A Veteran Reporter Just Revealed What Intel Insiders Were Really Doing Behind Trump’s Back

Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reported that a senior member of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s Director’s Initiatives Group described a pattern in which intelligence officials believed they needed to protect a “globalist” perspective by limiting information given to policymakers, including President Trump.

Herridge made the comments on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight” while discussing recently declassified documents related to 2020 intelligence assessments on China’s election influence operations. One November 20, 2020, email from a Strategic Intelligence Analyst stated that officials had “deliberately massaged our one pending PDB (President’s Daily Brief) to avoid any direct links to the election.”

“In the last week, I’ve been speaking with a very senior member of Director Gabbard’s investigations team known as the DIG,” Herridge said. “And what they told me is that they did see a pattern where there was a sense or a feeling in the intelligence community that they just knew better.”

She continued: “They had to save President Trump from his own instincts, from his own tendencies, and that there was very much a globalist view. And they had to preserve a globalist view. So, whether it was downplaying or suppressing intelligence about the threat from China, whether it was giving a pass and calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation, there was this level of a bureaucracy, a kind of conspiracy that was making decisions about the kind of information that should be reaching policy makers and ultimately the commander-in-chief.”

The DIG had examined topics including COVID-19 origins, Crossfire Hurricane, Havana Syndrome, and domestic surveillance. Herridge noted consistency between the new materials and earlier whistleblower claims that intelligence on China’s multi-domain influence efforts had been suppressed or altered.

Additional details included instant messages from a senior FBI counterintelligence official and reports of handwritten notes or track changes referencing domestic political considerations in intelligence products.