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Genomic analysis of an individual (Cuman/Kipchak woman) from the Polovtsian burial mound "Red IV" (Rostov region)
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She clusters with modern Kazakhs
ADMIXTURE analysis results (K=6).
Ancestral components are represented by Anatolian Neolithic farmers (ANF, blue), East Asian represented by modern Han Chinese (Han, red), ancient Siberian represented by modern Nganasans (Nganasan, purple), Eastern European hunter-gatherers (EHG, green), Western European hunter-gatherers (WHG, brown), and modern Mbuti (Mbuti, orange)
Ancestral components are represented by Anatolian Neolithic farmers (ANF, blue), East Asian represented by modern Han Chinese (Han, red), ancient Siberian represented by modern Nganasans (Nganasan, purple), Eastern European hunter-gatherers (EHG, green), Western European hunter-gatherers (WHG, brown), and modern Mbuti (Mbuti, orange)
He died in 2016 at the age of 100, the last surviving Midway dive-bomber pilot.
Seventy-four years earlier he had done something no other American pilot at Midway managed. He scored direct hits on three enemy ships over three days, and all three sank.
He never wanted the credit. The title of his memoir was a plea. Never Call Me a Hero.
This is the story of Dusty Kleiss..🧵1/7
Seventy-four years earlier he had done something no other American pilot at Midway managed. He scored direct hits on three enemy ships over three days, and all three sank.
He never wanted the credit. The title of his memoir was a plea. Never Call Me a Hero.
This is the story of Dusty Kleiss..🧵1/7
🧵 2/7
Norman Jack Kleiss was born in 1916 in Coffeyville, Kansas, and grew up through the Great Depression. Everyone called him Dusty. He worked with tools as a boy, joined the Naval Academy, and graduated in 1938. He earned his wings as a naval aviator and was assigned to Scouting Squadron Six aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
His aircraft was the Douglas SBD Dauntless, a two-man dive bomber. The pilot flew and aimed the aircraft. A gunner sat behind him facing backward, defending the tail.
The way a Dauntless attacked a ship was terrifying. The pilot would roll the aircraft over at high altitude and drop into a near-vertical dive, plunging straight down toward the target through anti-aircraft fire, holding the dive until the last possible second before releasing the bomb and hauling back on the controls to pull out.
By the spring of 1942 the United States had been losing to Japan for six months. Pearl Harbor. The Philippines. Wake Island. The Japanese Navy had not lost a major battle.
That was about to change at a tiny atoll called Midway.
Norman Jack Kleiss was born in 1916 in Coffeyville, Kansas, and grew up through the Great Depression. Everyone called him Dusty. He worked with tools as a boy, joined the Naval Academy, and graduated in 1938. He earned his wings as a naval aviator and was assigned to Scouting Squadron Six aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
His aircraft was the Douglas SBD Dauntless, a two-man dive bomber. The pilot flew and aimed the aircraft. A gunner sat behind him facing backward, defending the tail.
The way a Dauntless attacked a ship was terrifying. The pilot would roll the aircraft over at high altitude and drop into a near-vertical dive, plunging straight down toward the target through anti-aircraft fire, holding the dive until the last possible second before releasing the bomb and hauling back on the controls to pull out.
By the spring of 1942 the United States had been losing to Japan for six months. Pearl Harbor. The Philippines. Wake Island. The Japanese Navy had not lost a major battle.
That was about to change at a tiny atoll called Midway.
🧵 3/7
On the morning of June 4 1942, the Enterprise launched her dive bombers to find the Japanese carrier fleet.
It very nearly went wrong. The aircraft spent hours searching and almost ran out of fuel. Then they found them. Four Japanese aircraft carriers, the same ships that had attacked Pearl Harbor, turning into the wind below them.
Dusty Kleiss rolled his Dauntless over and dove on the carrier Kaga.
He did something most pilots would not. Instead of releasing his bombs at the standard altitude, he held his dive lower, dangerously low, to make absolutely certain he could not miss. He released and pulled out so hard his body was crushed into the seat.
His bombs struck the Kaga. As he leveled off just above the water and looked back, the carrier was a wall of flame a hundred feet high. Kaga was finished. She would sink that day.
Three other Japanese carriers were hit that same morning by American dive bombers. In the space of a few minutes the balance of the entire Pacific war had begun to turn.
