Posted on 05/24/2019 3:05:30 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s order allowing Attorney General William P. Barr to declassify any intelligence that sparked the opening of the Russia investigation sets up a potential confrontation with the C.I.A., effectively stripping the agency of its most critical power: choosing which secrets it shares and which ones remain hidden.
On Friday, Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, said the agencies under his purview would give the Justice Department “all of the appropriate information” for its review. But Mr. Coats, a seasoned politician, also included a not-so-subtle warning that his agency’s secrets must be protected.
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...intelligence officials believe the danger of the move by Mr. Trump, was that it could endanger the agency’s ability to keep the identities of its sources secret.
The most prominent of those source among them may well be a person close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia who provided information to the C.I.A. about his involvement in Moscow’s 2016 election interference.
The concern about the source, who is believed to be still alive, is one of several issues raised by Mr. Trump’s decision to use the intelligence to pursue his political enemies. It has also prompted fears from former national security officials and Democratic lawmakers that other sources or methods of intelligence gathering — among the government’s most closely held secrets — could be made public, not because of leaks to the news media that the administration denounces, but because the president has determined it suits his political purposes.
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But it is the human source that particularly worries some former and current intelligence officials. Long nurtured by the C.I.A., the source rose to a position that enabled the informant to provide key information in 2016 about the Russian leadership’s role in the interference campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The CIA/NYT trying to publicly burn their own source?
Maybe it was Deripaska?
Sounds like the dirty spies/dirty 'journolistas' are trying to tip off Putin to clean house so that a witness who might contradict the official narrative that Putin hacked the DNC and it was not an inside leak is Arkancided under a cannon in Fort Gorky Park.
President Trump might be using this to get rid of *him* too.
When Gina Haskell was appointed I thought she would clean house.
Orders from the Commander these days appear to be nothing more than the opening bid to further negotiations."
Maybe they can release CIA direction to Mainstream media about the phrasing to be used in the next day’s news’ talking points. Might begin to paint a picture of where the propaganda has been originating.
Coats is Deep State and not to be trusted.
List of sauces https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sauces
If the CIA tries to slow-walk this, Barr will have their ass.
CC
When I was a little kid, I heard a line from a Cisco Kid episode:
“I am but a poor barber, and even the walls have ears.”
That’s the only melodrama left out of the NYT story.
Fire for cause anyone in any of these corrupt agencies who ever hesitates to turn over what AG Barr wants. No excuses. No BS. MAGA!
The most prominent of those source among them may well be a person close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia who provided information to the C.I.A. about his involvement in Moscow’s 2016 election interference.
The most prominent of those source among them may well be a person close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia who provided information to the C.I.A. about his involvement in Moscow’s 2016 election interference.
Gee. The NYT is soooooooooo concerned about this issue that they come close to outing a potential source in Putin’s inner circle.
Or maybe (more likely) they want to provide cover for the CIA when it resists cooperation with Barr.
I’m thinking they want Putin to find the source and for the source to be disappeared because perhaps what Brennan claims the source told them (to support the Russia Hoax) is NOT in fact what the source told them.
“But Mr. Coats, a seasoned politician, also included a not-so-subtle warning that his agency’s secrets must be protected.”
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A warning? Really? And HIS secrets protected from whom? The president, Barr and Mr. Durham?
The president’s memo delegated Barr the authority to “declassify, downgrade, or direct the declassification or downgrading of information or intelligence” related to the Russia probe. Further, the memo stated that “The heads of elements of the intelligence community...and the heads of each department or agency that includes an element of the intelligence community shall promptly provide such assistance and information as the Attorney General may request in connection with that review.” What is it about PROMPTLY PROVIDING ASSISTANCE that does Coats not understand?
Coats seems to suggest that he has some discretion as to what is made available. That may be true with regard to material outside of the scope of the memo but Barr will, for the most part, be the arbiter of what is related and needed, notwithstanding Coats protective instincts.
The NYT may also be concerned about protecting itself from information that sheds light on leaks and the publishing of same by the paper.
This is so crazy. They know what Putin will do
If I was that guy I would get my go bag and split
“The concern about the source, who is believed to be still alive, is one of several issues raised by Mr. Trump’s decision to use the intelligence to pursue his political enemies...”
Say what????
“Mr. Trump’s decision to use the intelligence to pursue his political enemies”
That’s rich.
POTUS has the authority to classify or declassify as he sees fit, based on info provided by his advisors of course.
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