quote:How Adam Schiff secretly thwarted efforts to bring transparency in Russia probe
Democrat demanded DNI keep evidence from Trump, holds transcripts that were supposed to be made public.
In late September 2018 with a mid-year election approaching, the often bitterly divided House Intelligence Committee forged a rare bipartisan moment: Its Republican and Democratic members voted to make public the transcripts of 53 witnesses in the Russia collusion investigation.
But what was hailed as an act of transparency has not been fulfilled 19 months later, even though U.S intelligence has declassified and cleared the transcripts for release.
The answer why lies in the backroom dealings of Adam Schiff, the committee’s top Democrat and its current chairman, according to interviews and memos obtained by Just the News.
Shortly after Schiff took over from Republican Rep. Devin Nunes as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) in 2019, he sent a letter to the office of then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
The letter obtained by Just the News specifically ordered that the witness transcripts — some of which contained exculpatory evidence for President Trump’s team — not be shared with Trump or White House lawyers even if the declassification process required such sharing.
“Under no circumstances shall ODNI, or any other element of the Intelligence Community (IC), share any HPSCI transcripts with the White House, President Trump or any persons associated with the White House or the President,” Schiff wrote in a March 26, 2019 letter to then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
“Such transcripts remain the sole property of HPSCI, and were transmitted to ODNI for the limited purpose of enabling a classification review by IC elements and the Department of Justice,” Schiff added.
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U.S. intelligence officials said Schiff’s request made it impossible for them to declassify 10 of the transcripts, mostly of current and former White House and National Security Council witnesses, because White House lawyers would have had to review them for what is known as “White House equities" and presidential privileges.
But 43 of the transcripts were declassified and cleared for public release and given to Schiff's team, but they have never been made public despite the committee’s vote to do so, officials said.
One senior official said the 43 transcripts were provided to Schiff’s team some time ago, and the 10 remain in limbo. Asked how long House Intelligence Democrats have had the declassified transcripts, the official said: “You’ll have to ask Mr. Schiff.”
A spokesman for Schiff and House Intelligence Committee Democrats did not return an email Monday seeking comment.
If Schiff possesses the declassified transcripts, he does not appear to have told Republicans on his committee. Several GOP lawmakers and staff on the committee told Just the News they have never been alerted that ODNI finished its review.
Schiff’s letter provides some detail on what prompted his demand to keep the transcripts from Trump or his lawyer. It came just as Special Counsel Robert Mueller was releasing his final report, which declared there wasn’t evidence to prove the core allegation lodged against Trump by Democrats — that Trump had colluded with Russia to hijack the 2016 election.
Schiff’s letter to Coats states that his staff was briefed earlier in March 2019 about how ODNI planned to handle the declassification, including the need for White House lawyers to review certain transcripts for information that could be covered by executive privilege.
It was that process that set off the alarm bells for Schiff’s team, the letter shows.
Republicans had hoped the witnesses’ testimonies would be released before the 2018 election so Americans could see some of the problems with the Russia probe and the false narrative of collusion that had been foisted on the public. That never happened, and the declassification efforts dragged into 2019, when Democrats took control of the House.
GOP lawmakers have emphasized they specifically would like to see the testimonies of key figures like former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Michael Sussmann, a private lawyer for the Democratic Party, be made public for context and new revelations.
While that hasn’t happened yet, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has released bombshell information, including that the FBI submitted false and unverified evidence to secure surveillance warrants targeting the Trump campaign in the Russia probe.
Newly declassified footnotes from the Horowitz report released last week show the FBI's key informant in the case, the former British spy Christopher Steele, may have been the victim of Russian disinformation. More declassified evidence from that probe is expected to be released later this week.
In the meantime, Republicans who led the House Intelligence Committee probe in 2018 when the witnesses were interviewed are trying to learn what came of the transcripts.
Schiff’s letter to Coats suggests that at the time the new Democratic chairman was still interested in releasing the transcripts.
“I hope our staff can reach agreement soon on a schedule for returning the transcripts to the Committee for ultimate public release,” he wrote.
Nearly 13 months since the letter, that release has not happened.
Die vieze Democraat van een Richard Burr ook weer.quote:Op donderdag 23 april 2020 13:06 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Over nutteloos gesproken. De meest corrupte en nutteloze comit van het Congres, de Senate Intelligence Committee heeft een rapport uitgebracht over niets nieuws waarin ze Russische desinformatie gebruikten om president Trump te beschuldigen van samenspannen/cordineren met Rusland. Ironisch genoeg precies dat wat ze deden zijn hun aantijgingen.
Bipartisan Senate Intel report backs intelligence assessment of 2016 Russian interference
Het argument is niet dat de Obama-regering de kandidaatschap en het presidentschap van Donald Trump ondermijnde, omdat ze de Russische inmenging in de 2016 verkiezingen onderzocht. Het argument is dat de Obama-regering Trump ondermijnde door te claimen dat Trump en zijn campagne medeplichtig waren in de Russische inmenging in de 2016 verkiezingen. En juist op dit belangrijke aspect zegt dit nutteloze, corrupte comit niets.quote:Op donderdag 23 april 2020 13:06 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Over nutteloos gesproken. De meest corrupte en nutteloze comit van het Congres, de Senate Intelligence Committee heeft een rapport uitgebracht over niets nieuws waarin ze Russische desinformatie gebruikten om president Trump te beschuldigen van samenspannen/cordineren met Rusland. Ironisch genoeg precies dat wat ze deden zijn hun aantijgingen.
