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A former CIA officer blasted Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday over claims she's made regarding former President Barack Obama and his intelligence agencies.

Susan Miller, who helped investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, told The Guardian that Gabbard "clearly doesn’t understand" intelligence work. The Guardian's Robert Tait characterized it as Gabbard being "ignorant" of espionage work.

An ethics complaint has been filed against Federal Communications Chairman Brendan Carr, alleging he has engaged in "egregious misconduct."

At issue is a reaction to a statement from Carr, which The Freedom of the Press Foundation said exerted politically-motivated pressure on Paramount Global to settle a lawsuit from President Donald Trump last year against the CBS News division.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper threw some shade at a GOP leader on Wednesday for his flip-flop over releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told MAGA podcast host Benny Johnson earlier this month that his party should "put everything out there" and let the public draw their own conclusions about the Epstein files. Johnson backtracked a week later when he said there is "no daylight" between House Republicans and the White House, which wants only "credible" Epstein files to be released.

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is alleged to have had an adult film on behind him during a state meeting.

Walters is the far-right Republican who attempted to mandate that every classroom have a Trump Bible in the state.

The husband of a Republican operative in Wisconsin, who proudly proclaimed he was voting for Donald Trump to take on child predators, has been arrested on child predator charges.

According to The Daily Beast, Scott Soucek, who is married to the Door County Republican Party chairwoman and former Republican National Convention Delegate Stephanie Soucek, posted on Facebook that he was backing Trump “to fight against human/child trafficking,” on behalf of “my children and my grandchildren.” He also posted social media memes accusing former President Joe Biden of inappropriately touching children.

Republicans have approved Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment on the federal appeals court, ignoring whistleblower reports about his questionable actions while in the Justice Department. And on Wednesday, a fourth came forward.

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats posted on Bluesky, "A fourth whistleblower has come forward with information about Emil Bove, a Trump judicial nominee who Senate Republicans rubberstamped yesterday. Bove helped orchestrate the blanket pardons of violent January 6 rioters."

The Department of Justice may have unintentionally created a weapon that could take down the president, according to an analyst.

In mid-July, the DOJ fired Maurene Comey from her role as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Comey is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, and she was the lead prosecutor on the Jeffrey Epstein case. According to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, firing Maurene Comey was a mistake that could come back to haunt President Donald Trump as he tries to distance himself from Epstein.

FBI Director Kash Patel claims to have found a trove of classified documents on the Trump-Russia probe stashed in burn bags in a secret room within bureau headquarters.

Fox News Digital based its reporting on claims by sources whose roles or knowledge of the situation are not described in any way, but the report states that one of the documents was the classified annex to former special counsel John Durham's final report, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed on the origins of the counterintelligence operation Crossfire Hurricane.

Former Republican Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, amid his latest bid to run for Senate in New Hampshire, laid into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in a speech flagged by American Bridge Senate research director Danny Abbas in a post on X.

"His leadership is a mirage, or lack there of," said Brown, who previously launched an unsuccessful bid for Senate in New Hampshire in 2014 and served as President Donald Trump's ambassador to New Zealand in his first term. "He won't take a stand on anything. And all he does is kind of shake his fist and complain, complain, complain. He's worried about AOC stealing his job. That's what he's doing."

Longtime media analyst Angelo Carusone from Media Matters explained that Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino are making President Donald Trump's Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy worse.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, Carusone noted that a key part of the Epstein conspiracy theorist community centers around the missing clip of the Bureau of Prisons video from the facility where he was being held. The video is not of Epstein's cell, however. But the way Bondi explained it just made things worse, Carusone said.

President Donald Trump's attacks on President Joe Biden for the economy are coming back to bite him as consumer confidence falls.

Ernie Tedeschi, director of economics at the Budget Lab at Yale University, said on Wednesday on MSNBC that the impact of tariffs is already hitting consumers as demand is increasing for items made overseas.

President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Wednesday for voting alongside Democrats to advance a bill banning stock trading for members of Congress, the president and the vice president.

“The Democrats, because of our tremendous achievements and success, have been trying to target me for a long period of time, and they’re using Josh Hawley, who I got elected twice, as a pawn to help them,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Truth Social.