While I liked the movie Three Days of the Condor I've always considered the ending to be the weakest, most fake part of the film. If you don't remember, it ends with Robert Redford's character going to the New York Times to expose a CIA scandal. It was fake because even when the movie was made the lead media outlets were beholden to the CIA, if not actively carrying water for the CIA. The Washington Post is the most obvious example, but the Times is up there.
And so is the Wall Street Journal, evidenced by its hit piece on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard pulling the security clearance for certain current and former CIA personnel that used their positions to advance certain partisan politics. As the Last Refuge relates, "[t]he substance of the story is that among the 37 current and former Intelligence Community officials Tulsi Gabbard recently stripped of their security clearances, was an 'undercover CIA agent' located within one of those agencies."
It is another deep state lie. There was no "undercover" agent because the person in question--Julia Gurganus--has been very open about her ties to the CIA. As The Federalist relates:
For years, Gurganus has flaunted her intelligence community credentials to harvest speaking engagements, public articles, and positions with prestigious organizations.
“Julia Gurganus is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is on sabbatical from the CIA,” the left-wing Atlantic notes on its webpage.
She previously served as a nonresident scholar with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, according to the organization, which notes Gurganus’ “decades working in the U.S. intelligence community on issues related to Eurasia.”
Her photo is included in a Women’s Foreign Policy Group report on Gurganus’ presentation at a 2018 “Beyond the Headlines discussion.”
She spoke at AFCEA’s 2025 Spring Intelligence Symposium, a fact once again promoted online. The nonprofit identified her as senior executive manager for Europe and Eurasia Mission Center, Central Intelligence Agency.
The WSJ piece instead seems to be a consequence of Gabbard catching flak for being over her target. For instance, one of the key sources for the WSJ pieces is Larry Pfeiffer, "one of 50-plus deep staters who signed the infamous 2020 letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story breaking in the weeks before the election was Russian disinformation." And Gurganus, herself, "was deeply involved in the infamous and highly politicized Intelligence Community Assessment, the antecedent to the Russia Collusion hoax that the accomplice media played a leading role in. She actively oversaw the production of the politically driven ICA, a fact publicly known in 2020, well ahead of Gabbard’s unsealing of intelligence community records exposing the sham report."
And this brings me back to the Last Refuge piece cited earlier. The author notes that if a mistake had been made with including Gurganus among those getting security clearances pulled, it would have been quietly resolved.
The CIA complaining about it to the Wall Street Journal is what makes the issue a problem. That’s how you can identify this story as an organized Intelligence Community political hit against Tulsi Gabbard.
Increasingly, it is becoming more and more clear that Tulsi Gabbard is factually doing what the Intelligence Community feared she would be doing.
DNI Gabbard is targeting all of the political weaponization within the Intelligence Community, and she is methodically removing the corrupt people within the system who participate. In short, she’s doing the thing we wanted her to do – and that’s a problem for the system.
Of course the news media is corrupt.
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