Posted on 10/13/2020 5:00:03 AM PDT by Mount Athos
CIA Director Gina Haspel is continuing to stonewall top Republican senators, who are demanding that the intelligence chief hand over Russiagate documents they requested more than two months ago.
On Wednesday, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin ordered Haspel to comply with a series of oversight requests from July pertaining to their review of Crossfire Hurricane, the undercover FBI operation that sought to execute a deep-state coup against President Donald Trump.
The American people have a right to know the full extent of official action taken by federal officials during the 2016 campaign, the presidential transition, and into the Trump administration, Grassley and Johnson wrote. The information that has already been made public reveals what might be the most outrageous abuse of power in U.S. history against a presidential candidate and sitting president. Unfortunately, many of the puzzle pieces remain hidden, and some of that information rests within your agency.
Grassley and Johnson, who lead the Finance Committee and Governmental Affairs Committees respectively, gave Haspel until Oct. 9 to comply with their requests. Grassleys office told The Federalist Monday afternoon that the CIA chief has yet to respond to the requests.
Haspels continued refusal to cooperate with Senate investigators follows Federalist reporting that the head of the CIA is personally blocking the documents release in hopes that President Donald Trump loses in November in order to save her job. Notably, Haspel was also formerly the agency station chief in London under Obama CIA Director John Brennan in 2016 and 2017 while ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele pieced together the Democrat-funded and discredited dossier that became the basis for falsely charging Trump with being a Russian agent.
Haspel and [FBI Director Christopher] Wray both want Trump to lose, because its the only chance they have of keeping their jobs, a senior intelligence official told Federalist Co-Founder Sean Davis. Theyre banking on Biden winning and keeping them where they are.
Haspel had previously emphasized her commitment to working with Congress as head of the governments premier intelligence agency during her confirmation hearing in 2018:
As both a career intelligence officer and as an American citizen, I am a strong believer in the importance of oversight. Simply put, experience has taught us that CIA cannot be effective without the peoples trust, and we cannot hope to earn that trust without the accountability that comes with Congressional oversight.
If confirmed as Director, I will uphold the Agencys obligations to Congress and ensure that oversight works on behalf of the American people.
Your apparent unwillingness to speak with us on this matter contradicts your testimony, the senators wrote last week.
Your fired!
Why on earth would some people think this bureaucratic barnacle is a patriot?
Immediately after the kill, Gina Haspel made first identification of the corpse as being Usama bin Laden, on behalf of the government of the U.S.
She was a corrupt station chief right out of an episode of “Homeland.”
Who should be fired? First the moron that pushed her nomination to lead the CIA.
Ooooooo...
They wrote her a letter. A very STERN letter.
I suspect she’s taken aback, having her own words recited to her!
If the president has directed they be released and she stonewalls grab up a regiment of marines and go and get them with trump in the lead. Anyone who resists execute them.
Fire the lying b^^^h!
It is discouraging though I do not believe it would have any effect on this years election. We informed Americans are already voting for Trump. The uninformed and the Trump haters do not care.
When Trump gets his second term its going to be a glorious four years. These next four years will never in our history or future be repeated or replicated. Trump will re-shape America for the next 30 years.
She was a corrupt station chief right out of an episode of Homeland.
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Miss that show it gave us many insights into the snakes in government and agency heads cloaked in an alleged mini series.
Carrie in the end the only real patriot in spite of all the attempts to paint her as a traitor. Liked the ending that showed that even after creating the opposite impression to the last second
It’s all beltway theater here. The GOP Senate could haul her in front of a Senate committee and publicly waterboard her but they won’t be doing that because they are just fine with her “stonewalling.” It’s CYA by the do-nothing GOP Senate. They hate POTUS and want him gone.
Why does Trump only ok the release but not order the release of these papers immediately?
Maybe I’m looking through delusional rose colored glasses, but maybe his internal polls are telling him he is going to win and he wants to avoid unnecessary media hysteria in the next three weeks. He can release it all after a victory and the media be damned.
Ordered will be the hammer once Re-elected.
Then a true flushing of the swamp an occur. Hopefully Barr delivers along with Durham
Otherwise deep six them before they speak and put Tom Fitton In as AG and his choice of prosecutors finish the job.
Id rather wait for someone I trust and who can tell Trump
Where the roadblocks really are than We couldnt trust a DC jury to convict even though we have the goods
Yep. As I understand it, she reports to Ratcliffe, who reports to the president. No?
YOU’RE FIRED!
Maybe Im looking through delusional rose colored glasses, but maybe his internal polls are telling him he is going to win and he wants to avoid unnecessary media hysteria in the next three weeks. He can release it all after a victory and the media be damned.
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I think you are right. Anything to deflect from the incompetence of a Biden and the true nature of Harris / Biden place.
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