Yet Again, Deep State Attacks DNI Tulsi Gabbard

September 26, 2025 | Sundance |

It is difficult not to notice the strategy of how certain Trump administration officials are targeted.

Any cabinet member that looks inward to reveal the status of corrupt activity within the information silo itself becomes a target. Cabinet officials who focus externally, meaning the majority of their effort looks outside government, are seemingly left alone.

HHS Secretary RFK Jr and Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, are examples of those receiving the worst ideological targeting from operations within HHS and the Intelligence Community respectively.

Conversely, CIA Director John Ratcliffe faces almost no scrutiny or targeting by the Intelligence Community as the silo operators frame narratives almost exclusively against DNI Gabbard.

The latest effort surfaces as embeds within Main Justice and theCIA frame a storyline that Tulsi Gabbard’saction in removing the security clearances of 37 current and former officials,has now resulted in those same officials being incapable of testifying against former CIA Director John Brennan (and others).

The premise of the narrative is ridiculous. If we are to accept some current or former IC officials are willing to testify against Brennan (or others), regardless of whether Tulsi Gabbard has revoked their security clearances, their retroactive knowledge is still pertinent.They are completely free to give statements and testimony based on their prior conduct.

What theleakersto Axios and the New York Times are trying to establish, is groundwork for the removal of Tulsi Gabbard. This stops her objective of investigating internal corruption. I suspect most of the people trying desperately to undermine Gabbard are from within the CIA Directorate of Analysis==, or at least in alignment with the directorate’s agenda.

The narrative’s author, Marc Caputo, claims AG Pam Bondi is hampered in her effort to criminally indict John Brennan because the witnesses Main Justice would use have lost their security clearances.Again, the game of leveraging internecine friendships in/around the office of Trump becomes an overlay.

It is certainly true that AGPam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have refused to look internally; and it is also true that DNI TulsiGabbard has spent much of her focus time looking internally. Bondi and Patel continue the preferred game of institutional blame-casting in Main Justice.

Meanwhile, Gabbard is busy focused on cleaning up her IC house.

The Fourth Branch embeds do not fear the approach of Bondi/Patel,but the Fourth Branch embeds are petrified by the approach of Tulsi Gabbard. That reality underpins the baseline of opposition against the Director of National Intelligence.

As the dynamic unfolds, CIADirector John Ratcliffe is certainly not corrupt; however, nor is he brave. Director Ratcliffe is willing to let Director Gabbard clean up his house, and then he takes credit for the reform. As the weeks unfold into months, this is becoming increasingly obvious. (He does looks scared every time he talks.)

Mark Zaid is the current anti-Trump Lawfare operativelikely seeding the narrative to Axios/New York Times.

Mark Zaid, a Trump administration critic who represents six of the intelligence professionals whose clearances were revoked, said administration officials fretting about the Brennan case have “valid concerns.”

“This seems to be, as usual, an unforced error by Trump administration officials who don’t think things through in the long game in favor of a quick-pass completion,” he said. “If I were the defense counsel [for Brennan], I would raise the revocation in an attempt to undermine the credibility of the witnesses.” (more)

Mark Zaid knows the game-changing process that DNI Tulsi Gabbard is using.

Gabbard is directly going into each IC agency to review and retrieve information. When she finds something that connects to the overall plots being used by the Fourth Branch,the DNI takes that information directly to President Trumpwho subsequently declassifies it and then she releases it.

Zaid and the Deep State operatives he represents, want to stop Tulsi Gabbard with urgency. They are throwing every available IC narrative into the media flow in the hope that something stops Tulsi’s effectiveness.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/26/yet-again-deep-state-attacks-dni-tulsi-gabbard/#more-276441

(The DS and Lawfare is going after Tulsi Gabbard, say prayers and do research, they can't win, this is a do over of destroying Trump's Admin from the first term.)

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Former FBI Director James Comey indicted after Trump called for charges

Published Thu, Sep 25 20256:51 PM EDTUpdated 3 Hours Ago1/2

• Former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime target of President Donald Trump’s ire, was indicted in federal court in Virginia on charges of making a false statement and obstruction.

