Posted on 09/10/2019 12:04:21 PM PDT by Starman417
Sciutto (Def): A goober so eager to embarrass the President that he doesn't wait for facts and later has to eat it.
You have to hand it to CNN. They seen determined to hit the bottom of the cesspit. Today CNN reporter Jim Sciutto reported this:
Washington (CNN)In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.The Hill immediately jumped on itA person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.
The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.
The disclosure to the Russians by the President, though not about the Russian spy specifically, prompted intelligence officials to renew earlier discussions about the potential risk of exposure, according to the source directly involved in the matter.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1171171175197810699
Later Sciutto would claim this
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1171229740172288000
Yeah, except for the fact that the NY Times blew the story to hell.
Late 2016. As in Trump was not President.As American officials began to realize that Russia was trying to sabotage the 2016 presidential election, the informant became one of the C.I.A.’s most important — and highly protected — assets. But when intelligence officials revealed the severity of Russia’s election interference with unusual detail later that year, the news media picked up on details about the C.I.A.’s Kremlin sources.
C.I.A. officials worried about safety made the arduous decision in late 2016 to offer to extract the source from Russia. The situation grew more tense when the informant at first refused, citing family concerns — prompting consternation at C.I.A. headquarters and sowing doubts among some American counterintelligence officials about the informant’s trustworthiness. But the C.I.A. pressed again months later after more media inquiries. This time, the informant agreed.
The decision to extract the informant was driven “in part” because of concerns that Mr. Trump and his administration had mishandled delicate intelligence, CNN reported. But former intelligence officials said there was no public evidence that Mr. Trump directly endangered the source, and other current American officials insisted that media scrutiny of the agency’s sources alone was the impetus for the extraction.Keep that last sentence in mind as you read this:
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net....
Who?...............
What stopped you from posting it here?
Summary, please.
Like most media lies, this CNN story was a victory, a successful smear. And that’s because most people will remember the original story, but not the retraction.
“...C.I.A. officials worried about safety made the arduous decision in late 2016 to offer to extract the source from Russia...”
Key sentence....
“...media scrutiny of the agency’s sources alone was the impetus for the extraction...”
A key phrase...
There’s a whole lot of very questionable stuff that was done by the Obama gang between Election Day and Inauguration Day.
That title....Are you talking about CNN or Don Lemon?
He doesn't know, he's just trying to get blog traffic.
CNN blows it more than Obama cracks a fart ! And they don’t call him the Stinky One for nothing
You could have just cut off the headline after the second word.
Late 2016. As in Trump was not President.
CNN doesn’t mine a bit if people die when they are propagandizing, MAKING SHIT UP AGAIN, to try and make President Trump look bad.
As long as they can tell their lies they could care less that they might get this man killed.
Typical progressive/liberal/socialists telling lies so they can get face time on TV.
Jim Sciutto makes scumbags look good.
This Obama toady is as sharp as a bowling ball.
“Like most media lies, this CNN story was a victory, a successful smear. And that’s because most people will remember the original story, but not the retraction.”
I’m not so sure about this particular whopper. Even the NYT and WaPo came down hard on the CNN “story,” and the CIA made a rare public statement denying its veracity.
You could’ve stopped the title after one two words...
coverup then later promotion for furthering the campaign of lies ...
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