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And now the sharks smell blood in the water and are turning on CNN...
NBC: Intel chiefs did not brief Trump on supposed compromising material, saw it as “disinformation”
Oh, for cripes sake.
A senior U.S. intelligence official with knowledge of the preparation for the meeting with Trump told NBC News that the president-elect was not briefed on the so-called two-page addendum to the dossier originally generated as part of anti-Trump Republican opposition research.
Multiple officials say that the summary was included in the material prepared for the briefers, but the senior official told NBC News that the briefing was oral and no actual documents were handed to the Trump team.
“Intel and law enforcement officials agree that none of the investigations have found any conclusive or direct link between Trump and the Russian government period,” the senior official said.
According to the official, the two-page summary about the unsubstantiated material made available to the briefers was to provide context, should they need it, to draw the distinction for Trump between analyzed intelligence and unvetted “disinformation.”
They prepared the two-page annex as an example of information that isn’t credible? Not only does that blast the BuzzFeed memos to smithereens, it’s a dagger at CNN’s story.
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Except, if NBC is right, they didn’t bring it to Trump — and even if they had, they were planning to use it as an example of garbage intelligence, presumably to try to show Trump why it’s important to trust U.S. government intel instead of his own “private” sources who’ve been telling him that Russia is innocent in the hackings.
NBC: Intel chiefs did not brief Trump on supposed compromising material, saw it as “disinformation”
Oh, for cripes sake.
A senior U.S. intelligence official with knowledge of the preparation for the meeting with Trump told NBC News that the president-elect was not briefed on the so-called two-page addendum to the dossier originally generated as part of anti-Trump Republican opposition research.
Multiple officials say that the summary was included in the material prepared for the briefers, but the senior official told NBC News that the briefing was oral and no actual documents were handed to the Trump team.
“Intel and law enforcement officials agree that none of the investigations have found any conclusive or direct link between Trump and the Russian government period,” the senior official said.
According to the official, the two-page summary about the unsubstantiated material made available to the briefers was to provide context, should they need it, to draw the distinction for Trump between analyzed intelligence and unvetted “disinformation.”
They prepared the two-page annex as an example of information that isn’t credible? Not only does that blast the BuzzFeed memos to smithereens, it’s a dagger at CNN’s story.
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Except, if NBC is right, they didn’t bring it to Trump — and even if they had, they were planning to use it as an example of garbage intelligence, presumably to try to show Trump why it’s important to trust U.S. government intel instead of his own “private” sources who’ve been telling him that Russia is innocent in the hackings.
