I’m going to try and keep this short.
You can tell from the transcripts of the testimony from ICIG Michael Atkinson that at the time of his testimony, September 19, 2019 and October 4, 2019, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) was not in a classified session; simply closed-door.
In fact, during the October 2019 deposition, Ranking Member Devin Nunes went out of his way to clarify the status of the hearing itself. Chairman Schiff reemphasized this was not part of the impeachment inquiry, simply a hearing to clarify questions from Republicans to ICIG Atkinson about the nature of the complaint created by CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella.
This is interesting, because that means at the time of the hearing itself in 2019 any one of the members could have immediately gone to the microphones and discussed all of the information gained from within the questioning. They didn’t.
Later on, Chairman Adam Schiff classified the Atkinson testimony in order to bury it. The Lawfare impeachment crew, led by Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Mary McCord, Dan Goldman, Barry Berke, Stephen Castor and Norm Eisen also weaponized the “ongoing investigation” classification to keep the CIA/ICIG report hidden during the impeachment effort.
President Trump was not even allowed to see/review the classified IC IG information that was being used to impeach him.
Now, as you can see from the attendance above, John Ratcliffe was present for both Atkinson depositions. Despite his immediate silence, we know John Ratcliffe was concerned about the content within ICIG Atkinson’s statements as he relayed in a series of questions during a public hearing December 9, 2019 {SEE HERE}.
Ratcliffe questioned both Dan Goldman and Stephen Castor who were part of Adam Schiff’s staff and present during the October 2019, testimony of ICIG Atkinson. WATCH THIS:
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John Ratcliffe knew all of the details from ICIG Atkinson’s testimony because he was present and part of the questioning during both sessions.
♦ Here’s where it gets interesting.
Following the failed impeachment effort (Senate acquittal), President Trump fired IC IG Michael Atkinson April 3, 2020, and then nominated John Ratcliffe to the position of DNI to replace Acting DNI Ric Grenell.
The ICIG investigation of the alleged claims by CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella ended during the impeachment inquiry. Following the impeachment acquittal, and following the subsequent firing of Atkinson, all of the ICIG work product returned to the custodial review of the ODNI.
DNI nominee John Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on May 21 and sworn in on May 26, 2020. John Ratcliffe was now a constitutionally confirmed DNI with access to the full record and work product that led to the previous impeachment effort.
Why didn’t DNI John Ratcliffe release the ICIG investigative material and CIA whistleblower report?
Why did it take another six years and DNI Tulsi Gabbard to discover, dig out, declassify and release the material that was in the custodial review of DNI John Ratcliffe back in 2020?
Congressman Ratcliffe was in both Atkinson depositions during Sept/Oct 2019, and he knew the impeachment allegations were false. He essentially called out the HPSCI Democrat staff in December of 2019. Congressman Ratcliffe became DNI in May 2020 and knew the entire background of the IC IG material that was now at his fingertips.
Ratcliffe knew President Trump was set up.
Why didn’t John Ratcliffe release the evidence of it in 2020?
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I might also note that following the 2022 midterm election, Republicans took back control of the House in January 2023.
Why didn’t HPSCI Chairman Mike Turner (2023/2024) release the Atkinson transcripts to the public? Why didn’t HPSCI Chairman Rick Crawford (2025-present) release the Atkinson transcript in 2025, without the request of DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
To be fair, former HPSCI Chairman Mike Turner might say that back in 2023 without the underlying CIA/ICIG report, the explosive Atkinson testimony didn’t have context…..
…. But that brings us back to the question of why DNI John Ratcliffe didn’t release the CIA/ICIG report as soon as he took office in 2020.
Has the statute of limitations tolled?
Johnny didn’t bark – Tulsi did!
Are all of the people above compromised?
