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When someone like this has been arrested, any operation that they would have knowledge of immediately becomes suspect from a counterintelligence perspective, anything that they've touched is now under the microscope.

Holden Triplett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So this is simply affirmation, confirmation of what has already been said both by Director Wray of the FBI and Bill Evanina, who is director of the National National Counterintelligence and Security Center and Security Center, who is kind of the nominal spokesman for election interference on behalf of the director of national intelligence.

James Clapper

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you look at what the intelligence director Bill Evanina, who runs the National Counterintelligence Center, what Bill Evanina said in Bill Evanina public written statement, Bill Evanina said that Russia was actively interfering, actively engaging across a range of measures to influence the outcome. China had a preference. And if you look at that, you can tell that Bill Barr is just flat-out lying to the American people, and it's tragic but it's as simple as that.

Top Democrats

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The transcripts also reveal why Michael Flynn was properly the subject of a counterintelligence investigation and how the DOJ's effort to dismiss the case against Michael Flynn is so transparently political and destructive to the interests of justice, as a result of lying to both the FBI and the Vice President, Michael Flynn posed a severe counterintelligence risk because the Russians knew the real contents of Flynn's communications and that Michael Flynn lied about them to the some of the most senior officials in the U.S. government.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A crime can not be established here. They did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Michael FlynnFlynn at that stage, given the current posture of this case, the Court anticipates that individuals and organizations will seek leave of the Court to file amicus curiae brief.

Attorney General William Barr

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A crime can not be established here. They did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Michael Flynn on Thursday.Barr at that stage, people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes.

Attorney General William Barr

Found on CNN
3 years ago

China remains one of the largest focuses of United States intelligence collection efforts and is only ramping up, the biggest challenge is that the Ministry of State Security (MSS) has a world-class counterintelligence and counterespionage operation. They have access to all the information that flows in, out, and through the country, as well as all possible information on their population. This makes for a supremely difficult environment to run a human source, or employ a technical collection capability.

Greg Barbaccia

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We have to be on guard, at the Department of Justice, especially at the FBI, we had a unique view as to how to interrupt their effort. Justice Department's a counterespionage, counterintelligence, all of the kind of things that you do when other countries are trying to interfere in your domestic elections.

Attorney General Matthew Whitaker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I can not remember in my career any time where an ambassador in a high counterintelligence environment like Kiev would have such an unsecure conversation with a sitting president. This just should not happen.

Ambassador Sondland

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I mean, some of it was comical, but it was also, for me and for others, deeply concerning. And I actually went to our Intelligence Bureau and asked to have( redacted) sit down with him and explain that this was a counterintelligence risk, particularly giving out our personal phone numbers, all of those communications could have been exfiltrated by the Russians very easily.

Fiona Hill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was just asked whether I or any of my clients knew of any dealings that these two guys had with Rudy Giuliani, they were on the radar with regard to possible counterintelligence issues.

Kenneth McCallion

Found on CNN
4 years ago

While I understand Robert Mueller reluctance to answer hypotheticals or deviate from the carefully worded conclusions Robert Mueller drew on Robert Mueller charging decisions, there are, nevertheless, a great many questions Robert Mueller can answer that go beyond the report, including any counterintelligence issues and classified matters that were not addressed in Robert Mueller findings.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There were counterintelligence activities undertaken against the Trump campaign. And I'm not saying there was not a basis for it, ... but I want to see what that basis was and make sure it was legitimate.

William Barr

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I just think it has to be carefully looked at because the use of foreign intelligence capabilities and counterintelligence capabilities against an American political campaign to me is unprecedented and it's a serious red line that's been crossed.

William Barr

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Many people seem to assume that the only intelligence collection that occurred was a single confidential informant and a FISA warrant, i'd like to find out whether that is, in fact, true. It strikes me as a fairly anemic effort if that was the counterintelligence effort designed to stop the threat as it's being represented.

William Barr

Found on CNN
4 years ago

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives for a Democratic Caucus meeting in Washington back in March. Adam Schiff, the focus of Republicans' post-Mueller ire, says Mueller's conclusion would not affect his own committee's counterintelligence probes. ( AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) As both the special counsel and the Department of Justice have recognized, the Congress has a vital constitutional role in evaluating misconduct by the executive branch, including the president, and to assess and refine laws that address the sweeping and systematic invasion of our democracy by Russia, we therefore need these materials in order to do our job.

Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Government officials, with access to classified information derived from a counterintelligence investigation and from classified intelligence intercepts, engaged in a campaign of illegal leaks against the president.

White House

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As a longtime counterintelligence investigator it makes the hair stand on the back of my neck.

Frank Montoya

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We have made a formal request for all of the information and findings in the counterintelligence investigation, as they're required to provide us under the National Security Act of 1947, our priority at the moment has been to make sure this report is made public, and make as much of the report public as possible, but we will be following through to make sure we get the counterintelligence information that they're obligated to provide.

New York

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have an independent basis to want the counterintelligence information, after all of this began as a counterintelligence investigation, to determine, to find out whether The President or people in The President campaign had been compromised in any way by a foreign power, that means giving us classified information, that means giving us grand jury information.

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am going to ask the FBI director - was there a counterintelligence investigation opened up regarding the president as being a potential agent of the Russians? I find it astonishing.

Lindsey Graham

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The FBI, in late July, opened counterintelligence investigations of four Americans to see if they were working in any way with the Russians to influence our elections.

Carter Page

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These documents affirm that our nation faced a profound counterintelligence threat prior to the 2016 election, and the Department of Justice and The FBI took appropriate steps to investigate whether any U.S. persons were acting as an agent of a foreign power.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think the American people are beginning to see what we’ve been after for a very long time, and that is—is it common, or does it happen, that counterintelligence agencies in this country…are they used to target campaigns?

Devin Nunes

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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