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DNI to Schiff: The transcripts are ready to be released.
Washington Examiner ^ | 5/6/20 | Byron York

Posted on 05/06/2020 6:43:13 AM PDT by hardspunned

A big development in the fight over 53 secret interviews the House Intelligence Committee(under Nunes) conducted during its Russia-Trump investigation.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: dni; house; nunes; schiff; ticktok; zzzzz
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To: hardspunned

Rick Grenell strikes again. If Ratcliff gets confirmed, he should immediately make Rick his #2. We can get another ambassador to Germany.

Schiff is now exposed for directly blocking the transcripts for 11 months. And Grenell said he’ll release them himself if Schiff still refuses.

Yeah baby!!!!


41 posted on 05/06/2020 7:31:35 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Unredact the 99 Collyer Report!!!)
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To: hardspunned

Grenell tells Schiffty, “release now or I will”. I honest to goodness think he will.

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Oh, he will! If you haven’t seen it, enjoy this:

From Link at bottom:

President Trump nominated Representative John Ratcliffe, an intelligence community reformer, for the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The SSCI previously rejected Ratcliffe because his existence is adverse to their interests. However, in response Trump installed honey badger Richard “Ric” Grenell as the acting DNI.

The SSCI hates Grennel with the ferocity of a thousand supernovas because Grenell doesn’t give a f**k about their swamp life. Better yet, Grenell smacks them around publicly on Twitter whenever the SSCI dispatch the orcs from the deep swamp intelligence apparatus. Every time orcs poke their heads out of the DC labyrinth, Grenell smacks them with a billion mega-watt sunlight hammer. They shriek and retreat to the dungeon.

The good news for the SSCI is that Grenell can only stay in the ‘acting’ role until September of this year. However, the bad news is if the SSCI rejects John Ratcliffe then Ric Grenell gets another year to antagonize the corrupt senators, swing the sunlight hammer & expose the darkest secrets of their beloved swamp. {{Grumble – Grumble}}

As a result President Trump has pinned the SSCI into the corner of their cave. If the SSCI rejects Ratcliffe, they are stuck with Grenell; and Ric really is a guy who doesn’t give a f**k about the SSCI’s indulgent self-interest and thirst for power.

Link:
Delicious Dynamic – John Ratcliffe ODNI Confirmation Hearing Tomorrow – Senate Intel Committee 9:30am ET
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/04/delicious-dynamic-john-ratcliffe-odni-confirmation-hearing-tomorrow-senate-intel-committee-930am-et/


42 posted on 05/06/2020 7:37:31 AM PDT by Qiviut (Don't be an 'irony'.)
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To: Qiviut

Yeah, I saw that. Can you imagine Burr and Warner’s position now of needing Ratcliffe to turn down the heat. This is the way Trump should handle all vacancies that need confirmation.


43 posted on 05/06/2020 7:45:19 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: hardspunned

Agreed! Ratcliffe may be more subtle than Grennel, but he is one of the few that has seen the unredacted FISA apps, plus other docs .... he knows where the figurative “bodies” are buried.

This situation ... Grennel or Ratcliffe .... makes me smile. Burr has said he’ll vote for Ratcliffe so they’ve picked their poison. Poke the bull, get the horns .... Trump really has the SSCI on the horns of a dilemma.


44 posted on 05/06/2020 7:50:51 AM PDT by Qiviut (Don't be an 'irony'.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Let’s get it done. People need to go to jail.


45 posted on 05/06/2020 7:51:51 AM PDT by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: numberonepal

Unless they are Trump supporters or Republicans, no one is going to jail.


46 posted on 05/06/2020 7:54:26 AM PDT by sport
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To: JerseyDvl
“I support Acting Director of National Intelligence @RichardGrenell’s plan to release ALL of the transcripts...including my transcript! What’s in the transcripts that has DC's biggest leaker @AdamSchiff so terrified to release them? 🤔🧐” Donald Trump Jr.
47 posted on 05/06/2020 7:59:15 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: PghBaldy

“If they are House documents, he has no power to release them.”

Perhaps. But he does have the power to declassify and release other documents. As I recall he delegated that authority to Barr. Where’s the beef?


48 posted on 05/06/2020 7:59:45 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

The President is the final authority on classification, even stuff classified by Congress. He has the power to make it happen.


49 posted on 05/06/2020 8:03:08 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt

There is enough wiggle room under the Separation of Powers doctrine to throw it to the courts, letting Schiff delay, delay, delay


50 posted on 05/06/2020 8:35:33 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Scatology is serendipitous)
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To: brownsfan

Indictments...convictions...prison time or hangings. Wake me when that happens.


51 posted on 05/06/2020 8:44:03 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: hardspunned

They’re already setting Trump up with the corona whistleblower. Stay tuned for the next chapter. This won’t stop until the people rise up in Trump’s defense in a meaningful way in big numbers at the capital. As long as we take it, it will continue until they have full control over us.


52 posted on 05/06/2020 8:48:47 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: hardspunned

Thank goodness for Ric Grenell... Fighting the good fight.


53 posted on 05/06/2020 8:52:09 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: jersey117

They’re already setting Trump up with the corona whistleblower. Stay tuned for the next chapter. This won’t stop until the people rise up in Trump’s defense in a meaningful way

-——Bingo

Shift the news away from groping Joe to the Evil Donald, and provide a diversion away from Schiff.

The MSM enables all of this instead of going after the real stories that would be bigger than Watergate but won’t be handled the same way as its the Dem’s playing “dirty tricks”


54 posted on 05/06/2020 9:02:53 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Soul of the South

” Plus, why doesn’t President Trump just order the DNI to release them?”

There are laws and procedures for this stuff.

Trump has to be careful about being perceived as a “dictator”.


55 posted on 05/06/2020 9:34:07 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: hardspunned

GOOD!


56 posted on 05/06/2020 10:01:42 AM PDT by ldish (2020 Election will determind if USA remains a Consitutional Republic!)
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To: faucetman

YES - JUST WHY NOT! Know there supposedly is the Durham and Barr investigation but...


57 posted on 05/06/2020 10:03:09 AM PDT by ldish (2020 Election will determind if USA remains a Consitutional Republic!)
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To: hardspunned
Just in case Schiff is still not interested, Grenell added, "I am also willing to release the transcripts directly from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as to ensure we comply with the unanimous and bipartisan vote to release the transcripts."

Why wait?! Just release them. POTUS is the boss, not Schiff, and POTUS ordered the declassification and release to the public of AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

They have been checked for classified information and cleared. RELEASE THEM!

Waiting for Schiff to act is an exercise in futility.

58 posted on 05/06/2020 11:09:06 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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