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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCIA Director Gina Haspel just entered Mitch McConnell's office.
curious to see what comes of this.
Link to tweet
IF she was being fired, why would she meet w/McConnell in his office?
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)MissB
(15,807 posts)I could do without the excitement mind you.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Chainfire
(17,536 posts)"You have the right to remain silent, anything you..."
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)texasfiddler
(1,990 posts)jalan48
(13,863 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Can McConnell fire her?
Trump used his Chief of Staff John Kelly to "warn" people they were about to be fired, and then they'd usually be fired by tweet.
Trump has tried to use WH counsel to fire people. He once asked Corey Lewandowski to fire someone. He usually uses someone on the inside.
Could he use McConnell that way? I mean, times are strange and anything is possible, but to me that seems a stretch that he would use someone outside the WH.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)No, Mitch can't fire her.
She is probably sharing some classified info that will scare the shit out of Mitch.
Maybe it's about Trump.
Maybe it's about Mitch.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)turtle may be trying to get some straight verbal info, w/o a paper trail - in what he has to watch our for with traitortrump, or . . .
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Him the file that could go public unless he knocks off the shit with tRUMP. The very last minute of the twenty minutes, Moscow Mitch peaked out of his shell and said, 'Yes Ma'am.'
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Trumpdumper
(171 posts)Did anyone happen to spot whether Grassley was also present? I ask because under the 25th Amendment, the president pro tem of the Senate (Grassley's position) is the senator who would be officially be told if Pence et al had invoked a takeover from Trump. I believe the CIA director for the purposes of the 25th Amendment is considered a principal executive officer.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)A lot of people say "Pence would never go for that, nah, forget it."
But there is the very peculiar matter of Pence's "vacation." What an uncanny time for a vacation.
Maybe the best way for him to call the shots on something so dramatica was to actually get out of the WH and run it from Florida.
Chichiri
(4,667 posts)Never believe that a Republican will do the right thing.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)She knows stuff.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)You don't threaten the CIA. The CIA can make you disappear.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Link to tweet
It looks like everyone seems to think that Cocaine Mitch is the real person in charge of the government.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Jus' Sayin'
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)dchill
(38,484 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)have all along been quietly reassuring foreign leaders of stability under the cray-cray and turbulence at the top. Doubt those directly affected are exactly pleased to have characters out of Dr. Strangelove and White Noise appointed over them.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)questionseverything
(9,654 posts)Perhaps he has instructions for the cia too
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Apparently being prescient that PA would be the battleground state
Poiuyt
(18,123 posts)questionseverything
(9,654 posts)McConnell did call barr to his office yesterday and then barr directed plinger? To open investigations into voter fraud with absolutely no evidence......thats illegal.....it terrifies me that he has similar illegal instructions for the cia
Roland99
(53,342 posts)I half posted that to see how shocked Id be to see it actually happen!
maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)Asking for the Deep State...
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)torius
(1,652 posts)Youre good at that. Plus, hes amphibious.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Link to tweet
Typical stupid question about her job security. With everything going on, I would have asked who asked for the meeting and if there had been personnel changes today in the CIA.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,342 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)She is 100% on Trump and McConnell's side.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)that requires attention.
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)She's telling turtle to cut the crap and concede because security of the country is compromised and the whole world knows it. Time to cut bait and go home. Game over.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Since I'd assume that Ft Meade keeps a record of all electronic communications, even between Langley and Capitol Hill.
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)A furious behind-the-scenes battle to counter Trumps threat to national security
Opinion by David Ignatius Columnist November 10, 2020 at 6:23 p.m. EST
President Trumps senior military and intelligence officials have been warning him strongly against declassifying information about Russia that his advisers say would compromise sensitive collection methods and anger key allies.
An intense battle over this issue has raged within the administration in the days before and after the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump and his allies want the information public because they believe it would rebut claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin supported Trump in 2016. That may sound like ancient history, but for Trump it remains ground zero the moment when his political problems began.
CIA Director Gina Haspel last month argued strongly at a White House meeting against disclosing the information, because she believed that doing so would violate her pledge to protect sources and methods, a senior congressional source said. This official said a bipartisan group of Republican and Democratic senators has been trying to protect Haspel, though some fear that Trump may yet oust her.
Rumors have been flying this week about Haspels tenure, but a source familiar with her standing as CIA director said Tuesday that national security adviser Robert C. OBrien and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had both assured her that shes good, meaning she wouldnt be removed. Haspel also met personally with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Tuesday. She sees him regularly as a member of the Gang of Eight senior congressional leaders. But Tuesdays visit was another sign of GOP support.
idiot will hurt anyone to attempt to salvage his reputation. NOW he wants to prove he's not corrupt. TOO LATE!!!