But for Kleiss the day was not over, and it was about to bring him terrible news.
On the morning of June 4 1942, the Enterprise launched her dive bombers to find the Japanese carrier fleet.
It very nearly went wrong. The aircraft spent hours searching and almost ran out of fuel. Then they found them. Four Japanese aircraft carriers, the same ships that had attacked Pearl Harbor, turning into the wind below them.
Dusty Kleiss rolled his Dauntless over and dove on the carrier Kaga.
He did something most pilots would not. Instead of releasing his bombs at the standard altitude, he held his dive lower, dangerously low, to make absolutely certain he could not miss. He released and pulled out so hard his body was crushed into the seat.
His bombs struck the Kaga. As he leveled off just above the water and looked back, the carrier was a wall of flame a hundred feet high. Kaga was finished. She would sink that day.
Three other Japanese carriers were hit that same morning by American dive bombers. In the space of a few minutes the balance of the entire Pacific war had begun to turn.
But for Kleiss the day was not over, and it was about to bring him terrible news.
Putin faces a succession crisis in Chechnya that could erupt into a new war inside Russia, draining troops and money he needs for Ukraine — Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy.
The region's ruler Ramzan Kadyrov, 49, is probably terminally ill, and his heir is his 18-year-old son. 1/
The region's ruler Ramzan Kadyrov, 49, is probably terminally ill, and his heir is his 18-year-old son. 1/
Putin built his presidency by crushing Chechen rebels in the late 1990s, then made a deal with Akhmad Kadyrov. Kadyrov suppressed the insurgency and accepted Moscow's rule, and in return ran Chechnya as he pleased.
A bomb killed Akhmad in 2004. Power passed to his son Ramzan. 2/
A bomb killed Akhmad in 2004. Power passed to his son Ramzan. 2/
That autonomy runs on Russian cash. Moscow transfers $3.8 billion to Chechnya every year, about 92 percent of the republic's entire budget.
Kadyrov treats the money as a personal slush fund and spends it on whim, paying for a lavish lifestyle and a private security force. 3/
Kadyrov treats the money as a personal slush fund and spends it on whim, paying for a lavish lifestyle and a private security force. 3/
🚨Earth has a mysterious triple symmetry that may influence its climate
New research finds that a circle running along the 27° east & 153° west meridians divides the globe into 2 halves with equal reflectivity & this may have implications for #SolarGeoengineering schemes.🧵1/10
New research finds that a circle running along the 27° east & 153° west meridians divides the globe into 2 halves with equal reflectivity & this may have implications for #SolarGeoengineering schemes.🧵1/10
2/ This study matters bcz Earth's reflectivity (albedo) controls how much solar energy stays in the climate system.
For decades, researchers knew the NH & SHemispheres reflect similar amounts of sunlight. But nobody had seriously looked for similar patterns across longitude.
For decades, researchers knew the NH & SHemispheres reflect similar amounts of sunlight. But nobody had seriously looked for similar patterns across longitude.
3/ Using 25 years of satellite observations, researchers discovered that the 27°E meridian uniquely splits Earth into eastern & western hemispheres with almost identical reflected sunlight. Not 20°E. Not 40°E. Just one remarkably precise divide.
NASA paid people $19,000 to lie in bed for 70 days straight.
No standing, walking, or even going to the bathroom allowed.
What they found was shocking in regard to what happens when the body stops moving🧵🧵
No standing, walking, or even going to the bathroom allowed.
What they found was shocking in regard to what happens when the body stops moving🧵🧵
This was NASA’s 70-Day Bed Rest Study.
37 healthy adults were placed in strict 6° head-down tilt bed rest to mimic some effects of spaceflight.
Subjects had to remain tilted head-down for 70 days.
They could roll side to side but couldn’t stand, walk, sit upright, or even raise their head normally.
The goal was to study what happens when the human body stops fighting gravity.
Findings published: PMID: 29570535
37 healthy adults were placed in strict 6° head-down tilt bed rest to mimic some effects of spaceflight.
Subjects had to remain tilted head-down for 70 days.
They could roll side to side but couldn’t stand, walk, sit upright, or even raise their head normally.
The goal was to study what happens when the human body stops fighting gravity.
