BREAKING: Newly Declassified Docs Reveal Bias of Impeachment 'Whistleblower'

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A former inspector general who fast-tracked a “whistleblower” complaint that led to the first impeachment of President Trump in 2019 knew the whistleblower was a registered Democrat and Joe Biden loyalist yet still determined his complaint was "a matter of urgent concern that appeared credible," according to newly declassified documents.

The documents also reveal the anonymous whistleblowersecretly met with the Democratic staff of former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiffprior to submitting his complaint in August 2019.

Yet under direct questioning, the whistleblower – later identified by RealClearInvestigations as intelligence analyst Eric Ciaramella –failed to disclose those contacts in interviews with IG investigators or on whistleblower forms, according to morethan 350 pages of intel briefings Schiff classified as secret and locked up in a Capitol vault.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford released the papers Monday morning after National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard declassified them late last week.Justice Department insiders say the documents factor into an ongoing grand jury investigation into an alleged “grand conspiracy” by former Obama and Biden officials to illegally target Trump in political espionage activities.

Nonetheless, IG Michael Atkinson, then the intelligence community's top watchdog,did not question the whistleblower's political motivations, truthfulness or credibility.

Atkinson conducted no investigation of his interactions with Schiff staffers to see if political bias played a rolein the preparation of his complaint,which alleged that Trump "had clearly committed a criminal act" in a 30-minute phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. During that =call, which was reported listened to by dozens of people, Trump told Zelenskyy “I would like you to do us a favor,” and help investigate Biden's son's role in the Burisma scandal. It was later alleged that Trump held up Ukraine funding to force that assistance, which never came. The whistleblower was not in the White House at the time to witness the phone call and relied instead on the account of former White House colleague and political ally Alexander Vindman,== who is now seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Florida as a Democrat.

Second-Hand Hearsay

An Obama holdover, Atkinson formally notified Schiff of the complaint in September 2019, paving the way for its release to the public.

By allowing a second-hand hearsay complaintto be processed,Atkinson bent the longstanding rulesof his office, according to the declassified briefings.

He also transmitted the information to Schiff over the objectionsof then-acting National Intelligence Director JosephMaguire, who had a legal opinion from the DOJ whichoverruled Atkinson’s determination that the complaint was credibleand urgent enough to warrant disclosure to Congress.

"The complainant's allegations appear credible to me," Atkinson insisted in a Sept. 19, 2019, briefing before Schiff's committee.

Michael Atkinson, the then-IG for the Intelligence community, promoted the whistleblower complaint over the DOJ's objections in 2019. (AP)

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/04/13/breaking_newly_declassified_docs_reveal_bias_of_impeachment_whistleblower_1176287.html

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Atkinson called then-FBI Director Christopher Wray's chief of staff and briefed him on the complaint before filing a criminal referral with the bureau to investigate the allegations.

Atkinson also testified about the whistleblower and his complaint during a classified session held on Oct. 4, 2019, during which he stated,"The complainant was not politically biased in any way."

The two committee briefings spanned more than 10 hours and were conducted behind closed doors in a secure underground facility in the Capitol.The contents of those classified sessions have long been the source of mystery.

Atkinsonrefused to disclose the identity of the whistleblower "even now in a classified setting," because he said he felt compelled to "honor" his "request for confidentiality" –even though the IG has the authority to disclose such information in the course of an investigation.

At the same time, however, Atkinson revealed that the whistleblowerdisclosed under questioning by his team of three investigatorsthat he was "a registered member of theDemocratic Party [and] had a prior professional relationshipwith one of the Democratic presidential candidates for the 2020 election."

Ciaramella is listed in voting records as a registered Democrat.He worked directly with Vice President Biden on national security issues involving Ukraineand Russia. Ciaramella was even involved in internal Obama White House discussions over Burisma and Hunter Biden, as RCI also first reported.

These facts did not raise flags with Atkinson.

"There is no indication of any misconduct by the complainant related to this disclosure,"Atkinson briefed the committee, adding that "the complainant has played by the rules."

He noted, however, that getting the intelligence committees toinvestigate the Trump allegations "is what the whistleblower intends [to do]."

Atkinson did not respond to requests for comment. His bio at the Washington law firm of Crowell & Moring LLP, where he is a partner, states, "Michael has been publicly described as one you 'trust with investigations.' " Federal election records show his wife, also a D.C. attorney,is a regular Democrat donor who gave at least $900 to Joe Biden in 2020.

CIA Detailee

Ciaramella handled the controversial Ukraine portfolio for Biden as an intelligence analyst detailed to the White House from the CIA. As RCI has reported,Obama CIA Director John Brennan was a key player in advancing the Russiagate conspiracytheory that claimed theTrump campaign had coordinated with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election. Ciaramella remained in the White House during the first several months of the Trump administration, where he worked closely with a national security analyst,Sean Misko, who went on to become a key impeachment staffer for Schiff.

Atkinson previously worked as senior counsel to Obamaappointee Mary McCord in the national security division of the Justice Department. A Democrat,McCord was involved in the ouster of Trump’s first national security adviser Michael Flynn, also based on snippets of a phone conversation he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The DOJ recently awarded Flynn $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit claiming he was the target of a political prosecution.McCord later worked as a legal consultant to Democrats in both impeachments of Trump.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/04/13/breaking_newly_declassified_docs_reveal_bias_of_impeachment_whistleblower_1176287.html

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Atkinson also worked closely with former DOJ official David Laufman, another Obama appointee and donorwho approved the FBI's opening of investigations targeting five Trump advisers as possible foreign agents.

