[PJM] Have you ever wondered why Joe Biden and the Democrats were so insistent that Congress send endless billions to Ukraine? Well, new declassified intel drops a bombshell that raises some troubling questions about it, and it stinks to high heaven. There is nothing they won't steal.
In 2022, U.S. spy agencies discovered Ukrainian officials were plotting to divert hundreds of millions in American taxpayer cash meant for clean energy projects to Joe Biden's 2024 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
"Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and has asked the U.S. Agency for International Development officials to scour for records to see if the plot actually was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be made to the FBI," Just the News reports. "Gabbard's team has not found substantive evidence the intercepted allegations were thoroughly investigated during the Biden administration, and the communications are not believed to be tied to Russian disinformation efforts, officials said."
Gee, I wonder why the Biden administration didn’t investigate the funneling of millions of dollars to the Biden campaign? So when can we start the hangings?
"The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign," the report reads.
USAID? You don’t say. Another piece of the puzzle comes into place. I love how the DNC has gone broke since that agency went away
Remember when Democrats were freaking out about Donald Trump closing USAID last year? They claimed USAID was saving lives. I mean, sure, if by "saving lives" you mean "funneling millions in cash to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party," sure.
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"They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary," the report continued. "At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose."
The money was reportedly laundered through two American subcontractors as part of the scheme to divert the money to Democrat campaigns, making the source untraceable.
"The plan included details of how subcontractors would be funded through U.S. companies so that how the funds were spent and allocated would be difficult to track." What a system, right? Some shady contracts no one could audit, and poof — your Ukraine aid becomes Biden bucks. And the Biden administration made no effort to investigate, so it’s unclear how much money may have been diverted to Biden’s campaign or the DNC.
A lot of things are starting to make sense, aren’t they? Biden failed to stop Russia from invading Ukraine. Biden seemed unable to end the war, and, based on this new information, he had every financial incentive to let it continue. That’s why it always felt like he was demanding blank checks for Ukraine and pushing us closer to deeper involvement. Trump, however, has always had peace as his main objective and has actually been trying to negotiate an actual peace deal. The demoncrats are so corrupt, so corrosive and so outside what America stands for it reminds me of the last days of the Roman republic. Long past time to declare it a criminal and terroist organization and start removing, with wet work if needed, the leadership and crooks.
[WND] The administration of President Donald Trump is signaling the advance of possible criminal charges against John Brennan, who was picked by Barack Obama to run the CIA during his regime and was a prominent player behind the lies that made up the Russiagate collusion theory.
That purportedly was launched by Hillary Clinton, who failed twice in her attempts to be elected to the Oval Office, to distract voters from her own email scandal, and apparently involved a long list of Democrat operatives, up to and include Obama.
Brennan is known to be "one of the most prominent figures in the discredited Russia investigation from President Donald Trump's first term," according to the Washington Examiner.
He apparently is under investigation by a grand jury now and among the issues being reviewed is the fact that he apparently delivered false testimony, under oath, to Congress, reports have confirmed.
Now House Republicans have voted to send classified transcripts linked to Brennan to the Department of Justice.
That move "signals the Trump administration is advancing a possible criminal case" against him, the report said.
[ZH] According to a newly declassified intelligence report, U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted communications from Ukrainian government officials back in 2022 discussing a scheme to siphon off hundreds of millions in American taxpayer dollars. The funds, earmarked for clean energy projects in the war-torn country, were allegedly redirected to the United States to benefit Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
The report, obtained by Just the News, summarizes raw intercepts gathered by U.S. spy agencies in late 2022. Officials familiar with the material say the communications are not believed to be tied to Russian disinformation efforts.
The declassified summary is very specific.
"The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden's reelection campaign," the document states.
The mechanics described are textbook money-laundering architecture. "The plan included details of how subcontractors would be funded through U.S. companies so that how the funds were spent and allocated would be difficult to track," the report explains. Two American subcontractors were named in the raw intercepts as conduits for funneling money toward Democratic coffers, though their identities remain redacted in the declassified version.
According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Ukraine became by far the top recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Russia's invasion in February 2022 — the first time a European nation held that distinction since the Marshall Plan. As of December 31, 2025, Congress had made available $188 billion in Ukraine-related spending, with $164 billion flowing from just five pieces of legislation. The last of those bills passed in April 2024 — while Biden was actively campaigning for a second term.
