Cross Silo Information Sharing Has Begun Within the “Russiagate” Accountability Process

Conservative Treehouse 

Washington DC uses a system of decades-long constructed silos to control and ultimately hide information adverse to the interests of the DC system itself.  Put another way, people within our government have constructed layers of systems to hide the corruption that takes place.

This silo system is challenging to understand; but thankfully many more people have started to comprehend how it works. The constitutional separation of power mechanisms has been weaponized by the corrupt actors, as we outlined in the example yesterday of Adam Schiff hiding the transcript of ICIG Michael Atkinson.

All of us have been frustrated to hear politicians in the legislative branch talk about “sending criminal referrals” to the Dept of Justice, and yet nothing happens.  Part of this is created by ‘stakeholder equities’, specific ownership of the underlying documents that do not accompany the referral (locked in a non-compliant silo).  The intelligence community is notorious for classifying and hiding the evidence of wrongdoing.

Without the direct and specific evidence, and without an aligned intent from the receiver, the referral itself is more of a legislative fundraising narrative than an actionable event.  A pitch without a catcher, and sometimes even without a ball.

You are not alone in your frustration.  However, you might remember CTH providing a very specific outline of how a key position within government could be used to change things.  {GO DEEP} The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, shutting down the IC from hiding evidence is key.  An honest and truthful arbiter of intelligence is a paradigm shift in the DC system; it is also a threat.

With Executive Branch DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassifying purposefully hidden intelligence equities, in combination with the Legislative Branch providing source material from their own silo equities, what you get is an unimpeded flow of information to the Dept of Justice.

Two pipes of information, legislatively authorized and intelligence declassified, joining together in a single stream of actionable evidence flowing unimpeded to the DOJ.  This is the worst-case scenario for corrupt DC entities who hide within the silo system.  From my perspective, this information flow is now in place.

A review of historic ‘Spygate and Russiagate’ activity is taking place in Florida with a grand jury led by U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones. We are now seeing reports of information flows in both directions from DC to Florida, and from Florida to DC.

Requests from Quinones, intermediate transfers at DOJ, prompt responses from legislative silos and returns after review -if needed- from DNI.

This is a very positive indication toward some form of accountability. However, there is also an institutional muscle memory that is annoying. It would be better if politicians dropped their historic fundraising approach when discussing evidence of corrupt activity. It would be better overall if they just kept their mouth shut.

On the topic of prior targeting of Donald Trump, when you hear the term “sent to the DOJ” you can reasonably be certain that means sent to Florida and USAO Jason Quinones.

Old habits are hard to break, cue the video:

There is a very small reliable group of lawyers within the Dept of Justice, when considering the scale and scope of the challenges and cases they are assigned.

Obama and Biden had 12 years of importing ideological lawyers into Main Justice and the various U.S. Attorney Offices.  None of their lawyers are reliable.

The blue state fraud investigations were obviously starting to bog down the limited resources of the DOJ.  Division of labor introduces Vice-President JD Vance to act as a subject-matter-specific Attorney General and USAO Colin Macdonald on fraud enforcement/prosecution.

Treasury Dept financial crimes lawyers are tracing money, domestic and foreign, while supporting both Main Justice and the Fraud Task Force.

This keeps AG Pam Bondi and DAG Todd Blanche focused on defending Trump policy, deportation and immigration removal efforts, election integrity issues and matters of national security (criminal gang elements).

Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones remains unaffected and on task in Florida.

The silo system is made up, in part, of: The National Security Council (10+ desks, 15 staff/analysts per), the National Security Advisor to the Office of the President, the Dept of Justice National Security Division [DOJ-NSD (foreign review section, counterintelligence export control section, cyber section, counterterrorism section)], Central Intelligence Agency [(CIA), National Intelligence Council, Directorate of Analysis], Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI (Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, WMD Directorate, Directorate of Intelligence, Cyber)], the Office of the Director of National Intelligence [ODNI (Requirements, Analysis, Collection, National Counterterrorism Center, Mission Managers)], the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Dept of Defense [DoD, (Nuclear, Chemical, Biological, Industrial, International)], the National Security Agency [NSA (Operations, Technology, Cyber], and many more.

Each agency/office a silo, with distinct sub-silos; each with equity stakes in the information they gather, review and analyze; ultimately attributing classification level and intersecting analysis with each other agency as mission aligned.

Sound ridiculous?  It probably is, yet we’ve merely scratched the surface of the IC networks and information flows that swirl around the Office of the President.

