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White House steps up efforts to confirm CIA director (Gina Haspel)
The Hill ^ | May 6, 2018 | Katie Bo Williams and Olivia Beavers

Posted on 05/06/2018 7:01:41 PM PDT by Innovative

The White House is ramping up an 11th-hour effort to build support for President Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, just days before she is scheduled to face a grilling from the Senate Intelligence Committee over her role in the agency’s controversial detention and interrogation program.

For weeks, the CIA has led the charge on promoting now-deputy director Gina Haspel—a forward-leaning PR campaign that some critics have said is inappropriate for the clandestine agency.

Only late last week did the White House stand up the kind of broad-based press campaign typical of other high-stakes nominations, issuing a swath of laudatory press releases and briefing reporters.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 20180506; bcci; christicinstitute; christophersteele; cia; deepstate; fusiongps; ginahaspel; haspel; irancontra; jackterrell; jonathanmwiner; jonathanwiner; kerry; nuland; terrell; trump; victorianuland; winer; wot
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1 posted on 05/06/2018 7:01:41 PM PDT by Innovative
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Bring back waterboarding, shock therapy and other cool torture stuff to destroy our enemies..


2 posted on 05/06/2018 7:15:02 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Innovative

They’re gonna try to force her to commit to no “torture” broadly defined. She should tell them to GTH


3 posted on 05/06/2018 7:17:54 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: max americana

Our enemies are within our gates


4 posted on 05/06/2018 7:18:04 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Innovative

Would she be the first woman in that position?


5 posted on 05/06/2018 7:19:35 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Innovative

Indict and imprison hillary.


6 posted on 05/06/2018 7:20:21 PM PDT by raiderboy (" weÂ’ll close down the country because we need border" DJT NOW !!)
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To: ViLaLuz

She not only would be the first woman, she would be the first Director promoted from within


7 posted on 05/06/2018 7:29:21 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ViLaLuz

>> the first woman in that position

Sexist pig.


8 posted on 05/06/2018 7:29:47 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric
😂😂😂
9 posted on 05/06/2018 7:38:07 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: max americana

“Bring back waterboarding, shock therapy and other cool torture stuff to destroy our enemies..”

That’s gonna backfire


10 posted on 05/06/2018 7:39:18 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Innovative

With Brennan, Clapper, etc. liking her, I wish Trump would pick a swamp drainer like Tony Schaeffer.


11 posted on 05/06/2018 8:04:36 PM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Innovative

Should be interesting. There is so much debauchery in Congress. It’s a wonder our beloved President accomplishes what he does, in spite of them all.

If DJT wants her to be the director, then I hope he is successful. God give her strength as she runs the Congressional gauntlet (that IS what is seems like!).


12 posted on 05/06/2018 9:02:22 PM PDT by Kalamata (www.bibleresearchtools.com)
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The woman that John "Islamic Jihadist I helped cause 9/11" Brennan and James Clapper like?

Great, MORE "winning"...

13 posted on 05/06/2018 9:11:33 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: Innovative

Confirm this tough lady NOW. After what Dan Bongnino and Joe DiGenova revealed about the CIA/FBI and State Depart. operating “Deep State” anti-Trump coup projects, we need to clean the Intelligence Community houses with dynamite and RDX.

If both men are correct, Clapper, Brennan, Mueller, Comey and Nuland & Winer at (State Dept) ran intell ops against Pres. Trump in a two-pronged protect Hillary Clinton and criminal family during the elections while trying to take down Trump even after he was elected president.

They were on Mark Levin’s Fox Show tonight, “Life, Levin and Liberty”.

Again, if what these two men said is true, a “REAL” congressional investigation and FBI I.G. investigation could bring down the whole Clinton/Democrat Party/Comey-Mueller-Brennan-Clapper and Nuland-Winer traitorous cabals.

Usually I don’t get overly excited about what people say on TV but both men were well placed to know “things”, amongst which they mentioned Soviet/Russian plots against the US, aided and abetted by the Clintons/Democrats and US Intell leaders (against Trump). This was especially true in the “business” intelligence operations arena (Tenex, Uranium One, and a shitload more of Russian business penetration ops).