Schiff – who now represents California in the U.S. Senate –sealed the transcriptsof Atkinson's testimony from public viewduring the impeachment proceedings. They are theonly impeachment witness transcripts out of 18 that were never released.

Schiff classified the documents “Secret,” preventing Republicanswho attended the Atkinson briefings from quoting from them. Even impeachmentinvestigators were prevented from viewing themoutside a highly secured room, known as a “SCIF," in the basement of the Capitol.Members had to first get permission from Schiff, and were forbidden from bringing phonesinto the SCIF or from taking notes from the document.

Then-House Intelligence memberJohn Ratcliffe, now CIA director, said Schiff's office coached the whistlebloweron how to file a complaint under intelligence community whistleblower protections before steering him to Atkinson, who facilitated the processing of his complaint,despite numerous alarms sounded by career Justice Department lawyers who reviewed it.

The department's Office ofLegal Counsel ruled that the complaint involved “foreign diplomacy,” not intelligence, contained “hearsay” evidence based on “secondhand” information, and did not meet the definition of an “urgent concer” that needed to be reported to Congress. Still,Atkinson worked closely with Schiff to pressure the White House to make the complaint public.

Former CIA analystFred Fleitz said cloaking the Biden CIA detailee in the whistleblower statuteprovided him cover from public scrutiny. Bymaking Ciaramella anonymous, he was able to hide his background and motives.

Disclosing Classified Information

Filing the complaint with the IC inspector general, moreover,gave him added protections against reprisals, while letting him disclose classified information. If he had filed directly with Congress, it could not have made the complaint public due to concerns about disclosing classified information.But a complaintreferred by the IG to Congress gave it more latitude overwhat it could make public.

The whistleblower complaint was publicly released Sept. 26, 2019, after a barrage of letters and a subpoena from Schiff,along with a flood of leaks to the media.

However, thewhistleblower neverdisclosed to Atkinsonthat he had briefed Schiff’s officeabout his complaint before filing it with the inspector general. He was required on formsto list any other agencies he had contacted– includingspecifically, "the congressional intelligence committees." But heomitted those contactsand other material facts from his disclosure.

"The whistleblowerdid not check the box for congressional intelligence committees," Atkinson told the committee in his Oct. 4, 2019, sworn testimony. "Our investigators also asked the complainant who knew about the complainant's disclosure. The complainantdid not identify the congressional intelligence committees."

He alsoappears to have misled Atkinsonon Aug. 12, 2019, when on a separate form he stated: “I reserve the option toexercise my legal right to contact the committees directly,” whenhe had already contacted Schiff’s committee weeks prior to making the statement.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/04/13/breaking_newly_declassified_docs_reveal_bias_of_impeachment_whistleblower_1176287.html

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(Never Forget what Schitt Did and God’s Judgement that is coming for him!)

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“The whistleblower made statements to theinspector general under the penalty of perjury that were not true or correct,” Ratcliffe said.

Schiff also kept mum about their scheme.

Ratcliffe said Atkinson appeared unconcerned after the New York Times revealed in early October 2019that Schiff’s office had privately consulted with the CIA analyst before he filed his complaint, contradictingSchiff’s initial denials they had ever met.

According to the declassified transcripts,Schiff maintained that he merely "misspoke" and wasn't trying to hide anything. "Please do not suggest by that that I, or anyone else, had an intention to deceive," he said.

Ratcliffe told RealClearInvestigations that in closed-door testimony on Oct. 4“I asked IG Atkinson about his ‘investigation’ into the contacts between Schiff’s staff and the personwho later became the whistleblower." But he saidAtkinson claimed that he had not investigated thembecause he had only just learned about them in the media.

On Oct. 8, after more media reports revealed thewhistleblower and Schiff’s staff had concealed their contacts with each other, the whistleblower called Atkinson’s office to try toexplain why he made false statements in writing and verbally, transgressionsthat could be punishable with a fine of up to $10,000, imprisonment for up five years, or both, according to the federal form he signed under penalty of perjury.

In his clarification to the inspector general, the whistlebloweracknowledged for the first time reaching out to Schiff’s staff before filingthe complaint, according to an investigative report filed later that month by Atkinson.

“The whistleblower got caught,” Ratcliffe said. "The whistleblower made false statements. The whistleblower got caught with Chairman Schiff.”

He said the truth about what happened is documented in the transcript of Atkinson’s testimony,which is why Schiff refused to release it.

“The transcript is classified ‘Secret’ so Schiff can prevent you from seeing [Atkinson's] answers to my questions,” Ratcliffe told RCI previously.

Atkinson's actions wereinstrumental to Schiff's impeachment operation.

"MichaelAtkinson is a key anti-Trump conspirator who played a central role in transforming the ‘whistleblower' complaintinto the impeachment proceedings,” said Bill Marshall, a senior investigator for Judicial Watch, the conservative government watchdog group that is suing the Justice Department for Atkinson’s internal communications related to the first Trump impeachment.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/04/13/breaking_newly_declassified_docs_reveal_bias_of_impeachment_whistleblower_1176287.html

Patriots are not finished with Schitt! And Ratcliffe is now director of the CIA

Waste of the Day: ICE Vendor’s Fake Employee

By Jeremy Portnoy, RealClearInvestigations May 27, 2026

Topline:One might expect that the companies developing advanced technology for Immigration and Customs Enforcement are led bygifted programmers with impressive resumés.

