Thread by @JasonLeopold

#SunshineWeek document SCOOP/THREAD: Our @BuzzFeedNews members got a first look at these records I requested last May but now I'm sharing w/everyone

Here are all of Richard Grenell's emails from his brief stint as acting DNI

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link.buzzfeed.com/view/5ba888503…

In some ways, Grenell’s emails are an extension of his Twitter persona and showcase his spats with reporters

He refers to @ZcohenCNN as a "drama queen," demands to speak to @JonathanLanday's editor regarding an accurate story he wrote that he said was "outrageously slanted"
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One email sent to Grenell shows an official in his office lamented their inability to “shape the narrative” in a @julianbarnes @adamgoldmanNYT @npfandos story about Grenell’s plans for ODNI, to which he responded, “Washington is highly toxic these days.” 

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Another email shows how Grenell and Trump's former intel briefer Beth Sanner went to extraordinary lengths to try and head off a story by @shaneharris et al related to Trump's intel briefings.

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Another email shows Grenell communicating with asking the NY Post's Jon Levine and requesting two "full color" copies of a story Levine wrote about Grenell

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Another email shows Grenell was told by an aide about a fake Facebook page bearing his name and picture. “Do you want me to see if [redacted] can take care of getting it taken down? I would but I don’t know how to do that.”

“Let’s discuss,” Grenell said. 

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Another email shows Grenell saying he wants to be included on the email list for Russia stories.

"I like getting them" he said.

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Here's an email sent to Grenell showing some intelligence related work he tended to: a schedule of meetings set up shortly after he was appointed acting DNI

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Here's an email fwd to Grenell by Amanda Schoch, a top comms official at ODNI. It was from Eli Clifton who said he was working on a story "regarding work undertaken by Grenell and Capitol Media Partners for various foreign linked entities."

" Lawyers are on it," Grenell said

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Here's an email from Trump's former in intel briefer to Grenell explaining she is briefing the Gang of 8 on the "current threat" related to Iran/Iraq

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I'm not sure what this is but it was included in the Grenell email cache

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More shitting on CNN by Grenell

He seems to be playing more of a comms role than that of acting DNI

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Here's an email chain sent to Grenell by Trump's briefer Beth Sanner about an intel briefing for Trump & natsec adviser Robert O'Brien

"O'Brien gave a huge thumbs up"

Sanner wrote: "Wanted to share how we support POTUS on his trips. Kash is there of course and can attest"

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And finally, here's an email sent to Grenell about an ODNI employee who contracted Covid

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Here's the full batch of Richard Grenell emails that took me 10 months to pry loose!

Thank you for supporting my #FOIA work.

Happy #SunshineWeek!

documentcloud.org/documents/2051…

ADDENDUM: I want to note in this email Trump's ex-briefer Beth Sanner said there were mischaracterizations/ misrepresentations of the IC's efforts "to keep senior policy makers and Congress fully informed" about natsec threats & how "it is making it harder for us to do our jobs"

ADDENDUM 2: Forgot the Catherine Herridge emails

"CBS News has learned ..." "I have developed new information..."

See corrected email

https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1371609815491829760?s=19