What makes the alleged scheme particularly audacious is the built-in exit strategy. "They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose," the report added. In other words, the design assumed the fraud would eventually be discovered - and didn't care. By then, the money would be gone and untraceable.
[JTN] U.S. intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a plot to route hundreds of millions of American tax dollars earmarked for clean energy in the war-torn country and move them to the United States to enrich then-President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to a declassified intelligence report summarizing the intercepts that was obtained by Just the News.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and has asked the U.S. Agency for International Development officials to scour for records to see if the plot actually was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be made to the FBI.
Gabbard's team has not found substantive evidence the intercepted allegations were thoroughly investigated during the Biden administration, and the communications are not believed to be tied to Russian disinformation efforts, officials said.
USAID INVOLVED IN ROUTING THE MONEY, MEMO ALLEGES USAID was it? Well at least we know which intelligence agency to blame.
The declassified report is a summary of raw intercepts from U.S. spy agencies in late 2022 concerning the alleged plot, and officials who have reviewed the files said there seemed to be a lack of curiosity to investigate such an explosive allegation of foreign interference in a U.S. election.
“The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign,” the declassified summary of the intercepts stated.
“They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose,” the report added.
The intercepts mentioned two American subcontractors as possible recipients of the money that would eventually be moved to Democratic coffers, officials said. The names are included in still classified raw spy data but were redacted from the declassified report obtained by Just the News.
[ConservativeTreehouse] House Intel Committee Releases Hidden Transcript of Inspector General Michael Atkinson
In 2019 an impeachment effort against President Trump was triggered when a member of the National Security Council named Alexander Vindman coordinated with a member of the National Intelligence Council named Eric Ciaramella to fabricate a false claim that President Trump leveraged his power and authority to demand Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy release information on Joe and Hunter Biden’s corrupt financial dealings in Ukraine.
At the time of the 2019 impeachment construct Eric Ciaramella was working for the CIA as an analyst within the National Intelligence Council (NIC).
Two years prior to the 2019 impeachment construct, in January 2017, the same CIA analyst, Eric Ciaramella, had worked on the fraudulent Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) at the behest of CIA Director John Brennan.
[SIDEBAR: In 2025 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, working with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, removed the NIC from inside the CIA. To provide greater overall transparency within the intelligence community, the National Intelligence Council was moved into the purview of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)].
Key point: Eric Ciaramella was one of the key analysts who constructed the fraudulent ‘Russian interference ICA’ (2017) and later the fraudulent impeachment effort (2019). Eric Ciaramella became the “anonymous CIA whistleblower” in the 2019 impeachment effort.
Before 2019, CIA analysts weren’t allowed to anonymously make claims against political officials. Because of the sensitive information they handled, any allegation of wrongdoing based on intelligence had to be made with their name attached.
Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson changed or modified the ICIG rules permitting Ciaramella to remain anonymous and make a claim that ultimately led to an impeachment effort.
[JTN] Wall Street Journal takes three weeks to correct false sexual harassment report, days before FDA commissioner said targeted official was leaving.
Mainstream media are playing fast and loose with the facts that appear to launder whisper campaigns against Food and Drug Administration officials who get in the way of pharmaceutical profits, falsely claiming one was under investigation for sexual harassment and another violated nonexistent conflict-of-interest rules to help a "friend" she barely knows.
The Wall Street Journal took three weeks to quietly correct reporter Liz Essley Wythe's explosive report that sexual harassment was among "several personnel complaints" filed against Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad, citing "people familiar with the matter," in a profile of Prasad's allegedly unreasonable standards for drug approval.
Days after the correction, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary gave Whyte an exclusive: Prasad is returning to the University of California San Francisco at the end of April.
The Associated Press has yet to correct or defend the veracity of its March 4 report stating "normal FDA standards" preclude officials from working on any business before the agency involving a "friend," in this case Tracy Beth Hoeg, acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and maternal-fetal medicine specialist Adam Urato.
Former Senate pharmaceutical corruption investigator Paul Thacker immediately challenged the AP's claim, verifying that neither the Department of Health and Human Services nor the FDA has such a conflict-of-interest policy or even defines "friend."
