Obama, Not Trump, Outed Russian Spy

[mystery-ak]

 Obama, Not Trump, Outed Russian Spy
September 10, 2019 By Lew Jan Olowski

President Trump did not cause the Central Intelligence Agency to withdraw a top-level spy from Russia. Obama did. And so did indiscreet intelligence officials. CNN’s report to the contrary is false, as usual. CNN has a track record of fake news, including false and biased reporting that elevates white supremacists.

On Monday, CNN bragged of an “exclusive” report that “the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government” partly because “President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.”

In fact, however, officials “mishandled intelligence” and tried to extricate this source in 2016, before Trump even won the presidential election. The New York Times reports intelligence officials compromised this source by gossiping about him to news reporters.

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https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/10/obama-not-trump-outed-russian-spy/

[PeteS in CA]

The simple fact that the CIA's first offer to exfiltrate the Russian spy was made in 2016 intrinsically falsifies CNN's claim that Trump outed the guy. And it means that that it was under Obama that too much info got released/leaked to US MSM.

IMO, the questions that should be asked are:

* Who mishandled the information that endangered the spy;

* Why? Perhaps to attack Trump? Or to hobble Trump by depriving him of an intelligence asset?

* Who lied to CNN, if that is what happened?

* Why aren't heads rolling out of CNN's broadcast buildings, either the ones who bought a ludicrous lie or who crafted the ludicrous lie?