Posted on 05/26/2020 6:15:58 PM PDT by bitt
The outgoing intelligence director thinks Sen. Warner's philosophy of transparency is 'based solely on political advantage'
Outgoing acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is dismissing a top Democratic senator's insinuations that he had harmed the U.S. intelligence community by declassifying the names of individuals who had requested Michael Flynn's unmasking.
Last week, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner asked Grenell in a letter to explain why he had revealed the names of numerous Obama administration officials, including Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, who had requested that Flynn's name be unmasked in intelligence reports.
Flynn has been at the center of controversy for over three years over allegations that he lied to the FBI about his communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak; he initially pled guilty to those charges though at the beginning of this year he withdrew that plea.
The general was the subject of intelligence community reports regrading his conversations with Kislyak. Earlier this month, Grenell declassified the list of Obama officials who had asked for Flynn's initially concealed identity to be revealed in those reports.
Warner, in a letter leaked to The Hill, said that the decision to release that list had "the potential compromise to sources and methods" within the intelligence community, something Grenell, in a letter written Monday, denied.
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You are correct. I don’t know what I was thinking.
Seems if Trump fires anyone or replaces one of their favorites, the left goes insane.
Yep, my bad. Thank you for correcting.
No he told Trump he does not want to return to Germany.
Just mike Comey was fired.
Send Wray in his place.
Yes
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