{"id":31516,"date":"2020-10-11T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T19:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31516"},"modified":"2020-10-11T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T19:44:25","slug":"obama-lied-about-collusion-hoax-former-acting-director-of-national-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31516","title":{"rendered":"Obama Lied About &#8216;Russia Collusion Hoax&#8217; &#8212; Former Acting Director of National Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Grenell: Obama Admin Knew &#8216;Truth&#8217; But Lied About &#8216;Collusion Hoax&#8217;<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_31517\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31517\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GetFile-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31517\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GetFile-5.jpg 600w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GetFile-5-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Grenell (AP Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell said Sunday the nation&#8217;s intelligence community and Obama administration officials knew the \u201ctruth\u201d about a \u201cRussian collusion hoax\u201d and \u201clied to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Fox News\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d Grenell, who was also the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, said \u201cwhat we need to figure out is what level are these individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has reportedly declassified additional documents that show former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama on Hillary Clinton&#8217;s alleged plan to link her opponent Donald Trump to Russia in an effort to distract Americans from her email scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey lied to the American people. They knew a truth, and they hid the truth,\u201d Grenell said. \u201cThis can never happen again. We cannot allow our government to weaponize information, to hold it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Former FBI Director James] Comey is accused of seeing those warnings, Brennan is accused of seeing those warnings, Susan Rice, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are seeing the warnings and the information that this was a Russian collusion hoax,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey went forward with it anyway because it was going after their political opponent. They allowed misinformation, bad information, false information to go forward. Now, the question is who approved it and how high did it go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people need to understand that those in Washington are hiding information from them,\u201d Grenell said. \u201cThey think we&#8217;re stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/grenell-dni-russiacollusion\/2020\/10\/11\/id\/991432\/\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/grenell-dni-russiacollusion\/2020\/10\/11\/id\/991432\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grenell: Obama Admin Knew &#8216;Truth&#8217; But Lied About &#8216;Collusion Hoax&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}