Posted on 08/29/2020 6:25:02 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Then-Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley first sought the FBIs release to interview agent Joe Pientka way back in 2018, but worthless Director Christopher Wray had stonewalled that request for more than two years. This week, likely thanks to the intervention of Attorney General William Barr, the stone wall finally came down:
Pientka, of course, was one of two FBI agents the other was Peter Strzok who conducted the agencys entrapment interview of General Mike Flynn on the orders of then-Director James Comey. Comey in turn was working on direct orders from Barack Hussein Obama His Own Self, and his vice president, Joe Biden.
What current Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham will do with Pientkas testimony remains to be seen, of course. Grahams motives are always suspect, especially so since he did literally nothing in this arena for 18 solid months prior to starting his hearing process in May of this year.
Grahams action also pissed off staff for Senator Grassley, who wasnt invited to the interview, and whose staffers were surprised by Herridges report and angry they were not included. From a report at the Washington Examiner:
We werent aware that it was happening, and we learned about it after the fact, the GOP aide said. We werent in the room, we dont know how long it lasted, and we dont know what topics were covered. At the end of the day, we just want to make sure that the issues that we need clarity on were discussed in that interview. It wouldve been a lot easier if we were in the room.
The aide added: We know more about Pientka now than in 2018, and we probably have even more questions now about his role, given the broader understanding of what he was up to.
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Really bad form, Lindsey.
But then, when youre trying to give the appearance of conducting a real investigation without really doing so, bad form is one of the most useful tools in your toolbox.
Graham is most likely trying to run out the clock until election day in hopes that Creepy Uncle Quid Pro China Joe Biden will win and make all of this inconvenient stuff go away. We have to remember that the fingerprints of Grahams hero in life, John McCain, are all over Spygate and Obamagate, an inconvenient truth that Graham would rather not be the one to reveal.
So, he is slow-playing this plodding investigation in order to placate the voters back home, since he is up for re-election this year. But no one should expect the Senate Judiciary effort to bear any real fruit until Grassley re-assumes the chairmanship next January.
But hey, at least Graham can claim credit for finally, at long last, getting Joe Pientka on the record. Its the very least he could do.
That is all.
I was so shocked when Graham fought for Kavanaugh. Obviously, that was tactical. Because this sure is too. Linda wants Biden to save her.
Graham is trying to run out the clock so his actions (and McCain’s) stay buried.
God help him if Trump wins.
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It what he has said/done that he has not openly admitted to that we really want to know about. Graham is covering up his own involvement.
Lindsey is trying to cover up his participation, along with his best buddy Mccain, in getting the Steel dossier into the hands of the FBI.
Exactly. He’s up to his eyeballs in this mess in my opinion.
Lindsey Graham is running out the Clock.
Couldnt be more obvious.
Wray could not have stopped US Attorney John Durham’s team from interviewing this guy, and they likely already have.
I would hope so. Hes key. Which is why they shipped him off to the San Francisco office. Later his name was scrubbed from the SF office website and its not been publicly known where hes been. Dan Bongino has reported in this guy extensively
Sadly, I think we all need to let go of any remaining hopes that significant people will ever go to jail for Spygate.
There must be some reason for it that I dont understand, but even President Trump seems half-hearted about it. He seems resigned to nothing happening and he has seemed that way for a long, long time.
The President says things like well see what happens. Not exactly what one would say if one expected anything to happen.
My guess is they have concluded that in a political purge of this magnitude, where the entire Obama administration is convicted of treason and sentenced to serious prison time, there is a risk of political backlash against the president and Republicans.
Totally unfair, but stranger thongs have happened in politics.
The public is fickle, and theres a very real possibility that if President Trumps DOJ were to mete out justice, even though it was 100% legitimate and well-deserved, it could be viewed by the public as one political party using their power to destroy another political party.
Especially when the fake news media monopoly is willing and able to spin it that way.
President Trump is fearless and loves his country, but hes also a shrewd negotiator.
Which is a better deal for America...
Obama and his coconspirators thrown in jail, to be pardoned four years later, made into political martyrs, and re-elected to high office?
Or they walk free, but the Democrat party is crippled by the taint of corruption and humiliated by defeat, as a new breed of Trump Republicans enjoy an era of political dominance.
I have no idea if that is the choice President Trump is facing, but if it is, I have no doubt that he would unselfishly choose what is best for America, even if it means he doesnt get the personal satisfaction of throwing the Rats in prison.
Remember that linda is up for reelection in November
Don’t cut your nose to spite your face. Graham is not the enemy. Please focus.
How bout: President Trump is waiting till after his landslide election. Then he’ll fire Wray and appoint Rick Grenell as the new FBI Director.
Graham is doing NOTHING but covering his own ass McCain and Graham were in this dossier mess up to their eyeballs!! Graham is a SNAKE!! Grassley need to get him off that committee!!
Actually the GOP had little to do with the SC primary. Allow me to explain: We have lots of good, strong Conservatives in South Carolina that would be light years better than linda in the Senate.
South Carolina having open primaries is the problem. During the primaries, several people, some much better than linda, will run opposing linda. But on primary voting day the RATS cross over in droves and vote for linda. linda wins the primary and, since SC is a strong red state, goes on the win the election.
The SC legislature is beginning to grow some balls and is making noise about closing the primaries.
Can't happen soon enough for me and lots of other Republican voters. But until the law is changed, linda has a job for life and she knows it.
Dont cut your nose to spite your face. Graham is not the enemy. Please focus.
That’s where you are wrong. Graham is the enemy. Graham supported HILLARY CLINTON and has aided and abetted the ongoing coup against POTUS. Graham has helped the Uniparty disfranchise us and steal President Trump’s first term. These four years are gone forever and you can thank the likes of Graham for that.
Don’t be duped just because Graham calls himself a Republican. He agrees on policy with Schumer way more than you and yours. Guaranteed.
He would be wholly unsuited. The man just recklessly declassifies and released incendiary evidence of deep state misdeeds without regard to the personal feelings of or belief in a reasonable expectation of privacy on the part of said deepsters. He is causing a lot of butt hurt.
I am assuming you forgot the sarcasm tag!!
I like naked irony.
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