Findings published: PMID: 29570535
NASA monitored them 24/7 and measured almost everything:
- VO₂ peak
- Muscle size
- Muscle strength
- Bone density
- Heart structure
- Plasma volume
- Glucose tolerance
- Insulin sensitivity
- Balance
- Reflexes
- Vision
- Brain MRI
- Immune markers
- Mood
- Cortisol
The results were quite shocking and rapid.
- VO₂ peak
- Muscle size
- Muscle strength
- Bone density
- Heart structure
- Plasma volume
- Glucose tolerance
- Insulin sensitivity
- Balance
- Reflexes
- Vision
- Brain MRI
- Immune markers
- Mood
- Cortisol
The results were quite shocking and rapid.
Afanasievo becomes Chemurchek in around 2500 which already dilutes their ancestry somewhat, this then move southward into dzungaria with stone burial enclosues which also appear at sites like Tianshanbeilu. Tianshanbeilu skulls iirc were mixed East Eurasian-West Eurasian, most of the Y-DNA from it was N1 thoughbeit. Its possible that they still carried the language over from Chemurchek. At around 1000bc Tianshanbeilu and Barkol groups come under influence from cultures like Shanma and adopt Painted Ware, which they spread westward as the Subeshi and Chawuhugoukou groups, this pottery is also found at Loulan/Shanshan.
When the Tocharians moved along the Tianshan there were already iranic populations from the Chust-Haladun culture (proto khotanese?) there that they mixed with, diluting their already very diluted Chemurchek ancestry even further.
When the Tocharians moved along the Tianshan there were already iranic populations from the Chust-Haladun culture (proto khotanese?) there that they mixed with, diluting their already very diluted Chemurchek ancestry even further.
@GildedCoprolite @Hilux_Catalyzer There was also a study a while ago which showed some samples giving genuine Afanasievo ancestry over Andronovo:
@GildedCoprolite @Hilux_Catalyzer Specifically a sample group Chawuhu (the eponymous site of the Chawuhugoukou culture) carries over a quarter Afanasievo Ancestry
A guy sat at his laptop ready to permanently delete his 15-year-old Gmail account.
He was getting 400 spam emails a day. Fake Best Buy receipts. Phishing links from "Netflix." Cryptic extortion threats.
He hovered his mouse over "Delete Account" and sighed: "I just want peace."
His coworker, a former email deliverability engineer, looked over his shoulder.
"Before you nuke 15 years of contacts and data, let me show you something. Your email isn't broken. It's weaponized. There are 22 ways you've been leaving the door wide open. Google won't tell you this because the data collection feeds their entire ad engine. Give me 14 minutes."
Here's what she showed him:
He was getting 400 spam emails a day. Fake Best Buy receipts. Phishing links from "Netflix." Cryptic extortion threats.
He hovered his mouse over "Delete Account" and sighed: "I just want peace."
His coworker, a former email deliverability engineer, looked over his shoulder.
"Before you nuke 15 years of contacts and data, let me show you something. Your email isn't broken. It's weaponized. There are 22 ways you've been leaving the door wide open. Google won't tell you this because the data collection feeds their entire ad engine. Give me 14 minutes."
Here's what she showed him:
1. The Newsletter Graveyard
The Situation: You signed up for a 15% discount code from a trendy mattress company back in 2019. You bought the bed, ignored the emails, and never clicked unsubscribe. What you didn't read in their privacy policy was the clause allowing them to "share data with trusted third-party partners." Fast forward to today, and that single company has legally sold your email to 47 different data brokers, who then sold it to hundreds of affiliate marketers.
The Mechanics: Every dormant newsletter in your inbox is a live wire. As long as you are on their list, your data is being refreshed in their CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software, marking your email as an active, deliverable address.
The Fix: You need to aggressively audit the graveyard. In your Gmail search bar, type "unsubscribe". You will likely find over 200 active subscriptions you forgot existed. Do not just delete the emails, open them and kill the subscriptions at the source. Each one you sever closes a pipeline that is actively feeding your digital identity to data aggregators.
The Situation: You signed up for a 15% discount code from a trendy mattress company back in 2019. You bought the bed, ignored the emails, and never clicked unsubscribe. What you didn't read in their privacy policy was the clause allowing them to "share data with trusted third-party partners." Fast forward to today, and that single company has legally sold your email to 47 different data brokers, who then sold it to hundreds of affiliate marketers.
