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"Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017"

Jim Sciutto, CNN, September 9, 2019

edition.cnn.com/2019/09/09/pol…
"The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak."

edition.cnn.com/2019/09/09/pol…
"McCabe says his team recommended he order a full investigation of the president, which he says he approved on May 10."

"We need to lock in [REDACTED]. In a formal chargeable way. Soon."

"F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia"

Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt, Nicholas Fandos

January 11, 2019, New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/…
medium.com/@the_war_econo…
"Declassify the Envelope"

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"Durham is literally going to interview somebody at the CIA's Counterintelligence Mission Center."

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All of these reporters knew who this "Russian in DC" was for months, if not years.
Right here, for instance.

"This article is based on interviews in RECENT MONTHS with current and former officials who spoke on the condition that their names not be used discussing classified information."

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If anything, this is just so that we can have a repeat of "oh no he's in danger!!!" and "we did this to protect you, blumpf!!" once his identity is outed, much like Halper.
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😎Informant😎

An informant extracted from Russia in 2017 sent secrets to the CIA for decades and was a vital source about Moscow’s 2016 election interference

As American officials began to realize that Russia was trying to sabotage the 2016 presidential election, the informant
😎Informant2😎

became one of the CIA.’s most important & highly protected assets.

But when intelligence officials revealed the severity of Russia’s election interference with unusual detail later that year, the news media picked up on details about the CIA Kremlin sources.
😎Informant3😎

The move brought to an end the career of one of the CIA’smost important sources.

It also effectively blinded US intel officials to the view from inside RU as they sought clues about Kremlin interference in the 2018 midterm elex & next year’s presidential contest.
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JFC🔥The US extracted a top spy from inside Russia in 2017 because @realDonaldTrump⁩ mishandled classified intelligence and US IC was concerned Trump could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy‼️ cnn.com/2019/09/09/pol…
💥BOOM💥Trump’s treasonous behavior caused our intel agencies to extract an intelligence agent from Russia in order to save their life‼️ We must move to #ImpeachTrumpNow before any further damage can be done ✅
🔥BREAKING NEWS HOLY SHIT‼️Remember when @realDonaldTrump instructed Barr to learn more about sources IN Russia, including a KEY INFORMAT who helped the @CIA ⁉️That informant was extracted before Trump could tell Putin the name of the dbl agent‼️@MingGao26 apple.news/AGPyBvnOzRbiAw…
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Clint Watts
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This is disturbing & no surprise. No words to describe how devastating & costly this is to our intel community. Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017 - CNNPolitics cnn.com/2019/09/09/pol…
Also worry about protection this source after extraction. We’ve seen Russia systematically hunting down spies in UK, enemies in Germany, would they attack someone in the US? Would 🇺🇸 let that happen? Would this presidential admin do anything?
We’re unlikely to see or know from the outside, but I hope congressional intel committees are doing a full accounting on the loss of intelligence collection in last 3 years taking into account the loss/removal of sources, decrease in sharing by long term partners
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I’m guessing this is about the “source” in the sealed envelopes Brennan gave Obama.

Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017 - CNNPolitics cnn.com/2019/09/09/pol…
Lol, does @CNN still listen to @RepAdamSchiff?
Current CIA Director Bramell calling out CNN’s hackery!
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