[JustTheNews] Dr. Barry A. Zulauf, a member of the Senior National Intelligence Service reported that others in the intelligence community said “I don’t want my intelligence going to the White House where it will be used by that vulgarian in the Oval Office to support policies against China with which I personally disagree.”
Analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese influence efforts from President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, with analysts saying they didn’t want their intel used by “that vulgarian in the Oval Office” to pursue policies toward China they personally disagreed with.
The revelation is found within a January 2021 report written by — and never before reported upon comments by — analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf, who conducted a review of the spy community’s handling of Russian versus Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. Among his conclusions was that intelligence analysts downplayed China’s actions because they had disdain for the “vulgarian” Trump and did not want to support the policies and priorities of the Trump administration toward China with which they “personally disagree.”
Just the News reported this week that the U.S. intelligence community has known since early 2020 that Beijing also gained access to American voter registration data and used that information to conduct opinion analysis related to the presidential election between Trump and then-former Vice President Joe Biden.
CHINESE GOVERNMENT ELECTION INFLUENCE EFFORTS IN THE 2020 ELECTION
This is not the only piece of evidence pointing to Chinese government election influence efforts in the 2020 election. Although much about China’s activities in 2020 remains classified, Just the News conducted a thorough review of publicly-available intelligence assessments, federal indictments, foreign government warnings, and cybersecurity firm analyses.
There is credible evidence that Chinese government-linked cyber hackers and Chinese social media troll farms took aim at the U.S. presidential election in 2020 and sought to undercut Trump during his run against now-former President Biden. There are also indicators that Chinese intelligence and law enforcement agencies — China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and its Ministry of Public Security (MPS) — also played a role in 2020.
Zulauf — a longtime intelligence officer — wrote in his January 2021 report: “Given analytic differences in the way Russia and China analysts examined their targets, China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the Administration's policies, saying in effect, I don't want our intelligence used to support those policies.”
U.S. INTEL ANALYSTS DOWNPLAYED CHINA ASSESSMENTS TO AVOID HELPING TRUMP
Zulauf discussed his report on a podcast later that year, where he quoted an analyst working on Chinese interference efforts as having essentially said that “I don't want my analysis going to the White House where that vulgarian … in the White House will use it to pursue policies toward China with which I personally disagree.”
An article in the Journal of Intelligence Conflict and Warfare recounted a 2023 speech by Zulauf, who said that the intelligence analyst was quoted as saying that “I don’t want my intelligence going to the White House where it will be used by that vulgarian in the Oval Office to support policies against China with which I personally disagree.”
“Dr. Zulauf went on to point out the various errors in this way of thinking — intelligence belongs to the community, not a single analyst, and further, while analysts are entitled to like or dislike particular leaders, they are not entitled to allow that to alter the intelligence products that they put forward,” the journal article said.
The review by Zulauf also found that allegations of Russian meddling and Chinese meddling were being measured based on differing standards, meaning Russia may have taken actions that were determined to be influence or interference efforts while, if and when China took the same or similar actions, those Chinese actions likely would not have been determined to be influence or interference efforts.
“Due to varying collection and insight into hostile state actors' leadership intentions and domestic election influence campaigns, the definitional use of the terms ‘influence’ and ‘interference’ and associated confidence levels are applied differently by the China and Russia analytic communities,” Zulauf wrote in his report.
The ombudsman found that “the terms were applied inconsistently across the analytic community” and that “failing to explain properly these definitions is inconsistent with Tradecraft Standards.”
“ODNI officials engaging with policymakers said that these customers did notice the result, particularly differences in the volume, frequency, and confidence levels of the intelligence coming from the China and Russia analytic communities on activities that, from their perspective, were very similar in their potential effects,” Zulauf added.
The analytic ombudsman noted that multiple national intelligence officers wrote an “Alternative Analysis Memo” in October 2020 “which expressed alternative views on potential Chinese election influence activities.” Zulauf said that “these alternative views met with considerable organizational counter pressure” but that then-DNI and now-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe agreed with the dissenting alternative views which argued that China had in fact attempted to influence the 2020 election to undercut Trump’s candidacy.
Subsequent headings:
Majority view said China did not try to influence 2020 elections
Minority view says China did try to interfere with elections
Ratcliffe: “China sought to influence the 2020 U.S. federal elections”
China meddled in the Canadian elections in 2019, others even earlier
China accessed and analyzed U.S. voter registration data in 2020
Chinese influence operations tied to CCP intel and security services
Spamouflage and other Chinese actors targeted Trump ahead of 2020 election
Chinese government’s MPS and MSS both took action during 2020 election
China’s possible fake mail-in ballot plot
DOJ and DHS said no foreign government compromised integrity of 2020 elections
China kept meddling ahead of 2022 midterms — partly due to no fear of any Biden response
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Didn’t want his intelligence going to the White House to influence policy. Why was he being paid?
So the Intelligence Community hid their knowledge of the Chinese ballots. To me, that indicates that there was nothing stopping the Chinese ballots from being used. Likely they were used. Does the intelligence not include who ordered them and who actually injected them into the system because those people should be in jail.
Frankly, all the intelligence analysts should also be in jail.
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Director Ratcliffe appears to be taking out the dirty laundry, and what is it we've been saying about electronic voting machines for years now ?
