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Gina Haspel Blows Off Senators’ Demands To Quit Stonewalling Congress On Russiagate Oversight
The Federalist ^ | OCTOBER 12, 2020 | Tristan Justice

Posted on 10/13/2020 5:00:03 AM PDT by Mount Athos

CIA Director Gina Haspel is continuing to stonewall top Republican senators, who are demanding that the intelligence chief hand over Russiagate documents they requested more than two months ago.

On Wednesday, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin ordered Haspel to comply with a series of oversight requests from July pertaining to their review of Crossfire Hurricane, the undercover FBI operation that sought to execute a deep-state coup against President Donald Trump.

“The American people have a right to know the full extent of official action taken by federal officials during the 2016 campaign, the presidential transition, and into the Trump administration,” Grassley and Johnson wrote. “The information that has already been made public reveals what might be the most outrageous abuse of power in U.S. history against a presidential candidate and sitting president. Unfortunately, many of the puzzle pieces remain hidden, and some of that information rests within your agency.”

Grassley and Johnson, who lead the Finance Committee and Governmental Affairs Committees respectively, gave Haspel until Oct. 9 to comply with their requests. Grassley’s office told The Federalist Monday afternoon that the CIA chief has yet to respond to the requests.

Haspel’s continued refusal to cooperate with Senate investigators follows Federalist reporting that the head of the CIA is personally blocking the documents’ release in hopes that President Donald Trump loses in November in order to save her job. Notably, Haspel was also formerly the agency station chief in London under Obama CIA Director John Brennan in 2016 and 2017 while ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele pieced together the Democrat-funded and discredited dossier that became the basis for falsely charging Trump with being a Russian agent.

“Haspel and [FBI Director Christopher] Wray both want Trump to lose, because it’s the only chance they have of keeping their jobs,” a senior intelligence official told Federalist Co-Founder Sean Davis. “They’re banking on Biden winning and keeping them where they are.”

Haspel had previously emphasized her commitment to working with Congress as head of the government’s premier intelligence agency during her confirmation hearing in 2018:

As both a career intelligence officer and as an American citizen, I am a strong believer in the importance of oversight. Simply put, experience has taught us that CIA cannot be effective without the people’s trust, and we cannot hope to earn that trust without the accountability that comes with Congressional oversight.

…If confirmed as Director, I will uphold the Agency’s obligations to Congress and ensure that oversight works on behalf of the American people.

“Your apparent unwillingness to speak with us on this matter contradicts your testimony,” the senators wrote last week.


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1 posted on 10/13/2020 5:00:03 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos
She's a public servant who's corrupt, unabashed about it, and should be fired with a loss of pension.
2 posted on 10/13/2020 5:02:01 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: Mount Athos

Your fired!


3 posted on 10/13/2020 5:02:05 AM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: Mount Athos

Why on earth would some people think this bureaucratic barnacle is a patriot?


4 posted on 10/13/2020 5:02:57 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Vision
Swampiness will be mostly solved by being able to strip pensions easily.
5 posted on 10/13/2020 5:03:58 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: Mount Athos

Immediately after the kill, Gina Haspel made first identification of the corpse as being Usama bin Laden, on behalf of the government of the U.S.


6 posted on 10/13/2020 5:09:30 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Scatology is serendipitous.)
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To: Mount Athos

She was a corrupt station chief right out of an episode of “Homeland.”


7 posted on 10/13/2020 5:10:33 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Mount Athos

Who should be fired? First the moron that pushed her nomination to lead the CIA.


8 posted on 10/13/2020 5:17:05 AM PDT by mmanager (Whew, been a while :))
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To: Mount Athos

Ooooooo...

They wrote her a letter. A very STERN letter.

I suspect she’s taken aback, having her own words recited to her!


9 posted on 10/13/2020 5:19:32 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The only thing worse than COVID-19 is Biden-20!)
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To: mmanager

If the president has directed they be released and she stonewalls grab up a regiment of marines and go and get them with trump in the lead. Anyone who resists execute them.


10 posted on 10/13/2020 5:22:43 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: Mount Athos

Fire the lying b^^^h!


11 posted on 10/13/2020 5:23:04 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: Mouton
Trump has “authorized” the declassification and release. He has not “ordered” it. IIRC he authorized the same about two months before the 2018 election. That didn’t work out so well (House to Dems, Pelosi, impeachment) when Rod Rosenstein didn’t release anything.

It is discouraging though I do not believe it would have any effect on this year’s election. We informed Americans are already voting for Trump. The uninformed and the Trump haters do not care.

12 posted on 10/13/2020 5:28:01 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Mouton

When Trump gets his second term it’s going to be a glorious four years. These next four years will never in our history or future be repeated or replicated. Trump will re-shape America for the next 30 years.


13 posted on 10/13/2020 5:28:18 AM PDT by mmanager (Whew, been a while :))
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To: montag813

She was a corrupt station chief right out of an episode of “Homeland.”

.......

Miss that show it gave us many insights into the snakes in government and agency heads cloaked in an alleged mini series.

Carrie in the end the only real patriot in spite of all the attempts to paint her as a traitor. Liked the ending that showed that even after creating the opposite impression to the last second


14 posted on 10/13/2020 5:33:10 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Alas Babylon!

It’s all beltway theater here. The GOP Senate could haul her in front of a Senate committee and publicly waterboard her but they won’t be doing that because they are just fine with her “stonewalling.” It’s CYA by the do-nothing GOP Senate. They hate POTUS and want him gone.


15 posted on 10/13/2020 5:35:23 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: mmanager

Why does Trump only ok the release but not order the release of these papers immediately?

Maybe I’m looking through delusional rose colored glasses, but maybe his internal polls are telling him he is going to win and he wants to avoid unnecessary media hysteria in the next three weeks. He can release it all after a victory and the media be damned.


16 posted on 10/13/2020 5:38:59 AM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: Freee-dame

Ordered will be the hammer once Re-elected.

Then a true flushing of the swamp an occur. Hopefully Barr delivers along with Durham

Otherwise deep six them before they speak and put Tom Fitton In as AG and his choice of prosecutors finish the job.

I’d rather wait for someone I trust and who can tell Trump
Where the roadblocks really are than “‘We couldn’t trust a DC jury to convict even though we have the goods “


17 posted on 10/13/2020 5:39:27 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Vision

Yep. As I understand it, she reports to Ratcliffe, who reports to the president. No?


18 posted on 10/13/2020 5:40:16 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Mount Athos

YOU’RE FIRED!


19 posted on 10/13/2020 5:40:34 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: CaptainK

Maybe I’m looking through delusional rose colored glasses, but maybe his internal polls are telling him he is going to win and he wants to avoid unnecessary media hysteria in the next three weeks. He can release it all after a victory and the media be damned.

........

I think you are right. Anything to deflect from the incompetence of a Biden and the true nature of Harris / Biden place.


20 posted on 10/13/2020 5:42:27 AM PDT by patriotspride
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