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Intel chief tells Schiff transcripts of Russia probe interviews cleared for release
Fox News ^ | 6 May 2020 | Brooke Singman, Mike Emanuel

Posted on 05/06/2020 10:08:21 AM PDT by Magnatron

Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has told House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff that transcripts from the panel’s Russia probe are cleared for public release, as House Republicans demand access to the materials.

Grenell penned a letter -- obtained by Fox News -- this week to Schiff, D-Calif., notifying him that transcripts of all 53 interviews -- which add up to more than 6,000 pages in total -- related to foreign interference in the 2016 election can be released.

“All of the transcripts, with our required redactions, can be released to the public without any concerns of disclosing classified material,” Grenell wrote to Schiff in a letter dated May 4.

The committee, in September 2018, voted in “unanimous and bipartisan fashion” to release the transcripts of witness interviews that they conducted during the panel’s Russia probe. In November 2018, the committee transmitted the transcripts to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for an “interagency classification review to prevent the inadvertent disclosure of classified information.”

Grenell, in the letter to Schiff, said that the review of 43 of the 53 transcripts “was completed in June 2019.”

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It'll be interesting to see how that rat will respond...

Release them Schiff! You're not worried, are you?

1 posted on 05/06/2020 10:08:21 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

Schiff will pick and choose which ones to release.


2 posted on 05/06/2020 10:12:50 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

From what I’ve read here on FR, if Schitt doesn’t release the files, Grennel could release them himself—right?


3 posted on 05/06/2020 10:14:30 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: milagro

I hope so.


4 posted on 05/06/2020 10:16:01 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Schiff won’t release Schitt..


5 posted on 05/06/2020 10:17:34 AM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
The DNI can and will release the transcripts in it's entirety. Nothing Sch*tt can do about that.
6 posted on 05/06/2020 10:21:08 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Grennel could release them himself—right?

I believe absolutely anyone who has a copy could release what they have. They have been cleared for release. Publication would not be a crime.

7 posted on 05/06/2020 10:22:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SmokingJoe

GO RIC GRENELL!! RELEASE THE HOUNDS!


8 posted on 05/06/2020 10:22:59 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Yawn.....the rats are lawless and untouchable...


9 posted on 05/06/2020 10:23:12 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Magnatron
He just responded https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1258078298124554241/photo/1
10 posted on 05/06/2020 10:23:39 AM PDT by grayboots
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To: Magnatron

Grenell is a superstar. Ratcliffe should keep him on.


11 posted on 05/06/2020 10:26:22 AM PDT by kabar
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To: grayboots

ODNI should just release now.


12 posted on 05/06/2020 10:28:29 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Magnatron
Schiff is protected by the communist Democrat bubble. He will release those hurting Trump and you get screwed on the rest. Nothing in American Government can force him to do anything.
13 posted on 05/06/2020 10:30:57 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: grayboots

Nice response from the Committee spokesperson. “This process has already taken too long” and that is their new excuse to drag it out for a few more months?

Grennell should release by COB today.


14 posted on 05/06/2020 10:35:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: kabar

The idiocy of this whole thing is that Ratcliffe was a House member on Schiff’s committee at the time, so he knows damn well what is in those transcripts. LOL.


15 posted on 05/06/2020 10:37:16 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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To: ClearCase_guy

See my last post. I suspect the process has taken a long time because of: (1) Grenell’s recent interim appointment to his role, and (2) the bizarre position Ratcliffe is in as a Trump appointee as well as a former Schitt committee member.


16 posted on 05/06/2020 10:38:34 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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To: Ann Archy
Enjoy:

Grenell to Schiff: Release the Transcripts, or I Will do it for You

In the letter, Grenell urged Schiff to publish the documents, but said that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is prepared to release them if the California Democrat refuses to do so.“I urge you to honor your previous public statements, and your committee’s unanimous vote on this matter, to release all 53 cleared transcripts to Members of Congress and the American public as soon as possible,” Grenell said in the letter, first reported by The Washington Examiner.“I am also willing to release the transcripts directly from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as to ensure we comply with the unanimous and bipartisan vote to release the transcripts.”

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3842277/posts

17 posted on 05/06/2020 10:50:23 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Magnatron

Another red line drawn. Either release them Grenell or STFU. Schiff will just draw this out forever - but perhaps that’s the game both of you are playing.


18 posted on 05/06/2020 10:51:02 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Aww Look, the cat’s got them.


19 posted on 05/06/2020 10:51:03 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin; CMailBag

See # 17


20 posted on 05/06/2020 10:52:26 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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