August 10, 2025

REPORT: CIA tried to redact Gabbard’s declassification of Russian files

We all know our government has a lot of secrets, and to be honest, most of them are probably better hidden than revealed, but not all of them.

In a case where the government is weaponized against the American people or a political candidate… well, no, we cannot keep stuff like that hidden.

To that point, a report was released this week stating that the CIA attempted to redact the Russian collusion files that were declassified for DNI Tulsi Gabbard earlier this year.

Gabbard Declassifies Files

The files released by Gabbard were not of some secret military operation to remove a threat against the homeland… these were filed about government officials plotting against a presidential candidate.

They showed high-ranking government officials, apparently with the blessing and input of a sitting president, creating a narrative to eliminate a political opponent.

Dems keep pointing to the Mueller report and a Senate report that showed Russia tried to interfere with the election but was unsuccessful in swaying the election one way or the other.

I don’t question that for a second. But this is about attaching Trump to that narrative when there was no proof that Trump had done anything wrong, something those investigations vindicated.

I’m Innocent

James Clapper, who served as Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, Obama’s CIA Director, are now both saying they are innocent of any wrongdoing.

Together, they penned an op-ed in the New York Times to profess their innocence, saying, "That is patently false. In making those allegations, they seek to rewrite history. We want to set the record straight and, in doing so, sound a warning.”

Clapper is a snake in the grass, with a long history of being caught working against the American people (see the 2013 investigation into government surveillance against the American people).

Brennan, well, what I truly think about him I cannot publish on these pages, but he, too, has a long history of deception. This man hated Donald Trump, and he clearly violated protocols in launching the investigation against Trump, not to mention more or less making up the entire narrative.

Redact It

Now, we are finding out that current officials in the CIA, even with John Ratcliffe now leading the way, were trying to block Gabbard from minimally redacting the filing she wrote (they wanted more black marks on the reports).

Gabbard called the files the “most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history,” and he is probably right.

You know you are in the right when Democrats get back up their soapbox, and that is what happened here, with Senator Mark Warner (D-V) stating, “The desperate and irresponsible release of the partisan House Intelligence report puts at risk some of the most sensitive sources and methods our Intelligence Community uses to spy on Russia and keep Americans safe. And in doing so, Director Gabbard is sending a chilling message to our allies and assets around the world: the United States can no longer be trusted to protect the intelligence you share with us.”

Well, you know how you solve that problem? You don’t use the system to exact political revenge or to push a political agenda. I love what Gabbard did because it is about time that the people in this country realize just how dangerous our government is and that our government is not our friend. It is a necessary evil that we need to keep in check, and Gabbard exposing those files helps us do exactly that.

Written By:
Jerry McConway

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