[Ann Archy]

WTF HASN’T HE BEEN ARRESTED??????? Oh, I forgot....he’s a DEMOCRAT!!

[Major Matt Mason]

And I assume that this criminal is still walking free?

[volunbeer]

Well, well, well........

Deleting inconvenient documents seems to be a staple of the left doesn’t it?

[FES0844]

What a tangled web they weave.

[2banana]

Because that is longstanding Department policy?

On the eve of a new administration?

“former State Department official told the Senate Intelligence Committee he destroyed records in January 2017 at the request of former British spy Christopher Steele, according to a report released on Tuesday.”

[marron]

If a Repub did this it would be obstruction of justice.

[ClearCase_guy]

Winer corrected his statement in a follow-up interview

"Yeah, I lied to you fellows about that. I guess you caught me. Oh, well. Can I correct my statement? You don't mind? Thanks."

[CatOwner]

Is it still too early to blame Barr for the lack of action against the Deep State?

[marron]

Steele worked for Deripaska from 2012 to 2017

Its good to remember that, while they were accusing Trump of colluding with Russia, it was Steele who was on contract with Russia. As was Fusion GPS. As was John Podesta. And of course the Clintons took home a boatload of money from the Russians.

[oil_dude]

So he was allowed to correct his lie with no punishment? Kinda like McCabe?

[marron]

Meanwhile, the infamous Russian lawyer they keep trying to attach to Trump was working for Fusion, and Fusion for her.

[oil_dude]

So wait....Steele was writing reports for/to the State Dept. in 2014 and 2015????? Before the Steele Dossier in 2016? This is the first I have heard of this.

[SteveH]

fed gov documents come under the FOI rules. I highly doubt that there is anything that is not clear about the FOI rules. There also should be a FOIA officer at each department including the state department. all records go through the FIOA officer so it should not matter if Winer destroyed any documents as there would be copies.

Winer apparently lied to Congress.

Any requests from spook Steele should have gone to file 13. (So imho it is unlikely in real life that Steele made any such request. OTOH i could easily imagine someone like Strzok making such a request, and then telling Winer to claim that Steele made him do it.)

There’s about 5 serious violations of law right there. The time it takes for this to get a plea bargain might tell us how fast Trump intends to move on all of these DC night crawlers.

[DesertRhino]

I seem to remember something about Nixon and 18 minutes of erased tapes.

[FLT-bird]

Winer needs to be charged and take a public perp walk.

[9YearLurker]

IIRC Lee Stranahan has for a year or two now been pointing to this guy as central to the effort from the start. Part of the Cody Shearer, Clinton operative mix.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article):"Jonathan Winer, who served as special envoy to Libya through early 2017, was Steele’s contact at the State Department.
He arranged a meeting for Steele in October 2016 with another State Department official at Foggy Bottom
to share findings from a dossier of research he had compiled on Donald Trump."

Given the Steele dossier was a publication from the Clinton regime,
and seeing as how Winer had been in Clinton's State Dept.as envoy to Lybia,
I wonder if he has any insight into the Benghazi incident under Clinton's watch ?

[Boogieman]

Oh, are we all still pretending that the NSA doesn’t have copies of all these ‘deleted’ emails, like they have copies of all of Hillary’s ‘deleted’ emails?

I forgot we are supposed to pretend we don’t know that is the case.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

As everyone knows destruction of U.S. government documents is illegal under most all circumstances. Especially those docs under subpoena.

5.56mm

[zeugma]

It might make some sense to keep these 'private' intelligence organizations in mind in light of the recent documentary by Millicent Weaver.

Incestuous is a bit too mild a word for some of this.