House Intelligence Committee: White House Should Immediately Declassify “Information Concerning A Serious National Security Threat”
Rep. Mike Turner: “I am requesting that President Biden declassify all information relating to this threat so that Congress, the Administration, and our allies can openly discuss the actions necessary to respond to this threat.”
So this is interesting.
Statement from Chairman @RepMikeTurner: pic.twitter.com/OA9yJuEPlf
— House Intelligence Committee (@HouseIntel) February 14, 2024
Let the speculation begin.
Democratic source familiar w/threat tells @NBCNews: “This is a serious issue that could lead to a destabilizing situation and a national security threat.”
Described it as a "potential foreign threat" but would not say where the threat is coming from. https://t.co/CcMEdhcstT
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) February 14, 2024
Sleeper cells? Electric/energy grids compromised?
CNN is saying it’s Russia (take that with a grain of salt until confirmed):
Multiple sources familiar with the intelligence characterized the intelligence as “very sensitive.”
Earlier Wednesday, Turner sent his Congressional colleagues a letter saying the urgent matter is “with regard to a destabilizing foreign military capability.”
One of the sources who has seen the intelligence confirmed that “it is, in fact, a highly concerning and destabilizing” Russian capability “that we were recently made aware of.”
Turner said in the dear colleagues letter that the House Intelligence Committee voted on February 13 to make certain information available for lawmakers to review and says members have time to view this between Wednesday and Friday.
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National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says he's "a little bit surprised" House Intel Committee Chair Mike Turner scheduled a classified briefing for Members of Congress regarding "an urgent matter with regard to a destabilizing foreign military capability" pic.twitter.com/WBfJnLXpXI
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2024
NSA Jake Sullivan says he's "not in a position to say" if the public should be "alarmed" by news of a classified briefing in Congress over "an urgent matter with regard to a destabilizing foreign military capability" pic.twitter.com/pOtUJ7KEUZ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2024
Spoke with 3 HPSCI members on the intel.
One said it’s “disturbing.”
Another said the issue is a longer-term concern, “not a today thing.”
And a 3rd confirmed “it’s a serious issue but not an immediate crisis.”
Still unclear what *it* is, though.
— Alex Ward (@alexbward) February 14, 2024
NEW: Per sources, this national security warning is not an urgent situation that the US needs to concern itself with "today." It is a longer-term problem. And this raw intel has existed on the Hill for some time. Not sure what prompted the Turner statement.
— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) February 14, 2024
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Well, well, well. Apparently something bad has ‘sneaked’ across our southern border…two divisions of Chicom or Iranians fighters, perhaps? Both?
as they fight the ms-13 gangs for turf
why do you think the chiraq gangs are up in arms
they dont want to share the tax payers gold with those those those people
Lol. Apparently it’s not the disaster that is our southern border. Instead, it’s presidential campaign season so it’s once again time to ring the terror bell of RUSSIA.
This is pressure to pass the Ukraine bill
Absolutely
And Johnson said
“Pay no attention to the man behind the “curtain “
Bingo. This is all Russia Russia Russia stuff. They’re perfectly happy to continue ignorning the border.
If I remember correctly, on this very blog about a week ago, the info was that ~37,000 Chinese had crossed the southern border in the recent past. That’s 3-4 divisions of Chicoms.
Google these:
Biden CHIPS initiative
Flex SLC, UT
EnPhase
Shinzen Sinvo Automation
we have been set up.
~37,000 Chinese nationals. That the federal government knows about. Probably several hundreds if not thousands more that have crossed the border at the behest of the CCP. All ready, willing, and able to bring down the United States at the command of Xi Jinping.
Pretty convenient if I had a foreign aid bill that needed to get past the Speaker of The House… With such immanent danger the Speaker must allow this bill to the House floor to get funding… /sarc
“CNN says it’s Russia…”
Of course they do. Whenever there’s some scandal or another, Russia is trotted out as a national security threat to distract from the scandal. Now we have a president who’s been declared mentally incompetent to stand trial by his own DOJ, and a Secretary of Homeland Security who’s been impeached for a combination of mal- and misfeasance they need to distract from, both in the same week. Now, it’s a “destabilizing Russian military capability?”
More likely to be a “destabilizing military capability” posed by tens of thousands of military-aged men from hostile countries who have been allowed to illegally enter the country in the past couple of years.
While I generally agree Iranian terrorists are sneaking across the border, what I keep wondering is why they haven’t attacked yet.
They need a few million more before they can start destabilizing our elections.
