Five Crucial Facts From The House Intel Report On 2016 Russian Interference.
(1) The House Intelligence Committee report is a credible and carefully drafted paper.
Although the House report was written by the House Intelligence Committee’s Republican staff, its fairness and balance are a credit to its authors and then-Chairman Devin Nunes. The report says on page 1 that committee investigators spent over 2,300 hours reviewing the ICA and its source reports and interviewed 20 intelligence and FBI officers. Its conclusions reflect objectivity and would not be found in a biased, partisan report. For example, the House report concedes at the beginning that the ICA’s finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process and to weaken an inevitable Clinton presidency used proper intelligence tradecraft. However, the House report took issue with the ICA’s distortions of intelligence tradecraft standards to assess that Putin had a clear preference for Trump to win and “aspired to help his chances of victory.” The House Intelligence report also includes strong, nonpartisan recommendations, including a call for political appointees of outgoing administrations to recuse themselves from any involvement in intelligence reports drafted in the future under similar circumstances. I spoke with the two principal authors of the House report after I read it in August 2018. I found them to be professional and knowledgeable. They answered all my questions and provided me with additional information that was not in the report. A CIA official told me earlier this month that one of the authors had been retained by the Agency to prepare the report for release.
(2) The Republican House report is more credible than a similar bipartisan Senate report.
The authors of the House Intelligence Committee report told me they believed their report, written by the committee’s Republican staff, was more credible than a bipartisan report would be because many of the CIA officers they interviewed would not have spoken to a bipartisan investigation team. The reason was that Democratic staff and members of a bipartisan investigation might inform agency management about which agency officers had spoken to committee investigators, potentially leading to retaliation. I agree and believe this is why recent attempts by liberal reporters and Democratic congressmembers to use a similar bipartisan report by the Senate Intelligence Committee issued in April 2020 to discredit the House Intelligence Committee report are not credible.
(3) The ICA omitted intelligence that Putin may have wanted Clinton to win the 2016 election.
Many press reports about the House Intelligence Committee report focused on how weak and fragmentary intelligence was used to support the ICA’s assessment that Russia wanted Trump to win the 2016 election. However, the House report also notes that the ICA ignored two significant alternative hypotheses suggested by the intelligence and Russian behavior: that Putin either did not care who won the 2016 election or wanted Hillary Clinton to win. The House report said some of the omitted intelligence analysis indicated that Putin did not have a preference in the election outcome because both Trump and Clinton would be bad for Russia and unlikely to improve relations. Also notable was the omitted analysis that Putin may have wanted Clinton to win the 2016 election because she would be a more vulnerable president than Trump and Russia had a reserve of compromising materials to use against Clinton but not Trump. Similarly, the House report also noted that the ICA did not address that Moscow viewed Clinton as a weaker candidate due to Russian intelligence reporting on her psychological health. In addition, the House report said the timing and content of Russian operational orders “indicated that Moscow assumed they had unique leverage over Secretary Clinton that would be more useful if she won the election.” On the other hand, the House report said some senior Russian officials worried that a Trump administration would have a hardline national security team hostile to Russia. The report also quoted a redacted Russian source who “cautioned about the risks to Russia of a Republican administration, noting that ‘those who would hold positions in a Trump administration should he win will likely adhere to conservative anti-Russia positions.’”
(4) The House Intelligence Committee report was stuck for years in the “turducken safe” at the CIA for political reasons and due to CIA Director Gina Haspel’s inept and partisan leadership.