Bipartisan Senate Intel report backs intelligence assessment of 2016 Russian interference
Heb je al eens gekeken naar de denktank The Atlantic Council? Globalistenclub en NAVO-verlengstuk. Ze hebben heel veel openbaar staan op hun website zoals wie hun contributors zijn. Alle deepstate bellen gaan af; State Department ten tijde van Obama, BURISMA, Open Society (Soros), Perkins Coie, zelfs Sean Misko.quote:Op donderdag 23 april 2020 13:18 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Met nutteloos en corruptie over de Senate Intelligence Committee refereer ik aan de insider trading issue en dat voor het onderzoek het comit middelen voor de totstandkoming van dit laatste rapport heeft gebruikt die gelinkt kunnen worden aan Fusion GPS. Ook zaken van het verleden dat Mark Warner via Oleg Deripaska in contact wilde komen met Christopher Steele in de periode dat het comit onderzoek verrichtte naar Russische verkiezingsinmenging. Warner vertelde tegen Deripaska hierbij ook dat alles off the record moest want hij wilde geen paper trail. Zo fout, allemaal.
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Ja. Uiteraard. Ik zit al een paar jaar in deze rabbit hole. De hoeveelheid informatie die ik lees en bespreek, de connecties die tijdens onderzoek opduiken tussen de verschillende actoren en hoe al die verschillende deelonderwerpen zijn uitwerking hebben op het wereldtoneel (politiek, militair, strategisch, maatschappelijk, et cetera) is mind boggling.quote:Op donderdag 23 april 2020 14:30 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Heb je al eens gekeken naar de denktank The Atlantic Council? Globalistenclub en NAVO-verlengstuk. Ze hebben heel veel openbaar staan op hun website zoals wie hun contributors zijn. Alle deepstate bellen gaan af; State Department ten tijde van Obama, BURISMA, Open Society (Soros), Perkins Coie, zelfs Sean Misko.
quote:John Durham expands investigative team amid coronavirus outbreak
U.S. Attorney John Durham has expanded his team as his review of the Trump-Russia investigators ramps up during the coronavirus pandemic, which has gripped the country and swept the globe.
The top federal prosecutor for Connecticut selected additional team members for his investigative effort in recent weeks, adding agents from the FBI, as well as the chief of the violent crimes and narcotics trafficking section for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., Anthony Scarpelli, according to sources cited by CNN. Durham, who has been running the operation out of Connecticut and D.C., drove down to Washington a few weeks ago to keep the investigation moving even as the COVID-19 virus hampered many law enforcement efforts nationwide.
The CNN report said Durham requested witness information in March and April.
Attorney General William Barr said in an interview this week that Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane operation and into the conduct of associated law enforcement officers and intelligence officials is proceeding full speed ahead, and the timing of a report or possible criminal charges will not be based upon the 2020 election calendar. But, he stressed, an announcement or possible indictments are not imminent.
Scarpelli has spent the last two years leading the office in charge of the fight against murder and the drug trade in D.C. Before that, he was the deputy chief of that office, according to his LinkedIn profile. Scarpelli also spent a year as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 14 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in D.C., and eight years as an assistant prosecutor for Middlesex County in New Jersey.
Little else is publicly known about the composition of Durham's team, although it is known he selected Sarah Karwan, who has been with the Connecticut federal office since 2007, to serve as the chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Criminal Division back in January.
Prior to nationwide coronavirus lockdown orders, CNN reported Durham had been spending multiple days each week inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility reviewing classified documents related to the federal government’s investigations into Russian interference and Trump’s campaign. The report said Durham is also taking a close look at the FBI’s deeply flawed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act targeting onetime Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
It is almost certain that one of the topics being reviewed by Durham’s team is intelligence reports on Russian disinformation efforts revealed in recently declassified footnotes from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the FBI's Russia investigation. Newly public information from the watchdog report showed the bureau had been aware of warnings that Russian intelligence efforts may have compromised British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier, which was relied upon to obtain FISA warrants to surveil Page.
Horowitz’s lengthy December report criticized the Justice Department and the FBI for at least 17 “significant errors and omissions” related to the FISA warrants against Page in 2016 and 2017 and for the bureau's reliance on Steele’s unverified dossier. Steele put his research together at the behest of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was funded by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm.
CNN also cited half a dozen sources confirming that Durham is scrutinizing former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, with a special focus on the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the Kremlin meddling in 2016’s presidential election.
Durham is reportedly looking into numerous highly sensitive issues, including whether Brennan took politicized actions to pressure the rest of the intelligence community to match his conclusions about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations during the 2016 presidential election.
The 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment concluded with "high confidence" that Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016” and that Russia worked to “undermine public faith" in U.S. democracy, "denigrate" Clinton and "harm her electability and potential presidency,” and “developed a clear preference" for Trump. The National Security Agency diverged on one aspect, expressing only “moderate confidence” that Putin actively tried to help Trump win and Clinton lose.
A Senate Intelligence Committee report, released Tuesday, found the 2017 spy assessment “presents a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis for the case of unprecedented Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” The Senate investigators did not find evidence of undue political pressure by Brennan or anyone else.
But the Senate investigation did shine new light on the effort by FBI leadership, including FBI Director James Comey, to include allegations from Steele’s salacious dossier in the 2017 spy assessment. The bureau is pointing to a directive by President Barack Obama to explain their failed effort to include the dossier in the main text of the 2017 report. It was instead relegated to a still-classified appendix.
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