WASHINGTON—Newly declassified intelligence emails reveal that decisions were made by National Security Agency (NSA) leadership to block reports of Chinese influence in American elections from reaching President Donald Trump.
Four pages of emails, all dated March 13, 2020, were released on Aug. 18 by the White House Government Transparency Task Force.
According to one email—written by an unidentified NSA employee following a meeting about intelligence reporting foreign efforts to target the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections in the United States beginning in 2014—internal concerns were raised about the agency’s suppression of the reports.
“We did not know why we were here, trying to defend the election and identify threats to it, if we were unable to actually report what those threats were because of issues like this,” the NSA employee wrote….
NSA Blocked Reports of CCP Interference in US Elections From Reaching Trump: Declassified Docs
