A declassified memo shows the U.S. intel community had information that was suppressed from the president and Congress.
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has requested President Donald Trump’s administration declassify information from U.S. intelligence regarding China’s attempts to influence American voters or interfere with the nation’s elections.
Senator Johnson said, “I wish they briefed the American people on it. I don’t know why you want to keep this classified or hidden. This needs to be thoroughly investigated, and when we have the results of that investigation, make it available to the public. The sooner, the better.”
A National Intelligence Council memo from April 2020 stated, “[Redacted] Chinese intelligence officials analyzed multiple U.S. states’ [Redacted] election voter registration data, [Redacted] to conduct public opinion analysis on the 2020 U.S. general election.” The memo has recently drawn attention, though it was declassified in 2022.
“We knew by April 2020 that Chinese intelligence had voter registration data from multiple states and was analyzing it with an eye toward the 2020 election,” former NIC officer Christopher Porter stated. “But CIA blocked efforts to inform President Trump and later stopped many of these reports from being made available to Congress.”
“[CIA] Director Ratcliffe is committed to ensuring intelligence assessments are produced and evaluated objectively and in accordance with rigorous analytic tradecraft standards,” said CIA Public Affairs Director Liz Lyons. “The integrity of our elections is critical to our republic, and Director Ratcliffe has made clear that America’s adversaries will be exposed and held accountable for any attempt to undermine it.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For Director Ratcliffe and CIA officials as they assess the threat of election interference in the U.S. midterms this year.
- For President Trump as he considers the request from Senator Johnson and receives briefings from the U.S. intelligence community.
Sources: Just the News, NextGov, Baltimore Sun