If what I mentioned above from the show is true, then it has not just opened a can of worms or Pandora’s Box (of the Anti-Trump Left), but is can blow the top off the mountain of treason that they have been perpetrating for years against the US and now Pres. Trump.

I smell a lot of rats, Big Red Rats, Small Red Rats, traitors, politically vain and ambitious Intell traitors, the corruption of the whole Democrat Party (Dossiergate, BleachBit Gate, Clinton Foundation-gate, and John Fucking Kerrygate. Kerry may go all the way back to the 1980’s when he was supporting communist dictatorships and movements in Latin America, a can of red worms the size of Texas if you know where to look.

Kerry never stopped being a politically ambitious traitor to America and our allies since his first meetings with the Vietnamese communists in Paris in 1970 and onward. Rip open his hidden ops and you’ll find more treason than you could imagine, esp. during the so-called Irangate-Contragate hearings and investigations.

He’s back at it against re Iran and we cannot let him succeed again with his traitorous activities. I suspect that there are intell people still alive who want to tell their stories about Kerry, under oath. If they can, it will be his death sentence as a Democrat Party political leader and could reveal his others acts against the U.S.

I have an itch that won’t stop and it is getting bigger than anything I’ve felt in decades. Pray that Bongnino and Digenova are accurate in what they said on the Mark Levin TV show on Fox.

If so, they have pried the top off of the biggest internal acts of treason since the Rosenberg/Sobell trials of the 1950’s. In fact, it could ber bigger by a factor of 100.

Everything I’ve learned from Intelligence classes in school, learning from the best in the field, to actual field work over the past 50 years says “TREASON, TREASON, TREASON” by the Democrats and their Russian puppetmasters.


14 posted on 05/06/2018 9:19:15 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Here's a compilation of some info on Jonathan M. Winer, one of the rats in the nest, an old Kerry Commie ally who became a link between the Clinton and Kerry State Departments and Christopher Steele:

“Jonathan M. Winer, a Washington lawyer and consultant, is a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement and former special envoy for Libya.”

https://www.offshorealert.com/conference/2017/miami/get-speaker.aspx?id=55823

“Jonathan M. Winer is a lawyer, consultant, and diplomat who served as the State Department’s first Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Law Enforcement from 1994-1999 during the Clinton Administration, and until January 2017 as the U.S. Special Envoy for Libya in the Obama Administration. Previously, he was Counsel to Senator John Kerry from 1995-1994 [s/b "1985-1994"], during which he participated in the earliest Congressional investigations into Iran-Contra, money laundering in Latin America, and the global criminal network of the world’s the dirtiest bank, BCCI.”

https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/240474.htm

“#ad#Kerry gained further fame — or infamy, depending on your point of view — as head of “the Kerry Committee,” more formally the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations. In this period — the late 1980s — Kerry devoted himself to trying to prove that the Contras were drug-runners; he was particularly interested in linking Vice President Bush to this criminality (as Bush was running for president). The Kerry Committee never accomplished its objective, but it attracted a lot of media attention and damaged individual reputations. On this committee, all the hopes, energies, and notions of IPS, the Christic Institute, CISPES, and the rest of that now-forgotten crowd came together.

Leading the charge were Kerry’s staff men, such as Jonathan Winer (still a Kerry foreign-policy adviser) and the notorious Jack Blum. This latter is considered by some Republicans a sort of Roy Cohn of the Left. One GOP aide from the period describes Kerry’s people as “drooling fanatics”: “Kennedy’s people were liberal, to be sure, and so were Dodd’s. But Kerry’s people were much more rabid. They promoted the most bizarre conspiracy theories around.” You have to remember, says this aide: “There was a real fruity network of goofball and semi-subversive people, and Kerry ran with those people. He was always a bit aloof himself, but you can tell a lot about politicians by the people they let in. These weren’t liberals. They had a shockingly hostile attitude toward the United States — our military, our intelligence community, our policies.””

https://www.alston.com/en/insights/news/1999/11/jonathan-m-winer-former-deputy-assistant-secretary

