Policy
Presidential Poker
The intelligence community is in full swing, so listen up.
A car drives past the entrance to President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. (Portrait by Joe Raedle/Getty Photos)
For people who play poker with a man named Doc all the time, you learn to consciously watch your fingers when it's your turn to hold the deck.
It’s the same for Americans when the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Intelligence District and the FBI sit at their desk. The sports fair now is: “Will he or won’t he get it?” Will Attorney General Merrick Garland Frequently Indict Donald Trump in on something related to the labeled data held at Mar-a-Lago? Everyone seems to be holding their cards close to their chest, but the deal has been kindly handed over to the DNI, and the game could get too much. The stakes are high; in the pot is the presidency of the United States.
DNI Avril Haines acknowledged that the DNI “will lead an Intelligence Community (IC) review of the potential threat to national security that may ultimately result from the release of relevant documents,” including those seized. She acknowledged that the DNI has already made it a goal not to interfere with the ongoing arrest investigation, to which everyone at the table should be shouting “bull.” In assessing the most likely threat strategy, the DNI can repeat a pair of deuces and call it king. The DNI’s main point here is to interfere with the investigation, much like they did with Hunter’s computer, Russiagate, and the Clinton server before that. The intelligence community is as much a part of our elections now as it has always been in any diversified banana republic. With programs in secret to keep an eye on labeled documents, the DNI will come to conclusions about what would happen to the security of the United States if that document had fallen into the “faulty fingers,” i.e., the fingers of his choosing, which is arguably a worst-case scenario. Without revealing the contents of the paperwork or why those contents are so prevalent, the DNI will be able to see how inappropriate the questions will undoubtedly be and his role as the ultimate audience is to imagine them and vote accordingly. Since it is a worst-case scenario game, the DNI will, without any proof that anyone but Trump has seen the paperwork, undoubtedly proclaim that a pair of kings.
The goal, despite the whole lot, will undoubtedly be to guide the investigation or, more precisely, to influence the public conception of the final result. They are miles to remake the January 2017 intelligence community analysis (another influence—pronounce-what-you-need-to-pronounce) that claimed, without evidence, that Vladimir Putin wanted to position Trump in the Oval Office. Or the 2020 intelligence community letter alleging that Hunter Biden’s computer was once Russian disinformation.
Right now, the DOJ has no clue what to do with a lawsuit. In fact, they have the reality that Trump kept some (no doubt) labeled papers at Mar-a-Lago. Did anyone get hold of them? Was there ever any chance a foreign adversary could get a look? The DOJ needs more than just easy possession (albeit a crime) to pass on to a future president. They wouldn’t keep it. The papers could never keep the lock and key. The Mar-a-Lago surveillance tapes couldn’t record Boris Badenov coming and going; they could get into the intelligence community.
The DNI document will be evaluated even though the entire batch will not be made public. In discussing which sources and programs may be compromised, it may be more classified than the contemporary paperwork. We will never assume about the evaluation. But better than their entire document, from their perspective, is the reality that we will all assume about the leaks, the miniature excerpts intended to get rid of Trump that will inevitably infiltrate the New York Cases and Washington Put up. The intelligence community will present the ammunition in consciously measured quantities; the DOJ needs to influence the unclassified case to the final public that the classified material they will never assume about is a gigantic deal.
Belief in conspiracy? Ask yourself how crime scene photos were ever leaked from the Mar-a-Lago investigation, and compare that to, say, the self-discipline surrounding the Jeffery Epstein case. Imagine a crime scene photograph of children’s underwear scattered on the floor, material that investigators allegedly show masks on Epstein’s desk. That didn’t leak. Consider, the DOJ and Trump have been fighting over this paperwork almost since he left the office. Ask yourself, why was the spectacular raid carried out months before the election?
This is now a well-known song. Consider the role the intelligence community played in the 2020 election to ensure that Hunter Biden’s computer and its contents did not influence Americans? Because the New York Put up busted the myth that an elephant PC from Hunter Biden’s files contained the most likely proof of payment. A playable yet thought-provoking scenario, then-candidate Joe Biden gently ahead of the presidential election, in near real time, more than 50 high-ranking intelligence officials signed a letter duly published by Politico claiming that the emails “bear the classic general hallmarks of a Russian data operation.”
