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14.02.2026 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gabbard’s Claim of “Foreign” Interference in Georgia Election Takes a Hit Unsealed FBI affidavits make no mention of DNI’s claim rationalizing her involvement in Georgia election probe

DNI Gabbard claimed she attended the FBI seizure of Fulton County ballots bec she oversees matters involving "foreign intelligence threats" to U.S. elections. Today, the affidavits supporting the FBI search were unsealed- and there is not a word about foreign meddling. www.spytalk.co/p/gabbards-c...

11.02.2026 00:57 — 👍 875 🔁 303 💬 46 📌 15

Time Machine: When Putin Warned Bush About Dangers of Regime Change Irony abounds in newly unearthed telephone call on eve of US invasion of Iraq that records Putin warning Bush about violating UN charter and “international law.”

Supreme irony alert: On eve of US invasion of Iraq, Putin warned Bush about dangers of "regime change" and violating UN charter. "We should not substitute the rule of force for international law," he told Bush, per newly declassified transcript of 3/18/03 phone call.
www.spytalk.co/p/time-machi...

08.01.2026 01:31 — 👍 45 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

New Clues Emerge on White House Bunker Mystery DOJ lawyers cite “substantial security” issues relating to the destruction of the East Wing

The White House mystery that nobody's talking about. Beneath the East Wing that Trump ordered destroyed was the PEOC, the bomb proof underground bunker to shelter POTUS & other senior officials in case of enemy attack. What's become of it?
www.spytalk.co/p/new-clues-...

21.12.2025 19:28 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Reinventing the Antifa Terror Threat Experts shake their heads at FBI official’s testimony

When asked about FBI testimony calling Antifa the "most immediate violent threat we're facing," a former senior bureau official who worked counter-terrorism was flabbergasted. "Are you f--ing kidding me, that's absurd," the ex-official said. www.spytalk.co/p/reinventin...

12.12.2025 22:13 — 👍 42 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 3

A 2019 US War Game on Venezuela Forecast Chaos After Maduro’s Downfall Drug cartels, anti-US rebels would fill leadership void, Pentagon study predicted

As U.S. officials learned to their dismay in Iraq, "it’s one thing to get rid of a nasty dictator. It’s quite another to plan for what comes next— the proverbial day after."
www.spytalk.co/p/a-2019-us-...

10.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kash Patel Wouldn't Be the First FBI Boss to Go Down By Turning His Official Plane Into a Private Jet Investigative reporter Ron Kessler recounts how another FBI boss's term was short circuited by his personal use of the bureau's executive jet.

Inside the bureau, there is “across the board outrage” over Patel’s use of FBI aircraft for fun and pleasure, said O’Leary. “At the end of the day, it’s theft of government resources. I mean, people have been thrown out of the bureau for this.”

www.spytalk.co/p/kash-patel...

05.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 752 🔁 236 💬 31 📌 7

Today's Washington Post editorial vigorously defending the destruction of the East Wing to build a new ballroom somehow failed to mention this

26.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Stage Fright in the Sit Room A House of Dynamite exposes many weaknesses in US nuclear defenses—including psychological pressures that could cause defense professionals to crack up.

The movies don't get any scarier than this.
www.spytalk.co/p/stage-frig...

20.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Revealed: How the FBI Helped Foul Guantánamo 9/11 Cases New book details how FBI agents fed questions to CIA interrogators from outside black site torture chambers, nullifying later ‘clean’ statements

"The case itself has become a legal fiasco, spanning generations-a real life modern day version of Dickens’ Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Bleak House:Judges come and go, prosecutors and defense lawyers rotate in and out, the families of the 9/11 victims grow old and die." www.spytalk.co/p/revealed-h...

26.09.2025 19:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

Just to be clear, there is a video of Tom Homan taking $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen seeking ICE contracts, per this bombshell report by @carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

20.09.2025 22:09 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Exclusive: An Iran-Contra Romance Oliver North and Fawn Hall are wed in a “secret” ceremony in rural Virginia

Nearly 40 years later, an Iran-contra couple reunites in a "secret" ceremony in Virginia.
www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-...

08.09.2025 12:39 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 11

Case of Saudi Ties to 9/11 Hijackers Gets New Life Court ruling opens door to more discovery in 9/11 family suits against kingdom

With another 9/11 anniversary next week, this was quite the development on the legal front.
www.spytalk.co/p/case-of-sa...

