Former CIA director accuses intel chief of selectively declassifying documents to help Trump

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This is big. Ratcliffe may have just intentionally damaged American national security by revealing our intelligence sources in Moscow - helping Moscow and endangering lives.

I don't see how this isn't treason.

Ned Price
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Brennan briefed the material to illustrate the level of access CIA had to Moscow as gleaned from sensitive sources, CIA's most precious commodity. The corresponding memo, also declassified, is explicit that the information could be source revealing.
https://cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/brennan-ratcliffe-declassifying-intelligence-clinton-russia/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/brennan-ratcliffe-declassifying-intelligence-clinton-russia/index.html

Washington (CNN)Former CIA director John Brennan on Tuesday accused current intelligence chief John Ratcliffe of selectively declassifying documents ahead of the November election that benefit President Donald Trump, telling CNN that the decision to release materials gathered by the agency on Russian allegations that Hillary Clinton was planning on "stirring up a scandal" against her Republican rival in 2016 was motivated by politics.

In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Brennan responded to Ratcliffe's recent decision to declassify notes written by the former CIA director in 2016 after he briefed then-President Barack Obama on intelligence related to Russian security service reporting that Clinton approved "a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."

"John Ratcliffe is anything but an intelligence professional. It is appalling his selective declassification of information. It is designed to advance the political interests of Donald Trump and Republicans who are aligned with him," Brennan said of the director of national intelligence.

"These were my notes from the 2016 period when I briefed president Obama and the rest of the national security council team about what the Russians were up to and I was giving examples of the type of access that the US intelligence community had to Russian information and what the Russians were talking about and alleging," he added.

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1. Well, if it wasOK for the pResident to do it with the

Russian ambassador, it must be OK for Ratsass to do it to help the boss. Rethuglican logic.

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2. I agree