@DNIGabbard and @FBIDirectorKash released more declassified info on Russiagate and the Intelligence Community's efforts to strangle the Clinton Foundation probe in its crib.
Here are 3 major docs you should know about.
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First, then-National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers sent a Dec. 2016 email to then-DNI James Clapper on the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia.
Rogers suggested his team had neither "sufficient access" nor "sufficient time" to prepare the document.
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Crucially, Rogers added, “I know that you agree that this is something we need to be 100% comfortable with before we present it to the President—we have one chance to get this right, and it is critical that we do so.”👀
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Instead, Clapper rushed it "in the highest tradition of 'that's OUR story, and we're stickin' to it.'"
He said "more time is not negotiable," likely b/c the conclusion that Russia favored Trump was already out😲
"We may have to compromise on our 'normal' modalities."
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Speaking of leaks, @JustTheNews published a memo stating then-House Intel Committee Chair Adam Schiff said his team "would leak classified information ... to indict President TRUMP."
When someone said this would be illegal, he was assured they would not be caught.😲
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Schiff, now a U.S. senator, attacked @Kash_Patel for releasing the memo, calling it a "smear."
He said the "baseless smears" trace back to a disgruntled former staffer who was fired for cause.
If that's true, I'd like to hear more. Forgive me if I don't trust Schiff...
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The final doc is a timeline.
When @peterschweizer published his important book "Clinton Cash," intel agents wanted to probe whether Hillary Clinton's foundation engaged in pay-to-play schemes.
A March meeting where it became known that Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates directed the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Arkansas to “shut it down.”😲
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We clearly don't know everything, and I welcome clarifications & denials from Yates, Schiff, & others.
But seriously, let's get to the bottom of this. Russiagate represented an egregious political weaponization of intelligence and the American public deserves answers.
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“The leading figures in the Russia Hoax have spent years deceiving the American public by presenting their manufactured and politicized assessments as credible intelligence,” @TulsiGabbard said.
Can we please stop lying around here? Here's the grand jury indictment laying out why Don Lemon was charged.
At the pre-op briefing Chauntyll Louisa Allen briefed Lemon and the other conspirators about where and what they were doing.
On camera, Nekima Armstrong tells Lemon—who knows the location but is hiding it from his audience—that they're going to "disrupt business as usual" at what we later learned was Cities Church.
When did the disruption start? As the pastor was beginning his sermon.
The agitators "oppressed, threatened, and intimidated the Church's congregants and pastors by physically occupying most of the main aisle and rows of chairs near the front of the Church, engaging in menacing and threatening behavior (for some) chanting and yelling loudly at the pastor and congregants, and/or physically obstructing them as they attempted to exit and/or move about within the church."
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In this indictment, we learn that it was William Kelly ("DaWoke Farmer") who shouted at a little kid, "Do you know your parents are Nazis? They're going to burn in hell."
When Don Lemon observed others leaving the service, he described people as "frightened," "scared," and "crying," which he said was understandable because the experience was "traumatic and uncomfortable," which he said was the purpose of the invasion.
Again Lemon said "the whole point of [the operation] is to disrupt."
The invasion of Cities Church was even worse than we thought.
Agitators blocked stairs so "parents were unable to get to their children" at Sunday School.😡
One told a kid, "Do you know your parents are Nazis, they're going to burn in hell?"
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William Kelly, "DaWoke Farmer," shouted, "This ain't God's house. This is the house of the devil."
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About 50 members of the congregation were "stuck" towards the front of the church. Not only did the agitators take over the service, but they "made it nearly impossible for parishioners to get out and leave."
The Congressional Black Caucus and 270 left-leaning groups tried to block me from testifying in Congress. Their rationale was extremely hypocritical and, dare I say, Orwellian.
CBC Chair @RepYvetteClarke said the hearing—which focused on my research on the SPLC—was a "deliberate effort to intimidate and discredit an institution that has spent decades defending civil rights, exposing hate, and advancing opportunity for all Americans."
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She said the hearing "undermines the very civil institutions that give everyday people voice, protection, and power."
So, she's endorsing the SPLC's "hate" accusations and failing to admit that the SPLC itself has undermined "civil institutions." More on that later.
Here's @RepCohen's press release touting that he questioned the "smear" that the SPLC is anti-Christian, suggesting that he stood up against supposedly false claims.
But I know what really happened, because I was the witness.
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Cohen did mention that some Christians support the SPLC. I don't disagree. It seems he thought I wouldn't be able to defend my assertion that the SPLC is anti-Christian, however.
I came ready to defend the claim.
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Here's theclip. Thanks to @chiproytx for allowing Cohen's questions to go over the 5 min in the @JudiciaryGOP hearing.
I noted that the SPLC, when branding @RuthInstitute a "hate group," cited as evidence @DrJrobackmorse's quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Gov-elect Abigail Spanberger apparently doesn’t consider it disqualifying for someone to endorse an activist group that considers the official teaching of your faith “hateful.”
The whistleblower account @Minnesota_DHS went viral after accusing Tim Walz of retaliation against whistleblowers amid the massive fraud scandals. X suspended the account. Conservatives think this was more retaliation.
“Certainly it was retaliation, the question is by whom?” @billglahn with @MNThinkTank told me.
He said the X account had been feeding him information only insiders would know.
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State Rep. @KRobbinsMN suggested "someone went to X and said, 'They're not who they say they are,' which just is not true." Robbins told me that she has met in person with the whistleblowers behind the account.