Himes, JA Jim Rep
thiel diaLOG
4:26
4 minutes, 26 seconds
Alexis Grinkovic, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in
4:34
4 minutes, 34 seconds
July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended dialogue gathering since 2021. The website
4:41
4 minutes, 41 seconds
directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the PayPal mafia, a former Middle East chief of
4:50
4 minutes, 50 seconds
intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data broker, and advertising data companies.
5:02
5 minutes, 2 seconds
AUREN? Hoffman, Dialogue's chairman, founded the location data broker Safegraph and the identity resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy.
5:13
5 minutes, 13 seconds
He appears in the directory alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, whose department writes the rules on financial
5:21
5 minutes, 21 seconds
data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its
5:29
5 minutes, 29 seconds
data privacy authority. I am thrilled that my senator DEM HINES COMMITTEE? got a special shout out in this Wired article because of course he did. and Palanteer co-founder Joe
5:39
5 minutes, 39 seconds
Lansdale, whose software runs case management for US immigration and customs enforcement and data fusion for
5:46
5 minutes, 46 seconds
the Pentagon and Intelligence Community, is listed in the same society as Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and
5:53
5 minutes, 53 seconds
Representative Jim Hemes, the ranking member of the House Intelligent Committee, which oversees agencies
6:00
6 minutes
contracts with. But the article points out that more than just occupying the upper strata of society, the people on this list are all future obsessed.
6:08
6 minutes, 8 seconds
They're obsessed with AI and living forever. They're a bunch of weirdos.
6:12
6 minutes, 12 seconds
Okay. And speaking of the future, they were actually asked to predict the future. Here is some of what they have foreseen for the rest of us. That AI
6:21
6 minutes, 21 seconds
will reorder work, war, education, and belief within a few years. Several foresee mass labor displacement and a
6:28
6 minutes, 28 seconds
swing back toward unions and government programs. Others predict an AI winter, domestic terrorism targeting data
6:35
6 minutes, 35 seconds
centers, criminal defendants choosing AI lawyers over public defenders, or religious revival provoked by the
6:42
6 minutes, 42 seconds
disruption. Societal degeneration predicted one person will continue to accelerate. Great. Otherwise, people
6:49
6 minutes, 49 seconds
associated with this group include higher ranking members of the DEA, the Anti-Defamation League, which makes a lot of sense, the KO Institute, and the Charles Koch Foundation.
Sync to video time
---
CT's Jim Himes responds to leaked Peter Thiel network ...
https://www.wshu.org › connecticut-news › ct-jim-hime...
Jun 18, 2026 — U.S. Congressman Jim Himes was named in a list of U.S. officials connected to a private organization founded by tech billionaire Peter ...
U.S. Congressman Jim Himes was named in a list of U.S. officials connected to a private organization founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
An investigation by Wired magazine revealed the details of the society’s internal records. The private, invite-only organization called Dialog hosts off-the-record annual retreats and was founded 2o years ago. WIRED reported that it independently verified an anonymous tip from a hacktivist who discovered the list in a website's code directory. The leaked registration lists Silicon Valley executives next to senior US officials who oversee their industries.
Himes is a member of the Financial Services Committee and the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The committee conducts oversight of the United States Intelligence Community. In the past, it’s overseen agencies Palantir contracts with. Himes’s name appeared alongside Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. The company’s software was used previously by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Pentagon.
WSHU reached out for a comment. A representative for Himes replied, “Congressman Himes attended one annual conference held by the Dialog group roughly a decade ago. Since then, he has had no affiliation with the group and attended no additional events."
WIRED reported that none of the registrants used a government email address. This means that attendance records would not be subject to public-records laws. The organization is slated to have a retreat in August. According to WIRED, records show the organization’s members but do not show who is registered to attend the 2026 retreat.
An 2 26
President Donald Trump's administration seems very confused as to why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was in Georgia for the FBI's raid on the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center late last month. The story has now changed four times, and twice in the past 24 hours.
The first to comment on Gabbard was Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who claimed that Gabbard just happened to be in Atlanta when the raid happened. Gabbard then said that Trump asked her personally to go to Atlanta for the raid.
In a letter she sent to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), Gabbard wrote, "My presence was requested by the President and executed under my broad statutory authority to coordinate, integrate and analyze intelligence related to election security, including counter-intelligence, foreign and other malign influence and cybersecurity."