But one firm with a $12 million no-bid contract from ICE seems to have no one leading it.

Until recently, the company Edge Ops’ website claimed their lead programmer was Diya Das. It used a stock image with the description “Indian lady relax on sofa using tablet look at camera” as her supposed bio picture.

Das has no listed biographical information, and there is no proof she is even a real person.

Key facts: ICE hired Edge Ops in April to develop an AI software that can predict the movements of illegal immigrants. Investigative journalists at The Lever found more than a few question marks.

The company has no federal contracting experience, and incorporation documents show it was founded in 2014 “to hold and to house a sailboat.” It registered as a federal vendor on Nov. 6, 2024, the day after President Donald Trump was re-elected.

Das’ headshot was obviously fake. It contained a huge watermark in the middle of the photo.

The Edge Ops website also claimed that its technology was used for AI-powered wildfire prevention by the Germany company Dryad Networks. That was a lie, according to Dryad Networks’ CEO, who told The Lever “I have no clue” what Edge Ops is.

Thewebsite also has testimonials from seemingly fake customers. Sarah Mitchell of “InnovativeTech Solutions” was featured on the homepage saying, “Working with EdgeOps has been a game changer for our business,” but The Lever found no evidence that Mitchell actually exists.

Edge Opsdid not answer any of The Lever’s questions, but it did overhaul its website. Das is no longer listed as an employee, and all mentions of Dryad Networks are gone. Sarah Mitchell’s name is now simply “Sarah,” and she now works at “Operational Mission Support.”

Edge Ops is owned by Jennifer Piccerillo, a former employee of the weapons manufacturer Raytheon, and her husband Robert “Pic” Piccerillo, a former Air Force intelligence officer. Both their signatures appear on the company’s Articles of Organization, obtained by The Lever.

Search all federal, state and local salaries and vendor spending with the world’s largest government spending database at OpenTheBooks.com.

Background: Homeland Security’s no-bid contract spending has faced increased scrutinyafter former Secretary Kristi Noem allegedly enriched her friends through advertising contracts.

Homeland Security has spent $5 billion on no-bid contracts in fiscal year 2026so far, already much more than any previous year.

Washington spent a record $262.6 billion on no-bid contracts in fiscal year 2025 across all agencies.

Summary: ICE has already arguably lost the public relations battle over the past year, andsending money to dubious vendors will only make it worse.

(None of these agencies or any agencies should be auditing their own budgets, the U.S. should use professional agencies outside of the government, (and none of US agencies know who they will be year or year), that can be trusted, and block any managements involved how the money is spent. Our government is just as corrupt as all the states in the US, and foreign countries. Making more money for the US is helpful unless the entire federal budget is reviewed by professional fraud finders. The House and Senate is the worst.)

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/05/27/waste_of_the_day_ice_vendors_fake_employee_1183936.html

Waste of the Day: Radioactive Wasted Money

Jeremy Portnoy, RCI 5/22/2026

Topline: The federal government is so prone to excessive spending that it is even wasting money on waste itself.

TheDepartment of Energy could save up to $229.2 billion over the next several years by changing the way it disposes of nuclear waste, according to the Government Accountability Office.A vague and poorly understood law from the 1980s makes the process overly burdensome and expensive.

Key facts:The Department of Energy is in charge of treating water, soil, equipment and more that were contaminated from nuclear weapons production during World War II and the Cold War.

Disposing of “high-level” radioactive waste is time-consuming and expensive. It must be stored for years to let some of its radioactivity decay, and then it is buried deep underground. “Low-level” waste, which has less radiation, is easier to get rid of. It gets placed in a steel or concrete drum and is buried just a few feet below ground.

But, according to the GAO,the definitions for each kind of waste are ambiguousand have not been updated since 1983.There is no standard way to measure what federal law considers “highly radioactive.”

To be safe, theDepartment of Energy errs on the side of classifying nuclear waste as high-level. Itspends billions every yearon the expensive storage and burial of waste that would likely be classified as low-level if the 1983 law were updated. The department told the GAO that otherwise,it might be sued by environmental advocacy groupsfor not following a strict interpretation of the law.

Nuclear waste treatment plants are located in New York, South Carolina, Idaho and Washington.The Washington site alone could save up to $210 billion in 14 years by classifying 80% of its high-level waste as low-level without sacrificing safety, according to the GAO. The other three sites could save a combined $19.2 billion.

Summary:Congress should consider updating the legal definition of high-level radioactive waste if cost savings can be realized without compromising safety.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/05/22/waste_of_the_day_radioactive_wasted_money_1182726.html

Our Government needs people with real brains to work there.

Waste of the Day: University Endowments Soar

By Jeremy Portnoy, RealClearInvestigations

May 20, 2026

Topline: The top 20 private universities received $22.3 billion in federal research grants and contracts in fiscal year 2025, but it appears some of that funding helped them grow their own cash reserves.

