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The man is a force of nature.
Related: CIA Director Gina Haspel Is Blocking Declassification Of Remaining Russigate Documents
CIA Director Gina Haspel is personally blocking the declassification of documents detailing corruption at the highest levels of the intelligence community during the 2016 election
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By: Chuck Ross Investigative Reporter, Daily Caller, October 05, 2020:
President Donald Trump is working to declassify documents related to the Russia investigation while he recovers from coronavirus at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, his chief of staff said Monday.
“This morning we’ve already had a couple of discussions on items that he wants to get done,” Mark Meadows, the chief of staff, said in an interview on “Fox & Friends.”
“Candidly, he’s already tasked me with getting declassification rolling in a follow up to some of the requests that Devin Nunes and others have made.”
Trump went to Walter Reed on Friday after experiencing symptoms from coronavirus.
Meadows did not go into detail about the documents he is working to declassify or the timeline on which they will be released. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, has called for the declassification of a variety of documents from the FBI and U.S. intelligence community related to the investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible links to Russia in 2016.
In a Fox News interview on Sunday, Nunes discussed two sets of documents he wants released to the American public.
He called for the release of memos from interviews that the FBI conducted with the primary source for dossier author Christopher Steele in January, February and May 2017.
The Senate Judiciary Committee released memos of interviews that the FBI conducted with the source, Igor Danchenko, in January 2017, but other interview transcripts have not been released.
An FBI memo declassified last month said that the bureau had investigated Danchenko in 2009 as a possible Russian agent.
Republicans investigating the origins of the Steele dossier have tried to figure out whether it is the product of Russian disinformation, or if parts of it were fabricated by Steele and others. The Clinton campaign and DNC hired Steele, a former MI6 officer, in June 2016 to investigate Trump’s possible links to Russia.
In the dossier, Steele alleged that the Kremlin had blackmail material on Trump and that the campaign was engaged in a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” with the Russian government to influence the election. The special counsel’s office debunked the conspiracy claim in a report released in April 2019.
Nunes also called for the release of intelligence underlying a memo that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
The memo said that U.S. intelligence agencies in July 2016 “obtained insight” into “Russian intelligence analysis” that said that Hillary Clinton had approved a plan to link Trump to Russia’s election-related computer hacks.
The underlying intelligence remains classified. Democrats have asserted that it has been debunked as Russian disinformation.
Ratcliffe said in his memo to Graham that the U.S. intelligence community has not determined if the intelligence is Russian disinformation.
Nunes, who was briefed by Ratcliffe last week along with other lawmakers, said the intelligence contained “smoking guns” that should be made public.
“From what I understand, there’s even more underlying evidence that backs up what Director Ratcliffe put out,” he said on Fox News.
“We want every damn bit of evidence that every intelligence agency has or it’s maybe time to shut those agencies down,” Nunes said.
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19 Comments
3 years ago
Nixon had the same problem, a dozen agencies, all trying to run the government on their own. ‘Deep Throat’ was an FBI hack who was close to Bill Ayers and other commies, and he conspired to turf Nixon out by selective leaking. The commies got rid of Nixon, and then got N Vietnam to re-invade the South. SOME ‘victory’ that was, Vietnam is now one of the poorest nations on earth.
Rule # 87: Socialism always makes poverty worse.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Meanwhile Lebanon flounders on. This person understands the problem, but most just don’t get it.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
This is the problem in Lebanon. Dressing up and posing for tweets about teachers, is just a waste of the public’s attention. They have serious work to do. How many Americans do the same, ignoring the tyrant elephant in the room?
3 years ago
President Trump made two consequential mistaken appointments: Gina Haspel and Christopher Wray. Both of these two are swamp creatures. Haspel is an acolyte of Brennan and Wray is tied in to Comey and Mueller.
Both of them are working to slow down the conspiracy investigation and thwart President Trump at every turn. He really needs to clean house.
3 years ago
Reply to
Fount
I agree, bad choices. A.G. Barr is no better. It’s a club in self protection mode. Every time Trump declassifies documents, one of them blocks it.
If Trump can get a second term they all need to be fired and replaced. Then there is the problem of getting a decent person in there. That’s where the Senate will block him. It’s frustrating. Obama stuffed the pipeline. Maybe he should just keep appointing people instead of getting Senate confirmations? Right now his priority needs to be getting re-elected. I am very concerned about the fraud on swing states.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The President can declassify anything. But of course he should read it first. That’s what Trump is doing now.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
TRUMP HAS BEEN DOING THAT!
READ MY REPLY to Fount.
OTHERS BLOCK IT.
Educate yourself – spend some time here:
The Conservative Tree House
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
3 years ago
The globalists are banking on a Biden win. They see us as weak.
The Pope is getting bolder….He has declared that market capitalism doesn’t work and even private property ownership needs to be revisited. He won’t say the word communism but his proclamations define it. He is now using the shut down of economies, due to the Chinese virus, to promote the idea that capitalism doesn’t work is devious and evil.. The idea of Catholics and Muslims being united for peace is absurd! Unfortunately the Pope has allot of influence with followers.
Pope: Market capitalism has failed in pandemic, needs reform
‘The fragility of world systems in the face of the pandemic has demonstrated that not everything can be resolved by market freedom’
10/04/20
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In the encyclical, Francis rejected even the Catholic Church’s own doctrine justifying war as a means of legitimate defense, saying it had been too broadly applied over the centuries and was no longer viable.
