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Loose lips, sink ships. If one can selectively leak for political benefit however, "hey, who cares about national security"?
It's sickening that he had to take these steps. China has their eyes on the prize, and they are being helped right in the open by so many. The assistance by educators and "activists" has certainly made it easy.
Ratcliffe defends halting election briefings, accuses members of Congress of leaking classified information
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe defended his decision to scale back in-person election security briefings to Congress in favor of written reports and accused members of Congress of leaking information "within minutes" of briefings.
Ratcliffe told "Sunday Morning Futures" he had been going above and beyond in briefing "not just the oversight committees but every member of Congress" but will no longer do so.
"Within minutes of one of those briefings ending, a number of members of Congress went to a number of different outlets and leaked classified information for political purposes," Ratcliffe told host Maria Bartiromo. "To create a narrative that simply isn't true, that somehow Russia is a greater national security threat than China."
It's sickening that he had to take these steps. China has their eyes on the prize, and they are being helped right in the open by so many. The assistance by educators and "activists" has certainly made it easy.
Ratcliffe defends halting election briefings, accuses members of Congress of leaking classified information
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe defended his decision to scale back in-person election security briefings to Congress in favor of written reports and accused members of Congress of leaking information "within minutes" of briefings.
Ratcliffe told "Sunday Morning Futures" he had been going above and beyond in briefing "not just the oversight committees but every member of Congress" but will no longer do so.
"Within minutes of one of those briefings ending, a number of members of Congress went to a number of different outlets and leaked classified information for political purposes," Ratcliffe told host Maria Bartiromo. "To create a narrative that simply isn't true, that somehow Russia is a greater national security threat than China."
