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Is Trump WH blocking CIA director from briefing Senate?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Friday, November 30th 2018 at 8:33PM · 1663 views
Is Trump WH blocking CIA director from briefing Senate?

Trump continues to cast doubt on CIA findings about Saudi Arabia’s role in the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Senators want to hear from CIA Director Gina Haspel, but she has been reportedly blocked from briefing. Amb. Wendy Sherman and John Heilemann discuss with Lawrence O'Donnell.
Is Trump WH blocking CIA director from briefing Senate?

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Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 1st 2018 at 4:19AM

The Full Senate is scheduled to receive a full briefing from Saudi Arabia and defense secretary James Mattis. They will not hear from Gina Haspel or any other intelligence officials about the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to the Guardian.


Now how can the Full Senate be informed fully, if Gina Haspe, The Head of The CIA is not there?

Steve Williams Saturday, December 1st 2018 at 9:17AM

We don't trust the CIA Ron, and you people don't trust Gina Haspel. Or did you forget?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 1st 2018 at 4:46PM

Gina Haspe and members of the CIA heard the murder tape, now those people who are holding the breathing refused to hear the evidence.

How can the Senate be accurately brief if the Head of CIA is not there?

Steve Williams Saturday, December 1st 2018 at 7:16PM

Did you forget Ron, you opposed Gina Haspel's confirmation because of waterboarding or some such nonsense? Now all of a sudden you've decided she's indispensable. How convenient, you hypocrite.

Steve Williams Saturday, December 1st 2018 at 7:20PM

The question might be, how can the Senate be accurately brief if the head of CIA IS there.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 1st 2018 at 8:52PM

SHUT-UP Steve, you sound like a fool. Gina Haspel was hand picked by TRUMP to run the CIA and she also heard the murder tape and those other Republicans did not. Why is The Trump White House is now going against Trump's hand picked person to run the CIA and their report of a strong confidence level for the Saudi Crown Prince?

Steve Williams Saturday, December 1st 2018 at 9:26PM

This is the torturer you're talking about Ron, hand picked by Trump and you love her now?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, December 2nd 2018 at 6:17PM


No Steve, Gina Haspel heard the conversation and the circumstances leading up to the torture And the murderer of Jamal Khashoggi, now would she be the best person to inform Congress about the information that the CIA found?


Steve Williams Monday, December 3rd 2018 at 1:13AM

She did inform Congress but they didn't tell you about that, did they Ron?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, December 3rd 2018 at 11:23AM

You saw this information in this video report Steve?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, December 3rd 2018 at 11:29AM

STEVE, You saw this information in this video report Steve?

Secretary of State James Mattis, who did not want to hear the murder caught on tape of the Brutal Murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Now how can the Full Senate be informed fully, if Gina Haspe, The Head of The CIA is not there?

Steve Williams Monday, December 3rd 2018 at 12:09PM

What makes you think Gina Haspel would have informed the Senate fully Ron. You are full of baseless imaginings.

Steve Williams Monday, December 3rd 2018 at 12:11PM

P.S. I WATCHED THIS VIDEO!!!

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, December 3rd 2018 at 12:52PM

YOUR WORDS: What makes you think Gina Haspel would have informed the Senate fully Ron. You are full of baseless imaginings.

Because she is the one who heard the murder caught on tape of the Brutal Murder of Jamal Khashoggi. That is the closest that anyone in the Senet has been to the murder evidence the Brutal of Jamal Khashoggi. Now is there another more qualified?

Steve Williams Monday, December 3rd 2018 at 10:38PM

I'm sure Mattis and Pompeo gave a more than adequate briefing but the whiners seem to have won.

CIA Director Gina Haspel is expected to brief leaders of multiple Senate committees Tuesday about the October murder of Saudi activist and writer Jamal Khashoggi, a source told Fox News.

The source said the briefing will include leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Armed Services Committee and Appropriations Committee.

