Two days later, Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Ducked questions from Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich about the Bombshell submissionHeinrich asked Jen Psaki the same questions in her John Durham probe into the Trump Russia origins. She received the exact same results.
Heinrich reiterated the completion of criminal proceedings against Clinton Campaign Attorney Michael Sussmann. Then, Heinrich wondered if there are still surveillance methods allegedly used to target the Trump team.
Durham claims that an outside firm with connections to the Clinton camp monitored serving data information on the Executive Office of the President from the Obama administration through the Trump administration. Is there still any system to collect server data from the EOP? If not, how did that happen?
Psaki kept to her points while acknowledging Heinrich had asked Jean-Pierre the same question two days prior. “Again, I know you asked my colleague a few questions about this the other day, but I would point you — any questions about this to the Department of Justice.”
Heinrich tried it again, and succeeded with his clever tactic of speaking in a wider manner to determine whether these allegations are true or not. Psaki was not happy with all of this.
HEINRICH: And then, is what was described in the filing there monitoring internet traffic — is that generally speaking, would that be considered along the lines of spying?
PSAKI: I’d like to point you again at the Department of Justice.
Earlier in the exchange, Heinrich focused on the Russia-Ukraine crisis and led with a question as to whether the U.S. believes “Putin could be bluffing” when it comes to an invasion and then if the U.S. caused Putin to blink thanks to “your efforts to put all this intelligence out about…what might happen next”
Most notable, however was her clever question on NATO spending to tip her cap at the Trump administration.
Psaki wasn’t going to bite and insisted Biden had long felt the same about NATO countries spending their required two percent on defense:
HEINRICH Does that sound like something the White House is going to press for in the future, from allies?
PSAKI: It’s something President Bush pressed for while he was Vice President.
To see the relevant briefing transcript from February 16, click “expand.”
White House press briefing (via FNC’s America Reports)
February 16, 2022
Eastern at 1:27 PMJACQUI HEINRICH : The invasion didn’t take place today. Some thought that we might see some kind of military action or invasion. The Pentagon looked into this possibility. Do you think the White House believes Putin is lying to them?
JEN PSAKI: What’s the deal?
HEINRICH: About his intention to —
PSAKI: Do you want to invade?
HEINRICH: — well, either way.
PSAKI – President Putin claimed that he didn’t plan to invade. We’ve also said he’s prepared — he’s prepared to do that, and has lined up troops at the border to — to invade. So I don’t think we are — we are waiting for President Putin’s comments to assess what is being prepared around the border.
HEINRICH: Do you think that your efforts to put all this intelligence out about his — you know, what might happen next might have deterred something that we could have seen in the last 24 hours?
PSAKI: Well, that’s part of — has been part of our objective overall, Jacqui, right, is to make it more difficult for the Russians, for President Putin to — to lay a predicate for war, to — when our objective is to avoid war, prevent war. No, it’s ultimately up to President Putin to decide what steps he’s going to take, but putting out specific details about the type of false flag operations, efforts to push misinformation through Russian media, the types of tactics they’ve used in the past. We are trying to make their use of these tactics more difficult and open our eyes to all members of the global community.
HEINRICH Do you think that this is something the White House would like to see from its allies in the near future?
PSAKI – This was something that President Bush demanded as Vice President.
HEINRICH Durham claims that an outside firm with connections to the Clinton camp monitored serving data information on the Executive Office of the President from the Obama administration through the Trump administration. Is there still any system to collect server data from the EOP? If not, how did that happen?
PSAKI: Again, I know you asked my colleague a few questions about this the other day, but I would point you — any questions about this to the Department of Justice.
HEINRICH: And then, is what was described in the filing there monitoring internet traffic — is that generally speaking, would that be considered along the lines of spying?
PSAKI: I’d like to point you again at the Department of Justice.
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