Given the ongoing war between the United States and Russia in Ukraine, it’s natural for Americans to conclude that Russia is our enemy

Not so. Our enemy is instead the U.S. national-security establishment — i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — the entity that is responsible for the war in Ukraine and that is destroying our lives, liberties, and well-being here at home.

[The] American ancestors would have understood this phenomenon. If the Constitution had called into existence a national-security state form of government, our ancestors would never have accepted it. That would have meant that the United States would have continued operating under the Articles of Confederation, a type of governmental structure without a standing army.

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🕵️ Executive Privilege, Classified Gossip, and Congress Locked Out

The Trump administration has drawn a curtain not just over the public, but over Congress itself. Tulsi Gabbard’s office has told Hill staff it will not share the full classified intelligence that triggered a whistleblower complaint against her, citing “the assertion of executive privilege to portions” of the material — even though the intel in question is an NSA report about a conversation between two foreign nationals discussing Jared Kushner.

Democratic intel chiefs Mark Warner and Jim Himes say they can’t even confirm from the redacted version whether the intercepted discussion was about Kushner, because the complaint they finally received — eight months after it was filed and reportedly kept locked in a safe — is so heavily blacked out. The whistleblower accuses Gabbard of choking off distribution of the intelligence for political reasons and slowing its transmission to Congress; Gabbard denies wrongdoing and points to an inspector general who found the specific allegations about her “not credible,” while pointedly dodging the core transparency question.

Executive privilege is almost never used to keep the Gang of Eight — the top bipartisan intel leaders — from seeing raw intelligence, especially when it’s about third‑country actors talking about a Trump relative, not about internal White House deliberations. Former NSA general counsel Glenn Gerstell calls that move “rare,” and other veterans say flatly it’s abnormal to smother a whistleblower case in secrecy while the same administration leaks just enough to declare the Kushner‑related claims “demonstrably false” without showing why.

Republicans who control the intelligence committees have dismissed the whole affair as a manufactured Democratic smear and see no reason to push past the privilege wall, which leaves Democrats with theory and outrage but no leverage. On paper, Congress oversees the intelligence community; in practice, when a complaint touches Trump’s inner circle, the NSA cites national security, the DNI cites executive privilege, and the people supposedly in charge are told to be grateful for a redacted summary on a read‑and‑return basis.

Call it the new security doctrine: surveillance for everyone, oversight for no one — especially if the intercepts stray too close to the family.

#Gabbard #Kushner #whistleblower #executivePrivilege #NSA #Trump #Congress #USpolitics

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NSA Launches Sweeping Restructuring Focused on AI, China And Cyber Threats 🚀


The National Security Agency is preparing for its most significant internal overhaul in at least a decade, as the intelligence agency moves to reshape its operations around artificial intelligence, China, cybersecurity and military support.

The restructuring is being driven by NSA Director Gen. Joshua M. Rudd and is expected to reorganize major elements of the agency’s headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Under the proposed structure, five new mission organizations would be established, focusing on artificial intelligence, China, cybersecurity, combat support and global intelligence. Each would be headed by a newly elevated mission director with broad authority over the organization’s work.

The changes reflect a growing shift in U.S. intelligence priorities. Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a central element of the competition between Washington and Beijing, while cyber operations remain a critical component of both national defense and modern warfare.

The plan would also give the agency a more centralized structure for addressing China, reflecting the country’s expanding importance across U.S. intelligence and national security operations.

One of the more consequential changes could involve leadership. Officials familiar with the plan said some senior positions could potentially be filled by candidates from outside the NSA, a move that could bring new expertise into an agency traditionally dependent on career intelligence personnel.

The proposed restructuring comes as the NSA faces pressure to adapt more quickly to emerging technologies and a changing strategic environment. Rather than organizing primarily around traditional intelligence functions, the new model would place greater emphasis on specific national-security missions.

Implementation is expected to begin this fall, with the agency aiming to have the new structure operating at full capacity by early 2027.

For the NSA, the overhaul represents more than an administrative reorganization. It signals an effort to redesign one of America’s most powerful intelligence institutions around the technologies, adversaries and battlefields that are increasingly defining the next era of national security.

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The Spy Agency Reboots 🤖

The National Security Agency is preparing its biggest internal restructuring in at least a decade. Gen. Joshua Rudd wants five new mission organizations: artificial intelligence, China, cybersecurity, combat support and global intelligence.

Each would be led by a “mission director” with authority comparable to an NSA deputy director.

The NSA is believed to employ more than 30,000 people. It is larger than the CIA. Yet the plan is being assembled at startup speed.

The new chiefs must produce organizational designs by the end of September. The rollout is planned for mid-October. Full operating capacity is due by mid-January.

One former official said Rudd admitted the agency did not yet know how to do it, so it would make “reversible decisions” in a hurry. The Pentagon has discovered agile management.

Rudd also revived Tailored Access Operations, the elite hacking unit once known as TAO. It will sit inside the global-intelligence organization and is expected to get more money in the next fiscal year.

TAO exists to penetrate the digital targets that do not respond to polite requests for access.

The agency is also rolling out an internal desktop tool called “Ask Mary.” It wants access to commercial A.I. models. It reportedly worked around a Pentagon ban to use Anthropic’s Mythos model.

Washington is debating whether frontier A.I. might end civilization. The NSA has decided it needs the login credentials.

NSA 21, the previous major restructuring, began in 2016 with a two-year runway. It is reportedly still unfinished. Rudd has given the next renovation four months.

The country’s largest eavesdropping agency is now reorganizing around China, cyberwar, A.I. and combat support. The only thing moving faster than the technology is the PowerPoint deck explaining who owns it.

#NSA #AI #Cybersecurity #China

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