"CNN: US top-secret documents on Russia are missing. ”A revelation from CNN attracted the attention of the Russian media "Russia Today" (RT) on the 16th.
According to CNN, U.S. intelligence agents have been looking for a binder containing information about the so-called "Russiagate" investigation for nearly three years, and former Trump had hoped to declassify the documents and make them public, but the FBI and CIA tried hard to stop him.
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The mystery of the missing binder: how a batch of primitive Russian intelligence (documents) disappeared during the Trump administration. CNN broke the news on this topic the day before, according to people familiar with the matterToward the end of Trump's term, a binder containing highly classified information related to "Russian interference in the United States" went missing, raising alarm among intelligence agents who feared that some of the *** secrets involving the United States and its allies could be leaked. According to sources, the disappearance of the documents in question is so worrying that U.S. intelligence briefed the leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee last year about the missing materials and efforts to recover them.
CNN mentions,The intelligence is so sensitive that lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret security clearances can only view the materials at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. RT also noted that Trump's order to declassify has sparked a series of panic within the U.S. intelligence agencies, with the C.I.A., F.B.I. director, and U.S. *** bureau chief all rushing to Capitol Hill to express their "deep concerns" about Trump's possible leak of the materials to the congressional intelligence committee leadership.
According to an American** familiar with the matter, the binder was not among the classified items found during a search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last year. **Global Network Editor: Ying Chen.