Posted on 09/09/2019 7:37:47 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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. A 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. At the time, then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo told other senior Trump administration officials that too much information was coming out regarding the covert source, known as an asset. An extraction, or "exfiltration" as such an operation is referred to by intelligence officials, is an extraordinary remedy when US intelligence believes an asset is in immediate danger. A US official said before the secret operation there was media speculation about the existence of such a covert source, and such coverage or public speculation poses risks to the safety of anyone a foreign government suspects may be involved. This official did not identify any public reporting to that effect at the time of this decision and CNN could not find any related reference in media reports...
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CNN...No Source...have at it!
You mean like storing top secret level documents on a personal bathroom server?
“by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.”
Absolute crap from CNN Must be Clapper or Brennan as the “source”
The CIC leaking top secret info.... Now thats rich!!!
This reads like Chinese run through google translate
.so it had to be Obama's spy....and Obama forgot to tell the President about the spy?
I can't put my finger on it...but something is wrong with this picture.
I think this part is interesting:
“At the end of the Obama administration, US intelligence officials had already expressed concerns about the safety of this spy and other Russian assets, given the length of their cooperation with the US, according to a former senior intelligence official.”
Just interesting.
What about the dozens of Iranian and Chinese assets that were exposed and executed because of Hillary’s insecure home network?
If anyone spilled the beans it was Hillary’s/Obama’s cabal.
Fake. News.
“Tell Vladimir that after the election, I’ll have more flexibility.” — Comrade Hussein
Even the dots on the “i’s” and crosses on the “t’s” are lies! LOL!
Don’t forget Hillary’s 30,000 emails were on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, almost certainly to make them available to foreign operatives and donors.
And the explanation was so Huma could print out the emails at home?
This article is pure bs. THEY are the ones supposedly revealing classified information in the article.
Btw did the highly placed Russian operative have any evidence of all the Russian collusion? Hm.
This is definitely a “damage control” story.....damaging to the Democrats...this is clearly coming from the conspirators and is somehow tied to the “Russia Collusion” meme that blew upin their faces. There will be more coming out about this I think.
Totally made up fake news.
More fake news from “Poop” Sciutto.
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