MYSTERY: A critical yet still-classified 400-page FBI #Russiagate report (plus 7k pp of supporting docs) produced by FBI HQ's OPR investigating the Crossfire Hurricane probe that implicates John Brennan + the Five Eyes (namely the UK) in the 2016 intel op targeting Trump is MISSING from WH Transparency Task Force's FBI doc dump yesterday. The 2021 report is described as a "Rosetta Stone" that Florida prosecutors could use in their ongoing #Russiagate conspiracy case. Why is it MIA, still, after five (5) years?
Chairman Cotton,
When Special Counsel Mueller’s office secretly asked the Senate Judiciary Cmte (SJC) to voluntarily turn over our witness transcripts in the middle of our work on the Russiagate hysteria—we said the same thing you are saying now: a Senate resolution is required to provide Senate materials for use in a criminal proceeding. Plus, we're still taking other witness testimony. So, slow your roll Mr. Mueller.
We never got a subpoena.
However, that is a different question from public release by the Cmte itself. That can be done without a resolution of the full Senate, after proper redactions.
At SJC, we released ours w/o a Senate resolution, or even a Cmte vote—after we were done with our work. No one said boo. It's what voters expect.
The public's business ought to be public.
For some reason, though, the Sen Sel. Cmte on Intel (SSCI) chose to keep its underlying witness transcripts away from public scrutiny and did not include them with its final report release. This gives the public only a carefully crafted narrative w/o allowing them to check the underlying testimony and documents for themselves.
Yet, under SSCI Rule 9, after classified information is redacted, the remaining material—while still “committee sensitive” if it originated in executive session—*can* be released in the public interest of transparency if the Cmte so chooses.
The Cmte already released its final report. Years have passed. There is no longer a credible justification for keeping the underlying transcripts locked away from the public. Just make some minimal redactions where truly needed to protect sources and methods.
Then, release them all.
The Cmte is the arbiter of what remains cmte confidential under Senate Rule XXIX. It should authorize public release of redacted versions of the transcripts now, pursuant to its own authority.
That's what SJC did long ago.
Transparency does not require a full Senate resolution—just some work by the Cmte that voters have a right to expect and demand.
@ChuckGrassley repeatedly released SJC interview transcripts and oversight materials to the public without a Senate resolution and minimal redactions.
The principle is the same here: the Cmte controls its own work product. It should use that control to provide the public transparency on these long-closed cmte proceedings.
I have no dog in the fight and know nothing about who is allegedly blocking a transcript from going to some prosecutor somewhere in secret. You may be right that the report is totally false. The prosecutor may not want you to release it publicly, who knows. Mueller certainly didn't want us to publicly release ours. He wanted to get them in secret.
But my point is different.
The Cmte can and should provide more PUBLIC transparency. It can w/o a full Senate resolution—regardless of whether a prosecutor secretly gets an unredacted copy or not.
It's been far too long. All the transcripts should be public.
Marly Hornik: If it’s true—and the U.S. Attorney agrees—that the New York City and New York State Boards of Elections certified an election with 23% fake votes, that’s a federal crime. We could see prosecutions for this; this isn’t an oopsie. @MarlyHornik1
🚨UPDATE🚨
Three Republican attorneys general subpoenaed Anthony Fauci.
The attorneys general are James Uthmeier of Florida, John McCuskey of West Virginia, and Liz Murrill of Louisiana.
Because Oxford is in England.
Obama/CIA/FBI/MI6 ran the anti-Trump op out of England to create deniability for Obama.
Our ancient Universities, Cambridge and Oxford, were used as a CIA base and as a cover.
Gina Haspel was the Chief of the CIA's London Station and oversaw the op from there. Alan Kohler, the FBI rep in London who ran Christopher Steele and Stef Halper, later organized the Mar-a-Lago Raid of President Trump's home to steal the Crossfire Hurricane documents
John "the Magician" McLaughlin, the former acting CIA Director, was at the University Oxford at the time of the anti Trump op. McLaughlin is friends with Dearlove and visited Cambridge as they were setting up the Russiagate op.
CIA operative Stef Halper claims to have both Oxford and Cambridge academic credentials ("two PhDs")
Halper's friend and business partner Richard Dearlove, former head of the MI6, was a Master of a Cambridge college
Christopher Steele, another Cambridge man who used to work for Dearlove and whom Dearlove endorsed, worked closely with Halper to coordinate the anti-Trump lies masquerading as "intelligence"
@canncon Oh thank you Brian this “case” rang a bell in my pea brain when I saw the report this morning…fact pattern was familiar but couldn’t quite recall details. Yes, we knew this. But nothing happened. As always.
The hacker deleted records and reformatted hard drives because he knew that he would get a visit from the law enforcement?
This in itself is a pretty big deal.
Was the FBI able to recover those files on his devices to ensure that it was only voter data extracted??
@JeffClarkUS The egg’s been cracked Jeff…praying that soon the whole runny mess will be all over the floor and unavoidable. It’s well past time for the world to know what actually happened.
Today, the White House Government Transparency Task Force released intelligence community and FBI documents detailing an election cyber incident in which a self described hacker extracted 633,000 voter registration files from a Maricopa County site on the eve of the 2020 election.
The Comey Oxford Comma post history as researched by myself. Did some of these commenters know about the investigation? One comment really stands out.
♦️Let’s begin with a 2018 archive:
First Comey posted the Axios Story on his book and commented on pictures.
Then Steve Niles said:
“What about an Oxford comma dude? That title...”
Then Comey said:
“Check the actual cover. I’m all about Oxford commas.”
Then Rob JM said:
“If you take away our commas, only outlaws, thieves, and criminals will have commas.”
♦️By 2019, some comments were deleted while others were added. Here’s two comments that impressed me:
🔥N Winston’s comment is extremely interesting.
“Commas can be expensive. Not sure #TrumpRussia legal team up to punctuation challenge”
Diane Toucan wrote this:
“Commas don't ruin titles, people ruin titles. PROTECT THE OXFORD COMMA.”
Links and more photos to follow
BREAKING: DOJ sources tell me Senate GOP leaders (Thune/Cotton) are refusing to declassify a key John Brennan transcript in order to "protect [then-SSCI Chair (2020-21)] Marco [Rubio] for a presidential run because Marco looks bad kissing [Dem Vice Chair Mark] Warner's ass" during the closed-door deposition, in which Brennan allegedly perjures himself regarding the Obama-ordered 2016 ICA and the Steele dossier.
Today, the FCC announced the return of $881 million in unused funds to the U.S. Treasury.
These funds had remained in FCC accounts after the completion of the 2017 broadcast incentive auction.