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.
If I was President and a department head came to me with that excuse I'd give them 24 hours to find them and if they keep stonewalling they get fired. People need to know they can't stonewall. Maybe someone will legitimately be confused about where the docs are, but if they can't galvanize the organization to find their own stuff that the President has asked for then they don't deserve the job anyway.
The main reason we were told to wait over a year for the Horowitz Report is that he was NOT investigating the CIA.
It appears to me that her refusal to release the documents means the truce has been broken. Why doesn’t Trump overrule her immediately?
Why did Trump hire her?
Why did Trump hire Wray?
Why did Trump hire Esper?
Why did Trump hire Bolton?
Why did Trump hire ... (the list of bad hires is endless)
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Trump entered the WH knowing zip,nada, nothing, zero about how things worked. That aside he had to depend on advisers like every CEO does. The problem with this is unlike in his own business where he had family to advise him (who knew the business) along with his own solid knowledge of the business itself, he had neither when he entered the WH in 2017.
He had no idea how bad it was or would get, something he has admitted on more than one occasion and despite everything which has been thrown at him he has accomplished more than any other President in my history and I voted in my first election in 1960.
Fire her ass now.
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Amen
Haspell, Wray, Comey, Stzrok, Nellie Ohr, et al should be appointed by POTUS to ultra top secret task force.
Phase One - Code name BACKWASH CHILLAXE - investigate serious allegations of Neo-Nazi White Supremist secret underground bases in Antarctica for as long as it takes to track down and prosecute the nefarious villains.
Phase TWO - Code name BACKWASH MOONBAT
Serious allegations published by World News, The Onion, and other respect media sources indicate Phase One Targets have also established secret moon bases in league with real live Nazi Elders residing there since the late 1930s. Emporer Ming is suspected as a close ally. Line of sight heliograph comms only.
Trust the plan! Enjoy the show!
US citizens expect better.
“The frustration with Haspel is reaching nuclear levels,”
Looks like I have a neat idea that no one in the White House can grasp. Fire her ass, now!!!!
If she has actually been caught lying...?
IF Trump LOSES he should declassify EVERYTHING and fire Wray, Haspel, and many others.
If Trump WINS he should declassify EVERYTHING and fire Wray, Haspel, and many others.
A SCORCHED EARTH policy should be executed immediately after the Election no matter the outcome.
As will the country.
*** Why did Trump hire her?
Why did Trump hire Wray?
Why did Trump hire Esper?
Why did Trump hire Bolton?
Why did Trump hire ... (the list of bad hires is endless) ***
Asked my friend who thinks Trump can do no wrong this same question.
“Blah, blah, 3-D chess, setting them up, indictments, and arrests soon.”
SMH
McCain staff Director David J. Kramer infamously provided BuzzFeed with the Steele dossier..
Henry Kerner urged the IRS to target peaceful Conservatives: to “audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous.”
President Trump, presumably unaware of these facts, appointed Kerner as Special Counsel for the United States Office of Special Counsel.
Trump didn't have anybody on the inside, as we're now finding out.
Keep in mind Obama fired EVERYBODY with a hint of Conservatism. (within DOD it was down to the O-5 level)
There was some grave concern, held by at least one member of Congress, that it would be subject to tipping.
I thought that tipped over??
LOL, I think that was Guam.
FIRE HER ASS!! HIRE RIC GRENEL!!!
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