Now do you see why DNI Tulsi Gabbard is important?

Literally hundreds of embeds -across multiple silos- have been removed from the aggregate apparatus.  The National Security Council has been taken apart, staff removed, desks shuttered.  The National Intelligence Council was removed from the CIA with personnel fired.  The Directorate of Analysis is now openly confronted.  The ICIG is once again a watchdog.

These actions create optimism that substantive change is possible. Simultaneously, with the corrupt behavior removed from the system, these actions lay the groundwork for honest and deliberate cross-silo information sharing.  However, much more work lies ahead.

Whoa: NSA Intercepts Show Ukraine Officials Discussing Laundering US Tax Dollars to Biden’s Campaign

RedState 

American intelligence agencies reportedly intercepted some jaw-dropping Ukrainian government communications in late 2022 that show officials openly discussing using supposed clean-energy infrastructure projects as cover to divert hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars.

Divert them where, you may ask?

The plan, according to a report summarizing the intercepts obtained by Just the News, was to route roughly 90% of that money, funneled through U.S. companies and sketchy subcontractors with hard-to-track contracts, straight to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to bankroll Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign.

Ukrainian officials were reportedly coordinating with unspecified U.S. Government personnel through USAID in Kyiv as part of the brazen scheme.

Holy election meddling, Batman.

Can you imagine if there was something like this chronicling Russian officials discussing plans to divert American taxpayer dollars to the Trump campaign?

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was made aware of the communications and subsequently asked USAID officials to dig deeper to determine whether the plot was actually carried out.

As the declassified summary obtained by Just the News states: “The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign."

The officials were even confident the project would be funded initially, only to be deemed unnecessary later — by which point the money would already be impossible to claw back.

“Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify," the summary continues. "In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from.”

Just the News editor-in-chief John Solomon, during a television appearance last week, was perplexed that nobody in the administration has been discussing the alleged scheme.

"They should be driving that narrative with evidence," he said. "They don't know how to command the podium ... They react. They counterpunch. They let other people throw the first punch ... and they don't tell the narrative."

Given that another week has passed with barely a word from the intel community, administration officials, or even many Republican politicians, Solomon’s concerns appear well-founded. Will that change with this new discovery?

Had roles been reversed as in the aforementioned hypothetical, this story would be running across legacy media outlets on a 24/7 cycle.

Gabbard’s team is now reportedly examining whether criminal referrals should be made to the FBI, after finding scant evidence that the Biden administration ever seriously investigated the communications.

Zelenskyy Says U.S. Will Not Provide Security Guarantees Unless Ukraine Concedes Donbas Region to Russia

Conservative Treehouse 

The more NATO/EU hypocrisy creates friction with President Trump; the less U.S. support exists for Ukraine.  That’s the dynamic Zelenskyy is trying desperately to navigate with his EU allies.

During a lengthy interview with Reuters, Zelenskyy says he has been directly told the only way for Ukraine to get security guarantees from USA participation is if he concedes the contested Donbas region to Russia and ends the conflict.

Assuming what Zelenskyy says is accurate, at this point in the ongoing stalemate, this seems like the pragmatic optimal solution.  Concede Donbas to Russia, and the U.S. will mediate terms that emphasize an American willingness to protect Ukraine from further encroachment.

That said, when Zelenskyy once again starts asking who is going to pay for the needs of his country, the U.S. taxpayer eyeroll commences.

KYIV, March 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. ​is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country’s eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr ‌Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview.

[…] Two vital questions remained unresolved regarding security guarantees, Zelenskiy said: Who would help to fund Ukraine’s weapons ​purchases to sustain its military deterrent, and how exactly would its allies respond in the face of any future Russian aggression?

“The Americans are prepared to finalise these guarantees at a high level once Ukraine is ​ready to withdraw from Donbas,” said the 48-year-old leader, who added that he understood the “subtleties” of the American position although he had not participated directly himself in the trilateral talks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin insists that control of the whole of Donbas is an essential element of his war aims, which Moscow would achieve on the battlefield if it could not do so at the negotiating table.

But the pace of Russia’s advance has been slow over the past two years. Military ​analysts say it could take a long time and a significant amount of manpower to conquer all of Donbas, which includes a so-called Fortress Belt of cities heavily fortified by the Ukrainian military.