Haspel did not attend a briefing about Khashoggi's killing that was given to all senators last week by Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Her absence upset lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., vowing to hold up Congress' agenda for the current lame-duck session until he heard from the CIA director.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cia-direc...

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, December 3rd 2018 at 10:50PM

This is what I been talking about all of this time Steve. It is only right that CIA Director Gina Haspel brief the senate and not someone who did not hear the evidence of Jamal Khashoggi's Brutal Murder.

Steve Williams Tuesday, December 4th 2018 at 4:23PM

So are you a Corker fan now Ron, and a Graham fan too? I think you'll follow ANYONE ANYWHERE in your disrepect for the Presidency.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, December 4th 2018 at 7:54PM

Hi No Steve, I want the truth to be known in the Senate and it was the right thing to do to hear from CIA director Gina Haspell About the evidence of that Brutal murder of a U.S. citizen and reporter.

I agree with this senate 100% on letting the CIA director speak to the Senate, 100%.

Steve Williams Tuesday, December 4th 2018 at 8:46PM

So you're 100 percent with Corker and Graham. What's Schumer's reaction?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, December 4th 2018 at 11:39PM

On a national security issue of such importance, it would be customary for a senior intelligence official to take part. On this occasion, the absence of the intelligence community is all the more glaring, as Haspel travelled to Istanbul to hear audio tapes of Khashoggi’s murder provided by Turkish intelligence, and then briefed Donald Trump.

What better person to give the Senate since she went to Istanbul to hear audio tapes of Khashoggi’s murder provided by Turkish intelligence, and then briefed Donald Trump, the president knew the impact would be as his sided with the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi' on the senate and that was the reason why Trump didn't want her to speak to The Senate.

Not on this point I agree 100 percent with Corker and Graham as GOP Senators break from Trump on the Crown Prince involvement.

WHY do trump side with The Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman instead of his very own CIA director Gina Haspel?




Steve Williams Tuesday, December 4th 2018 at 11:54PM

Looks like Schumer's reaction is WEAK. No wonder you didn't answer my question Ron.

The Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, called on Haspel to testify before the full Senate after sitting in on the Tuesday briefing.

“While I will not discuss the content of the Haspel briefing, it reinforced the need for a strong response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. CIA Director Haspel should brief the full Senate without delay," Schumer said in a statement.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, December 5th 2018 at 12:01AM

HEY STEVE, did you overlook this question: WHY do trump side with The Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman instead of his very own CIA director Gina Haspel?

Now, If that is what Chuck Schumer said then I agree with his statement 100% as well.

Steve Williams Wednesday, December 5th 2018 at 12:52AM

I didn't overlook your question Ron. I'm not the President and I would not presume to know why he's not convinced by the CIA.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, December 5th 2018 at 9:50AM

You are not concern about why he's not convinced by the CIA. I don't see why you are not concern because it is the task for these different U.S. government agencies to keep the president informed about current events around the world.

Don't you want the best information possible for the President of The United States of America? or do you want Trump to be a laughing stock, figure of fun, object of ridicule, a dupe, a butt of the joke around the world, a fool, everybody's fool, a stooge, everybody's target fool, a victim of Jokes and the fall guy of oligarchs, is that what you want to see Steve?

Don't you want the best for Trump?

Steve Williams Wednesday, December 5th 2018 at 7:16PM

I want the disrespect of the Presidency to stop Ron. You are ensuring that will never happen, you are permanently DEFORMING America.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, December 5th 2018 at 8:23PM

Don't you want the best information possible for the President of The United States of America? or do you want Trump to be a laughing stock, figure of fun, object of ridicule, a dupe, a butt of the joke around the world, a fool, everybody's fool, a stooge, everybody's target fool, a victim of Jokes and the fall guy of oligarchs, is that what you want to see Steve?

YOUR WORDS: I want the disrespect of the Presidency to stop Ron.

MY REPLY: I want all Americans to be informed about who is in The White House, at is the right of all Americans unless you support taking that away from the people. Is that what you want to see happen Steve?

YOUR WORDS: You are ensuring that will never happen, you are permanently DEFORMING America.

