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U.S. Intel Gatekeeper Dragging Feet on Trump-Russia Files, Insiders Say realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…

More than three months after President Trump granted his attorney general unprecedented power to declassify intelligence files, key U.S. intelligence agencies are still withholding documents related to the Trump-Russia affair,

The source of the logjam: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which Trump is in the process of shaking up after the resignations last month of its director, Dan Coats, and principal deputy, Sue Gordon.

Material still under wraps includes:
Evidence that President Obama’s CIA, FBI, and Justice Department illegally eavesdropped on the Trump campaign --- cases separate from the FBI’s disputed FISA court-approved surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The CIA was run by Brennan from 2013 to 2017, and ODNI was run by Clapper from 2010 to 2017.
A House intelligence report found that Clapper leaked dossier information to CNN just before Trump was inaugurated.

Former CIA field operations officer Gene Coyle said that Brennan broke with his predecessors, who stayed out of elections. Several weeks before the vote, he made it very clear he was pulling for Hillary Clinton in published reports and interviews.

Brennan's deputy Mike Morell publicly endorsed Clinton in the New York Times, claiming even then that Trump was an “unwitting agent” of Moscow.