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Obama Sends Private Letter to National Archives Claiming ‘Confidentiality’ To Not Release Biden-Ukraine Docs
Gregg Jarrett ^ | May 6, 2020 | JARRETT STAFF

Posted on 05/09/2020 12:57:10 PM PDT by gattaca

What exactly is Obama concerned with in regard to the “confidentiality interests that all presidents have sought to protect?”

Former President Barack Obama has inserted himself into the Russia, Ukraine fiasco; arguably this was not the first time. While Democrats have been denying and protecting their guilt in creating and advancing the Russia Hoax, there is evidence that suggests President Obama likely was aware of the probe. Fox News has obtained a letter from the office of former President Barack Obama to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which manages presidential records. Why would Obama, four years after leaving office, suddenly get involved? The letter to the National Archives was privately sent in March. Arguably they did not want Fox News to obtain a copy. Nonetheless, the letter bashes Senate Republicans and their investigation of Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukraine. Hunter, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, joined the Ukraine company during the Obama administration. Very intriguing.

Obama’s letter to the NARA is a response to Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson having requested the Obama administration records on Ukraine-related meetings, placed on November 21, 2019. Obama’s letter claims the senators’ inquiry is an effort “to shift the blame for Russian interference in the 2016 election to Ukraine.”

What exactly is Obama concerned with in regard to the “confidentiality interests that all presidents have sought to protect?”

Why so defensive, Obama? According to Fox News, the letter states that the office of former President Obama has “produced 12,2880 pages of presidential records in response to special access requests from the White House and Congress.” So, what’s a few more? For some reason, the Obama administration wants the inquiry to end now. “This use of the special access process serves no legitimate purpose and does not outweigh or justify infringing confidentiality interests that all presidents have sought to protect” states the letter.

Sean Hannity opened his show last night addressing Obama’s letter, calling it “truly disgusting and dishonest.” “The office of the former president, Barack Obama, blasted a congressional investigation into Biden’s dealing with Ukraine. Wonder why. Now, the office actually accused the investigation of giving credence to a ‘Russian disinformation campaign,’ and this ridiculous letter insinuated lawmakers were just spreading Russian propaganda” said Hannity.

Hannity continued, telling Obama the real collusion was “under your watch. Your guy, Jim Comey, and company.” Remember, “members of your administration, they used that unreliable Clinton-bought-and paid for, Russian misinformation from the get-go filled with Russian lies” he added.

“In reality, it was Obama. It was his administration. It was Biden. They are the ones that spent months and months propagating the Russian disinformation campaign. Uh, Barack? Did you ever hear of the dirty Russian dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for? Of course, you have” said Hannity.

So then, what exactly is Obama concerned with in regard to the “confidentiality interests that all presidents have sought to protect?” We would love to know.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 202003; chuckgrassley; clowncar; delaware; grassley; hunterbiden; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; mudboy; nara; obamaletter; ronjohnson; russiagate; ukraine
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To: Signalman

“No one in my administration got indicted”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjeYNkfDa9Y

LOL. How the turntables.


61 posted on 05/09/2020 2:21:01 PM PDT by reagandemocrat (Liberate California)
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To: gattaca

He knew about Biden’s corruption in the Ukraine, and every dirty deal going on while he was President. We have never had a President who was so good at keeping his hands clean of all the corruption under his watch, and I hope we never have one that good again. We may not survive another President who is so comfortable around corruption.


62 posted on 05/09/2020 2:21:59 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: ronnie raygun
"How stupid is he, really"

Trying to cover his tracks. It's kind of reminiscent of Susan Rice writing, and sending herself that email on Inauguration Day 2017, about that private meeting she, Clapper, Brennan, Yates, Biden, and Comey attended in the Oval Office on January 5th, 2017, about "doing everything by the book."

63 posted on 05/09/2020 2:28:48 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: wardamneagle
He is so desperate for Biden to win the election because he needs the investigation stopped. It's ridiculous to see him using the Russian hoax as an excuse for ending an investigation into real crimes he committed. The guy is a big turd.
64 posted on 05/09/2020 2:37:24 PM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: gattaca; Chode; All

HEY zer0dipstick you DO NOT ASK FOR ANY MORE OF ANYTHING FROM ANYBODY !!! AND you NO LONGER HAVE ANY EXECUTIVE POWERS SO you CAN DO NOTHING GFUS.


