Morning Greatness: Grenell Leaves a Going Away Present at the ODNI

May 27, 2020

Good Wednesday morning.

Here is what’s on the president’s agenda today:

President Trump participates in a meeting with the Governor of New York
The President and First Lady participate in a NASA Crew Quarters Tour at the Kennedy Space Center, FL
The President and First Lady participate in an Orion Capsules Tour
The President and First Lady receive a SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 Launch Briefing
The President and First Lady participate in a viewing of SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 Launch
President Trump delivers remarks at Kennedy Space Center

Grenell declassifies information on his way out…

Ambassador Rick Grenell left a gift on his way out as acting Director of National Intelligence: a treasure chest of declassified RUSSIA hoax documents! One is reported to be “very significant in understanding how intelligence was manipulated to support launching the Russia investigation.” Among the other declassified documents is the infamous Kislyak/Flynn phone call that launched the Logan Act scream heard ’round the world. The ball is in the new director John Ratcliffe’s court. All eyes are on you Ratcliffe, let’s get those documents out!

“Richard Grenell brought unmatched energy and transparency to ODNI during his tenure there,” a senior administration official told Fox News. “He took seriously the rule that classification must not be used to hide potential misconduct or to save the government from embarrassment.”

Grenell was criticized by hacks like Adam Schiff, who said of Grenell’s declassifications: “It was a transparent political act — in an election year and during a pandemic, no less — in which you used the authorities of your position to insinuate wrongdoing by officials who acted appropriately in requesting the identity of masked U.S. persons to better understand foreign intelligence reports,” Schiff wrote. “This is inconsistent with the oath and obligations of an acting Director of National Intelligence.”

How rich is that? The scumbag who sat on transcripts from the Intel Committee hearings for more than a year thinks Grenell is politicizing intelligence. We know now that it was Schiff and his army of resistance flying monkeys who sat in those hearings and turned around and lied to the public about all the “evidence” of RUSSIA collusion. Sit down and shut up Adam Schiff.

DoJ drops insider trading investigation against Loeffler, Feinstein, Inhofe but not Burr

Oh dear. The Department of Justice has closed their investigations into suspicious pre-Chinese virus stock trades by various elected officials. The trades were made “shortly before markets plummeted amid the coronavirus pandemic.” Sens. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Diane Feinstein, D-Calif. have been cleared but former Senate Select Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr (R-NC) is not so lucky.

Weeks ago the Feds seized Burr’s cell phone for their investigation and Burr resigned his seat as the head of the powerful intelligence committee. The law prohibits elected officials from using private information for financial gain. Developing.

Trump wants congress to to block FISA bill extension

President Trump has asked Republicans to block a bill that will reauthorize provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. I’m good with this, let’s shut it down, get a warrant.

I hope all Republican House Members vote NO on FISA until such time as our Country is able to determine how and why the greatest political, criminal, and subversive scandal in USA history took place!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020

Writes the New York Post:

Trump’s call to action is a boon to privacy advocates in both parties, who for years have faced narrow defeats on measures to restrain government surveillance. But with Republicans in the minority in the House, they will need support from left-wing Democrats who also want to change a Senate-passed bill. If the bill is altered, it will return again to the Senate.

The bill was negotiated in part by Attorney General Bill Barr and passed the Senate 80-16 this month after senators rejected by a single vote a measure to protect US internet browsing records from warrantless collection. With 59 votes in favor and a supporter, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, absent, the provision failed.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has asked Democrat leaders to “to hold off on putting a bill on the floor to renew a trio of expired surveillance tools.”

The House will return to session with their wacky distance “proxy” voting because congresspeople are lazy trash who don’t want to come to Washington D.C. to do their job. Senators are here. Grocery store employees are working, CVS employees are working, Amazon delivery people are working. Get your asses back here.

Coronavirus news:

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New York reported the fewest number of daily coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began

California Gov. Newsom lets hair salons, barbershops reopen after coronavirus closures

Canadian Nursing Homes Found Infested With Cockroaches, Residents Left In Soiled Diapers

Packed crowds spark pandemic alarms as states reopen

He looks like an idiot. Biden changes Twitter, Facebook avatars to him wearing mask

Without Evidence, Joe Biden Blames Nearly Half Of US COVID Deaths On Trump’s ‘Ego,’ ‘Folly’ And ‘False Masculinity

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