This is the most important story of the day.
A Tulsi aide ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between Venezuela’s government and a gang after intelligence findings undercut the WH justification for deporting migrants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/trump-appointee-venezuela-gang.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
A Tulsi aide ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between Venezuela’s government and a gang after intelligence findings undercut the WH justification for deporting migrants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/trump-appointee-venezuela-gang.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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It’s narrative management with human lives on the line.
And it should terrify everyone.
Migrants = non invasion
Just ask the folks at Chernobyl.
Take to the streets & protest.
POTUS and his Cabinet are the “customers” - they (should) rely on accurate, unbiased intelligence products to make decisions.
They don't get that second part. or want to. it's political spin. all the time.
oh and grifting.
What this administration is doing is kidnapping and human trafficking to a foreign prison.
He wants plausible deniability for telling lies
"I don't know" is his standard buck passing response
It mentions FBI’s “partial dissent” re the intelligence agencies findings, right? Look at all the dates. Guess who was confirmed FBI Director on Feb 21?
Kash Patel
So, yeah, he’s in there mucking up things w/Tulsi & company.
But the users. And man can they misuse and abuse.
Thats one thing (of many) that makes him dangerous to America.
She's not even trying to hide it.
We’ll only accept intel assessments that meet policy objectives. They can’t handle the truth.
We live in the dumbest dictatorship timeline. Unless you’re a lawyer, it is what it is until Nov 2026
They will do everything to make sure there are no mid terms.
This is not hyperbole.
Some of us are already mentally preparing.
https://archive.is/20250517010542/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/trump-appointee-venezuela-gang.html
When everyone in this administration just lies and has no problem ‘adjusting’ data to their benefit, how can we believe anything they say or do?
No reason to pay for that senior analyst anymore, is there.
You know, efficiency and all that. Stop wasting our $$ on your BS.
REPUBLICAN President Donald T...p. Clown 🤡 in-chief.
REPUBLICAN 🤡 Congress
REPUBLICAN 🤡 Supreme Court
It's a REPUBLICAN 🤡 three ring circus 🎪 Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
Nothing I hate more than a sloppy criminal.
Update, add more lies remove old boring bits...
Somehow it's only been Republicans who play this game.
The Drumpf administration
False accusations that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)—chemical, biological, & nuclear—were key to the narrative the Bush used to justify the Iraq War.
4,900 troops & civilian contractors died. Below, the cost Republicans care about, $’s.
Thanks.
“Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”
These people are worse than corrupt.
On a normal timeline.
We have to make sure that they do
My leadership gave me a right bollocking. Intelligence is about facts, not opinions.
Opinions may be factual, but they are not facts.
Drug and sex trafficking and money laundering!
(Spoiler: They didn't actually "know for a fact", they just wanted justification for an otherwise unjustifiable policy choice they had already made.)
Fake it till you make it
One of the few barriers that ensures lawmakers aren’t targeted for political purposes is about to fall
THIS IS what weaponized govt looks like
https://wapo.st/3YS8Kwx
to justify 'yellow cake uranium'
horseshit and then invading Iraq.
I’d be shocked if they told the truth. Which they never will, so we need to stop thinking they are going to get better. It’s not how their brains are wired. Everything is a scheme based on lying, cheating, & stealing. It’s who they are & what they do.
We're screwed as a country.
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I refuse to believe that hate, ignorance, & lies will beat out love, integrity, & truth. I almost lost hope until I discovered ETA existed. There’ve been a few gut punches learning the America I was raised to believe existed only did for a few.
I’m not losing hope. 🤞🏻
We were too nice in 1861. We can’t do that again. This time the pain has to be worse than the pleasure they got with their lawlessness.
If not, the next time will be worse. Guaranteed