A statistical analysis from Open the Books found a moderate correlationbetween 20 elite colleges’ per-student government funding and per-student endowment growth. Schoolsthat received the most taxpayer funding from 2018 to 2025 were the most likely to see their endowments grow, sometimes by more than 200%.

Key facts:The analysis included all eight schools of the Ivy League and other elite colleges like Duke, Emory and Northwestern.

The funding helps pay for vital research on medicine, energy and much more,but it also forces taxpayers to spend tens of billions of dollars every year on overhead costs. For every $1 a college receives for research, it typically receives another 50 to 60 cents to cover other expenses like building maintenance, janitors and grant writing.

Elite schools could arguably cover more of their own expenses without billing taxpayers. Johns Hopkins University got $2.6 billion in research funding last year and has consistently been among the top recipients of government funding. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received $12.6 billion from 2018 to 2025 — more than $1 million per current student —while its endowment grew by 67%. The trend is similar for most top schools.

When a college receives federal money for research,it can avoid withdrawing money from its endowment to fund the same project. That frees up money to be spent on administrative salaries, athletic facilities, art galleries and more.Schools can also opt to keep the money invested and allow their private funds to grow even larger.

An ordinary private business would have to pay a 20% capital gains tax on profits from its investment, but universities mostly evade the tax because they are registered as nonprofits.

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act required private colleges with more than $500,000 in endowment assets per student to pay a 1.4% tax on realized gains.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expanded that to an 8% tax on schools with endowments worth more than $2 million per student, but that currently only applies to three schools.

The grant funds include awards of questionable value.Columbia Universityreceived $745,323 to test ahypothesis that "curiosity promotes learning.”Duke Universitygot $784,147to build robots that mimic the movements of mantis shrimp.Cornell Universityreceived $5,500 for an open-access edition of a book thatdescribes itself as celebrating the contributions of women “espousing communism.”

Search all federal, state and local salaries and vendor spending with the world’s largest government spending database at OpenTheBooks.com.

Summary: Federal money should be funding research that benefits taxpayers, not helping wealthy universities boost their own bottom lines.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/05/20/waste_of_the_day_university_endowments_soar_1182722.html

Reading these articles are making me nauseous, this one is sickening because the Universities teach students to hate America

Zelenskyy Bombs College Dormitory in Starobilsk, Luhansk with 16 Drones – Numerous Dead, Search and Recovery Efforts Continue for Missing Age 14 to 18==

May 22, 2026 | Sundance |

When Russian Federation President VladimirPutin uses the term “Nazi” he does so with a perspectivethat. is not the same as western considerations.

Ukraine is well known for theirideological blood lust, the events within this story are related to that definition.

Ukraine President VolodymyrZelenskyy ordered the targeting of a college dormitory in Starobilsk, Luhansk, an occupied territory under the control of Russian forces.

This was not a military target. Yana Lantratova, Russia’s human rights commissioner, said that 86 ​teenagers aged 14 to 18 had been asleep inside the hostel belonging to Luhansk Pedagogical University’s Starobilsk college when Ukrainian drones had attacked it during ​the night.

Leonid Pasechnik, the top Russian-installed official in Luhansk,said two people had been pulled from the rubble. Maria Lvova-Belova, presidential commissioner for children’s rights,said up to ‌18 children ⁠could still be trapped.

Ukraine’s military deniedthe Russian accusations andsaid it had struck an elite drone command unit in the area. It said that ​Kyiv complied with international humanitarian law.

Putin said in his own statement, which was carried by state TV,that there were no military ​targets near the dorm.

“There are no military facilities, intelligence service facilities, or related services in the vicinity.Therefore, there ⁠is absolutely no basis for claiming that the munitions struck the building as a result of our air defenseor electronic warfare systems.

The ​strike was not accidental; it came in three waves, with 16 drones targeting the same location,” Putin told officials. (more)

Again, it does not go unnoticed thatZelenskyy feels the strongest empowerment when U.S. officials are meeting with NATOpartners to discuss the conflict. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with NATO allies in Sweden,Zelenskyy takes the opportunity of association to carry out a strike that carries severe retaliatory consequence.

Thepeople who control Zelenskyy use him as a tool to bait Putin, and theydo it every time the U.S. has a delegation discussing the regional issues. There is a direct pattern here that repeats itself. Western media pretend not to notice.

Speak to anyone in Eastern Europe about their opinion of Ukrainians’ and/or Volodymyr Zelenskyy and you will get the same response. It is a response disconnected from the opinion of European leaders. Eastern Europeans well understand the nature of the Ukraine mindset.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/22/zelenskyy-bombs-college-dormitory-in-starobilsk-luhansk-with-16-drones-numerous-dead-search-and-recovery-efforts-continue-for-missing-age-14-to-18/

If I was Russian I’d join the fight, and pick off all the leaders of Ukraine and not the soldiers!

Ivanka Trump Targeted for Assassination by IRGC Terrorist

May 22, 2026 | Sundance |

According to the New York Post, President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, was targeted for assassination in an act of revenge byMohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, a reported IRGC terrorist trained by his mentor, Qasem Soleimani.

(VIA NEW YORK POST) – First Daughter Ivanka Trump was targeted for assassination by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) trained terrorist in a twisted plot to avenge the president taking out his mentor, The Post has learned.

Recently captured Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, made a “pledge” to kill Ivanka and even had a blueprint of her Florida home, sources claimed.

