Grenell Succinctly Explains Where Barr/Durham Is Headed

We've heard many times that the Barr/Durham investigation is closely examining the process behind the infamous Intelligence Community Assessment. The ICA was foisted on a credulous nation by disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan and his Deep State and Media allies, and has served to perpetuate the myth of "Russian meddling" on behalf of Trump.

Per TGP and CTH, Grenell has appeared on The Rubin Report. Here is, IMO, the most important thing he had to say:

Grenell: ... 

And the current intelligence community believes there are a couple of bad apples that they got to get out there and that they were manipulated.  And I will say this – there were red flags early on in the Russia investigation from a variety of agencies and some people made those red flags and those comments from people coming forward, saying ‘this Russian stuff is not true’, they classified that information and pushed it away. 

I’ve seen that information and I’ve called for it to be declassified. It’s a process that’s ongoing, it takes time.  I wasn’t there long enough to do it.  But there are instances where red flags were raised very early on in certain agencies and I’ve requested that information to come out and I hope that it will.”

You can go to the bank with this--Barr and Durham have seen the same information, and--since Barr has full authority to declassify--when the time comes we will see it, too.

To be clear, what Grenell is saying is this: During the process of fabricating the ICA, intel analysts came forward and expressed--in writing--that "this Russian stuff [being inserted into the ICA] is not true." Brennan and the other corrupt actors classified those objections to keep it hidden. A bit like Susan Rice classifying her email-to-self to prevent it from being seen.

What Grenell is describing is powerful evidence of intent to perpetrate the Big Picture Conspiracy. Thus the desperate actions we see.

Grennell's Final Declassifications

FoxNews has a story out about formerly Acting DNI Grennell's final declassifications--Grenell declassifies slew of Russia probe files, as Ratcliffe takes helm as DNI. It will now be up to new DNI John Ratcliffe to decide which of the newly declassified documents will be made public. Of course the story leads with what, to my mind, will end up being a non-story--the call transcripts of Kislyak and Flynn. However there is mention of a document that is undoubtedly near the heart of the Durham investigation. It has to do with "manipulation of intelligence," which undoubtedly concerns John Brennan's "shaping" of the ICA, which was the basis for all subsequent coup and fake impeachment efforts. In that case, it's possible that Ratcliffe--undoubtedly in consultation with Barr/Durham--will withhold that document for the time being. As a former USA himself, Ratcliffe will fully understand whatever the dynamics are in that decision:

The documents include transcripts of phone calls that then-incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak had in December 2016, during the presidential transition period. Grenell said publicly last week that he was in the process of declassifying those files, after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., asked that he do so. 

Fox News has learned that the declassification review of those transcripts is now complete, and it will be left up to Ratcliffe on whether to release them publicly. 

Fox News has learned that Grenell also completed the declassification review of other documents related to the origins of the Russia probe — including one that a senior intelligence official told Fox News was “very significant in understanding how intelligence was manipulated to support launching the Russia investigation.” 

The official could not provide further details on that newly declassified document, but said that it will also be up to Ratcliffe to decide whether to make it public.

Speaking with Tucker Carlson, FoxNews' Ed Henry focused on the documentation regarding the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), stating that, if some of the other newly declassified documents are released, "it could get sticky for John Brennan in particular, because of some of the other info":

Need-To-Know Distancing Is Now A Thing In The Intel Community

Need-to-know--what a concept, right? Why should the FBI be routinely receiving Codeword/SIGINT briefings without a demonstrated need to know?

Apparently that's a question that soon-to-be-former Acting DNI Ric Grenell asked himself. That's just one more reason why a clearly panicked Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) is rushing the nomination of previous outcast John Ratcliffe for the DNI post with almost unseemly haste.

Not only did Grenell come up with that question, but he found an answer: there is NO reason for that practice. In fact, it's an elementary violation of sound Intel practice. So, having found an answer to his question, Grenell acted--per Jack Posobiec:

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
   
BREAKING: New DNI instruction removes FBI from codeword SIGINT briefings and products that contain sources/methods. They have been ordered to return to core LE/CT work.

More: The FBI will no longer receive raw or refined sources and methods COMINT/SIGINT product, only sanitized analyst product.

The orders have already gone out to the relevant IC commands, including INSCOM. Now FBI's access will only be granted on a per-incident basis if matter is not directly related to terrorism or a criminal activity under active investigation.

With the exception of terrorism and criminal matters the FBI is out of the raw intelligence business. 

One reason to enforce need to know rules is to diminish the number of possible leakers. And now we know that the SSCI can act expeditiously when faced with an emergency. Who knows what other questions Grenell has been asking himself?

Today's Must Read: The other secrets inside Grenell’s satchel

Thomas Lifson at American Thinker has a terrific summary of J. E. Dyer's most recent article. Here's a link to the original Dyer article, which is lengthy. I had considered doing a post on it, but quickly realized it'd be difficult cutting much: Beyond Biden, Brennan, and Clapper: How Grenell’s satchel tells us this is on the right track.

Lifson's summary offers a more gradual entry into the full article--I recommend both: The other secrets inside Grenell’s satchel are the key to the biggest political scandal in US history.

To give you a taste, here are two Adam Housely tweets that Dyer quotes:

Adam Housley
@adamhousley 

Ooooooh brother. Massive surveillance...that’s what’s been found. “MASSIVE” is the way it was sent to me. 

10:09 PM · May 11, 2020

Adam Housley
@adamhousley 

As I’m told the list Grenell brought over is much larger than anything involving Flynn. “The exact tasking flow is hard to discern because the stuff was flying everywhere.” 

1:54 PM · May 12, 2020

BONUS SECOND MUST READ:

WaPo's new mantra is Just Don't Report