Trump is defending his unprecedented decision to give his Justice Department chief unfettered access to the country’s deepest foreign intelligence secrets amid an outcry from the spy community.
But politicians and former intelligence community leaders said Trump and Barr are threatening to expose the country’s most protected sources of secrets on Russia to mount a political attack on a legitimate investigation that exposed a serious threat to the United States.
Critics said Trump and Barr, who has become one of the president’s staunchest defenders, were playing fast and loose with intelligence for political reasons. “I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the intelligence community in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly-sensitive classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk,” he said.
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