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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More Pentagon advisors 'placed on administrative leave' amid Dept. Defense leak probe

In a world where loyalty is as rare as finding a Netflix show that doesn't have an LGBTQ situation and where leaks flow like a breached dam, the Pentagon finds itself embroiled in a scandal that would make even the most seasoned cynic raise an eyebrow. 

Two more Defense Department deputy chiefs of staff, Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, have been unceremoniously placed on administrative leave, joining Pete Hegseth’s trusted adviser, Dan Caldwell, who was frog-marched out of the Pentagon after being fingered in a leak. The scene is less John le Carré and more a bureaucratic purge, but the stakes are no less severe.

On Tuesday, Selnick, a retired Air Force officer with a storied career in veterans’ advocacy, was sidelined. His Pentagon bio, with a touch of bureaucratic grandiosity, declares, “Mr. Selnick leverages his extensive government and non-government experience advocating for veterans to position Service members for productive post-separation lives from the first day they put on a uniform.” 

Noble words, now overshadowed by suspicion. 

The very next day, Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, followed him into the administrative abyss. Both men, alongside Caldwell, are now under the microscope for the same unauthorized disclosure—a breach that has the Pentagon’s corridors buzzing with intrigue.

Are these leaks prison-worthy? One can only hope.

Caldwell, we’re told by Reuters, was suspended for “an unauthorized disclosure,” a phrase that sounds clinical but carries the weight of betrayal. The details, as ever, are murky, but Politico whispers of a leak involving Panama Canal plans and a visit from the enigmatic Special Government Employee Elon Musk—whether past or forthcoming remains unclear, a detail lost in the fog of Washington’s rumor mill. 

This is not mere gossip; it’s a fissure in the heart of national security.

DOD Chief of Staff Joe Kasper, in a memo that reeks of grim resolve, wrote, “The use of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be Benton Smith bensmith@protonmail.com (mailto:bensmith@protonmail.com) in accordance with applicable law and policy. This investigation will commence immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense.” 

Polygraphs—lie detectors, for the uninitiated—are now the order of the day, a stark reminder that trust is in short supply. Don't you wish Nancy Pelosi would have to take one regarding J6?

What binds these men, beyond their current disgrace? Selnick and Caldwell both cut their teeth at Concerned Veterans for America, a group once helmed by Hegseth himself. Coincidence? Perhaps. But in Washington, where every move is scrutinized and every alliance suspect, such connections invite speculation. 

Are we witnessing a targeted purge, a settling of scores, or simply the fallout of a careless whisper? The truth, as always, is elusive, but if the suspicions turn out to be correct, it really doesn't matter.

This is not just a story of bureaucratic missteps; it’s a snapshot of a system fraying at the edges, where leaks are weaponized, and loyalty is a liability. 

The Pentagon now resembles a house divided, its guardians ensnared in a web of their own making. And as the investigation tightens its grip, one wonders: who will be left standing when the dust settles?

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SecDef Hegseth's adviser placed on administrative lead amid DoD leak probe

Okay guys, get ready for another episode of D.C.’s favorite soap opera: Leaks and Leave!

Dan Caldwell, a top adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, just got the boot—well, a “placed on leave” boot—pending an investigation into some shady leaks at the Pentagon. [H/T The Daily Wire]

The Daily Wire's Mary Margaret Olohan dropped the bombshell on X:

“NEW: Defense Department official confirms to @realDailyWire that Dan Caldwell, a top advisor to Secretary Pete Hegseth, has been placed on leave related to an investigation into DOD leaks.”

Short, sweet, and dripping with intrigue.

Reuters chimed in, saying Caldwell was frog-marched out of the Pentagon over what some anonymous source called “an unauthorized disclosure.” What got spilled? Nobody’s saying—yet. Hegseth’s keeping his lips sealed, which is more than we can say for whoever’s leaking like a sieve.

This isn’t new for Team Trump. His first term was a leaky faucet of classified info, and the current crew’s had enough. They’re going full Law & Order on leakers. 

Over at Homeland Security, Secretary Kristi Noem’s breaking out the polygraphs like it’s a game show. Her PR gal, Tricia McLaughlin, told Fox News Digital, “Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS is unapologetic about its efforts to root out leakers that undermine national security. We are agnostic about your standing, tenure, political appointment or status as a career civil servant – we will track down leakers and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.” 

Translation: Lie detectors don’t care who you are; they’re coming for you.

Not to be outdone, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s swinging a big stick at the intel community’s loose lips. She fired off this zinger: “Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people and will not be tolerated. 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.” 

Oof. That’s the kind of talk that makes leakers leak through their suits.

So, here we are, folks—Washington’s playing whack-a-mole with leakers, and Caldwell’s the latest to get popped. 

Stay tuned, because this drama’s got more twists than a pretzel factory.

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Trump thinks Bannon is leaking

President Trump allegedly told close associates and possibly close relatives that he believes Steve Bannon is behind the damaging leaks about White House colleagues. This might make him the next person to.go.all.the.way.  .  . out the door.

