Grenell Gives Schiff Ultimatum: 'Release Secret Russiagate Transcripts Or I Will'

Acting Director of National Security Richard Grenell has given Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) an ultimatum; release 53 the transcripts from 53 secret interviews conducted by the House Intelligence Committee's Trump-Russia investigation, or Grenell will do it through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, according to the Washington Examiner.

In a letter to Schiff, Grenell noted that the transcripts of all 53 interviews - consisting of more than 6,000 pages, have been cleared for public release.

"All of the transcripts, with our required redactions, can be released to the public without any concerns of disclosing classified material," wrote Grenell in the May 4 letter.

The Intel Committee did the first probe into Russia's 2016 campaign interference and allegations of Trump-Russia collusion. Even today, its findings make up most of what we know about the affair. 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. -Washington Examiner

The decision to make the transcripts public was reached in September 2018, when the House was still controlled by the GOP, with the caveat that they would need to be first checked by the Intelligence Community for classified information.

Two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Intelligence Community had finished reviewing 43 of the transcripts, but that Schiff was sitting on them - and had prevented declassification of the remaining ten transcripts.

In fact, Grenell reveals in his letter that Schiff has been sitting on the 43 transcripts since June 2019. With the remaining 10 cleared, Grenell wrote:

"I urge you to honor your previous public statements, and your committee's unanimous vote on this matter, to release all 53 cleared transcripts to Members of Congress and the American public as soon as possible," adding "I am also willing to release the transcripts directly from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as to ensure we comply with the unanimous and bipartisan vote to release the transcripts."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/grenell-gives-schiff-ultimatum-release-secret-russiagate-transcripts-or-i-will

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Crooked Obama Blames GOP Investigation of Hunter Biden’s Pay-for-Play Scandals as “Russian Disinformation”

The office of former President Barack Obama accused the Republican investigation of Joe Biden’s crack-head son and Ukraine as “Russian disinformation.”

The Office of former President Obama said the investigation of Hunter Biden was more “Russian disinformation.”

This comes at the same time investigators revealed Obama’s participation in the illicit if not illegal spying on the Trump campaign.

Buzzfeed reported:

The office of former president Barack Obama privately blasted a congressional investigation into former vice president Joe Biden and his son, as well as alleged Ukrainian election interference, calling it an effort “to give credence to a Russian disinformation campaign,” according to a letter obtained by BuzzFeed News.

In March, Obama’s office told the National Archives and Records Administration — which maintains presidential records — that a request from two top Republican senators for Obama administration documents related to Ukraine was improper.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/crooked-obama-blames-gop-investigation-hunter-bidens-pay-play-scandals-russian-disinformation/

‘No knowledge of this’: CBS denies STAGING long line at Covid-19 test center after Project Veritas claim

CBS has denied claims that it “staged” a long line at a Covid-19 test center in Michigan and blamed the facility for adding “at least one” person to the line itself. The network was accused of faking the moment by Project Veritas.

CBS News President Susan Zirinsky said in a statement that the news crew "did not stage anything" at the Cherry Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan and "any suggestion to the contrary is 100% false."

Project Veritas’s James O’Keefe claimed on Wednesday that CBS News This Morning asked medical personnel at the center to line up in their cars to make the testing line outside appear longer.

In a video posted to PV's social media, an "insider" at the medical center confirmed "a hundred percent, absolutely" that the network staged the line for the Friday May 1 report. A corporate cleaning site supervisor also said that the crew "wanted more people in the line because they knew it was scheduled."

A nurse at the center, recorded on hidden camera, said that staff had “no clue that we were going to have to, like, do fake patients.” Another nurse, also recorded on hidden camera, said there were a couple of real patients in the line, too, “which made it worse.”

“The insider told us that medical personnel were taken away from treating patients and making the line longer for actual patients waiting for the COVID-19 test,” O’Keefe claimed.

CBS said it reached out to the facility when it was made aware of the allegations and were told that in fact a chief officer made the decision to add to the real line.

