Posted on 02/25/2021 5:37:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
After four years of railing against “deep state” actors who, he said, tried to undermine his presidency, Donald Trump relented to U.S. intelligence leaders in his final days in office, allowing them to block the release of critical material in the Russia investigation, according to a former senior congressional investigator who later joined the Trump administration.
Kash Patel, whose work on the House Intelligence Committee helped unearth U.S. intelligence malpractice during the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe, said he does not know why Trump did not force the release of documents that would expose further wrongdoing. But he said senior intelligence officials "continuously impeded" their release – usually by slow-walking their reviews of the material. Patel said Trump's CIA Director, Gina Haspel, was instrumental in blocking one of the most critical documents, he said.
Patel, who has seen the Russia probe's underlying intelligence and co-wrote critical reports that have yet to be declassified, said new disclosures would expose additional misconduct and evidentiary holes in the CIA and FBI's work.
"I think there were people within the IC [Intelligence Community], at the heads of certain intelligence agencies, who did not want their tradecraft called out, even though it was during a former administration, because it doesn't look good on the agency itself," Patel told RealClearInvestigations in his first in-depth interview since leaving government at the end of Trump's term last month, having served in several intelligence and defense roles (full interview here).
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If she’s good enough for the corporate world she’s certainly good enough for the political world.
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Well said.
I wish I didn't have to agree, but I do agree.
In many respects, Trump was the president in name only.
The DOJ, CIA, NSA, FBI etc just gave him the middle finger, with a smirk.
Agree. I’d rather have the truth about the swamp now from Trump now than have him pulling his punches and trying to recreate a GOP coalition to run again in 2024. It’s time to throw the coupist GOP overboard. My family has no interest in voting GOP in 2022.
Wray dragged his feet, because he knew the fix was in on election 2020..
Wray dragged his feet because he had bipartisan top cover. 2020. 2024. No difference. The GOP Senate in particular was the lynchpin of the coup because there never was an threat of substantive oversight of the deep state.
The bureaucracy is tough and will do extraordinary things to protect itself. Their view is that presidents come and go, but the bureaucracy is permanent. They know how to defend their empires.
Being from the private sector Trump was used to having his direction followed. He wasn’t used to insubordination and people putting their self interests above the company.
Once one agency was able to frustrate him it opened the door for the rest of the agencies to do the same.
Trump never really established control over the bureaucracy IMO.
IMO, it all hinged on Trump’s first year. 2017. Gowdy has said he knew the FBI was lying to Congress regarding FISA and did nothing about it. President Trump’s term became a dead letter once it became clear in 2017 that the GOP was fully supportive of the coup. Trump was never going to win a political battle with the bureaucracy, media, Democrats AND his own party. I wish it was different but it is what it is.
Good points..i retract my suggestion on Candace for now..needs more experience
I always suspected Patel was a Nunes prober.
She is a wonderful person and thinker, and I hope she can acquire more training over the years, so she can indeed take a government role if the opportunity presents itself. Right now, she is enjoying the blessings of being a new mom.
His own party undermined him. Worse, they undermined what their own voters wanted their president to do.
With strong backing and support from the GOP he could have achieved better control over the bureaucracy, which is almost entirely staffed by liberals now.
In short, the GOP betrayed him — and us.
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