My guess would be that they’re waiting to carry out some action, either with other cells in-country or coordinated with international groups. Pure supposition on my part, though.
If it were me, I wouldn’t just start randomly attacking. The border is still wide open; I’d take advantage of that to get as many operatives in-country as possible before it gets shut down.
Also, the current administration has shown a propensity to deal with us and a reluctance to take action against us. Why discourage that with premature attacks?
I’d get as many teams in place as possible while the gettin’s good and hold them in reserve for some eventuality that might require an object lesson to be provided…say…a second Trump administration? Sanctions? Military action against us?
Get the teams in place, equipped, trained up and with plans in place and then wait for the “rainy day” in which they’re needed.
Let’s say a coordinated attack that detonates “dirty” suicide bombs in three or four large, but second tier cities all at once…followed by another similar strike a few days later…then a warning: keep it up and your major cities will be next.
If I were a supervillian or an authoritarian government with terroristic tendencies, that would be my plan anyway.
Your thinking about this country. A long term security threat could also mean foreign actions that undermine the US and it’s allies. Anyone notice in the Russia/China/Iran hysteria that Venezuela is about to invade Guyana which just happened to have one of the largest oil finds on the planet not long ago? The US has been providing military assistance to Guyana for several years and participated in half a dozen training exercises with them. If Venezuela carries out it’s threat to invade with the troops it is massing on the border this would most likely include an attack on US military personnel that are there not to mention British troops who are also there
lol
the serious threat is the leftyrino agenda
anything else that happens is just coming from the more violent wing of the lefty agenda
blmplo is the lefty not satisfied with their “weaker” leftists already in power
you notice how quiet the sqaud is??
cause uncle joe is a movn real slow at the junction
Bullshit.
Funny how there’s suddenly a magical ‘national security threat’ the day after Johnson refuses to pass their Ukraine funding boondoggle.
Vegas odds are on a bunch of ‘leaks’ about how Russia is AKSHUALLY a super serious threat and we need to send more money to Ukraine immediately!
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
Predictable as the sun rising in the east.
Wow. That was fast.
‘BREAKING: Sources tell CNN the national security threat is a “highly concerning and destabilizing” Russian capability’
Man I don’t think I’ve ever been proven right that fast before.
OMG RUSSIA SO SCARY, SEND MONEY TO UKRAINE NOW
These pukes are so pathetically predictable.
Because the hyper-aggressive country run by a KGB thug is no threat to anyone. Except all the countries they’ve invaded. And the ones they’ve threatened to invade. And their own people.
Outside of their nuke arsenal, Russia poses no threat to us. Of course, the dems have been degrading our nuke capabilities, so that just shows that they don’t take any real threats seriously.
You’re worried about Russia’s threat to its “own people” … go over there to fight for them. I’ll pack you sandwiches.
>>Outside of their nuke arsenal, Russia poses no threat to us.
Even with their alleged “nuclear arsenal” (what’s left of it that is) Russia poses no threat to us. None. At. All.
Of course he’s a threat. And spewing hundreds of billions of dollars into Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, so they can lose slower, isn’t stopping them. All it’s doing it getting military contractors rich.
If we actually want Russia to be beaten, NATO is going to have to fight. That discussion isn’t taking place, instead morons like you are just constantly spewing IF YOU DONT SEND MONEY RUSSIA WINS.
Russia is ALREADY WINNING. If you truly wanted them to be beaten, you’d be screaming at them to change tactics. Instead you whine when the money is cut off.
Conservatives have long since seen through this charade.
Exactly this. The first 36-hours Biden was in office, he signed ream of Executive Orders that strengthened the economies of our biggest enemies, including Russia and Iran.
If people in this government were really worried about a growing Russian threat, then they would be doing everything they could to increase our domestic energy production. But, they aren’t doing that. Res ipsa loquitur.
Remember Biden pausing during the signing of all those E.O…. and someone in the room said…”just sign it”.. The rubber stamp rubber plant in the Oval Office in action.
The economic costs of not producing our own energy are staggering, Some renewables are duds, like ethanol, and windmills.. I do think that solar has a place for residential and small scale commercial. Our grid is in poor shape, weather events more frequent,
Why doesn’t the US or Ukraine sell war bonds to protect Ukraine? The US for Ukraine war bonds would be 0% interest matured in 5 years and the Ukraine sold war bonds could have a 5% interest with maturity at 5 years. People who really want to subsidize a foreign war can put their own money up instead of all of ours.
