Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Sunday defended his move to no longer give in-person briefings about election security and foreign election interference by accusing members of Congress of leaking classified information “within minutes” after briefings were held.
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btw, just so everyone knows: when Dem POTUS Sunday shows are stacked w/ GOP bc TV producers say ‘we need to know what opposition thinks’
when GOP president, shows stacked w/ GOP bc producers say, ‘we need to know what administration thinks’
Oh, so it’s like super-duper-top-secret that Russia isn’t our friend and wants to create chaos and interfere with elections?
"During an interview on CNN on Sunday, Johnson called the Democrats’ uproar over Ratcliffe’s move “blown so way out of proportion.”
“I can probably count on one or two fingers the things that are actually classified in those briefings,” Johnson said."
MO
What leaks? Tell us what the leaks were.
It’s in there… That Russia is interfering with the election…
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Notably the letter does NOT cite concerns about leaks as a justification for refusing to brief the congressional intelligence committees about election interference. These briefings always protect sources and methods. Ratcliffe’s rationale for a sudden change does not make sense.
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Despite the fact that this letter from the ODNI to @SpeakerPelosi is stamped as having been delivered Friday, a source in the Speaker’s office says she was sent it Saturday evening after 5 pm, via email, hours after the story broke and hours after CNN obtained a copy.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Sunday defended his move to no longer give in-person briefings about election security and foreign election interference by accusing members of Congress of leaking classified information “within minutes” after briefings were held.
Even if this were true, does he think that written briefings can’t be leaked?
During an interview on CNN on Sunday, Johnson called the Democrats’ uproar over Ratcliffe’s move “blown so way out of proportion.”
“I can probably count on one or two fingers the things that are actually classified in those briefings,” Johnson said.
So, which is it, geniuses? Vital, classified materials are getting leaked as per Ratcliffe or there’s really nothing of substance in these briefings as per Johnson?
Why don’t you guys get your lies straight, then insult our intelligence?
Narrator:
There were no leaks.
“We do not want any congress critters interfering with Putin’s plans or otherwise tipping off the ‘deep state’.”
That wasn’t a leak - that’s common wisdom.
During an interview on CNN on Sunday, Johnson called the Democrats’ uproar over Ratcliffe’s move “blown so way out of proportion.”
“I can probably count on one or two fingers the things that are actually classified in those briefings,” Johnson said.
So it’s not the Democrats’ uproar that’s blown out of proportion.
If there’s not that much classified info, it’s Ratcliffe’s move to end the briefings that is out of proportion.
Of course, ending the briefings has absolutely nothing to do with leaks and everything to do with hiding the truth about the foreign help Trump is getting again, and in bigger portions and more pernicious and effective ways.
Trump is a criminal using his own appointees to help him avoid prison.
Which is the point… It’s laughable, but that’s what he dredged up…
Within minutes of one of those briefings ending, a number of members of Congress went to a number of different outlets and leaked classified information for political purposes,” Ratcliffe said. “To create a narrative that simply isn’t true,
Yeah, how dare they? That’s Barr’s job. How dare Dems try to scrupulously correct a false narrative concocted by a corrupt hack of an Attorney General.
the highest analytic standards
So, the quality analysis up to now is correct — Russia is working to help Trump, and Trump is encouraging it.
Vote for the Americans. Biden/Harris 2020.
Senators that get regular FSB briefings are better placed to evaluate how valuable the CIA ones are.
This story is exponentially more important than the Portland shooting one–notwithstanding that any person’s death is gravely of import…
(1) The Portland one refers to the relative appeal of Biden versus Trump as candidates in a presumably honest election.
(2) This one is refers to the Trump Op to eliminate the ability of the American People to vote him out of Office
And there’s this thread today. That damn coward, Rosenstein.
https://twitter.com/nytmike/status/1300085848596262912?s=21
EXCLUSIVE: From my new book … DOJ in '17 secretly curtailed FBI counterintel investigation of Trump financial/personal ties to Russia. DOJ concealed this from FBI at time, leaving FBI w/ impression Mueller would do it. But Mueller ultimately didn’t.
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein concluded the FBI had not cleared the threshold needed to conduct a counterintel investigation into the president’s ties to Russia. Rosenstein believed the FBI had acted far to hastily to open investigation as it grieved firing of director Comey.
