As the Communists Democrats ramp up their rhetoric to gaslight America about the problems that PDJT and his MAGA followers are creating in the country, it is important to remember the truth of how we arrived here. In so doing one is reminded of just how duplicitous Washington is.
Sundance over at CTH has published a post summarizing many facets that we all should be watching carefully. Remember the truth has no agenda.
Let’s be reminded that, in December of 2016, President Obama ordered an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) This assessment would replace the one that had just been produced that said there was no Russian interference. The new one would blame the Russians for election interference. James Brennan gave the task of assembling this fraudulent intel to a CIA analyst named Julia Gurganus. This is a name that one probably has not heard before.
Of course, Gurganus was not the only CIA analyst involved.
Sundance:
Inside the National Intelligence Council, one of the key figures who helped create the ICA fabrication was a CIA analyst named Eric Ciaramella.
You might remember the name Eric Ciaramella from the 2019 impeachment effort against President Trump. However, in 2016 Eric Ciaramella was a CIA deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia on the CIA’s National Intelligence Council at the time the fraudulent Intelligence Community Assessment was created.
♦ The key point to remember here is that Eric Ciaramella was one of the fabricators of the fraudulent ICA; constructed late December 2016 and presented in January 2017 as part of the foundation for the Trump-Russia narrative.
Who in the CIA was his controller? This is an example of just how corrupted the CIA was and probably still is.
When Tulsi Gabbard became Director of National Intelligence (DNI), one of the many things Gabbard took on was to begin to drill down into the issue of the fraudulent ICA. When current CIA analysts began to notice that Tulsi was going to declassify background documents, including the two-year House Intelligence Committee report revealing the fraud, alarm bells went off within the Deep State. The Deep State could not risk further exposure. Their response to Gabbard’s efforts was to make Tulsi a target.
How was this accomplished? This is where Julia Gurganus comes in.
As noted above, Gurganus was part of the team that produced the fraudulent ICA. Julia Gurganus was an active CIA employee at that time and was still with the CIA when Tulsi Gabbard began making inquiries. Gurganus had never been covert. The Deep State (in this case, someone inside the CIA) changed the status of Julia Gurganus in June 2025 to that of a “covert” operative. This was done in an effort to protect Gurganus.
Gurganus was no more covert than Barack Obama was when he executed Osama bin Laden.
However, it was not just to protect Gurganus. It was to protect all the other nameless individuals involved in the fraud. This, the CIA thought, would stop DNI Gabbard from exposing Ms. Gurganus and all of the others involved. The 2025 CIA effort did not work.
Sundance notes:
In late July of this year, DNI Gabbard released the CIA intelligence information that was used in constructing the fraudulent ICA. On July 23rd, Tulsi Gabbard held a press conference alongside Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and outlined the issues.
In August 2025, DNI Gabbard then declassified and released the CIA work product, and then later removed Julia Gurganus security clearance.
The CIA embeds at the NIC and directorate of analysis were furious, and subsequently leaked a false story to the Wall Street Journal saying DNI Gabbard had compromised a covert CIA operative working in government – a familiar ploy that had worked for them in the past. However, this time it did not work, because her work history clearly showed Julia Gurganus was a known CIA employee.
♦ Key point: Julia Gurganus and Eric Ciaramella both worked on behalf of CIA Director John Brennan to fabricate the fraudulent ICA in 2016. Gurganus was still a CIA employee in August of this year.
This is just one example of how the Deep State works. When blackmail is not possible, then paint the individual involved, in this case Tulsi Gabbard, as grossly incompetent, as someone whose actions are putting lives of Americans in danger. They will use public opinion fanned by media co-conspirators to neutralize the threat to their continued control over the American government.
The truth has no agenda. Tulsi Gabbard continues to fight the good fight. It is a good thing that corrupt individuals are being identified and removed. Removing their security clearances makes them less valuable in the media arena since they no longer have access to “Inside Baseball” information.
The Deep State was scared to death of a Trump Presidency. They went to extreme lengths to try to get rid of him. Tulsi Gabbard is bringing sunlight to their evilness and nefarious plans. But, inasmuch as ‘personnel is policy’, the Deep State continues to leverage every opportunity to throw sand in the gears, even if at lower and more discrete administrative levels than previously. This is their defense-in-depth.
My question is when will legal consequences come to those failed to uphold their oath? The entire concept of the Constitution was to protect the INDIVIDUAL rights from a potentially tyrannical government by limiting what government could do versus what individuals can do. Legal consequences need to ensue for those who violated their oaths. When this starts to happen, then there will be a clear path for returning the government to the people.