Grateful for Catherine’s take on all of this. She is one of the last journalists we have in this country.
BREAKING: DECLASSIFIED CIA EMAILS ADMIT OFFICIALS “DELIBERATELY MASSAGED” PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DAILY BRIEF TO HIDE CHINA’S 2020 ELECTION OPERATION
Fifty years ago, the Church Committee warned America about what happens when our intelligence agencies turn their immense power against the people they serve. This week, we learned it happened again. Newly declassified documents released by the Trump Administration show that intelligence officials deliberately altered what President Trump was told about China’s operation to influence the 2020 election.
Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge found the proof in their own words, and she started finding it within hours of the release.
The email is dated Friday, November 20, 2020. The sender’s name is redacted, but the signature line identifies the author as a Strategic Intelligence Analyst working on China and North Korea Strategic Assessments. The email reads, “We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB to avoid any direct links to the election.”
The PDB is the President’s Daily Brief, the most sensitive intelligence document in the United States government. It exists for one purpose, which is to give the Commander in Chief the unvarnished truth so he can defend this nation. These officials admitted, in writing, that they doctored it.
The email confirms what a whistleblower inside the intelligence community alleged years ago.
According to Herridge’s reporting, that whistleblower sounded the alarm in the summer of 2020, right as the country headed into the election.
Analysts were seeing indicators of a Chinese influence operation, which means an effort to shape how Americans vote and how they feel about a presidential candidate. That differs from an interference operation, which means penetrating voter rolls and voting systems.
The whistleblower raised the warning through proper channels, and then the whole thing was suppressed.
Herridge describes what the intelligence community calls a multi-domain operation. Beijing pulled every lever of power it had. That included trade, diplomacy, open-source information, and social media, all aimed at one American election.
The scale goes beyond messaging. Herridge also reports allegations that China hacked the data of more than 220 million American voters. She warns that Beijing can combine those records with stolen security clearance files and health data to build digital dossiers on millions of Americans, opening the door to voter registration fraud, identity theft & espionage recruitment.
A foreign adversary now holds a file on you, your family & your neighbors & the officials paid to sound the alarm chose silence instead.
The bias was even written by hand. Herridge reports that some intelligence documents contained edits in officials’ own handwriting showing they wanted out anything that could help President Trump win reelection.
Personal political feelings drove decisions inside the agencies our tax dollars fund to protect us & the people who wrote those edits knew exactly what they were doing.
When unelected officials hide a foreign adversary’s operation from a duly elected President, they betray their oath, they betray the Constitution, and they betray you.
Our founders gave us Article III for a reason.
They knew the gravest danger to a republic comes from those who aid its enemies from within.
Every official who touched that briefing should face investigation under oath & prosecutors should follow the evidence wherever it leads.
Herridge made one more point worth remembering.
The administration released these documents so the public can fact-check every claim for themselves.
You do not have to take my word for it & you should not take the media’s word for it either. Read them yourself.
Then ask why the same people who lectured us about protecting democracy were quietly rewriting what POTUS was allowed to know.