The Iraqi national was allegedly targeting President Donald Trump’s family in response to the killing of Iranian military chief Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad six years ago.

“After Qasem was killed, he [Al-Saadi] went around telling people, ‘we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house,’” Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attaché in the Iraqi embassy in Washington told The Post.

“We heard that he had a plan of Ivanka’s house in Florida,” Qanbar added. A second source also confirmed Al-Saadi’s plot to kill Ivanka.

Al-Saadi also posted a picture of a map showing the enclave in Florida where Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner have a $24 million home on X, alongside a chilling threat in Arabic which translates to: “I say to the Americans look at this picture and know that neither your palaces nor the Secret Service will protect you. We are currently in the stage of surveillance and analysis. I told you, our revenge is a matter of time.”

Al-Saadi is said to be a high-ranking figure in Iraq-Iran terror circles, arrested in Turkey on May 15 and extradited to the US where he is charged with 18 attacks and attempted attacksthroughout Europe and the United States, per the Department of Justice. (read more)

A few days ago, President Trump noted during a press availability that he held an extended telephone call with Turkish President Recep Erdogan. Perhaps the capture and extradition were part of that communication context.

(It also sounds like a trap for the U.S. to go full destruction,They still fail to understand Trump, he gave them many chances. I bet Israelis are tracking down all Iranians involved. Israel is not mild at all when attacking.)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/22/ivanka-trump-targeted-for-assassination-by-

President Trump Responds to DNI Gabbard Departure, “Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas, will serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence”

May 22, 2026 | Sundance |

President Trump announces via Truth Social, “Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas, will serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence” following the departure of DNI Tulsi Gabbard on June 30, 2026.

[SOURCE]

Aaron Lukas will do a solid job as ‘acting’ or as fully nominated and confirmed DNI.

There will likely be a great deal of rumor and speculation about a different permanent replacement.One name sure to surface within the discussion is Devin Nunes, but I strongly doubt the former Chairman of the HPSCI would desire or accept the position.

If, andthat is a very big ‘if’, Devin Nunes was to accept the role, that would indicate a remarkable change in his opinion about the overall intelligence apparatus. Therefore, I doubt this is an option. Devin Nunes believes in the historic fidelity of the intelligence institutions. As a result, the DNI position has seemed smaller and less significant.

The only way Nunes would take the job is if two things changed. First,he now believed the construct of the United States intelligence apparatus is teetering on the edge of irreversible corruption(he did not previously hold this position); andsecond, if he sees that Tulsi has now proven the power of the DNI in the intelligence apparatus. As readers here will fully understand,until DNI Gabbard that power was never fully extended.

Former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)member Elise Stefanikwill likely be another name. She would have the full support of theSusie Wiles grouping. Thesame networkwho advocated forMike Waltzto be National Security Advisor. However, Stefanikwould greatly please Laura Loomer,Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro; while conversely providing fuel for Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly antagonisms.

Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn would likely be another name. This one strongly promoted by Q-adherents as evidence toward their Horoscope predictions and Q-anon ‘drops’ about Nunes stepping down from CEO of Truth Social as a 3-D chess maneuver,proactively planned to replace Gabbard [he did not].(anons that is funny)

Unfortunately, Flynn’s judgement is not stellar, and while he has been supportive of Mrs. Gabbard it’s not likely President Trump wants that kind of Flynn drama or the issues he brings with him for a nomination. That said, if the political calculation is to fuel the core base, Flynn might stand a chance at nomination.But don’t overthink it, Flynn would be of no value in the DNI position for anything of substance. Again, weak judgement (led to his former demise) and grifting tendencies.

Two other names of note:Scott Perryfrom Pennsylvania who was a target of the FBI/IC for his support of President Trump, andRick Crawfordthe current Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, a gang of eight member.The IC has nothing to fear from either of these names. They areessentially Mike Waltz clones, though to be fair I might be a little harsh on Perry.

Rick Crawford, as HPSCI Chairman, allowed Tulsi Gabbard to review the Atkinson transcript.Still, he didn’t act until Gabbard asked to see it and later pushed to declassify it.While he had the authority to handle it himself, like many congressional IC members in both the House and Senate,he seemed wary of challenging the very system they’re tasked with overseeing. [TIP:If whoever’s name it is currently falls under the IC oversight mechanism, they probably fear the “seven ways from Sunday” group,unlike Tulsi Gabbard. Accept this reality and adjust your perspective accordingly.]

GOPe types and “CONservative” influencersmight also bring up Trey Gowdyor former HPSCI ChairmanMike Rogers. If either of these names show up,there’s a problem. And anyone advancing these names…. well, they’re the problem.

There’s no immediate need for any speculative guesswork.ADNI Aaron Lukas will do a solid job.

In the interim,we should expect DNI Gabbard to wrap up several aspects surrounding ongoing investigations and will likely make them all public prior to her departure, post haste.

Pray for Tulsi Gabbard and Abraham Williams!

(https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/22/president-trump-responds-to-dni-gabbard-departure-principal-deputy-director-of-national-intelligence-aaron-lukas-will-serve-as-acting-director-of-national-intelligence/

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Sundance is right all the first term names are not nearly up to date what this war is, all of them became media targets.