03.09.2025 19:21 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Top House Intel Democrat Sends Gabbard a Warning Rep. Jim Himes gets DNI’s attention with reminder she’ll need his help to renew controversial surveillance bill

"I don't like using 702 as a negotiating tool, but in the minority, it's kind of one of the cards I have to play," @jahimes.bsky.social tells the @spytalker.bsky.social podcast.
www.spytalk.co/p/top-house-...

29.08.2025 18:20 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

A Seat in a Spy Swap Drama Michael Isikoff recalls his small part in a big U.S.-Cuba Cold War drama told in a new podcast series, "I Spy: The U,S,, Cuba and the Secret Deal that Ended the Cold War."

www.spytalk.co/p/a-seat-in-...

10.08.2025 14:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Washington Post Runs Two Corrections on its CIA-JFK Story—And Still Doesn't Get it Right The capital’s paper of record only partially claws back a conspiracy monger’s baseless allegations of CIA "involvement" in the murder of President Kennedy.

"It was an astonishing, even bone-chilling cliam, one that certainly deserved such prominent placement and implicit endorsement by The Post- had it been true. But it was entirely false."
www.spytalk.co/p/the-washin...

24.07.2025 21:20 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tulsi Gabbard, Missing in Action In a SpyTalk interview Gregory Treverton, former chair of the National Intelligence Council, questions why the DNI still has her job–and whether her office should be substantially reduced in size.

"I wonder why she's still there," Gregory Treverton, ex-chair of NIC, says about DNI Tulsi Gabbard. "She's plainly not part of the team & not trusted." Note: Story updated to reflect Senate intel chair Cotton's proposal to slash ODNI, exactly as Treverton suggested. www.spytalk.co/p/tulsi-gabb...

27.06.2025 19:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

William F. Buckley, Jr., CIA Spy A new biography of the National Review founder explores his early role as an undercover CIA operative who later helped his one time agency boss Howard Hunt cover up Watergate

It turns out there was a whole other side to the host of Firing Line.
www.spytalk.co/p/william-f-...

09.06.2025 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Former Trump CIA Director’s ‘Top Secret’ Memo—for Campaign Cash Mike Pompeo’s pitch is just a glaring case of ex-intel officials getting involved in politics

Read all about it: Trump's former CIA Director Mike Pompeo sends me a "top secret" memo, strictly off the record, of course.
www.spytalk.co/p/former-tru...

23.05.2025 21:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Top House Intel Dem predicts Qatari plane gift to Trump is “not gonna fly” Rep. James Himes tells SpyTalk that the cost of de-bugging the 747 alone will be enough to stop the transfer.

Fascinating talk w/ @jahimes.bsky.social on the "flying white elephant" gift from Qatar, the distortions of intel by Gabbard and why her firing of the 2 top intel officials so chilling, reviving the ghost of the Iraqi WMD fiasco. @spytalker.bsky.social www.spytalk.co/p/top-house-...

16.05.2025 21:10 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Gabbard & Trump Lies on Venezuela Gang Exposed by Top Intelligence Report A declassified National Intelligence Council memo shows the DNI falsely linked ties between the Venezuelan government and Tren de Aragua in her Megyn Kelly interview

Last week, DNI Tulsi Gabbard went on the Megyn Kelly show and gave an account what a crucial "top secret" intel memo said about ties been the Maduro regime and Tren de Aragua. Then, the memo was declassified and released.
www.spytalk.co/p/gabbard-an...

08.05.2025 13:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by MSW Media Tulsi & The Deep State "Rot"

Check out my new pod w/
@SpyTalker in which we dissect
DNI Tulsi Gabbard's interview w/megynkelly
and reveal how (11:30 in) she leaks selective details from what she describes as a "top secret classified" intel doc.
youtube.com/watch?v=fJR_...

05.05.2025 17:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On 1/20, Trump took the oath to "preserve, protect & defend" the Constitution. Today, this exchange:
“But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” Welker asked.
“I don’t know,” Trump replied.

04.05.2025 17:45 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

EXCLUSIVE: World Court Weighs New War Crimes Charges Against Putin Over Child Abductions The ICC is reviewing a State Department funded report—based in part on satellite imagery from U.S. intelligence—documenting the mass abduction of Ukrainian children

"The prospect of new war crimes charges against Putin could, to say the least, complicate the peace talks that President Trump, and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, are seeking to bring to fruition."
www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-...

30.04.2025 13:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0