“[The center] informed us for the first time that one of their chief officers told at least one staffer to get in the testing line along with real patients,” the network said, adding that “no one from CBS News had any knowledge of this before tonight.”

“We take the accuracy of our reporting very seriously and we are removing the Cherry Health portion from the piece,” the network added. Cherry Health President and CEO Tasha Blackmon told Project Veritas that "we and CBS News had nothing to do with that line."

https://www.rt.com/usa/487954-cbs-staged-covid19-testing/

Are the Deep State Coup Plotters Tweeting Out Cryptic Messages or Are They Just Buffoons?

Are Deep State actors trying to communicate with each other through cryptic messages on social media? It kinda looks that way.

Over this past weekend, former and now disgraced and fired FBI Director James Comey tweeted out an unusual tweet on Twitter:

This is not the first goofy tweet by Comey. In late March he had a few creepy tweets:

What is this guy up to?

Lisa Page previously sent Andy McCabe a congratulations when it was announced that he would not be indicted for lying to the FBI multiple times

What are these Deep State actors really trying to say?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/deep-state-coup-plotters-tweeting-cryptic-messages-just-buffoons/

PM Johnson says UK hopes to EASE some lockdown measures on Monday

Boris Johnson has revealed that some of the UK’s Covid-19 restrictions could be rolled back on Monday. However, the prime minister warned that it would be an “economic disaster” if relaxing the rules sparked a spike in cases.

Facing off against new Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions for the first time on Wednesday, Johnson said that he wants some lockdown easing measures to come into force from Monday.

Johnson, who endured a lengthy spell in intensive care after contracting the coronavirus, said that he will address the nation on Sunday to outline the changes.

“The reason for that is very simple. We have to be sure that the data is going to support our ability to do this,” he explained. “We will want, if we possibly can, to get going with some of these measures on Monday.”

The prime minister added that parliament will then be updated on the plans on Monday. This timing prompted House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to remark that in the future he hopes that the house will be updated first.

In response to a question from Ian Blackford of the Scottish National Party, Johnson warned it would be an “economic disaster” to relax the lockdown in a way which triggered a second wave of Covid-19 cases.

Johnson’s remarks come after the UK’s Covid-19 death toll moved ahead of Italy’s to make it the European country which has been hardest-hit by the virus.

https://www.rt.com/uk/487916-uk-lockdown-ease-monday-johnson/

Italy: 183 migrants brought by NGO ships allowed to disembark despite ‘closed’ ports

After a two week quarantine on a cruise ship off the coast of Sicily, illegal migrants from the NGO ships Alan Kurdi and Aita Mari have been allowed to enter Italy, despite the country’s leftist-establishment government claiming last month that its ports would remain closed until July 31st.

On Monday, 181 migrants were allowed to leave the cruise ship ‘Raffaele Rubattino’ to land at a port in Palermo after they all tested negative for the Wuhan coronavirus, Italy News Agency reports.

Of the 183 illegal migrants that disembarked on Monday, only two were women. 146 came from the Alan Kurdi, a ship operated by the German NGO Sea-Eye, while the rest came from the Aita Mari, a vessel run by the Basque NGO Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario.

The migrants, after having set foot on Italian land, were transferred by bus to reception centers in Benevento and Salerno.

The successful disembarking of this group of migrants is only the latest victory for NGO migrant transport ships over Italy’s leftist-establishment coalition government.

As Voice of Europe reported in April, a decree was signed by Italy’s interior, foreign, health, and transport ministers which allegedly “closed” the country’s ports to NGO migrant transport ships, at least, until July 31st.

“For the entire duration of the national health emergency that has resulted from the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Italian ports do not ensure the necessary requirements for the classification and definition of ” Place of Safety”, the decree reads.

On Tuesday, deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic in Italy climbed by 236 compared to 195 on Monday, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases came in at 1,075 compared to 1,221 on Monday. Despite these numbers, Italy continues to allow illegal migrants into the country.

