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There's more to the anti-Trump Russiagate plot — and Tulsi Gabbard will unravel it

New York Post

2 days ago

Politics
New York Post

There's more to the anti-Trump Russiagate plot — and Tulsi Gabbard will unravel it

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents — with promises of much more to follow. The new material describes the role of the Obama administration's intelligence and investigatory directors — purportedly along with former President Barack Obama himself — in undermining the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. In addition, their efforts extended to sabotaging the 2016-2017 presidential transition and, by extension, the first three years of the Trump presidency. Advertisement The released documents add some new details to what over the last decade has become accepted knowledge. Congressional committees, special prosecutors and the inspectors general had all previously issued reports that largely confirmed the general outlines of the skullduggery that began in 2015-16. Hillary Clinton's campaign, later aided by the top echelon of the FBI, CIA and the director of national intelligence, sought — falsely — to seed a narrative that Trump had colluded directly with Russia to win unfairly the 2016 election. Advertisement When that campaign gambit failed to alter the 2016 results, the Obama administration doubled down during the transition to undermine the incoming Trump presidency. Next, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 'all-star' legal team found no evidence of direct Trump-Putin collusion to hijack the election. But his investigation did sabotage 22 months of Trump's first term, marked by constant leaks and hysterical rumors that Trump was soon to be convicted and jailed as a 'Russian asset.' By 2020, the frustrated intelligence agencies and former 'authorities' now absurdly further lied that Hunter Biden's incriminating laptop had 'all the earmarks' — once again — of Russian interference. Advertisement So, what could be new about Gabbard's latest release? One, after the 2016 election of Donald Trump but before his inauguration, Obama convened a strange meeting with his outgoing intelligence and investigatory heads — CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, National Security Advisor Susan Rice and a few others. Contrary to a four-year Democratic Party narrative that '18 intelligence agencies' had long claimed Russian collusion, the top directors apprised Obama that their expert colleagues had found no such evidence. Yet outgoing President Obama allegedly directed them to ignore such an assessment. Advertisement Instead, they began spreading narratives that President-elect Trump had been colluding with the Russians. Leaks followed. Media hysteria crested. And soon Mueller and his left-wing 'dream team' of lawyers targeted President Trump. Further new information may confirm that Brennan's CIA — and those he briefed in the Oval Office — had known for some time that the Russians themselves were confused about why they were falsely being accused of colluding with Trump to rig the election. Of course, Russian operatives, like their Chinese counterparts, often seek to cause havoc in American institutions, such as hacking emails or spreading online disinformation. But they may have been nevertheless curious why Hillary Clinton was making such false accusations that they were working directly with Trump, and why the Obama administration was acting upon them. Obama has now claimed these new charges are outrageous and beneath the dignity of the presidency. He did not, however, flatly contradict the new information. He should have issued an unambiguous denial that he had never ordered his intelligence chiefs in December 2016 to ignore their associates' assessments and instead to assume Trump's collusion with Putin. Advertisement These sustained efforts of the Clinton campaign, Obama appointees, and ex-intelligence chiefs and their media counterparts between 2015 and 2020 severely undermined the 2016 Trump campaign. They bushwhacked the 2017 presidential transition. They hamstrung the Trump presidency. And they may well have hurt Trump's 2020 election bid. Summed up, here is the damage caused by the Trump-Putin collusion lies: Advertisement They emboldened 'experts' in 2020 to again lie blatantly and shamelessly to the American people that the incriminating Hunter Biden laptop was yet another fake product of Russian interference to help reelect Trump. The media were equally guilty. Journalists partnered with current and ex-Obama appointees by disseminating fake documents like the Steele dossier and working with giants like Twitter and Facebook. During the 2020 campaign, the FBI and social media sought to censor accurate news stories that the laptop was indeed authentic and already verified as such by the FBI. These operations may have had serious consequences for US foreign policy. Dictatorial Russia is a US adversary. By needlessly and falsely claiming that Russia had intervened in two elections directly to partner with Trump, Obama-era officials and Clinton-campaign activists destroyed Trump's own credibility to sustain a workable relationship with a nuclear Russia. In addition, the lying and extra-legal operations of the FBI and CIA only further convinced the paranoid Russians that they could not trust the US government — given it had been engaging in the very conspiracy lies that were more akin to its own than America's. Advertisement Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comey and others will likely never face legal consequences for the damage they've done to our institutions and foreign policy. But that does not mean they should be exempt from an ongoing and disinterested effort to find and finally expose the whole truth. Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness.

