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If we ever get a dem president they need to repurpose the ball room to a museum/monument for black people, famous immigrants, and women.

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2 hours ago, C-Man said:


Better yet — let’s just tear it down

2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Burn it to the ground. I’m not kidding. 

would be satisfying...but wasteful. the money will have already been spent. 

just rip out all the gold plating, shag carpet and tacky wallpaper, hose it down, and yes, make it some sort of dedicated space/monument in honor of any number of American citizens, groups, immigrants, etc. that are being attacked by their own government.

that will make more heads explode than destroying it completely. 

 

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wide-ranging-group-us-officials-pursues-trumps-fight-against-deep-state-2025-10-20/

 

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A group of dozens of officials from across the federal government, including U.S. intelligence officers, has been helping to steer President Donald Trump's drive for retribution against his perceived enemies, according to government records and a source familiar with the effort.

The Interagency Weaponization Working Group, which has been meeting since at least May, has drawn officials from the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice and Defense Departments, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Communications Commission, among other agencies, two of the documents show.

 

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Trump issued an executive order  on his inauguration day in January instructing the attorney general to work with other federal agencies “to identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the federal government related to the weaponization of law enforcement and the weaponization of the Intelligence Community.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard earlier this year announced groups within their agencies to “root out” those who they say misused government power against Trump.

Shortly after Reuters asked the agencies for comment on Monday, Fox News reported the existence of the group, citing Gabbard as saying she "stood up this working group." Key details in the Reuters story are previously unreported.

 

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Several U.S. officials confirmed the existence of the Interagency Weaponization Working Group to Reuters in response to the questions and said the group's purpose was to carry out Trump’s executive order.

“None of this reporting is new,” said a White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

ODNI spokeswoman Olivia Coleman said, “Americans deserve a government committed to deweaponizing, depoliticizing and ensuring that power is never again turned against the people it’s meant to serve.”

 

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The existence of the interagency group indicates the administration’s push to deploy government power against Trump’s perceived foes is broader and more systematic than previously reported. Interagency working groups in government typically forge administration policies, share information and agree on joint actions.

Trump and his allies use the term “weaponization” to refer to their unproven claims that officials from previous administrations abused federal power to target him during his two impeachments, his criminal prosecutions, and the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

The interagency group's mission is "basically to go after 'the Deep State,’" the source said. The term is used by Trump and his supporters to refer to the president's perceived foes from the Obama and Biden administrations and his own first term.

Reuters could not determine the extent to which the interagency group has put its plans into action. The news agency also could not establish Trump’s involvement in the group.

BIDEN, COMEY, OTHERS REPORTEDLY DISCUSSED

Among those discussed by the interagency group, the source said, were former FBI Director James Comey; Anthony Fauci, Trump's chief medical advisor on the COVID-19 pandemic; and former top U.S. military commanders who implemented orders to make COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for servicemembers. Discussions of potential targets have ranged beyond current and former government employees to include former President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, the source said.

A senior ODNI official disputed that account and said there was “no targeting of any individual person for retribution.”

“IWWG is simply looking at available facts and evidence that may point to actions, reports, agencies, individuals, etc. who illegally weaponized the government in order to carry out political attacks,” the official said.

Lawyers for Comey and Hunter Biden did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and there was no immediate response from Fauci.

Reuters reviewed more than 20 government records and identified the names of 39 people involved in the interagency group. Five of the records concerned the interagency group, five pertained to the Weaponization Working Group that Bondi announced in February, and nine referred to a smaller subgroup of employees from DOJ and several other agencies that remain focused on the January 6, 2021, attack by Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol.

The source said an important player in the interagency group is Justice Department attorney Ed Martin, who failed in May to win Senate support to become U.S. attorney for Washington after lawmakers expressed concern about his support for January 6 rioters. Martin, who also oversees Bondi’s DOJ weaponization group, is the department’s pardon attorney.

Martin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Other people working in or with the group include COVID-19 vaccine mandate opponents and proponents of Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, according to a Reuters review of their social media accounts and public statements.

