Political Quotes

“Mr. President, my fellow Senators: On November 4 of this year, I introduced an amendment to this year's national defense bill. This amendment focuses on the Office of Net Assessment. That office is within the Pentagon. The Office of Net Assessment's purpose is to produce an annual net assessment, which is a long-term look at our military capabilities and those of our greatest adversaries. In 2019, when I began to look at Stefan Halper's contracting work for the Office of Net Assessment, something didn't look right. So I asked the inspector general to look into it. For those who are unaware, Halper was a central figure in the debunked Russia collusion investigation. And I don't have to explain the Russia collusion investigation; everybody in the U.S. Senate knows something about that and they know what it refers to. Halper secretly, at that time, recorded Trump campaign officials during Crossfire Hurricane. Halper also received over 1 million taxpayer dollars from the Office of Net Assessment for several research projects. But the question is: Were they really research projects? But the inspector general found some problems with his contract: The Office of Net Assessment didn't require Halper to submit evidence that he actually talked to the people he cited in his work, which included Russian intelligence officers. Secondly, the Office of Net Assessment couldn't provide sufficient documentation that Halper conducted all of his work in accordance with the law.…”