The Mechanics: Every dormant newsletter in your inbox is a live wire. As long as you are on their list, your data is being refreshed in their CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software, marking your email as an active, deliverable address.
The Fix: You need to aggressively audit the graveyard. In your Gmail search bar, type "unsubscribe". You will likely find over 200 active subscriptions you forgot existed. Do not just delete the emails, open them and kill the subscriptions at the source. Each one you sever closes a pipeline that is actively feeding your digital identity to data aggregators.
2. The Malicious "Unsubscribe" Trap
The Situation: You check your phone and see a poorly formatted email warning you about "Your McAfee Anti-Virus Renewal" or a pitch for "Miracle Keto Gummies." Frustrated, you scroll to the very bottom and click the tiny Unsubscribe link, hoping to finally make it stop. You just made a fatal, irreversible error.
The Mechanics: True spammers and phishing syndicates don't actually honor opt-out requests. Instead, that "unsubscribe" link is a trap wired with a unique tracking token. The moment you click it, a ping is sent back to their server with a clear message: "A real, breathing human lives at this address, and they actively read their spam." Your email address just got upgraded to a "Premium Verified" list, and its value on the dark web just tripled.
The Fix: Never, ever hit unsubscribe on an email you didn't explicitly and intentionally sign up for. Instead, highlight the email and click the Report Spam button (the stop sign icon with an exclamation mark). This action trains Google's machine-learning algorithm to recognize the sender's IP address and domain, eventually penalizing them and protecting millions of other users.
The Situation: You check your phone and see a poorly formatted email warning you about "Your McAfee Anti-Virus Renewal" or a pitch for "Miracle Keto Gummies." Frustrated, you scroll to the very bottom and click the tiny Unsubscribe link, hoping to finally make it stop. You just made a fatal, irreversible error.
The Mechanics: True spammers and phishing syndicates don't actually honor opt-out requests. Instead, that "unsubscribe" link is a trap wired with a unique tracking token. The moment you click it, a ping is sent back to their server with a clear message: "A real, breathing human lives at this address, and they actively read their spam." Your email address just got upgraded to a "Premium Verified" list, and its value on the dark web just tripled.
The Fix: Never, ever hit unsubscribe on an email you didn't explicitly and intentionally sign up for. Instead, highlight the email and click the Report Spam button (the stop sign icon with an exclamation mark). This action trains Google's machine-learning algorithm to recognize the sender's IP address and domain, eventually penalizing them and protecting millions of other users.
JOB INTERVIEW:
"Tell me about yourself."
Most candidates say:
"Sure! So, I graduated in 2018 with a degree in X, then I worked at Company A as an analyst, then I moved to Company B where I managed a team, and now I'm looking for a new challenge..."
THE WINNING ANSWER:
"Tell me about yourself."
Most candidates say:
"Sure! So, I graduated in 2018 with a degree in X, then I worked at Company A as an analyst, then I moved to Company B where I managed a team, and now I'm looking for a new challenge..."
THE WINNING ANSWER:
1. The "Chronological Recitation" Trap
The Situation:
You start with your graduation year. You painstakingly walk them through every job title in sequential order, treating the interview like a verbal reading of your LinkedIn profile. You operate under the false assumption that they want your complete employment history narrated back to them in chronological order.
The Psychology:
Realize that the interviewer already read your resume before you walked into the room, or they are skimming it right now. They are not asking for a timeline. They are testing your executive presence. They are testing whether you understand narrative hierarchy, strategic positioning, and how to instantly communicate business value. When you give a timeline, you force them to sift through years of data to figure out why you matter.
The Real-World Application:
Instead of saying, "First I was a Business Analyst, then I became a Senior Engineering Manager, and then I started doing AI content," you flip the script. You say, "I specialize in bridging the gap between highly technical engineering teams and brand automation, ensuring that complex AI products are actually adopted by the market." You bypass the boring setup and hand them a targeted value statement they can immediately evaluate.
The Corporate Translation: "I understand that you are busy. I will not make you dig for my value. Here is exactly what I solve for you."
Punchline: Stop narrating. Start positioning.
The Situation:
You start with your graduation year. You painstakingly walk them through every job title in sequential order, treating the interview like a verbal reading of your LinkedIn profile. You operate under the false assumption that they want your complete employment history narrated back to them in chronological order.
