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Friday, February 13, 2026

The highly classified whistleblower complaint against DNI Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted by the National Security Agency (NSA) last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and sensitive matters related to Iran.

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Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

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-- Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) Feb 12, 2026 at 4:05 PM

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"The US intelligence officer's whistleblower highly classified complaint was based on a foreign-intelligence conversation collected by the National Security Agency (NSA) . The conversation included a discussion about a person close to Dummkopf Trumpf and at least in part concerned sensitive issues related to Iran. DNI Tulsi Gabbard, the most underqualified political hack to ever lead an intelligence organization, kept the report for eight months locked in a safe until it reached Congress in heavily redacted form last week.

CDI should never be sat on without action and is a gross dereliction of duty.

("CDI" is a US Army and FBI counterintelligence term meaning Credible Derogatory Information.')

Senior Trumpf junta apparatchiks bleated that the claims about the sinister Jared Kushner were demonstrably false, but declined to offer more specifics about the conversation on grounds that doing so could expose a highly sensitive surveillance method."

~snip~

Coincidentally on 4 Feb 2026, US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to D/CIA John Ratcliffe, which might be related to this matter, but this is too soon to tell and the NSA interception occurred last year. Link: Letter to CIA

For months the bellicose Trumpf junta has been beating the war drums to attack Iran on behalf of Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu. But the avaricious Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) and their accomplices-- like good-for-nothing oligarch Steve Witkoff-- are most likely seeking ways to monetize any potential conflict with Iran, the way the junta has been scheming to make money from the Gaza genocide and the Ukraine war.

This nefarious silver-spooned oligarch, who never worked a day in his life, is not a good human being in any way, shape, or form whatsoever. And neither is his despicable father, disgraced convicted superrich Charles Kushner, now astonishingly the US Ambassador to France and Monaco.


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-13 03:23 AM | Reply

Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, and Tulsi Gabbard: the three witches in MacBeth.


#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-13 03:28 PM | Reply

Kushner has been a slimy, weasly POS since day one.

If he heard Yiddish in his house instead of German, he'd know the phrase shanda fur de goyim.

A shame in front of the Gentiles. Exactly what he is.

Then again, I presumed Trump was Jewish, until his presidential run. To me, as a NYC Jew, he always seemed kinda Jewy. Definitely not Presbyterian. Maybe Episcopalian.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-02-13 03:58 PM | Reply

Hi DBT2:

Years ago some of my friends on the Upper East Side attended the various synagogues up there, the neighborhood where Bernie Madoff and Jeffrey Epstein both lived, but I can't recall which ones.

Anyways, both predators targeted or ensnared Jews, particularly Bernie who grifted the "Gold Coast" millionaires in Great Neck.

I have suspected one of the synagogues up there was a hunting ground for these two, but this is only a suspicion.

Growing up, we knew in my family and social circle that the Trumpfs weren't Jewish because of their German name.

And can you imagine any of the Trumpfs dropping a shekel into a pishka?


#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-13 04:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#4 Your POV and life observations are greatly appreciated, C0RI0LANUS.

#5 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-13 04:40 PM | Reply

There is a saloon/restaurant in NYC that I occasion once in a while. One early evening, to my right and back is an NYPD Lieutenant from the Intelligence Division sitting at a table enjoying an expensive meal with a NYS judge. We nod to each other politely.

Then I'm chatting and drinking with Irish and Jewish attorneys at the bar (one was interviewed on CNN over a huge case).

In walks an elderly Italian mobster who was busted in SDNY in the 1990s for operating those phony telephone booths and other sins.

I always joked with him that I lost a lot of money in his infernal machines and we all roar in laughter. He did time at Fort Dix FCI and uses his expired BOP ID card as his "introduction card" to strangers.

Anyways, after relating some amusing mafia anecdotes to us and enjoying the drink we bought him, he says: "'Scuse me gentlemen, I gotta go to work."

He saunters right past the NYPD LT and the judge and approaches a worker in the saloon to quietly collect the money the waiter owns the mob.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-13 05:43 PM | Reply

I don't go out much these days but a few time I went to an after hours bar in D.C. and it was considered a Safe Space because that's where cops would go to drink after their shift. Nobody is going to start ---- in an after-hours bar populated by Cops.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 06:19 PM | Reply

Found the hook in your article...

