Posted on 08/28/2020 10:37:35 AM PDT by bitt
Graham and his staff kept Republican members of the Judiciary Committee in the dark about an interview of key Russiagate figure Joe Pientka on Thursday, multiple sources told The Federalist.
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and his staff kept Republican members of that committee in the dark about a pivotal interview of key Russiagate figure Joe Pientka, multiple sources familiar with Thursday’s proceedings told The Federalist.
Graham and his committee investigative staff, helmed by chief investigative counsel Zach Somers, did not inform Republican members of the committee about the interview, multiple Judiciary Committee sources told The Federalist. Even Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who has sought an interview with Pientka since 2018, was not told about Thursday’s interview, according to a spokesman for his office.
“Sen. Grassley’s staff was not aware this interview was happening,” a spokesman for the Iowa senator said. He added that Grassley and his staff had been “interested in speaking with Pientka for a while.”
“We were not informed” of the interview of Pientka, another top aide to a Republican senator on the Judiciary Committee told The Federalist.
Pientka, a career FBI agent who voluntarily agreed to be interviewed by Senate investigators on Thursday, is at the center of multiple investigations of FBI abuses during the course of the bureau’s anti-Trump investigations both before and after the 2016 elections. Pientka was the agent who in August of 2016 used a fake so-called “defensive briefing” to spy on Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, and Chris Christie during the heat of the presidential campaign. Pientka, along with fired former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, was also part of the illegal ambush interview of then-White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in January of 2017.
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Linda’s a spy.
One can only surmise that Linda is a child molester and the FBI has his little nuts in a vice.
Grahmnasty is about to accomplish something of note?
Linda’s a spy.
Yup. In it up to his earrings.
Graham was working with McCain to get the Dossier. He has every reason to try to bury any investigation into the investigators.
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That’s the Clinton move of locking someone into a story.
Lindsey wants to scrub McCain and Romney’s ties to the case.
Hell, Lindsey himself advised McCain to dispatch his most trusted aide to a Foreign country to get fake Dossier, and get it to Comey at all costs.
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Wow makes you wonder why he chose to only allow 1 republican and 1 dem to interview this guy. Hoping more comes out. Of course nothing happened to this witness, like prosecution of any kind.
Graham doing this really stinks to high heaven.
Not including Grassley was probably a good thing. He and his pal Warner would already have leaked everything they could.
Graham and McShame DELIVERED the dossier to the SCUM FBI!!!
Sounds like he may have been sabotaging the process
I read the entire article and it doesn’t say whether demshevik Senators or stafff were informed. That is a missing piece of vital info. Also no reason was given for the lack of informing R Senators. Seems as though Linda is going off the deep end into derpdom.
Flimsey Grahamnesty has never been on our side.
It’s about time people accept that reality.
He has voted for a permanent Democrat majority THREE times with amnesty for illegal aliens.
One has to know what Pentinka knows before one can cover it up.
What other reason would explain why Linda did not inform other
GOP Committee Members?
My thought as well: Graham was trying to prevent democrat leaks.
And it is still August - Too early for an October surprise in Graham’s Senate election. Though they are trying.
I’m not sure keeping others out of the loop was a bad idea. The Keystone Cop Bloviators are interested sound bites, wasting time, and pandering. Doing things in secret can be nefarious, but chances of getting something out of the witness is better when a professional with examination skills asks the right questions and pursues where the information leads.
One has to know what Pentinka knows before one can cover it up.
I agree. I don’t trust Linda as far as I could throw her.
But, what if Durham gagged his witness?
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