A nonprofit representing hundreds of former U.S. intelligence officials called on Congress and inspectors general to open an investigation into one of the documents declassified by the White House during President Donald Trump’s recent address denigrating U.S. elections.

In a letter Tuesday, Steady State, a nonpartisan organization composed of over 400 former U.S. national security officials, warned that the CIA document in question may have been created specifically to bolster Trump’s false claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election.

The group also said that the document may have been drafted with direct input from the White House and in violation of the CIA’s internal guidelines for creating intelligence reports.

“The note is probably a cherry-picked compilation based on genuine CIA raw-reporting streams, probably assembled at White House direction for the President’s speech,” its letter, addressed to the Senate Intelligence Committee, the House Intelligence Committee and the inspectors general of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the CIA, reads.

“Agency leadership most likely bypassed CIA’s analytic directorate and tasked Directorate of Operations personnel to draft it — possibly with input from the White House Transparency Task Force — while redacting any accountable feature: no author, date, office, serial, sourcing, or agency review,” it continued.

Steady State based its claims on its own internal assessment of the document. However, it called for “a...

Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixgFBVV95cUxOVktJamwwYVY0ZEZiWEZCUHdx...