During the Trump era, a folder with intelligence data on the Russian Federation disappeared from the White House – media

At the end of Donald Trump’s presidential term, the White House lost a folder with secret documents about Russian interference in the US presidential election. CNN reported this on Friday, December 15, citing its own sources.

The folder contains intelligence collected by the United States and its NATO allies on Russian agents, information about the collection of data on the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and data on the sources of all this information .

“The information is so sensitive that congressmen and their aides with security clearances can only see the files at the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. And the notes they made while studying the these documents could not be taken with them – they were hidden. in a safe at Langley. The loss of the folder caused a scandal. Intelligence officials feared that the secrets of the United States and its NATO allies may be revealed,” CNN wrote.

It was noted that the folder was last seen in the White House at the end of Trump’s tenure.

“The day before Trump left the White House, he ordered it brought in to declassify some documents related to the investigation into Russian election interference. Under the supervision of then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the folder was carefully reviewed by Republican aides with confidential clearance information. Several redacted copies were made and intended to be distributed to congressional Republicans and journalists sympathetic to the Republican Party. The copies were later removed for further approval, and then they ended up in the National Archives,” the article says.

Despite the order, the documents were never published by the Ministry of Justice, and copies, with varying degrees of redaction, ended up in the National Archives.

But the unedited version of the classified intelligence was lost amid the chaos that reigned in the White House in the final hours of Trump’s presidency, CNN wrote.

It will be remembered that Axios reported that the allies of the US presidential candidate Donald Trump are trying people loyal to him for an unprecedented collapse of democracy and usurpation of power.

In the past, Donald Trump admitted that he was blackmailing European leaders that the United States, under his leadership, would not defend NATO allies in the event of a Russian attack.