The signatories acknowledged that their national security expertise left them “deeply suspicious that Russian officials played a dominant role in this affair. To be fair, Russia is trying to shape how Americans vote in this election, and we strongly believe that Americans remain vigilant about that.” Minute world — the U.S. intelligence chiefs who signed that infamously misleading letter, including John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden and James Clapper, ran the U.S. intelligence community while Biden was vice president
The letter was already an act of negative brilliance. It threw out the prejudices cultivated since 2016 that the Russians manipulated the American election. Genuinely, many of the signatorieses, James Clapper and John Brennan among them, played key roles in misdirecting the public perception surrounding the DNC server hack and later Russiagate. Among the establishment, the meme like a flash in the pan became “the PC is fake.”
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The key distinction in this case was the establishment’s willingness to actively block data. With the letter as “proof” that the PC was already spreading disinformation, the media accepted the transfer. Twitter blocked The Story of New York Put up after the Put up refused to comply with Twitter's orders to delete its maintenance just reporting. Twitter even banned hyperlinks to the myth in instructional messages. Fb released It would be to not allow dialogue on the matter until a “truth check” that never happened. The establishment media outlets labeled the computer as fake, social media blocked the news, and the public generally fell in line and voted for Joe without a vibrant squat about what he and his son Hunter were so much like. Many still don’t influence.
More present date exposes the idea in larger parts, including the FBI, which is approaching Facebook and Twitter about the myth. Their claims that they did not interfere in the election are completely false, with a blanket as much as a boot. Cherish Russiagate, it was all made up, and the intelligence community worked hand in hand with the Democrat media to prove that Hunter Biden’s computer had the ability to change the results of the 2020 election, and everyone knew it.
intelligence leaks about the whole Mar-a-Lago affair keep coming. Now, despite all this, do you have the leverage to play another hand of poker with these guys? Sure, let fragile Doc here deal with you.
For people who play poker with a man named Doc all the time, you learn to consciously watch your fingers when it's your turn to hold the deck.
It’s the same for Americans when the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Intelligence District and the FBI sit at their desk. The sports fair now is: “Will he or won’t he get it?” Will Attorney General Merrick Garland Frequently Indict Donald Trump in on something related to the labeled data held at Mar-a-Lago? Everyone seems to be holding their cards close to their chest, but the deal has been kindly handed over to the DNI, and the game could get too much. The stakes are high; in the pot is the presidency of the United States.
DNI Avril Haines acknowledged that the DNI “will lead an Intelligence Community (IC) review of the potential threat to national security that may ultimately result from the release of relevant documents,” including those seized. She acknowledged that the DNI has already made it a goal not to interfere with the ongoing arrest investigation, to which everyone at the table should be shouting “bull.” In assessing the most likely threat strategy, the DNI can repeat a pair of deuces and call it king. The DNI’s main point here is to interfere with the investigation, much like they did with Hunter’s computer, Russiagate, and the Clinton server before that. The intelligence community is as much a part of our elections now as it has always been in any diversified banana republic. With programs in secret to keep an eye on labeled documents, the DNI will come to conclusions about what would happen to the security of the United States if that document had fallen into the “faulty fingers,” i.e., the fingers of his choosing, which is arguably a worst-case scenario. Without revealing the contents of the paperwork or why those contents are so prevalent, the DNI will be able to see how inappropriate the questions will undoubtedly be and his role as the ultimate audience is to imagine them and vote accordingly. Since it is a worst-case scenario game, the DNI will, without any proof that anyone but Trump has seen the paperwork, undoubtedly proclaim that a pair of kings.
The goal, despite the whole lot, will undoubtedly be to guide the investigation or, more precisely, to influence the public conception of the final result. They are miles to remake the January 2017 intelligence community analysis (another influence—pronounce-what-you-need-to-pronounce) that claimed, without evidence, that Vladimir Putin wanted to position Trump in the Oval Office. Or the 2020 intelligence community letter alleging that Hunter Biden’s computer was once Russian disinformation.
Right now, the DOJ has no clue what to do with a lawsuit. In fact, they have the reality that Trump kept some (no doubt) labeled papers at Mar-a-Lago. Did anyone get hold of them? Was there ever any chance a foreign adversary could get a look? The DOJ needs more than just easy possession (albeit a crime) to pass on to a future president. They wouldn’t keep it. The papers could never keep the lock and key. The Mar-a-Lago surveillance tapes couldn’t record Boris Badenov coming and going; they could get into the intelligence community.