While the crew of the Aita Mari has already announced its desire to organize a new “migrant rescue” mission, it’s likely that the Alan Kurdi plans on doing the same.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/05/italy-183-migrants-brought-by-ngo-ships-allowed-to-disembark-despite-closed-ports/

Rudy Giuliani blasts NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for coronavirus response: 'You did such a lousy job

'The mayor is responsible for the city'

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) criticized current Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) for his ineffective response to the coronavirus outbreak that has killed thousands in the city over the past two months.

While guest hosting on WABC-AM radio, Giuliani spoke from his own experience as the mayor during and after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that brought down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

"The mayor is responsible for the city," Giuliani said. "Mayors who shift blame are bad mayors. They're like people who shift blame. What happened in the city was my responsibility. I needed help from the federal government, and I needed help from the state. But damn it, I had the best police department in the world, and I had the best fire department in the world.

"You have the best health department in the world," Giuliani continued. "Boy, if New York City can't do it, then nobody can do it."

Giuliani said de Blasio was unprepared for the crisis, and made things worse with personnel decisions related to the emergency management office.

"Let's face it: You didn't anticipate this," Giuliani said. "You didn't prepare for it. You completely neutered the office of emergency management. You got rid of a man who knows the city backwards and forward, [former OEM head Joseph] Esposito. You just didn't know what you were doing."

De Blasio has been highly critical of President Donald Trump for not sending billions of dollars in bailout money to New York City. The mayor accused Trump of "stabbing his hometown in the back."

"What kind of human being sees the suffering here and decides that people in New York City don't deserve help?" de Blasio asked, according to Politico. "What kind of person does that?"

De Blasio has continued to stand by a policy, also backed by Gov. Cuomo, that sends coronavirus patients back to nursing homes, where the virus has proven to be most fatal. Nearly 5,000 coronavirus deaths have occurred in New York nursing homes, with most of those occurring in NYC.

"So go blame other people all you want," Giuliani said. "I did your job — I actually did the job. So you're not gonna get it past me, pal. Stop with the excuses. Humility — ask for help with humility, because you've got nothing else to count on, pal. You did such a lousy job."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/giuliani-blasts-de-blasio-coronavirus-response

Swedish doctor: Elderly suffering from Wuhan virus being refused oxygen (VIDEO)

A Swedish doctor has embarked on a crusade to show that his country’s authorities are deliberately denying elderly patients oxygen treatments that could save their lives if they are suffering from Wuhan virus (COVID-19) infection.

Dr Jon Tallinger, who goes by the name “Whistleblower MD” on social media, is a General Practitioner at a clinic in Tranås, in the province of Småland in southern Sweden. He cares for approximately 2,000 patients. Yesterday he appeared on the Angry Foreigner YouTube channel to talk about his discoveries because no mainstream Swedish news source has been willing to carry his story.

Tallinger says that the authorities in his county sent a video to medical staff in nursing homes on how to deal with Wuhan virus patients. In the video, doctors are instructed not to send infected elderly patients suffering from respiratory problems to hospitals, and to treat them only with morphine for anxiety. Oxygen treatment is never mentioned, despite the fact that suffocation is the most common way for patients to die from the infection. Tallinger says that this means that, under these instructions, many elderly patients will suffocate to death. He says this is a clear indication that the authorities are denying care to the elderly that might save their lives.

Since Tallinger first came forward with information about these orders on his Facebook page, documents have been leaked from other counties in Sweden which clearly state that oxygen should not be administered to elderly patients suffering from respiratory problems resulting from the virus.

Tallinger also indicates that it isn’t only the elderly who are threatened by this order, but many types of patients with chronic disorders, such as Down’s Syndrome sufferers, who are also particularly vulnerable to oxygen deprivation.

In the video, Tallinger states that this order is a clear “human rights violation,” and that it “should be treated as a crime and prosecuted.”

