-surveillance-powers-on-us-senator/">according</a> to The Hill.
“In June 2022, an analyst conducted four queries of Section 702 information using the last names of a U.S. senator and a state senator, without further limitation,” a court opinion from Judge Rudolph Contreras said.
Section 702 allows allows intelligence agencies to obtain the online communications of foreign nationals without a warrant.
Although the court said that a “a specific foreign intelligence service” was looking into two of the individuals, the FBI was not able to provide proper criteria for the searches as determined by the National Security Division at the Department of Justice.
Information on the judge was searched after he had accused a police chief of civil rights violations. 
A “Staff Operations Specialist ran a query using the Social Security number of a state judge who ‘had complained to [the] FBI about alleged civil right violations perpetrated by a municipal chief of police,’” the opinion said. 
Contreras said that the FBI had been doing “a better job in applying the querying standard” since the mistakes have been revealed. Previous documentation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-misused-surveillance-tool-over-278000-times-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from the case indicates</a> that Section 702 was misused over 278,000 times to collect information on American citizens. 
The opinion was released after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued to make it public. The opinion was from April 2023. 
“The FBI continues to break the rules put in place to protect Americans, running illegal searches on public officials including a U.S. senator, and it’s long past time for Congress to step in. As Congress debates reauthorizing Section 702, these opinions make clear why fundamental reforms are urgently needed,” Patrick Toomey, of the ACLU National Security Project, told The Hill in a statement. 
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the FBI had implemented “substantial reforms” over its use of Section 702.
&#8220;Compliance is an ongoing endeavor, and we recently announced new additional accountability measures,&#8221; Wray <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-improperly-searched-intel-database-info-us-senator/story?id=101554896" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;We will continue to focus on using our Section 702 authorities to protect American lives and keeping our Homeland safe, while safeguarding civil rights and liberties.&#8221;
Section 702, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nsa-asks-for-reauthorization-of-surveillance-powers-as-republicans-prepare-to-investigate-security-agencies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first implemented</a> in 2008, was renewed by then-President Donald Trump in 2018 even after he <a href="https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-politics-077b8a0f34354149ac2b55ce533f203a">said</a> the power was linked to the widely discredited Steele Dossier that purported to have evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. After initial skepticism, Trump renewed the powers following a discussion with then-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). 
Intelligence officials have urged lawmakers to renew the powers at the end of the year, but some lawmakers have remained skeptical, especially with concerns over a politicized FBI.

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The future of a controversial <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fisa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surveillance program</a> is in jeopardy as lawmakers debate its renewal amid increasing skepticism of the American<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> intelligence community</a>. 
Debate in Congress has continued on the renewal of  Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) before it expires at the end of the year, which allows intelligence agencies to obtain the online communications of foreign nationals without a warrant. Critics have raised concerns that lack of oversight of the program also allows the communications of American citizens to be obtained without a warrant or due process.  
“Section 702 has kept American citizens safe and our U.S. service members abroad out of danger,” said Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, in a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fbi-surveillance-section-702-congress-ca84a405ac700718990bbab7ef5db1e6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to the Associated Press. “However, changes must be made in order to prevent further FBI misuse and abuse of this vital national security tool.”
Section 702, first implemented in 2008, was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-us-republican-party-surveillance-donald-trump-aa98d51e59d02a1361833d1a4f431e23?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renewed</a> by then-President Donald Trump in 2018 even after he <a href="https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-politics-077b8a0f34354149ac2b55ce533f203a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the power was linked to the widely discredited Steele Dossier that purported to have evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. After initial skepticism, Trump renewed the powers following a discussion with then-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). 
During a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/fixing-fisa-how-law-designed-protect-americans-has-been-weaponized" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on Thursday by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) asked a panel of witnesses, including Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and two panelists from the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Board, about how many federal government employees had access to FISA data. 
“If I represent to you that we believe there may be north of 10,000 people in the federal government who can perform [FISA] queries, would anyone here have a basis to disagree with that?” Gaetz asked. The panelists <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/over-10000-fbi-agents-can-access-data-from-secretive-surveillance-program-inspectors-general_5225588.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all said</a> no. 
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Upwards of 10,000 FBI personnel may have access to section 702-acquired FISA data. 
10,000! 
Why&#39;s that number so big? 