A Justice Department spokesperson acknowledged that Bondi and Gabbard were ordered by Trump to undertake a review of alleged acts of “weaponization” by previous administrations but did not comment specifically on the Interagency Weaponization Working Group’s activities.

Reuters could not determine whether the group has powers to take any action or instruct agencies to act or if its role is more advisory.

RUSSIA PROBE AND JAN.6 PROSECUTIONS WERE ISSUES

The source said ODNI official Paul McNamara was a leading figure in the interagency group. McNamara is a retired U.S. Marine officer and an aide to Gabbard. Two other sources said McNamara oversees Gabbard’s Directors Initiatives Group (DIG), as first reported by the Washington Post. He is among at least 10 ODNI officials associated with the interagency group, two documents show.

McNamara did not respond to an email making a request for comment.

Senators from both parties have already raised questions about the DIG’s operations, with Republicans and Democrats approving a defense budget bill this month containing a measure requiring Gabbard to disclose the group’s members, their roles and funding and how they received security clearances.

The source recalled the group being told that the ODNI, which oversees the 18-agency U.S. intelligence community, had begun using what they called “technical tools” to search an unclassified communications network for evidence of the “deep state” and hoped to expand its search to classified networks known as the Secure Internet Protocol Router, or SIPRnet, and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, or JWICS.

The ODNI official disputed this as inaccurate and “not how the systems operate.” Reuters could not obtain independent information about the tools.

A "big pillar they pushed" at the interagency group, said the source, was purging officials involved in investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and in compiling a 2017 multi-agency U.S. intelligence assessment that determined Moscow attempted to sway the race to Trump.

Gabbard said in July that the DIG had found documents showing former President Barack Obama ordered intelligence agencies to manufacture the 2017 assessment – charges an Obama spokesperson rejected as “bizarre.”

The 2017 assessment’s conclusion was corroborated by a bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report released in August 2020 and by a review ordered earlier this year by CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Another focus for the interagency group was retribution for the prosecution of the Jan. 6 rioters, said the source.

Bondi tasked the DOJ Weaponization Working Group with reviewing the J6 prosecutions. Some of the documents seen by Reuters show that a smaller sub-set of employees from across the government have been convening on the topic. The Justice Department denied in its statement to Reuters that a separate January 6 group exists.

Among other issues the source recalled being discussed were the Jeffrey Epstein files, the prosecutions of Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, and the possibility of stripping security clearances from transgender U.S. officials. Reuters could not independently confirm these were the subject of discussions.

The White House official said the Epstein files “have not been part of the conversation.” The official also disputed Reuters’ characterization of what the working group has focused on.

The senior ODNI official also denied the group discussed the Epstein files, revoking security clearance for transgender officials or Bannon and Navarro’s cases.

Bannon did not respond to a request for comment. Navarro said his case was an example of Biden’s weaponization of government.

MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED HAVE BEEN VOCAL TRUMP BACKERS

The five documents pertaining to the interagency group indicate the involvement of at least 39 current and former officials from across the government.

In one document written before a spring gathering of the interagency group, ODNI official Carolyn Rocco said she hoped participants could help each other “understand current implications of past weaponization.”

Reuters could not determine Rocco’s position at the ODNI; the office only makes public the names of top officers.

The source identified her as one of two former U.S. Air Force officers involved with the group who work for Gabbard and have been vocal opponents of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the military. Rocco signed a January 1, 2024, open letter pledging to seek court-martials for senior military commanders who made the shots mandatory for service members.

Rocco did not respond to an emailed request for comment.

Some people on the list Reuters compiled from the documents it reviewed related to the interagency group have amplified Trump’s false election fraud claims.

One is former West Virginia secretary of state Andrew McCoy “Mac” Warner, according to two documents. Now an attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Warner alleged while running for West Virginia governor in 2023 that the CIA “stole” the 2020 election from Trump.

Warner did not respond to a request for comment.