• The charges came days after Trump publicly complained to Attorney General Pam Bondi that “nothing is being done” about Comey and other of the president’s perceived enemies.

• “Donald Trump has made clear that he intends to turn our justice system into a weapon for punishing and silencing his critics,” said Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat.

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Virginia on charges of making a false statement and obstruction for past testimony to Congress, just days after President Donald Trump pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey.

Comey is accused of lying during testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, 2020, when he denied authorizing someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports regarding an investigation of Hillary Clinton and her emails when she was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016.

“The charges as alleged in this case represent a breach of the public trust at an extraordinary level,”said interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan of the Eastern District of Virginia, whose office will prosecute Comey on the two criminal counts. Halligan was installed in her office by Trump earlier this week, after her predecessor balked at seeking an indictment of Comey.

Halligan sought the indictmentdespite receiving a memo from prosecutors in her office stating their reasons for not believing that there was probable cause to ask a grand jury to charge Comey, MSNBC reported.

Comey said, “I am not afraid,” in an Instagram video response to the indictment issued in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, where he was ordered to appear Oct. 9. “My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump,” Comey said in the video. “But we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn’t either.” “Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant and she’s right,” Comey said. “But I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention and you will vote, like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does,” he said. “My heart is broken for the Department of Justice but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system.”“And I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial and keep the faith.”

Comey’s attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, told CNBC: “Jim Comey denies the charges filed today in their entirety. We look forward to vindicating him in the courtroom.” Fitzgerald is a longtime friend of Comey and, like him, is also a former top federal prosecutor.

A court filing indicated that federal prosecutors asked the grand jury to indict Comey on two counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction. The filing said that the grand jury did not indict Comey on one of the false statement counts because more than 12 grand jurors “did not concur” in indicting on count one.

That uncharged count involved Comey’s answer to a question from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., during the September 2020, hearing. Graham that day asked if Comey remembered ”‘being taught’ of PERSON I’s ‘approval of a plan concerning’ PERSON 2 and the 2016 U.S. Presidential election,” the filing reveals. Comey denied such knowledge. Person 1 refers to Clinton, the former secretary of State. Person 2 is Trump, who was the Republican nominee that year.

The plan concerning Trump allegedly referred to Clinton’s purported effort to tie Trump to Russia to distract from the controversy involving her emails.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/james-comey-indicted-fbi-trump.html

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“I don’t believe it’s possible that Comey did not know there was accusations against Clinton cooking this up,” Graham told Fox News in an interview Thursday night. The five-year statute of limitations on the false statement charge that was approved by the grand jury, which relates to Comey’s testimony about not authorizing a leak about the Clinton probe, was set to expire next week.

If convicted, Comey faces a maximum possible sentence of five years in prison.Federal criminal sentences are often less than the maximum because of federal guidelines.

NBC News reported that Comey’s son-in-law, Assistant U.S. Attorney Troy Edwards, resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia minutes after Comey was indicted. Edwards submitted a letter that said he quit “to uphold my oath to the Constitution and the country,” NBC reported.

The charges came five days after Trump publicly complained to Attorney General Pam Bondi that “nothing is being done” about Comey and other of the president’s perceived enemies. Trump claimed those people were “all guilty as hell.”

Trump gloated about Comey’s indictment in a post on Truth Social.

• “JUSTICE IN AMERICA! One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former Corrupt Head of the FBI,” Trump wrote.

• “He has been so bad for our Country, for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” Trump wrote.

Bondi referenced Comey’s indictment, without mentioning him by name, as news of the charges broke. “No one is above the law,” Bondi wrote in a post on X. “Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people,” Bondi said. “We will follow the facts in this case.”

FBI Director Kash Patel, in his own post on X, wrote, “Today, your FBI took another step in its promise of full accountability.” Halligan, 36, has no prior prosecutorial experience, but previously represented Trump in legal cases.

She succeeded Erik Siebert as interim U.S. attorney for Virginia’s Eastern District.Siebert had been tasked with investigating Comey and another Trump foe, New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a civil business fraud case against the president. But Seibert’s probe of mortgage fraud claims against James turned up insufficient evidence to charge her, NBC News reported. James denies the allegations.