I would place my wager on yes. It appears that ethical standards and morals are to be checked at the door when selected reps get to DC. Then they are placed under surveillance until it’s documented, elections are rigged in their favor to keep their game running, and the minute they attempt to push against the machine the blackmail is dropped in the box.
and my wager is yes👆
Respectfully…
Who’s ethical standards and Morals ?
Those who know right from wrong.
OR
they don’t GET to DC until the powers that be already know they have no ethical standards or morals, and probably already have kompromat on them to make sure they stay in line.
Both parties.
Great point.
@Sundance,
What is your theory?
Ooooh . . .
OK.
For the life of me I couldn’t figure out who the heck Johnny was.
https://truthsocial.com/@cowboyw2b/posts/116386330998762762
#FlyJohnnyFly#
So, is Ratcliffe out the door tomorrow?
Out the door? We’re talking treason here.
I agree 100%. To not “run to the microphone” is one thing. To allow Schiff to bury it is another.
One other point. Ratcliffe mentioned the whistleblower lied under the penalty of perjury; if true where is THAT indictment? Seems like low hanging fruit but Johnny did nothing.
Did Ratcliffe have to go through the confirmation process at that time?? Would he have gotten confirmed without making this deal, to keep the ICIG testimony under wraps?
Re: “Johnny did nothing”
(1) Who was the head of Justice at that time?
(2) Also, remember what happened when the lawyer who submitted a false doctored FISA declaration was prosecuted?
In the 8 months that Radcliffe was DNI, the Attorney General was Wiilliam Barr and then for one month Jeffrey Rosen as Acting AG since Barr bailed in December.
And Ka$h. And I bet if you traced it back far enough Wiles would be one of the participants.
“CIA Director John Ratcliffe has emerged as President Donald Trump’s “quiet hammer,” a source close to the White House told Breitbart News for an in-depth profile of the world’s premier spy agency in the first year back in office for Trump.
This source specifically pointed to how Trump sent Ratcliffe down to Venezuela just 12 days after the daring mission in which U.S. forces captured now-ousted leader Nicolas Maduro. Ratcliffe, Trump’s highest-ranking and first cabinet-level official to visit the nation since Maduro’s capture, met with acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez.”
For more on what Radcliffe has been doing for the past year:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/01/26/exclusive-trumps-quiet-hammer-cia-director-john-ratcliffe-revitalized-spy-agency/
I can understand why 47 would send his Mafia guy down to Venezuela. Fighting fire with fire. He didn’t send Rubio. He sent Johnny. Johnny doesn’t have a conscience. 47 dealt with the NY
mobsterunion guys. He recognizes Johnny for what he is. He might just not know all he has done.The reference about not barking is to a Sherlock Holmes story where the essential clue to solve the crime was that ‘the dogs didn’t bark’ thus revealing that the culprit was not a random stranger, as then the dogs would have barked.
“The Adventure of Silver Blaze” 1892.
No. That’s silly. Trump picked Radcliffe twice. He trusts him. I trust Trump’s judgment in 2026. He learned a lot about the DC crowd in his first term and over the 4 intervening years.
Sundance is very perceptive and is good at connecting dots, but he does have the benefit of (1) hindsight and (2) the ability to focus on a few key matters while the players in the administration must handle many, many more, including personnel and publicly hidden matters.
I think Sundance’s questions are appropriate, but don’t go too overboard in painting everything as being black and white, good and evil. There is a lot of discernment, judgment, mistakes, and threads in the mix too.
No statute of limitations on the crime of Treason. My immediate question is; what is Ratcliffe still hiding? Also is him being in his current roll as CIA Director specifically to ride the deep state fence and keep the entire DC corrupt system from blowing up with full exposure?
Continuity of corruption must be the reason
Well said. The cash must flow.
I think the crime is sedition not treason.
Selling public office for private gain.
Aid and comfort to an enemy
Amen Old Man. Treason for sure. Never mentioned!
I don’t think it’s treason to be a coward and keep one’s mouth shut.
If he had planned or actively participated then it could be treason.