Other names found in two of the documents include at least four White House officials, an aide to Vice President JD Vance, and at least seven Justice Department officials, including former FBI agent Jared Wise, who was prosecuted for joining the Jan. 6 assault and is now on Bondi’s DOJ weaponization group.

Wise did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Two of the documents show the involvement of two CIA officers but Reuters could not determine what roles they may have played in the interagency group. The CIA is legally prohibited from conducting operations against Americans or inside the U.S. except under very limited and specific circumstances.

The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Officials from other federal agencies that have some involvement in the interagency working group, including the FCC, the FBI and the IRS, did not respond to requests for comment. The DOD did not respond to a request for comment.

A DHS spokesperson said the agency is working with other federal departments to “reverse the harm caused by the prior administration.”

 

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https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/treasury-tells-employees-not-to-share-photos-of-white-house-ballroom-construction-1d4f2c49?st=jpomEa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

 

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The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing after images of construction equipment dismantling the facade of the building went viral online.

Treasury’s headquarters is located next door to the East Wing, giving employees there a front-row seat to the construction of President Trump’s $250 million ballroom. The new project is set to replace parts of the East Wing.

 

 

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“As construction proceeds on the White House grounds, employees should refrain from taking and sharing photographs of the grounds, to include the East Wing, without prior approval from the Office of Public Affairs,” a Treasury official wrote on Monday evening in an email to department employees viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The Treasury Department and the White House didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment about the email.

 

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During an event at the White House earlier Monday, Trump described the ballroom as a grand entertaining space for dignitaries. “We have a lot of construction going on, which you might hear periodically,” Trump told attendees at the event. “It just started today.” 

The ballroom will be funded by private donations, the president has said.

 

 

 

 

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White House officials have said the ballroom will be at least 90,000 square feet with the capacity for more than 650 seats. The East Room, where many large White House events are currently held, has enough space for 200 seats. The main footprint of the White House, not including the East and West Wing, is approximately 55,000 square feet.

“For more than 150 years, every President has dreamt about having a Ballroom at the White House to accommodate people for grand parties, State Visits, etc. I am honored to be the first President to finally get this much-needed project underway,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night. 

The construction project was met with criticism from Democrats. “Seeing the White House torn apart is really emblematic of the times we’re in,” Sen. Tina Smith (D., Minn.) wrote on social media.

“Construction has always been a part of the evolution of the White House,” Steven Cheung, White House communications director, wrote on X. “Losers who are quick to criticize need to stop their pearl clutching and understand the building needs to be modernized. Otherwise you’re just living in the past.”

In preparation for the start of construction, crews have moved historic trees away from the grounds and removed historical objects from the East Wing. Trump has frequently discussed the need for a ballroom, as the White House sometimes hosts guests in cramped quarters. State dinners are often held on the South Lawn in temporary tents. 

Trump views the new ballroom as an important part of his legacy. Since taking office, he has redecorated parts of the White House complex, including the Rose Garden, Oval Office, Palm Room and Colonnade. Trump installed two large flagpoles at the north and south entrances of the White House, and he regularly inspects his construction projects.

He recently made a detour on the way back to the White House from his suburban Virginia golf club to Dulles International Airport. His press team told reporters he wanted to take a different route to assess potential future projects. Allies of the president on Capitol Hill have proposed renaming the airport for Trump.

Closer to home, Trump last week unveiled plans for a large white arch in a traffic circle across from Arlington National Cemetery. Trump showed off a rendering of the arch—which some have dubbed the Arc de Trump—during a dinner last week with donors who are financing the construction of the White House ballroom.

 

 

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I like how Trump and his legion of rube dumbshit followers all insist that the ballroom will be privately funded. So, it's a means for rich pricks with 100s of millions of dollars at their disposal to buy even more influence. 

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4 minutes ago, Bojack said:

I like how Trump and his legion of rube dumbshit followers all insist that the ballroom will be privately funded. So, it's a means for rich pricks with 100s of millions of dollars at their disposal to buy even more influence. 

