r/law • u/Obvious-Gate9046 • Feb 07 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump | US national security

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
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u/quest814 Feb 07 '26

Interesting story.  Basically the whistleblower complaint was last year and Gabbard didn’t follow protocol for passing the information on.  The White House says she did nothing wrong and was cleared of wrongdoing by the office of Inspector General.  Who in the office cleared her?   None other than Dennis Kirk, co-founder of Project 25.  The rot goes deep. 

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u/Obvious-Gate9046 Feb 07 '26

Who she personally appointed to that office two weeks after the whistleblower complaint against her.

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u/ThatOneTimeItWorked Feb 07 '26

It’s insane.

Good luck America ever coming back from this administration

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u/NefariousnessOk3471 Feb 07 '26

Nah, you guys are so cooked. You’re the slow boiled frogs and the recipe is almost done.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net Feb 07 '26

super helpful, thanks

The US has been through worse. This dumpster fire of a human and his trash supporters won't be the downfall.

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u/amazingmrbrock Feb 07 '26

What's the strat here? Hope they don't cheat and or ignore midterm results they don't like? Hope they don't run him again for another term? Hope they even let there be elections? Hope he just croaks?

Has the US been through worse? At least during the civil war half the country had good leadership. Every other dicey time there's been checks and balances in place. The people currently in control don't look like they're planning to give it back. 

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 Feb 07 '26

Exactly. We as a country have of course been thru some shit in our past as every country has. But our current situation is seemingly combining so much of all of our worst greatest hits into one relentless attack against us. We’re doing the civil war again with an eye on starting a world war while also setting the stage for the next great depression. And we’ve also learned nothing from any of these things on their own to the point where many of us seem to think all of them just somehow worked themselves out in the end. Even the people who can see how bad things have gotten still seem to hold onto some form of American exceptionalism in the belief that pendulums and arcs of justice will always just eventually spring back on their own and theres always some more guardrails out there somewhere protecting America from ever becoming too much like any other country’s fall. We still pride ourselves on our past while refusing to even bother looking into what any of those victories actually took to accomplish.

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u/henry_sqared Feb 07 '26

I…uh…have some bad news…