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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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To: Vision

The chances that she is truly rogue at this point aren’t high. Just look at the rule that kicked in last week whereby intelligence community spending doesn’t just exist as blacked out entries in the US budget. The feds now can prepare and present fully fake books to the public, while keeping their actually amounts and direction of expenditures completely hidden in a second set of books.


21 posted on 10/13/2020 5:47:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CaptainK

I have thought the exact same thing. I believe Barr not doing anything now is calculated. What benefit if the internals show a win? After it will have much more relevance.


22 posted on 10/13/2020 5:49:27 AM PDT by mmanager (Whew, been a while :))
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To: Mount Athos
Where is Trump?

He is the CEO of the CIA.

Tell Haspel to give the GOP Senators every document they want - or fire her.

These documents will be politically helpful to Trump and the GOP, but Trump does nothing.

Incomprehensible negligence.

23 posted on 10/13/2020 5:54:03 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: patriotspride

We keep waiting for someone else to do the taking down. Barr, Durham, etc. Quit waiting. Nobody is going to do anything. We are being played by people who no interest in us. Half the country is at war with the other half. Meanwhile, they just keep on trucking.


24 posted on 10/13/2020 5:54:16 AM PDT by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: patriotspride
Re: Appoint Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch) Attorney General

As far as I know, Tom Fitton does not have a law degree.

25 posted on 10/13/2020 6:02:17 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Mount Athos
Gina Haspel graduated in May 1978 with a Bachelor of Science in languages and journalism from the University of Louisville. She worked as a civilian library coordinator at Fort Devens in Massachusetts between 1980 and 1981. She received a paralegal certificate from Northeastern University in 1982 and went on to work as a paralegal until she was hired by the CIA in January 1985.

This smells of deep state. She has been a taker all her life. She has no perspective outside of government. She has no real-world experience. Where the hell is her executive experience?

A degree in journalism and paralegal certificate prepares someone to work in a law library - well maybe not. Most people who work in a library have over inflated educations with at least a MA in Library Science (a frickin' joke of a major right up there with journalism where one learns to write on a sixth-grade level).

Haspel has unqualified quota hire written all over her resume. She advances her career through politics, not by skill, knowledge or actual doing. She rode the coat tails of others and probably a number of other things.

She is insubordinate to the President of the United States, thinking she is above him and the people who elected him to office. She is the deep state.

26 posted on 10/13/2020 6:27:51 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: mmanager

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

Yes. Whoever has been advising Trump on his agency picks should be forever persona non grata in his administration.


27 posted on 10/13/2020 6:32:10 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: mmanager

Wasn’t that her mentor Brennan?


28 posted on 10/13/2020 6:38:07 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: ronnie raygun

Send a squad of US Marshall’s in to her office and tell her to produce them or go to jail!


29 posted on 10/13/2020 6:52:27 AM PDT by Hot Rod Garage (Shark)
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To: Mount Athos
The CIA answers to no one (apparently).
30 posted on 10/13/2020 6:53:59 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Mount Athos

FIRE HER!


31 posted on 10/13/2020 7:11:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: patriotspride
Miss that show it gave us many insights into the snakes in government and agency heads cloaked in an alleged mini series.

Alleged is right. I have heard it portrayed some actual f-ed up situations those snakes carried out in the very real world. Great show.

32 posted on 10/13/2020 7:29:45 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Mount Athos

Sadly she’s another one of Trump’s appointee.

“She became Acting Director following Pompeo’s resignation to become United States Secretary of State and was nominated by President Donald Trump to become the official Director of the CIA. On May 17, 2018”


33 posted on 10/13/2020 8:03:56 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Mount Athos

She’s under the same death threat from the Clinton Obammy Inc. Cabal that most of DC is under.


34 posted on 10/13/2020 9:44:44 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! Help beat the leftist media at their own game.)
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