A Possible Inflection Point – ODNI Ric
Grenell…
Conservative Treehouse,
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Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
2/20/2020 4:51:20 PM
President Trump appointed Richard “Ric” Grenell to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the surprise appointment begins immediately. Within minutes the media intelligence apparatus displayed apoplexy at the announcement.
All of the right administrative state interests are visibly triggered by the appointment; and it appears this could be a key turning point in President Trump’s push-back against the permanent intelligence apparatus that has targeted his administration for three years. (Snip)It does not seem accidental the appointment of Ric Grenell as Acting DNI comes after AG Bill Barr publicly displayed his weakness in managing the DOJ and FBI. When the U.S. Attorney General chooses to
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/20/2020 4:52:32 PM (No. 324703)
FTA:
The challenge for the Office of the Presidency has been executive leadership unwilling to confront visible corruption within the DOJ, FBI and Intelligence Community (IC).
Failed executive leadership includes Jeff Sessions (DOJ), Rod Rosenstein (DOJ), Chris Wray (FBI), David Bowditch (FBI), Dana Boente (FBI), Michael Horowitz (OIG) Mike Pompeo (CIA), Gina Haspel (CIA), Michael Atkinson (DOJ-NSD/ICIG), Matt Whitaker (DOJ), Dan Coats (DNI), Rex Tillerson (DoS), James Mattis (DoD), the list is long.
The evidence of ongoing efforts to undermine the presidency have surfaced in everything from the FBI not addressing rampant politicization, to an Intelligence Community Inspector General (Michael Atkinson) willing to facilitate an impeachment effort.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/20/2020 4:55:01 PM (No. 324706)
See the list below. Much talk now of Ric Grenell’s “lack of experience in the IC community”. If that experience consists of doing nothing, or doing harm, it clearly doesn’t count for much with President Trump - nor with us. The American people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/20/2020 4:55:56 PM (No. 324707)
#2 should have said “the list above” - in #1.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 2/20/2020 4:59:44 PM (No. 324709)
Hope springs eternal, but have a strong suspicion that, once again, the result will be like trying to clean up Chicago by changing Al Capone's chauffeur.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
justavoter 2/20/2020 5:00:01 PM (No. 324711)
Well, I certainly hope Ric is the trick. Barr has been a let down so far.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 2/20/2020 5:29:48 PM (No. 324718)
If Grennell can stay alive, he will be able to declassify huge swaths of documents which the Uniparty Criminal Class is desperate to keep hidden.
I really do wonder if they will kill him.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/20/2020 5:44:20 PM (No. 324735)
The left seems to be able to get their indictments and Republicans in jail. This is what has occurred for Trump's first term. Not a thing from the Republican DOJ. Now we have the Stone outrage. This is enough. It is TIME to release the document, do the indictments, and get on with it. I thought Christmas, but after Stone, no. Do it now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
davew 2/20/2020 6:34:21 PM (No. 324762)
The fact that Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who was identified by Horowitz as the person that doctored the CIA email to incriminate Carter Page, is still working at the FBI tells you all you need to know about the IC "club". The operate as a "secret society" that is above the law and the inconvenient whims of the elected officials that they serve.
They go to any length to prosecute Roger Stone and Paul Manafort but when they are handed solid evidence of criminal actions by Joe and Hunter Biden in Ukraine they block it from even being examined. History will view their weaponization of the law for political agendas with scorn and disdain.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 2/20/2020 6:58:20 PM (No. 324776)
#8, if they have their way, history will little record it, or even record it not at all after they are through erasing it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 2/20/2020 8:32:31 PM (No. 324820)
Trump has made a fine appointment. The 'no experience' mantra would seem to be a positive glittering qualification in the current environment - to everyone but the Mandarins and lifelong bureaucrats of D.C. Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are not just British comedies...!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Foont 2/20/2020 8:43:41 PM (No. 324824)
The man is a sexual deviate in open rebellion against God - and this is a praiseworthy appointment?
There was a time, pretty much forgotten, when a man was expected to be God-fearing, upright, moral and honest before being considered for any position of trust or authority. Those days are long past. Today we elect degenerates to the presidency and as governors and appoint them to positions as judges, ambassadors and cabinet posts. This is the new normal and we have been living it for at least a generation.
I marvel at God's patience.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 2/21/2020 2:15:14 AM (No. 324910)
#11, at this point, if he will follow the law and the Constitution, I will leave his sex life alone. He doesn't appear to flaunt it like Butt-gig, and seems to be a patriot.
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