Trump: We Recovered Documents From the CIA About Their Scheme to Hide All Intelligence from Me That Could Help Me in My 2020 Re-Election Campaign

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Catherine Herridge says a whistleblower was sounding the alarm about China's influence operations in the summer of 2020 -- but "suddenly it all was suppressed" instead of being elevated.

HERRIDGE: "So in the summer of 2020, as we're heading into the election, in the intelligence community, there were indicators of this Chinese influence operation."

"Influence operations means that you're trying to affect the outcome of how people vote or their sentiment about a presidential candidate."

"It's different than an interference operation, which is penetrating voting rolls and voter systems."

"And this whistleblower was raising the alarm about the influence operation and then suddenly it all was suppressed."

"My understanding is that some of their reports, there were in officials on hand writing that they wanted everything out could help President Trump in his re-election."

"So there clear evidence of political and personal bias, and intelligence is supposed to be neutral."

"So what we heard tonight from the president is an allegation that this intelligence was suppressed in order harm him. And now we're seeing documents already which back those claims."

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"Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the deep state ... in our intelligence agency worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China's sinister election meddling, covering it up from both the president and the American people like nobody thought was possible," he said.

He also said while outlining the second area of documents, "CIA reporting explicitly stated, and I quote: 'In mid 2018, the Chinese Communist Party's policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president's votes and make him resign or prevent his re-election.'"

Trump went on to add that "Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China's activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden."

Trump added that the documents reveal that reports regarding "China's election targeting" were omitted from his daily presidential briefs during his first term.

"Documents show that during this period, dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about China's election targeting were kept out of the presidential briefing. These were briefings I would get almost every day," he added.

"Everything was kept out that was of importance. One email among intelligence analysts admitted that they had quote: 'deliberately massaged the presidential daily briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election,'" Trump added.

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EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Alleges 2020 CCP Election Influence Ops Targeting Trump Were Suppressed

Multiple sources tell me that a credible whistleblower complaint was filed alleging the CIA, FBI and other IC agencies suppressed intelligence about China's influence operations during the 2020 election targeting President Trump and his campaign.

Based on my reporting, China's goal was to "impede" President Trump's re-election and "denigrate" him as a candidate. I understand the DNI is actively working to declassify the records.

According to these accounts, the CIA, then led by Director Gina Haspel, would not document the Chinese influence operations, in a formal way, out of concern that President Trump would use the intelligence to his advantage.

Based on the complaint, senior intelligence officials are accused of heavy-handed editing of the whistleblower's reports about China's sweeping influence operations during the 2020 election cycle.

In some instances, senior CIA officials are accused of taking "pen to paper" to strike sections because "the intelligence assessments would help Trump." I am told some track changes make "specific reference to domestic politics."

A senior intelligence official emphasized that in 2020 China was not held to the same standard as Russia and other adversaries, including North Korea, Iran and its proxy Hezbollah. The official said Chinese influence operations were consistently "downplayed," while Russia's activities were routinely "amplified."

The official added that the CIA was "driving political bias" in the intelligence assessments as well as the need to "massage" the President's Daily Brief. Known as the "PDB," it is a highly classified summary of intelligence and analysis on national security.

For calling out the apparent suppression of China intelligence targeting President Trump before the 2020 Presidential election, the whistleblower was allegedly retaliated against. The alleged retaliation included:

* Change in the whistleblower's job responsibilities

* Threats to destroy their reputation

* The "dissent" report that challenged the majority view about China's election activities was allegedly altered and the "confidence level" downgraded

Independent, publicly available cyber security reports appear to back up the whistleblower's allegations that intelligence was suppressed about China's activities in 2020.

In April 2020 a classified intelligence assessment found Beijing was ramping up activities in advance of the US election.

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Based on my reporting, by May 2020, there was a general consensus among the intelligence agencies that China was planning a "potentially huge campaign" targeting the upcoming Presidential election.

The Chinese Community Party's (CCP) effort was considered to be much bigger than similar election campaigns launched by Russia because the CCP campaign would be executed across multiple domains.

As one government contact put it, "If the IC (intelligence community) was suppressing the China intelligence in 2020, what else was it suppressing?"

Read the whole thing.

DISCONNECTING THE DOTS: China's 'multi-domain' influence operation was suppressed by striking references to the 2020 election and "massaging" intelligence reports for the President.

Friday, November 20, 2020: "We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB (President's Daily Brief) to avoid any direct links to the election."

- Strategic Intelligence Analyst, China & North Korea Strategic Assessments.

Dolly Dagger
@Cookie1inPA

2h

And we have a joint chief Milley declaring he would contact his Chinese counterpart if the President were to consider any move on China. Makes perfect sense in light of this..

Below: an "intelligence" employee complains about the China interference evidence being scrubbed from the record, with clear efforts to influence an election being called "issue" influence -- influencing only on particular issues -- even though in other cases they call this election interference and this so-called "issue interference" is conducted by the exact same unit and personnel who conduct election interference efforts.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:30 PM

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