Explain where in the EO it says that Ratcliffe did Not have to have his report ready and delivered to the appropriate agencies, by the 18th.
When did Ratcliff deliver the above Top Secret assessment?
That's the real question.
Originally Posted by JohnBurns
Originally Posted by steve4102
Nope, John did not do your job for you.
Explain where in the EO it says that Ratcliffe did Not have to have his report ready and delivered to the appropriate agencies, by the 18th.
When did Ratcliff deliver the above Top Secret assessment?
That's the real question.
We don’t know if he did.
What we do know is that he did not deliver his report to the President and other alphabet agencies on or before Dec 18 as REQUIRED by EO .
Dec. 17 2020
ODNI announced late Wednesday that the Intelligence Community (IC) has notified Ratcliffe that they will not meet the Dec. 18 deadline set by President Trump’s executive order to submit the report on foreign threats during the November election as “agencies have not finished coordinating on the product.”
“This afternoon the DNI was notified by career intelligence officials that the Intelligence Community (IC) will not meet the Dec. 18 deadline, set by executive order and Congress to submit the IC’s classified assessment on foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections,” said Schoch.
Dec. 18 marks 45 days after the Nov. 3 general election, when, according to Trump’s executive order from 2018, the DNI was expected to deliver a report regarding “to the maximum extent ascertainable” whether any interference attempts took place, and the nature of such interference, methods used, and who was involved and authorized such efforts.
It is unclear if DNI Ratcliffe will delay his report due to I.C. stalling. The path prescribed in Executive Order 13848 relies heavily on the attorney general. The hapless Jeff Sessions was in that role when 13848 was signed. He was replaced on February 14, 2019 by William Barr. Barr seemed reliable but achieved nothing. The reason he slow-walked everything, couldn't see corruption in the Hunter Biden laptop, etc. became apparent when he recently referred to President Trump as a "deposed king ranting." Barr outed himself as a Deep State operative too soon, leaves his position on December 23, and so won't be involved in drafting the report in response to the report by the director of National Intelligence. The fate of Western civilization hangs on such small matters.