Whoever takes Tulsi’s place will not have been in media most, but knows all the DNI plans and extreme military training

CIA director brought paramilitary leader involved in Maduro capture to Cuba meeting, sources say

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When CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Havana last week for a rare meeting with senior Cuban officials,he brought along one of the operators involved in the U.S. mission to capture then-Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, multiple people familiar with the matter told CBS News.

Venezuela and Cuba were allies before Maduro's arrest, and theCuban government has said 32 of its military and police officerswere killed in the January operation toextract Maduro.

Ratcliffemade a point of introducing the paramilitary leader to the Cubans as the one who killed their people in Venezuela, several sources said.

The presence of a paramilitary officer who was involved in capturing a key partner of the Cuban government just months earliermay have been intended to send a signal.KEK “may have”!

The CIA declined to comment.

Ratcliffe's visit followed months of pressure on Cuba. The administration has threatened steep tariffs on any countries that export oil to the island nation, leading to severe fuel shortages.

Secretary of State MarcoRubio has said the country needs to make fundamental economic and political reforms, and President Trump has floated a "friendly takeover" of the island, which has vexed U.S. administrations since Cuba's communist movement rose to power in 1959.

Hours after the Maduro raid, Rubio pointed to Cuba's ties to Venezuela,telling reporters that Venezuela's "whole spy agency" was "full of Cubans."

"If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I'd be concerned, at least a little bit,"he said.

A CIA official said Ratcliffe delivered a message to Cuba thatthe U.S. is "prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes."

(https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-ratcliffe-paramilitary-leader-maduro-capture-in-cuba-meeting/

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One of the figures that Ratcliffe met with was Raúl Rodriguez Castro, or "Raulito," the grandsonof former Cuban President Raúl Castro, the CIA official told CBS News last week.Less than a week later, an indictment against the 94-year-old elder Castro was unsealedin U.S. federal court, charging him with murder and conspiracy for Cuba's fatal downing of two planes in 1996.

(This is MSM talk trying to make the U.S. incompetent today)The meeting between an American spy chief and a member of the Castro family carried the long shadow of a Cold War strugglethat helped define relations between Washington and Havana for more than half a century. Cuban officials likely remember the history of covert American efforts to undermine the government of Fidel Castro, particularly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the launch of Operation Mongoose, the clandestine campaign overseen by the Kennedy administration to destabilize the island's communist government.

Relations between the U.S. and Cuba are still impacted by that fraught history. Rubio told reporters Thursdaythat Cuba "not only has weapons that they've acquired from Russia and China over the years,but they also hostRussia and Chinese intelligence presence in their country."

A CIA official said last weekRatcliffe discussed "security issues" with Cuban officials "against the backdrop that Cuba can no longer be a safe havenfor adversaries in the Western Hemisphere."

Meanwhile, as tensions rise,the U.S. intelligence community has been exploring how Cuba might respond to American military action, CBS News reported earlier this week. CBS News has also confirmed thatCuba has acquired attack drones.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said this weekCuba "poses no threat" to the U.S., but he warned of a "bloodbath" if the U.S. military carries out strikes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-ratcliffe-paramilitary-leader-maduro-capture-in-cuba-meeting

DocumentingLibs

@HistorianUSA1

A doorbell camera captures two Soldiers—one a battle-hardened Sergeant Major, the other an officer—standing at a family’s door in full dress uniform. They wait with quiet dignity, heads up, eyes steady. The weight of what they’re there to do is written on their faces.

They’re not delivering good news.

As we approach Memorial Day, it’s easy to post flags and barbecues.But this is the real cost. Since our nation’s founding, as many as 1.4 million American service members have made the ultimate sacrifice—fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters—who never came home.

Every Gold Star family knows that knock. Every folded flag, every name on a wall, every empty seat at the table carries a story of love, duty, and unbearable loss.

Tonight I’m praying for every family who’s ever answered that door.For every name we must never forget. And for the brave men and women inuniform who still carry the hardest mission of all: telling a family their hero is gone.

We owe them everything.

Freedom isn’t free. It’s given by the blood of patriotic heroes.

7:13 PM · May 22, 2026

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https://x.com/HistorianUSA1/status/2057963073529414038?s=20

>>24637042 I rarely cry, but this touched me with gratitude for our soldiers and country

>>24637028

The White House has the best media to produce important moments in our country! Amazing each one gives a message of America First and we are proud to be Americans

>>24636294 No Indian Company In World's Top 100 By Market Cap For First Time In Years

>>24636432, >>24636451 Noncitizen green card applicants must leave the U.S. indefinitely

PN

Sachs and the Tech Bros pushed green cards and foreigners for their tech companies. They betrayed Trump and the Country.

I believe this why Trump shot Sachs down the other day. They invaded the admin to make more money for themselves, and Trump is having none of itEither Sachs works for Trump and the WH or he works for the tech bros and himself to make billions more.

Thanks Tech Bros for boosting Trump in 2024, but that doesn’t mean you own him or America!

SpaceX

@SpaceX

Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the twelfth flight test of Starship!

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057969484879528267?s=20

The Amish Are Falling in Love With AI Cars and TVs might be banned, but some sects are all-in on ChatGPT.

By Erik German

It’s Sunday afternoon in the heart of Ohio Amish country, and after driving their horse and buggy home from church,the Wengerd family is teasing Dad about the time Mom caught him using an AI chatbot to write her a Valentine.