“It is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a ‘just war,’” Francis wrote in the most controversial new element of the encyclical.
(Just surrender to your enemies for peace.)
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He denounced populist politics that seek to demonize and isolate, and called for a “culture of encounter” that promotes dialogue, solidarity and a sincere effort at working for the common good.
(What a world salad of garbage! Sure let others take advantage of your country and not have fair reciprocal trade. Put your country last for the common good. Heavy sarcasm. The Pope must hate Trump. )
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As an outgrowth of that, Francis rejected the concept of an absolute right to property for individuals, stressing instead the “social purpose” and common good that must come from sharing the Earth’s resources. He repeated his criticism of the “perverse” global economic system, which he said consistently keeps the poor on the margins while enriching the few — an argument he made most fully in his 2015 landmark environmental encyclical “Laudato Sii” (Praised Be).
(He sounds like a typical communist, DEM politician. He would get along well with Biden. He embraces class warfare and now he’s against private property ownership….)
Francis also rejected “trickle-down” economic theory as he did in the first major mission statement of his papacy, the 2013 Evangelii Gaudium, (The Joy of the Gospel), saying it simply doesn’t achieve what it claims.
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Francis enshrined in the encyclical his previous rejection of both the nuclear arms race and the death penalty, which he said was “inadmissible” in all cases.
Francis’ call for greater “human fraternity,” particularly to promote peace, is derived from his 2019 joint appeal with the grand imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the revered 1,000-year-old seat of Sunni Islam. Their “Human Fraternity” document established the relationship between Catholics and Muslims as brothers, with a common mission to promote peace.
The fact the he has now integrated that Catholic-Muslim document into an encyclical is significant, given Francis’ conservative critics had already blasted the “Human Fraternity” document as heretical, given it stated that God had willed the “pluralism and diversity of religions.”
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/pope-market-capitalism-has-failed-in-pandemic-needs-reform
She must be a Pope follower –
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Send the Pope and the ding a ling to the Gulag Comrade …
… give ’em a taste of real communism like my Russian friends and colleagues got …
… and we won’t have to worry about their stupidity ever again …
*** You and yours have an excellent week, felix!
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
You have a great one too!
Did you see this ?
Eventually they are going to have to address this….
Thomas and Alito get it.
Justices Thomas, Alito slam Obergefell same-sex marriage decision as Supreme Court denies Kim Davis case
Alito and Thomas both dissented from the original Obergefell ruling
By Tyler Olson | Fox News 10/05/20
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said Monday that Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that mandated all states recognize same-sex marriages, is “found nowhere in the text” of the Constitution and threatens “the religious liberty of the many Americans who believe that marriage is a sacred institution between one man and one woman.”
The statement was written by Thomas and joined by Alito about the case of Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who said she would not give same-sex couples marriage licenses. The two justices said they agreed with the consensus of the court that it should not take Davis’ case, but only because it did not “cleanly present” the “important questions about the scope of our decision in Obergefell.”
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“[T]his petition provides a stark reminder of the consequences of Obergefell. By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the court has created a problem that only it can fix,” Thomas wrote. “Until then, Obergefell will continue to have ‘ruinous consequences for religious liberty.'”
Obergefell was decided in 2015 by a 5-4 court, with then-Justice Anthony Kennedy writing the majority opinion joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer.
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Thomas argued Monday that Obergefell is highly flawed and marginalizes those who do not believe in same-sex marriage.
“Obergefell enables courts and governments to brand religious adherents who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman as bigots, making their religious liberty concerns that much easier to dismiss,” he wrote. “In other words, Obergefell was read to suggest that being a public official with traditional Christian values was legally tantamount to invidious discrimination toward homosexuals.”
Thomas added: “This assessment flows directly from Obergefell’s language, which characterized such views as ‘disparag[ing]’ homosexuals and ‘diminish[ing] their personhood’ through ‘[d]ignitary wounds.'”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/thomas-alito-kim-davis-obergefell-decision-same-sex-marriage
I’m all for civil rights but NOT at the expense of the Constitutional rights of others, specifically freedom of religion. I’m not worried about their feelings either.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Oh, yes … it’s a disaster. And IMHO … Thomas only touches upon the tip of the iceberg.
*** You and yours have an excellent week, felix!
3 years ago
Nunes needs to be CIA director … and Gina needs a perp walk along with all the other Brennan operatives – both overt and covert …
… it’s past time the CIA worked for us – about 70 years past time …
*** Everyone here have an excellent week!
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Devin Nunes would be fanastic. He knows the swamp and what they have been up to.
3 years ago
Reply to
volksnut
“We have raised and discussed serious matters of fact and questions about the role of CIA Director Gina Haspel in the Anti-Trump conspiracy. It appears Haspel (while serving as London Chief of Station from 2014 to early 2017) was an active, knowledgeable party to the efforts to target candidate Trump with an FBI-instigated foreign counterintelligence operation. That seditious conspiracy carried forward to a more sophisticated and aggressive plan to carry out a soft coup against President Donald J. Trump.”
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
The CIA – UK connection worked like this:
The CIA wanted to spy on Trump, big time. But the CIA cannot spy on US citizens. So the FBI and CIA got British intelligence to spy on Trump, and then share the info with the FBI and CIA.
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Unreal how many of these scum the President hired turned out to be treasonous vermin. Who recommended this POS?
3 years ago
Trust Nunes.
3 years ago
Nunes needs more authority that just a Congressman. Some other job, maybe.
