DNI Tulsi Gabbard targeting "deep state" intelligence leakers with criminal referrals

Tulsi Gabbard, our new Director of National Intelligence, is swinging a sledgehammer at the deep-state leakers who’ve been treating classified information like it’s gossip at a D.C. cocktail party. In a Wednesday X post that radiated “don’t mess with me” energy, Gabbard dropped a bombshell: she’s recommended charges for a pair of leaks, with a third on deck.

“Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end. Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” she said, sounding like she’s ready to personally drag these traitors to court. She’s not playing—Gabbard’s got her sights on a recent Washington Post leak about Iran and Israel, which she flagged back in March when she first vowed to hunt down these slime-balls.

“Today, I referred two intelligence community LEAKS to the Department of Justice for criminal referral, with a third criminal referral on its way, which includes the recent illegal leak to the Washington Post,” she added, making it clear she’s got receipts and isn’t afraid to use them. 

No names were dropped, and we’re still waiting to see if the DOJ and FBI will grow a spine and actually pursue charges. Don’t hold your breath, though—those agencies aren’t exactly known for speed.

Gabbard’s not mincing words about the culprits: “These deep-state criminals leaked classified information for partisan political purposes to undermine POTUS’ agenda. I look forward to working with [the DOJ] and [the FBI] to investigate, terminate and prosecute these criminals,” she said, practically daring the swamp to keep testing her. 

This is the same Tulsi who traded her Hawaii congressional seat for a combat vet’s grit and a Senate-confirmed DNI gig under Trump, passing with a 52-48 vote in February. She’s got the scars and the resolve to back up her threats. [Remember how the Left said Trump is afraid of strong, intelligent women?]

Flash back to March, when Gabbard first promised to clean house in the sprawling 18-member Intelligence Community—think CIA, NSA, FBI, and military branches. “Our nation’s Intelligence Community must be focused on our national security mission. Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people, and will not be tolerated,” she warned on X, sounding like a Parris Island drill instructor fed up with recruits. 

“Unfortunately, such leaks have become commonplace with no investigation or accountability. That ends now. We know of and are aggressively pursuing recent leakers from within the Intelligence Community and will hold them accountable,” she added.

She even name-checked some of the media’s favorite leaker landing spots: The Washington Post, HuffPost, The Record, and NBC, where some IC weasel spilled U.S.-Russia intel. “Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such,” she capped off, basically etching “you’re toast” on every leaker’s forehead.

This all ties back to a messy episode before The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg—yeah, that jerk—bragged about snooping on a Signal chat where Trump officials were hashing out airstrikes on Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen. He should have alerted the chat that he was mistakenly put there, but he didn't and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz took the fall, blaming his iPhone’s “automated suggestion” feature for the breach. The Trump team swears no classified info was spilled, and the boss is standing by Waltz. 

Still, it’s a bad look, and Gabbard’s clearly done with the excuses and she plans to kick ass.

Bottom line? Gabbard’s on a mission to plug the leaks and restore some semblance of integrity to our intelligence ops. Whether the DOJ and FBI will match her gusto or just shuffle papers remains to be seen. For now, she’s got the deep state sweating—and that’s a beautiful thing. Keep your powder dry, folks.

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98-year-old Kansas woman stands up to deputies raiding her home "Get out of my house!" Dies the next day

Joan Meyer, a 98-year-old co-owner of a Kansas newspaper stood up against deputies who raided her home and office after served with search warrants. She died the next day and I don't believe in coincidences.

You can see her on her home surveillance video shouting at officers to get out the hell out of her living room.

"Don't you touch any of that stuff," she says at the start of the minute-long clip, wearing a robe and slippers and standing behind a walker to prevent her from having a "Joe Biden" event.

"Ma'am," one cop begins, before she cuts him off snapping at him, "This is my house!"

Meyer's son, Marion County Record Publisher Eric Meyer, made the clip public Tuesday after a state official said an online search cited as a reason for the raid was not a crime.

"How many computers do you have in the house, ma'am?" an officer asks at another point in the video.

"I'm not gonna tell you," Joan Meyer replies, pushing past him with her walker. "Get out of my way."

Meyer's son blames his mother's death on the stress she suffered at the hands of the deputies, and he describes the event as "illegal" likening it to "Gestapo tactics," which kind of dilutes what the Nazi bastards did to their foes in the "war to end all wars." 

The raid drew national First Amendment concerns. Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey withdrew the search warrants last Wednesday and ordered the Marion Police to return all seized items. They found zero legal basis for the case against the paper or its staff and the nation has taken a giant step backwards in the area of free speech under the U.S. Constitution. 

It isn't bad enough that the left controls most of the media, with powderpuff reporting on the current administration, that when reporters do not act like puppets, they are investigated.

"It is not a crime in America to be a reporter," Bernie Rhodes, an attorney for the Meyers and their newspaper, told Fox News Digital.

The police raids on Meyer's home and the Record's newsroom came after reporters looked into allegations a local sweets shop owner named Kari Newell allegedly drove a car while her license was suspended due to a prior DUI. The paper had also been investigating allegations about the city's new police chief, Gideon Cody, and a claim that the department turned a blind eye to Newell driving without a license, perhaps due to myriad sweet teeth in the department. 

It's unclear as to whether Newell also sold doughnuts and coffee to police.

The Record, however, hadn't run a story about Newell's DUI case prior to the raid, and reporters were still researching the case and hesitant to trust the initial source due to a potential conflict of interest, according to an editorial published after Ms. Meyer's death.

Cody earlier this month accused the Record and one of its reporters of identity theft and unlawfully accessing a computer, leading to the raids and seizures.

Before she died, Joan Meyer described the police department's behavior as "Hitler tactics," Rhodes said.

Chief Cody has not responded to requests for comment from both Fox News Digital or Brain Flushings.

In a number of court filings used to justify the otherwise bogus warrants, he claimed there was probable cause to believe the paper had stolen Newell's identity and hacked her personal information.

Those affidavits, however, were actually filed three days after the searches they were supposed to justify, according to Rhodes and this is a violation of the First Amendment.

According to Fox News Digital: "[T]he affidavits establish that Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody knew that Phyllis Zorn, a reporter for the Record, had been given a copy of Kari Newell’s driver’s record and that the only thing Zorn did was verify the authenticity of that record by going to the public website of the Kansas Department of Revenue. She did not access the Kansas Criminal Justice Information System. What Zorn did is perfectly legal under both Kansas and U.S. law."

The Marion County Record was founded in 1874 by E.W. Hoch, whose family owned the newspaper for more than a century before Meyer and her husband bought it in 1998.

Our Constitutional rights are slowly being eroded by those on the Left who seek power over the nation. They want to take away our means of self-defense, compel our speech with their ridiculous preferred pronouns, allow teachers to have plenary power and influence over our children, provide taxpayer money to illegal aliens who come here for the free money, and foster an environment where crime run rampant.

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