So it turns out that intelligence community officials were apparently playing editor with the information reaching the President of the United States because they figured they were smarter than him. Nothing screams democracy quite like unelected bureaucrats deciding what the commander in chief gets to read over breakfast.
Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge dropped some bombshells during an appearance on NewsNation's "Katie Pavlich Tonight" last week, as Conservative Brief reported, revealing that a senior member of Tulsi Gabbard's Director's Initiatives Group, affectionately known as the DIG, described a pattern where intelligence officials believed they needed to protect a "globalist perspective" by cherry picking what info got passed along to policymakers, including Trump himself.
The revelations came alongside recently declassified federal documents tied to 2020 intelligence assessments about China's election influence operations. Trump had discussed these records during a primetime address the week before. And boy, the internal communications are something. One email from November 20, 2020, written by a Strategic Intelligence Analyst who specialized in China and North Korea, straight up admitted that officials had "deliberately massaged" a pending President's Daily Brief to scrub any direct connections to the election. Just casually doctoring the PDB like it is a college essay that needs one more revision.
Herridge said these declassified materials lined up with previous whistleblower claims that intelligence about China's supposed multi pronged campaign to undermine Trump's reelection had been suppressed or altered. So the whistleblowers were apparently onto something. Shocking, truly.
A source from Gabbard's investigative team told Herridge that the pattern was clear. Officials in the intelligence community felt they had to "save President Trump from his own instincts" and preserve their precious globalist worldview. Whether that meant downplaying threats from China or slapping the "Russian disinformation" label on the Hunter Biden laptop story, there was apparently an entire layer of bureaucracy making unilateral decisions about what intelligence should actually reach the people in charge.
The DIG, which Gabbard established during her tenure as Director of National Intelligence, investigated a wide range of topics including COVID origins, Crossfire Hurricane, Havana Syndrome, and domestic surveillance practices. Her team also reviewed intelligence assessments produced under the Biden administration and concluded that some featured analytical problems like selectively leaving out information and relying on thin sourcing. You know, the kind of stuff that would get you an F in any research methods class.
Herridge additionally pointed to declassified records involving Nikki Floris, who was a senior FBI official handling counterintelligence work related to foreign influence operations. Those records contained instant messages attributed to Floris describing internal FBI discussions and dynamics.
So to recap, intelligence officials were reportedly filtering presidential briefings through their own ideological preferences while simultaneously expecting everyone to trust the process. Peak government efficiency right there, folks.
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