Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.

A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.

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. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.

The disclosure to the Russians by the President, though not about the Russian spy specifically, prompted intelligence officials to renew earlier discussions about the potential risk of exposure, according to the source directly involved in the matter.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/politics/russia-us-spy-extracted/index.html?utm_content=2019-09-09T13%3A03%3A12&utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_medium=social

[cstanleytech]

2. Probably to prevent Donald from telling Putin.

[TygrBright]

3. OMG... Guys, YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS SH*T...

Yanno, mostly I am a person who's extremely fond of transparency, whether it scares the horses or not.

And thank you, yes, getting an at-risk asset out of a potentially lethal situation (precipitated by President Flappymouth Nullbrain) was undoubtedly the right thing to do. Well done, you, on that.

BUT THEN TALKING ABOUT IT TO THE PRESS?

Y'all know better than I do that two years is NOT ENOUGH TIME to make a caper like that public property.

Now the KGB, excuse me, I mean GRU, is now pulling large amounts of data in for analysis and checking to see just how much they can learn about what we do to pull off such a stunt, who might have been involved that might still be around, how to prevent it happening again, etc.

Well done, you.... NOT.

Cripes. I cannot imagine the number of flat places on foreheads in the intel community by this time...

wearily,
Bright

[William Seger]

8. Ruskies shouldn't have any trouble figuring out who it was

... so everything he was involved with will go under the magnifying glass.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Thankfully safe, but it's not an easily replaceable asset

and at this point highly likely the Russians figured out who left and who it may well have been

[dalton99a]

6. Putin knows.

Intelligence "sharing" was probably very high on the agenda for the two-hour-plus secret meeting in Helsinki

[Merlot]

5. Which means that trumpft actually succeeded in helping putin

Whether trumpft did it accidentally or on purpose (at putins bidding as I doubt trumpft has the. smarts to figure out how this would play out), the end result is that trumpft did a solid for putin.

I had always wondered about the brazen nature of that meeting. putin realized that by making trumpt appear untrustworthy and by having the US spy agencies question his loyalty, they would withdraw their assets. putins a former spy, he knows how this stuff works.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. It's a great mystery why Trump is oblivious to the concept of

classified information, but traffics in smears of "Fake News!" all the time while simultaneously manufacturing his own version of reality in-house. Some seriously crossed circuits there.

[Jedi Guy]

9. I wonder who authorized the extraction.

For that kind of covert operation in a foreign country, you'd think they'd have to get the President's say-so. Since that wasn't possible here for obvious reasons, who gave the green light? Pence? Pompeo?

You know Dolt 45 is gonna go on a rampage now in an attempt to discover who authorized this. If I were that person, I'd be getting ready to vamoose.

[yaesu]

10. so, trumps coziness with putin caused the CIA to extract its most valuable Russian asset back in '17

that should be the headline and impeachable offence number 228.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Thanks to the dotard's fuck ups

Always have to clean up after him

[Grins]

12. NOW can we impeach him...? NM

[Grins]

13. Get the interpreter's notes!!!

They will be needed as evidence in his trial for treason.