There is credible evidence that Chinese government-linked cyber hackers and Chinese social media troll farms took aim at the U.S. presidential election in 2020
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Ever look at the back of a Dominion voting machine? Made in China. And then there was covid which, as it turns out, was extremely convenient for Biden. Also Made in China.
Call me a conspiracy theorists if you will but since when do we need China to hold an election in this country?
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A long list of connected names from previous anti-Trump projects are explained at the link.
[JTN] Pentagon removed leftwing Ivy League schools from military fellowship program, but a replacement school proposed by the Pentagon has an entire center staffed by Trump foes, many of whom participated in what could only be called a "disinformation" campaign to deny the legitimacy of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop.
The Pentagon recently removed a host of elite and Ivy League schools from the War Department’s senior service college fellowship program, but its new list of professional military education schools includes a haven for signers of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter and is home to fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in late February that the Pentagon was canceling nearly one hundred Senior Service College fellowships at nearly two dozen institutions. These fellowships are not to be confused with ROTC programs. Among the proposed replacement institutions announced by Hegseth late last month was George Mason University — home to a center bearing the name of and led by signers of the October 2020 laptop letter, home to an institute advised by laptop letter signatories, and featuring the Trump foe McCabe as a key professor.
The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security (found within George Mason’s Schar School of Policy and Government) and the school’s National Security Institute or NSI (found within its Antonin Scalia Law School) both count a host of Hunter Biden laptop letter signatories and other Trump foes as top leaders and key advisors.
THE CABAL OF "LAPTOP DENIERS" STILL HOLD SWAY
The October 2020 laptop letter contributed to the baseless narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop stories were nothing but a product of Russian disinformation — a narrative happily seized upon by Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and spread by some of the laptop letter signers.
Hegseth announced in early February that Harvard University’s “partisan faculty” holds a “negative bias towards military actions and discourages alternative viewpoints” and that “this bizarre and unacceptable bias reduces the return on investment for Service members attending Harvard.” A review of the Hayden Center’s BlueSky account also shows numerous posts just this year alone opposing Trump policies and his national security officials.
The memo from Hegseth late last month said that “Professional Military Education institutions are among our most sacred and essential means to restore and maintain the warrior ethos” and that “we will no longer invest in institutions that fail to sharpen our leaders' warfighting capabilities or that undermine the very values they are sworn to defend” as he said the Pentagon was canceling 93 fellowships at 22 institutions, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Brown, Columbia, MIT, and George Washington University.
Hegseth’s memo said the Pentagon was also “Realigning Senior Service College Fellowships” and listed 21 “Potential New Partner Institutions” — including George Mason. The Pentagon memo contended that “these institutions meet the following criteria: intellectual freedom, minimal relationships with adversaries, minimal public expressions in opposition of the Department, and Graduate-level National Security, International Affairs, and/or Public Policy Programs.”
But all the Hayden Center’s leaders and multiple members of the NSI’s advisory board are Hunter Biden laptop letter signatories — in addition to multiple additional officials tied to the Hayden Center and the NSI being well-known foes of Trump, his administration, and his Pentagon — and McCabe has been a thorn in Trump’s side since 2016.
The list of schools included in the memo is dynamic, and reflects a set of institutions that could host Senior Service College Fellowships, beginning in the 2026-27 academic year, a War Department official who declined to be named told Just the News. These Senior Service College Fellowships are designed to provide our military leaders with education, not indoctrination, preparing them to think critically, independently, and creatively, he said.
George Mason University and the Hayden Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
[Breitbart] being a Veteran doesn't prevent you from being a partisan jerk
But if you're going to be, it gives you the skills to get there faster and better.
Wednesday on MS NOW’s "The Last Word," Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) claimed President Donald Trump has "wasted" the lives of the U.S. military personnel who died in service tied to the Iran exercises.
Host Lawrence O’Donnell said, "Senator, thank you very much for joining us tonight. As a as a combat veteran, watching now, the third dignified transfer from Donald Trump’s war. What are your thoughts as we’re in the third week of it?"
Duckworth said, "Well, just absolute fury that this man expended the lives of our heroes, the people who are willing to do something he was never willing to do himself, which is serve in uniform for a war of choice. That did not have to happen. He wasted those lives. Do you know our men and women in the military will step up and do their jobs to the best of their ability? Every single time. But that means that we have the responsibility, those of us in the legislative branch to make those decisions about war. And Donald Trump launched a war without without coming to Congress, without looking at the consequences. And as a result of it, the 11 brave men and women in uniform have died. Gas prices have gone through the roof. And Americans are less safe than they were before he launched this war."
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Open comment to the Democrat and Iran/PLO/Hamas Supporter Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL).
[FoxNews] Dave Taylor's Deporting Fraudsters Act passes despite Democratic opposition, faces uphill battle in Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday to crack down on illegal immigrants participating in welfare fraud despite fierce objections from most Democrats.
Lawmakers voted 231-186 to approve the Deporting Fraudsters Act, with 186 Democrats opposing the measure.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Taylor, R-Ohio, would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to explicitly define fraud as a deportable offense. Republicans said the legislation is necessary to ensure that noncitizens who steal taxpayer dollars are no longer eligible for immigration relief services or legal protections.
"If you admit to or you’re convicted of fraudulently receiving public benefits, you are out of here on the next plane and can never return," Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., said Wednesday on the House floor.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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