Yeah they think that it’s a perfectly good response. Um no, that’s called CORRUPTION

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Duh. The stated $250mm price tag --which is already ridiculously overpriced--will easily balloon by 50% at least. With all of those overruns going directly into the projects of Trump Co.

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14 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

tear gas is a chemical weapon ?

All I will say (not in response to you, just musing) is that it's an interesting piece of American Exceptionalism to pretend the US government/military is somehow above using chemical weapons. History never happened!

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19 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

All I will say (not in response to you, just musing) is that it's an interesting piece of American Exceptionalism to pretend the US government/military is somehow above using chemical weapons. History never happened!

Have we?  Speaking from ignorance or memory failure.

I was reading Dead Wake and a reference to the first German gas attack with chlorine gas and had to contemplate what kind of monster would think that's a really good idea.

Also musing that while the origins and prosecution of WWI are more complex and nuanced than WWII in a lot of ways, Germans really do seem to have a knack for being morally compromised (U-boat attacks on civilian and even passenger shipping, chemical weapons, etc.).

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Who said this? 

“So I just wanna say, thank you all. Uh, simply, behind me, so, is a knockout panel. This panel, the next time you come here, will be opened up and gone. No – uh, no problem with any of the surrounding areas. These, this room will be fixed. This will be like a cocktail – the whole floor will be cocktails or pre-briefings or whatever it may be, lots of different things. So the entire floor. So you come in, the entire floor sets up. We didn’t have to do any of that. Usually, you have to do that. You need different rooms to go along with a ballroom.” 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/21/donald-trump-25th-amendment

Scrutiny grows over Trump competence – but can an unfit president be removed?

 

the chair in the oval office on a spring 

Impeachment and 25th amendment offer routes for removal – but experts say system is set up to protect the president

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

"The strike was done with such precision that we were able to kill only the drug dealers and not the innocent passengers." - Administration, probably

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32 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

More evidence that the adults are in charge.

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Also, Lindsay Halligan texts a reporter.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here

Reporter seeks comment from DOJ before publishing texts and gets this:

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here

bafkreiglaa3cwpa2ykhywotlvbwjkff7epjgy3s

From cross- and crazy-eyed spokesbitch Natalie Baldassliar.

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This whole thing reads like a god damn argument over Quinn or Arch or the offense on an internet message board.

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6 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

This whole thing reads like a god damn argument over Quinn or Arch or the offense on an internet message board.

Just what are you trying to insinuate?  

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4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Have we?  Speaking from ignorance or memory failure.

I was reading Dead Wake and a reference to the first German gas attack with chlorine gas and had to contemplate what kind of monster would think that's a really good idea.

In WW1, we used phosgene and mustard gas. During WW2, we had chemical agents deployed all over Europe and parts of Asia to be used against Germany and Japan but it was [thankfully] never deemed necessary. Use of agent orange (allegedly) and other chemical agents (not allegedly) in Vietnam. Other allegations (unproven) of use in various Cold War conflicts, namely Korea. Many, many, many thousands of American soldiers over the past 100ish years subjected to chemical weapons testing (mostly minorities).

We still had missiles armed with VX gas and other chemical/nerve agents up until like 2022. 

All it would take is one psychotic administration with a Nazi running the Pentagon to bring shit like this back. Pretending it's all part of the past and we've moved on from shit like this is exactly the way you end up repeating history.

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26 minutes ago, Chopper said:

vid is 2 months old but I don't recall seeing it before siap

Because some of those negros can really move.  

Why do you hate the military?  You just made the list.

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22 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Oh NOW Wall Street is worried 

Wall Street isn't worried. They will always be fine.

They are just going to ride the bubble up until it pops. They will make money both going up and coming down.

They only people who should be worried are regular Americans.

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10 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

They only people who should be worried are regular Americans.

What a coincidence -- those happen to be the only people who don't fucking matter at all, not even a little bit.

