President Donald 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 and a veiled warning from the US intelligence czar.
President Donald 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 and a veiled warning from the US intelligence czar.The president said Attorney General Bill Barr needed unilateral power to declassify any top secret material to get to the roots of the 2016-2018 investigation into whether his election campaign colluded with Russia.
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. “Giving Barr declassification authority for this investigation is a really bad idea,” he said on Twitter.Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence who oversees the various intelligence branches, stepped carefully, but also made clear that Barr should not play loose with the country’s secrets.
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