Daily Caller: Former intelligence community officials, including former CIA director John Brennan, have expressed concern over President Donald Trump’s declassification order due the potential release of CIA sources and methods.
“The concern is that very, very precious source and methods of the United States intelligence community as well as our partners and allies abroad — those who share this sensitive information with us,” Brennan said on MSNBC on Friday.
But Brennan’s concern, which was echoed by other intelligence community veterans and TV pundits on Friday, may be misplaced.
Government officials who appear to not be allies of Trump have been behind countless leaks of classified information regarding sources, methods and investigative targets in the Trump-Russia probe. Some of the leaks have disclosed the existence of surveillance warrants and FBI informants used against the Trump campaign.
In one case, the FBI official who led the investigation into Russian interference, Peter Strzok, believed that the CIA was leaking highly classified assessments about Russia’s election-related activities to the press.
“I’m beginning to think the agency got info a lot earlier than we thought and hasn’t shared it completely with us. Might explain all these weird/seemingly incorrect leads all these media folks have. Would also highlight agency as source of some of the leaks,” Strzok wrote in a text message on April 13, 2017.
Strzok expressed similar concern in a text message months earlier.
“Think our sisters have begun leaking like mad. Scorned and worried and political, they’re kicking in to overdrive,” Strzok wrote on Dec. 15, 2016, a day after NBC News reported that the CIA believed that Vladimir Putin directed the computer hacks against Democrats.
The New York Times has since reported that a person close to Putin is the CIA’s lone source for the information about Putin. The Times reported on Friday that current and former intelligence community officials are concerned that the source (who the newspaper identified as a man) could be in danger because of Trump’s declassification order.
But there is no indication that Trump’s order will lead to the disclosure of top-secret sources, including those working inside the Kremlin.
On Thursday, Trump directed the heads of various intelligence community agencies, including the FBI and CIA, to provide materials to Attorney General William Barr as part of a review he is conducting of surveillance activities directed at the Trump campaign.
Barr has said that he believes that “spying” occurred against the Trump campaign, and that he is investigating whether it was legal or illegal.
Trump also granted Barr the authority to declassify documents as he sees fit. Brennan said Friday that he is concerned that Barr will release highly sensitive information in “willy nilly” fashion. more here
If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.
As they always tell those they are (sometimes illegally) investigating.
As I’ve said before, turnabout is fair play.
Yet anything less than the 100% unredacted Mueller report was a coverup. Even though the minimal redactions were for the express purpose of protecting sources and methods.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww bless their dark little hearts.
So is anyone going to jail yet?
No, I thought not.
I certainly hope some law abiding person involved gets some convictions on the criminals.
S P O I L E R A L E R T
Do Not Read If You Do Not Want To Know In Advance
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The PRESS did it.
Now go forth and unmask who said what with whom and where on what channel when.
Hang the traitors.
I hope all this isn’t a waste of time, talk, and money. We’ve had over two years of this bullshit already. I want to see some bad apple exposed and stewed.
I’m sick and tired of it!
Trump has these swine so flummoxed that they don’t know whether to shit or go blind.
Scurry for the shadows you little cockroaches.
“Former intelligence community officials, including former CIA director John Brennan, have expressed concern over President Donald Trump’s declassification order due the potential release of CIA sources and methods.”
I call BULLSHIT on this concern for ‘sources and methods’.
Besides it’s time for NEW sources and methods. Everything King Merdas the Fraud and his Minions touched has been turned to total shit. Nothing that exists can be trusted, as has been amply demonstrated, and no one in government deserves the benefit of any doubt. Or any retirement benefits, for that matter.
FLAME THEM!!!
The guy they’re so worried about getting burned is Brennan’s pet. Therefore, whatever the guy is doing, it can’t possibly be good for America. But they’re not really worried about the guy getting burned. They’re afraid he’ll get turned.
‘Former’ Intelligence officials says it all!
Several somebodies who should have known better than
to break their oaths and worship at the alter of personality cults are pondering how sorry they are not due to honor,
but that their faithlessness and crimes are being revealed.
I don’t know how former they are, or who they are, but with all the intelligence failures we have had over the past 40-50 years, they probably should never have been intelligence officials, to begin with!
Oh no! Not willy nilly fashion!
LOL!!! Twist and squirm, Brennan. Twist and squirm.
Schiff for brains said he wants the officials involved in releasing unclassified docs, to resign rather that turn them over. Isn’t the obstruction of justice? Lock them up!!!!
I don’t want to jinx anything, but would it be ok if I said that I am enjoying this VERY MUCH!?
Ahem, I mean, indubitably, old chap.