Did You Hear The One About The Ratcliffe Report?
The Ratcliffe report on foreign influence operation to affect our recent "election" was delivered to Congress today. I say this, in part, just to let regular readers know that I'm still on the job, but I can't write about everything. You can read the details about what happened with the report--actually, assessment is the proper term--here:
The important focus of this article is the all out war DNI Ratcliffe had to engage in with his bureaucracy in order to include virtually anything about China--because why would China even think of influencing our elections, I guess, since they're on such close terms with Biden Inc.?
"The analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tend to disagree with the [Trump] administration’s policies, saying in effect, I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies,” Zulauf [intel ombudsman] concluded, saying this behavior violated analytic standards requiring independence from political considerations.
In other words, hold back lest we give support to Trump. Even though they know the truth.
A senior intelligence official told the Washington Examiner that “inside the IC, we’re going to have to wrestle with the issues outlined in this report and the revelation that our own internal umpire basically said Ratcliffe was right and some of our career people, even CIA management, were politicizing China intelligence.”
Also, if this is what's happening out in the federal bureaucracy, anyone who thinks Trump will be able to effect significant declassification? Guess again.