In a rare moment of comity, Democrats agreed, and on September 26, 2018, the committee voted unanimously to release the transcripts. But by September 2018, with the committee’s report long finished and made public, the Republicans who still controlled the committee decided the interview transcripts should be released to the public. …The interviews were conducted in secret. As part of that investigation - it was run by then-majority Republicans - the committee interviewed some key witnesses in the Trump-Russia matter: Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates, Michael Cohen, Hope Hicks, and many more. Even today, its findings make up most of what we know about the affair. The Intel Committee did the first probe into Russia’s 2016 campaign interference and allegations of Trump-Russia collusion. “All of the transcripts, with our required redactions, can be released to the public without any concerns of disclosing classified material,” Grenell wrote to Schiff in a letter dated May 4. Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has sent a letter to chairman Adam Schiff notifying him that transcripts of all 53 interviews, over 6,000 pages in all, have been cleared for public release. There is a ream of documents relating to the now-completed Russia investigation that both parties, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, have agreed to release to the public.ĭNI TO SCHIFF: THE TRANSCRIPTS ARE READY TO RELEASE. A big development in the fight over 53 secret interviews the House Intelligence Committee conducted during its Trump-Russia investigation. If Schiff is a snake, Grenell is a mongoose. He secretly subpoenaed 1000s of phone records (Effectively granting himself the powers of a FISA judge, under dubious authority) and released private phone records of… among other people… journalists, political rival congressmen, and lawyers. (We would argue BECAUSE it was exculpatory.) And he forbade any witnesses in the defense of the President that were not ALSO on the Democrats’ wish list of witnesses. His secret hearings and selective leaks, while refusing to release transcripts for the hearings, even when they reportedly held testimony exculpatory to the President. In particular, his ‘parody’ phone call fiction, his whistleblower connections with a plan to reveal him, until his own connections to him became apparent. His role as ringmaster in the Impeachment Circus will be fodder for historians generations from now. And yet he refused to release transcripts of many of these interviews. ![]() ![]() He demanded hearing after hearing in the Russia case, putting people on the stand (and then leaking closed meeting info to the press even before they were over. He was smack-dab in the center of the alleged ‘whistleblower’ conspiracy that leaked THE Ukraine Phone Call to the public, his staff flew to Ukraine before the news became public, and met with people connected to Burisma. Schiff assured us that he had evidence of Russian collusion - which never materialized. He opposed Nunes releasing the truth about what was really happening in the Russia investigation, trying to block it, trying to demonize him in the public eye, releasing a counter-narrative memo that - eventually - was shown to be as entirely worthless as the man who wrote it, while the Nunes Memo was vindicated when investigations had run their course. He was almost certainly the source of leaks of classified information. He has quite contentedly used his party’s majority to shield him as he weaponized his power against his enemies. Schiff has enjoyed feasting on a ridiculous amount of power in his tight little fists.
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