Chad Wolf and Robert O'Brien ordered a cover-up of Russian election interference

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Trump loyalists interfered to downplay Russia election threat – whistleblower

Murphy’s most serious allegations concern the effort to downplay Russian meddling in the election while it was under way. In May this year, Murphy says, Wolf told him “to cease providing intelligence assessments on the threat of Russian interference in the United States, and instead start reporting on interference activities by China and Iran”.

Wolf told Murphy the orders came from the national security adviser, Robert O’Brien.
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On 7 July, Murphy was told to stop circulating any information about Russian disinformation efforts until he met Wolf. The next day, according to the complaint, the acting homeland security secretary told Murphy the assessment of the Russian role “should be ‘held’ because it ‘made the president look bad’”.

When Murphy objected, he was excluded from meetings on the subject, and an alternative assessment was leaked to the press which put Russian interference on a par with China and Iran – an equivalence which Murphy, and most intelligence experts, say is not supported by the facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/09/trump-whistleblower-russia-election-threat

The Russians are helping Trump steal the US election, and Chad Wolf and Robert O'Brien are their agents.

Susan Hennessey, Lawfare Executive Editor, Brookings Senior Fellow, CNN National Security and Legal Analyst, Former IC attorney:

"This is a huge deal. It deserves way, way more focus in light of misleading statements in the same vein from Bill Evanina and Bill Barr. Is NSA O'Brien directing the IC and others to lie about or distort the China election threat to hurt Biden and help Trump?"

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