EXCLUSIVE: The chairmen of Congress’s Intelligence Committees wanted a “damage assessment” about how Donald Trump hoarding those documents may have hindered national security. But the assessment never happened, and a source blames party politics.
, what was supposed to be a secret and sober exercise in oversight quickly became a fountain of false equivalencies, according to former intelligence officials.
Hayden, who led the NSA and CIA for a decade, stressed that top legislators should have been quickly looped into any potential fallout from Trump’s decision to hoard some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets. In the weeks after FBI agents recovered more than 100 classified records at Trump’s oceanside Florida estate of Mar-a-Lago, top lawmakers asked the feds for more information. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines promised she would provide a briefing detailing any destructive fallout—which would include murdered spies, ruined surveillance technology, or stolen military blueprints.The two chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, Sen. Mark Warner and Rep.
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