With President Trump anticipated to deliver a national address on foreign interference in the U.S. election system on Thursday night, the President’s nominee to fill the role of Director of National Intelligence takes place in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The Committee Chairman is Tom Cotton, the SSCI Vice-Chairman is Mark Warner. Warner is against the nomination for DNI and strongly opposing any effort by the Executive Branch to influence the Intelligence Community. Livestream Links Below:
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hadn’t heard of him; he was the head of the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) under Trump-45, then, under Trump-47 he was put in as lead attorney at the SDNY (Southern District New York) after Comey’s daughter was removed.
Those are good background experiences.
The big 🚩 is he has been at SDNY for 2 decades.
Agree; I have my own bones to pick with that particular office so definitely not the best of recommendations.
But I remember thinking why would President Trump pick a Senator Rubio to run the State department and Democrats Kennedy and Gabbard and think okay, maybe there’s more than meets the eye.
The RINOs want him. Must be a bad pick.
…………Mark Warner. Warner is against the nomination for DNI…………
Warner and his ilk will be against anyone that has not come up through the DC swamp & silo system. Especially an outsider with any sort of investigative experience like SEC and SDNY.
Just to be complete … Senator Mark Warner (DSA-VA) is against the nomination … so there must be something there.
Unless of coarse his job is to muddy the waters.
One slimy SOB.
“unless of COURSE”…. lol
Homage to past member missed by so many of us!
Warner wants Pulte out ASAP. He knows the RINOs will vote for Clayton. It’s a done deal.
Well, Mark Warner IS a coarse fellow, I would say!
The democrats will oppose any nominee to keep up the appearance of him having a MAGA background. The RINOs will ensure he gets in.
unless it is just one of those pro-forma public votes to appease his side
Of course he is but he knows his RINO friends will confirm.
Bad Cop/Good Cop.
The traitorous game the Uniparty plays.
If Warner is against, he must be a good pick.
When all else fails, Ric Grennell is still waiting in the wings!!!!!
the senate can
t do anything productive...but theyre in a damned hurry to get pulte out and clayton in…..that should tell you all you need to know about clayton…..my guess?…another bill barr…mueller…chris wray…
I fear you might be correct.
As good as litmus paper.
From boarding school chem teacher decades ago: “Red to Blue: Al-ca-loo; Blue to Red: A$$-ed”.
100% Bad Pick!
I disagree with your point of view. Why so negative? Trump wants Clayton.
Trump also “wanted” Bill Barr, Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel, etc. This time around it was Pam Bondi, Suzie Wiles, and unnamed leakers inside the administration.
Warner’s hands are not clean. Therefore, anyone who is competent and who can not be kept on a short leash is a clear and present danger to him.
Apparently, he is not proud of his shenanigans and he does not want them to become public knowledge.
Let the sun shine-in!
If Warner is against him, he’s the perfect guy for the job.
Warmer is against him simply because Trump nominated him. Think more deeply – the RINOs love him.
Think more deeply? Come on, get real. Who is your pick?
Be sure to very carefully vet the next titular head of national intelligence.
James Jesus Angleton (CIA Chief of Counterintelligence):
In the mid-1970s, when Hersh questioned him about alleged CIA domestic spying and wrongdoing (during the period of the Church Committee investigations, which also touched on JFK-related matters), Angleton replied something like: “A mansion has many rooms and there were many things going on during the period.” That was about compartmentalization and hidden operations in the Agency.
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Amazing Statement Of Congressional Impotence By Senate Intelligence Chairman Jay Rockefeller
April 24, 2007
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001436.html
DAVIS: I wonder if you’ve heard some of these news reports that the Bush administration is backing extremist groups in Pakistan to launch attacks against Iran? Are you familiar with those news reports?
ROCKEFELLER: I’ve seen no intelligence that would verify that.
DAVIS: Reports quote administration officials as saying this is going on and it’s being done in a way to avoid oversight of the Intelligence Committee. Is there any way—
ROCKEFELLER: They’ll go to any lengths to do that, as we’ve seen in the last two days [during hearings on FISA].