The DNI document will be evaluated even though the entire batch will not be made public. In discussing which sources and programs may be compromised, it may be more classified than the contemporary paperwork. We will never assume about the evaluation. But better than their entire document, from their perspective, is the reality that we will all assume about the leaks, the miniature excerpts intended to get rid of Trump that will inevitably infiltrate the New York Cases and Washington Put up. The intelligence community will present the ammunition in consciously measured quantities; the DOJ needs to influence the unclassified case to the final public that the classified material they will never assume about is a gigantic deal.
Belief in conspiracy? Ask yourself how crime scene photos were ever leaked from the Mar-a-Lago investigation, and compare that to, say, the self-discipline surrounding the Jeffery Epstein case. Imagine a crime scene photograph of children’s underwear scattered on the floor, material that investigators allegedly show masks on Epstein’s desk. That didn’t leak. Consider, the DOJ and Trump have been fighting over this paperwork almost since he left the office. Ask yourself, why was the spectacular raid carried out months before the election?
This is now a well-known song. Consider the role the intelligence community played in the 2020 election to ensure that Hunter Biden’s computer and its contents did not influence Americans? Because the New York Put up busted the myth that an elephant PC from Hunter Biden’s files contained the most likely proof of payment. A playable yet thought-provoking scenario, then-candidate Joe Biden gently ahead of the presidential election, in near real time, more than 50 high-ranking intelligence officials signed a letter duly published by Politico claiming that the emails “bear the classic general hallmarks of a Russian data operation.”
The signatories acknowledged that their national security expertise left them “deeply suspicious that Russian officials played a dominant role in this affair. To be fair, Russia is trying to shape how Americans vote in this election, and we strongly believe that Americans remain vigilant about that.” Minute world — the U.S. intelligence chiefs who signed that infamously misleading letter, including John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden and James Clapper, ran the U.S. intelligence community while Biden was vice president
The letter was already an act of negative brilliance. It threw out the prejudices cultivated since 2016 that the Russians manipulated the American election. Genuinely, many of the signatorieses, James Clapper and John Brennan among them, played key roles in misdirecting the public perception surrounding the DNC server hack and later Russiagate. Among the establishment, the meme like a flash in the pan became “the PC is fake.”
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The key distinction in this case was the establishment’s willingness to actively block data. With the letter as “proof” that the PC was already spreading disinformation, the media accepted the transfer. Twitter blocked The Story of New York Put up after the Put up refused to comply with Twitter's orders to delete its maintenance just reporting. Twitter even banned hyperlinks to the myth in instructional messages. Fb released It would be to not allow dialogue on the matter until a “truth check” that never happened. The establishment media outlets labeled the computer as fake, social media blocked the news, and the public generally fell in line and voted for Joe without a vibrant squat about what he and his son Hunter were so much like. Many still don’t influence.
More present date exposes the idea in larger parts, including the FBI, which is approaching Facebook and Twitter about the myth. Their claims that they did not interfere in the election are completely false, with a blanket as much as a boot. Cherish Russiagate, it was all made up, and the intelligence community worked hand in hand with the Democrat media to prove that Hunter Biden’s computer had the ability to change the results of the 2020 election, and everyone knew it.
intelligence leaks about the whole Mar-a-Lago affair keep coming. Now, despite all this, do you have the leverage to play another hand of poker with these guys? Sure, let fragile Doc here deal with you.
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The key distinction in this case was the establishment’s willingness to actively block data. With the letter as “proof” that the PC was already spreading disinformation, the media accepted the transfer. Twitter blocked The Story of New York Put up after the Put up refused to comply with Twitter's orders to delete its maintenance just reporting. Twitter even banned hyperlinks to the myth in instructional messages. Fb released It would be to not allow dialogue on the matter until a “truth check” that never happened. The establishment media outlets labeled the computer as fake, social media blocked the news, and the public generally fell in line and voted for Joe without a vibrant squat about what he and his son Hunter were so much like. Many still don’t influence.
More present date exposes the idea in larger parts, including the FBI, which is approaching Facebook and Twitter about the myth. Their claims that they did not interfere in the election are completely false, with a blanket as much as a boot. Cherish Russiagate, it was all made up, and the intelligence community worked hand in hand with the Democrat media to prove that Hunter Biden’s computer had the ability to change the results of the 2020 election, and everyone knew it.
intelligence leaks about the whole Mar-a-Lago affair keep coming. Now, despite all this, do you have the leverage to play another hand of poker with these guys? Sure, let fragile Doc here deal with you.