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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Last spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower’s attorney briefed on the existence of the call.

The highly sensitive communique, which has roiled Washington over the past week, was brought to the attention of the director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard – but rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information further, she took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to the president’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, the attorney, Andrew Bakaj, said.

One day after meeting Wiles, Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the intelligence report. Instead, she instructed NSA officials to transmit the highly classified details directly to her office.

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[–] HaveAnotherTacoPDX@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago

So, who was talking to their handler, and was the handler Russian or Israeli this time?

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

[But Tulsi Gabbard] rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information further, she took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to the president’s chief of staff

Simple explanation: One Russian asset, Tulsi Gabbard, is warning Trump, a Putin stooge and Russian asset, that the NSA is detecting their activity. Everyone in this administration should be charged with espionage.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Must be an extremely confusing time for anyone in national security. How to protect the country you swore to defend from the... people who lead and employ you?

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

They should read their own damn books, such as simple sabotage.

Also some random excerpts on Gabbard being totally not compromised by Russia. /s

National intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard said on Tuesday that she had stripped security clearances from 37 current and former national security officials, including some who worked on the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

Or this

The former senior CIA officer who helped oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election says Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and the White House are “lying” when they claim that it was an attempt to sabotage President Donald Trump

“The director of national intelligence and the White House are lying, again,” Miller said. “We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected.”