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In his <a href="https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/4-27-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prepared statement</a> to the committee, Horowitz noted that the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation&#8217;s use of FISA to go after Donald Trump aide Carter Page, which was supposed to look into alleged collusion between Trump and Russia, was deeply flawed. 
“We identified multiple instances in which factual assertions relied upon by the FISC in the FISA applications were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation, based upon information the FBI had in its possession at the time the applications were filed,” he said. 
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Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said on Thursday that he believed that Section 702 was “already beyond repair.”
“FISA section 702 explicitly states that it may only be used to target non-U.S. persons located abroad for the purpose of obtaining foreign intelligence information,” Biggs said. “But it’s clear that the government has used communications acquired through this program to conduct backdoor searches of Americans’ communications.”
Several Democrats, including Rep. Jerry Nadler and Pramila Jayapal, have also expressed skepticism about the renewal of Section 702. 
Last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged that the bureau had made mistakes during its investigations. “Like any major institution, we have made mistakes,” he said. “To me, the mark of a leading organization is not whether it makes mistakes or not &#8230; but whether or not we learn from those mistakes. And I think we have.”
Without any action from Congress, the surveillance program will expire at the end of the year.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> intelligence officials observed the suspected Chinese spy balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina ever since it took off, according to multiple reports.
U.S. monitors watched as the aircraft took off from Hainan Island near China’s south coast in late January nearly a week before it entered U.S. airspace, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/us/politics/ufo-spy-balloon-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times reported</a>, earlier than previously known. Follow-up reports by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/14/china-spy-balloon-path-tracking-weather/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-spy-balloon-us-intelligence-tracked-it-soon-after-liftoff-course/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a> indicate U.S. intelligence tracked the balloon moving east toward Guam, but it suddenly veered north toward Alaska&#8217;s Aleutian Islands.
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The balloon later crossed over the contiguous United States from Canada. The U.S. government first acknowledged the suspected reconnaissance balloon on February 2 as it was spotted over Billings, Montana, after which Secretary of State Antony Blinken <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blinken-says-chinese-balloon-in-clear-violation-of-u-s-sovereignty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">postponed a planned trip to China in protest</a>.
The U.S. military did not shoot the balloon down until it reached the Atlantic Ocean on February 4, as officials warned that downing the aircraft over land would lead to falling debris endangering people below.
While the U.S. assesses the object was a Chinese spy balloon, China claims it was a civilian research craft that was blown off course. Both countries have since accused each other of engaging in a widespread balloon spy-craft.
A senior State Department official said the Chinese balloon, which flew past U.S. military sites, was equipped with &#8220;multiple antennas&#8221; capable of collecting signals intelligence, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/chinese-spy-balloon-carried-multiple-antennas-collecting-signals-intel-rcna69898" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to NBC News</a>.
In the salvage operation that followed, U.S. Northern Command said crews recovered “<a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156740596/chinese-balloon-priority-sensors-military-salvage-south-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">significant debris</a>” from the site where the Chinese balloon fell, “including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified as well as large sections of the structure.”
The situation took a strange turn over the weekend when officials say U.S. jets shot three unidentified flying objects (UFOs) out of the sky over North America: one over Alaska on Friday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canada-deploys-hazardous-materials-experts-in-search-for-downed-ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another over Canada on Saturday</a>, and a third over Lake Huron on Sunday.
What these flying objects were remains unclear, though the Biden administration has conveyed that the UFOs are not believed to be from outer space. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) shared some insights Congress received from military officials.
&#8220;The UAPs [unidentified aerial phenomenons] were in FAA commercial zones and had no signals or navigation lights,&#8221; Crenshaw tweeted. &#8220;The first two UAPs were smaller, the size of an ATV, and harder to detect. The third resembled a balloon, and was easier for the radar to pick up. All moved with wind currents.&#8221;
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The UAPs were in FAA commercial zones and had no signals or navigation lights.
The first two UAPs were smaller, the size of an ATV, and harder to detect. The third resembled a balloon, and was easier for the radar to pick up.
All moved with wind currents.
