חוקרים בארה"ב: בכיר לשעבר בסוכנות לביטחון לאומי לא העביר לטראמפ מידע מודיעיני על התערבות סין בבחירות

Newly declassified documents reveal the NSA blocked intelligence about China interfering in U.S. elections from reaching President Trump. That's as the Justice Department plans to deploy around 1,000 election monitors nationwide for the upcoming November midterms. KNDZ's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more. Newly declassified documents reveal that the National Security Agency's deputy director blocked reports of foreign influence in U.S. elections from reaching President Trump. The White House Government Transparency Task Force just released these four pages of emails from March 2020. In them, one NSA analyst wrote that officials had spent months working to publish intelligence about the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to subvert U.S. elections, specifically the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. But according to the emails, the NSA's number two at the time, Deputy Director George Barnes, They say Barnes worried that releasing the intelligence could damage the NSA's credibility and make the agency appear political. The task force is now looking at more records to find out why intelligence was not shared with the president, Congress, or some senior intelligence officials, saying more documents are expected in the coming weeks.