Posted on 02/07/2018 4:32:23 PM PST by markomalley
FBI Director Christopher Wray and a handful of other top intelligence officials will face questioning lawmakers from the Senate Intelligence Committee next week.
The open hearing titled “Worldwide Threats” will be held February 13, and include Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, NSA Director Michael Rogers, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Robert Ashley and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo.
The hearing is an annual event, but it comes as Wray has had to fend off criticism from President Trump and some Republican lawmakers that there is bias in his bureau.
Wray last week saw the departure of his deputy director Andrew McCabe, who had also faced ire from Trump and Republicans. According to a report, McCabe's departure, though expected in early 2018, could also have been tied to a forthcoming inspector general report.
Wray could also face questions about the text messages exchanged between top FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, both whom worked on the FBI's probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
More messages between the two were released on Wednesday by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, who last week asked for the FBI and Department of Justice to turn over droves of documents related to the committee's probe into the FBI-Clinton investigation. Wray was among the 16 total FBI and Justice Department employees Johnson named in his request.
The other officials are also likely to face questioning about a Republican memo produced by the House Intelligence Committee that alleges surveillance abuses by both the FBI and Justice Department.
That memo was released Friday, and was followed by rumors that President Trump was set to use it to remove Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in an effort to get at special counsel Robert Mueller.
It was reported that if Rosenstein was removed, Wray could have stepped down too, but neither has happened yet.
However, Tuesday’s hearing could come amid the release of another memo — a Democratic one that the House Intelligence minority says fills in the blanks of the GOP memo.
White House chief of staff John Kelly hinted that Trump could redact some information in the classified memo before a Friday deadline.
"This is not as clean a memo as the first one," Kelly told reporters Tuesday night. “This is a different memo than the first one, it’s lengthier ... But again, where the first one was very clean relative to sources and methods, my initial cut is this one is a lot less clean.”
As of Monday night, Trump had five days to allow the memo’s release or explicitly object to it. The FBI, Justice Department and other intelligence officials are reviewing it for redactions — the same process the Republican memo underwent.
That’s an obvious move. Since President Trump said he wouldn’t redact the Nunes memo, put some stuff that needs redacting in your own memo, and howl calumny to the end of time whether he redacts it or not.
The Deep State Global Cabal is a “worldwide threat”, including the terrorism they bankroll.
The White House will still get to provide a letter of its own noting the reasons for the redactions.
Too bad the MSM won’t ever show that page to their low-info audience
Under oath!!!
Hearing after Hearing, concrete evidence everywhere, but where are the indictments?? What do we get instead? Hearing after Hearing!!
Too bad ‘under oath’ is meaningless to so many of the Obama holdovers. Why worry about God’s punishment when you don’t believe in God?
Hearing after Hearing, concrete evidence everywhere, but where are the indictments?? What do we get instead? Hearing after Hearing!!
Can we trust anything that any of these people say?
They cannot Arrest anyone until the case is completed and all evidence is in are they will all walk.
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A Grand Jury needs to be called to hear all the evidence. It is substantial for several crimes.
A Grand Jury needs to be called to hear all the evidence. It is substantial for several crimes.
All this government does is talk, BS and bamboozle minds of mush,shuffle papers and increase the Federal Register so much that it can reach the Moon.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
>> Too bad the MSM won’t ever show that page to their low-info audience
And the MSM is primarily Disney and Comcast.
Many are reading Wray wrong.
All his current moves are sending a strong signal that he will fully support the FBI as an institution, and the rank-and-file who do their jobs.
But, like McCabe, if you re dirty, he will hang you out to dry. It may take some time. Watergate took years... but it will happen.
Remember, only about 15% of the hard data is even out, perhaps even less, and Wray is not about to be the last man standing when the music stops.
It seems hopeless but it will be difficult to put the genie back in the bottle now.
With the stakes what they are I say play the Rats. Redact the memo and let the Rats and MSM stooges have their rant then release the memo in full. Our first response is to redact but we’re literally talking about the survival of our constitution. You gotta do what’s necessary in this war.
Remember, Watergate took two years.
Right now, all the malactors are quietly lawyering up. Remember, we are talking serious federal felonies, and they know it. Also, any dream of a 500K a year job on K Street just floated down the Potomac past Anacostia.
Soon, quiet approaches will be made to DOJ or a new SC, or the Senate/House (as soon as everyone knows who the players are.) Dems will read the handwriting on the wall. Notice Chuck Schummer, Nasty Nancy, Hillary and others have been rather silent on this. Schiff is carrying their water, but not for long.
Then it will publicly unravel. Remember L. Patrick Gray, Remember Alexander Butterfield and John Dean?
Then it will all slowly proceed in the pre-ordained manner of a Kabuki play. The scripts have been waiting to be “played” again since 1974. All that has to happen is for them to be dusted off and the names of the new players filled in.
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