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1625592859708514325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Defense Department officials say North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has tweaked its radar to pick up smaller objects, which may provide a reason for the sudden uptick in flying object detections. &#8220;Plus, there&#8217;s a heightened alert to look for this information,&#8221; <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3296177/melissa-dalton-assistant-secretary-of-defense-for-homeland-defense-and-hemisphe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NORAD Commander General Glen VanHerck</a> said on Sunday.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-debris-may-never-be-found-officials-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Salvage</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-debris-may-never-be-found-officials-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">operations</a> for the three UFOs are underway. Some officials have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-debris-may-never-be-found-officials-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cast doubt on whether they will be able to find anything</a> considering factors such as rough terrain and winter weather.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/latest-three-ufos-shot-down-likely-not-chinese-spy-crafts-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said on Tuesday</a> that a “leading explanation” offered by the U.S. intelligence community is that the three downed UFOs “were simply tied to commercial or research entities and therefore benign.&#8221; He added that the U.S. intelligence community doubts they are part of a spying operation.
Also on Tuesday, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, revealed a missile fired by a U.S. fighter jet missed the UFO over Lake Huron and that missile landed <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3298235/secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-and-army-gen-mark-a-milley-chairman-joi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;harmlessly&#8221; in the lake</a>. A <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unidentified-object-shot-down-lake-huron-missile-missed-general-mark-milley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second missile</a> from an F-16 brought down the flying object.

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U.S. Intel Watched Suspected Spy Balloon Take Off From China: Reports

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James Clapper never meant to say <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-sought-job-for-wuhan-lab-linked-scientist-studying-herpes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden’s laptop</a> was a Russian op, it was apparently just the “least untruthful” thing he and 50 other Trump-hating deep state creeps could think of.
Clapper, the director of national intelligence – or chief spy – under President Obama, is trying to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-spy-chief-accuses-politico-of-distorting-letter-on-hunter-biden-laptop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walk back that infamous letter</a> he and dozens of other former intel operatives signed more than three years ago. It claimed that the discovery of Hunter Biden’s laptop, with its lurid images of the president’s degenerate son and troubling messages referring to the family’s international influence peddling operation, bore the &#8220;earmarks” of a Russian misinformation operation.
That letter, once reported by Politico, was all the cover the liberal press and social media platforms needed to bury the New York Post’s October 2020 bombshell, lest it affect the presidential election. Mission accomplished: The Post was silenced, marginalized, and ridiculed and the laptop story was put on ice.
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Meanwhile, here&#39;s what James Clapper said about the story when it first came out in 2020:
“To me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/yJ9b3W8h5J">https://t.co/yJ9b3W8h5J</a> <a href="https://t.co/91enmdU3nW">pic.twitter.com/91enmdU3nW</a>
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Except over the ensuing years, once it no longer mattered, Big Media admitted the laptop was legit. And if the laptop is real, then we know Hunter Biden is a venal dirtbag and his father may have facilitated and profited from his schemes. Not even Clapper can pretend the laptop was a trick now. The best he can do is pretend he never said it was.
“All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation,” Clapper told The Washington Post this week. “Politico deliberately distorted what we said.”
Sure, the letter, also signed by former CIA directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and Michael Hayden, and written by former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, never said the laptop caper WAS a Russian operation. It just said it sure SEEMED like one. Thomas Finger, a onetime chairman of the National Intelligence Council and co-signer of the letter, helpfully explained this week that they took great pains to try to make sure no one jumped to any conclusions. Wouldn’t want that!
“The statement we signed was carefully written to minimize the likelihood that what was said would be misconstrued, and to provide a clear written record that could be used to identify and disprove distortions.”
Finger and Clapper must’ve been furious after <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276">Politico published its article</a> about the letter under the headline, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.” Surely they demanded a correction, especially after realizing that this gross mischaracterization of the letter could influence an election just weeks away. And imagine the horror an intel legend like Clapper must have felt ever since, knowing all his expertise in spycraft had betrayed him into a disastrous reading of events that may have changed the course of history.
Well, if Clapper did feel anger at Politico or shame at himself and his intel peers, he kept it under wraps until now. He never said anything until this week, when it apparently became too embarrassing to stand by the claims in the letter he signed. After all, at this point you can’t defend Hunter Biden and keep the word “intelligence” on your resume. Plus, Rep. Jim Jordan, (R-OH), says he plans to call Clapper and his pen pals <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-puts-a-dozen-intel-veterans-on-notice-over-hunter-biden-laptop-letter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to testify before his new panel</a> probing the weaponization of the federal government.
