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From 2024, discussing the Kremlin origins of the “Ukraine bio-weapons lab” false flag w @AlexWitt of @MSNBC
EXCLUSIVE: 🚨 @TulsiGabbard Recycled Published Russian Intelligence And Claimed It Was An Official American Intelligence Document In Her Latest Act Of Deception Days Before She Is Set To “Resign” As DNI 🚨 In her “Ukrainian Bio lab” document “declassification” release this week, I’ve discovered that DNI Tulsi Gabbard used graphics from official Russian intelligence documents and slapped an ODNI @ODNIgov logo on top of these same documents to present them as an official intel report created by the US government. Upon further analysis of Tulsi Gabbard’s most recent declassification related to Ukraine, I have discovered evidence that she is directly peddling Russian government propaganda. Here’s the evidence: Source: dni.gov/files/BIOLAB_Slides.… Slide 1 ironically includes an IC assessment that claims Russia will attempt to spread false narratives about the US’s bio labs in Ukraine, which is exactly what @TulsiGabbard just helped the Russian Government do. Slide 2 contains an AI generated map of Ukraine which is clearly not an IC product, and which contains basic spelling and geographical errors, making a mockery of the US government. Slide 4 contains the internal work product of an American corporation (Black and Veatch) that worked with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in Ukraine. The Russian Government claims to have captured these documents during their invasion of Ukraine. The Russian Government then widely publicized these products in their own official reports in 2022. Gabbard’s political staff (not IC analysts) recycled published propaganda of the Russian Government in an attempt to spread false narratives while falsely claiming the slideshow she released this week is an original work product of US intel agencies. Page 83 of the following document presented by the Russian Government to the UN Security Council shows the exact figure that Gabbard recycled in slide 4 of her release this week. Source: the-trench.org/wp-content/up… Gabbard’s intent with this deception is to conflate the biological safety work being done to prevent dangerous uses of Soviet era pathogens (which has been publicly disclosed since 2005 as the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction framework) with bioweapons production so that Russia has another manufactured excuse to continue its prolonged war with Ukraine. Let’s be clear: there is no evidence that Ukraine in its longstanding cooperative program with the US has engaged in Gain of Function or biological weapons research. But what is clear is Tulsi Gabbard and her staff promulgated Russian intelligence products as American work, in violation of the Espionage Act. My FOIA request to ODNI regarding the production of these documents is being submitted on Monday morning. By law, ODNI has 10 business days to respond. I look forward to reading the emails. The Trump administration should order ODNI to take these Russian documents down today. This is embarrassing for the Trump administration. Nice to know ODNI gets their “intel” and their graphics from Russian intelligence. See photographic evidence below 👇🏻
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Patrick Tucker retweeted
How about reading 2500 pages of records I obtained via #FOIA from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency? Inside Pentagon’s Shaky Efforts to Combat Russian Disinformation Internal documents reveal how the US struggled to fend off ‘Russian lie’ about US support for Ukraine weapons labs bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…
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Her own “evidence” hilariously includes a warning that it is a target of Russian propaganda—which she then repeats. This woman is dumber than a bag of hammers. It might as well say “Tulsi Gabbard, Anna Paulina Luna, and other moutbreathers might lie about this” across the top.
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…
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No. If you really believe that a U.S. President who withheld ATACMS from Ukraine would actually subvert a well-established bio-threat containment effort then you need to get off the Internet for a sec. Thanks media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/1…

Biden’s 40 biolabs in Ukraine finally disclosed by the US.
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Also, these four slides shared by Gabbard hardly constitute "evidence" of her claims. And if the DNI can't even get the location of Kyiv right on the map and has created a new Ukrainian city – "Cherniv" (perhaps she meant Chernivtsi or Chernihiv, but neither are located where "Cherniv" is on her map) – then what care do you think she took with everything else?
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“He [Fedorov] is leading an effort to monetize or trade Ukrainian war data, including a library of more than five million annotated videos of the battlefield filmed by surveillance and strike drones… Last month [April], the Defense Ministry, through a program called Avenger Labs, opened up the data sets to companies from allied nations to train artificial intelligence models… Access to Avenger Labs is conditioned on Ukraine receiving the A.I. models that are produced from the data. About 20 companies have expressed interest.” nytimes.com/2026/05/15/world…
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And the irony of this… Yesterday Gabbard rescinded two Intelligence Community Assessments on Havana Syndrome, which deserved to be rescinded because we uncovered evidence implicating a unit of Russian military intelligence — Unit 29155 — as the perpetrators of directed energy attacks against Americans. Today Gabbard doubles down on a Russian information campaign purveyed by… Unit 29155. 🫠
Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation. Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. theins.press/en/inv/281731
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A congressional aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity to communicate private discussions, said staff on the House intelligence committee are assessing how the spying authority can still be used in the event of a lapse: nextgov.com/policy/2026/06/h…
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Senators want a new robot warfare-focused combatant command | A 4-star general would lead the effort, should SASC’s version of the NDAA become law. buff.ly/4qET6bb
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Russia spent the winter expanding military infrastructure along its entire NATO frontier, satellite imagery shows. NATO's commander for the Baltic states warns that a ceasefire in Ukraine could rapidly shift the threat the from Moscow. meduza.io/en/feature/2026/06…
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Join me and leading thinkers from @NATO_ACT, @DARPA , @OpenAI, @Google, @DeptofWar and many others to discuss artificial intelligence is altering the future of military technology and geopolitical power. June 16, Pentagon City lnkd.in/ejhvdp88
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NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky. When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit. We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted. In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation. H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…
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A U.S. Navy drone boat rescued the crew of an Army helicopter downed near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday evening,an apparent first for the U.S. military. The Corsair is a 24-foot robot boat made by Texas-based defense tech firm Saronic. From @TomNovelly for @DefenseOne
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Am I bad because I hope they do?
⚡️Russia is using Edward Snowden in a new state media campaign to claim the US is using Apple and Google to spy on Russian officials. united24media.com/world/snow…
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