Top US intelligence official releases unverified, previously rejected Russia information before presidential debate

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WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - President Donald Trump's top intelligence official on Tuesday (Sept 29) released unverified information about the 2016 campaign that appeared to be a bid to help Mr Trump politically and was said to be disclosed over the objections of career intelligence officials who were concerned that the material could be Russian disinformation.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's top intelligence official on Tuesday released unverified information about the 2016 campaign that appeared to be a bid to help Mr Trump politically and was said to be disclosed over the objections of career intelligence officials who were concerned that the material could be Russian disinformation.

In a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr Ratcliffe laid out snippets of previously classified reports suggesting that Russian intelligence had acquired information that Mrs Clinton had approved a plan for her 2016 campaign to"stir up a scandal" against Mr Trump by tying him to the Russian hackers who had broken into Democratic servers.

He helped lead an exhaustive bipartisan investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign that detailed extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence officials. Democrats called the releases one of the starkest examples of politicisation of the intelligence agencies under Mr Trump.

The intelligence agencies have stopped short of definitively assessing the material as disinformation.

 

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