The Psychology:
Realize that the interviewer already read your resume before you walked into the room, or they are skimming it right now. They are not asking for a timeline. They are testing your executive presence. They are testing whether you understand narrative hierarchy, strategic positioning, and how to instantly communicate business value. When you give a timeline, you force them to sift through years of data to figure out why you matter.
The Real-World Application:
Instead of saying, "First I was a Business Analyst, then I became a Senior Engineering Manager, and then I started doing AI content," you flip the script. You say, "I specialize in bridging the gap between highly technical engineering teams and brand automation, ensuring that complex AI products are actually adopted by the market." You bypass the boring setup and hand them a targeted value statement they can immediately evaluate.
The Corporate Translation: "I understand that you are busy. I will not make you dig for my value. Here is exactly what I solve for you."
Punchline: Stop narrating. Start positioning.
2. The "Present-Past-Future" Formula
The Situation:
You wing the structure entirely. You jump frantically from your current job to your college days, bounce back to a random side project from three years ago, and eventually trail off into silence when you realize you've lost the room.
The Psychology:
The human brain craves narrative structure. Without it, the interviewer's attention drifts. The PPF (Present-Past-Future) framework anchors their attention. Present: Your current high-level role and the massive impact you are driving today. Past: The one or two specific career milestones that validate your expertise and prove you didn't just get lucky. Future: Why this exact open role at this exact company is the undeniable, logical next step for your career.
The Real-World Application:
"Right now, I run an agency focused on brand automation for AI technology companies. Before this, my foundation was built as a Senior Engineering Manager, where I learned how to structure complex SDLC workflows. Now, I'm looking to bring that intersection of technical engineering and high-scale marketing to your team..."
The Corporate Translation: "I am an incredibly organized thinker who knows exactly where I am, the strategic path I took to get here, and exactly where I am going next."
Punchline: Give them a map, not a maze.
The Situation:
You wing the structure entirely. You jump frantically from your current job to your college days, bounce back to a random side project from three years ago, and eventually trail off into silence when you realize you've lost the room.
The Psychology:
The human brain craves narrative structure. Without it, the interviewer's attention drifts. The PPF (Present-Past-Future) framework anchors their attention. Present: Your current high-level role and the massive impact you are driving today. Past: The one or two specific career milestones that validate your expertise and prove you didn't just get lucky. Future: Why this exact open role at this exact company is the undeniable, logical next step for your career.
The Real-World Application:
"Right now, I run an agency focused on brand automation for AI technology companies. Before this, my foundation was built as a Senior Engineering Manager, where I learned how to structure complex SDLC workflows. Now, I'm looking to bring that intersection of technical engineering and high-scale marketing to your team..."
The Corporate Translation: "I am an incredibly organized thinker who knows exactly where I am, the strategic path I took to get here, and exactly where I am going next."
Punchline: Give them a map, not a maze.
“A book published last month in the Netherlands reminds us how vast is the difference between the West’s conceptions of interest and Mr. Putin’s…
The authors… think Western observers have missed a major component of the Russian dictator’s worldview.” 1/15
The authors… think Western observers have missed a major component of the Russian dictator’s worldview.” 1/15
“The essential thing to understand about Mr. Putin, she begins, is that he isn’t a Marxist or a communist or even a defender of Leninism or Stalinism. He has often made vaguely disparaging remarks about Bolshevism and Soviet command economics.” 2/15
“Plainly, however, Mr. Putin hasn’t abandoned the Soviet-era Kremlin’s expansionist aims. Over the past quarter-century.. de Graaf & Drost argue in their book, he has developed a view of himself as the latest, and perhaps greatest, in a centuries-long line of Russian autocrats.”
Big pharma buried the world's cheapest medicine.
In 1924, doctors used baking soda to fight infections.
Today's research proves it fights cancer.
Here are 7 ways to use it:
(Must Read 🧵)
In 1924, doctors used baking soda to fight infections.
Today's research proves it fights cancer.
Here are 7 ways to use it:
(Must Read 🧵)
Use #1: Alkalize your body to fight cancer cells
Cancer thrives in acidic environments.
Baking soda creates an alkaline environment.
