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Jun 6 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
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 ...
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…
Nov 3, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 1) Col. Ben Jonsson, an Air Force officer who accused fellow “white colonels” of being “blind to institutional racism,” is the subject of blistering critiques from subordinates.
@OversightPR shared the internal military assessment with @DailySignal. dailysignal.com/?p=10405792) Col. Jonsson is among the more than 300 military officers awaiting Senate approval for a promotion. @SenTuberville has blocked Democrats—and now some Republicans—from rubber-stamping these promotions in a dispute over the Pentagon’s taxpayer-funded abortion policy.
Aug 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🚨🧵 After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Air Force Col. Ben Jonsson accused his fellow “white colonels” of being the “biggest barriers” to addressing “racial injustice” in the military.
Today, he’s in line for a promotion to brigadier general. dailysign.al/3OBkU73
Col. Jonsson’s 825-word commentary in the @AirForceTimes on July 1, 2020, recounts several examples of what he describes as “white defensiveness” in the aftermath of Floyd’s death.
🚨🧵: A group of House conservatives is promising to oppose and stymie the legislative priorities of any Republican senator who votes in favor of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill. dailysign.al/3jjrzXh
The warning shot, delivered tonight via a letter from @chiproytx and 12 other conservatives, comes amid rising tensions between Republicans in the House and Senate over the Pelosi-Schumer spending bill.