Although the House report was completed by the summer of 2018 and considered an important and damning indictment of the Obama administration and U.S. intelligence agencies for politicizing intelligence to promote the Russia collusion hoax, House Republicans and the Trump White House were unable to convince CIA Director Gina Haspel to declassify and clear the report for release to the public. Then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Nunes sent the report to the CIA for clearance in the summer of 2018. The CIA dragged its feet in clearing the report and failed to do so before Nunes lost the committee chairmanship in January 2019, due to the Democrats winning control of the House in the 2018 election. After Congressman Adam Schiff succeeded Nunes as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, the CIA refused to clear the report because Nunes was no longer the chairman and Schiff would not sign off on Nunes’s release request. Because of the confusing politics and competing jurisdictions over the House report, it was kept at the CIA in a safe within a safe, leading the New York Times to call this the “turducken safe”—a gun box-like container controlled by the House Intelligence Committee’s Republican members and located inside a CIA vault. The House Intelligence Committee’s Republican members refused to grant Democratic committee members access to their safe or allow them to review the report. Haspel and NSA Director Paul Nakasone also objected to releasing the report, claiming it would reveal sensitive intelligence. In addition, Haspel and Nakasone reportedly opposed releasing the House report because they asserted it contained unverified information and “cherry-picked” intelligence. Democratic congressmembers also strongly opposed the release of the House Republican report. In opposing the report’s release in late 2020, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff charged that the report sought to whitewash Russia’s election interference in the 2016 presidential election. Regardless of how ardently Haspel and Nakasone held their positions opposing the release of the House report, because the president is ultimately in charge of all U.S. intelligence and classification decisions, their refusal to cooperate with White House orders to release the report was, in my opinion, insubordination to a U.S. president. Moreover, DNI Gabbard’s action this week proved there were no valid national security reasons not to release a declassified version of this report.
(5) President Trump and his senior White House staff regarded the House intelligence report as so crucial that Trump reportedly considered going to the CIA before the 2020 election to retrieve and release the report himself.
According to my sources at the White House and the House Intelligence Committee, the White House believed in the fall of 2020 that it was crucial for the American people to read this House report before the November 2020 presidential election. The White House ordered CIA Director Haspel to release the report before the election. She refused. I received a phone call about this matter in late October 2020 from Lou Dobbs, the host of the Fox Business Network show “Lou Dobbs Tonight” and a close friend of President Trump. I often appeared on Dobbs’ show as a former CIA analyst. He called to consult with me about a possible trip by President Trump to CIA headquarters to retrieve the House Intelligence Committee report so he could release it. I told Dobbs that I feared this would not work because CIA Director Haspel would learn about the president’s visit in advance and hide the inner safe containing the report before he arrived. Dobbs agreed with me and said he would convey this to President Trump. Trump’s alleged visit to the CIA to seize the House report never took place.
I would like to again thank Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for finally releasing the House Intelligence Committee’s critical report on how President Obama, senior Obama officials, and intelligence officials were responsible for issuing a rigged and politicized intelligence assessment just before Donald Trump’s first inauguration to destroy his presidency. This fraudulent intelligence report hounded Trump throughout his first term and contributed to his first sham impeachment in 2019. This perversion of U.S. intelligence also did grave damage to the objectivity and trustworthiness of America’s intelligence agencies, from which they still have not recovered. It is my sincere hope that the declassified House Intelligence Committee report and other documents on the Russia collusion hoax released by DNI Gabbard and CIA Director Ratcliffe will lead to prosecutions of those involved and congressional hearings that ensure accountability and to send a strong message to future administration officials and intelligence officers that if they participate in another scheme to weaponize American intelligence to meddle in U.S. politics or to destroy a presidency, there will be severe consequences.
This is an interesting blog by a Greek guy named Panagiotis Marinis, who often quotes Kevin MacDonald (just type his name into the blog search). It also covers topics like “Culture in the Third Reich” and stuff like that in detail.
https://hercolano2.blogspot.com/2012/04/arnulf-neumaier-treblinka-holocaust.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer
The entries span several years up to 2022, but the author still maintains other blogs in Greek to this day. It was not possible to determine whether the author had any connection to the now-banned Golden Dawn party (four leading members were simply thrown in prison to drive them out of parliament and prevent them from further political activities).