DAVIS: Is there anything you could do in your position as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee to find answers about this, if it is in fact going on?
ROCKEFELLER: Don’t you understand the way Intelligence works? Do you think that because I’m Chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say I want it, and they give it to me? They control it. All of it. All of it. All the time. I only get, and my committee only gets, what they want to give me.
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On January 3, 2017 (aired/discussed around January 4), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said this during an interview on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show: “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
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“Members of Congress are terrified of the intel agencies. I’m not guessing at that. They’ve told me that — including people on the intel committee, including people who run the intel committee.” – Tucker Carlson
This confirmation should go quickly.
Most Senators want the Acting DNI’s actions to come to an end ASAP. Too much evidence of chicanery inside DC and IC being revealed.
That’s an interesting comment, if true.
He will soon.
I wasn’t watching. Was his response one where he didn’t take the bait to confirm or deny any of the speculation being posted on X and other social media? He’s not a cabinet member or anything, so no reason for him to be in the know.
He currently has no need to know 😎
I think Jeff Childers has the best handle on what we can expect to hear on Thursday night:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/from-russiagate-with-love-tuesday
PDJT would make sure he didn’t discuss it with him knowing full well they would ask this question in the hearing. Not hard to figure this out.
If true, my guess is – PDJT didn’t want to potentially affect Clayton’s responses in the nomination hearing by giving him inside info on the Thursday speech. Mystery content of that speech has generated a lot of speculation and buzz…which (IMHO) is precisely what the President wanted.
Hahahaha; nice try, Dims.
“The Committee Chairman is Tom Cotton, the SSCI Vice-Chairman is Mark Warner. Warner is against the nomination for DNI and strongly opposing any effort by the Executive Branch to influence the Intelligence Community.”
Just think of it, the President, the Commander in Chief who has the responsibility of leading the nation in war is not supposed to be able to martial every aspect of the national defense, which includes intelligence assets?
The President is not supposed to be able to select and work with the men and women who will do these jobs?
Just “check with Mark Warner first?”
I don’t think so!
Unfortunate that Republican senators won’t point out that basic fact.
Ha
He should be concerned!🤣
he is a senatecritter and can’t even spell his name “John” correctly?
Bo,
The guy’s name is . . .
Thomas Jonathan Ossoff.
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thx.
Ossoff should be concerned but Jay Clayton didn’t do a great job answering the question…not sure if he was irritated by it or was not prepared for it, but he really fumbled around and appeared either confused or evasive, IMHO! Not a great look!
That was the intended outcome. Ossoff did that purposely. If he said 2020 was stolen they would have grilled him even more. Best not to answer.
So what? Would like for one of these political folks to have the courage to say “Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together knows the 2020 election was stolen.”
The Dems and RINOs want Pulte out of there fast. Clayton will sail through.
I am hoping Trump has put this Clayton nominee to the test of Tulsi Gabbard OK. She would know better than most who is her best replacement. I pray Trump has vetted t his guy thoroughly Too important a position for screw up.
Despite Warner’s delusional deceptions, the IC is not a separate branch of government. They fall UNDER the oversight and control of the Executive Branch. The President is the supreme authority of the EXECUTIVE BRANCH. FO Mark.
The best part of the hearing, besides Warner’s hands shaking like a bowl of jello on a downhill freight train, was the heckler.
Seriously, the panic over the lack of election integrity stole the show.
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Wait, what? Isn’t the Intelligence Community a PART of the Executive Branch? Why would the Legislative Branch think they have sole administration over a piece of the Executive Branch? Rhetorical, I know. Actors like Warner need to go.
Warner’s baggage needs checked!
They are terrified of having another DNI like Tulsi, who actually took her job seriously and actually exposed the truth.
As an aside: It has always mystified me how the criminals in Washington, DC obsessively record every detail of their wrongdoing. Then, they ##CLASSIFY## everything. Is this “bragging rights” to those colleagues who also have clearances?