Here’s the truth: Clapper is lying now, was lying in 2020, and even admitted he was lying way back in 2013, when he told a Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee that the National Security Agency doesn’t purposely collect data on millions of Americans. The difference is, back then, Clapper admitted he was a liar.
“I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying, ‘No,’” Clapper said afterward.
Least untruthful indeed.
There was a dirty, downright un-American intel operation designed to throw the 2020 presidential election, but it wasn’t pulled off by the Russians. It was conducted by a band of 51 deeply unpatriotic spooks, and spymaster James Clapper was one of them.

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Who, Me? Election Meddler James Clapper Tries Out New Laptop Lie

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President Donald J. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-loses-it-again-trump-gets-2-scoops-ice-cream-joseph-curl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">couldn&#8217;t even get a second scoop of ice cream</a> without legacy media and anonymous sources going into hysterics, but now the Deep State is trying to convince the American people that Chinese spy balloons flew overhead during the Trump administration on several occasions — without the public so much as hearing a peep about the incident from government leaders.
As if that wasn&#8217;t insulting enough, the running defense of the Biden administration&#8217;s incompetence over the most recent Chinese spy balloon is that the international embarrassment is all Trump&#8217;s fault.
When Americans heard there was a gigantic inflatable surveillance device high above Montana, the most common reaction was, &#8220;Why hasn&#8217;t it been shot down yet?&#8221; Deep State officials told lapdog media that similar scenarios played out under Trump, and no action was taken, thus setting the precedent for President Joe Biden.
&#8220;It has happened a handful of other times over the past few years, to include before this administration,&#8221; an official <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/03/chinese-balloon-aerial-surveillance-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Washington Post on Friday.
In turn, numerous Trump officials <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/05/trump-denies-any-chinese-spy-balloons-under-his-watch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rushed</a> to defend the previous president.
Former Acting Director of the United States National Intelligence Ric Grenell, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and more all came out and said it never happened. 
Even former National Security Advisor John Bolton — who by all accounts detests Trump — came out and said it never occurred.
So, it seemed as if it was just made up by somebody in the Biden administration. Then another official said that the spy balloons were discovered &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-explanation-for-why-trump-never-shot-down-chinese-spy-balloons-emerges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">after Trump left office.</a>&#8221;
How convenient.
Then something even more eyebrow-raising happened on Monday.
Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL) alleged that some former Trump officials believe that former Secretary of Defense James Mattis never informed the 45th president about the spy balloons due to his potential erratic behavior.
&#8220;My office has been briefed by the office of the Secretary of Defense of the current Pentagon that it happened over Florida, it happened over Texas, and that it’s happened before,&#8221; Waltz <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCQraV6M1Xs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox Business&#8217;s Stuart Varney. &#8220;We have more detailed questions but what is unclear, Stuart, at this point is, did the Pentagon under the Trump administration brief the Trump White House and give them the option to take action or did they decide not to brief them for whatever reason?&#8221;
Waltz added that he is going to get to the bottom of what happened.
&#8220;And there is some speculation, I talked to Trump administration officials over the weekend, that the Pentagon deliberately did it because they thought Trump would be too provocative and too aggressive,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCQraV6M1Xs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. &#8220;So that’s what we need to get to the bottom of and one person that I’m waiting to hear from that we haven’t heard from that list is former Secretary of Defense, General Mattis who was the secretary during this time period. What did he know and what did he decide to pass on and brief to the president.&#8221;
To recap, the alleged explanations regarding Chinese spy balloons under Trump are that, he knew and did nothing, the intel community failed to detect the balloons until after Trump left office, or that information was purposefully withheld from Trump — thereby potentially breaking chain-of-command.
Of those three, there is reason to suspect that the Deep State did not tell Trump.
We already know that the career officials in the U.S. government lied to Trump in the past in order to advance its policies and halt his America First agenda — such as when it hid the number of troops in Syria from the president.
&#8220;We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” former U.S. diplomat Jim Jeffrey and <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/">avowed</a> &#8220;Never Trumper&#8221; admitted in the waning days of the Trump administration.
So, the latest revelation about The Swamp not being forthright with Trump would not necessarily be surprising.