We’re all sitting in their farmhouse’s living room, which contains zero TVs but lots of comfortable chairs. Valentine’s Day was weeks ago,yet Mary Ellen Wengerd is still tickled about the love note her husband, Daniel, co-authored with generative AI. “ It was so eloquently written,” she says, biting back a grin. “Reading this, I was like, This is so not my husband.”

Mary Ellen wears a white bonnetlike cap over her hair and the ankle-length dress she’d put on for church. She’s curled into an overstuffed armchair alongside the youngest of their six children, Jethro, 7, who’s parked his feet on her lap. “And I was like, ‘Did you write this?’” Mary Ellen says, looking at Daniel. “‘Or did you ask ChatGPT to put a little love letter together?’ And he was like, ‘Ummm —’”

“I actually did!” Daniel says as laughter erupts in the room. “But I made a couple changes!” We seem to be on well-trod comedic ground. Daniel’s blushing on the couch opposite Mary Ellen, stroking his wavy gray beard. Daniel points at me, the writer visiting from New York, in the corner. “Read it to him,” he says, “and then tell him what doesn’t sound like me.”

As Mary Ellen reads aloud and ribs Daniel about the fancy phrasing, she still sounds touched by the note. “I know the intent was right,” she tells me. “He’s on a tight schedule, and I imagine he got into a pinch.” The new AI wingman offering to help those in a pinch — whether writing love notes or code — is finding a toehold in Amish country. Holmes County, Ohio, has the highest concentration of Amish people of any county in the U.S. Visitors expecting to see traditional horses and buggies, bonnets and Abe Lincoln beards, won’t be disappointed. Still, they’ll find Amish entrepreneurs plugging into the digital economy and one clan of early adopters weaving generative AI into their knowledge work without much hesitation.

Of course, none of this sounds like the tech-shy Amish life in the popular imagination. However, there’s no such thing as a single Amish approach to technology. There are some 2,600 Amish churches across the country, and each makes its own, separate decisions about what sorts of new hardware and software church members can use. The Wengerd’s church is Old Order Amish. Its married members dress plainly, don’t drive cars or own TVs, and don’t connect their homes to the electrical grid. They speak a dialect of German at home and at church — which Daniel’s eldest son kindly translated for me during the service I attended.

Daniel is a minister in his church and has played a role in the congregation’s collective decisions to interdict smartphones and social media but to allow e-bikes, flip phones, solar-generated electricity, and religiously curated internet access. “I don’t want to paint a picture that we’re pushing for new technology and we don’t have respect for our traditions and our values,” he tells me. “We’re not just opening the door to anything.”

Among the 400,000 Amish people nationwide, there’s no one tracking how many are using AI. Historian Marcus Yoder estimates that less than half of the Amish people in Holmes County have internet access and, among them, fewer than 10 percent have tried generative AI. But Yoder, who runs the Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center in Millersburg, Ohio, adds, “My Amish employees do use it here.”

The sociologist Steven Nolt, a leading scholar of Amish life, says an unusually high percentage of Amish men in Holmes County work in manufacturing — almost half — making the place a more likely hot spot for tech experimentation. “These things are governed by tradition,” Nolt tells me. “And there’s no 95-year-old grandmother who can tell you the Amish way to use computers in your manufacturing establishment.”

https://archive.ph/YKP0J

Waymo suspends freeway rides, pauses Atlanta operations amid safety fixes

Freeway trips on Waymo were available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami.

Alphabet’s Waymo said on Thursday it has suspended its robotaxi service on freeways in the United States and paused its operations in Atlanta, Georgia as it updates software to improve performance around construction zones and flooded roadways.

The suspension comes as Waymo, which has been growing its robotaxi operation slowly and steadily for years in the U.S., has quickened the pace of expansion, as others, including Tesla and Amazon’s Zoox, step up their push in the sector.

“We have temporarily paused freeway operations, as we work to integrate recent technical learnings into our software and expect to resume these routes soon,” a Waymo spokesperson said in an email.

Freeway trips on Waymo were available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami.

Waymo was evaluating and improving its performance around certain types of construction zones, the company told Reuters, adding that street operations remained unaffected.

The company also paused its service in Atlanta, offered through its partnership with Uber, it said, after an unoccupied Waymo robotaxi stopped in flood water on Wednesday.

The pause follows Waymo‘srecall of about 3,800 robotaxis in the United States earlier this month, after identifying a risk that vehicles could enter flooded roads with higher speed limits, raising safety concerns.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/waymo-suspends-freeway-rides-pauses-atlanta-operations-safety-fixes-rcna346510

SF treasure hunt ends after $10,001 prize found in Marin

By Gillian Mohney,

News Editor

Updated May 21, 2026 10:04 a.m.

A weekslong treasure hunt in San Francisco has ended after a box of $10,001 in cash was discovered Tuesday. But in a final twist, the booty was found outside the city

BottleRock crowd goes wild for Jimmy Butler and Teddy Swims’ PB&Js

The endeavor was dubbed “Buried Treasure, San Francisco,” but the clues never actually claimed the coins were within city limits.

“It weighs more than 150 pounds, is buried under a foot of earth, and is located within 7 miles of San Francisco’s city hall,” the anonymous pair of organizers wrote.