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In the very near future, they will convince the lower class that the people losing their 401k's were greedy intellectual elitists who never should have had those 401k's in the first place.  The lower class will cheer as the middle class is knocked into the lower class.  The top 1% will eventually own 99% instead of 95%.  That's all any of this is really about.

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5 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

In the very near future, they will convince the lower class that the people losing their 401k's were greedy intellectual elitists who never should have had those 401k's in the first place.  The lower class will cheer as the middle class is knocked into the lower class.  The top 1% will eventually own 99% instead of 95%.  That's all any of this is really about.

Basic problem with a lot of Americans summarized in cinema:

Way too many Americans watch Wall Street or the Wolf of Wall Street and come away admiring Gordon Gecko and Jordan Belfort. 

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4 hours ago, Bojack said:

I like how Trump and his legion of rube dumbshit followers all insist that the ballroom will be privately funded. So, it's a means for rich pricks with 100s of millions of dollars at their disposal to buy even more influence. 

Or they're lying about it.  I'm going with they're lying; seems to be the safe bet with these cunts.

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

 

I see stories like this and I think of the emails I've been getting over the last month and a half from the last dealer we bought from (early 2023) offering me 0.9 for up to 5 years on whatever I want on the lot.

 

 

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1 minute ago, 4th&Five said:

Michelle Obama planted a garden and they lost their minds. 

Truly....imagine if this exact thing were happening under Obama.  Fox news would have wall-to-wall coverage of "OBAMA DESTROYS THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE!"  They might even pre-empt one of their reverse mortgate commercials to air extended coverage.  It would be the only thing they talked about for months.

Now?  Not a fucking word.

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7 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wide-ranging-group-us-officials-pursues-trumps-fight-against-deep-state-2025-10-20/

 

 

 

 

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The existence of the interagency group indicates the administration’s push to deploy government power against Trump’s perceived foes is broader and more systematic than previously reported. Interagency working groups in government typically forge administration policies, share information and agree on joint actions.

Trump and his allies use the term “weaponization” to refer to their unproven claims that officials from previous administrations abused federal power to target him during his two impeachments, his criminal prosecutions, and the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

The interagency group's mission is "basically to go after 'the Deep State,’" the source said. The term is used by Trump and his supporters to refer to the president's perceived foes from the Obama and Biden administrations and his own first term.

Reuters could not determine the extent to which the interagency group has put its plans into action. The news agency also could not establish Trump’s involvement in the group.

BIDEN, COMEY, OTHERS REPORTEDLY DISCUSSED

Among those discussed by the interagency group, the source said, were former FBI Director James Comey; Anthony Fauci, Trump's chief medical advisor on the COVID-19 pandemic; and former top U.S. military commanders who implemented orders to make COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for servicemembers. Discussions of potential targets have ranged beyond current and former government employees to include former President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, the source said.

A senior ODNI official disputed that account and said there was “no targeting of any individual person for retribution.”

“IWWG is simply looking at available facts and evidence that may point to actions, reports, agencies, individuals, etc. who illegally weaponized the government in order to carry out political attacks,” the official said.

Lawyers for Comey and Hunter Biden did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and there was no immediate response from Fauci.

Reuters reviewed more than 20 government records and identified the names of 39 people involved in the interagency group. Five of the records concerned the interagency group, five pertained to the Weaponization Working Group that Bondi announced in February, and nine referred to a smaller subgroup of employees from DOJ and several other agencies that remain focused on the January 6, 2021, attack by Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol.

The source said an important player in the interagency group is Justice Department attorney Ed Martin, who failed in May to win Senate support to become U.S. attorney for Washington after lawmakers expressed concern about his support for January 6 rioters. Martin, who also oversees Bondi’s DOJ weaponization group, is the department’s pardon attorney.

Martin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Other people working in or with the group include COVID-19 vaccine mandate opponents and proponents of Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, according to a Reuters review of their social media accounts and public statements.

