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These unelected career officials decided they were better judges of what the President of the United States should know than the president himself. That is the command-chain scandal buried inside John Solomon’s reporting. According to Solomon, intelligence officers were not simply sitting on inconvenient information. He says officials discussed withholding election-related intelligence from Trump and Congress, and one memo referred to “massaging the PDB” ... shaping what made it into the Presidential Daily Brief. One person allegedly talked about a “shadow government.” Others reportedly wrote that keeping the president in the dark “boggles the mind.” Who the fuck gave them that authority? The intelligence community exists to collect, assess, and brief. It does not get to insert itself like a parasite between the intelligence and the commander in chief because career officials think their political judgment outranks his constitutional authority. A GS-15 does not outrank an election. An analyst does not get to decide which threats the president is mature enough to see. A clearance is not a fucking veto over the chain of command. And Solomon says the information being filtered involved real security concerns: election-machine vulnerabilities, Chinese collection of massive amounts of voter-registration data, and other threats officials were tracking internally while the president, Congress, and the public were allegedly kept in the dark. That is the rot. Not bureaucratic caution. Not healthy dissent. Not “protecting institutions.” It is unelected officials allegedly deciding what reality the elected president was permitted to receive. Solomon calls the broader pattern “wash, rinse, repeat.” Crossfire Hurricane. Round River. Plasmic Echo. Arctic Frost. Different operations. Same arrogant belief that the bureaucracy gets the final word. Until that stops, every future president is just another mark waiting to be managed. https://x.com/FloppingAces/status/2090525166954823951?s=20