"Trump has told associates he's fed up with what he sees as self-promotion by Bannon, who did not join the core team this week at the president's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey," a source said who wishes not to be identified because he's leaking this information to us as I write this. 

Bannon has been making himself scarce since retired USMC General John Kelly took over and brought discipline to what was laughingly called "The Oral Office" when Bill Clinton was president.

If it is discovered that Bannon is, indeed, one of the leakers, then he should be fired and indicted if what he has leaked contained sensitive information. If he is not the leaker, then I wish him all the best that life has to offer.


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Obama official made 'hundreds of unmasking requests'

In the final year of Obama's failed presidency, one of his officials made "hundreds of unmasking requests" according to a letter from a top Republican who raised concerns that the requests were made for "improper purposes."

"Unmasking" refers to a formal request to identify Americans in an intelligence document.

Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee Chairman, has questioned whether the unmasking was improperly sought by Obama officials in unmasking the names of the Trump transition team.

The person he seemed to be referring to regarding the hundreds of unmasking requests is Samantha Power. 

"[T]his Committee has learned that one official, whose position has no apparent intelligence-related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama Administration," Nunes wrote to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.

Nunes wrote that only one request "offered a justification that was not boilerplate and articulated why" the identity was needed for official duties.

Three top Obama administration officials were specifically named: Former CIA director John Brennan; former national security adviser Susan "It Was The Video" Rice; and former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power.

David Pressman, Power's lawyer, stressed that her responsibilities in her capacity as a member of the National Security Council but said she will cooperate with Congress.

"Ambassador Power strongly supports any bipartisan effort to address the serious threat to our national security posed by Russia's interference in our electoral process, and is eager to engage with the Senate and House committees on the timeline they have requested," he wrote. "While serving as our Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as a member of the National Security Council responsible for advising the President on the full-range of threats confronting the United States, and long before receiving an invitation to engage the Congressional committees, Ambassador Power was unambiguous about her support of bipartisan efforts to determine the full extent of this threat to our national security."

Which is why she unmasked as many Donald Trump campaign team personnel that she could get away with and not raise eyebrows.

Nunes' letter said he plans to introduce a bill requiring "individual, fact-based justifications" for unmasking requests.

"Cabinet members and other senior political leaders cannot be permitted to continue to seek access to U.S. person information within disseminated intelligence reports without documenting a specific, fact-based requirement for the information," he wrote.

Nunes said that "Obama-era officials sought the identities of Trump transition officials within intelligence reports" without offering any "meaningful explanation" as to why they needed or how they would use the information.

Nunes is concerned the information could be used for nefarious purposes, including leaking. He even noted that some of the requests were "followed by anonymous leaks of those name to the media."

So it walks and quacks like a duck.


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BOMBSHELL: Comey's leaked memos contained classified info

Oh, Comey's going to be in soooo much trouble. 

The former FBI Director James Comey is being accused by the President of illegally leaking classified information to his 'friend' at Columbia University who was then told to leak it to the New York Times, which he did.  

More than half of the Comey memos detailed Russia-related conversations with President Trump.

The Hill reported overnight that Comey wrote a total of seven memos describing his conversations with Trump on the Russia case, and four of the memos had markings indicating they contained classified material at the "secret" or "confidential" level. The information obtained by The Hill was supplied by "officials familiar with the documents."

The memos were recently shown to Congress, according to the report, and the FBI claimed they were all government documents, despite Comey, "the-Boy Scout's"saying they were personal.

President Trump booted up his presidential computer and tweeted: "This is so illegal!" using his signature exclamation point.

If President Trump is correct, then James Comey will be going to prison. . .

Where he will be visited by a unicorn ridden by Kim Jong Un. 

Comey's "illegal" release of classified memos will likely receive the same treatment that Hillary Clinton received for her illegal email server. The claims in The Hill about Comey's memos are reminiscent of Hillary's, and the irony regarding who investigated her actions aren't lost on us.

There seems to be a 'special class' of individuals who can literally get away with murder . . . or, in this case, violation of the Espionage Act.




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Senate report warns of national security fallout from leaks

A Senate report released Thursday warns that the Trump administration is experiencing an "alarming" and "unprecedented" scads of media leaks that pose a real danger to national security.

The Republican-generated report estimates the administration has dealt with about one leak per day. It was sent to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and urges law enforcement officials to press harder in their investigation of these leaks exposing potentially sensitive information.

"To ensure the security of our country's most sensitive information, federal law enforcement officials ought to thoroughly investigate leaks of potentially sensitive information flowing at an alarming rate," the report's executive summary read.

The 24-page report, titled "State Secrets: How an Avalanche of Media Leaks is Harming National Security," was compiled by Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with the committee's majority staff.

The report authors analyzed media leaks that began on Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration to May 25, his 126th day in office. In that time period, the Trump administration faced one leak per day involving potentially destructive information to national security under the standards laid out in an executive order by then-failed-President Barack Obama in 2009.

The leaked information is "potential violations of federal law, punishable by jail time."

The report notes that the leaks flowed "seven times faster" under Trump's administration than the first 126 days of both Obama and George W. Bush's presidency.

