Tulsi Gabbard burying whistleblower complaints, Sen. Ron Wyden sending a cryptic and very public letter to the CIA director about 'CIA activities' ... not good!
  • CombatWombatEsqOP
    371·
    3 days ago

    For the inevitable commenters who will come into this thread saying “you just now noticed,” this article is concretely about this letter:

    And the headline is ambiguous because no-one knows the contents of the letter.

    • lennybirdEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      This is one of those things that could maybe be nothing (as in this looks bad on the surface but is some trivial thing that happens all the time) or something major… But Heather Cox Richardson (for anyone who doesn’t know is probably one of the most prominent scholars to tune into right now and an absolutely phenomenal historian) just said that this is hugely concerning and fairly unprecedented within context.

  • sidelove
    12·
    3 days ago

    While normally I’m all for calling a spade a spade, this article is borderline impossible to read between the insults thrown out. You don’t have to find and replace ALL instances of “Tulsi Gabbard” with “Russia’s Girlfriend”, as much as I agree it makes it fucking hard to read.

    • CombatWombatEsqOP
      41·
      3 days ago

      You do have to be a bit of a policy wonk (or wonkette) to follow it, I concede, but it is very cathartic.

  • the Howling North@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Meanwhile, new reporting says Tulsi Gabbard spent time last year — also May, same time the whistleblower report came in — sniffing around and seizing voting machines in Puerto Rico to see if she could find ways to accuse Venezuela of RIGGED and STOLLEN there. Shockingly, they didn’t find any Venezuela in the voting machines. This might seem weird, since Puerto Rico doesn’t get a vote for president, but it might be a good place to rifle around and try stuff out — we are just spitballing here — if you’re trying to figure out ways to steal elections for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin without too many people looking over your shoulder.

    • CombatWombatEsqOP
      6·
      3 days ago

      Let’s hope not, but I share your fears.

      Also, I love a mastodon user in the Lemmy comments! Hello from way over here 👋