Mike Lee: "Show us your work"
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The thread:
Why did the Director of National Intelligence tell every member of the Senate Intel Committee (Democrats and Republicans alike) that they couldn’t be briefed —even in a classified setting—on the classified documents at issue in the Biden and Trump and investigations?
Members of the Senate Intel Committee constantly review the most sensitive, classified information regarding our national security. It’s their job to review such matters. And yet the DNI said “no.” Why?
Apparently the DNI “is blocking the release of key details of the documents until the Department of Justice concludes its investigations.”
Biden officials block Senate intelligence committee from mishandled classified documents
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/25/biden-officials-block-senate-intelligence-committe/That’s indefensible.
Sen. Mark Warner (D. Va.), the committee’s chairman, said Democrats and Republicans on the committee “were unanimous in the position that we’re left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates that it’s okay for us to get briefed”; this “is not going to stand.”
“Mr. Warner’s frustrations were echoed by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, the top Republican on the committee. He said the administration’s stonewalling impeded the committee’s ability to do its job of providing oversight of the intelligence community.”
“We simply want to know what was this information, what were these materials that they had, so that we can make an honest assessment when they provide us a risk assessment of whether or not they’re they’ve taken the proper mitigation if any was necessary,” Mr. Rubio said.
“And to say that they’re not going to share any with us as long as the special counsel doesn’t allow them to share it with us, that’s an untenable position and it won’t stand.”
Apparently the private (non-government) lawyers representing @POTUS have been given full access to these documents. Do they have security clearance? Even if they do, there’s no way they have higher levels of clearance than the Senate Intel Committee.
The members of the Senate Intel Committee — Democrats and Republicans — need access to these documents. It’s highly suspicious that the DNI is denying them access, even while the lawyers representing @POTUS have unfettered access.
My friends on the Senate Intel Committee (Democrats and Republicans) work constantly with intelligence community personnel, with whom they always had a great rapport. I don’t recall ever seeing them more united in their frustration with the DNI. They’re TICKED!
And with good reason—there’s something seriously wrong here.
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There's been something wrong there. FBI, too.
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The Swamp is real.
And The Swamp has become very biased.
We need several things...
- A partial return to the spoils system and an expansion of Trump's Schedule F.
- Vigorous congressional oversight.
- An end to the FISA Court.
- Special Prosecutors should be safe, effective and rare.
- Dispersal of Departments. Trump was right on that one, too. Too much Swamp in one place, as it tends to feed and nurture itself with career bureaucrats migrating between agencies.
