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.
Whoever is smearing her most likely are McCainiacs or folks who support the International Criminal Court.
If Trump doesn’t support her or thought she was an obstacle he’d not spare any words saying so any more than he has with Comey... he wouldn’t need anonymous leakers to feed gossip to the press in order to be rid of her.
The left and the muslims have been after her for a while because they think she got rid of interrogation tapes of terrorists in the GWOT to protect CIA interrogators and psychologists from the Intl’ Criminal Court.
She is also part of Trump’s middle east peace policy so she has a target on her back for that too.
Al Queda did less damage to the US than BLM/Antifa/democrats.
Interesting...thanks.
It’s what have read about her— Trump was able to eliminate a real In-Q-Tel techno spy babe who really was a protege of Brennan’s from the Counter Terrorism Center. Chickie was a grad of Duke in ... zoology? really? Somebody’s brat.
Anyway she was in line to replace the DNI in an interim situation. Trump sidelined her, and put Admiral Joe Maguire (a REAL SEAL, well respected) as acting DNI to skip over this gal- who is derp state for sure. Posted about it at the time.
Then followed by Ric Grenell who seriously kicked butt as another “Acting” appointment they could not screw with to make way for Ratcliffe who is a Texas Federal Prosecutor, not a bushie wooshie.
Win the election first
...media will twist this against trump in the polls
Never give the enemy ammunition to use against you.
After the elections, let loose the dogs of war, win or lose.
But President Trump will win...big.
Then he’s free to declas as necessary and we’ll hear the lamentations of the dem and media bitchezzzz...but I repeat myself
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."
sorry been outta pocket for a while.
here’s a link to that photo I found on 3D3N:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjiT1SXX0AAy1nr?format=jpg&name=small
Also, confirmed here on FR by those on active duty.
She worked for Brennan is all you need to know
One problem with firing Haspel is that so many senate races are close, and the senate at this moment is “shut down” because of covid cases. If Haspel was gone, would somebody worse take over?
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