Either way it’s troubling that “our own” team did this to President Trump.
I’d prefer to go straight to pitchforks and torches than courtroom prosecution.
We paid these people to ruin our Country. #@%!!!
Interesting question? Sure seems many lids are about to blow off the pots. A very old friend of mine you to say “hide and watch.”
used to say
‘the duty to defend and protect the consitution, from foreign and domestic enemies…’
..against all enemies, foreign and domestic….
They knew from the beginning enemies of the state, lurked both inside and outside
Maybe he was put there to watch and see what he does- like ‘give him the rope‘.
Good point. Let the insiders feel a false sense of security, with one of their own running the shop. More likely they will also share incriminating details.
Or did he make a deal and is now helping?
“CIA Director John Ratcliffe rescinded or revised 19 intelligence reports after determining they contained political bias and violated basic tradecraft standards.
The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board reviewed around 300 reports from the past decade and flagged serious problems: 17 were permanently deleted, two were pulled, revised, and reissued. ”
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“What comes next
Working together, Ratcliffe and the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board plan additional reviews in the coming weeks. The scale of the initial action raises an uncomfortable question: If 19 politically compromised reports surfaced from a sample of 300, what’s going to happen during a broader audit?
Public trust in intelligence institutions has endured for years; restoring credibility requires visible correction, not quiet footnotes. Ratcliffe’s decision removed specific documents from circulation and placed responsibility squarely on professional standards rather than political fashion.”
Have they tolled indeed.
Hmmmm….Ratcliffe in his purple tie. Funny that…
Was 2025 the first time Ratcliffe said anything?
Far too many pauses, umms and uhhss in this soundbite..
Chose his words carefully.
For Good reason!
Until now this report was classified since Trump’s first impeachment, Radcliffe could not say anything publicly. As Sundance points out there was a “window” before it was classified by Schiff when he could have said something. Atkinson’s testimony was in September & October 2019. Trump’s first impeachment began December 18th, 2019.
On November 17, 2019 in an interview on Fox Radcliffe reportedly said:
“They don’t want the whistleblower to come in because it has now been discovered that Chairman Schiff’s office coordinated for that person to become the whistleblower. The other thing that Chairman Schiff hasn’t done . . . he hasn’t released the Inspector General’s transcript, the first transcript of the first witness because it will tell you what the Inspector General knew and didn’t know about the relationship between Chairman Schiff and the whistleblower based on what Chairman Schiff and the whistleblower did or didn’t reveal to the Inspector General.”
For more on what Radcliffe said in that time period see:
https://www.justsecurity.org/70013/ratcliffes-radical-positions-during-the-impeachment-proceedings/
For all we know, Ratcliffe may have tried, or at least assumed it would be released in the next Trump administration that he thought would surely start in 2021. That would be a reason why so much corruption was directed at that 2020 election.
An interesting premise.
As the new Constitutionally confirmed DNI, Ratcliff became the principal Intelligence advisor to the President of the United States on all Intelligence matters regarding national security.
Did Radcliff inform President Trump of the
Atkinson depositions?
Does the information brought out by the Atkinson depositions, coupled with the fact Schiff buried them to further fraudulent impeachment hearings against a sitting President, not rise to the level of National Security?
Atkinson was fired by Trump April 3, 2020. In February 2020 Trump nominated Radcliffe who was confirmed May 26th.
Indeed, Chieftain.
Here is clip of Texas Rep. John Ratcliff (courtesy of S/D on twitter), I certainly don’t recall being aware of until a few moments ago.
Perhaps, others as well.
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Yikes!
Hoping at this point there is a method to this madness.
Sundance, you have been right about John from the start!
Yes, so now President Trump is very aware too…and both he and Tulsi will need to act.
