U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced yesterday the dismantling of the Russiagate-created “Foreign Malign Influence Center” (FMIC), established by Congress in 2019. She stated, “FMIC and its predecessor entities were used by the previous administration to justify the suppression of free speech and to censor political opposition.” Any core functions of the “redundant” FMIC will be transferred to other pre-existing bodies.
William Burns, who had been head of the CIA under President Biden, wrote an article in The Atlantic about Tulsi Gabbard going after the intelligence community (e.g., declassifying documents on the Russiagate fraud, cutting her own office staff levels by almost 50%, and removing the security clearances of 37 officials), calling it a “great-power suicide” lauded by Russia and China. Burns wrote: “If intelligence analysts at the CIA saw our rivals engage in this kind of great-power suicide, we would break out the bourbon.… Instead, the sound we hear is of champagne glasses clinking in the Kremlin and Zhongnanhai”—that is, the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party.
