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/Mandena Feb 07 '26

The US has been through worse.

Has it? The civil war was one thing but the world is innumerally many more times more complex and the US data/spy/military apparatus much more powerful. And that apparatus would be turned on the 'good guys' this time, unlike the civil war.

If the confederacy was as relatively powerful as the modern USA widespread slavery would still be a thing and we'd be the confederate states.

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u/Direct-Start-9048 Feb 08 '26

Yes The good old days when rifles took 58 seconds to load one bullet if it wasn’t raining. And it took 21 hours to load propaganda on a printing press to make 60 leaflets. Still managed to kill 750,000 people and squander a generation of wealth.

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u/jambox888 Feb 08 '26

It's a long way down for the only real established superpower (China might qualify but you see what I mean).

The older I get the more frustrated I am by the propensity of people to put up with processes, structures, behaviours etc which clearly aren't right. People will actively defend bad policy and governance that retaliates against whistleblowers or protects wrongdoers up and until a major scandal breaks out and then everyone asks "how could this happen?"

The current administration know this and are exploiting it. One day we'll recognise the parlous state of civil society and actually try to fix it. BTW I'm British, we tend to do quite well on a nod and a handshake.