‘All the countries’ they’ve invaded are disputed territories and have been for centuries. Russia is such a ‘threat’ to its neighbors that almost none of them invest the TINY % of their GDP on national defense, as is required by the NATO treaty.
I’ll worry about Russia when the people who live literally right next door to Russia behave like they are worried about Russia. Until then, I’ll keep my eye on the current invasion on our southern border.
So your theory is that the actions of a country should count more than their words. Interesting concept.
TargaGTS: Russia is such a ‘threat’ to its neighbors that almost none of them invest the TINY % of their GDP on national defense, as is required by the NATO treaty.
That is incorrect. The 2% figure is a guideline for 2024 made ten years ago, not a treaty obligation. NATO as a whole will be at 2% this year, though some individual countries are still below their commitments. Germany and France will meet their commitment this year.
Wales Summit Declaration, 2014: “aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade”.
Interesting thesis about service with an Intel agency making one a thug. Bush SR ran the CIA before becoming President. Before that he was a 2 term Congressman, a failed Senate candidate, got Nixon to him Ambassador to the UN, then director of the CIA then an Ambassador to China then positioned himself as VP to Reagan in ’80 (this despite stiff arming Reagan’s primary run and sucking up to Nixon in ’68).
Running the CIA does not mean “service” with it. He was an outside political appointment, so he would have had no connection with its internal culture, and would likely have been resisted and resented and led by the nose for the two years he had the job. The lefty myth that he somehow had the CIA on his side for decades thereafter is just without basis; especially after we saw how it undermined his son’s presidency and tried to bring him down.
I would suggest that anyone serving as the Director of Central Intelligence should be at least as ruthless as those serving our adversaries Intel services such as the Soviet era KGB. Whatever else HW Bush was he was not a wimp, the man was a combat pilot in WWII joining the Navy on the day he turned 18. I suspect that he wasn’t opposed to shedding blood as necessary in the cold war.
The best evidence for his relationship with the Agency would be to see the level of enthusiasm its people had for him. As I recall, he got a friendly welcome whenever he returned to the building. Here’s something Salon published in 2019, after GHWB’s death: “Last month [December 2018], 19 senior CIA officials, current and former, signed a statement lauding the late president George H.W. Bush, who served as CIA director for one year. The agency put out a complimentary “unclassified” video about his service to the agency. Langley’s Twitter feed featured 11 straight days of photos and anecdotes about Bush’s warm relationship with America’s $15 billion a year spy service.”
There have also been reports that GHWB may have been a CIA asset during his time at Zapata Oil, but the Salon article indicates he probably wasn’t.
Yeah, good luck with selling that right now. Nobody downplays the potential threats posed by Russia. But right now that’s not it.
Whatever it is I’m sure we’ll get screwed in some way “becuz emergency!”
We already know the President is on the take.
The whole family.
This sounds like BS to me, so far as being any real threat. I assume that’s why he wants it all declassified and exposed.
Zerohedge says that Turner just came back from Ukraine with this “dire threat warning”. I guess he’s stupid enough to think people will buy his Ukraine-shilling. My guess is that he has lurid tales of Russia’s hypersonic missiles (which everyone has known about for some time). Either that or the idea that the Jan 6th pipe bomber was actually Putin! Now, that would be interesting news.
So the US needs to push harder on Putin and Russia? Maybe that isn’t a really good idea since backing anyone into a corner can have consequences. On the other hand, The Swamp might get vaporized and that beats any attempt to drain the swamp. If we really knew how much waste and fraud was in this mess… a lot more people would be rooting for Russia.
CNN? Jake Sullivan?? Those sources not only lack credibility, but they should be presumed to be sources of spin, rather than information.
my bet is Chicomms and prob
Iranians…
Russians refuse to refer to trannie astronauts by their preferred pronouns.
Just leak it like the left would do under Trump
If CNN is reporting it’s Russia, then it’s likely some shitbag in the IC leaked it to them and just happens to be coincidentally timed with the 95 billion that Mitch and the Gals helped their commie friends pass in the Senate. Now, they’ll pressure Johnson with this intelligence which is likely completely fabricated.
convenient timing…not suspicious in the least!
Don’t need to declassify anything — just open Biden’s garage door and have a peek.
Nah, all the good stuff has already been grabbed up by “friends” of Hunter during some of his parties…
Vile Biden, his handlers/chaperones/caretakers and DoD tried to cover up the brazen Chinese spy balloon incursion and the Dhimmi-crats’ indefensible and feckless accommodation of that balloon’s activities, until a citizen’s report made that goal impossible.
