Leaks show 'insiders seem eager' to reveal Gabbard's 'behind-the-scenes abuses'
Source: Raw Story
May 21, 2025 12:48PM ET
New evidence has emerged that suggests president Donald Trump's intelligence agencies have been politicized – and insiders want the public to know. The New York Times obtained emails showing that a top aide to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, directing analysts to revise an assessment to justify the president's apparently inaccurate claim that Venezuela's government controls a criminal gang, and MSNBC's Steve Benen said the episode is illustrative for several reasons.
"To justify his administration’s plans to remove immigrants to a Salvadoran megaprison, the president has spent months insisting that Venezuela’s government controls the Tren de Aragua gang," Benen wrote. "Among the problems with this assertion is the simple fact that U.S. intelligence has come to the opposite conclusion."
The National Intelligence Council concluded months ago that Nicolás Maduro’s regime has not been coordinating the gang's operations in the US., but that didn't sit well with the president, and the New York Times reported that Gabbard's acting chief of staff Joe Kent told a senior analyst to work up a new assessment of the relationship between Venezuela’s government and Tren de Aragua.
"In other words, the National Intelligence Council analyzed the classified intelligence and provided a reality-based assessment," Benen wrote. "Soon after, a Trump appointee, unsatisfied with the available facts, effectively asked the council to do it again."
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/joe-kent-intelligence/
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They will only listen when we threaten their income with no way to tide themselves over through a normal strike or walkout. If we can hold firm and make sure that they cannot man anything beyond immediate family, as well as cut off demand and ability to replenish materials, most will crumble quickly. The rest are not actual holders of wealth as much as they are holders of documentation (and belief) that says they are wealthy. That part of the system will crumble soon after.
The other half is that we also need to create a network that is ready to help those who are desperate as they, in turn, threaten our lives and families with their control of almost every aspect of our existence. (Which, we let them do, especially when the subject is the urban areas.) They will try to starve us out, cut off access, remove power, as well as remove our ability to find healthcare by out-pricing it beyond our incomes. We need to be ready for this. The elderly, the young, and infirm are going to be especially vulnerable. We need to be ready for this. We can be, if we drop the desire for compensation above all else.
If we can get ready for both a general strike as well as having the means to survive their reprisals, they will crumble like a house of cards. They are only where they are because of our belief in their superiority, which mostly comes from them anyway.
That site is both great and alarming. Here is why.
SO many are still enthralled with the system that leeches their very lives out and will not risk losing their position in a crumbling system by being... rebellious...
We are the only ones to save ourselves, do everything you can locally, get together with like-minded people, plan and organize. Don't let fear rule your lives. Never do this 
