Recall in the final weeks of the Obama administration the sudden gutting of barriers to interagency intel sharing. I remember at the time knowing there was something deeply diabolical about this. It’s now obvious it was done to allow free passage of “intel” gleaned from the illegal surveillance of their political adversary between 16 or 17 different agencies.
Now, when the inevitable geyser of leaks erupted, instead of a handful or fewer readily-identifiable potential leakers, they were legion and spread across numerous agencies. Leakers throughout the government who could anonymously corroborate each other and add credence to the whole Russian collusion narrative.
How many leaks with attribution to unnamed government “sources” did we hear and read about during those tumultuous, infuriating months? More specifically, how many leaks divulged information about, or gained from, the FISC-authorized “counterintelligence” investigation?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/nsa-gets-more-latitude-to-share-intercepted-communications.html
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Great post ...... bears repeating to all.
I remember it well.
Great posts by all here. I am going to take them in tonight.
It was a confession of wrongdoing.....primarily a CYA move to legitimize the law-breaking that had occurred.