What should be never dulled is the apparent brazenness that the Deep State went to thwart the will of the American people who elected Trump during his time leading the executive branch. Now, even after he has left office, it seems they are trying to smear his presidency to excuse Biden&#8217;s ineptitude.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Blame Trump: The Deep State’s Latest Defense Of Biden's Chinese Spy Balloon Ineptitude

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House Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) vowed again on Sunday to remove Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) from the House Intelligence Committee if he once again becomes Speaker of the House.
McCarthy shared the remarks during an interview on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; with Maria Bartiromo.
&#8220;Another change you’re going to get, Adam Schiff will no longer be on the Intel Committee when I become speaker. I promised that more than two years ago,” McCarthy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6316569692112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“[Democrats] also used the intel community as well to lie to the American public. Should those people keep their clearances? Should those people still be allowed to have information? If they’re going to be political individuals, then, no, they should not. And this is just the tip of the iceberg of what we need to investigate going forward,” he added.
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McCarthy has called for Schiff to leave his role as the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee since 2019 over his involvement in pushing evidence of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s alleged collisions with a Russian bank.
In addition to Schiff, the Republican leader has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-gop-wins-house-kevin-mccarthy-has-a-list-of-democrats-hell-axe-from-committees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he&#8217;ll remove Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from their committee posts.
McCarthy attempted to first remove Swalwell from committee leadership last year over the congressman&#8217;s &#8220;years-long relationship with a suspected Chinese spy. The resolution failed along party lines.
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I have filed a resolution to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee.
Swalwell engaged in a years-long relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and his conduct makes clear he has no place serving on the committee in charge of America&#39;s top secrets. <a href="https://t.co/8Tb9TOh976">pic.twitter.com/8Tb9TOh976</a>
&mdash; Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1372535072650358788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Minority Leader&#8217;s criticism of Omar focused on her ongoing antisemitism and anti-American views. Omar pushed back on McCarthy&#8217;s comments last month over her role.
“From the moment I was elected, the Republican Party has made it their mission to use fear, xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism to target me on the House Floor and through millions of dollars of campaign ads,” Omar said in a <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/politics/omar-fires-back-after-mccarthy-vows-to-remove-her-from-committees/ar-AA14mXZu?rc=1&amp;ocid=winp1taskbar&amp;cvid=b8ab5041ddc54e0a9c4a9e47c9bcedc4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
“Whether it is Marjorie Taylor Greene holding a gun next to my head in campaign ads or Donald Trump threatening to ‘send me back’ to my country (despite the fact that I have been a proud citizen of the United States for more than 20 years), this constant stream of hate has led to hundreds of death threats and credible plots against me and my family,” she added.
McCarthy also addressed the ongoing controversy about the military&#8217;s Covid-19 vaccine mandate during Sunday&#8217;s interview.
&#8220;The vaccine mandate for the military will be lifted in the NDAA. Otherwise, the bill will not move. I&#8217;ve been very clear with the President on this,&#8221; he said.
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/GOPLeader?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOPLeader</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariaBartiromo</a> this morning on <a href="https://twitter.com/SundayFutures?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SundayFutures</a> : 
&quot;The vaccine mandate for the military will be lifted in the NDAA. Otherwise, the bill will not move. I&#39;ve been very clear with the President on this.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/7qCMni2C6V">pic.twitter.com/7qCMni2C6V</a>
&mdash; SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) <a href="https://twitter.com/SundayFutures/status/1599451327053975552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Despite McCarthy&#8217;s promises, he must first be reelected as Speaker of the House. He won his party&#8217;s nomination, but 31 Republicans opposed him in the vote.
The former Majority Leader will need at least 218 votes when the House returns in January. With the slim Republican advantage, it&#8217;s not yet certain he will return to his role held during the Trump administration.
At least five GOP House leaders have stated they will publicly oppose his return to the role, including Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, who recently launched his own challenge to become the next House Speaker.

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A top Democratic lawmaker told an Australian audience this week that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-kills-trump-ban-on-tiktok-and-other-chinese-apps-accused-of-spying-instead-asks-for-further-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former President Trump</a> was right when he warned that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-responds-to-explosive-report-alleging-plans-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok was a tool of the Chinese</a> Communist Party.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-responds-to-explosive-report-alleging-plans-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia Sen. Mark Warner</a>, who heads the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, offered rare praise to Trump, whose 2020 bid to ban the app was blocked by a federal court. Trump then tried to force the CCP-controlled company ByteDance to relinquish its ability to access U.S. users’ data, but the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-kills-trump-ban-on-tiktok-and-other-chinese-apps-accused-of-spying-instead-asks-for-further-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shelved that plan last year</a>.
