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. Grassley’s office told The Federalist Monday afternoon that the CIA chief has yet to respond to the requests.
Haspel’s 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 it’s the only chance they have of keeping their jobs,” a senior intelligence official told Federalist Co-Founder Sean Davis. “They’re banking on Biden winning and keeping them where they are.”
Haspel had previously emphasized her commitment to working with Congress as head of the government’s 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 people’s 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 Agency’s 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.
The chances that she is truly rogue at this point aren’t high. Just look at the rule that kicked in last week whereby intelligence community spending doesn’t just exist as blacked out entries in the US budget. The feds now can prepare and present fully fake books to the public, while keeping their actually amounts and direction of expenditures completely hidden in a second set of books.
I have thought the exact same thing. I believe Barr not doing anything now is calculated. What benefit if the internals show a win? After it will have much more relevance.
He is the CEO of the CIA.
Tell Haspel to give the GOP Senators every document they want - or fire her.
These documents will be politically helpful to Trump and the GOP, but Trump does nothing.
Incomprehensible negligence.
We keep waiting for someone else to do the taking down. Barr, Durham, etc. Quit waiting. Nobody is going to do anything. We are being played by people who no interest in us. Half the country is at war with the other half. Meanwhile, they just keep on trucking.
As far as I know, Tom Fitton does not have a law degree.
This smells of deep state. She has been a taker all her life. She has no perspective outside of government. She has no real-world experience. Where the hell is her executive experience?
A degree in journalism and paralegal certificate prepares someone to work in a law library - well maybe not. Most people who work in a library have over inflated educations with at least a MA in Library Science (a frickin' joke of a major right up there with journalism where one learns to write on a sixth-grade level).
Haspel has unqualified quota hire written all over her resume. She advances her career through politics, not by skill, knowledge or actual doing. She rode the coat tails of others and probably a number of other things.
She is insubordinate to the President of the United States, thinking she is above him and the people who elected him to office. She is the deep state.
“Who should be fired? First the moron that pushed her nomination to lead the CIA.”
Yes. Whoever has been advising Trump on his agency picks should be forever persona non grata in his administration.
Wasn’t that her mentor Brennan?
Send a squad of US Marshall’s in to her office and tell her to produce them or go to jail!
FIRE HER!
Alleged is right. I have heard it portrayed some actual f-ed up situations those snakes carried out in the very real world. Great show.
Sadly she’s another one of Trump’s appointee.
“She became Acting Director following Pompeo’s resignation to become United States Secretary of State and was nominated by President Donald Trump to become the official Director of the CIA. On May 17, 2018”
She’s under the same death threat from the Clinton Obammy Inc. Cabal that most of DC is under.
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