“Chief Counsel and principal legislative assistant to Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA). In that capacity, Mr. Winer assisted in the drafting of numerous laws and legislation, such as those aimed at money laundering and campaign finance reform. He also aided in the investigation of a number of important subjects, including the Iran-Contra Affair, the problem of drug trafficking and financial crime in Central and South America, the handling of the Savings and Loan bailout by the RTC, and HUD’s management of multifamily, low-income housing. Mr. Winer also led the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in the late 1980s and early 1990s.”

http://www.mei.edu/profile/jonathan-m-winer

https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/240474.htm

As Winer tells it, he and Steele were old pals. They “met and became friends” in 2009, when both were in the business of selling “business intelligence,” much of it involving Russia. Winer went back to work at State in 2013, after his old Capitol Hill boss, John Kerry, had become secretary of State. But he didn’t lose track of his friend Steele—not at all. He shared, and shared, and shared Steele’s corporate intelligence work with the State Department’s Russia desk. “Over the next two years, I shared more than 100 of Steele’s reports with the Russia experts at the State Department, who continued to find them useful.” (Let’s not speculate about how much it may have been worth to Steele to be able to tell his clients that the materials they were paying for were being regularly consumed by policy-makers in Foggy Bottom.)

Come the summer of 2016, Steele’s prime client was the campaign of Hillary Clinton, by way of the hired-guns at Fusion GPS, for whom he was assembling a grab bag of Trump tales from some sort of Russian sources. Come the fall Steele was spreading dossier info to various news organizations, the FBI, and the State Department. “In September 2016, Steele and I met in Washington and discussed the information now known as the ‘dossier.’” Here’s where it starts getting particularly weird: “I was allowed to review, but not to keep, a copy of these reports to enable me to alert the State Department,” Winer writes. “I prepared a two-page summary and shared it with [Winer’s boss at State, Victoria] Nuland.” I doubt I’m the only one who finds this bit of peekaboo passing strange. . .

[Much more info at link]

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/08/steele-dossiers-coincidences/

“Known as “Vicious Sid” and “Mr. Fixer,” respectively, the two friends passed salacious allegations about Trump to a State Department official named Jonathan Winer...Winer, who is friends with Blumenthal, in turn, gave the information to Steele.”

Jonathan Winer, Chris Steele’s Inside Man at State Dept, Was Exec at Firm Working for Clinton Global Initiative

From 2008 to 2013, Winer worked at the global public affairs and strategic consultancy firm APCO Worldwide, where he served as senior vice president. Before that, his biorelates he served under the Bill Clinton administration as “the State Department’s first Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Law Enforcement from 1994-1999.” He returned to the State Department in 2013.

From 2007 until 2016, APCO did extensive pro bono work for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

Obama State Dept Official Who Aided Dossier Author Was Key Player in Dubai Ports Scandal

15 posted on 05/06/2018 10:16:36 PM PDT by Fedora
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#15 of interest.


16 posted on 05/06/2018 10:20:14 PM PDT by Fedora
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Jonathan Winer, Chris Steele’s Inside Man at State Dept, Was Exec at Firm Working for Clinton Global Initiative .....From 2008 to 2013, Winer worked at the global public affairs and strategic consultancy firm APCO Worldwide, where he served as senior vice president. Before that, his biorelates he served under the Bill Clinton administration as “the State Department’s first Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Law Enforcement from 1994-1999.” He returned to the State Department in 2013.

Nice sleuthing.....the Deep State gets even deeper. The Clintons are filthy scum.

17 posted on 05/07/2018 1:16:06 AM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: Innovative

Nice rope-a-dope over the weekend leading the lamestream media to believe that they had taken her down.


18 posted on 05/07/2018 6:03:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Innovative

When it comes to dealing with liberals, I’m for bringing back the rack - and every other Medieval torture device.


19 posted on 05/07/2018 8:21:51 AM PDT by JME_FAN (uired to)
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To: Fedora; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; ...

see #14 and #15 !!!!!!!!!


20 posted on 05/07/2018 8:22:38 AM PDT by bitt (Back when we had CHILD CONTROL we really didn't need GUN CONTROL)
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