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struggle4progress

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Fri Feb 7, 2025, 08:21 PM Feb 7

Pelosi: He's likely unaware of intelligence moves

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by Tara Suter - 02/06/25 4:29 PM ET

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Trump is likely unaware of the use of unclassified email by the CIA to provide a list of employees recently brought on by the agency to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

“Senator (Mark) Warner, I thought, perfectly addressed the issues that relate to intelligence. Asking for the names of sources …. therefore methods of our intelligence, which is there to protect our men and women in uniform and the American people, is with stiff competition, one of the worst ideas of this administration so far, with stiff competition, the worst idea,” Pelosi told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell ...

“Exposing the identities of officials who do extremely sensitive work would put a direct target on their backs for China. A disastrous national security development,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said in a post on the social platform X on Wednesday ...

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), also criticized the CIA’s move ...

“I am very concerned that the CIA shared identifying details about its officers on an unclassified system. Those details are secret for a reason — because protecting the identities of CIA employees is critical to their safety and mission, a mission that helps keep Americans safe every day,” Himes said previously ...

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5131210-pelosi-trump-cia-agents-list-opm/

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Pelosi: He's likely unaware of intelligence moves (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 7 OP
I think someone in Trump's office knew exactly what they were doing? Irish_Dem Feb 7 #1
Locking. Lasher Feb 7 #2

Irish_Dem

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1. I think someone in Trump's office knew exactly what they were doing?
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 09:21 PM
Feb 7

Why specifically ask for the info to be sent in an unclassified format?

Lasher

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2. Locking.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 09:39 PM
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