&#8220;This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago,&#8221; Warner said, <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/trump-was-right-on-tiktok-threat-leading-democrat-20221024-p5bsd3.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Sydney Morning Herald</a>.
Warner, during a visit to fellow “Five Eyes” country Australia to meet with intel officials, political leaders, and business people, said the U.S. military bars service members from downloading TikTok’s app. Parents should be worried about the addictive platform being used by China to harvest data on their children, he said.
Warner listed the 1 billion-active-user social media platform as one of several Chinese-controlled tech companies that can be turned against users.
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&#8220;If your country uses Huawei, if your kids are on TikTok, if your population uses WeChat as a social media platform, the ability for China to have undue influence is, I think, a much greater challenge and a much more immediate threat than any kind of actual, armed conflict,&#8221; Warner said. &#8220;China having this kind of technology domination in a number of countries ought to scare the heck out of us because we’ve seen the kind of Orwellian surveillance state they&#8217;ve already created within China.&#8221;
Beijing requires companies and citizens by law to “support, assist and co-operate with the state intelligence work.”
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The Biden administration is still trying to work out a deal to allow TikTok to operate in the U.S. but follow Trump’s demands that it seperate American users’ data and protect it from Chinese officials. Industry experts have expressed doubt that a workable deal can be reached.
&#8220;Unless they&#8217;re going to rebuild the system in the United States at great expense, sooner or later, when something goes wrong, there&#8217;s going to turn out to be only one engineer who knows how to fix it,” national security lawyer Stewart Baker <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/tiktok-security-deal-is-likely-to-leave-us-data-leaking-to-china?leadSource=uverify%20wall#xj4y7vzkg">told</a> Bloomberg. “And he or she is likely to be in China.”

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said in an interview late last week that if Republicans win back control of the U.S. House of Representatives, he will use their subpoena power to find out what U.S. intelligence agencies knew about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/collections/the-hunter-biden-files">Hunter Biden laptop</a> before the 2020 election, and what they knew of his foreign activities while his father was vice president.
McCarthy, who made the remarks in an interview with the New York Post, warned that &#8220;we will use the subpoena&#8221; option if top officials with the intelligence agencies don&#8217;t cooperate with Republicans.
The report noted that in the days leading up to the 2020 election, more than 50 former intelligence officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theyre-political-whores-william-barr-eviscerates-51-intel-officials-who-signed-letter-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-story-disinformation">signed</a> a letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story was likely a Russian disinformation campaign.
“You would want to ask these individuals first of all, ‘Would you still sign the letter today, and who asked you to sign the letter and why did you sign the letter, and what information did you have prior?&#8217;” McCarthy said. “Why did you feel comfortable — especially with your own reputations — that you would sign that letter? Was it someone from the [Biden] campaign who asked, or was it people in the intel community?&#8221;
“I think these questions have to be answered,&#8221; McCarthy continued. &#8220;You cannot allow an intel community to utilize their name in an improper way without correcting.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-head-wray-found-reports-on-improperly-dismissed-hunter-biden-info-deeply-troubling">grilled</a> by Republicans last week over an explosive whistleblower report that accused officials at the bureau of wrongly dismissing potentially incriminating evidence against Hunter Biden during the 2020 election.
“I want to be very careful not to interfere with ongoing personnel matters,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;I should say that when I read the letter that describes the kinds of things that you are talking about, I found it deeply troubling.”
“I am going to give [Wray] the benefit of the doubt at this moment in time,” McCarthy said. “We are going to ask the tough questions and if we don’t get the honest answers, there’s consequences.”
The report added that McCarthy said that Republicans have already sent more than 500 preservation letters, which notify entities not to destroy evidence due to upcoming legal proceedings, in anticipation of the investigations they plan to launch.
Earlier this year, former Attorney General William Barr <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theyre-political-whores-william-barr-eviscerates-51-intel-officials-who-signed-letter-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-story-disinformation">slammed</a> the former U.S. intelligence officials who signed the letter dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 election.
“They’re political whores,” Barr said bluntly. “And it was wrong for them even to put out a letter because they didn’t know the facts. They had zero information; they did it as a political ploy to help Biden win the election.”

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