As such, it's hard to believe the only existing copies of government documents belong to ole
bugeyes.
Posted on 05/06/2020 8:10:34 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously in the fall of 2018 to release dozens of witness interview transcripts from its investigation into Russian interference, but the transcripts have not been made public.
The declassification process by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was expected to take just a few weeks or months, but nearly two years later, some administration officials, as well as ranking Republican member Devin Nunes, are blaming Chairman Adam Schiff for the delay.
“Adam Schiff is thwarting the will of the House Intelligence Committee as expressed in the bipartisan vote in September 2018 to make these transcripts public,” one senior intelligence official told the Washington Examiner. “He has appointed himself arbiter of what the public should see and has refused to allow the White House to review its own equities, making declassification of 10 of the transcripts impossible. It's difficult to imagine any motive other than Schiff is still trying to control the narrative on Russia collusion.”
Forty-three of the 53 transcripts have gone through the declassification process and were returned to Schiff over half a year ago, but he has not released them, despite promising last fall to make them public quickly. Just The News reported on aspects of this controversy earlier this week.
A sticking point with the remaining 10 transcripts is the desire by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to allow the White House to review them as part of the declassification process.
In March 2019, under then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, ODNI staffers briefed the House Intelligence Committee that some of the interviews implicated “White House equities” and that the top spy office “looked for mention of interactions or communications with current or former [White House] and [National Security Council] officials either during transition or after descriptions of policies or direction established within the [White House] and [NSC]” as part of the declassification process, according to a letter Schiff sent to the ODNI obtained by the Washington Examiner. The ODNI said some of the witness testimony “could be privileged” and that a determination like that “can only be made by” the White House.
Schiff rejected the request from Coats a week later.
“Under no circumstances shall ODNI, or any other element of the Intelligence Community, share any HPSCI transcripts with the White House, President Trump, or any persons associated with the White House or the President,” Schiff wrote. “Such transcripts remain the sole property of HPSCI, and were transmitted to ODNI for the limited purpose of enabling a classification review by IC elements and the Department of Justice.”
Coats left the ODNI in August 2019. He was succeeded by Joseph Maguire, who, after the Ukraine impeachment controversy, was replaced by Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany.
The Washington Examiner has learned that at least two of the 10 disputed transcripts do not contain classified information and that Schiff could release them, along with the 43 other declassified transcripts.
Nunes told the Washington Examiner that Schiff should make the already declassified transcripts public immediately.
“HPSCI Democrats opposed every Republican document request and subpoena that helped to expose malfeasance in the FBI’s Russia collusion probe. And now, by refusing to publish the witness transcripts or the transcript of the committee’s briefing with former [intelligence community Inspector General] Michael Atkinson, the Democrats are blatantly continuing to hide documents that expose their own mistruths,” Nunes said. “There is no reason for keeping these documents secret except that they want to hide what’s in them.”
Given today’s developments what’s the point of posting old news from April 24?
As such, it's hard to believe the only existing copies of government documents belong to ole
bugeyes.
The administration will fold, as usual.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Looks like Marshall Applewhite
Did they actually expect Shifts behavior to be any different.....sheesh......he’ll never give anything up in his control without a long long fight .
Cause and effect: buggery and bug eyes.
What’s to prevent Barr from leaking them to the Washington Examiner?
"Hello and greetings, you've reach The Government Department of Government Redundancy Department."
I am getting this ichy feeling that they may be released by the ODNI as soon as tomorrow.
Barr doesn’t have them.
In Sept. 2018 the Republicans were in the majority. If the Democrats win in November, all the scoundrels who violated the rights of Trump, Flynn and others will go scot-free and a new wave of false accusations will start. The Democrats have politicized the legal system and can take advantage of the fact that it takes so long for anything to be resolved.
Marv. Let’s ask the real question behind all of this re Adam. WHO IS HE WORKING FOR? Is he being blackmailed for some personal proclivities? Is he insane? Is he a traitor?
I’m afraid that my computer screen will tip over a la Guam if Freepers answer my questions here.
waterboard Schiff
For a week
I volunteer to do the honors
SOROS
#9. Re buggery and bug eyes. Well, let’s call Adam “Mr Stinkbug”, “Mr. Roach”, “Mr. Maribunta” (that’s a camp oldie), “Mr. Mosquito”, and “Mr. Dung Beetle”.
Now, if he was a bat (Wuhan Fruit Bat - oh the double entendres that are present here), and he nested by hanging upside down at night in his closet, we could say he was “well hung”. I would hope it being the “rope” kind of “hung”.
Calling Judge Roy Bean. You’re needed on Capital Hill, ASAP. Bring a truckload of rope. You’re going to need it.
#17 Marv. re “SOROS”. Yes, I’ll take Soros for $1,000, Alex, er Marv.
In Schiff’s case, it could also be “sore ass”. Never underestimate the depravity of a psychopathic traitor.
I’m in agreement with you. Schiff isn’t smart enough to be a mastermind behind this coup. He is carrying out orders and doing someone else’s bidding. I’m guessing Schiff has a lot of skeletons in his closest and got blackmailed into being the lead in Congress for the coup attempt.
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