By Wednesday, Trump appeared to forget about it.
In a conversation with "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Llamas, Trump spoke about his conspiracy theory that he lost the 2020 election. Llamas asked Trump point-blank, “Why is Tulsi Gabbard there?”
“I don’t know,” Trump answered. “But a lot of the cheating comes from, it’s international cheating.”
Less than 24 hours later, Trump's story changed again.
While he was speaking to the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump gushed over Gabbard for attending the raid.
“She took a lot of heat two days ago because she went in at Pam’s insistence,” the president said, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“They say, ‘why is she doing it’… because Pam wanted her to do it. And you know why? Because she’s smart," Trump added, relayed The Guardian.
Georgia lawmakers are concerned about Trump's spreading of conspiracy theories and the purpose of the Fulton County raid. Georgia’s Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Bondi on Thursday morning, asking for specifics.
“We are deeply concerned that President Trump’s consistent spreading of misinformation and dangerous conspiracy theories about the 2020 election fundamentally undermines the electoral process, endangers election workers, and erodes public trust in our democracy,” the lawmakers wrote. “This unprecedented seizure only heightens those concerns.”
If "the Trump administration is investigating a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus," it would legally require "an immediate congressional briefing," said Sen. Raphael Warnock and Reps. Lucy McBath and Nikema Williams all Democrats from Georgia.
The search warrant that demanded "copies" of the necessary documents didn't come from a local judge. According to the lawmakers, “unusually, the warrant was filed by the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Missouri and follows the reported firing of the Atlanta FBI special agent in charge Paul Brown after expressing concern about this search."
The Associated Press reported that Brown was ousted the week before the raid. He was overseeing the Atlanta office. MS NOW confirmed in the days that followed that the Brown was pushed out because he refused to cooperate.
The group requested a briefing from the Department of Justice “concerning this activity and its related investigation by February 13, 2026."
The statute of limitations on the case has long expired. So, the only way the administration would be able to do anything about it is if there was some kind of ongoing conspiracy, said Georgia lawyer Michael J. Moore when speaking to CNN.
---
---
7 25
NPR
Trump's spy chief claims the Obama administration 'manufactured' intel on Russia
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has published the latest in a series of reports that scrutinize years-old intel community...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, has published the latest in a series of recent Trump administration reports aimed at scrutinizing years-old intelligence community conclusions about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.
For years, President Trump has spread disinformation about those conclusions, calling the entire Russia investigation a "hoax," despite supporting evidence that has been systematically reviewed by intelligence agencies, lawmakers and Department of Justice lawyers.
Putin Ordered 'Influence Campaign' To Help Trump, U.S. Intelligence Report Says
On Friday afternoon, ODNI published a press releaseasserting that its director, Tulsi Gabbard, "revealed overwhelming evidence" that President Obama and his national security officials "manufactured and politicized intelligence" to launch a "years-long coup against President Trump." Gabbard echoed those conclusions across social media platforms X and Truth Social, and in interviews on Fox News in the days that followed.
Among the materials Gabbard declassified are emails and memos published under the banner of the new "Director's Initiatives Group," formed to "execut[e] President Trump's Executive Orders aimed at rebuilding trust in the [Intelligence Community]."
In those files, Obama officials exchange correspondence about Russian attempts at election interference, concluding that it was unlikely Russian hackers would successfully compromise physical election infrastructure or alter vote totals without detection but might be successful in influencing voter confidence in the election.
"There is no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count through cyber means," wrote an ODNI official whose name was redacted in a newly published email. "However, as seen in recent media reporting, any cyber activity directed against the election infrastructure is likely to have an effect on public confidence," they continued.
Mueller investigator says Russia interfered in 2016 — and in the 2024 election too
Gabbard also released a timeline that outlines events leading up to the 2017 assessment that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election. The timeline focuses on the conclusions by intelligence community officials that Russia likely had not and would not use cyber means to directly compromise voter systems or change vote tallies.
Gabbard argues that these conclusions are hypocritical and poke holes – if not directly contradict – the intelligence community's 2017 assessment that Russian attempted to influence the election.
But Obama officials never claimed that Russian hackers had successfully changed votes or hacked election infrastructure at scale.
