Well, that should come as no surprise to anyone . . . anyone other than Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Tulsi Gabbard, that is.

I have to wonder: is there a single functioning brain among the four of them? Did no one think that, gee, maybe a disaffected employee — suddenly with no job, a family to support, a mortgage or rent payment coming due, and little or no savings — might be, oh, say, desperate enough to be vulnerable to an offer they might otherwise never have considered?

Did any one of the four even imagine that there might now be thousands of people fitting that description searching for jobs online? Or that there could be — oh, I don’t know — possibly some intelligence officers in other countries, like maybe Russia or China, able and all too willing to help out those people with offers of ready-made jobs? Jobs that probably pay way better than the ones from which they were just terminated?

Anyone? Like, say, Director of National Intelligence and Genius-of-the-Year Tulsi Gabbard, who — when cautioned by career CIA officers that there might be risk involved — had this to say to . . . who else? . . . Fox News:

“I am curious about how they [the CIA officers who issued the warning] think this is a good tactic to keep their job. They’re exposing themselves essentially by making this indirect threat using their propaganda arm through CNN that they’ve used over and over and over again to reveal their hand, that their loyalty is not at all to America. It is not to the American people or the Constitution. It is to themselves. And these are exactly the kind of people that we need to root out, get rid of so that the patriots who do work in this area, who are committed to our core mission can actually focus on that.” [Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN, March 1, 2025.]

In other words, she thinks they’ve invented a threatening scenario in order to justify their own jobs.

How, in the name of all that is holy, was that woman ever judged to be qualified as national intelligence director? Who in their right mind takes a risk assessment from career intelligence officers and not only ignores it, but twists it into a threat against the country?

Tulsi Gabbard . . . that’s who.

Has she never heard of Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, John Walker, or any of the others who sold out to our enemies for cold, hard cash? And they hadn’t lost their jobs when they found the temptation too hard to resist.

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Those ex-employees who have been recently fired were not all lower-GS-level clerks and maintenance workers; many were people with security clearances and access to valuable information about U.S. critical infrastructure and government bureaucracy.

And the threat assessments have come, not only from the CIA, but also the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which has stated with “high confidence” that foreign adversaries are trying to “capitalize” on the mass layoffs by recruiting federal employees, and that foreign intelligence officers are searching for potential recruits on LinkedIn, TikTok, RedNote and Reddit. [Id.]

One CNN source said: “It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see that these cast aside federal workers with a wealth of institutional knowledge represent staggeringly attractive targets to the intelligence services of our competitors and adversaries.” [Id.]

Apparently, it takes more imagination than that possessed by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Washington.

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What we have here is a massive dung heap of screw-up piled on top of screw-up on top of screw-up that has, in just over a month, placed this country in peril of being so deeply mired in incompetence, inefficiency, and outright corruption that we may never recover.

No wonder these two look so happy.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
3/2/25