Posted on 10/05/2020 11:09:10 AM PDT by george76
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gina Haspel is personally blocking the declassification and release of key Russiagate documents in the hopes that President Donald Trump will lose his re-election bid, multiple senior U.S. officials told The Federalist. The officials said Haspel, who served under former CIA Director John Brennan as the spy agency’s station chief in London in 2016 and 2017, is concerned that the declassification and release of documents detailing what the CIA was doing during the 2016 election and the 2017 transition could embarrass the CIA and potentially even implicate Haspel herself.
“Haspel and [FBI Director Christopher] Wray both want Trump to lose, because it’s the only chance they have of keeping their jobs,” one senior intelligence official told The Federalist. “They’re banking on Biden winning and keeping them where they are.”
The Federalist first reported last week that Haspel had emerged as the primary roadblock to declassification of materials showing that the U.S. intelligence community knew prior to the 2016 election that the allegations that Trump colluded with Russia were themselves the products of Russian disinformation. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe released a declassified summary last week that disclosed that Russian intelligence officials were aware that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had planned to smear Trump as a treasonous Russian asset to distract from the Clinton’s e-mail scandal. As part of her operation, Clinton hired a foreign agent who was himself working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch to spread unverified smears against Trump. One of the key sources of collusion allegations peddled by that foreign agent via the now-infamous Steele dossier was suspected by FBI authorities of being a Russian spy.
“It’s far more important for Haspel to block any embarrassment of herself or her agency than to have full transparency and accountability,” another senior intelligence official told The Federalist. “She’s just hoping she can get past the election so the documents will never come out.”
“This is not a source protection issue, it’s an embarrassment issue,” the intelligence official added.
Officials also accused Haspel of repeatedly lying to the White House about the status of documents that are in the pipeline for declassification and release. These officials said that Haspel has consistently provided baseless excuses for her failure to produce certain documents, falsely claiming that she can’t physically locate documents, or that her agency doesn’t technically own them and therefore cannot release them.
“Haspel has repeatedly lied to the president about the status of documents to be declassified,” one intelligence community source said. “She will claim they don’t know where they are, or which agency technically owns them, and then we’ll find out she had them the entire time and just didn’t want them to see the light of day.”
“The frustration with Haspel is reaching nuclear levels,” one official said, noting that White House and top U.S. intelligence community officials have been taken aback by the ferocity of Haspel’s refusal to release documents.
The Federalist reached out to the CIA Public Affairs office for comment, but did not receive a response prior to publication.
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And, she still has a job, why?
there’s a shock. this entire issue will disappear if trump loses.
I swear to God
WITHell is “advising” Trump?
FIRE HER ASS
Seditionists and traitors in many places of power, authority and influence...pathetic. Hopefully, Justice will out.
She ran the London office during the coup
He needs to do a massive firing on November 4th!
Doesn’t Ratcliffe out rank her as DNI. Pull rank and get the information out, yesterday.
Trump needs to declassify these NOW.
FIRE HER ASS
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... after the election.
If Trump wins he will largely have a free hand. I see this crook and Wray holding posts in Adak, Alaska soon.
Paging Richard Grenell, pick up the White HatCourtesy phone and report for your new position at the CIA!
So-— Trump can de-classify and tell her to Shut the Hell Up. Through her boss DNI Ratcliff. Chain of Command. Do it.
There are NO, zero “sources and methods” uncovered by the documents who have not already been exposed to the “opposition” countries (ie. everybody else in the world, but especially chineee).
Haspel is a protege of Brennan.... btw. Tick, Tock.
Exactly. Your boss, who HAS the auroty, tells you to do something.
You say not.
THAT is straight up insubordination.
Terminated. Security in the office. Right now.
new word, auroty ... authority.
Democrats like his son in law
If Trump wins he will largely have a free hand. I see this crook and Wray holding posts in Adak, Alaska soon.
I recommend Johnston Island.
Time to shine a bright light on the traitors NOW, NOT AFTER the election.
Then Trump should fire her and put Rick Grenell in as acting CIA Director
We all stand on the same dirt and breath the same air and stand for the same things, until we don’t.
The Black Hole of Deep State Gubamint continues to eat away at our freedoms and rights to know and feeds the swamp dwellers the remains.
At some point, WE the people must decide, how much more of this ‘transparency’ and agenda will the string pullers allow to be revealed, not those who are expected and appointed to serve WE the people, not the few who seek total control.
Which party has the ability to do so? Perhaps neither and I’m being gracious that many do want to do the right thing.
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