Devin Nunes: 'Obama's dossier' a subject of criminal referral to Justice Department

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A top Republican said a criminal referral sent to the Justice Department last year relates to the 2017 intelligence community assessment on Russian election interference. Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, spoke about the assessment on Tuesday after the Senate intelligence panel released its 158-page bipartisan report defending the assessment that was released in the waning days of the Obama administration. The California congressman told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that it was "suspect" the U.S. Intelligence Community put it together in a matter of several weeks, at the behest of former President Barack Obama. Referring to what he called "Obama's dossier," Nunes noted his panel, when he was chairman, determined the "tradecraft was not up to snuff" and said he stands by his determination in the face of the Senate Intelligence Committee's much different conclusion. The lead GOP investigator revealed that one of the several criminal referrals he sent to the Justice Department last year, which were related to the Trump-Russia investigation, had to do with the intelligence community assessment. He said it focuses on "whether or not intelligence was manipulated for political purposes."

Nunes's assertions run counter to what the Senate intelligence panel wrote in their report. The heavily redacted report said Senate investigators found no evidence of political pressure to reach a specific conclusion and determined the assessment by the CIA, FBI, and NSA “presents a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis for the case of unprecedented Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” The intelligence community report released in January 2017 assessed with "moderate" to "high" confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin sought to boost then-candidate Donald Trump's 2016 election chances.

The House Intelligence Committee report, released in 2018, was not bipartisan. The GOP-led effort concluded, “The majority of the Intelligence Community Assessment judgments on Russia's election activities employed proper analytic tradecraft," but found the "judgments on Putin's strategic intentions did not.” The Democrats on the panel released their own assessment that said they found "no evidence" to doubt the assessment. Nunes sent a notification about eight criminal referrals targeting individuals tied to the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, including some that had to do with leaks, in April 2019. The exact content of those referrals has never been publicly disclosed. Nunes said at the time the public may never know who is mentioned in them.

On May 1, Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department had opened "multiple criminal leak investigations," after which it was revealed he appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to review possible misconduct by federal law enforcement and intelligence officials in the Russia inquiry. Nunes said he plans to send more criminal referrals to the Justice Department after the recent declassification of key portions of documents related to the secret surveillance of onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and a DOJ inspector general report that discussed several glaring issues with that process, including the FBI's reliance on British ex-spy Christopher Steele's unverified anti-Trump dossier. The congressman argued this information never should have been classified in the first place and claimed there is still more "critical information" hiding from public view. Nunes said this is one of the issues Republicans are eager to have fully investigated.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-obamas-dossier-a-subject-of-criminal-referral-to-justice-department

Report on RuSsian Active Measures (sorry anons w/n load)

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180322/108023/HRPT-115-1_1-p1-U3.pdf

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March 26, 2018

MINORITY VIEWS

This is the dem report on Russian Interference

https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20180411_-final-_hpsci_minority_views_on_majority_report.pdf

EXCLUSIVE: Grenell rejects Schiff's bid to control national intelligence

Acting-Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has dinged Rep. Adam Schiff in a new letter, expressing surprise the Trump foe didn’t praise the appointment of two women to head counter-terrorism unit and rejecting the congressman’s belief that lawmakers control the DNI’s day-to-day management decisions. Mr. Schiff, California Democrat and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, had written to Mr. Grenell on April 7 questioning his legal authority to reorganize the Office of National Intelligence and its National Counterterrorism Center. In an April 20 reply obtained by The Washington Times, Mr. Grenell called Mr. Schiff’s ideas “suggestions.”

The exchange of letters promises to be a running battle between the congressman who led the campaign to impeach and remove President Trump and the person Mr. Trump picked in February to direct national intelligence, including the CIA. “I must disagree with your proposals to divest the DNI of managerial competence and personnel decision-making authority, and to replace your committee’s mandate for Intelligence Community (IC) oversight with a mandate for IC administration,” Mr. Grenell wrote, staking out his claim to power. Mr. Grenell also rebutted Mr. Schiff’s allegation that a secret intelligence briefing on Russia in March was cooked. “I must also speak on behalf of the career intelligence officers at ODNI, whom your letter accuses of politicizing the briefing to Members of Congress of March 10th,” Mr. Grenell said. “As the Acting DNI, I am compelled to defend these career officers from unsubstantiated indictments of their motivations and judgment. Many are offended by the accusations that they did not share unvarnished assessments. If you share with me the reports you believe provide evidence for these claims, I can promise you that I will review them with the seriousness such accusations demand.”