Everyone knows there was a coverup going on and that schiff and others were involved in this coup. We learned a lot back then what happened. We knew that the icig changed the requirements for whistleblower complaints:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/reps/johnson-grassley-lee-call-for-answers-regarding-intelligence-community-changing-requirements-for-whistleblowers/
U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Mike Lee (R- Utah) sent a letter to Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson Monday to push for answers related to the intelligence community’s decision to change requirements for whistleblowers seeking to report “urgent concerns” to Congress. Prior to the August 2019 update, the agency required whistleblowers to have first-hand knowledge before forwarding complaints to Congress.
“According to a recent news report, the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) changed its ‘Disclosure of Urgent Concern’ form, the document by which a whistleblower submits a complaint that can be transmitted to Congress, to no longer require first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoing,” the senators wrote. “Specifically, the report described a previous version of the form, which was approved on May 24, 2018, that included a section titled ‘First-Hand Information Required’…”
We also know that the corrupt doj couldn’t find anything criminal in Trump’s call to zelensky:
https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/file/1205711/download
The complainant describes a hearsay report that the President, who is not a member of the intelligence community, abused
his authority or acted unlawfully in connection with foreign diplomacy. In the ICIG’s view, those allegations
fall within the urgent-concern provision because the DNI has operational responsibility to prevent election interference.7
But even if so, it does not follow that the alleged misconduct by the President concerns “the funding,
administration, or operation of an intelligence activity within the responsibility and authority” of the DNI because
the allegations do not arise in connection with any such intelligence activity at all. 50 U.S.C. § 3033(k)(5)(G)(i).
The complaint therefore does not state an “urgent concern.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-doj-clears-president-violating-campaign-finance-law/story?id=65849857
I think before we implicate Ratcliffe, we’re going to need more information. I find it hard to believe that Trump was that in the dark about all of this.
I like a paragraphic format. But that’s just me.
Feel free to present your research in the way that you prefer.
And we will continue to read what we prefer too. And ignore the rest.
If printed material is hard on my old eyes, I just don’t read it.
Probably miss a lot of good stuff that way, but that’s ok.
Sometimes the paragraphs disappear when you hit “Post Comment” (unless they are double spaced) and not everyone knows they can edit their comments for a little while after – unless someone posts a reply right away!
Robert Barns has called him John “Rat”cliff for a long time!
Robert Barnes says a lot of things!
We see this time after time. People (Barr, Pence, etc) who we thought would disclose this kind of stuff instead did not in order to protect their status within the corrupt D.C. club. And now a Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard, is the one who discloses it.
For too long we believed we had people that would uphold our constitution. We voted for that. But how much more did we get involved with holding them accountable?
We voted them out, until Trump turned on the lights as to what they were doing to our country, that our votes were no longer safe.
By then the rot went deeper than most of us realized.
If it weren’t for President Trump, Tulsi and Sundance and few others we would be Venezuela.
Thank God.
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Ockham’s Razor: fear, lack of a backbone.
Tulsa needed a Republican running HPSCI.
Would Schiff have agreed to Ratcliffe’s request to release this?
I agree Ratcliffe is a rat that will not clean the CIA up at all.
But I think this rat had a valid excuse to continue being a rat.
The IC IG report is not from the HPSCI
Thanks for answering.
My memory needs jogging, but didn’t confirming Ratcliffe shut down all the releases that Grenell was delivering?
Speaking of which, why didn’t Grenell release that IC IG report? Grenell did a lot of good things for Trump. Guess he missed that one.
Ratcliffe was always a rat. Still is.
I was wondering the same thing about Grenell but he was only acting DNI for a couple of months before they confirmed Ratcliffe. Might not have had time. He was declassifying a lot of things.
Aren’t we to understand that “Congressional equity” in the Atkinson testimony was the whole reason that once classified and locked away by Schiff, the ODNI had no declass authority? Or even access, for that matter?
Atkinson’s boss at the time of the Oct. 4, 2019 hearing was Acting DNI Joseph Maguire. It was Maguire who refused to forward the whistlblower complaint to HPSCI, finding that the complaint did not involve information described in 50 USC §3033.