MY REPLY: Steve, don't you understand, that in this country, we have a FREE PRESS and that too is their to keep the American people informed about current events. Steve, do you want to STOP THE FREE PRESS?






Steve Williams Wednesday, December 5th 2018 at 9:43PM

When Maureen Dowd disrespects and says only that George H.W. is a President and the other is "the current occupant" I have no use for your press.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, December 5th 2018 at 10:54PM

That is her opinion and we in America have the right and the Freedom to express that opinion and I will not apologize for that freedom.

Steve Williams Thursday, December 6th 2018 at 11:03AM

And you won't apologize for permanently deforming America. That is obvious Ron.

Steve Williams Thursday, December 6th 2018 at 11:07AM

History will repeat itself as it has countless times before. Don't worry about it Ron, you're just a mindless cog in the wheel.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, December 6th 2018 at 9:13PM

YOUR WORDS: You are ensuring that will never happen, you are permanently DEFORMING America.

MY REPLY: Steve, don't you understand, that in this country, we have a FREE PRESS and that too is their to keep the American people informed about current events.


Steve, do you want to "STOP THE FREE PRESS?"

Steve Williams Friday, December 7th 2018 at 12:50AM

No Ron, I have no desire to STOP THE FREE PROPAGANDISTS. My FREE OBSERVATION is that YOU are permanently deforming America.

Steve Williams Friday, December 7th 2018 at 12:55AM

It has a lot to do with your FREE RELIGIOUS DELUSION, wherewith you claim FREE MORAL SUPREMACY.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 7th 2018 at 8:04AM

You are throwing throwing BULL💩 on the wall, just to see if it will stick. I am not THE BREAKING NEWS Steve. Trump did not want his very own CIA director Gina Haspel because he did not want the FACTS to come out.

Why don't you want that NEWS, Known by the American people?

Steve Williams Friday, December 7th 2018 at 9:02AM

You were the one that brought up the press Ron.

"Steve, don't you understand, that in this country, we have a FREE PRESS and that too is their to keep the American people informed about current events."

YOUR PRESS Ron, MSNBC, is not THERE to keep the people informed. If Maureen Dowd were there to inform, she would not refer to the President as "the current occupant of the White House" while gushing all over the formerly maligned DEAD PRESIDENT.

THAT IS THE BULLPOOP PLASTERED ALL OVER THE WALLS OF MSNBC'S STUDIOS.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 7th 2018 at 3:41PM

In your last statement is a clear example of your way to misdirect the subject. Let us get back to the topic at hand. Trump wanting to suppress his very own CIA director Gina Haspel from informing the Senet about what she heard on those tapes of the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 8th 2018 at 9:31PM

Hey STEVIE, Did you agree with Trump in his efforts to suppress that information about brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 8th 2018 at 9:33PM

WOW!!!

Steve Williams Sunday, December 9th 2018 at 2:23AM

Trump didn't suppress the information on Khashoggi. The Senate has all the information they need, now let's see what they do with it. My prediction is NOTHING.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, December 9th 2018 at 9:11AM

No, what Trump did was to try in stop CIA director Gina Haspel from briefing the Senate but he failed in that effort BADLY.

Hey STEVIE, Did you agree with Trump in his efforts to suppress that information about brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi?


Steve Williams Sunday, December 9th 2018 at 10:08AM

Your question is moot Ron. Nothing was suppressed.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, December 9th 2018 at 10:34AM

My question stands STRONG; Did you agree with Trump in his efforts to suppress that information about brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi?


Steve Williams Sunday, December 9th 2018 at 11:45AM

Ron, there's no way for me to answer your question because it's predicated on something I don't believe. I will now leave you to your belief.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, December 9th 2018 at 12:52PM

You see the reaction to Trump’s failure to suppress the efforts of his CIA director. I pray that you will take the blinders off your own eyes, that blinds you to the FACTS and the courage to admit your failures to see the LIES of Trump.

I pray for you to open up your eyes so you will no longer be blind on this issue.

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