And Mr. Grenell took issue with Mr. Schiff’s criticism of the change in counter-terrorism leadership. “I must begin by voicing my surprise that your four-page letter said nothing about the historic appointment of the first female Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC),” Mr. Grenell said. “Instead, you expressed concerns regarding the retirement of the former male Director. You erroneously cast judgment on the reason of his departure while ignoring the accomplishments of NCTC’s new leadership, two highly qualified female officers serving as the Acting Director and Acting Deputy Director. Diversity of the IC workforce should always be celebrated, and I am proud that we increased diversity within the ODNI’s senior ranks, to include more women and members of the LGBT community.” Mr. Grenell is in the process of downsizing headquarters and the NCTC to free up more positions for operational agencies in the field and posts abroad.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/21/richard-grenell-rejects-adam-schiffs-bid-control-n/

Ivy League boasts $140 billion in endowments, will receive $53.7 million in feds’ COVID bailout

Funds come as schools refuse tuition refunds

The eight institutions that make up the Ivy League enjoy endowments totaling $140 billion, yet the federal government has allocated nearly $54 million to the wealthy private schools as part of the recent CARES Act. While almost all colleges and universities nationwide will receive funds from that coronavirus relief bill passed in March by Congress, the Ivy League schools will be allocated funds that amount to about less than one tenth of one percent of each school’s total endowment.

The CARES Act of 2020 directed the Department of Education to distribute $12.56 billion in emergency aid to institutions of higher education across the nation after they shut down most of campus life and sent students home amid the COVID-19 pandemic to resume schooling online. When it comes to the Ivy League — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Cornell, Penn, Columbia and Dartmouth — all eight schools have moved most of their operations online and have no plans to refund tuition dollars with their own coffers. The average annual cost of tuition and fees at an Ivy League university is about $53,000.

According to an April 9 memo from the DOE, at least 50 percent of the funding colleges and universities will receive from the act “must be reserved to provide students with emergency financial aid grants to help cover expenses related to the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus,” with campus administrators allowed to determine their own systems for how to dole out the funds, “which may include distributing the funds to all students or only to students who demonstrate significant need.” The remaining funding is reserved for “institutional use,” and the department is expected to provide more details in the days and weeks to come on spending guidelines, the memo states.

Harvard University boasts a $40.9 billion endowment, and is set to receive more than $8.6 million in funding from the Department of Education as part of the act. The $8.6 million allocation amounts to just over 0.02 percent of the school’s total endowment, a fraction similar to other Ivy League schools. The storied Massachusetts institution has a student body size of 20,739 and charges $51,925 in annual tuition and fees, according to U.S. News & World Report. According to the act, the allocation amounts for campuses nationwide were based on a formula that factored in the number of students receiving Pell Grants at each school.

In an email to The College Fix Department of Education press secretary Angela Morabito said that “Congress set the funding formula, which allocates money to all institutions based on their enrollment” and that “Secretary [Betsy] DeVos* shares the concern that sending millions to schools with significant endowments is a poor use of taxpayer money.” “In her letter to college and university presidents, Secretary DeVos asked them to determine if their institutions actually need the money and, if not, to send unneeded CARES Act funds to schools in need in their state or region.” Morabito said. “We hope that the presidents of these schools will take the Secretary’s advice and direct CARES Act funds to students in need, no matter where those students are enrolled.” While Harvard has the largest endowment among the eight Ivy League schools, the largest allocation from the Department of Education belonged to Cornell University, which has a $7.3 billion endowment and will receive $12.8 million in relief funds. The Cornell allocation will amount to 0.1 percent of the school’s total endowment. The school charges $57,222 in tuition and fees and has a student population of 23,600, per U.S. News & World Report. Brown University’s allocation is also 0.1 percent of its $4.2 billion endowment, for an amount of $4.8 million in relief funds. Its 10,257 students pay $58,504 in tuition and fees each year.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/ivy-league-boasts-140-billion-in-endowments-will-receive-53-7-million-in-feds-bailout-package/

>>8880770

This guy is a known criminal.. How many times a week are you going to push yourself on this board, and yet you keep missing..just like all of your predictions. Kek

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>>8881013

Exactly, I don't see why the American Taxpayer should be funding any of them considering, all of the private endowments they receive, the fact they won't reimburse students for classes they aren't holding on campus or housing, and considering the ties they have to China CCP who means to do this country harm. If they fall on their asses with empty buildings and money in lawsuits..it suit them well and me just fine. Enough is Enough