All of that culminated with a detailed explanation of the problem that appeared in the President’s Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January, the sources said.
All of that culminated with a detailed explanation of the problem that appeared in the President’s Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January, the sources said.
Not only is it rare for intelligence agencies to issue public comments on its operation, it’s even rarer to have them do so to claim they missed a major issue. Yesterday, ABC News claimed that the DIA had warned the White House about the coronavirus outbreak in “late November.” The alleged report from the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), based on “wire and computer intercepts, focused on the threat to US forces in the Asia theater.
There’s only one problem, the NCMI late yesterday. They’ve looked all over for this alleged document, and it doesn’t exist:
Anonymous sources also told CNN that other intelligence agencies were tracking the information, but that the date of their first report wasn’t “clear.” However, in the CNN report, they note that the information didn’t make it into the presidential daily briefing for weeks:
US spy agencies were tracking the rise of the novel coronavirus as early as November, weeks before that information was included in President Donald Trump’s daily intelligence briefing, a former US military official told CNN.
While the exact date of the first report remains unclear, sources told CNN that intelligence gathered in November and in the weeks following offered multiple early warnings about the potential severity of the pandemic now surging in the US.
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What else was the intel community doing around that time? Any thoughts?
When it got to POTUS action was taken
You backdate intelligence briefings, you get front page credit.
Like Turd.
All of that culminated with a detailed explanation of the problem that appeared in the President’s Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January, the sources said.
Fuck off
Emphasis mine.
There’s only one problem, the NCMI late yesterday. They’ve looked all over for this alleged document, and it doesn’t exist:
Anonymous sources also told CNN that other intelligence agencies were tracking the information, but that the date of their first report wasn’t “clear.” However, in the CNN report, they note that the information didn’t make it into the presidential daily briefing for weeks:
While the exact date of the first report remains unclear, sources told CNN that intelligence gathered in November and in the weeks following offered multiple early warnings about the potential severity of the pandemic now surging in the US.