Ratcliffe Confirmed as CIA Director, 74-25; John Brennan and His Media Allies Whine About His Cancelled Security Clearance

Ratcliffe, one of the brave heroes who exposed the RussiaGate Hoax, has been confirmed.

Trump is meanwhile asking questions of "career civil servants" on the National Security Council, attempting to ferret out #Resistance types who will illegally impose a Bureaucrat's Veto on the duly-elected president of the United States.

NBC and the AP are scandalized! The Bureaucrat's Veto is the key to our system of government!

Incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by President-elect Donald Trump's team, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

At least some of these nonpolitical employees have begun packing up their belongings since being asked about their loyalty to Trump -- after they had earlier been given indications that they would be asked to stay on at the NSC in the new administration, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

Trump's pick for national security adviser, Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, in recent days publicly signaled his intention to get rid of all nonpolitical appointees and career intelligence officials serving on the NSC by Inauguration Day to ensure the council is staffed with those who support Trump's agenda.

A wholesale removal of foreign policy and national security experts from the NSC on Day 1 of the new administration could deprive Trump's team of considerable expertise and institutional knowledge at a time when the U.S. is grappling with difficult policy challenges in Ukraine, the Mideast and beyond. Such questioning could also make new policy experts brought in to the NSC less likely to speak up about policy differences and concerns.

LOL, fuck you.

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Waltz told Breitbart News last week that "everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20." He added that he wanted the NSC to be staffed by personnel who are "100 percent aligned with the president's agenda."

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Alexander Vindman said in a statement Friday that the Trump team's approach to staffing the NSC "will have a chilling effect on senior policy staff across the government."

He added, "Talented professionals, wary of being dismissed for principled stances or offering objective advice, will either self-censor or forgo service altogether."

The two men were heralded by Democrats as patriots for speaking out and derided by Trump as insubordinate. Eugene Vindman in November was elected as a Democrat to represent Virginia's 7th Congressional District.

Go choke to death on a donut, Commando Bearclaw.

Fire the Disloyal Opposition.

Every single Republican was demanded to confess that Biden won the presidency for the past five years. Why should these Deep State Insurrectionists not be forced to confess that Trump is the duly-elected president and, as such, the Commander in Chief and Chief Foreign Policy Officer of the United States, and granted the power to make US foreign and military policy as he sees fit?

Meanwhile, Brennan and his media allies are complaining that his security clearance was revoked.

The NY Post:

"He misrepresented the facts in that executive order because it said that we had suggested that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation," Brennan griped to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.

"No, we said it was one of the hallmarks of Russian information operations, including the dumping of accurate information, which is what we said in that letter," he added.

Buffoonish propaganda rag USAToday:

In the letter, the former intelligence officials said they did not know if emails that were on a computer hard drive and purportedly described the Ukrainian and Chinese business activities of Hunter Biden were genuine or whether there was any Russian involvement in their release. But they said their expertise made them "deeply suspicious" that Moscow was behind the leak and attempting to influence the election. The content of the hard drive was provided to the New York Post by then-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and published by the tabloid newspaper.

They're rewriting the past, claiming these guys only said that the laptop might nor might not be disinformation.

USAToday seemed pretty sure this was Russian disinformation at the time, claiming the FBI was investigating if it was all a Ruskie "Smoke Bomb."

And that's what Brennan, Clapper, Comey et al. intended. The laptop lie was concocted precisely so that Joe Biden could cite it at his first debate with Trump.

The argument is that he didn't really lie to the public about the Hunter Biden laptop -- see, he didn't say it was Russian Disinformation, merely that it had "all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation."

Totally different!

Except, of course, it was known throughout the government that the laptop was 100% genuine. The FBI had confirmed this.

And then these traitors ran a disinformation propaganda operation against the people of the United States, telling their media allies to remove the hedge-words and caveats and just straight-up claim that the laptop was a Russian confabulation.

This is the Deep State Two-Step:

1, draft a propaganda statement which suggests the laptop is Russian Disinformation without explicitly committing to that fact, then

2, leak that statement to a stenographer fake reporter, like Natasha Bertrand, and tell that reporter "Oh absolutely it's a Russian hoax, we just can't say so because that would reveal Sources & Methods, but you can totally report that we're saying it's a hoax, because that's what we're really saying."

And then, when you're caught, go to

3, claiming you never askshually said, explicitly, that it was definitely a Russia Op so you should be allowed to keep your Grifter Security Clearance.

Except that their hand-picked stenographer claimed that's what they said, and the entire media amplified this message, and then never once clarified that they weren't saying it was a Russian op until they were caught.

J Michael Waller
@JMichaelWaller

A good counterintelligence investigator worth his salt would open a case on James Clapper, starting during his Air Force career, and all of those whom he protected and promoted in the military and the intelligence community.

Meanwhile, the Senate called the roll to vote on Hegseth.

Murkowski has already announced that she's a "no," of course. Mark Halperin reports that Collins and, get this, Bitch McConnell.

Remember when we thought that McConnell was mostly conservative, but acted liberal to protect his "majority making" liberal Republican senators? No, he's a liberal himself, just a grungy, wormy Dixiecrat. A lot of southern Democrats just flipped to the GOP because the Democrat Party was becoming increasingly unpopular in the south, while retaining their leftwing orientation.

They Gang of Three might have Thom Tillis on their side. He asked if the FBI background check on Hegseth was sufficient. Actually he asked if the report was as extensive as past FBI background checks. He's hinting that he doesn't think it's thorough enough.

Halperin interprets this as a warning to Trump or Hegseth to withdraw the nomination. Tillis is worried about defying MAGA yet again, and would like Trump to take his problem away.

posted by Ace at 03:40 PM

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