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New State Department Documents Reveal Last-Minute Efforts by Obama State Department to Undermine President Trump
[JUDICIALWATCH.ORG] Judicial Watch today released 90 pages of heavily redacted U.S. Department of State documents showing Obama State Department officials’ efforts to disseminate classified information to multiple U.S. Senators immediately prior to President Donald Trump...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s inauguration. The information, which included raw intelligence, purported to show "malign" Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Among the senators receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN). Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a June 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State Department after it failed to respond to a February 2018 request seeking records of the Obama State Department’s last-minute efforts to share classified information about Russia election interference issues with Democratic Senator Ben Cardin (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:18-cv-01381)). A January 13, 2017, email from Hera Abbasi, a former congressional advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Legislative Affairs, suggests that the intelligence community was providing "raw intel" to Sen. Warner. Such an exchange almost certainly would have been coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI): "Yes, that is correct. Warner/raw intel stuff is going thru IC channels." (Abbasi previously worked in Speaker Nancy San Fran NanPelosi  Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...’s office and was a 2017 Next Generation National Security Fellow at the liberal Center for a New American Security. Abbasi donated $725 to the Clinton campaign and Act Blue during the 2016 election cycle.) The documents uncovered by Judicial Watch show early in the process of gathering and clearing classified information ‐ beginning a day after Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) formally asked Attorney General John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... for "intelligence products" and "raw intelligence" on Russian involvement in the 2016 election ‐ Assistant Secretary of State Julia Frifield brings Senior Advisor and Investigations Counsel Zachary Schram into the loop in a January 5, 2017, email chain, in which she says Schram would help "figure out the best way to get these to the Hill." Frifield was an Obama appointee who previously served as Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski’s Chief of Staff. (Frifield contributed $2,700 to the 2016 Clinton campaign.) On January 11, 2017, former State Department Senior Congressional Advisor Katherine Harris sends an email to Abbasi; Naz Durakoglu, who was a senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an and Eurasian Affairs; Kathleen Kavalec, and others: "If we are not going through our standard CDP [Collection Due Process] process, others in H need to weigh in on how to move these to the Hill." In emails written on January 10 and 11, 2017, from Abbasi to Durakoglu and Kavalec, Abassi expresses the need to get the documents cleared "as soon as possible (ASAP)." Posted by: Fred 2019-09-12 |
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