Urato told Thacker the AP got several facts wrong, including that the FDA offered him a full-time position and that he has a "close relationship" with Hoeg, whom he's known for two years. He said they met once in Washington, D.C., when Urato testified for an antidepressant labeling change to warn pregnant women about "documented risks for fetuses," in Thacker's paraphrase.
Even if the FDA had offered him more than a part-time "advisor" position, which has yet to be finalized, Urato said he couldn't accept it because of his busy clinical practice.
Makary announced Prasad's impending return to UCSF the same day that STAT News senior writer Adam Feuerstein tacitly appeared to have unmasked Prasad as the unnamed "senior FDA official" who held a press call to unleash a "diatribe," in Feuerstein's words, on uniQure for allegedly misleading regulators in its application for a Huntington's disease drug, after the Dutch biopharmaceutical company accused the FDA of demanding an "unethical" trial.
Feuerstein gave so many "identifying details" on the anonymous official as to "make Prasad recognizable to anyone paying attention," Philadelphia cardiologist Anish Koka wrote in a lengthy X essay on Prasad as an inevitable casualty of pharma's grip on the FDA and the "access journalism" behind hit pieces on mavericks like Prasad.
While Makary said Prasad's one-year leave of absence is ending and all the policies he was implementing have been announced, Koka, a supporter of Prasad, said the timing of Feuerstein's article calls into question Makary's explanation.
Because Prasad is a "credentialed insider – tenured, published, taken seriously by the institutions that matter – who decides to say out loud what his colleagues whisper privately," Feuerstein committed a "serious breach of journalistic ethics" through "functional identification" of an anonymous source, Koka wrote. "This was not inadvertent. It was a choice."
Pharma industry reporters aren't interested in a story about a "principled FDA official holding the line against companies with failed products," Koka said. "A chaotic rogue bureaucrat destroying a promising therapy is."
In her own X essay on media coverage of Prasad as CBER director, former FDA regulatory review officer Jessica Adams said it "often felt like playing whack-a-mole with narratives," which were often "incomplete, heavily personalized, or framed through politics and personality rather than the data and regulatory reasoning behind the decisions."
The media created a "caricature" of Prasad, she wrote, and "we should not be surprised when the result looks less like policy and more like a circus."
Adams questioned why "public defenses [of Prasad] from leadership seemed to ramp up right before the announcement that he was leaving" – Makary on national TV and HHS and FDA on social media – as if they were "pushing back against something they may have sensed was already unfolding, or potentially trying to change the trajectory at the last minute."
WSJ, AP and STAT News, which is owned by the same parent company as The Boston Globe, did not respond to Just the News queries. The FDA didn't answer queries on why Makary gave an exclusive about Prasad to the reporter who laundered a false report against him.
Prasad has the distinction of enraging both MAGA influencers for his politically progressive views on regulation, especially President Trump whisperer Laura Loomer, and establishment organs such as the WSJ editorial page for his close scrutiny of trial design and methodology in drug applications, slowing the approval process and lowering share prices.
Early moves by the second Trump administration suggested the Big Pharma gravy train was ending, with stocks immediately tanking upon the disputed exit of Prasad's predecessor Peter Marks, known for sidelining his top vaccine reviewers to authorize COVID-19 boosters. Prasad deemed Marks "one of the most dangerous, pro-pharma regulators" of the century.
But the industry quickly beat back Prasad's intense scrutiny of the evidence underlying drug applications, with the FDA reauthorizing distribution of a muscular dystrophy drug after pressuring its maker Sarepta to halt it.
Prasad briefly left the administration last summer after Loomer's attack but came back, reportedly upon Makary's urging, and put an even bigger target on his back last fall by telling staff the agency was strengthening vaccine approval standards in light of 10 confirmed deaths in children from COVID vaccines, though he hasn't shared the data publicly.
"The irony was almost too rich: the same MAGA ecosystem that had spent years insisting mRNA COVID vaccines were dangerous gene-modifying experiments was now furious that a regulator was asking hard questions about an actual gene therapy linked to multiple deaths in young boys," Koka wrote in his X essay.
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[PJM] Have you ever wondered why Joe Biden and the Democrats were so insistent that Congress send endless billions to Ukraine? Well, new declassified intel drops a bombshell that raises some troubling questions about it, and it stinks to high heaven.
