Positing a theory I hope someone w/very good CIA sources considers: Gina Haspel has both seriously ratcheted up ops against Russia and is backing Trump into a corner on Kashoggi. Doesn't mean I support her. But do suspect the woman who protected torture knows Deep State 101.
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I think the Russia front likely has several USG ppl (who see the obvious & don't cower to King Idiot). Saudi leak: Could be any one person in CIA or NSA with access to such intercepts; why do you think it goes up all the way to CIA leadership?
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Fwiw, I agree with Marcy that these are 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 leaks, and likely by highly placed US IC persons. And by 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡, I mean that the leaks have the backing of US IC leadership.
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I value Marcy's & your opinion on this a lot more than my broad guesses...asking to broaden my understanding: what leads you to believe Khashoggi leak to WaPo had IC leadership blessings vs a lone IC actor pissed that USG betrayed a US resident/prominent US media columnist?
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Speaking only for myself as an amateur observer and tea-leaf reader, I'm confident in my belief that US IC leadership fully backed this leak, but it is only a belief and not certain knowledge. IOW, YMMV. :-)
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I was asking for your reasoning behind that assumption tho so I could better understand it...civilian tea-leaf readers aren't supposed to have classified info they can't disclose

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I know, but explaining my reasoning is hard with the limited characters of Twitter. Part of my belief is the way the leak was worded. It just didn't come across a whistleblower-style leak, but rather as an official pronouncement. As in "we know what you did & we're telling".
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1. Here's the best I can come up with short of a treatise: US IC leak to
@washingtonpost that intercepts confirm Saudi intention to take Khashoggi down. US IC briefs US Senate. 22 Senators demand legally-required WH response on a Global Magnitsky Act sanctions determination. -
2. Add both of these things together and you get an official US IC effort putting the Saudis in the cross-hairs. They are not separate actions, but connected. Therefore the leak was official US IC action to let Saudis publicly know we have the evidence. I can't read it otherwise.
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Good point! Whoever it is, they've certainly upped their game.
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