The sources say that Toulsi Gabbard has classified documents on objections from the CIA
The Director of National Intelligence, Toulcy Gabbard, decided to tell a document that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections last month due to the objections of the CIA officials who have argued that more details should remain secret to protect sensitive espionage sources and methods, according to two sources of knowledge of the issue.
Washington Post I mentioned for the first time about the dispute.
Some former intelligence officers said they were concerned about the details that were revealed in the document that was raised by the company. The best democratic in the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, to caution This step can offer risk collection efforts.
The Office of the Director of Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency did not respond immediately to request the comment.
Gabbard last month designed Five years old report By Republicans of the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives on the 2016 elections, saying that President Donald Trump supported the decision.
The photo version of the report included a relatively minimum, and included references to eavesdropping and the “secret in force” human source with an insight into Putin’s view of the American presidential competition.
Michael van Landingham, a former CIA analyst that helped write the 2017 intelligence evaluation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, said he was surprised by the open details of the appointed document.
He told NBC News: “I was shocked when I saw the confidentiality that separates the dates in which the United States (the intelligence community) gathered materials, naming specific Russian representatives, and transferred long from the crude intelligence reports and the chain about the discussions of the Russian leadership,” he told NBC News. “This type of information would allow the Russian authorities to find possible sources of leaks easily, which complicates the US mission to keep America safe.”
Van Landingham said when he was working as an analyst examining the same article about the intervention of Russia’s elections in 2016, and said he was subject to a test of lying detection and was only allowed to read the information in a paper copy after his name signed to request it.
in The last internal review Among the 2017 US intelligence evaluation of Russia’s overlap in the 2016 elections, the CIA has used a more cautious language when referring to information that supports evaluation conclusions, without identifying the exact nature of the sources of intelligence.
The CIA review, which was appointed on July 2 by the agency’s director, John Ratcliffe, indicated a “very classification” in intelligence reports on the favorite candidate of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the American presidential race, without specifying the source of that information.
Larry Verv, a former intelligence official, worked at the National Security Agency and the CIA, said that the Republican Parliament’s report, which was raised by the company, may have been the most lighter of the most sensitive document that I have seen ever “and that it could have serious consequences.
“When our intelligence community leaders conduct final tools about the procedures created to protect sources and methods, they offer dangerous foreign sources who risk life and parties to give us vital information to our security,” Phaver said.
He appeared in the White House briefing hall on July 23, Gabbard claimed that the Republican Parliament’s report showed that the Obama administration fabricated that Russia launched the information war to try to help Trump win the elections. Former President Barack Obama and former officials in his administration refused to accuse him of being not necessary.
Other officials of the Trump administration, including Ratcliffe, issued a series of reports and classification of documents that made similar demands on a conspiracy by the Obama administration to play efforts to influence Russia in the 2016 elections and sabotage Trump’s presidency.
On Monday, Prosecutor Bam Bondi, the prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice, directed to launch a major investigation into the jury in a review of the Obama administration of Russia’s actions related to the 2016 elections, a senior Trump administration official said. A message signed by Bondi does not say what will be the charges, or in which the major jury will be achieved or where it will meet.
A senior official in the former Ministry of Justice rejected the investigation as a “dangerous political trick.” Democrats have described it as a Trump administration effort to distract from its failure to launch the Epstein files.
A Senate Intelligence Report in 2020 The American intelligence community analyzed that the Kremlin sought to help Trump win the elections. A special consultant appointed by Trump during his first term, John Durham, did not report any evidence of a criminal plot by the Hillary Clinton campaign or the Obama administration to undermine Trump with wrong information.
At a joint press conference with Trump in Helsinki in 2018, Putin said he wanted to see Trump winning the elections.