Deception, lies, obfuscation and misdirection are the Dhimmi-crats’ stock in trade. Trust that if there is a major national security threat to the U.S. homeland, from Muslim supremacists/terrorists, Chinese military personnel or illegal aliens, the American public will be the last to know about it.
How about deal with the actual immediate threat of an insecure US border? It’s not like we don’t know how many people are dying from OD on fentanyl and other illegal drugs pouring across. Or the costs imposed for supporting those allowed in from BS asylum claims. Or the scale of human trafficking going on.
Build the damn wall. Revoke the ‘parole’ and work permits, deport those present illegally, prosecute the individuals and entities who hired them or conspired to assist them. Stop the flow of taxpayer dollars to the NGOs and to the illegals.
Do that first then maybe we can discuss other borders in other places but only after the establishment shows good faith on our own borders and our own interior enforcement.
There was an earlier article about rare earth mineral deposits in Wyoming. Maybe China Joe sold all the federal land in Wyoming to China (he got 10% of the sale of course).
Let’s see now, what can it be? Maybe, unless Ukraine gets billions more in the next few days, Russia will launch missiles at us from space. Russia has imported several suitcase-sized A-bombs into the US via the southern border and we must give Ukraine all our money, fast!
If Mike Turner is involved, this has got to be fake. He is just another clown in this circus.
all this is happening when the bill to re-authorize spying in US citizens w/o a warrant is up for renewal
Yep. That vote is scheduled for tomorrow. Gonna be interesting to see who votes to extend surveillance of US Citizens via scraping data for search terms and compounded by acting without a warrant.
after bragging that he could get the prosecutor fired who was investigating him/hunter
and that the nordstream was going to be stopped
redjoe stated
whites are the main focus of the doj and will continue to be
as I just spoke with Malcom 10 and he assured me I was
doing the right thing
You mean Malcolm Twitter?
In response to western aggression Putin has lowered the automatic thresholds for activation of the Perimeter device, more popularly known as the doomsday machine.
Poking the Bear…even a weakened one that can throw a nuclear punch isn’t a great idea.
And just like that them sneaky Ruskies magically threaten the very security of America to such a degree that America absolutely must continue to fund Ukraines war!!
I mean, how incredibly convenient right. Just when it looked like they were going to have some problems bringing a vote to the floor this super urgent security threat magically all of a sudden rares its head!
And right there propagating this propaganda is the regime media all to eager to do their masters bidding!
More than likely they’ve got a report that one of the Ukrainian bio-labs was broken into and covid 24 is set to cross the border soon.
Trump GOP: Let Putin have space and Ukraine because we cant afford it smh.
Is it really a secret Russia and China are putting nukes in space? Of course they are. And we are too.
When ever I see something from dwb I can hear that circus music in the background 😂😂🤡
Whenever I do, my mind automatically supplies the missing vowels.
You mean the same Donald Trump who created Space Force – a new military service branch dedicated to fighting the weaponization of space – and was roundly mocked for it by the media?
The official rumor is Russia has put an EMP weapon into orbit.
Maybe true, or not, but it makes sense that this is what the threat is about.
That’s what I am hearing also. It’s not something I am worried about. We have the same abilities.
That settles it, we need hundreds of billions more for Ukraine.
This is apparently it.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/14/us-news/house-intelligence-chair-says-congress-has-been-made-aware-of-serious-national-security-threat/
Dear Election Season:
Squirrel!
Sincerely,
51 Former Senior Intel Officials
Serious threat people!! Quick, let’s throw another hundy billion Ukraines way!! 😂😂
Any of you “Serious Thinkers” ™ out there explain to me how sending another hundy billion to Ukraines leaders bank accounts gonna stop old Vlad from putting nukes in space?
Asking for a friend 🤡🤡
Last election we got the Chinese Pox and this election we’re getting Vlads Space Bombs 😂😂🤡
Wait a second. Why does the White House need to declassify something. Have we not been told that the President can’t declassify anything?
I believe that law only applies to Republicans and Presidents that are orange.
https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/february-14-2024-did-john-brennan The Democrats ( and the mainstream media) are running interference for Brennan and the so called intelligence community ( IC) which asked its allies abroad to make life difficult for anyone associated or who would be associated with Trump in the runup to the 2016 election. TheIC is desperately trying to avoid production of a binder that Trump declassified that has explisve documents that would confirm beyond doubt that Brennan & CO,. have been engaging in domestic espionage of conservatives ,election interference as well as having set the seeds for the allegations of Russia collusion since the Obama Administration
That binder will reappear just as the Rose Law firm records reappeared.