Posted on 09/10/2019 4:41:56 AM PDT by advance_copy
The Central Intelligence Agency on Monday evening slammed what it called CNN's "misguided" and "simply false" reporting, after the cable channel's chief national security correspondent authored a hole-filled piece claiming that the CIA had pulled a high-level spy out of Russia because President Trump had "repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy."
The extraordinary CIA rebuke came as The New York Times published a bombshell piece late in the evening, which largely contradicted CNN's reporting. According to the Times, CIA officials "made the arduous decision in late 2016 to offer to extract the source from Russia" -- weeks before Trump even took office.
Concerns about media reporting on Russian election interference drove the decision, according to the Times, which described the source as "the American government’s best insight into the thinking of and orders” from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"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," the Times wrote.
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repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.”
m m m m ............. sounds like something a rat done some years ago, exposing spys
It’s pretty obvious CNN prefers their “truth” over the facts.
lol
If the mainstream media, can expose a CIA asset, that is providing valuable intel about Russia, AND tie it to Trump, that is a two fer. They get bonus pay for that.
CIA vs CNN? I have no idea who to believe!
Had to be done. It's Trump's fault. He got elected.
I’m with you, the CIA has about as much credibility as CNN.
So why isn't Hillary in prison?
Yeah but that’s like the 3rd time in 10 days that the NY Times acted like a real newspaper and it makes me kind of ill to have to admit it.
Translated;
"We have to pretend to be at odds with one of our mouthpieces to maintain the illusion of objectivity"
My word, after all the COUP ATTEMPTS the CIA still had time for SOMETHING ELSE...?
They really are master jugglers, now aren’t they.
Maybe some little-known CIA cell still doing actual espionage, my, my, my.
Will wonders never cease.
I wonder if BATF is doing anything now, I mean, anything not related to exporting machine-guns to Mexican narcos.
Breaking..!
IRS doing super good work using TOTALLY WEIRD TRICKS uncovering LOTS of hidden money, to be used to educate cute diverse kids and house cute fluffy puppies.
More:
They’re totally NOT investigating politican enemies, now, not even a LITTLE bit..!
Super secret sources for this BIG, EXTRA GOOD story, though, so mum’s the word, kay..?
Big, biiiiiig breaking with beefy bits and bits of egg..!!
A long time ago, maybe 1985 or so, I met a yuuuuge Rumanian wrestler, a champion who had defected after the Olympics.
He said he and alllll his countrymen NEVER believed anything written by Government sources at government papers:
It was a total waste of time to read such things.
That was really amazing to me AT THAT TIME.
“How strange it must be, to disbelieve your entire media apparatus...” I thought AT THAT TIME.
I had no inkling that much later I would come to think JUST LIKE HIM, but in my own country.
I won’t blame CNN on this one. I am sure they got something leaked from CIA sources who just refuse to give-up on the coup.
A battle of 2 dis-info agencies.
We all know what this is about. This is another hoax perpetrated by Brennan and Clapper to insinuate that the Russian investigation was legitimate and predicated on inside information. Brennan and Clapper want this out ahead of the Durham investigation results.
“If the mainstream media, can expose a CIA asset, that is providing valuable intel about Russia,...”
then we can assume that the Russians already knew, and nothing the “asset” provided can be trusted.
CNN is still running the story today. They’re waiting on Clapper or Brennan to confirm the story. So what we’ll have any time now is comrade Brennan and Clapper saying the story is true and Pompeo is lying for Trump.
Certainly Not News always gets it wrong.
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