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Fred Fleitz: Did Intelligence Committee Democrats Help Orchestrate Deep State Complaint?
breitbart.com ^ | 9/26/19 | KRISTINA WONG

Posted on 09/26/2019 11:09:24 PM PDT by ransomnote

Fred Fleitz, who recently served as chief of staff to former National Security Adviser John Bolton and is the CEO of the Center for Security Policy, has questioned the origins of the complaint about President Trump and Ukraine.

He spoke after a redacted version was released publicly on Thursday morning.
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1 posted on 09/26/2019 11:09:24 PM PDT by ransomnote
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2 posted on 09/26/2019 11:12:26 PM PDT by bitt
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To: ransomnote

Listen to them speak, Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, any of them, they weren’t “blind sided” they knew it was coming. They were “quoting” (eight times!!!) from it sight unseen. A manufactured hit. Not a “Whistleblower” no matter how often they use the word.


3 posted on 09/27/2019 1:38:56 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: ransomnote
“The way this complaint was written suggested the author had a lot of help. I know from my work on the House Intel Commitee staff that many whistleblowers go directly to the intel oversight committees. Did this whistleblower first meet with House Intel committee members?”

That was my first reaction. The complaint as published was a very professional product. Discovery should include the entire chain of custody and identification of all the lawyers and Democratic staff who massaged it.

4 posted on 09/27/2019 3:26:30 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: wastoute

I thought the complaint was sent to IG and Congress complained they were not notified. Yet when the complaint dated Aug 12 was released to public it was addressed to shiftt. So which is it?


5 posted on 09/27/2019 3:31:13 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: wastoute

Yes his parody speech was prepared before he saw the transcript of the call. So he just went with it anyway.


6 posted on 09/27/2019 3:32:51 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

It is becoming obvious by the hour the entire mess was a coordinated effort from Day #1. Schiff was well aware of the machinations of the CIA and knew the complaint was coming. The thing got knocked down for the fraud it was but Nancy and Schiff knew about it so the Acting DNI let it go forward as if it were a legit “WhistleBlower” case when it wasn’t. So now he and Barr can either continue to pretend it is legit or step on it (which as of yesterday neither seemed willing to do). The Rats have walked the country right up to a cliff and I don’t think they can back down. It’s just another day in the con as far as they are concerned.


7 posted on 09/27/2019 3:36:10 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: gcparent

Part of the problem we have had in this war with the Rats is they have quite strategically dispersed their forces and covered and camoflouged their vulnerable assets. But now they have gotten desperate and the CIA has come out of the shadows. Now we have a place to focus our fire. In Minecraft.


8 posted on 09/27/2019 3:38:33 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute
"Hearsayer"

And to the notion that actual whistleblwoers will be chilled by exposing this miscreant, that's BS.

I want to see ICIG Atkinson exposed too. He's in on this scam. As you note, so is Congress. Coordinated hit job just like "Russian collusion."

The government is in open revolt against the people.

9 posted on 09/27/2019 3:38:53 AM PDT by Cboldt
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I suppose it isn’t inevitable at this point. Pelosi and Schiff could publicly apologize and admit they have screwed up. It could happen but the probability is pretty close to zero.


10 posted on 09/27/2019 3:41:15 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: gcparent
The details are a little convoluted. The formal trail has Congress notified by ICIG Atkinson on Sept 9.

ICIG Letters to HPSCI: September 2019
September 9, 2017 - Notice of Receipt of Complaint and disagreement with DNI
September 17, 2019 - Disagree with DOJ

The notifications don't include the complaint or even a summary of the underlying evidence, but do say that the compoaint is of presidential conduct. The president is not subject to IC oversight. This is obvious.

I don't have details of the "official" timeline of notifications back to Aug 12.

11 posted on 09/27/2019 3:43:27 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: wastoute
The DOJ weighed in with a legal opinion. The complaint is not a whistleblower complaint.

DOJ has absolute authority in this subject.

OLC Sept 24, 2019 Slip Opinion Re: ICIG "Urgent Matter"

A complaint from an intelligence-community employee about statements made by the President during a telephone call with a foreign leader does not involve an "urgent concern," as defined in 50 U.S.C. 3033(k)(5)(G), because the alleged conduct does not relate to "the funding, administration, or operation of an intelligence activity" under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. As a result, the statute does not require the Director to transmit the complaint to the congressional intelligence committees.

12 posted on 09/27/2019 3:47:28 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: ransomnote

Where’s the bear in the woods pic. The worst part of these episodes of TDS is having our elected officials treat us as fools. Like we can’t see what’s going on..


13 posted on 09/27/2019 3:59:00 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: wastoute

It was a team effort.


14 posted on 09/27/2019 4:23:35 AM PDT by bgill
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To: gcparent

THAT is VERY INTERESTING?? Just ANOTHER LIE from the DEMONCRATS!


15 posted on 09/27/2019 4:28:15 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: gcparent
Shitforbrains MUST be REMOVED from being the Chairchild of the INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE!!

The INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MUST DEMAND IT!

16 posted on 09/27/2019 4:29:42 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: gcparent

Did ANY Spineless Republican DAMN Shitforbrains for his PARODY??? I couldn’t bear to watch it!


17 posted on 09/27/2019 4:31:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: gcparent
The route the complaint took is through ICIG and DNI. As a matter of current formal record, the complaint was delivered to ICIG on August 12, went through the "chain of review" which, for the first time ever implicated executive privilege, and was eventually delivered to Congress yesterday.

As to true facts, what Schiff knew and when he knew it, in my view doesn't matter much becuse he is actining in uncosntutional fashion. Who has oversight on Congress? Nobody. Congress is above the law.

18 posted on 09/27/2019 4:32:20 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: wastoute

Barr, Trump, etc. have given the Dems enough ROPE to hang ALL of them....TWICE....but the CORRUPT MEDIA and DEEP STATE and EVIL DEmocrat VOTERS don’t care a whit!


19 posted on 09/27/2019 4:33:46 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: wastoute

Acting DIN since Aug 15. All of 6 wks. What timing.


20 posted on 09/27/2019 4:34:01 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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