Atkinson testified that he disagreed with Maguire’s interpretation and forwarded the complaint to HPSCI on his own initiative.
Ratcliff wasn’t confirmed DNI by the Senate until May 21, 2020. Would he have had access to the material in question by virtue of his office before Schiff classified it?
And be in a position to release it?
What am I missing?
What, exactly, is that excuse?
The ICIG report was classified by Schiff during Trump’s first impeachment which ended in his acquittal February 5, 2020. When Radcliffe became DNI in May 2020 it was already classified . As a point of comparison, Radcliffe was DNI for 8 months. Tulsi has been DNI for 14 months and the report is now being declassified.
Maybe Johnny can’t read.
Never forget my 6th grade teacher, Sister Charles Regina always used to say. “Can’t means won’t”
What’s up John?
Has anybody that you worked with taken credit for your work?
Is Soloman taking credit?
He is pretending to mealy mouth credit…
Does a chicken have a beak.
Is he breathing?
Birds of a stabby feather flock together
Gag me with a spoon. Solomon and the Elf on a Shelf Herridge are both trying to take credit for this. Sundance you are a Saint. I’m not. I’d be cussing mad.
Sundance has implied on many occasions that he cares not that he gets credit. Tulsi probably would never connect the dots/ silos without our host work. We( At the Tree) know who put in the Labor. I agree…he is a saint and I’d be mad as a wet sitting hen.
Well said!
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Sounds like they’re trying to take credit for this exposure!
I think Sundance has had a great deal to do in the guidance with what Tulsi Gabbard has revealed today.
I was thinking exactly the same thing Sundance. Why didn’t Ratcliffe disclose it as DNI? Makes no sense unless somehow the cover up is much more widespread than we know? I think the corruption stems from deep within the uniparty! 💁🏻♀️
I recall Ric Grenell became acting DNI, having been already confirmed as an Ambassador so he did not need Senate approval. Ric was doing a bang up job declassifying documents, it seemed at the time, and the Senate quickly confirmed Ratcliffe to stop Grenell.
Maybe Grenell would’ve found Atkinson’s deposition and released it back then if Ratcliffe was not confirmed.
Still, does not explain why Ratcliffe did not disclose it especially since he knew the truth.
If Ratcliffe made a deal with the Senate and promised to bury the info, he must be compromised.
Ya think !
Smells like a conspiracy.
They wouldn’t be fool enough to be leaving evidence everywhere that could prove that, would they?
What do the Bush family have on you, John.
There are missing pieces here. Trump is not stupid, of that I am sure. There is a reason why Ratcliff is still around. I just don’t have the answer.
“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”
I don’t know if it is that simple. My spidy sense just isn’t staying quiet. There is something at play and I wish I could put my finger on it.
Johnny Didn’t Bark – But Tulsi
DidRoared!The statute of limitations in matters like this is five years.
There is no statute of limitations on treason!
Praise GOD!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Five years from discovery.
Not if the conspiracy continued.
Really? so you’ve independently and without citations determined:
A) the basis of the matter at hand, and
B) the pertinent statutes?
Nice try at deflection there buddy.
The conspiracy continued all the way to the raid on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, well within the 5 year statute of limitations. And it probably continued beyond that with the farcical indictments in NYC and Georgia.
A conspiracy would toll the statute…until the conspiracy is uncovered…today is that day.
IMO, Ratcliffe is either a traitor or is being blackmailed. I can not see any other options.
I would say both.
Good question but I guess only Radcliffe can answer that. JHKunstler used to write in his blog something to the effect that Radcliffe sure must be busy because no one ever hears what he’s been doing . Maybe he’s hiding under his desk hoping not to be killed by someone in the CIA – you know that six ways from Sunday stuff.
Both he and Schiff have some ‘splaining to do.
Forget the Radcliffe points; I am more focused on gathering evidence against Clapper, Comey, and Brennan that leads to indictments. Trump should immediately petition Justice Roberts to vacate the impeachments entirely.