65 posted on 05/09/2020 2:48:47 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: Rebelbase

High five! Yes, what Obama and Biden could use is a Sandy Berglar. If he’s not available, maybe call Reality Winner and tell her to bring extra pantyhose.


66 posted on 05/09/2020 2:52:46 PM PDT by kyrasdad
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To: Hot Tabasco
HMFNIC

I'm guessing it means High MFing N-word In Charge.

67 posted on 05/09/2020 2:52:59 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: al baby

What does “HMFNIC” mean? I will buy a vowel . . .


68 posted on 05/09/2020 2:53:54 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: gattaca

Not to worry. Rudy has it all. It came from Ukraine. Ukraine has everything


69 posted on 05/09/2020 2:54:26 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“He knows that regardless of what he did he’ll never see the inside of a courtroom, let alone a prison cell.”


Sadly, I have to agree with you. Any crimes he committed, were committed in the District of Columbia. Any DC jury would vote to acquit without even having to retire from the courtroom regardless of evidence.


70 posted on 05/09/2020 2:55:11 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hondact200; poconopundit
Michelle Obama Given PBS Show After Democrats Gave Public Broadcaster $75 Million in Coronavirus Relief Bill
Gateway Pundit ^ | 4/18/20 | Kristinn Taylor / FR Posted on 4/21/2020, 6:47:14 AM by Freedom of Speech Wins

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has been given a show by PBS starting next week, the taxpayer funded network announced Friday. The timing of the announcement comes after Democrats marked $75 million for PBS’s parent the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the coronavirus relief bill that passed at the end of March.

Newsbusters reported the $75 million is on top of the $465 million given CPB in the current year’s federal budget, which is an increase of $20 million over the previous year. Local PBS and NPR stations receive funding from CBP as well as donations from the public, businesses and charitable foundations.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/michelle-obama-given-pbs-show-democrats-gave-public-broadcaster-75-million-coronavirus-relief-bill/ (Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...

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Pres Obama gave $350 million tax dollars Common Core contract to publisher, Obamas got $65-million book deal
american thinker ^ | 12/9/2019 | Monica Showalter / FR Posted by bitt

As far-left Democrats yell about bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors, let's turn to their own side of the aisle, starting with the once penniless President Obama, who left public office a very, very rich man.

He bought a Martha's Vineyard mansion for a cool $11.75 million, which is in addition to his Kalorama lookout post, his Chicago home, and possibly a Hawaii spread. At some point, you've made enough...but not him. Ostensibly, it's mainly the work of his book deals. No bribery there, right? Well, ahem... According to Investment Watch (IWB), something doesn't quite look right.

Obama gave Pearson Publishing $350 million to create Commoncore text and Pearson gave Obama a $65 million dollar book deal in return....and... (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

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Trump Calls For Obama's Book, Netflix Deals To Be Investigated Sep 16, 2019 - Pres Donald Trump claimed that instead of worrying about him, the House Judiciary Committe should subpoena Obama's records.......records Obama is reluctant to expose lest taxpayers fund out he's been monetizing official presidential acts.... Both Obamas got humongous book deals AFTER the publisher, Penguin, got hundreds of millions of tax dollars around the Common Core nonsense. The Obamas also got a multimillion-dollar deal with Netflix for TV productions.

YOU HEARD IT HERE: the Obamas learned valuable facets of TV production in the sewers of Chicago.

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Penguin publisher Pearson just announced his retirement-- the “retiring” Penguin CEO is 57 years old. Poor thing.......thinking up ways to hide $350 million of our tax dollars musta exhausted him....cackle.

71 posted on 05/09/2020 3:00:38 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: al baby

THAS RACISS, HMFNIC means Moon, at least the Dark Side of it.


72 posted on 05/09/2020 3:02:41 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: hondact200; poconopundit
Obama knows we are getting closer to the truth. Moreover, he does not want people to see where his multi-million dollar
"federal inheritance" came from; he gave out plenty.

OBAMA GOVERNMENT FRAUD AT ITS FINEST---a Muslim get-rich-quick plan.

