Posted on 05/08/2020 9:29:36 AM PDT by Swordmaker
I started reading through and or skimming the tranche of released transcripts of testimony that has been hidden from view for far too long yesterday and found myself on the second Bannon interview.
These are in alphabetical order with dates also listed oddly, so you need to pay attention when a witness testimony spans two days, such as Bannon’s, as it can be confusing when reading. Bannon’s has the two days with the second day listed first.
I had read beyond Bannon when I realized there was a transcript missing. The transcript for Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson is just not there! The list jumps from the attorney who just perspicaciously attended the Trump Tower meeting with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, to Bannon. His testimony did not forward Schiff’s Russia, Russia, Russia or anything to do with Ukraine at all. Nor did it tie Veselnitskaya to the Russian government in any substantive way. Big nothing. Most importantly, their released list, jumped from Akhmetshin to Bannon. Schiff and the Conga line of Democrats were trying to tie erroneous media reporting that he had been either a KGB or GRU officer in a prior career. He debunked that quickly.
Bannon’s First day was an exercise in futility for Schiff and even Trey Gowdy as Bannon refused to answer anything relating to the Transition period or his time in the White House under instruction from his attorneys as Presidential Privilege. He was willing to discuss anything about the campaign or after that did not relate to his time in the White House or transition. Second day was better as they focused on the campaign, with only a little attempts at “Gotcha”.
BUT WHERE IS ATKINSON’S TESTIMONY THAT REVEALS THE KEY TO THE PLOT???
I’ll bet that one hasn’t been declassified.
Per Grennell, all 93 have been declassified. Schiff is holding it because it shows what really went down in the IC IG’s Office that allowed him to go far beyond the parameters of the reporting and his jurisdiction to send that complaint to Congress. It was no way legal.
Delivered to Barr by Grenell, yesterday.
When we “win”, we still lose. What’s it about some rain falling on the shrub of freedom, or something like that?
Hard to tell - Nunes said there was an active investigation on him last January...perhaps it’s one of the cards Barr and his investigators are holding close to their vests...and/or it may have some actual classified data interspersed...hard to believe that with everything else starting to flow that Adam Shitt could keep it under his own wraps.
I bet Grenell will go ahead and release it without Schiff’s OK. He’s holding it for self-serving purposes. It does not reflect well on him.
Every one of these transcripts, prominently on the bottom, in much larger font than anything else, is printed “Property of the House of Representatives.” They seem to be unclear on the concept of who owns THEM!
This document dump should have happened earlier as the release was bi-partisan voted on from when the Repubs were in charge of the House.
Atkinson’s testimony occurred during the current RAT majority. Schiff stopped the release of his testimony I believe “National Security” ?
That was a different hoax.
all of these daily gnashing of teeth and wanting satisfaction is rooted in the fact Obama and Clinton are not in prison for sedition and their other crimes. Had we cut the heads of the snake, the other parts would be insignificant.
We will never get satisfaction for all the democrat from crimes and the Clintons and Obama will die of old age, rich, free, and democrat heroes.
I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention. I thought the tab was something like 43 out or 50-something.
Are you talking about IG Atkinson? These transcripts are from 2017 and 2018, before impeachment. Hopefully Grenell had that additional transcript in his satchel yesterday.
All DECLAS is the purview of Barr.
Grenell gave it to Barr who will release it as he determines.
Grenell, as interim DNI, is taken out of the line of fire.
The Atkinson testimony was from the 2019 Ukraine farce. The document dump yesterday was from the 2017-2018 Russia farce.
If you were a member of the BLUE FLOCK OF SHEEP, you could go on munching your grass, waiting to be sheered or slaughtered as far as broadcast and local news feeds were concerned, even on the supposedly “Conservative” station. I did not bother seeking what was being broadcast on the CBS, ABC, and NBC news. . .
Same impeachment hearings. Democrats were in the majority.
just an FYI...Schiff did release 17 other testimony transcripts from those that testified before his committee.
The rumor as to why he didn’t release Atkinson’s testimony is, it describes Schiff and his people dealing directly with the whistleblower.
Note Ratcliffe’s take:
So were all of these. Impeachment hearings.
all of these happened during the repub majority.
atkinson happened during the RAT majority.
majority makes the rules...
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