DNI to Audit / Monitor Intelligence Comms to Purge True Patriots...

And to amass classfied data, like as not for sale to the highest bidder

The Washington Post today ran a piece (linked) on the Director of National “Intelligence” (*I’m stifling a chuckle*) Tulsi Gabbard and her merry band of assorted Russian assets and criminal assholes looking to deploy their bespoke AI to sift through past, current and future emails and chat logs

Let’s put aside for the moment that Gabbard is generally-accepted to be a long-term Russian asset – at Trumpian levels, no less – and focus on her role in the MAGA regime’s initiative to tank our Republic in favor of a laughable but terrifying penny-ante, nihilistic, authoritarian rape-pillage-destroy regime.

Gabbard’s “Director’s Initiative Group,” or DIG, exists to hammer home Trump’s jihad to destroy what he absurdly deems the “weaponization” of the federal government; For the uninitiated (any of you still out there?), this means anything the regime deems as an effort to undermine its “agenda.”

According to the Post, the so-called DIG is ambitiously planning to milk past/present/future communications from the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office.

Damn.

There was a time – despite her fealty to Putin – when Gabbard might have been expected to oppose such an initiative, given her one-time status as a Congressional privacy hawk opposed to major electronic surveillance programs that violated civil liberties.

That was then.

And privacy is the least of our concerns.

· DIG’s primary initiative is to purge the intelligence community of anyone and everyone who devotes anything less than unconditional devotion to Trump. Totalitarianism 101.

· DIG’s secondary objective is to amass and catalog a rich library of American intelligence community communications for sale to the highest bidder, and of course, for gifting to Putin; Trump regime 101.

· The third objective - the most future-looking - is to foment an ever-edgy environment of fear, insularity and dysfunction in the intelligence community, within Federal employee ranks writ larger, and - emphasis on fear and distrust - throughout our already-shook general population.

It gets worse:

Borrowing from tried-and-true fascist strategy, the Post reports that “the precise size and staffing of the DIG…is not publicly known. Its ranks include personnel detailed from other agencies and “special government employees” - outsiders brought into the government temporarily to do specific tasks.”

Based on past regime practices, I’ve little doubt security clearances are an afterthought, at best.

What’s it going to take America? When is enough enough?

We’re running out of time.

And fast.

Stand!