Tallinger estimates that approximately two-thirds of virus patients in nursing homes could be saved with oxygen treatment. Without it, he says upwards of 15,000 patients may die unnecessarily. If a strong effort to administer oxygen to patients is initiated, Tallinger says, “we won’t save everyone, but we did all we could.”

Tallinger also pointed out that many nursing homes in Sweden don’t have oxygen equipment at all, and that unlike other countries, medical staff who work around the elderly often wear little to no protective gear, which puts their patients at greater risk of being infected by exposure to their own caregivers.

While a few other health professionals have expressed support for Tallinger since he came forward, most regard him as a traitor, and he says that he will most likely never be allowed to work in state-funded facilities again. He said that he understands people’s hesitancy to support him given the risk to their careers that it involves; he mentioned one supporter who was forced to withdraw his statement after he was threatened with a lawsuit by his employer.

It has become “dangerous to speak your mind in Sweden,” Tallinger says, adding that the country is becoming more dangerous at an accelerating rate for people who speak the truth.

Tallinger says that he will only be able to force the Swedish authorities to change this policy by obtaining corroborating evidence of the practice from as many sources as possible, and urges people who have relevant information to contact him.

Tallinger refers to the state’s oxygen policy as a “systematic human rights abuse of the elderly and the weak.”

A document that was leaked to the press last month showed that hospitals in Stockholm are being instructed not to give the elderly the same priority for intensive care as other patients, as previously reported by Voice of Europe. When asked about this, however, Tallinger stressed that oxygen care is not the same as intensive care, and that the two orders are not related.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/05/swedish-doctor-elderly-suffering-from-wuhan-virus-infection-being-refused-oxygen-video/

Gavin Newsom: California ‘Not Going Back to Normal’ Until We Have a Vaccine

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday warned that, while California will move into the next phase of reopening its economy this week, it is “not going back to normal” until there is a vaccine.

Newsom this week announced that the state will move into the next phase of its recovery plan by Friday, May 8, allowing certain businesses — like bookstores, flower shops, clothing stores, and sporting goods stores — to reopen with certain modifications, which will be provided this week. According to the governor, offices and dine-in restaurants “will be part of a later Stage 2 opening.”

Per his office:

The announcement for Friday does not include offices, seated dining at restaurants, shopping malls or schools. As the Governor noted last week, the state is working with school districts and the California education community to determine how best and safely to reopen. That continues to be the case – this May 8 announcement does not move up this timeline.

Newsom’s office noted that individual counties “can choose to continue more restrictive measures in place based on their local conditions.”

Despite the slow and steady effort to return to a place of pre-virus normalcy, Newsom told Californians on Tuesday that the state will not return to normal until “we get to immunity and a vaccine.”

“We’re not going back to normal. It’s a new normal with adaptations and modifications, until we get to immunity and a vaccine,” the governor said during Tuesday’s press briefing.

While researchers are working on a vaccine for COVID-19 specifically, no vaccine for other forms of coronavirus have ever been approved, casting doubt on the efforts.

Christopher Whitty, the U.K.’s Chief Medical Officer, told a parliamentary committee last month that there are no guarantees in the development of a vaccine.

We need “to be careful that we don’t assume that we are going to have a vaccine for this disease as we have had for, let’s say measles, which once you have it you’re protected for life,” he said, according to Business Insider, adding, “We cannot guarantee success.”

President Trump, meanwhile, remains hopeful, telling reporters over the weekend that America will likely have a vaccine by the end of the year.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/06/gavin-newsom-california-not-going-back-to-normal-until-we-have-a-vaccine/

Cuomo to Join with Common Core’s Bill Gates Foundation to ‘Reimagine’ Education

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced Tuesday his state will partner with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to “reimagine” its school system as New Yorkers navigate toward a post-coronavirus “new normal.”

Cuomo said New York will work with the Gates Foundation – the primary private financier and promoter of the Obama-era Common Core State Standards – because “the old model of our education system where everyone sits in a classroom is not going to work in the new normal.”

