Trump allies clash with top intelligence officials in quest to declassify more Russia documents

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

As President Donald Trump and his allies continue to publicly dispute the outcome of the election, they are also quietly seeking to discredit the Russia investigation that has cast a dark cloud over the administration for more than four years.

Before Election Day, senior career intelligence officials and congressional Democrats braced for Trump's handpicked director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, to release highly classified documents related to the FBI's Russia probe, which they feared would expose critical sources and methods.

Those concerns roared back this week in the wake of a flurry of personnel changes at the National Security Agency -- and the Pentagon -- as Trump installed political loyalists in key positions where they could help turn the tide in the behind-the-scenes battle over declassifying documents, which has raged for weeks.

Trump believes the documents in question will undermine the intelligence community's unanimous finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 race to help him win, by exposing so-called "deep state" plots against his campaign and transition during the Obama administration, according to multiple current and former officials.

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Probably why he's firing a lot of these people.

[stillcool]

1. they're on a treasure-hunt

[orangecrush]

2. Parting gift to Putin

[pfitz59]

3. Valerie Plame all over again.

Outing US assets for political gain. Treasonous.

[Mike 03]

4. This will be a disaster for our HUMINT in Eastern Europe (Russia), and it also makes

me more fearful that Chris Wray's firing is going to happen, because it's clear from Peter Strzok's book that the FBI has much still-classified casework on Russian interference. But it could also expose counterintelligence investigations into some well-known Trump allies that have not yet been made public.

That opening scene in Strzok's book (and reiterated later in the book) highly suggests we don't know many of the investigations that were opened in early 2017.