The organizers of the hunt wrote on their website that the treasure was discovered after an intrepid problem-solver deciphered the clues and found the box of cash buried in a cave in the Marin Headlands. In an email to SFGATE, the organizers said they don’t “know too much about the finders.”

The hunt that started on April 29 was so popular in recent weeks that it reportedly caused problems at city parks as eager participants started to dig. KGO-TV reported the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department was investigating after damage was seen at Ina Coolbrith Park, Francisco Park and Washington Square Park in recent weeks.

The organizers eventually issued an update advising eager hunters not to damage parks.

“If you find yourself wondering if the treasure is buried under some nice manicured lawn, or cared for planter, or under irrigation lines … it is clearly NOT,” they wrote.

On Tuesday, the organizers posted the solution to the riddle, writing, “The Treasure Has Been Found. Stop Hunting!”While the exact location wasn’t listed, they gave the “solution”to the riddle pointing to a cave in the Marin Headlands. A photo showed a member of the team burying the box in the cave.

After a similar treasure hunt last year was solved in just 11 hours, the organizers said they wanted to set off another whimsical hunt. But this time they wanted the mystery to last and struggled to come up with the right clues.

“This hunt was also confirmation that making a satisfying puzzle is quite difficult!A brief poem that cleverly points to a single location would be quickly solved by a city of such great minds so keen to collaborate,” the organizers told SFGATE. “The thoughtful analysis of our clues, and the brilliant theories gleefully shared was proof of that. A puzzle that can be interpreted enough ways to slow the solve from hours to weeks is simply a less satisfying solution. That’s a tough mark to hit and figuring out how to maximize the experience for all involved is a work in progress.”

The pair of friends say this is their last treasure hunt, but are happy they got to set up an adventure and received hundreds of messages from people taking part in the search.

“It’s a real gift to tick this off the childhood bucket list and we’re so appreciative of how well it was received, even for those with the disappointment of coming up empty handed,” they wrote in an email to SFGATE. “We’re grateful to those who matched our energy and appreciated our effort and generosity, and we definitely hope to create similar experiences in the future, whatever shape they take.”

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-buried-treasure-found-22270304.php

Rubio: More work needs to be done on a deal with Iran

Madeleine Rivera breaks down the stalled negotiations between the U.S. and Iran regarding the Strait of Hormuz and enriched uranium.

5:15

https://youtu.be/bdM9APPxPh4

Nancy Mace targets 'Squad' Dems with proposed ban on foreign-born lawmakers

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., discusses the House Judiciary Committee's probe into the Southern Poverty Law Center amid claims the organization funneled over $3 million to extremist groups it claimed to fight. (I doubt any other country invites terrorists and foreign born people from countries that hate America into their Congress, except the stupid EU)

4:58

https://youtu.be/cUQTPM74paM

Keane issues warning: This will empower Iran

Fox News' Jeff Paul and senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane discuss the possibility of a deal with Iran after Secretary of State Marco Rubio signaled a decision may be imminent

10:15

https://youtu.be/3pAIkDRPkec

>>24637212

How can Pakistan a Muslim country which is not much different than Iran, hammer out a peace deal. When they have the same beliefs how can they fake making peace with a country that relies on killing all of us?

>>24637225

Keane may be right but his solution is to destroy the whole country and have another enemy forever. He’s probably not as radical of the old military, but he’s radical and loves war

Iranian official calls US demands ‘UNREASONABLE’(they always say that when nothing they demand is unreasonable but actually nuts).

Fox News @ Night’ panelistsAlex Gray and Rebecca Grant discuss the latest developments in U.S.-Iran talks and ongoing efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz(I’m not a fan of war but I’m at the point to just blow up the whole government in Iran, they will never stop their dream to destroy all of us. I wonder if their water has heavy metals in them and they’re insane.)

6:18

https://youtu.be/Oo2akjwSQug

Small business owners SOUND OFF on liberal mayor's policies

(When are NY people are gonna revolt on the Communist and Communism. They must have flooded them in for Mamdanni. NY city’s whole life is destroyed)

New York City Mayor Mamdani moves forward with plans to open city-owned grocery stores, drawing criticism from local business owners as grocers argue they can't compete with tax-exempt, publicly funded stores. (Guaranteed the city doesn’t know how to stock grocery stores!)

2:15

https://youtu.be/uzZ2li0ct8Q

‘Gutfeld!’: Comedy skit of Trump featuring Baldwin and Hochul…

Fox News contributor Tom Shillue and the ‘Gutfeld!’ panel drag New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for a comedy skit she filmed with Alec Baldwin (Democrats have no sense of humor)

6:27

https://youtu.be/7TmLmAz3S5E

>>24637337. This was funny

'Gutfeld!': This reads like an episode of CSI Miami Beach Nursing Home…

Fox News contributor Tom Shillue and the 'Gutfeld!' panel discuss the DNC’s 2024 election autopsy report.

(Democrats have no sense of humor, they are always angry, that’s their problem. And they can’t spell.)

14:05

https://youtu.be/4NrUQ2dqtN4

‘The Five’: They are going into ‘FULL DAMAGE CONTROL’

The Five’ co-hosts discuss the release of the Democratic National Committee’s 2024 autopsy report.

Trump is right, they are only good at fraud

(I thought they spent $10 million for the autopsy it was $10 billion, wow and it was written by pre school children)

11:58

https://youtu.be/1i-CSkgiMPs