Siebert also raised concerns about a criminal case against Comey. “I want him out,” Trump recently said of Siebert. Trump has long expressed contempt for Comey, whom he fired during his first term in the White House in May 2017.

Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, condemned the indictment of Comey.

• “Donald Trump has made clear that he intends to turn our justice system into a weapon for punishing and silencing his critics,” Warner said in a statement, which noted the circumstances of Siebert’s departure.

• “This kind of interference is a dangerous abuse of power,” Warner said. “Our system depends on prosecutors making decisions based on evidence and the law, not on the personal grudges of a politician determined to settle scores.”

• “By ousting a respected, independent prosecutor and replacing him with a partisan loyalist, Trump is undermining one of the most important U.S. Attorney’s offices in the country and eroding the rule of law itself.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/james-comey-indicted-fbi-trump.html

(Bondi and Patel needs to get of social medial, to my memory, rarely other DOJ or FBI leaders posted as much stuff on social media. It's demeaning to the Offices IMO. Or just shut up and watch what you say that can come back and bite you.)

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Ex-FBI Director James Comey indicted: 5 things to know

by Ella Lee, Zach Schonfeld, Brett Samuels and Rebecca Beitsch - 09/25/25 10:20 PM ET1/3

(Here we go again, I hope Bondi, Patel, and all others are really up to this challenge, they should keep their mouths shut at all time, do not give anything away, but knowing Bondi and Patel they have a problem being studious and steadfast in their strategy. If they fail, they took the bait of the DS and IC agencies.)

Former FBI Director James Comey was hit with two federal charges late Thursday, days after President Trump ramped up pressure on his Justice Department to prosecute his most prominent adversaries.

The counts stem from testimony Comey gave before the Senate in 2020 as it probed investigations into ties Trump’s 2016 campaign had with Russia, which the president has long decried as a “witch hunt.”

While Justice Department officials have portrayed the indictment as a step toward accountability, Comey said his “heart is broken” for the agency and that he is innocent.

Comey is set to be arraigned Oct. 9 in federal court in Alexandria, Va. His case will be overseen by U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, an appointee of former President Biden.

Here are five things to know.

Comey faces obstruction, perjury charges

Comey’s indictment includes two counts: false statements to Congress, and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

The felonies each carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison, though if convicted, Comey would be a first-time offender who would likely receive a lesser punishment.

They stem from an exchange between Comey and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during a Sept. 30, 2020, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Cruz asked Comey if he had ever authorized a leak about the FBI’s investigations into Hillary Clinton’s emails and connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The question zeroed in on conflicting accounts between Comey and his former deputy, Andrew McCabe, regarding a leak to The Wall Street Journal about the Clinton investigation days before the 2016 election.

McCabe has indicated Comey knew about and authorized the leak. Comey maintains he was unaware and that McCabe in a conversation after the story published implied he, too, wasn’t involved.

A 2018 inspector general report sided with Comey’s account, saying McCabe authorized the leak and “lacked candor” when he told his boss and later investigators that he didn’t.

“What Mr. McCabe is saying and what you testified to this committee cannot both be true. One or the other is false. Who’s telling the truth?” Cruz pressed.

Comey responded, “I can only speak to my testimony. I stand by the testimony you summarized.”

The false statements charge requires prosecutors to prove that Comey “knowingly and willfully” made a “false, fictitious, or fraudulent” statement to Cruz, and it was material.

The obstruction charge requires prosecutors to show that Comey in making a false statement corruptly endeavored “to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law.”

Comey is charged in the Eastern District of Virginia, because his congressional testimony was given remotely from his home in McLean, Va., due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5522987-comeys-indictment-trump-pressure/

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Indictment followed Trump pressure campaign for charges

The charges against Comey followed a pressure campaign from Trump, who over the weekend issued a direct call to Attorney General Pam Bondi to bring charges against Comey as well as others the president considers to be his political adversaries.

“Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, ‘same old story as last time, all talk, no action. Nothing is being done. What about Comey, Adam “Shifty” Schiff, Leticia??? They’re all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done,’” Trump posted on social media, referencing Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).

“There is a GREAT CASE….We can’t delay any longer.”

Those comments came after the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, resigned under pressure to bring charges against Comey and James. Siebert reportedly had held off due to a lack of evidence in the cases.

Trump swiftly installed Lindsey Halligan, who was tapped as an interim replacement. Halligan, a White House staffer who practiced insurance law before she joined his criminal defense team in 2022, has never tried a federal case.

Just days later, Trump officials brought an indictment before a grand jury, borrowing a line popular among Democrats in announcing the move.

“No one is above the law,” Bondi said.

FBI Director Kash Patel, who worked on a review of the 2016 investigation as a staffer on the House Intelligence Committee, also implied Comey was corrupt.

“Nowhere was this politicization of law enforcement more blatant than during the Russiagate hoax, a disgraceful chapter in history we continue to investigate and expose,” he wrote in a post on social media.

“Everyone, especially those in positions of power, will be held to account – no matter their perch.”

Comey’s testimony before the Senate came on Sept. 30, 2020, meaning the indictment was filed just days before the five-year statute of limitations in the case was set to expire.

Grand jury declined to indict on 1 count

Though Comey was indicted on two charges, court papers show federal prosecutors initially pursued three.

The Justice Department asked a federal grand jury to indict Comey on another count of making false statements to Congress stemming from an exchange with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) during the same Sept. 30, 2020, hearing.

Graham asked Comey whether he recalled “being taught” of Clinton’s “approval of a plan” to use talk of Trump and Russian hackers interfering in U.S. elections as a means of distracting from her use of a private email server.

Comey replied, “That doesn’t ring any bells with me.”

“OK. Well, that’s a pretty stunning thing, it didn’t ring a bell,” Graham said in return.

The grand jury’s foreperson indicated that 12 or more grand jurors did not agree to indict on the charge regarding the exchange, meaning prosecutors could not move forward with it.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5522987-comeys-indictment-trump-pressure/

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Comey professes his innocence

Comey responded to news of his own indictment in a short video posted to Instagram, professing his innocence and vowing he would not be intimidated by the administration’s charges against him.

“Somebody that I love dearly recently said that ‘fear is the tool of a tyrant.’ And she’s right,” Comey said in the video, quoting what his daughter, Maurene, said after she was fired as a federal prosecutor in July.

“But I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either. I hope instead you are engaged. You are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does,” Comey added.

“My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system,” he said. “And I’m innocent. So, let’s have a trial. And keep the faith.”what heart?

Comey, who earned the ire of Democrats in 2016 with his handling of an investigation into then-candidate Clinton’s email server, had become increasingly outspoken since his departure from the FBI in pushing back against Trump.

The former FBI director endorsed former President Biden in the 2020 election and backed former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 race against Trump.

The latest chapter in the Trump-Comey feud

Thursday’s indictment followed years of attacks from Trump against Comey.

Trump fired Comey as FBI director in 2017 while the bureau’s investigation was still ongoing, leading to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump and Comey have had an adversarial relationship ever since, with Trump calling Comey a “dirty cop” and saying he and other FBI leaders were “scum.”

The president earlier this year alleged an Instagram post from Comey that featured seashells on a beach arranged to form the numbers “8647” was a call for his assassination. Stemming from the hospitality industry, “86” can refer to either the need to cut off a client or unlist a menu item.

Democrats and other Trump critics were quick to sound the alarm, suggesting Comey’s indictment was an indication the president was willing to use the Justice Department against his opponents.

“Donald Trump has made clear that he intends to turn our justice system into a weapon for punishing and silencing his critics,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called Comey’s indictment “one of the most sickening abuses of power in the history of the DOJ.”

“Trump is using every tool available to get vengeance on his political rivals. It’s corruption plain and simple— our country deserves better,” Himes posted on the social platform X.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5522987-comeys-indictment-trump-pressure/

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Considering her background and connections, she should be distanced far away from the President, she's not trustworthy on her loyalties.