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.
And can you pray tell me why President Trump allows her and Wray to continue another day?
Trump should have learned quick....fire all rat staff, fire all military promoted by the african and fire all staff that worked with Brennan, Comey, etc....
When an openly communist moslem like Brennan can make it to the highest level of the CIA, you know there’s a major problem within the entire intelligence apparatus,
I prefer to send them to Amchitka.
did you see the picture of gina glad handinig hildabeast?
gina was wearing her epstein island temple blue & white striped blouse.
Deep State bump for later.....
Haven’t seen that photo as far as I can recall.
I need more confirmation, esp. because anonymous fishuls. I remain on the fence.
Kind of reminded about Fitten and others slamming the administration for not giving in to FOI requests, when the actual reason was that said docs were still being used for investigations/GJs.
So I await further evidence. I am not on either side of the Haspel issue, just want to know more.
Wearing blue and white stripes is not convincing, but being happy to shake the bloody hand of Killary is another matter.
its about people drawing a Federal paycheck committing sedition.
We the People have not reminded them who they really work for
Too close to the election to fire anyone but the day after....there is hope.
Obama fired EVERYBODY with a hint of Conservatism. (within DOD it was down to the O-5 level) <<<<
any proof of that???
I like the way you think.
RV splashdown.
Yes, how does she get away with this...?
POTUS should call and say, turn over the docs, or you are gone tomorrow...
No more screwing around with these creeps...
The question is, if she’s so worried about the truth coming out, then why has she not stepped down?
Why does she need the job? It’s a political appointment, isn’t it? Does she need the salary? The retirement?
She could waltz into Booz-Allen or any number of spook encrusted swamp consulting groups and gigs and pull down more salary than a government job.
So why has she not said bon voyage?
The answer can only be that this is a hit piece on her or there is dirt or coercion on her.
If I remember correctly, at the time Haspel was chosen, information about Brennan was either sketchy or not at all.
I mean info about his skullduggery. He was just the previous Director.
I may be wrong on the timing.
The political fallout would be unimaginable 4 weeks before the election. He has to wait.
Another bad personnel decision by Pres Trump
Well... no possible connection there.
I can not believe that I supported her during the hearings.
The CIA’s Gina Haspel Deserves America’s Gratitude
So, brave people like Gina Haspel got busy. The 33-year veteran CIA officer (whose U.S. Senate confirmation hearings begin this morning) and her foreign counterparts tracked down al-Qaeda members. Some were killed straight away. Good. Others were captured alive. Even better.
A reward.
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