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Feb 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@phildstewart @DNIGabbard @ErinBanco (Reuters) - A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the previously unreported events.
@phildstewart @DNIGabbard @ErinBanco The sources said the goal was to work with the FBI to investigate claims that Venezuela had hacked voting machines in Puerto Rico, but added the probe did not produce any clear evidence of Venezuelan interference in the U.S. territory's elections.
Mar 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The aluminum tubes were not misinterpreted intelligence.
Chalabi’s “defectors” were not misinterpreted intelligence.
Salman Pak was not misinterpreted intelligence.
The differences between the classified Iraq NIE and the unclassified version that the public was fed were not misinterpreted intelligence.
Hussein Kemel’s admission that they had gotten rid of all the WMD programs was not misinterpreted intelligence.
Mar 10, 2022 • 11 tweets • 1 min read
DNI Haines tells Senate intelligence committee that Russian forces in Ukraine are "operating with reckless disregard for the safety of civilians."
Haines says Ukrainian resistance "deprived Moscow" of a quick victory that would have prevented the US, NATO from providing "meaningful" military aid to Kyiv