Obama's Muslim giveaways of our tax dollars (that we know of). Priming the Obama foundations pumps---giveaway tax dollars now --collect donations later:

<><> $150 billion to Muslim Iran in the nuclear deal...plus the latest handout

<><> $2 billion to help half-brother Malik advance his organization---the Muslim Brotherhood,

<><> $50 million to half-bro Malik/Barack's tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Muslim Kenya.

<><> While the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge in Egypt, Obama (and Hillary) showered them w/ praise.....and billions of US dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes. Payback is coming due.

<><> Obama gave $90 million US tax dollars to wealthy oil-rich Muslim African countries.

<><> the missing billions attached to Obamacare.

<><> Obama gave Michelle seventy-three million tax dollars to teach Muslim girls in Qatar

<><> Obama gave Michelle 100 million tax dollars to teach Muslim girls in Morocco....the 100 mill is being held in Chicago by the Obama Foundation until "needed" (cue laugh machine here).

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The BIG question is how much these recipients gave back to Obama----foundation donations, high-paid speeches, business deals, etc etc etc.

At a recent Obama Foundation meeting, he said he WILL NOT reveal big-buck donors to the foundation.

73 posted on 05/09/2020 3:02:54 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: al baby
No isn't....but he, Obama's past abuses of The U.S. Constitution may be coming to light. Here is his dirty top cop.....

(listen to the dirty, lying sociopath)

74 posted on 05/09/2020 3:04:25 PM PDT by yoe (Want to HELP the Slave Trade and Drug Cartels in USA? Vote for a democrat........)
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To: All
Ut-oh. Joe Biden looked panic-stricken when Mika Brezsinski asked him to look for Tara Reade records
in his archives of some 1500 boxes and electronic records at the U of Delaware.

The panic-stricken Biden aid there were things in the archives.......
confidential presidential conversations, and the like, that are not supposed to be revealed.

75 posted on 05/09/2020 3:07:19 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: dainbramaged

Jail him in with female prisoners, just so this dude can show he is the Mack-daddy he claims to be. (wink wink).


76 posted on 05/09/2020 3:09:46 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: Liz

Oh but this President Trump has his private calls made public. Screw you Biden and bozo and release those records.


77 posted on 05/09/2020 3:10:05 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

H = head
M = mother
F = slang for fornicating
N = THE N word
I = in
C = charge


78 posted on 05/09/2020 3:21:04 PM PDT by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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To: poconopundit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjZX-Pvh54

At 4 minutes in


79 posted on 05/09/2020 3:22:17 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: manc

H/T JOHN SOLOMON——There are still wide swaths of documentation kept under wraps inside the State Dept that could
substantially alter the public’s understanding of what happened in the Hunter Biden-Joe Biden-Obama-era Ukraine.
President Trump should ordered these released:

<><> Daily intelligence reports from March through August 2019 on Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelensky and his relationship with oligarchs and other key figures. What was the CIA, FBI and U.S. Treasury Department telling Trump and other agencies about Zelensky’s ties to oligarchs like Igor Kolomoisky, the former head of Privatbank, and any concerns the International Monetary Fund might have? Did any of these concerns reach the president’s daily brief (PDB) or come up in the debate around resolving Ukraine corruption and U.S. foreign aid? CNBC, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal all have done recent reporting suggesting there might have been intelligence and IMF concerns that have not been fully considered during the impeachment proceedings.

<><>State Department memos detailing conversations between former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. He says Yovanovitch raised the names of Ukrainians she did not want to see prosecuted during their first meeting in 2016. She calls Lutsenko’s account fiction. But State Department officials admit the U.S. embassy in Kiev did pressure Ukrainian prosecutors not to target certain activists. Are there contemporaneous State Department memos detailing these conversations and might they illuminate the dispute between Lutsenko and Yovanovitch that has become key to the impeachment hearings?

<><>State Department memos on U.S. funding given to the George Soros-backed group the Anti-Corruption Action Centre. There is documentary evidence that State provided funding to this group, that Ukrainian prosecutor sought to investigate whether that aid was spent properly and that the U.S. embassy pressured Ukraine to stand down on that investigation. How much total did State give to this group? Why was a federal agency giving money to a Soros-backed group? What did taxpayers get for their money and were they any audits to ensure the money was spent properly? Were any of Ukrainian prosecutors’ concerns legitimate?

