If you are under the impression that DNI Gabbard is a crusading Lone Ranger looking through boxes hidden in closets and putting out into the public all the records she is showing during her press conferences ... Please. Everything she is releasing is being coordinated with CIA, DOD, and DOJ. DNI does not have independent declassification authority. She must follow the procedures set forth in the EO to do so. The Agency that produced the classified information is where the declassification authority rests. So, for example, the House Intel Comm. Report published on Tuesday was sent by that Comm -- then under Devin Nunes -- to the CIA Inspector General in 2017. In 2020, then DNI Ratcliffe sent it to the CIA again for purposes of getting it declassified, but that didn't happen prior to the end of Trump's first term. Now CIA Director Ratcliffe declassified it and gave it to Gabbard to publish. Gabbard is just the face of this exercise. My guess is that this is an exercise of rehabbing her after she was very publicly on the wrong side of the Iran bombing issue several weeks ago. Trump likes her and isn't interested in having to replace Cabinet officials. He knows how the constant turnover in his first Administration contributed to crippling efforts to get things done. This is the perfect issue to push her forward on -- particularly as a life-long Democrat from Hawaii now busting the chops of her former party and Hawaii's Favorite Son. Somewhat ironic since Obama urged the Hawaii Democrat Party to name her to replace Daniel Inouye when he died, but they ignored him and named Brian Schatz instead. If only .... But these disclosure by her are all part of a well thought-out plan -- and I think the declassification and disclosures are only just getting started.
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