DESIGNED TO INTIMIDATE VOTERS
INSIGHT SOCIAL UNREST AND DAMAGE
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
>> DAMAGE PRESIDENT TRUMP?
REALLY?
THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE JOHN RATCLIFFE
RAISED A LOT OF EYEBROWS WHEN HE
RAISED THOSE WORDS.
DURING A NEWS CONFERENCE ON
ELECTION SECURITY LAST WEEK.
AND THEY REVIEWED SKEPTICALLY
RIGHTFULLY SO.
POLITICO REPORTED THAT HE WENT
ON SCRIPT WHEN HE MADE THE
ALLEGATION AGAINST IRAN.
REPORTING THIS, QUOTE, THE
REFERENCE TO TRUMP WAS NOT IN
RATCLIFFE’S PREPARED REMARKS
ABOUT THE FOREIGN INTERFERENCE
AND IT IS SHOWN TO AND SIGNED
OFF BY CHRISTOPHER WRAY AND
SENIOR OFFICIAL CHRIS KREBS FROM
THE STRUCTURE AGENCY.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE ONLY PLACE
WHERE RATCLIFFE WENT ON SCRIPT.
POLITICO REPORTS THAT, QUOTE, HE
OMITTED ANY REFERENCE TO THE
PROUD BOYS DURING LAST WEEK’S
BRIEFING.
EVEN TOE THE GROUP WAS NAMED IN
HIS PREPARED REMARKS.
THE REPORT ALSO REVEALS THAT
RATCLIFFE DECIDED EARLIER IN THE
DAY ON HIS OWN TO HOLD A NEWS
CONFERENCE ABOUT THE SPOOFED
EMAILS.
AND THAT THE FBI AND OTHER
AGENCIES JOINED IN SO THE
WARNING ABOUT IRANIAN AND
RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE WOULD BE
SEEN AS INDEPENDENT AND A
APOLITICAL.
I HEARD THOSE REMARKS AND TALKED
TO PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE FBI
AND THE INTEL WOULD THOUGHT THAT
IT SOUNDED LIKE A NEEDLE RUNNING
ACROSS A RECORD WHEN HE SAID
THAT, THAT NOBODY THOUGHT THAT
WAS WHAT THE INTELLIGENCE SAID.
HOW DOES THAT END UP COMING OUT
OF THE MOUTH OF THE COUNTRY’S
DNI?
>> WELL, BECAUSE HE’S NOT A
LEGITIMATE INTELLIGENCE
PROFESSIONAL.
HE’S LOST ALL CREDIBILITY AND
THAT PERFORMANCE THAT NIGHT HAS
REALLY LED TO THE PLACE WE’RE
AT, WHICH IS IF WE HAVE AN UGLY
SEASON COMING UP WITH THIS
ELECTION, HE WILL NOT HAVE ANY
CREDIBLE.
IF HE ATTEMPTS TO GET TO PODIUM
AND TELL US WHAT IS GOING ON
WITH ELECTION RESULTS OR FOREIGN
MEDDLING, I DON’T WANT TO SEE
HIM.
I DON’T WANT TO HEAR HIM.
THE OTHER THING HE DID WAS HE
DOWNPLAYED THAT NIGHT, HE
DOWNPLAYED ROLE OF RUSSIA.
AND HE EMPHASIZED THE ROLE OF
IRAN.
AND THE OTHER THING THAT GOT ME
BECAUSE OF WHERE I COME FROM IS
BECAUSE HE HIJACKED THE FBI
BUILDING FOR THAT PRESS
CONFERENCE.
IF YOU REALIZE IT, BUT THAT IS
THE FBI HEADQUARTERS AND WITH
THE FBI SEAL BEHIND IT AND WHEN
I SEE THAT AND SOMEONE
ESSENTIALLY JUST MUDDLING THE
TRUTH DURING ALL OF THAT, IT
JUST HITS ME IN THE GUT.
>> WELL, FRANK, LET’S STAY ON
THE HIJACKING THEME.
BECAUSE THIS WAS AN EVENT THAT
WAS NOTIFIED TO THE PRESS THAT
COVER THE FBI BY THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESS OFFICE, WHICH I WORKED IN
THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS OFFICE, I
WORKED IN THAT OFFICE FOR SIX
YEARS, AND NOT EVEN AFTER 9/11
DID I NOTICE FBI BRIEFINGS.
AND THAT WAS WHEN THE EXECUTIVE
BRANCH WAS REALLY WORKING IN A
UNITED WAY TO RESPOND TO THE
ATTACKS OF 9/11.
BUT WHITE HOUSE BRIEFINGS WERE
WHITE HOUSE BRIEFINGS AND FBI
BRIEFINGS WERE FBI BRIEFINGS AND
ROBERT MUELLER HAD OCCASION TO
BE AT WHITE HOUSE.
BUT HOW WEIRD IS IT FOP DONALD
TRP’S TO PUT OUT THE NOTICE
FOR FBI BRIEFING.
>> YOU RAISE A GREAT POINT.
BECAUSE WHAT IS HINTS IT AT
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE TONE AND
APPROACH THE DNI WAS GOING TO
TAKE WITH THIS.
WHICH MEANS THE DNI LIKELY
COORDINATED HIS APPROACH WITH
THE WHITE HOUSE.
AND THEY MAY HAVE INTERVOOUN
VEENED --
INTERVENED IN THE VERBIAGE THAT
NIGHT.
AND RATCLIFF IS YOU WHERE THINK
YOU AGREE AND HE SNEAKS OFF TO
THE BOSS AND BOOM THERE IS A
SURPRISE AND HE FEIGNS
IGNORANCE.
IT DOESN’T SIT WELL WITH CAREER
PROFESSIONALS AND I’M SURE IT
DIDN’T SIT WELL WITH ANYBODY AT
FBI HEADQUARTERS AND AGAIN WE’RE
GOING TO LEARN TRUTHS AFTER THIS
ELECTION IS OVER, WHENEVER
PRESIDENT TRUMP EVENTUALLY
LEAVES OFFICE, WE’RE GOING TO
SEE DOCUMENTS OF FIRST DRAFTS
AND SECOND DRAFTS OF THIS PRESS
CONFERENCE AND OTHER THINGS AND
IT IS GOING TO JUST CURL OUR