Posted on 10/11/2019 11:51:44 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA whistleblower at the NSC during the Obama and Trump administrations, the Washington Examiner has learned.
Abigail Grace, who worked at the NSC until 2018, was hired in February, while Sean Misko, an NSC aide until 2017, joined Schiff's committee staff in August, the same month the whistleblower submitted his complaint.
The whistleblower was an NSC official who worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and who has expertise in Ukraine, the Washington Examiner has reported.
A career CIA analyst with Ukraine expertise, the whistleblower aired his concerns about a phone conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to a House Intelligence Committee aide on Schiff’s staff. He had previously informed the CIA’s legal counsel's office.
Schiff initially denied he knew anything about the complaint before it was filed, stating on Sep. 17: “We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would like to."
But it later emerged that a member of his staff had spoken to the whistleblower before his complaint was submitted on Aug. 12. The Washington Post concluded that Schiff "clearly made a statement that was false."
Grace, 36, was hired to help Schiff’s committee investigate the Trump White House. That month, Trump accused Schiff of "stealing people who work at White House." Grace worked at the NSC from 2016 to 2018 in U.S.-China relations and then briefly at the Center for a New American Security think tank, which was founded by two former senior Obama administration officials.
A Schiff aide commented in February: "We have hired staff for a variety of positions, including the committee's oversight work and its investigation. Although none of our staff has come directly from the White House, we have hired people with prior experience on the National Security Council staff for oversight of the agencies, and will continue to do so at our discretion." Schiff himself said, "If the president is worried about our hiring any former administration people, maybe he should work on being a better employer."
Misko, 37, worked in the Obama administration as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff under deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, who became Hillary Clinton's top foreign policy official during her 2016 presidential campaign. In 2015, Misko was the director for the Gulf states at the NSC, remaining there into the Trump administration’s first year.
A source familiar with Grace's work at the NSC told the Washington Examiner, “Abby Grace had access to executive privilege information, and she has a duty not to disclose that information. She is not authorized to reveal that information.”
The same source said that Misko had not been trusted by Trump appointees. "There were a few times where documents had been signed off for final editing before they go to the national security adviser for signature," the source said. "And he actually went in and made changes after those changes were already finished. So he basically tried to insert, without his boss' approval.
"There were meetings in which he protested very heavily, and next thing you know, there's an article in the paper about the contents of that meeting."
Misko often clashed with other NSC personnel at meetings, another source said. Both Grace and Misko were close to Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser from Feb. 2017 until May 2018.
Misko was a CNAS fellow in 2014. Misko's name surfaced in the Hillary Clinton email controversy when he worked in the State Department during the Obama administration.
In a Dec. 1, 2009, email released by Judicial Watch, Clinton adviser Huma Abedin sent classified information regarding foreign military contributions to the Afghanistan war effort to her private email account. That email originated with Misko, who wrote to Sullivan that he initially “accidentally” sent it on the “high side” (secure) but was sending the email again.
The intelligence committee did not respond to a request for comment.
The whistleblower is an Obama mole from the git go.
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So was McMaster and many other Trump appointments.
He was getting intentionally bad advice from people with R jerseys that he thought he could trust.
I don’t honestly think Trump wants a deal. He wants to bleed them dry while smiling at them. $23 Trillion of their economy up in smoke since this kerfuffle started.
He is eliminating a threat.
Speaking of David Kramer ... Is he the top McCain aide who recommended McMaster? Unsettling to see Cotton’s name in the mix.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/us/politics/mcmaster-national-security-adviser-trump.html
The selection encouraged Republicans who admire General McMaster and waged a behind-the-scenes campaign to persuade Mr. Trump to select him. Key to the choice was Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, an Army veteran who once served under General McMaster and suggested him to the White House. A coterie of other national security conservatives, including a top aide to Senator John McCain of Arizona, also lobbied for him, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who has worked with General McMaster, encouraged him to take the job.
John McCain passes the torch at the International Republican Institute
To cement IRI’s ongoing cooperation with the Trump administration, the board will now also include former national security adviser H.R. McMaster. McCain’s close associates David Kramer and Fran Townsend will be added to the board as well. Current board members Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Tex.) will remain.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/19/buzzfeed-mccain-associate-dossier/
A longtime associate of late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain provided a copy of the infamous Steele dossier to BuzzFeed News, according to an explosive court filing released Wednesday.
David Kramer, a former State Department official who was an executive at the McCain Institute, met on Dec. 29, 2016 with BuzzFeed reporter Ken Bensinger, according to a filing submitted Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro.
lol
Incestuous bunch, aren’t they?
Sure are, and we didn’t even have to throw in Omar.
Palace coup
That is original and a good point. A cesspool would attract Pelosi,Schiff,Feinstein types as well as RINOs and lifetime leeches in the GOP. Convincing evidence your idea is better.
The ending of the film version of Terry Southern's novel The Magic Christian had that huge vat of filth with money hungry guys accepting the smell and diving in.
https://www.facebook.com/MikeCernovich/posts/1214404352021948
I was just looking at the ICIG, Michael Atkinson’s, bio. Looks like he is about 2 years short of reaching 20 years of Federal Service, the minimum service required for retirement. With all the crap he has pulled:
- Didn’t perform due diligence in investigating whistle blower claim.
- Modified the complaint form to allow 2nd hand info?
- Didn’t even ask for the transcript of the call
- Disregarded clear evidence of bias
- Overrode the decision of his boss, DNI Maguire
- Sent the complaint only to House Intelligence Committee and Not the Senate.
Seeing that he is obviously knee-deep in this operation, I think it’s time to give him some options. Cooperate as a witness with DOJ and Barr, or give up your cushy retirement and move to Club FED. Not sure if there is enough Justice remaining in the DOJ to pull that off, but even without that, he could be fired for all of the above.
Obama plants or just plain political traitors?
Two articles about Atkinson
Activity and Background of Sketchy IC IG Michael Atkinson Now Under Investigative Spotlight…
Michael K Atkinson was previously the Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ-NSD) in 2016. That makes Atkinson senior legal counsel to John Carlin and Mary McCord who were the former heads of the DOJ-NSD in 2016 when the stop Trump operation was underway.
Michael Atkinson was the lawyer for the same DOJ-NSD players who: (1) lied to the FISA court (Judge Rosemary Collyer) about the 80% non compliant NSA database abuse using FBI contractors; (2) filed the FISA application against Carter Page; and (3) used FARA violations as tools for political surveillance and political targeting.
AND..
Sketchy Inspector General Michael Atkinson Admits ‘Whistle-blower’ Never Informed Him of Contact With Schiff Committee…
PING
I am beginning to understand why Barr and the guy in Connecticut are taking so long. When you are about to indict 25-30 people, that is a lot of paperwork
Adam Schitt should be audited for extra “income”
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