The 2017 assessment focuses on Russian influence, from social media disinformation networks, hack-and-leak campaigns, Russian bot farms and other more psychological efforts made by Russian actors. Intelligence community experts acknowledge that Russian hacking targeting election infrastructure was likely limited and aimed at gathering intelligence.
Democrats were quick to criticize the new ODNI publication as contradictory to previous reviews of the assessment, as well as dishonest and politically motivated.
"This is utter nonsense," wrote Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
[
The Two-Way
Trump Denies Allegations Of Secret Ties, Collusion Between Campaign And Russia
"It is sadly not surprising that DNI Gabbard, who promised to depoliticize the intelligence community, is once again weaponizing her position to amplify the president's election conspiracy theories," wrote Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on X.
Meanwhile, earlier in July, CIA Director John Ratcliffe published a separate report reviewing the CIA's internal processes while compiling the 2017 assessment. On X.com, he claimed that Obama officials had "manipulated intelligence" in an effort to "get Trump."
However, like the newly declassified emails and memos, the CIA report doesn't appear to directly contradict the central thesis of the 2017 assessment: that Russia attempted to influence the American public and their perceptions of the 2016 election.
The CIA's "lessons-learned" review of the analytic procedure behind the 2017 assessment identified several recommendations for stricter compliance with CIA standards, but ultimately said that the actual conclusions made in that assessment were "defensible."
---
MSNBC STEVE B
#DNI Gabbard concocts odd ‘treasonous conspiracy’ theory, eyes Russia probe prosecutions
Tulsi Gabbard's new findings on the Trump-Russia scandal have been panned as “ludicrous.” The DNI is seeking criminal prosecutions anyway.
July 21, 2025,
By Steve Benen
By all appearances, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been struggling for months. On Capitol Hill, she’s become the subject of bipartisan ridicule, with one Republican senator recently questioning whether she should be medicated.
In the White House, it’s worse. In recent months, there’s been reporting from major outlets about the intelligence chief being sidelined, being left out of important meetings, and falling out of favor in the Oval Office. Indeed, in the run-up to the president launching a pre-emptive military strike in Iran, Donald Trump twice told reporters — out loud and on camera — that he didn’t care what Gabbard thought.
If the DNI were looking for a way to return to the president’s good graces, she apparently found one. The New York Times reported:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday issued the latest in a series of reports from the Trump administration attempting to undermine the eight-year-old assessment that Russia favored the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said the information she was releasing showed a ‘treasonous conspiracy in 2016’ by top Obama administration officials to harm Mr. Trump.
Late Friday afternoon, Gabbard’s Director’s Initiative Group (DIG) unveiled a report with a title that read, “Declassified Evidence of Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert President Trump’s 2016 Victory and Presidency.” In an accompanying press release, the DNI added, “The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government.”
It was over-the-top nonsense that Gabbard was quick to bring to Fox News during multiple on-air appearances, including an interview in which she raised the prospect of an anti-Trump “coup.”
The president appeared delighted. I lost count of how many items he published to his social media platform about Gabbard’s claims, but The Daily Beast tallied “at least 17 times,” which sounds about right.
Those who apparently believe it’s their job to parrot Trump played their predictable roles. House Speaker Mike Johnson, for example, wrote online in response to the DNI’s findings, “DISMANTLING THE DEEP STATE! New evidence from [Gabbard] confirms what we’ve long known: The Russia hoax was a political hit job manufactured by Obama officials and weaponized by intel agencies to take down President Trump.”
And if that were true, it would certainly be a big deal. But it’s not true at all.
Right off the bat, it’s worth noting that the hapless intelligence director could have better timing: The week before she released her weird report, Trump’s handpicked CIA director released the findings of his own internal investigation that concluded, once again, that Russia attacked the U.S. political system in 2016 because Putin’s regime wanted to put Trump in the White House — which is the same thing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found, and which is the same thing the Senate Intelligence Committee found when it was led by then-Sen. Marco Rubio, before he became Trump’s secretary of state.
But even if we put that aside, and consider Gabbard’s findings on their own, the DNI released a document that can charitably be described as an embarrassment to herself, her office and the U.S. intelligence community. An analysis from The Bulwark explained, “[E]ven a cursory look at the actual substance of Gabbard’s dramatic claims shows ... a nothingburger. There is no actual substance. Instead, there is blatant sleight of hand and manipulation of evidence, debunking a theory of Russian election interference that the Obama administration never endorsed.”
