February 10, 2025 | Sundance

Nominee for the position of the Director of the Office of National Intelligence (ODNI), Tulsi Gabbard, has passed the Senate cloture vote (52-46) ending debate on her confirmation.  McConnell and Murkowski voted “yea.”  The full senate is likely to take the final confirmation vote on Wednesday, and the traditional outcome should follow the same result as the vote to affirm cloture.

WASHINGTON DC – […] Having secured the support of 52 Senate Republicans, Gabbard, one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees, is on track to be confirmed as the nation’s top intelligence official in the coming days. Forty six Democrats in the chamber voted against Gabbard. Two senators were absent from the vote. (read more)

By the end of this week things could start to get very interesting on the Intelligence Community (IC) front.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is the newest office in the IC system. It was created as an outcome of the Patriot Act and the office represents the pivot point of all IC information flows.

The CIA information is supposed to enter the DNI silo from outside the USA, and the FBI information enters the DNI silo from inside the USA.  The combined information is then assembled and becomes part of the National Security Information (NSI) that is available to the Dept of Homeland Security.

As we have outlined, the Obama/Holder administration weaponized these information streams and the silos that control the outcomes.  The DNI became an information laundry permitting the CIA (John Brennan) to conduct domestic political operations, while the FBI partnered with their “sister agency” (CIA) and ran political targeting operations against Obama’s opposition.

Attorney General Eric Holder then created the Dept of Justice National Security Division (DOJ-NSD), filled it with legal ideologues (Weissmann, McCord, Eisen et al), and that sub-silo of the DOJ then proceeded to take the weaponized CIA/FBI information and target Americans (and some foreign adversaries).

Political attack narratives were created from within the DOJ-NSD using false pretenses like the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) and the domestic surveillance of political targets proceeded through the use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act/Court (FISA/FISC).  Meanwhile the FBI counterintelligence division ran cover operations for Hillary Clinton and other aligned political entities.

To ensure DOJ-NSD targeting operations were without review, the DOJ Inspector General was barred from having any oversight within the DOJ-NSD, under the justification of “national security.”  From inception (’09) the DOJ-NSD was without any oversight, until President Trump changed the rules in 2017.

All of the Trump targeting operations originated from within the DOJ-NSD, including the surveillance of candidate Donald Trump through the use of the Title-1 surveillance warrant gained against CIA asset Carter Page.  Nat Sec Advisor Michael Flynn was targeted using the pretense of FARA.

Throughout the Obama terms, the DNI (James Clapper) was presumably willfully blind to the activity.  Clapper was a useful doofus, so it was not difficult.  This is the background for the current status of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

Just as we now see receipts for the USAID silo as the front for CIA activity, so too was/is the ODNI the front for domestic intelligence operations by the same CIA operators.  The CIA is behind it all.

For many years the CIA had to be careful about domestic activity, always working to cloak their internal operations. However, once the ODNI office was created, they now had a legally authorized door that permitted them to expand their operations without fear of scrutiny, under the justification of “national security.”

Here is where I posit a note to moderate expectations of sunlight from the IC silos of the DNI (Gabbard) and CIA (Ratcliffe).

♦ Be really cautious about expecting any sunlight, review or inquiry to penetrate the CIA silo.

I’ve studied the construct of these IC silos for years, and I have yet to find a process (only one way) that gets any information from within the CIA dark place extracted against their will.

The CIA silo was constructed to be an information filter. Information goes in, but only one method (Presidential Daily Brief) exists for information to come out.   The President authorizes directed activity within the CIA through the use of “finding memoranda,” but the CIA operates all other activity without oversight.

The CIA gets instructions via presidential finding memos, which they act upon and keep in locked files, but the CIA never discloses any information unwillingly.  The CIA is a complete dark hole, with an entrance but no exit.

It is a very unique silo. No oversight (by design), no accountability (by design), no method of financial accounting (by design), and only one physical person (no delegation of authority) with power to engage over the entire agency.

It’s very complicated.

When you understand this dynamic, I mean really understand this dynamic, then you might understand why I suspect that Sheldon Snook’s wife, Mary McCord, is a career CIA operative. This likely reality also explains why Chief Justice John Roberts was in a dilemma with the Dobbs decision leak and subsequent investigative discovery by U.S. Marshals.  The result of that investigation, Roberts’ declaration, makes sense if this connection to the CIA is accurate.

Final note.  I am of the opinion that George H.W. Bush was the organizer of the current (modern era) CIA operational rules, processes, business model and activities.  All of the research into a host of political events, seems to circle back to GHW Bush in some manner or method.  The placement of Bush as VP to Ronald Reagan is akin to the placement of Pence as the VP to Donald Trump T-1.

The fingerprints of covert CIA activity, what I would call political tradecraft, are all over the prior term of President Trump (see graphic below). There’s zero doubt -at least in my mind- the impeachment effort was a domestic CIA operation.

I suspect, again just my speculation, that in T-2 the Office of the President is exploring the CIA silo with the well-publicized request for JFK/MLK files to be released.  I don’t think the “full” files will ever be released; however, I am cautiously optimistic the people around Trump are not really using this approach to get the files. I am hopeful they are testing the CIA membrane to gauge the opacity.