LOL, Ratcliffe’s attorney weighs in yet again!!!
Only CONgress can do that.
Johnny was establishment from the day he was elected as rep for my district. I asked him to vote against Hastert and he told me that he had to or he wouldn’t get good committee positions. Without good committee positions he couldn’t “fight Washington”.
See how this works? I immediately knew he was just another establishment republican claiming to fight the good fight while never actually doing anything.
“Why didn’t John Ratcliffe release the evidence of it in 2020?”
Follow the money. It’s the same thing with all of them.
They are being paid, bribed, threatened.. and who knows what else.
This is business as usual.
I still wonder what Devin Nunes saw, before he went to the microphone that time. I can’t remember the exact details,but I’m sure y’all know what I’m talking about.
This is going to reverberate. I’m thinking rather bigly.
Slowly at first…
Johnny didn’t bark because he was and still is a RAT.
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115744/witnesses/HHRG-118-VC00-Bio-RatcliffeJ-20230418.pdf
From above bio:
“”As a Congressman, Director Ratcliffe was a leading policy maker on national security issues as a
member of the House Intelligence, Homeland Security and Judiciary committees. He chaired the
Homeland Security Committee’s Cybersecurity Subcommittee and was recognized as one of the
most prolific legislators on cyber issues, overseeing the passage of more than a dozen major
cybersecurity bills that were signed into law during the Obama and Trump administrations.
Director Ratcliffe authored The United States-Israel Advanced Research Partnership Act, signed
into law by President Obama on December 16, 2016, which allowed the U.S. and Israel to
collaborate on research and development of cybersecurity technologies for national security
purposes. The Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act, authored by Director
Ratcliffe and signed into law by President Trump on November 2, 2017, established the National
Computer Forensics Institute as a national center for training law enforcement officials on the use
of cyber technologies to investigate and secure digital evidence.
Prior to serving in Congress, Director Ratcliffe served in the George W. Bush administration from
2004 to 2008, initially appointed as Chief of Anti-Terrorism and National Security for the Eastern
District of Texas and later judicially appointed as the U.S. Attorney, the top federal law
enforcement official in the district from 2007 to 2008. From 2008 until 2014, Director Ratcliffe
was a founding partner with former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft of Ashcroft Sutton
Ratcliffe LLP, a firm providing strategic legal advice on national and international security issues.””
I have always found John to be stand up guy repping my Texas district. He’s a bit sharp in testimonials in congress. He’s a bit soft when he could be more aggressive.
I don’t see quite how yet, but the timing of the swallows roll out make me suspect these two stories are tightly connected. Like a squeeze.
This “coincidence has long been the Democrat operating procedure, when they want to smokescreen damaging headline. And quite often they (Pelosi) used Swalwell to do the dirty work.
May Director Gabbard continue in her critically important mission,
with
Integrity
Honesty
and
Courage.
Sundance, I have tried no less than 10 times to post this but FB tells me that you have erased it. Not them. You. I do not believe it. I tried just posting the you tube video and they won’t let it go through either. I fight this every day and then some.
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech” -Benjamin Franklin.
You mistake is using FB.
Johnny is a piece of offal and it’s has been noted a long long time ago.
So the recent attack on Tulsi came from CIA, yes?
I had started to think Ratcliff was turning things around with less involvement in Ukraine and helping with Iran.
You didn’t underline him but Rep Will Hurd was former CIA employee, congressman from Texas who hated Trump.
It seem in every problematic gop congressional story, Mike Turner was in their corrupting himself.
Everyone on the inside instantly hated Trump when he took away McCabe’s government pension for cause.. These are very simple people really. They are pension prostitutes first, venal ncompetents second.
