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JD Vance’s Warning to Israel, the Last Desperate Move of Israel-Firsters & Iran’s Growing Strength
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Tom Cotton's Treasonous Intelligence Agenda and the DNI Battle
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Tucker introduces Tom Cotton as the driving force behind mandatory intelligence sharing between the US and Israel — something Tucker flatly calls treason. Cotton is simultaneously pushing to eliminate the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which Tucker and Weichert interpret as an attempt to prevent any future Tulsi Gabbard-type figure from uncovering intelligence community activities conducted on Israel's behalf. Weichert adds that Cotton's ultimate goal may be to install a more compliant figure at the DNI — specifically John Clayton, who was involved in the botched Epstein file release. The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman is also connected to blocking the SAVE Act (voter ID), FISA reform, and other measures that would constrain surveillance of Americans. Tucker expresses concern that Tom Cotton objected to the JFK files being released, which he interprets as protecting a foreign country's involvement.
After 9/11, the only person punished was Richard Clarke, who actually warned it was coming. After the Iraq invasion, the generals resigned on the day Baghdad fell to avoid accountability for the coming insurgency. The Iran war won't be different unless Congress demands real after-action hearings.
A former US Army intelligence officer told Weichert that Mossad was operating in the Sunni Triangle in 2004-05, interfering with American counter-al-Qaeda operations. Weichert suspects this connects to the chain of events that eventually produced ISIS, al-Nusra Front, and the ultimately successful push to topple Assad.
China voluntarily withdrew from global energy markets and relied on its 1.4-billion-barrel SPR the moment the Strait of Hormuz closed. Weichert argues Beijing was running a proof-of-concept for surviving a future US attempt to cut off the Strait of Malacca. America accelerated China's rise instead of constraining it.
Tom Cotton is pushing mandatory intelligence sharing with Israel and trying to eliminate the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — not because it's bad policy, but to prevent another Tulsi Gabbard from ever uncovering what the intelligence community has been doing on Israel's behalf.
