GAI President Peter Schweizer joined Chanel Rion on OAN to trace the origins of the Russiagate hoax and the so-far unexplored connections between the Steele dossier and Gina Haspel, starting with Haspel’s role as CIA station chief in London in 2016. Schweizer reveals how news outlets ignored the Nunes memo and suppressed a 17-page CIA report, muddying the truth about the politically driven operation against Trump.
Schweizer has been calling out the coincidences with the arc of Haspel’s unusual CIA career trajectory.
“You have to look at the history of this. Haspel was the CIA’s London station chief in the 2000s, then came back to CIA headquarters. In 2014, CIA director John Brennan hand picked her to go back to London as station chief. It is not very often that a person is made station chief at the same posting twice in their career,” he noted “And if you look at the cluster of things that happened [with the Russiagate hoax], so many passageways go through London, including the creation of the so-called Steele dossier.”
What does Schweizer believe needs to be done to learn the truth?
“We need to look at the communications between her and Brennan when she was the station chief. She then came back to Washington as Deputy Director of the CIA appointed by John Brennan, and Trump made her director of the CIA in 2018. She needs to be investigated so people can understand the role she played in all of this.”
Why hasn’t her proximity to the intelligence community’s involvement been highlighted before, the way Brennan’s and former NSA head James Clapper’s have?
“She has avoided public attention. unlike Brennan. She left the CIA, and joined a defense contractor on the board of directors. She’s tried to lay low. But she was ‘Square One’ in all of this,” Schweizer said.
“There was actually a handful of senators back in the fall of 2020, before the election, that asked her to release the relevant documents (the annex to John Durham’s report) that we are now seeing today. She flat-out refused to do so, and i think we probably can surmise why that might be,” Schweizer said.
“This is an example of the abuse of the classification system. We understand there are secrets we have that need to be protected… but in this case, they literally used the classification process to protect themselves. That is unconscionable. We should look at reforms, to understand why they were able to do so. They used it to cover their rear ends, rather than protect legitimate sources,” Schweizer said.
It is interesting to note also that Kash Patel, who is today the Director of the FBI, was quoted on a 2024 appearance on the Gateway Pundit podcast saying: “I’ve always said Gina Haspel is one of the leading Russiagate architects who has remained behind the scenes.”