The first thing that came to mind after reading this story is Abraham the intercessor for the righteous in Sodom. He starts out with fifty righteous, would the LORD sweep them away with the wicked and the LORD said He would spare the city for the sake of the fifty righteous. The negotiations came down to ten righteous and the LORD said He would spare the city for ten righteous, the He departed Abraham. The sad thing is the LORD knew there was only one righteous one in the city and His angels sent Lot, his wife and two daughters out of the city and as far away as possible. When they were safe, then the LORD destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. If we were talking about Washington, DC, could ten righteous be found in the city? Would Ratcliff and Nunes be among them? ONLY God knows for sure because, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I the LORD, search the heart, I test the conscience, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doing.” Jeremiah 17: 9,10. KJV.
Kudos to Tulsi, anyone?
Time for Gitmo to get a lot more company! See a few swinging.
Remember, it was Ric Grenell who was acting DNI prior to John Ratcliffe’s confirmation, and it was Ric Grenell who declassified many of the Russia hoax documents on his way out the door. He resigned his ambassadorship to Germany about the same time.
Here’s an article by CNN, lol, to show the timeline, but also the media spin at the time (2020):
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/politics/grenell-director-of-national-intelligence-final-days
I never understood why Ric Grenell’s talents, and his fierce loyalty to Trump, were wasted as head of the Kennedy Center. It almost seemed a punishment. The question: who persuaded Trump to engineer this career (killing) move? It was Grenell, after all, who oversaw Michael Atkinson’s firing, at Trump’s behest. Who did that rub the wrong way?
Tulsi is a warrior, BTW. No nonsense work ethic too. She continues to impress.
ok, that reminds me, Ratcliff is the one who sat on declassifying Russiagate as DNI until Trump’s term was over.
AC DC
If Trump were really a King, he would never let so many current underlings take center stage and be so darn successful . Trump is paying it forward while working like a dog cleaning up what was dumped on his own lap.
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
This is an absolute gem from the IG Atkinson transcript. When John Ratcliffe exposed Ciaramella for having lied about not being in contact with anyone in Congress, Schiff jumped in to “explain” that when he himself denied it as well, he meant that Ciaramella had not been “permitted to testify,” not that he had not been in contact. No honest person with two functioning brain cells would ever believe this. Schiff should be in court facing charges just as Ciaramella should, and so should the Inspector General.
Cont reading….
Hindsight is 20-20.
But why not ask Radcliffe, Nunes, Stefanik, Crawford? One of the talking heads at Fox might be in a position to ask that question.
Perhaps at the time they did not see its importance nor think releasing it would matter or maybe they were busy addressing more pressing matters?
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
And it turns out the IC IG running this little hoax behind the scenes lied in writing to the DNI, FBI and DOJ, and falsely claimed that the State Department issued a criminal referral based on the nonsensical ramblings of the fake “whistleblower.”
Cont…
I think the Bible has a few things to say about how hard it is for a rich man to get to heaven, but does it say anything about dirty, filthy, verminous, slimy, scum politicians?
Pretty sure they are the goats
Ratcliff is also the DNI who Trump trusted to declassify Russiagate hoax but Ratcliff never did and ultimately that enabled the slim justification for raid on Trumps home.
Radcliff was just grin-f’ing the President along with everyone else in DC……. crossing days off the calendar with no intentions of ever doing anything. Kash Patel is doing that right now and so was Blonde.
No one ever thought Trump would be in the WH again. Some of them knew about Butler too……
Yes, which raid kept the conspiracy going and extending it to the State of Florida not Washington, D.C.
Perhaps there is a lawyer here on the Treehouse who can confirm my understanding. Is the statute of limitations is five years from the last overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, and that prosecutors can reach back all the way to the origin of the seditious conspiracy so long as the statute of limitation has not tolled?
Exactly. These are some of the right ******* question.
Some folks should be very worried.
Remember when Tulsi said the FBI were a bunch of dirty rotten scum?
Was she primarily talking about Ka$h covering up the Atkinson saga?
What did Ka$h say about the Atkinson saga in his book?