Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge says newly released documents appear to corroborate claims that intelligence officials purposely withheld information about China’s election influence operations.
Herridge said one November 2020 email she reviewed referenced officials having “deliberately massaged” a presidential briefing to avoid direct links to the election.
HERRIDGE: “Well, I think it’s a very significant announcement. Not only what he said, but the fact that they are releasing these documents so that we can really fact check the claims we heard this evening.”
“I’ve been digging into the documents already and I found November 2020 email and it specifically states—it’s a conversation among intelligence officials—it specifically states that they have, ‘deliberately massaged’ one of our pending pdbs...”
“That’s the president’s daily brief, to avoid any direct links to the election.”
“And that is consistent with my reporting.”
“I understand the whistleblower complaint alleged, I think we’re now seeing the emails, that there was an intentional effort to suppress intelligence about China’s influence operations.”
“And this was, Katie, like a massive effort. What they call a multi domain operation. That means trade, it means diplomacy, it means open source information, it means social media.”
“So all the levers of power, China had to influence U.S. election.”
China coronavirus & election steal activities, thinking this was done in concert / at the behest of the City of London
Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge says newly released documents appear to corroborate claims that intelligence officials purposely withheld information about China’s election influence operations.
Herridge said one November 2020 email she reviewed referenced officials having “deliberately massaged” a presidential briefing to avoid direct links to the election.
HERRIDGE: “Well, I think it’s a very significant announcement. Not only what he said, but the fact that they are releasing these documents so that we can really fact check the claims we heard this evening.”
“I’ve been digging into the documents already and I found November 2020 email and it specifically states—it’s a conversation among intelligence officials—it specifically states that they have, ‘deliberately massaged’ one of our pending pdbs...”
“That’s the president’s daily brief, to avoid any direct links to the election.”
“And that is consistent with my reporting.”
“I understand the whistleblower complaint alleged, I think we’re now seeing the emails, that there was an intentional effort to suppress intelligence about China’s influence operations.”
“And this was, Katie, like a massive effort. What they call a multi domain operation. That means trade, it means diplomacy, it means open source information, it means social media.”
“So all the levers of power, China had to influence U.S. election.”
RICO
I remember when Catherine was just a hangin out at GITMO...
Then it slowly got memory holed...