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Ratcliffe Sworn-in as DNI – What Next for Ric Grenell?
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 05/26/2020 11:51:23 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

John Ratcliffe was sworn into office as the new Director of National Intelligence Tuesday morning. Especially relevant was the man who did the swearing-in: His predecessor Ric Grenell.

In just 90 days on the job, Mr. Grenell performed one of the great services to our country in its history. By the sheer force of his will and his willingness to take personal risks for the greater good, Grenell completely exposed the scope and scale of the scandal we are now calling Obamagate. As a parting salute to Grenell, the folks at the Daily Caller put together a great piece cataloging the major actions he took during his brief time in the job.

Here are some examples:

— Directed the IC to change the way they protect the identities of U.S. citizens contained within intelligence reporting

— Completed the IC review of 53 transcripts from the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election and made the transcripts publicly available

— Declassified previously redacted footnotes from the Justice Department Inspector General’s report into the origins of the Russian collusion investigation

— Declassified a list of government officials who requested the unmasking of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn

— Replaced FBI with ODNI as the primary group responsible for briefing presidential campaigns on information derived from national intelligence

— Declassified former national security adviser Susan Rice’s email to herself regarding a January 2016 Oval Office where progress on the Russia investigation was discussed

— Declassified additional transcripts in ODNI’s possession for potential public release by incoming DNI John Ratcliffe

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The list is very long, and it is well worth your time to read the entire thing. No doubt Mr. Ratcliffe will do a fine job in this position, but he will find himself at great pains to replicate Grenell’s amazing record of achievement.

As his final act on the job, Grenell declassified what Fox News reports as “a slew of” additional Russia-probe-related files, including transcripts of several calls between General Mike Flynn and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. Of note, those calls do not include the December 29, 2016 call between the two men that the coup cabal within the FBI claimed as the basis for its effort to frame Flynn. Grenell made it clear in a tweet over the weekend that that particular call was not the property of the Intelligence Community.

This is a key disclosure, since it means that that particular call was not recorded under the umbrella of the IC’s efforts during that time to monitor Kislyak’s communications, but rather directly recorded by the FBI as a part of its own spying efforts on the Trump Transition team. Thus, the transcript of that critical call can only be declassified by the FBI and Department of Justice.

Interestingly, Grenell announced over the weekend that he will not return to his full-time job as the nation’s Ambassador to Germany. One would hope that President Trump would convince him to remain in service to the nation, given that he possesses such rare leadership skills. No agency of the Federal Government is more desperately in need of a dynamic and determined leader than the FBI itself, which continues to flounder around under the feckless reign of the useless, obstructing Christopher Wray.

It is long past time for President Trump to admit that the appointment of Wray was one of the great mistakes of his presidency. If Grenell is willing, there is literally no reason at all to keep Wray around a day longer.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain
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To: pepsi_junkie
Never Trumper huh?
Where were you during the impeachment hearings?
21 posted on 05/26/2020 1:08:02 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: EyesOfTX

Unload a semi full of Depends at FBI HQ at 8:00 on Monday morning. At 9:00 announce that Grenell will be taking over.


22 posted on 05/26/2020 1:09:59 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Nothing happens to a Christian that God does not allow to happen.)
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To: shalom aleichem
I vote for either ACTING CIA or FBI Director (forget trying to get confirmed). If he can’t hang on until the election in one job, then jump to the next. The guy is a troubleshooter and Mr. Fixit.

Yes.

23 posted on 05/26/2020 1:11:45 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: upchuck

Ditto x a trillion! Do it this summer.


24 posted on 05/26/2020 1:18:24 PM PDT by Colo9250
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To: Ann Archy

Okay, okay. I had great expectations for Mattis and Kelly and Bolton and Sessions and ... you get the idea. Maybe not never-Trumpers but great disappointments who, it turned out, had agendas other than helping the President execute his agenda. I’ll accept the wisdom of FR that Ratcliffe is steady until he proves otherwise.


25 posted on 05/26/2020 1:42:48 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: DoodleDawg

No, he resigned from that


26 posted on 05/26/2020 1:43:43 PM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: DoodleDawg
He should shoot Angie a moon via skype ☺
27 posted on 05/26/2020 1:50:13 PM PDT by shalom aleichem (Durham! *hit or get off the pot!)
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To: EyesOfTX

Yup. I just sent a note to Trump suggesting Grenell should replace deep state Wray.


28 posted on 05/26/2020 2:00:19 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: tennmountainman

He too good to put in as UN Ambassador..


29 posted on 05/26/2020 2:21:24 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Ratcliffe has proven himself. Sen Burr (R - NC - Insider Trader) and Mitch nixed him last time. It took Grennel to panic them to say we’d rather have Ratcliffe than Crazy Grennel. LOL

I hope Trump sends him around all the vacant offices and has him demolish stuff as an ACTING whatever. They need not even try to confirm him this year. 5 months to go until election.

Rich reminds me of the old pin ball machine. Pull the plunger and there he goes!


30 posted on 05/26/2020 2:35:33 PM PDT by shalom aleichem (Durham! *hit or get off the pot!)
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To: rfp1234

FBI Director, please.


Oh please oh please oh please....


31 posted on 05/26/2020 2:39:26 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (Our parents/grandparents were called to war. We have been called to sit on the couch. We got this!!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Trump has gotten WAY BETTER people in place NOW since the Never Trumpers have shown their hairy monkey asses!


32 posted on 05/26/2020 2:57:05 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Should make Grenell the new IG for the intelligence community.


33 posted on 05/26/2020 3:16:35 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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34 posted on 05/26/2020 6:13:22 PM PDT by bitt (Much of our culture is intended to traumatize us, as traumatized people are easily controlled)
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To: EyesOfTX; bitt; little jeremiah
Ric Grenell = HERO!
35 posted on 05/26/2020 7:30:36 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Guenevere

He did? I read that he didn’t resign.


36 posted on 05/26/2020 7:34:51 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet
***Should make Grenell the new IG for the intelligence community***

He is too busy convincing Germany that they have to assume at least some of the responsibility for their own defense... that they have no friend east of Poland.

37 posted on 05/26/2020 7:36:03 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland

He is motivated and active. And tweets pretty good, too!


38 posted on 05/26/2020 7:40:54 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: little jeremiah

Perhaps I read fake news!


39 posted on 05/26/2020 8:05:30 PM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: Guenevere

So many “news” sources make it up, it’s hard to know!


40 posted on 05/26/2020 8:48:06 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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