MaddowblogAt the six-month mark, Trump claims he kept promises he never actually made
Similarly, Philip Bump, who spent years covering the underlying scandal at The Washington Post, described Gabbard’s conclusions as “ludicrous.”
Broadly speaking, there are two main points to Gabbard’s pitch. The first is that Democratic officials in the Obama administration somehow manufactured the entire Russia scandal after Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race, following a period in which the intelligence community was largely indifferent to Vladimir Putin’s tactics before. We already know that’s not true: Not only did administration officials warn Americans about Russian efforts weeks *before* Election Day, but those same officials famously brought their concerns to Congress, only to be brushed off by GOP leaders.
Gabbard focused heavily on the fact that the Obama White House sought a revised assessment the month after Trump’s electoral victory, and the changes that were made at this point. But as The Bulwark explained, “this supposed scandal rests on a crude bait-and-switch.”
A quick look at the media reports Gabbard cites shows that they weren’t talking about altering the election outcome through ‘cyberattacks on election infrastructure’ — that is, actual tampering with the vote count. Rather, the claims of election interference via cyber warfare concerned, as the Washington Post put it, ‘individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.’ ... Was this a new, post-election assessment, as Gabbard seems to claim? Hardly: The same conclusion was announced at the start of the October 7, 2016, joint statement issued by the DNI and the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of seventeen intelligence agencies.
All of this dovetails with the second problem with Gabbard’s findings: The DNI leaned heavily into the fact that there was no evidence of Russia targeting U.S. vote-counting machines and election infrastructure. That’s true, but it’s also irrelevant: Democratic officials never claimed that Russia targeted U.S. vote-counting machines and election infrastructure.
Looking ahead, the fact that Gabbard released a pitiful report might seem unimportant. The DNI already lacked credibility, so the fact that her findings make her appear like an even more brazen partisan activist will strike some as trivial.
But Gabbard has also spent the last three days claiming that she’s now pushing for “indictments” and “prosecutions” of Obama administration officials who committed outrageous crimes that don’t appear to have actually happened in reality.
In other words, the release of a misguided report on Trump’s Russia scandal wasn’t just a desperate ploy to make the president happy; it was also an apparent first step toward pushing the Justice Department to act on a silly partisan stunt.
---
---
GGL 7 25
Time Magazine
Trump Envisions Jailing Obama as Tulsi Gabbard Threatens Prosecutions
Tulsi Gabbard recently referred evidence supposedly showing Obama Administration officials conspiring to subvert Trump's 2016 election...
.11 hours ago
Fox News
Tulsi Gabbard reveals 'historic' intelligence plot allegedly targeting Trump and more top headlines
Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox.
.11 hours ago
The Independent
Tulsi Gabbard openly accuses Obama of longstanding effort to overthrow Trump in coup
Gabbard claimed Obama and his officials committed 'treasonous conspiracy' over the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016...
.1 day ago
Newsweek
Tulsi Gabbard Unveils 230,000 MLK Docs Under Trump Executive Order
Gabbard announced the release of 230000 pages tied to MLK Jr.'s assassination, fulfilling a Trump-era transparency directive.
.2 hours ago
CBS News
Tulsi Gabbard claims Obama administration "conspiracy" to subvert 2016 election
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is claiming she has evidence that the Obama administration attempted to subvert the 2016...
.5 hours ago
MSNBC News
DNI Gabbard concocts odd ‘treasonous conspiracy’ theory, eyes Russia probe prosecutions
By all appearances, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been struggling for months. On Capitol Hill, she's become the...
.7 hours ago
The Times of India
Trump Teases Obama Arrest By FBI As Tulsi Gabbard Hints At More Coup Details | 'Russiagate' Row
U.S. President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated (deepfake) video that shows ex-President Barack Obama being arrested by FBI agents inside...
.17 hours ago
KFOX
Gabbard unveils docs claiming Obama officials skewed 2016 election intelligence
(TNND) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents on Friday that show reports alleging the Obama...
.2 days ago
The Daily Beast
Top Dem Deflates Gabbard’s Obama ‘Coup’ Claims in Two Words
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner blasted Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as “not competent,” moments before she dropped a report...
.1 day ago
---