why aren't all 12 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Partly supported
Gabbard: Declassified documents prove intelligence on Russiagate was intentionally manipulated
“The documents that we uncovered declassified and released that shows how intelligence and information can be actually manipulated intentionally so that it shows something that is not reflective of the truth at all.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gabbard: Obama explicitly tasked intelligence to show how Russia meddled, not whether
“Said this is a POTUS tasking on Russia meddling with the election. And what you'll see in those documents was not President Obama asking, ah, look into the intelligence and see if Russia meddled the election. It was, Provide me with an assessment saying how Ru…”
Assertion Partly supported
Gabbard: FBI knowingly used false information to secure FISA warrants on Trump
“We're dealing with a very highly politicized FBI at the time that was so politicized, they were willing to use what they knew was false information to obtain illegal surveillance warrants from the FISA court to spy on Members of the Trump administration, when …”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DNI Gabbard: Draft 2016 PDB finding no Russian election interference was pulled
“This December eighth president's daily brief was consistent with all of the other assessments, essentially saying there was no interference in the outcome of the election by Russia. That brief was pulled. It was never published. It was pulled back from publish…”
Assertion Partly supported
Gabbard: U.S. and Israeli strikes successfully destroyed Iran's nuclear capability
“Their nuclear capability was destroyed much of their infrastructure destroyed, much of their military capability destroyed. When you look at Israel's actions throughout that twelve-day war their economy is tanking their energy sector is tanking, so it's a, it,…”
Assertion Partly supported
Gabbard: Intelligence uniformly assessed Putin lacked intent or capability to hack 2016
“The intelligence community almost uniformly assessed that, ah, Putin did not have either the intent or the capability to hack the outcome of the US election.”
Assertion Supported
Gabbard: 2016 intelligence emails between Clapper and Rogers discovered in a safe
“We discovered Some emails that were printed out literally in the back of a safe, I think they had been sitting there since 2017, that, that showed an email exchange between then Obama's DNI, James Clapper, and then the head of the National Security Agency Mike…”
Disclosure
DNI Gabbard: Uncovered Russiagate documents have been formally referred to the DOJ
“So we have referred all of the documents that we've uncovered to the Department of Justice because the two have to go together in order for there to be real, real change.”
Disclosure
DNI Gabbard: ODNI personnel count is being reduced to eliminate weaponized pockets
“Made some pretty big changes within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence itself finding those pockets and those places that have been weaponized and politicized and really ultimately bringing a mission focus to the organization trimming down and…”
Disclosure
DNI Gabbard: No intelligence proves China pushes fentanyl to intentionally destabilize America
“I have not seen intelligence that, that reflects the statement that you just made.”
Assertion Supported
Gabbard: Fentanyl border crossings are down as Mexican cartels struggle with precursors
“What we're seeing is a downstream or maybe like a down tick in fentanyl coming across our borders, as well as the cartels in Mexico struggling to create fentanyl because they're not able to access these precursors as easily as they have been over the last seve…”
Assertion Supported
DNI Gabbard: Mexican drug cartels are deploying counterintelligence and armed drones
“We're seeing that these cartels intelligence collection capability, their counterintelligence capability, their use of drones for both surveillance as well as using armed drones to go after those who are threatening their operations.”