"The allegations in the conversation about Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, would be significant if verified, according to other U.S. officials familiar with its contents. While those officials agreed there was no corroborating evidence to support the allegations, they said that didn't prove they lacked any merit."

So they have nothing. Just an article about something that might be true, but they can't prove it.

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-02-13 07:35 PM | Reply

So they have nothing. Just an article about something that might be true, but they can't prove it.
#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds

We don't understand why you are telling yourself it matters.

You will never not support Trump.

You will never not support Trump.

There's no line Trump could cross that would lose your love and support.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 07:45 PM | Reply

So they have nothing. Just an article about something that might be true, but they can't prove it.
#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds

We don't understand why you are telling yourself it matters.

You will never not support Trump.

You will never not support Trump.

There's no line Trump could cross that would lose your love and support.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 07:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds

The article is about a whole bunch of smoke. So the question then becomes, why is Gabbard running cover for Kushner if it's just a bunch of smoke?

#11 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2026-02-13 07:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#8 ... but they can't prove it. ...

Like much of what Pres Trump asserts?

That aside.

If the accusations are not true, then Sec Garrard should release the document and provide reasons why it is incorrect.

Until then, it is looking like yet another Trump admin cover-up.


#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 07:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 07:47 PM |

Hey DJ LampEasy, did you happen to read this part? None of this ---- is verified by anyone.

"The allegations in the conversation about Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, would be significant if verified"

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-02-13 10:57 PM | Reply


"The allegations in the conversation about Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, would be significant if verified"

#13 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

From the Lumpers favorite source .... Anon Sources. ...

Similar to Ro Khanna and Massie blowing up 4 innocent people as pedophiles on the floor of congress.

I am shocked people can't sue congressmen regarding this. America is in a spiral to hell if this continues...

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-13 11:11 PM | Reply

@#13 ... "The allegations in the conversation about Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, would be significant if verified" ...

So, your current alias admits that the whistleblowers complaint has not been verified or rebutted.

Is that a reason to not release it publicly?


Or is Sec Gabbard going to continue to hide behind the ~national security~ excuse?


As I mentioned in #12...

... if the accusations are not true, then Sec Garrard should release the document and provide reasons why it is incorrect.

Until then, it is looking like yet another Trump admin cover-up. ...



It still looks that way, imo.


#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 11:12 PM | Reply

@#14 ... From the Lumpers favorite source .... Anon Sources. ... ...

The whistleblower is not an anon source.

Do try harder.

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 11:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#13 ... Hey DJ LampEasy, ...

Since your current trolling alias mentioned that, allow me to post another song ...

Is this what MAGA really thinks about Pres Trump?

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
I think I'd like to go back home and take it easy
There's a woman that I'd like to get to know, living there

[Chorus]
Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around
Everybody knows this is nowhere
La la la, la la la la
Everybody, everybody knows, everybody knows (La la la, la la la la)
Oh yeah

[Verse 2]
Every time I think about back home, it's cool and breezy
I wish that I could be there right now just passing time
...



#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 11:28 PM | Reply

@#17 ... Is this what MAGA really thinks about Pres Trump? ...

Or, maybe this ...

Delaney & Bonnie - Never Ending Song of Love (1971)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Chorus]
I've got a never-endin' love for you (Ee-ha)
From now on that's all I wanna do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd have a never-endin' love for you

I've got a never-endin' love for you
From now on that's all I wanna do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd have a never-endin' love for you
...



#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-14 01:54 AM | Reply

I don't go out much these days but a few time I went to an after hours bar in D.C. and it was considered a Safe Space because that's where cops would go to drink after their shift. Nobody is going to start ---- in an after-hours bar populated by Cops.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 06:19 PM |

During all the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan years ago, you could see all the fat-cat military and intelligence civilian contractors laughing and drinking it up in the bistros of Pentagon City.

You couldn't tell from their happy and bloated expressions that our country was at war and that our young boys and girls were getting mulched overseas.

I went there once or twice to meet friends while I assigned to the Pentagon because it was close, but I was disgusted and never went back. I went to the nearby Officer Clubs or met friends elsewhere.

Link: strategies.beer

#19 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-14 05:26 AM | Reply

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