"It is also apparent that the arguments often used to justify leaks are at odds with the Trump administration--that leakers are bringing to light potentially illegality, unwise policies, or concerns about the President's temperament--have no legal basis," the report found.

A total of 78 leaks were about the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential collusion with the Trump campaign, revealing intelligence community intercepts, FBI interviews and intelligence, grand jury subpoenas, and "the workings of a secret surveillance court."

Some of the violations may fall under the Espionage Act, which are punishable by up to 10 years in prison--something that Hillary Clinton is apparently immune to.

A letter by Johnson to Sessions with the report said it's the "responsibility of the Justice Department" to decide if the leaks justify criminal prosecution.

Of course they do.



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Obama officials leak like a toddler's broken diaper

Obama mignons are leaking anti-Trump information and in the process are endangering U.S. and allied military and intelligence operations. According to some U.S. officials, this is igniting anger and concern and something needs to be done to put an end to it.

The classified leaks are being given to leftist journalists by former Obama administration officials, some who have left the government and some who are holdovers that Trump needs to deal with. These leakers have damaged a number of ongoing operations such as our efforts to prevent Russian infiltration of the U.S. to Israel's efforts against the Islamic State sources said.

Even the uber liberal Washington Post disclosed classified secrets as part of a larger story about Obama's cyber efforts against Russia. Just days prior to that, a New York Times story revealed details of a secret Israeli cyber operation that President Trump is believed to have leaked to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

There used to be a time when journalists were sensitive about sensitive information--especially information that could compromise the lives of intelligence personnel. Now it seems they'll do whatever it takes to destroy Trump and damn the collateral damage.

The sensitivity of the information being leaked has increased criticism against Obama officials who are believed to be leaking these secrets, and the Trump administration for its apparent inability to plug the leaks.

The anger is so intense that many current U.S. officials are naming some of the former Obama people they think are behind the leaks, which the Trump administration say are aimed at kneecapping his administration and also rewriting the record of the Obama years.

"They [former Obama officials] offer ridiculous explanations about why Obama couldn't act more forcefully, and then they apparently leak even more information about certain U.S. measures they claim have been taken against Russia," on senior U.S. official said. "The publication of this information, if it's true, could do some damage to our national security, but the sources don't seem to mind doing that if it helps advance their political narrative."

This has got to stop for the sake of the country. 




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Is there a Comey jackboot about to drop?

A Comey confidante and longtime buddy, Benjamin Wittes, tweeted on Friday, "tick tick tick." Wittes is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and was hinting that a big story regarding Comey's relationship with President Trump was waiting to be told.

Wittes went after Trump after the president constantly referred to the Russia investigation as a "witch hunt" suggesting that a bombshell was about to explode.

This wasn't the first time Wittes warned of a revelation about to happen. He tweeted the same message on May 16.

Just hours later the New York Times broke the story about Comey's memo which said that Trump asked him if he could "let this go." Comey, you may recall, got a case of "the vapors" and swooned at Trump's words, repeating over and over 'Lordy, Lordy.' 

Rumor has it, the former FBI director literally wet his pants after hearing the words of the President.

On May 18, Wittes once again tweeted "tick tick tick." The Times that same day reported that Comey was uncomfortable with Trump's questions over whether he was personally under investigation. In the article, Wittes was quoted: "He had to throw some brushback pitches to the administration."

Then on Thursday, Comey was seen walking into the New York Times building with his relatively short wife. Fox News called it a "sneaky visit," and came on the heels of Trump admitting that he didn't tape his conversations with Comey.

It turns out the Comeys were there to attend a charity event, as reported by The Hill, but could it be that the charity event was to raise money for the American Communist Party?

Alex Jones might think so.


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Trump rips Comey a new one

Washington -- President Donald Trump accused fired FBI director James Comey of cowardice by leaking notes of his meetings with the president. This comes a few days after Comey's emotion-ladened, down-home, country boy testimony in which he said that Trump sought to derail the Russian probe. 

"I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible," Trump tweeted in the early morning. "Totally illegal? Very 'cowardly!'"

Comey made the allegations at a Senate hearing Thursday, and said in his sworn testimony that he asked a "friend" identified as a Columbia University law professor to leak a memo of his conversations to the press for the purpose of that creating a need for an independent investigation.

Comey got his wish.

He also called President Trump a liar claiming Trump urged him to abandon the investigation into the former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his Russian dealings. Trump denied this allegation.

On Friday, Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski criticized Comey as not being "man enough" for having leaked the memo via his friend rather than doing it himself. 

Lewandowski, you may recall, pushed Michelle Fields, a reporter for Breitbart, to the ground during the Trump campaign. At least he didn't get another man to do it for him.

"He gave his notes to a Columbia law professor because he wasn't man enough to give the notes directly to the media when he wanted them out t o the media," Lewandowski told NBC's "Today Show."

Although Trump attacked Comey as a "leaker," he also claimed Comey's testimony provided him with "total and complete vindication." 

Trump also once said that he "loves"WikiLeaks.

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