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The CIA Keeps Popping Up In The Biden-Ukraine Saga
The Daily Caller ^ | December 03, 2024 5:16 PM ET | Eireann Van Natta

Posted on 12/04/2024 7:40:43 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is linked throughout the Biden-Ukraine entanglements, from Trump’s first impeachment to Hunter Biden’s business dealings.

Back in 2019, the then-National Intelligence Council analyst Eric Ciaramella anonymously accused Trump of demanding an investigation into Biden’s alleged corruption in Ukraine in exchange for military aid, according to Real Clear Investigations.

Ciaramella was an adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office when Biden threatened to stop aid to Ukraine unless it fired Viktor Shokin, Real Clear stated. Shokin was the prosecutor investigating the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma Holdings. Hunter joined the board of Burisma in 2014 where he was making $80,000 a month, according to bank records.

While Ciaramella was accusing Trump of using a “quid pro quo,” Hunter’s payments were not as scrutinized in 2019. A transcript of Trump’s call eventually revealed that he did not make a promise to Zelenskyy or threaten to withhold aid to Ukraine.

A slide is projected as Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council, and David Holmes, a State Department official stationed at the US Embassy in Ukraine arrive to testify during the House Intelligence Committee hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington,DC on November 21, 2019.

Ciaramella had conversations with key Biden aides and Ukrainian prosecutors, White House emails and photos released from the National Archives demonstrated.

In one email, Ciaramella wrote “Yikes” in response to Biden’s decision to withhold aid from Ukraine, Real Clear noted. He was also involved in discussions concerning the aid package that Biden made dependent on Shokin’s removal, according to Real Clear.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cia; ciasedition; ciatreason; davidholmes; ericciaramella; fionahill; viktorshokin
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1 posted on 12/04/2024 7:40:43 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course the CIA is involved. it might be their biggest fundraiser.


2 posted on 12/04/2024 7:48:03 AM PST by Eli Kopter
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To: Eli Kopter

OMG it is so hard to believe that WE ALL knew this the minute they impeached Trump over an Ukraine phone call, YET media have been under a rock with their head in the sand!! The media has become SO LAZY it is really quite amazing the have the audacity to call themselves journalists………SPIT


3 posted on 12/04/2024 7:51:45 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

The media’s job went from speaking truth to power to, punching down on behalf of those with power.


4 posted on 12/04/2024 7:56:14 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Hi! Follow me on FReep Tok #Neanderthal #oMtBikes #Bach)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ukraine was a black-box for the entire swamp and deep-state to run corruption, intel and political programs, far from prying eyes of Congress, honest regulators, and pesky independent media.


5 posted on 12/04/2024 7:56:27 AM PST by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just wait until Trump’s people are in place, having real investigations, and saying all the quiet parts out loud.


6 posted on 12/04/2024 7:56:58 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: PGR88

CHECK


7 posted on 12/04/2024 8:11:39 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I think they are tools of the Administrative State.


8 posted on 12/04/2024 8:12:35 AM PST by Eli Kopter
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The intelligence community killed Kennedy, installed Johnson.
The intelligence community planned and executed Watergate, installed Ford
The intelligence community planned Iran-Contra, but Reagan/North outsmarted them.
The intelligence community installed Bush
The intelligence community installed Clinton
The intelligence community undermined Bush43
The intelligence community installed Obama who strengthened them
The intelligence community tried to stop Trump
The intelligence community installed Biden
The intelligence community tried to kill Trump


9 posted on 12/04/2024 8:27:46 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: All

Nail the blankety-blank sucker.


Biden’s National Intelligence Council analyst Eric Ciaramella had conversations with key Biden aides and Ukrainian prosecutors.....White House emails and photos released from the National Archives demonstrated.

<><>In one email, Ciaramella wrote “Yikes” WRT Biden’s extortion, to withhold mandated billion dollar aid from Ukraine.
<><>He was also involved in discussions concerning the aid package Biden made dependent on Shokin’s removal, in order to protect Hunter and the Biden Crime Family’s sub rosa corruption.


10 posted on 12/04/2024 8:30:39 AM PST by Liz (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to RULE. (H.L. Mencken)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
The media has become SO LAZY it is really quite amazing the have the audacity to call themselves journalists………SPIT

I'm not sure they're lazy, more like activists for their agenda. See Tagline.

11 posted on 12/04/2024 8:33:07 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We can be sure that the CIA’s role in Ukraine started long before Hunter Biden came onstage. I suspect the oligarch behind Burisma was being paid for the US IC’s biolab programs (and political interference ops), and that Hunter’s placement on the Burisma board evolved opportunistically from this. Joe Biden or someone pandering to him proposed putting Hunter on the Board to “monitor” the CIA’s programs. Overpaying Hunter for doing nothing was the conduit for giving Joe Biden a portion of what the CIA was paying, which covered the cost of the monitor. Thus US taxpayers were paying Hunter, not the oligarch/Burisma. Mebbe Cash Patel could look into that...


12 posted on 12/04/2024 8:47:14 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Eli Kopter

The Blob is running everything.

With Sam Bankman-Fried as their former crypto money laundering DNC operation until it became unstable and was shutdown.

Blinken and Obama and his worshiping sycophants at State are in daily charge.

While ‘doctor’ Jill was tasked with keeping the dementia carcass walking in a straight line for the cameras. She quickly became enamored with the pretend power and limelight and was furious with being thrown under the bus. Their failures had became so obvious they could no longer hide them even with the mockingbird blob controlled MSM.


13 posted on 12/04/2024 9:40:57 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: ClearCase_guy
Just wait until Trump’s people are in place, having real investigations, and saying all the quiet parts out loud.

Why am I skeptical that this will happen?

'Cause of what we saw the last time he sat in that Oval Office.

Seeing is believing.

14 posted on 12/04/2024 10:07:45 AM PST by icclearly
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To: Erik Latranyi
The intelligence community killed Kennedy, installed Johnson.......................................................................

You got all of that 100% right.

Why exactly do you think this pattern will change after 60 years??

15 posted on 12/04/2024 10:11:52 AM PST by icclearly
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To: Erik Latranyi; rodguy911

see 9


16 posted on 12/04/2024 10:25:15 AM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
OMG it is so hard to believe that WE ALL knew this the minute they impeached Trump over an Ukraine phone call, YET media have been under a rock with their head in the sand!! The media has become SO LAZY it is really quite amazing the have the audacity to call themselves journalists………SPIT

They aren't lazy. They are't incompetent. They are enemy agents manipulating news to support the Democrat power block.

17 posted on 12/04/2024 11:36:49 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is just more CIA and State dept. BS. Hard to say which one is more corrupt, likely CIA. Both departments need to be thoroughly overhauled. Who knows what has to happen with CIA, it’s a real mess. When you have 51 operatives all willing to lie in writing you start to get an idea of just how corrupt the entire organization truly is.


18 posted on 12/05/2024 2:06:37 AM PST by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT))
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To: PGR88

If you follow the money it was all about crude oil and cutting out Russia along with getting more of uncle sams dole-out billions.


19 posted on 12/05/2024 2:11:30 AM PST by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT))
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
THe media is hardly under a rock they know what goes on they just report what helps the deep state and little else.


20 posted on 12/05/2024 2:16:27 AM PST by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT))
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