Last December 15th, as Americans decorated trees, lit Menorahs, and prepared to tune out for winter holidays, CNN ran an extraordinary article titled, "The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump."
CNN and its intelligence sources meant "Exposure" in a bad way.
Sources have told Public and Racket that the secrets officials worry might be "Exposed" are ones that would implicate them in widespread abuses of intelligence authority dating back to the 2015-2016 election season.
Transgressions range from Justice Department surveillance of domestic political targets without probable cause to the improper unmasking of a pre-election conversation between a Trump official and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to WMD-style manipulation of intelligence for public reports on alleged Russian "Influence activities."
The CNN report claimed intelligence officials were concerned about the disclosure of "Sources and methods that informed the U.S. government's assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election."
The story of how a team "Hand-picked" by CIA Director John Brennan relied on "Cooked intelligence" to craft that January 6th, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment is the subject of tomorrow's story, the last in this three-part series.
Dating back to the release of the so-called "Nunes memo" in 2018 exposing the corruption of the FISA application process, senior intelligence officials, including Trump's CIA Director, Gina Haspel, have repeatedly blocked attempts to declassify information about the Trump-Russia investigation.
https://public.substack.com/p/us-government-is-hiding-documents
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