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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | July 24th, 2025: Report: Putin Quiet On Hillary’s 'Psycho-Emotional' Problems In 2016 & Violence Erupts Along The Thailand-Cambodia Border
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Mike Baker
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Later in the show, a months long standoff over the disputed Thai Cambodia border erupted into violence on Tuesday, leading to a deadly exchange of military fire that left at least a dozen dead and dozens more wounded. Will have those details. But first, today's afternoon spotlight will begin in the US Where Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has dropped another BombShell regarding the 2016 presidential election and efforts by the former Obama administration to reportedly suppress critical intelligence. On Wednesday, Gabbard declassified a report prepared by the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence back in September 2020, which revealed the intelligence community had no direct information that Russia wanted to help Donald Trump defeat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the contentious race. Despite the lack of any hard evidence, the report found that after Trump's 2016 victory at the somewhat unusual direction of then President Barack Obama, senior intelligence officials hastily published, quote, information that was unclear, of uncertain origin, potentially biased or implausible, suggesting that the Russians were aiding the Trump campaign. In fact, the House Intelligence Committee report found that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin was likely planning for a Clinton victory because, quote, they knew where she stood and believed Russia could work with her. That calculus may explain some other rather astounding revelations from the newly declassified report, namely that Russia's foreign intelligence Service, the svr, supposedly obtained highly damaging information about Clinton's health ahead of the 2016 election, but chose not to release it publicly. That intelligence included evidence reportedly that Clinton was suffering from intense psycho emotional problems that she was treating with powerful sedatives According to the report, Russia's SVR possessed DNC communications detailing Clinton's condition, which included, quote, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression and cheerfulness. Additionally, Clinton was reportedly suffering from a litany of other ailments, including type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, deep vein thrombosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The report states, quote, Clinton was placed on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers and while afraid of losing, she remained, quote, obsessed with a thirst for power. By September 2016, the internal communications show that Democratic National Committee leaders and then President Obama found the state of Clinton's health and use of tranquilizers to be, quote, extraordinarily alarming. They worried it could have a serious negative impact on the presidential race. That's according to the New York Post. But the report notes that, quote, her health information was being kept in strictest secrecy and even close advisors were not being fully informed. In addition to Clinton's health, Russia's SVR also had campaign emails discussing a plan approved by Clinton to link Putin and Russian hackers to then candidate Trump in order to, quote, distract the American public from the Clinton email server scandal. You remember that one. The compromising intelligence on Clinton was reportedly obtained by Putin through Russian hacking operations targeting the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Some of those emails were later published by WikiLeaks, though they did not contain the sensitive information regarding Clinton's health. Given the political ammunition at their disposal, the report concluded that, quote, documents leaked during the election were far less damaging to Secretary Clinton than those that Putin chose not to leak. We should note that the House Intelligence Committee report was based on interviews with 20 intelligence officers and FBI agents and as well as a review of source material used in the Obama ordered intelligence assessment on Russian interference that was released in January of 2017. Until Wednesday, that House report had remained highly classified and was being stored in a limited access vault at CIA headquarters. During a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, Gabbard said that despite the available intelligence which showed Putin did not favor Trump in the election, then President Obama directed his intelligence chiefs to compile a new assessment detailing Trump's supposed links to Russia. That new intelligence assessment was released on 6 January 2017, just two weeks before Trump would be sworn into office for his first term. Gabbard noted that then CIA Director John Brennan pushed for the inclusion of information in the assessment that was known to be manufactured or deemed not credible, such as the, of course, infamous Steele dossier. And while suppressing or ignoring other pertinent intelligence. Gabbard said, quote, Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed a clear preference for Trump. As we discussed earlier this week, Gabbard recently declassified a trove of documents alleging that Obama and his national security team purposefully manufactured and politicized intelligence to establish the Trump Russia collusion narrative after the 2016 election. Gabbard argues the scheme was used to delegitimize President Trump's victory, leading to the years long Mueller investigation, two congressional impeachments and high level officials being investigated, arrested and jailed. Gabbard has accused the former Obama administration of engaging in a, quote, coup against Trump, characterizing their actions as an egregious abuse of power and a, quote, treasonous conspiracy. On Wednesday, Gabbard formally confirmed that she's referred former President Obama, along with several top aides and national security officials to the Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution. All right, up next, Thailand and Cambodia trade fire over their long disputed border region, leading to the deadliest clashes seen between the two countries in more than a decade. I'll be right back. Hey, Mike Baker here. Let me take just a few moments of your time to talk about personal finances right now. Let me ask you a question. 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Welcome back to the Afternoon Bulletin. A long simmering border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia erupted into its deadliest fighting in over a decade Thursday as a Thai F16 fighter jet bombed Cambodian territory amid clashes that left at least a dozen dead and dozens more wounded. According to The Thai military, one of six F16s deployed along the frontier dropped ordinance on a Cambodian military position. Cambodia called the strike quote reckless and brutal military aggression. The airstrike came after Thai authorities shut down the border and launched artillery in response to what they claim was Cambodian shelling that killed 11 civilians and a Thai soldier. The fighting broke out near the Tamon Tom Temple. That's an ancient site that sits in the middle of about a 508 mile stretch of undemarcated border terrain pocked with landmines and tangled colonial history. Skirmishes over who owns what are nothing new there. The last major flare up came back in 2011 and lasted for about a week. It ended with a dozen dead and obviously nothing resolved. That same script is playing out again with one major change. Thursday marked the first time that Thailand's air force has been engaged. The roots of the dispute trace back to the Indochina era when French drawn maps left large stretches of the border area undefined. Now, neither side has ever fully accepted the other's version of the map, and both have kept troops stationed along the frontier ever since. But this conflict this time is somewhat different. The airstrike signals a sharp escalation capping weeks of mounting tension since May, when a Cambodian soldier was killed in a brief exchange that triggered a diplomatic standoff and tit for tat expulsions in the border province of Surin, where the clashes have been concentrated. Local officials said some 40,000 civilians have been evacuated from 86 villages. Thai authorities accused Cambodian rockets of striking civilian infrastructure Thursday, including a hospital, an act that Surin district chief labeled a war crime. Thailand's health Minister reported that 24 civilians and seven soldiers have been injured in the fighting. Thailand also claims Cambodian troops equipped with rocket launchers crossed into the contested border area near the temple after deploying surveillance drones. On Wednesday, Thailand recalled its ambassador from the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and expelled the country's envoy from Bangkok after a Thai soldier lost a leg to a landmine earlier in the week. Bangkok alleges that the landmines were recently planted by Cambodian forces. Cambodia, however, denies the charge, claiming the explosion was likely caused by unexploded ordinance from its civil war decades ago. Now that could be very likely given that Cambodia remains one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. Still, Thailand's acting prime minister called the situation, quote, delicate, that would be about right and pledged to adhere to international law. Cambodian's foreign Ministry demands the immediate withdrawal of Thai forces from the disputed region. And the international responses came very quickly. Malaysia, which holds the rotating chair of asean, pledged to mediate and said its prime minister would speak with both leaders. And China said it was, quote, willing to play a role in promoting de escalation. That's a signal of its growing regional leverage or its desire to have growing regional leverage. And that, my friends, is the PDB afternoon bulletin for Thursday the 24th of July. Now, if you have any questions or comments, please reach out to me at pdb@thefirst tv.com and if you'd like to listen to the show ad free. Well, you can do that. Just become a premium member of the PDB by visiting PDB premium.com See, I told you it was simple. I'm Mike Baker and I'll be back tomorrow. Until then, stay informed, stay safe, stay cool.