The governor said, when schools reopen, he wants to “reimagine” them.

“[T]o do that, we are collaborating with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and exploring smart, innovative education alternatives” that utilize new technology, Cuomo added.

Without any taxpayer oversight, Gates and his foundation spearheaded the most recent progressive initiative known as the Common Core State Standards, by spending upwards of $250 million in grants to test consortia, nonprofits, teachers’ unions, and political groups eager to cash in on the new scheme.

Democrat and Republican lawmakers and governors of 46 states signed onto what was touted as “rigorous” K-12 uniform math and English language arts academic standards that would drive the performance of U.S. students upward and eliminate the achievement gap between white and Asian students and their classmates who were largely black and Hispanic.

In October 2015, Gates renewed his foundation’s commitment to Common Core, asserting, “we are on the right track.”

“There’s one other pivotal step in the movement for strong feedback and improvement systems, and that is the adoption of high, consistent academic standards throughout the country,” the Microsoft founder said at a U.S. Education forum in Seattle. “Today 42 states and the District of Columbia are using the Common Core State Standards.”

However, ten years after states adopted Common Core, a study released last week by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute revealed the historic drop in national reading and math scores on the Nation’s Report Card.

“Nearly a decade after states adopted Common Core, the empirical evidence makes it clear that these national standards have yielded underwhelming results for students,” said Pioneer executive director Jim Stergios in a statement. “The proponents of this expensive, legally questionable policy initiative have much to answer for.”

The study, titled “The Common Core Debacle” and authored by education policy researcher Theodor Rebarber, noted the “shocking trends” in American student performance in reading and math and, particularly, the further decline in performance of the nation’s lowest achieving students – many from black and Hispanic communities with failing schools.

Rebarber observed many education policy researchers have known since Common Core was introduced, that its “deeply flawed educational assumptions,” were “at odds with curriculum standards in top-achieving countries.”

Other national education leaders have lamented the expansion of the achievement gap, rather than its shrinking, as promoters of Common Core, such as Bill Gates, promised.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/06/cuomo-to-join-with-common-cores-bill-gates-foundation-to-reimagine-education/

Digital Voting: Abandoning Centuries of Tradition, Parliament Caves to Modernisers

Remote voting, a long-standing pet project of left-wing reformers who oppose parliament’s traditions and ways as inconvenient and anachronistic, has been nodded through in response to the hybrid ‘digital chamber’ ushered in by coronavirus concerns.

Members of Parliament will be able to vote on legislation without having to physically present themselves for counting — a long-standing feature retained to prevent vote fraud — for the first time next week, as house authorities have approved computer software in response to the coronavirus.

Under the new system, The Times, reports, members will log in through two-factor verification — a feature typically seen on social media platforms to add another level of security to the login process — to access the system, and will be able to select ‘Aye’ or ‘No’ during votes. Divisions will last 15 minutes and once members have voted they will be texted with a confirmation of their decision, the report notes, presumably as another form of security and verification.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/06/digital-voting-abandoning-centuries-tradition-parliament-caves-modernisers/

Pfizer gives first doses of experimental vaccine to 'young and healthy' Americans - and promises 20 million doses by the end of the year

Pfizer has begun dosing Americans with its experimental coronavirus vaccines for its clinical trial in collaboration with BioNTech SE, the pharmaceutical giant announced Tuesday.

The US drugmaker and German partner said if the vaccine proves to be safe and effective in trials, it could potentially be ready for wide US distribution by the end of the year, shaving several years off the typical vaccine development timeline.

The vaccine, which uses messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, has the potential to be among the first vaccines against the virus that has infected more than 1 million people in the United States and killed some 68,000.

Pfizer joined the race to make a coronavirus vaccine late, but hopes that with its trial in 360 healthy volunteers, it can speed ahead and have more than 20 million doses ready by year-end - if the shot proves safe.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/05/pfizer-gives-first-doses-of.html