A Justice Department spokesperson acknowledged that Bondi and Gabbard were ordered by Trump to undertake a review of alleged acts of “weaponization” by previous administrations but did not comment specifically on the Interagency Weaponization Working Group’s activities.

Reuters could not determine whether the group has powers to take any action or instruct agencies to act or if its role is more advisory.

RUSSIA PROBE AND JAN.6 PROSECUTIONS WERE ISSUES

The source said ODNI official Paul McNamara was a leading figure in the interagency group. McNamara is a retired U.S. Marine officer and an aide to Gabbard. Two other sources said McNamara oversees Gabbard’s Directors Initiatives Group (DIG), as first reported by the Washington Post. He is among at least 10 ODNI officials associated with the interagency group, two documents show.

McNamara did not respond to an email making a request for comment.

Senators from both parties have already raised questions about the DIG’s operations, with Republicans and Democrats approving a defense budget bill this month containing a measure requiring Gabbard to disclose the group’s members, their roles and funding and how they received security clearances.

The source recalled the group being told that the ODNI, which oversees the 18-agency U.S. intelligence community, had begun using what they called “technical tools” to search an unclassified communications network for evidence of the “deep state” and hoped to expand its search to classified networks known as the Secure Internet Protocol Router, or SIPRnet, and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, or JWICS.

The ODNI official disputed this as inaccurate and “not how the systems operate.” Reuters could not obtain independent information about the tools.

A "big pillar they pushed" at the interagency group, said the source, was purging officials involved in investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and in compiling a 2017 multi-agency U.S. intelligence assessment that determined Moscow attempted to sway the race to Trump.

Gabbard said in July that the DIG had found documents showing former President Barack Obama ordered intelligence agencies to manufacture the 2017 assessment – charges an Obama spokesperson rejected as “bizarre.”

The 2017 assessment’s conclusion was corroborated by a bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report released in August 2020 and by a review ordered earlier this year by CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Another focus for the interagency group was retribution for the prosecution of the Jan. 6 rioters, said the source.

Bondi tasked the DOJ Weaponization Working Group with reviewing the J6 prosecutions. Some of the documents seen by Reuters show that a smaller sub-set of employees from across the government have been convening on the topic. The Justice Department denied in its statement to Reuters that a separate January 6 group exists.

Among other issues the source recalled being discussed were the Jeffrey Epstein files, the prosecutions of Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, and the possibility of stripping security clearances from transgender U.S. officials. Reuters could not independently confirm these were the subject of discussions.

The White House official said the Epstein files “have not been part of the conversation.” The official also disputed Reuters’ characterization of what the working group has focused on.

The senior ODNI official also denied the group discussed the Epstein files, revoking security clearance for transgender officials or Bannon and Navarro’s cases.

Bannon did not respond to a request for comment. Navarro said his case was an example of Biden’s weaponization of government.

MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED HAVE BEEN VOCAL TRUMP BACKERS

The five documents pertaining to the interagency group indicate the involvement of at least 39 current and former officials from across the government.

In one document written before a spring gathering of the interagency group, ODNI official Carolyn Rocco said she hoped participants could help each other “understand current implications of past weaponization.”

Reuters could not determine Rocco’s position at the ODNI; the office only makes public the names of top officers.

The source identified her as one of two former U.S. Air Force officers involved with the group who work for Gabbard and have been vocal opponents of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the military. Rocco signed a January 1, 2024, open letter pledging to seek court-martials for senior military commanders who made the shots mandatory for service members.

Rocco did not respond to an emailed request for comment.

Some people on the list Reuters compiled from the documents it reviewed related to the interagency group have amplified Trump’s false election fraud claims.

One is former West Virginia secretary of state Andrew McCoy “Mac” Warner, according to two documents. Now an attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Warner alleged while running for West Virginia governor in 2023 that the CIA “stole” the 2020 election from Trump.

Warner did not respond to a request for comment.

Other names found in two of the documents include at least four White House officials, an aide to Vice President JD Vance, and at least seven Justice Department officials, including former FBI agent Jared Wise, who was prosecuted for joining the Jan. 6 assault and is now on Bondi’s DOJ weaponization group.

