Snapshot · The MeidasTouch Podcast
In his 2021 dissent to the foreign interference assessment, Ratcliffe's only complaint was that China's disinformation effort was larger than the main assessment indicated — he said nothing about votes being switched.
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The MSNBC panel segment adds a layer of documentary accountability to the episode. Panelist Rhode, citing senior intelligence officials, reported that everything Trump is now portraying as a cover-up actually occurred under John Ratcliffe's watch as DNI [1] — Rhode "In his own 2021 dissent to the foreign interference assessment, John Ratcliffe only argued that China's disinformation effort was larger th…" 12:31 . More damaging: Rhode read directly from Ratcliffe's own 2021 dissent to the foreign influence operations assessment, revealing that Ratcliffe's sole complaint was that China's disinformation effort — bots, influence networks — was larger than the main assessment indicated. There is, Rhode emphasized repeatedly, nothing in that dissent about votes being switched by China in any state. Nothing. The implication is clear: the man Trump is asking to validate his stolen-election narrative is the same man who, on the record, declined to do so. Rhode also flagged that $200 million in US voter records were obtained by China during Ratcliffe's DNI tenure, adding a further dimension to the accountability question.
An MSNBC panelist noted that during Trump's first term, under Ratcliffe's oversight as DNI, China obtained $200 million worth of voter records.
Declassified documents confirmed Russia spread false claims about Biden and Hunter Biden via Burisma and planned a corruption scandal during the 2020 election.
Documents released in Trump's own declassification batch confirm that Russia spread false claims about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden through Burisma, planned a high-profile corruption scandal timed to the 2020 election, and advanced those narratives with US officials and people close to Trump himself. The receipts came from Trump's own document dump.
A total of 8 states have filed lawsuits against social media platforms, including an ongoing case in Tennessee, using product liability and public nuisance theories to seek accountability.
France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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