Posted on 07/29/2019 4:36:23 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
This is a big, big deal:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump · 14h I am pleased to announce that highly respected Congressman John Ratcliffe of Texas will be nominated by me to be the Director of National Intelligence. A former U.S. Attorney, John will lead and inspire greatness for the Country he loves. Dan Coats, the current Director, will....
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump ....be leaving office on August 15th. I would like to thank Dan for his great service to our Country. The Acting Director will be named shortly.
Congressman Ratcliffe can now expect to be demonized by the Democrats and their toadies in the fake news media because, well, that’s what they do. But Ratcliffe, a former U.S. attorney who is in his third term in congress, is well-qualified for the job and any of the 53 Senate Republicans who oppose his nomination will do so at their own political risk.
The departure of Coats, a long-time establishment Republican DC Swamp rat, has long been considered to be crucial to the process of declassification of key documents necessary to get at the truth of what really took place within the Obama DOJ/FBI/CIA/State Department during the runup to the 2016 elections. Coats has long been an impediment to that process, and you can tell the character of a man by looking at who his friends are.
For example, here is what ex-FBI Director and current National Teenage Drama Queen James Comey had to say upon learning of Coats’s “resignation”:
James Comey ✔ @Comey Thank you, Dan Coats, for serving our nation so well and for continuing the proud tradition of Directors of National Intelligence loyal only to the truth. Hopefully you won’t be the last.
Then there is Democrat Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, who got caught in the fall of 2017 soliciting damaging information from Russians in a recorded phone call, and has spent the last two years doing his best to cover up for Comey, John Brennan, et al:
Mark Warner ✔ @MarkWarner The mission of the intelligence community is to speak truth to power. As DNI, Dan Coats stayed true to that mission.
Thank you for your service, Director Coats.
There will no doubt be much more high praise for Coats from the four murky corners of the DC Swamp today, but you get the picture.
Here is why getting Coats out of his position is so key to declassification: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has the final say on what documents will and will not be declassified and released for public viewing. Signoff from the DNI is the last step in the process, and the presence of Dan Coats in that job is one of the main reasons why the process has been held up thus far.
The function of the ODNI is to coordinate efforts between the nation’s alphabet soup of intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The directors of all of those various agencies all have the opportunity to object to the declassification of any document that is somehow relevant to their operations. Any director who does so must justify their objection to the DNI. If the DNI agrees with the justification, it then becomes his job to communicate the decision to the President.
Rumors have long circulated that Coats has essentially served as a rubber stamp for the worthless FBI Director Christopher Wray and any other agency director who has wanted to hold up the process.
Thus, the firing of Coats – and make no mistake about it, this was a firing – was essential to the ultimate success of getting the truth out to the public. Wray still remains, but he can now be neutered by an effective and honest DNI.
So, you should expect an absolute war over the nomination of Ratcliffe, because the Democrats and their media toadies are unalterably opposed to the public getting the truth about the Obama-era illegalities. Sadly, you will no doubt see some Senate Republicans take a similar stance. If the Swamp can get to four of them, Ratcliffe’s nomination could be torpedoed.
The good news is that Ratcliffe and the President must have been assured by Mitch McConnell that the votes to confirm him are there; Otherwise, he would not have accepted the nomination.
Let’s hope so. The success of this nomination is vital to the entire process.
That is all.
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This is a bombshell?
Didn’t you know...everything is a “bombshell” in our 24/7/365 news cycle!
BOOM goes the dynamite?
Is this a REAL BOMBSHELL because the word has really lost so much meaning (just from hannity alone) that BOMBSHELL really needs to be something Hugh and Series at this point.
Seems like there’s a Seinfeld skit in there somewhere.
George: “Have I got a bombshell to tell you, Jerry!”
Seinfeld: “You got a job! You got a date! You left a 15 percent tip!”
George: “Just for that, i’m not gonna tell you the bombshell!! And it was big, baby, it was BIG!!!”
Mittens?
The only correction I would make...
“...more high praise for Coats from the four murky corners of the DC Swamp today...”
I don’t consider the Swamp to be a four-corner entity. If you drew it on paper, it would reveal itself to be more like a Rorschach blot. Better yet (or, worse yet), it would look like a huge cancerous tumor that has metastasized into various parts of the body politic.
But still, I hope this is the right move by PDJT. Every appointment he makes, I bite my lip a little. Could this be a Sessions repeat...
The truly biggest, loudest bombshell of them all was that Hillary orchestrated and paid for the Steele report and the report was used by the FBI, the DOJ, and all the intelligence agencies as legitimate.
The second biggest bombshell was that the Republicans rolled over and submitted to it.
Baby, it's cold outside
I think bombshell is the new racist.
Bombshell? Please. It is good news though.
Seems like there’s a Seinfeld skit in there somewhere.
George: “Have I got a bombshell to tell you, Jerry!”
Seinfeld: “You got a job! You got a date! You left a 15 percent tip!”
George: “Just for that, i’m not gonna tell you the bombshell!! And it was big, baby, it was BIG!!!”
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It requires skill to write lines that these characters would probably say, AND have the correct words in those lines that make you hear their voices saying it.
Well done.
...... from ConservativeTreeHouse
To the swamp rats who infest D.C. it was a bombshell. They realize that, one by one they are going to be taken out. Especially after Trump wins a second term. Their days are numbered.
This does qualify as a bombshell if he can be confirmed. You saw last week that Ratcliffe is fully aware of what the coup plotters were doing. It is also obvious he wants to hold them accountable. Coats and Wray were the only firewalls left (assuming Horowitz and Durham do their jobs). Its beginning to look like September and October are going to be blockbuster months for the truth.
“This is a bombshell?”
It is because it ends the stonewalling by the Deep State. Now anyone of the little guys who knows what really went on, and trust me, many hundreds know, with a good number on our side. To put it another way, you can’t run operations as they did from the top - you need guys in the trenches to carry it out. But they (mostly) have families to feed, so they’ve laid low. Now it all changes.
This could be even a KABOOM!!
This has to be a great pick. The libtards are absolutely losing their minds.
Why does Christopher Wray still have a job?
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