Wise did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Two of the documents show the involvement of two CIA officers but Reuters could not determine what roles they may have played in the interagency group. The CIA is legally prohibited from conducting operations against Americans or inside the U.S. except under very limited and specific circumstances.

The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Officials from other federal agencies that have some involvement in the interagency working group, including the FCC, the FBI and the IRS, did not respond to requests for comment. The DOD did not respond to a request for comment.

A DHS spokesperson said the agency is working with other federal departments to “reverse the harm caused by the prior administration.”

 

Well, at least they got the name of the group right.

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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Or they're lying about it.  I'm going with they're lying; seems to be the safe bet with these cunts.

I'm going with both. It'll be publicly funded and they'll insist it's privately funded so they can pocket the $200 million.

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36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Truly....imagine if this exact thing were happening under Obama.  Fox news would have wall-to-wall coverage of "OBAMA DESTROYS THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE!"  They might even pre-empt one of their reverse mortgate commercials to air extended coverage.  It would be the only thing they talked about for months.

Now?  Not a fucking word.

 

"Well, you knew this was coming.  Urban sprawl has reached Pennsylvania Avenue, as America's first black president has demolished part of the White House, creating an eyesore for the community and tanking neighboring home values.  When will they learn?

Now to prove we're not racist, here's Shermichael Singleton."

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12 hours ago, mchookem said:

would be satisfying...but wasteful. the money will have already been spent. 

just rip out all the gold plating, shag carpet and tacky wallpaper, hose it down, and yes, make it some sort of dedicated space/monument in honor of any number of American citizens, groups, immigrants, etc. that are being attacked by their own government.

that will make more heads explode than destroying it completely. 

 

As others have said, if he had anything to do with it -- burn it to the fucking ground. Full stop.

 

7 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

It's gotten way too fucking expensive. Lower class is struggling with inflation and they can't justify $500 nights at the Fair. This year's weather probably didn't help either. We had a very mild summer in Dallas but highs have remained steadily in the 90's until this past weekend.

 

7 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

No. This is an abomination that has no place as part of one of the most historic buildings in the entire country. It should be destroyed and the White House restored to the original design. Even from a purely aesthetic perspective, this fucks up the symmetry and simplicity of the building. It’s architecturally incorrect. 

This.

 

2 hours ago, Chopper said:

like this guy

 

This guy should be SecDef instead of Whiskey Pete.

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29 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

What?  I mean, literally, what?  He want the DOJ to just pay him a random sum?  wtf is going on here?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html

For other than "constitutional" torts, anyone having a tortious (non-contractual) legal claim against the federal government or any of its officials must go through the Federal Tort Claims Act.

That Act provides a system through which a claim is submitted outside of court and can be paid or settled by the government before a suit is filed.  Once the process is exhausted, and a claim denied by the administrative process, a lawsuit can be filed.

This applies to you, me, and everyone else, including Trump.  For all but the most minor of claims with the most obvious liability, i.e. a drunken FBI agent runs a red light and t-bones your car, leading to a $10,000 property and personal injury claim, you, me, and everyone else would be forced to file suit.

The obvious answer for this is to deny his claim and force him to file suit.

Not that any of that will happen.

 

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Didn’t he beg his donors to crowdfund his defenses?  So ma and pa hooplehead in Muncie give him $200 that they can’t really afford, plus vote for him, and in return he raises their living expenses and gets their $200 returned to him which he pockets.  Multiplied by a million hoopleheads. 

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Didn’t he beg his donors to crowdfund his defenses?  So ma and pa hooplehead in Muncie give him $200 that they can’t really afford, plus vote for him, and in return he raises their living expenses and gets their $200 returned to him which he pockets.  Multiplied by a million hoopleheads. 

Whether he "asked" or not, I think it is crystal clear that his campaign(s) paid for all of his many defenses.  https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trumps-use-campaign-funds-pay-legal-bills

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