How to use:
1/2 teaspoon baking soda in 8oz water
Drink on empty stomach (morning or between meals)
2-3 times per week maximum
Cancer thrives in acidic environments.
Baking soda creates an alkaline environment.
How to use:
1/2 teaspoon baking soda in 8oz water
Drink on empty stomach (morning or between meals)
2-3 times per week maximum
The science: A 2009 study showed baking
soda increased the pH of tumors and reduced metastasis in mice. Big Pharma can't patent this. That's why you've never heard about it.
soda increased the pH of tumors and reduced metastasis in mice. Big Pharma can't patent this. That's why you've never heard about it.
A Stanford neuroscientist warns chronically high cortisol corrodes your memory neurons, lights up your brain's fear center, and locks your body in threat mode.
If I wanted to lower it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:
1. 10 min morning sunlight in my eyes before 9am
If I wanted to lower it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:
1. 10 min morning sunlight in my eyes before 9am
2. I'd close ONE everyday open loop.
Every unresolved decision keeps cortisol firing in the background. Your brain runs the unclosed tab whether you notice it or not.
Pick one. Finish it. Watch your body exhale.
Every unresolved decision keeps cortisol firing in the background. Your brain runs the unclosed tab whether you notice it or not.
Pick one. Finish it. Watch your body exhale.
3. I'd strip ONE "should" from my day.
"Should" is the curse word in your nervous system. The second it's "I have to / I should / I need to," you've handed away agency — and your body reads that loss as threat.
"Should" is the curse word in your nervous system. The second it's "I have to / I should / I need to," you've handed away agency — and your body reads that loss as threat.
Listening to my fellow CNN panelists last night, I felt like it was 2017 all over again. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!
First, they denied the intelligence community was part of The Swamp. Then, they accused me of lying about Barack Obama’s central role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. And finally, they lectured me for suggesting there was anything nefarious about the whole ordeal.
Fortunately, we have plenty of receipts thanks to the Dao Prize-winning journalism of @FDRLST.
Let’s begin ...
First, they denied the intelligence community was part of The Swamp. Then, they accused me of lying about Barack Obama’s central role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. And finally, they lectured me for suggesting there was anything nefarious about the whole ordeal.
Fortunately, we have plenty of receipts thanks to the Dao Prize-winning journalism of @FDRLST.
Let’s begin ...
We now know the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) was flawed, politicized, and rushed.
From @MZHemingway:
Top officials working on an intelligence community analysis about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election were overruled by CIA Director John Brennan, according to records exclusively reviewed by The Federalist. The records are related to ongoing criminal investigations into Brennan and other top intelligence officials for their roles in launching the Russia collusion hoax.
The dispute was over the “key judgment” in a January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that Russia had interfered in the election specifically because Putin and the Russian government “aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances.”
The senior intelligence officials pointed out the lack of evidence to substantiate the claim. “We have no intelligence to directly support this ‘aspiration’ point,” said one member of the small group of individuals working with Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on the assessment of Russian activity in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
thefederalist.com/2025/07/22/top…
From @MZHemingway:
Top officials working on an intelligence community analysis about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election were overruled by CIA Director John Brennan, according to records exclusively reviewed by The Federalist. The records are related to ongoing criminal investigations into Brennan and other top intelligence officials for their roles in launching the Russia collusion hoax.
The dispute was over the “key judgment” in a January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that Russia had interfered in the election specifically because Putin and the Russian government “aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances.”
The senior intelligence officials pointed out the lack of evidence to substantiate the claim. “We have no intelligence to directly support this ‘aspiration’ point,” said one member of the small group of individuals working with Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on the assessment of Russian activity in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
thefederalist.com/2025/07/22/top…
Then-CIA Director John Brennan overruled objections to include the Steele Dossier in that 2017 ICA.
From @briannalyman2:
Newly released documents show former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan included the now-debunked Steele dossier in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) despite warnings from intelligence experts that the dossier was flawed. The dossier was later used as the basis to launch the Russia collusion hoax.
thefederalist.com/2025/07/23/bre…
From @briannalyman2:
Newly released documents show former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan included the now-debunked Steele dossier in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) despite warnings from intelligence experts that the dossier was flawed. The dossier was later used as the basis to launch the Russia collusion hoax.
thefederalist.com/2025/07/23/bre…
