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| Buried Lead – Washington Post Outlines AG Barr As Key Figure Who Blocked Declassification of Spygate Documents |
| 2021-04-17 |
| [Last Refuge] The Washington Post has a lengthy hit-piece against Kash Patel where they infer unsourced claims the DOJ is investigating the former Nunes aide and Trump administration official for releasing classified information. Keep in mind that President Trump granted full declassification authority to AG Bill Barr on May 23, 2019. I would draw your attention to these two paragraphs buried deep in the reporting (emphasis mine): (WaPo) [...] The battle against the deep state continued, meanwhile. Patel kept pushing, along with DNI Ratcliffe, for declassification of memos challenging the origins of the Russia investigation. Nakasone [NSA Director] strongly dissented, and Esper [Sec of Defense] backed him up in an October letter to Ratcliffe "urging that the information not be released due to the harm it would do to national security, including specific harm to the military," a senior defense official said. Haspel [CIA Director], too, strongly opposed release of the information. Their argument for protecting sensitive information was finally supported by Attorney General William P. Barr, and Trump backed away, a source close to the events said. "I think there were people within the IC [Intelligence Community], at the heads of certain intelligence agencies, who did not want their tradecraft called out, even though it was during a former administration, because it doesn’t look good on the agency itself," Patel said in the RealClearInvestigations interview. (read more) It is tradition the NSA and CIA run to the Washington Post when they need a media PR firm to push their position. So this article makes sense considering the NSA and CIA both had something to hide within the criminal activity behind Spygate. [Maybe the timing has to do with recent information about the Durham probe.] Regardless of what has initiated the need for the intelligence apparatus to turn attention toward Kash Patel I think we all understand exactly what is described inside the paragraphs; the stuff the IC couldn’t deal with.... the institutional damage they feared..... and ultimately the reason Bondo Barr went along with their need to keep it all hidden. Related: Kash Patel: 2021-02-26 In Final Days, Trump Gave Up on Forcing Release of Russiagate Files, Nunes Prober Says Kash Patel: 2021-02-10 Re-post, still no update - Three weeks after Trump declassified Russia memos, most aren't released Kash Patel: 2020-12-25 US SOF Will Probably Leave Last: Miller Related: Bill Barr: 2021-02-23 Biden AG Nominee Merrick Garland Won't Commit to Keeping John Durham in His Role as Special Counsel (VIDEO) Bill Barr: 2021-02-21 A Democrat Lost By Six Votes, Now The U.S. House May Throw Out Election Results To Let Her Win Bill Barr: 2021-02-08 Peter Navarro: Joe Biden's executive orders are a 'deep state coup' by Bill Barr |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #1 If you can't trust the WaPo, who can you trust? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2021-04-17 17:18 |