Nevertheless: J K Rowling certainly knew what she was about when she created the “Room of Requirement” in her Harry Potter series! 🤡
I thought President Trump withdrew his nomination. So why are they going forward?
I thought the President just made the nomination to get this guy out of his previous job,
Then the President withdrew this guy’s nomination after the President nominated someone else for this guy’s old job.
delayed it
Are we witnessing a Senate coup? Seriously, I thought his nomination was withdrawn until he had a replacement in SDNY.
So Cotton and Warner want Clayton ? That means we don’t.
Is it that Warner & Cotton WANT Clayton or that they DON’T WANT Pulte as the driving force behind confirming Clayton?
Approving the nomination isn’t the same as swearing him in. Unless and until his replacement takes office, and Pulte is excused, no swearing in is necessary. Maybe Pulte will need some time to show him around. And Trump has to take time out of his schedule to do it right–maybe in the new ballroom.
Senate Intelligence, oxymoron.
I thought Trump had pulled this nomination pending acceptance of his replacement at SDNY?
LMAO! Democrat Sen. Mark Warner is frantically grilling Trump DNI nominee Jay Clayton because he’s worried about our elections finally becoming secure
WARNER: Do you DENY that Biden won the 2020 election?
CLAYTON: Biden was certified as the president.
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Video:
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Factually correct but WEAK!!!
Will the two GA Senators that got their seats through fraud resign if evidence comes out?
jane: “Will the two GA Senators that got their seats through fraud resign if evidence comes out?”
No. They will not resign. They will claim with straight faces that the Georgia election was completely honest. Because Fanni Willis and Governor Kemp and Mike Pence and Bill Barr and Christopher Wray have said so.
Never mind that video of Ruby freeman and her daughter Wanda shea moss running the biteme ballots through the counters over and over again.
Is that why Marjorie Taylor Greenblatt skeedaddled out early in her latest term?
To avoid being called out for her November 2020 win with 74.7% of the vote in her district?
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No they are all over X already saying anything POTUS says about thier election
is a lie…strange since they don;t yet know what POTUS is going to say.. yet they
know it is a lie..
It was my understanding that PDJT was holding this nomination until his nominee to replace Clayton @ SDNY James McDonald was confirmed.
Did that change?
Pulte keeps firing people !
Hopefully possible conversations?
PULTE: Get me all information about surveillance of congress. Now.
DNI EMPLOYEE: That is very difficult and wrong to request. It will take 4 years.
PULTE: You are fired.
I read where asedMikeLee. Will cochair Senate judiciary
Translated in terms that even the simplest minded American can understand: Mark Warner has weaponized the SSCI since he’s been on the committee. He fears that one more DNI in the same vein as Tulsi Gabbard (honest, America loving, truthful, loyal to the Constitution) will be such a threat to the Democrat Socialist institution that the Democrat Party may have to fold their tent before the end of the Trump term. This would result in the loss of millions more likely billions if not trillions of graft, grift and ill-gotten gain form members of the Democrat Kingdom!
Susan Collins….Supported only as a GOP placeholder. She’s another one who’s well past her shelf life – the halting speech; the bobble head just don’t instill confidence.
Keep Pulte as Acting DNI as long as possible, democRats are just slimy Rats. 2020 was a stolen Election and Let the War begin.
Disgusting gutless deep state facilitator!!!!….he couldn’t hold tulsis jock strap….
Not even her bra strap!!!
Dog and pony show.
Sundance, could you please explain why Mr. Clayton would not give a direct answer when Senator Ossoff asked who won the 2020 election? My guess is saying “Joe Biden” would undermine Thursday’s announcement, as well as the investigative efforts at the Fulton election office. What is the benefit to not saying “Donald Trump?” I don’t understand why Senator Ossoff’s question constitutes a trap question. Additional insight as to whether you think Mr. Clayton’s answer was effective and the right move would be appreciated. Thank you. I appreciate your efforts for the country.
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