Ric Grenell Declassified George Papadopoulos’ Brags about Fucking Older Women, but Not about Befriending Sergey Millian

In the name of exposing “FISA abuse,” Lindsey Graham got Ric Grenell to declassify details of George Papadopoulos bragging about fucking a woman who was 42.

CT: I was banging a 42-year-old. That’s the oldest I ever went. And she was the best sex I ever had in my life.

CHS: You know you can’t, uh, knock down them…

CT: But 42, that’s like borderline old, you know.

But Grenell left what DOJ IG treated as a reference to Sergey Millian living in Brooklyn classified (see page 66).

Grenell did so even though this reference to “Sergey” has already been formally declassified, for the DOJ IG Report (though I would argue that in places DOJ IG’s transcriptions are not always fair descriptions of what the transcripts show).

Papadopoulos did not say much about Russia during the first conversation with Source 3, other than to mention a “friend Sergey … [who] lives in … Brooklyn,” and invite Source 3 to travel with Papadopoulos to Russia in the summertime.

Perhaps this just stems from bureaucratic incompetence. But the Trump Administration made a fairly aggressive decision to declassify details about Sergey Millian for the DOJ IG Report because it served their narrative about Christopher Steele. But when it came time to claim–abundant evidence in the transcripts to the contrary–that George Papadopoulos wasn’t an obvious subject for a counterintelligence investigation, the Trump Administration treated one of the most damning details as classified.

This matters, because the frothy right has been ginning up a scandal over the delayed release of the House Intelligence transcripts, and the fact that, having been told everything is ready, Adam Schiff is taking a few days to review what Grenell has done to ensure the integrity of the redactions. They’re doing so even as both Mark Warner and Richard Burr spent the beginning of John Ratcliffe’s confirmation making sure the declassification of their report on the Russian operation would be quick and non-partisan.

But we’ve already got hints that Grenell is politicizing the declassification process. In a 90-page transcript, he redacted the detail that most undermined the frothy right narrative.

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11 replies
  1. oldoilfiledhand says:

    Marcy,
    We are so glad that you are on the wall! Thank you for all that you do for US!

  2. LaNita Jones says:

    It was always quite odd that the coffee boys showed up right in line with Deep Gas: Ten Years of Macondo.

    • LaNita Jones says:

      “This is the coffee boy. He must be milked every morning that he will produce milk, and the milk must be boiled in order to be mixed with coffee to make coffee and milk.”

  3. LaNita Jones says:

    And we most thank Lawrence too for his Last Word last night reminding us of the “insomnia plague”.

  4. Savage Librarian says:

    OK, here goes. Assuming that the person does not necessarily live in Chicago, my suggestion for guessing who the mystery woman might be is to take a look at Ballard Partners (Brian Ballard.) It appears that the redacted name might be 11 or 12 spaces.

    So, the person who you think it might be, but is not, could possibly be Pamela Bondi. The name and potential circumstances seem to fit, but her age does not. She is 54.

    But a possibility we might never have heard mentioned is Rebecca Benn. The name might fit. I don’t know her age, though, but the picture in the link below seems to fit the potential age bracket (42 then, 45 or 47 now.) So, just a WAG.

    Also, below her link is an excerpt from a very interesting article about Brian Ballard and Ballard Partners.

    “REBECCA BENN – Ballard Partners | Bipartisan Lobbying & PR Firm | Fla. & Washington, D.C.”

    http://ballardpartners.com/the-team/rebecca-benn/

    “The Most Powerful Lobbyist in Trump’s Washington” – POLITICO Magazine, March 29, 2020

    “…Ballard Partners moved into a bigger office on the fourth floor to accommodate the new lobbyists Ballard has hired since the election of one of his former clients, President Donald Trump.”

    “Other Ballard lobbyists gave updates on their meetings with Trump administration officials and other work on behalf of the dozens of clients they represent in Washington, including Amazon, Dish Network, Uber, Pernod Ricard (the makers of Jameson whiskey and Absolut vodka) and Trulieve (a Florida-based medical marijuana company). Rebecca Benn, a former congressional staffer Ballard hired last year, updated Ballard and another lobbyist, Susie Wiles, on a meeting she’d set up for a client. “They were very, very happy — thank you, Susie — for the meeting at the White House last week,” Benn said. “It went very, very well.”

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/02/most-powerful-lobbyist-in-trump-washington-217759

    • Savage Librarian says:

      Correction to the date of the Ballard article is April 02, 2018 (not March 2020. This weirdly happened with another article I copied and pasted too. But I caught that one before it went through.)

      I have a vague recollection that I mentioned Benn ages ago and may have been corrected by ew at the time that I was wrong. So, please forgive me if I have made the same mistake again.)

  5. Philip S. Webster says:

    Speaking of fucking an older woman piqued my prurience and made me think of an old Meg Ryan movie where she asks the handsome, Latino detective how he learned to service her so well, including orally. His response was: as a younger man or boy was seduced by an older woman. She taught him everything and Meg was deliriously happy about it.

    Surprised me to see how beautiful Meg’s body was (beautiful real tetas not like now with all the fake silicone which is ok but a bit weird to me anyway) and how she handles the sex scenes.

    Not for the faint of prudery: Spoiler: penis flaccid shown.

    Sorry. Just commenting on the leder. ha ha.

    • Rayne says:

      We’re pretty liberal here but your comment really doesn’t address the topic. There are pop culture and film blogs out there for this stuff.

      • Ginevra diBenci says:

        As if the misogyny of the Trump fraternity weren’t bad enough. Rayne was too diplomatic: indulging in such a disgusting (and antiquated) wallow in the “male gaze” wouldn’t fly at any self-respecting pop-culture site either. It shows the solipsism, to put it nicely, of a perspective we know all too well how to avoid.

  6. LaNita Jones says:

    For the methodological carriers of the insomnia plaque it is always a gas gas gas.

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