The article described the extraordinary measures taken by senior administration officials to ensure maximum privacy during their meetings.
The most noteworthy was their practice of cutting the video feed in the situation room during their meetings, a rather Nixonian thing to do.
The Post's article detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intelligence agencies were deliberately kept in the dark.
The article said that initially, only four senior officials were allowed access to the Russian investigation intelligence.
These meetings began in August 2016 and officials would cut the video feed.
The House Intelligence Committee issued a report in April 2018 which noted the difference between the NSA's rating and the "High confidence" ratings of the CIA and the FBI. The House Report found no evidence that Trump had colluded with the Russians and stated that the IC assessment "Did not employ proper analytic tradecraft, contained significant intelligence tradecraft. failings that undermine confidence in the judgments, including the failure to be independent of political considerations."
Intelligence agency chiefs were painstaking in their efforts to maintain secrecy.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/05/22/maintain-secrecy-trumprussia-meetings-obama-officials-cut-video-feed-situation-room/
The most noteworthy was their practice of cutting the video feed in the situation room during their meetings, a rather Nixonian thing to do.
The Post's article detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intelligence agencies were deliberately kept in the dark.
The article said that initially, only four senior officials were allowed access to the Russian investigation intelligence.
These meetings began in August 2016 and officials would cut the video feed.
The House Intelligence Committee issued a report in April 2018 which noted the difference between the NSA's rating and the "High confidence" ratings of the CIA and the FBI. The House Report found no evidence that Trump had colluded with the Russians and stated that the IC assessment "Did not employ proper analytic tradecraft, contained significant intelligence tradecraft. failings that undermine confidence in the judgments, including the failure to be independent of political considerations."
Intelligence agency chiefs were painstaking in their efforts to maintain secrecy.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/05/22/maintain-secrecy-trumprussia-meetings-obama-officials-cut-video-feed-situation-room/
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