Posted on 07/04/2020 2:43:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley is seeking to cut in half the budget for an in-house Pentagon think tank, citing in part dubious contracts awarded to Stefan Halper, the FBI’s main spy in its Trump-Russia probe.
Mr. Grassley’s target is the Office of Net Assessment (ONA), which gauges foreign threats and the U.S. military’s ability to defeat them.
Mr. Halper, whom the FBI wired and deployed to try to persuade Trump associates to implicate themselves in a Russia conspiracy, has received over $1 million in ONA contracts for various studies on China and Russia.
“That office has lost its way,” Mr. Grassley, Iowa Republican, said in a Thursday floor speech.
The Washington Times reported in 2018 that a number national security experts Mr. Halper cited as sources for one study said they never contributed and never heard of the study.
“It’s been reported that some of the individuals that Halper cited as sources in his research have denied contributing to his work,” Mr. Grassley said.
“Oddly, ONA Director James Baker has repeatedly told me that Halper’s deliverables were ‘high quality’ and ‘conformed to the requirements set forth in the contract,” he said. “What planet does ONA live on?”
Mr. Grassley said, “When I began to review Stefan Halper’s contracting work for ONA, something didn’t look right. So, I asked the Inspector General to look into it.”
The Pentagon IG in 2019 found that Mr. Halper failed to document that he had spoken to the experts he had proposed in his statement of work before winning the contracts.
“ONA didn’t require Halper to submit evidence that he actually talked to the people he cited in his work, which included Russian intelligence officers,” Mr. Grassley said.
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What does K-I-C-K-B-A-C-K spell? Ask Halper.
And yet another stone falls.
The Swamp is one big club.
Once you’re in it, you’re set for life. They hire each other and create jobs and projects using piles of taxpayer cash knowing nobody ever checks up because they are also in Swamp club.
HOLY CRAP!!! WTF are the REpublicans SO DAMN SLOW WITTED and SLOW FOOTED! This has been known for EONS!!~!
Close it and make those who worked there ineligible for rehire by the government.
What does F-R-A-M-E _ U-P spell? ask halper that too
Curtain is up but still waiting for perp walks.
Halper never served a single day in uniform. Has no military training. And he is assessing foreign threats. When we talk about welfare, and living on the dole,We think of some single mom black woman in the grocery store with an EBT card.
This guy is no better. He’s just a leech
The year is 2055 and there still will be zero charges.
It is called whitewashing the truth, and letting the perps go free. F%ck these clowns in DC.
Make him pay back what he was illegitimately paid.
Halper never served a single day in uniform. Has no military training. And he is assessing foreign threats. When we talk about welfare, and living on the dole,We think of some single mom black woman in the grocery store with an EBT card.
This guy is no better. He’s just a leech
Public tax monies were used to pay a foreign spy to make up dirt on a U.S. Presidential candidate. Is it just me, or is this illegal on several levels.
It’s not only wrong but overtly illegal. Why isn’t the DOJ bringing charges on these little fish and working their way up as they usually do? Durham better be bringing Rico charges against the whole criminal conspiracy or the DOJ risks the same loss of legitimacy as the SC the last several weeks.
Let’s see if sleepy Grassley does anything to the perpetrators...not holding my breath
Paid foe studies on CHINA and Russia
Under Obama, Baker replaced Andrew Marshall, who frequently warned against Chinese designs.
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