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Spygate: Obama Admin Cut Situation Room's Video Feed During Meetings on Russia Investigation bit.ly/2JVvupy via @BreitbartNews
Deep inside a 7,700-plus word WaPo article dated June 23, 2017, the newspaper detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia interference investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intel agencies were deliberately kept in the dark.
According to the newspaper, in the summer of 2016, CIA Director @JohnBrennan convened a “secret task force at CIA headquarters composed of several dozen analysts and officers from the CIA, the NSA and the FBI.”
The Post described the unit as so secretive it functioned as a “sealed compartment” hidden even from the rest of the U.S. intelligence community; a unit whose workers were all made to sign additional non-disclosure forms.
The number of Obama administration officials who were allowed access to the Russia intelligence was also highly limited, The Post reported. At first only 4 senior officials were involved: Brennan, James Clapper, AG Loretta Lynch and Comey.
Gradually, the circle widened to include VP Joe Biden and others. Agendas sent to Cabinet secretaries — including John F. Kerry at the State Department and Ashton B. Carter at the Pentagon — arrived in envelopes that subordinates were not supposed to open.
Sometimes the agendas were withheld until participants had taken their seats in the Situation Room.
Adding another layer of secrecy, the newspaper reported that when the closed Cabinet sessions on Russia began in the White House Situation Room in August, the video feed from the main room was cut off during the meetings.
The feed, which allows only for video and not audio, is usually kept on so that senior aides can see when a meeting takes place.
