Undoing Tulsi Gabbard's Silly Smear

 

Unqualified conspiracy monger and consistently pro-Russian Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently incurred the anger of the mentally disturbed Malignant Fascist when her testimony about Iran's nuclear capabilities undercut his justification for bombing Iran's facilities. She also posted a strange video claiming that we were closer to nuclear war than ever, which didn't further endear her.

Now, to get back into the MF's good graces and create a diversion from the Epstein scandal, the flaky Gabbard has called for an "investigation" of the Obama-era intelligence community's claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Her reckless memo targets former intelligence officials James Clapper, James Comey, and John Brennan for supposedly "weaponizing" intelligence against the MF. Her false charge has already triggered the MF into imagining putting President Obama in jail. 

Cathy Young at "The Bulwark" has an excellent takedown of Gabbard's obvious attempt to please the MF:

"FRIDAY’S MEMO RELEASED BY TULSI GABBARD, the director of national intelligence, claiming that the intelligence community 'manipulated and withheld' key evidence in the 'Russiagate' investigation in 2016—and her even more explosive allegation that high-level Obama administration officials 'weaponized' intelligence to 'lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup' against Donald Trump—was met with predictable joy among the usual suspects: MAGA loyalists as well as those leftists, like Matt Taibbi, whose loathing of the American “national security state” has made them de facto MAGA bedfellows.  Gabbard’s statement, which explicitly threatened the alleged wrongdoers (including former FBI director James Comey, CIA director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper) with prosecution for “treasonous conspiracy,” not only vindicates the Trumpian narrative of the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax” but represents a disturbing escalation in Trump’s vendetta against officials who he feels crossed him during his first administration.

Yet even a cursory look at the actual substance of Gabbard’s dramatic claims shows . . . a nothingburger. There is no actual substance. Instead, there is blatant sleight of hand and manipulation of evidence, debunking a theory of Russian election interference that the Obama administration never endorsed." (our emphasis).

What follows is Young's well-researched take down of Gabbard's "nothingburger" that is a must read. It reiterates Gabbard's utter unfitness to serve as DNI, which has to be nonpartisan to be effective and trusted by our allies' intelligence services, something reportedly she's not enjoying. In addition to degrading the role of the DNI by this partisan attack, Gabbard is also serving the interests of her friends in the Kremlin, who celebrated Gabbard's dishonest claims, as Young reports. 

Every day Gabbard remains as DNI is a threat to our national security and a gift to our adversaries.

(photo: Making America Vulnerable Again. AP)