Report: US Extracted Kremlin Mole In 2017 Out Of Concerns Their Cover Would Be Blown

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Report: US Extracted Kremlin Mole In 2017 Out Of Concerns Their Cover Would Be Blown


Chuck Ross
Investigative Reporter
September 09, 2019 12:19 PM ET

    CNN reports that the U.S. government extracted a high-level Kremlin source in 2017, partially out of concerns that President Trump and his administration had mishandled classified information in the past.

    The report also says that U.S. officials were concerned about media reports that had revealed details about the Russian mole.

    The author of the story is Jim Sciutto, a former Obama administration official who has been heavily critical of Trump at CNN.


CNN reported Monday that in the early months of the Trump presidency in 2017, the CIA extracted a high-level Russian government official working as a mole deep inside the Kremlin.

Jim Sciutto, a former Obama administration official, reports for CNN that the unnamed Russian official provided information to the U.S. government about Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that the person was considered an unparalleled source of information.

The report adds new details about how U.S. intelligence agencies gathered information regarding Russian meddling in the 2016 election. One of Sciutto’s anonymous sources also provided a potential bombshell about the intelligence community’s rationale for conducting the extraction.

According to the report, U.S. intelligence officials made the move out of concerns that President Donald Trump would disclose sensitive details about the person and the operation to Russia. The decision was made shortly after Trump had an Oval Office meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in May 2017. Trump disclosed sensitive information about military operations in Syria during that meeting.

[OfTheCross]

smh. The President kept blowing his cover. I just don't think the guy is very smart. He's capable, but not smart

[TomSea]

Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent

Updated 9:24 AM ET, Mon September 9, 2019

Washington (CNN)In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.

A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.

The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.

Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/politics/russia-us-spy-extracted/index.html

One more thing, sounds like it could be a bogus charge but interesting.

[Sanguine]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak

Interesting.  These are two of the key players in the development of the Steele dossier. 

[TomSea]

Not only this, the CIA slams this report by CNN calling it False.

The Central Intelligence Agency on Monday evening slammed what it called CNN's "misguided" and "simply false" reporting, after the cable channel's chief national security correspondent authored a hole-filled piece claiming that the CIA had pulled a high-level spy out of Russia because President Trump had "repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy."

The extraordinary CIA rebuke came as The New York Times published a bombshell piece late in the evening, which largely contradicted CNN's reporting. According to the Times, CIA officials "made the arduous decision in late 2016 to offer to extract the source from Russia" -- weeks before Trump even took office.

Concerns about media reporting on Russian election interference drove the decision, according to the Times, which described the source as "the American government’s best insight into the thinking of and orders” from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cia-slams-faulty-cnn-narrative-slams-misguided-reporting-on-russian-double-agents-alleged-exfiltration

[PeteS in CA]

WaPo, NYT: Contra CNN, Trump Was Not The Reason CIA Exfiltrated Asset From Russia; Update: Irresponsible Media Reporting Continues

The story appeared to confirm the worst fears about Donald Trump and his sometimes reckless public discourse. CNN’s Jim Sciutto reported yesterday that the CIA was forced to exfiltrate a mole deep within the Kremlin after Trump revealed too much intelligence in a one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin in 2017. The loss of this asset meant that Trump had essentially blinded the CIA just at a time when Russian aggression had escalated.

Sounds damning — except that wasn’t how it happened at all, both the New York Times and Washington Post report this morning. The exposure of the asset didn’t come from Trump, but instead from media reporting on Russian election interference from intel sources that revealed enough to put the asset at risk. The Post explicitly rejects Sciutto’s conclusions:

As American officials began to realize that Russia was trying to sabotage the 2016 presidential election, the informant became one of the C.I.A.’s most important — and highly protected — assets. But when intelligence officials revealed the severity of Russia’s election interference with unusual detail later that year, the news media picked up on details about the C.I.A.’s Kremlin sources.

C.I.A. officials worried about safety made the arduous decision in late 2016 to offer to extract the source from Russia.

CNN lied, or got hoovered by a liar(s). Unsurprisingly. The exposure was done by Obama's peeps during his administration.

[PeteS in CA]

WaPo, NYT: Contra CNN, Trump Was Not The Reason CIA Exfiltrated Asset From Russia; Update: Irresponsible Media Reporting Continues

The story appeared to confirm the worst fears about Donald Trump and his sometimes reckless public discourse. CNN’s Jim Sciutto reported yesterday that the CIA was forced to exfiltrate a mole deep within the Kremlin after Trump revealed too much intelligence in a one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin in 2017. The loss of this asset meant that Trump had essentially blinded the CIA just at a time when Russian aggression had escalated.

Sounds damning — except that wasn’t how it happened at all, both the New York Times and Washington Post report this morning. The exposure of the asset didn’t come from Trump, but instead from media reporting on Russian election interference from intel sources that revealed enough to put the asset at risk. The Post explicitly rejects Sciutto’s conclusions:

As American officials began to realize that Russia was trying to sabotage the 2016 presidential election, the informant became one of the C.I.A.’s most important — and highly protected — assets. But when intelligence officials revealed the severity of Russia’s election interference with unusual detail later that year, the news media picked up on details about the C.I.A.’s Kremlin sources.

C.I.A. officials worried about safety made the arduous decision in late 2016 to offer to extract the source from Russia.

CNN lied, or got hoovered by a liar(s). Unsurprisingly. The exposure was done by Obama's peeps during his administration.

[truth_seeker]

Let's try for 100 posts, a free online Psych Exam, and be sure to smear the VP's wife.

Follow the John Brennan, CIA, CNN breadcrumbs.

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