Map Shows How Chinese Planes Nearly Collided in Russian Airspace

Miami Herald

21-07-2025

General
Miami Herald

Map Shows How Chinese Planes Nearly Collided in Russian Airspace

Two Chinese airliners narrowly avoided colliding in early July, after what a pilot appeared to not follow air traffic control instructions, almost resulting in disaster. A Newsweek map traces the flight paths of the aircraft involved in the incident, which occurred high above Tuva-a southern Siberian region bordering Mongolia. At the center of the mishap was an Air China Airbus A350, flight CA967, on route from Shanghai to Milan. The July 6 event began when the Air China jet unexpectedly maneuvered into the path of another Chinese plane. The confusion appeared to have originated when the pilot was given instructions along with two other Chinese planes flying northwest of CA967, according to the South China Morning Post. In a radio recording that circulated on Chinese social media, a Russian air traffic controller is heard instructing a Hainan Airlines jet and a second China Airlines plane to maintain an altitude of 36,000 feet. The authenticity of the recording could not be independently verified by Newsweek. At around 9:40 a.m. local time, CA967 climbed unexpectedly from 34,100 feet to 36,000 feet within 15 minutes, according to Flightradar24 data. The pilot did not ask for air traffic control to approve the maneuver. This sudden ascent brought the Air China jet into the path of a Boeing 767 cargo plane, flight CSS12, flying from Budapest, Hungary, to Ezhou, China. The two aircraft came within about 400 feet of each other-well below the internationally accepted 1,000-foot minimum. Audio from the cockpit captured the cargo plane's pilot noting the unexpected presence of the Air China jet directly ahead, prompting the Russian controller to order immediate evasive maneuvers for both flights. The close encounter also triggered both planes' Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems, a last-resort automated alert designed to prevent midair collisions. When the Air China pilot radioed to ask about the cause of the alert, the controller pressed: "Are you climbing with instruction or without instruction? Confirm, please." The Air China pilot replied: "No, thank you," which has drawn widespread commentary on Chinese social media. The South China Morning Post reported that the two pilots communicated further with the Air China pilot appearing to blame a Russian air traffic controller for the incident, saying instructions had left pilots "confused". A similar scare played out over the United States just days later. On Friday, a Delta Air Lines passenger jet flying from Minneapolis to Minot, North Dakota, was forced to execute a hard turn to avoid a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber. The Delta pilot expressed surprise that Minot Air Force Base, which has a radar, had not put out a notification about the flight. An Air Force spokesperson told Newsweek the service was "looking into the matter." Related Articles Trump Hosts US's Oldest Pacific Ally Amid Tensions With ChinaRussia Touts Trump-Putin Meeting for Major DeadlineChinese Navy Shadowed NATO Aircraft Carrier: ReportUS Government Worker Prevented From Leaving China: What We Know 2025 NEWSWEEK DIGITAL LLC.

'Talks Were Pragmatic...': Kremlin's Big Reveal On Trump-Putin Phone Call

Time of India

20-07-2025

Politics
Time of India

'Talks Were Pragmatic...': Kremlin's Big Reveal On Trump-Putin Phone Call

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said a Putin-Trump meeting was "necessary" to formalize key agreements regarding Ukraine. While Moscow insisted it was ready to act quickly, Peskov noted that 'the time hadn't come yet.' He also referred to a 'difficult' Trump-Putin call, highlighting ongoing tensions but emphasizing Russia's unchanging goals in the conflict. Watch Read More

AllAfrica

12-07-2025

Business
AllAfrica

Europe nears a flashpoint as US-Russia ties fray

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Trump-Putin disconnect, Russian strikes bode ill for Ukraine James Davis analyzes a pivotal escalation in the Ukraine conflict marked by a faltering Trump-Putin dialogue and Russia's largest aerial assault of the war. Kremlin sources say Russian President Vladimir Putin has abandoned hopes of improved US ties. Germany's fiscal debate reveals deeper economic malaise Diego Faßnacht analyzes how Germany's 2025 budget debate has exposed a deeper crisis of economic direction and political fragmentation. In place of structural reforms, Germany is offering a vast spending plan without a clear growth strategy. Japanese manufacturers continue to expand in China Scott Foster observes that despite rising geopolitical tensions and US-led pressure to decouple from China, Japanese businesses are deepening their presence in the Chinese market, betting on Beijing's push for domestic consumption to drive demand. US tariffs blowback in Asia as power trumps principle Scott Foster analyzes the sweeping impact of President Donald Trump's newly announced tariffs on Asia, which disproportionately target poorer states, ASEAN and key US allies like Japan and South Korea, measures that are straining US credibility across the region.

Russia Ukraine War Russia Strikes Kyiv With Missiles, Drones In Largest Aerial Attack

News18

07-07-2025

Politics
News18

Russia Ukraine War Russia Strikes Kyiv With Missiles, Drones In Largest Aerial Attack