[…] Speaking in a gilded meeting room at the presidential offices in central Kyiv, Zelenskiy said Russia was betting Washington would lose interest if the peace talks stalled and would walk away. He acknowledged that there was some risk of this.

A fourth ​round of trilateral talks due this month was ​postponed due to the Iran conflict.

The Ukrainian leader shrugged off past tensions between himself and Trump. “I am not a box of chocolates or a car, ​to be liked or disliked ⁠by one person or another,” he said. “In my opinion, the President of the United States looks at this more pragmatically, and he probably wants the war to end quickly. We also want to do so quickly.”

[…] Following heavy Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities on Wednesday, Zelenskiy thanked the Trump administration for maintaining the supplies of Patriot missile defence systems, despite increased demand for these weapons because of the conflict in the Gulf.

[…] “Deliveries to us were not stopped. I’m very grateful to President Trump, and to his team,” Zelenskiy said. “But this supply of Patriot missiles is not as large as we need.” (read more)

It’s never enough for this guy. Ukraine is a bottomless pit of money and corruption.

As the EU proclaims that Iran is not a NATO member and the middle east conflict is not their issue, President Trump rightly points out that Ukraine is not a NATO member, and the Ukraine conflict is not our issue.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading to a G7 foreign minister summit in France, and paused to answer questions on both Iran and Ukraine from the traveling press pool.

More Is Revealed As Pakistani FM Blows Up that Iranian/Liberal Media Narrative About 'Talks' With US

RedState 

Remember how Iran denied that any discussions were going on with the United States after President Donald Trump revealed they were happening?

Some in the liberal media and among the Democrats immediately lined up, saying they believed Iran, despite Iran's history of lying and terrorism. Oh, and you know, killing Americans. 

But even while the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied talks, he confirmed them, as we reported. 

There are no talks with the U.S., which is sending messages through different mediators. The exchange of messages via mediators does not mean negotiation with the U.S.

Yes, that's exactly what it means. In case it was unclear, the Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar confirmed it. 

There has been unnecessary speculation in the media regarding peace talks to end ongoing conflict in the Middle East. In reality, US-Iran indirect talks are taking place through messages being relayed by Pakistan. In this context, the United States has shared 15 points, being deliberated upon by Iran. 

Brotherly countries of Turkiye and Egypt, among others, are also extending their support to this initiative. 

Pakistan remains fully committed to promoting peace and continues to make every effort to ensure stability in the region and beyond.  

Dialogue and Diplomacy is the only way forward!

Trump confirmed they "are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly, but they're afraid to say it because they will be killed by their own people. They're also afraid they'll be killed by us." But he did mention that the U.S. had been given an "oily gift" of letting a slew of oil tankers through the Strait in the process of the negotiations. That would both be a sign of goodwill and a confirmation that the folks he is talking to are, in fact, the ones in power. 

As to who is involved in the negotiations, one is clearly Araghchi, since the Pakistani minister tags him in his tweet. But the other one's name is allegedly one we reported before, Mohammad Ghalibaf, the Parliament Speaker. 

The Wall Street Journal reported that these two had been temporarily given a reprieve for four or five days from being eliminated because they were involved in the negotiations. Reuters claimed that a Pakistani source told them the Israelis had coordinates on them both, but held off for that reason. You might understand why that might lend to the desire of those Iranian leaders to make a deal, because if they don't, that very temporary reprieve goes away. Israel and the U.S. have shown they are very accurate in leader takedowns.

Trump to Sign Order Ensuring Immediate Pay for TSA Agents Amid Airport Chaos, Shutdown

Townhall 

President Donald Trump will sign an order directing Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin to immediately pay TSA employees, he said in a Truth Social post. 

Trump said that Democrats and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) side with criminal illegal aliens, not Americans. 

Democrats have refused to fund TSA and other parts of the Department of Homeland Security since Feb. 14. Since then, air travelers have faced hour-long lines at many airports nationwide. This week, Trump ordered ICE to help clear congestion at airports after about 400 TSA agents quit. 

“They are refusing to fund Immigration Enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their Open Border Policies, which will never, ever happen again," Trump said in the post. "They almost destroyed our Country, allowing 25 Million People to enter from Prisons, Mental Institutions, and Insane Asylums, those that are Drug Dealers, and thousands of Murderers, many of whom killed more than one person."

Trump thanked TSA agents and ICE for helping at airports. He won't allow the "Radical Left Democrats to hold our Country hostage any longer," he said.

“Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do! Therefore, I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports.”