<><> Transcripts of Joe Biden’s phone calls and meetings with Ukraine’s president and prime minister from April 2014 to January 2017 when Hunter Biden served on the board of the natural gas company Burisma Holdings. Did Burisma or Hunter Biden ever come up in the calls? What did Biden say when he urged Ukraine to fire the prosecutor overseeing an investigation of Burisma? Did any Ukrainian officials ever comment on Hunter Biden’s role at the company? Was any official assessment done by U.S. agencies to justify Biden’s threat of withholding $1 billion in U.S. aid if Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin wasn’t fired?

<><> All documents from an Office of Special Counsel whistleblower investigation into unusual energy transactions in Ukraine. The U.S. government’s main whistleblower office is investigating allegations from a U.S Energy Department worker of possible wrongdoing in U.S.-supported Ukrainian energy business. Who benefited in the United States and Ukraine from this alleged activity? Did Burisma gain any benefits from the conduct described by the whistleblower? OSC has concluded there is a “substantial likelihood of wrongdoing” involved in these activities.

<><>All FBI, CIA, Treasury Department and State Department documents concerning possible wrongdoing at Burisma Holdings. What did the U.S. know about allegations of corruption at the Ukrainian gas company and the efforts by the Ukrainian prosecutors to investigate? Did U.S., Latvian, Cypriot or European financial authorities flag any suspicious transactions involving Burisma or Americans during the time that Hunter Biden served on its board? Were any U.S. agencies monitoring, assisting or blocking the various investigations? When Ukraine reopened the Burisma investigations in March 2019, what did U.S. officials do?

<><> All documents from 2015-16 concerning the decision by the State Department’s foreign aid funding arm, USAID, to pursue a joint project with Burisma Holdings. State official George Kent has testified he stopped this joint project because of concerns about Burisma’s corruption reputation.

Did Hunter Biden or his American business partner Devon Archer have anything to do with seeking the project? What caused its abrupt end? What issues did Kent identify as concerns and who did he alert in the White House, State or other agencies?

<><> All cables, memos and documents showing State Department’s dealings with Burisma Holding representatives in 2015 and 2016. We now know that Ukrainian authorities escalated their investigation of Burisma Holdings in February 2016 by raiding the home of the company’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky. Soon after, Burisma’s American representatives were pressing the State Department to help end the corruption allegations against the gas firm, specifically invoking Hunter Biden’s name. What did State officials do after being pressured by Burisma? Did the U.S. embassy in Kiev assist Burisma’s efforts to settle the corruption case against it? Who else in the U.S. government was being kept apprised?

<><> All contacts that the Energy Department, Justice Department or State Department had with Vice President Joe Biden’s office concerning Burisma Holdings, Hunter Biden or business associate Devon Archer. We now know that multiple State Department officials believed Hunter Biden’s association with Burisma created the appearance of a conflict of interest for the vice president, and at least one official tried to contact Joe Biden’s office to raise those concerns. What, if anything, did these Cabinet agencies tell Joe Biden’s office about the appearance concerns or the state of the various Ukrainian investigations into Burisma?

<><> All memos, emails and other documents concerning a possible U.S. embassy’s request in spring 2019 to monitor the social media activities and analytics of certain U.S. media personalities considered favorable to President Trump. Did any such monitoring occur? Was it requested by the American embassy in Kiev? Who ordered it? Why did it stop? Were any legal concerns raised?

<><> All State, CIA, FBI and DOJ documents concerning efforts by individual Ukrainian government officials to exert influence on the 2016 U.S. election, including an anti-Trump Op-Ed written in August 2016 by Ukraine’s ambassador to Washington or efforts to publicize allegations against Paul Manafort. What did U.S. officials know about these efforts in 2016, and how did they react? What were these federal agencies’ reactions to a Ukrainian court decision in December 2018 suggesting some Ukrainian officials had improperly meddled in the 2016 election?

<><> All State, CIA, FBI and DOJ documents concerning contacts with a Democratic National Committee contractor named Alexandra Chalupa and her dealings with the Ukrainian embassy in Washington or other Ukrainian figures.

<><> Did anyone in these U.S. government agencies interview or have contact with Chalupa during the time the Ukraine embassy in Washington says she was seeking dirt in 2016 on Trump and Manafort?


80 posted on 05/09/2020 3:25:00 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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