It is also unclear whether this is the same religious scholar in Greek letters, ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΗΣ ΜΑΡΙΝΗΣ, about whom there are lectures in Greek on YouTube. In any case, his blog is also cited as a source in this PDF document, as are Kevin MacDonald’s websites. The author is most likely Jewish.
https://pdfhost.io/v/yWGEhuqtgk_After_Liberalism
AI says about this “work”:
Overview:
Matthew Rose’s book explores the intellectual roots of the radical right by profiling five major thinkers who have been critical of liberal democracy and its core ideals. The book is aimed at readers interested in understanding the rise of illiberal and post-liberal movements, especially in the West.
Main Content:
– Rose argues that liberalism in Western societies is losing its dominance (“the postliberal moment”), both institutionally and culturally. The promise of individual freedom, in his view, has led to social atomization, loss of shared values, and a sense of spiritual emptiness.
– To understand the foundations of current postliberal thought, Rose examines five key radical right intellectuals:
– Oswald Spengler: Interpreted history as the cyclical rise and fall of cultures, with the “Faustian” Western culture characterized by a unique drive toward infinity (Key work: “The Decline of the West”).
– Julius Evola: Italian esotericist and theorist of “Traditionalism,” advocating for a spiritual and hierarchical society, strongly critical of modern egalitarianism.
– Francis Parker Yockey: American theorist calling for an authoritarian, culturally based realignment of the West, with ethnonationalist and antisemitic elements.
– Alain de Benoist: French ideologue of the “New Right,” champion of identitarianism, emphasizing cultural and ethnic distinctions and opposing universalism.
– Samuel Francis: U.S. publicist who diagnosed the decline of traditional elites and the rise of a populist, nationalist resistance by “Middle Americans” against liberal elites.
Key Themes:
– These thinkers share a deep skepticism toward the universalist, egalitarian, and individualist assumptions of liberalism.
– Their work often touches on issues of culture, identity, religion, hierarchy, and inequality, sometimes drawing on biological or elitist rationales.
– A recurrent theme is the critique of Christianity: several of these thinkers argue that Christianity was, paradoxically, a precursor to liberal individualism and egalitarianism, rather than its bulwark.
Structure:
– The book is organized into six chapters: an extensive introduction, one chapter on each thinker, and a final chapter (“The Christian Question”) analyzing Christianity’s role in both right-wing and postliberal ideology.
Aim:
– Rose emphasizes a sober, analytical approach (“sine ira et studio”—without anger or bias), seeking to explain the ideas and appeal of the radical right without endorsing or normalizing them.
Conclusion:
The book offers a concise overview of the most important right-wing radical thinkers since the early 20th century and their criticisms of liberal modernity. It’s particularly valuable for understanding the intellectual setting and motivations behind today’s postliberal movements and actors.
The likeable Marc Dice visits the “American Orania.” The
South African one takes its name from the originally Hes-
sian noble house of Oranien-Nassau, although Oranien
originally comes from the princely house of Orange in
southern France. Later, it became the Dutch royal house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QitQ7UHWyD8
The National Socialists established an early concen-
tration camp for political prisoners in Oranienburg,
north of Berlin. Interestingly, they never referred to
their concentration camps as “KZ”, but rather as “KL”
(Konzentrationslager). The term ‘KZ’ was only coined
after the war “because it was easier to remember”.
Hitler always ensured that various factions competed
for his favor so that they would never unite against him
as a bloc, first the SA and SS (the SA was decapitated),
then the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht. In contempo-
rary historical scholarship, this principle is called “poly-
cracy,” which stands in contrast to supposed autocracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCYp2lcEgOs
I am familiar with Nassau in the Bahamas only be-
cause of the former Compass Point Studios owned
by Sephardic Jew Chris Blackwell, where much of
the prominent music of the 1980s was produced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_Point_Studios
There are more American
Nassaus than German now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau
I strongly guess, the old swear word
“Nassauer” is rather of Yiddish origin.
https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Nassauer