In a letter forwarded to Congress, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe recently said he assesses that the Chinese Communist Party seeks to interfere in the 2020 U.S. elections. The CIA’s management suppressed information about Chinese interference in the election and deliberately downplayed the severity of the Communist Party’s interference in the U.S. election.
Comprehensive media reports, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Ratcliffe said in a letter on July 7 that based on all available intelligence, independent of any political considerations or undue pressure, he concluded that the CCP sought to influence the 2020 U.S. federal election.
He argued that the analysis of most U.S. intelligence analysts in the intelligence assessment failed to accurately and comprehensively reflect the scale of the Chinese Communist Party’s interference in the 2020 election.
Ratcliffe said the analytic ombudsman found that for those analysts who believed the CCP interfered in the U.S. election, CIA management acted to pressure those analysts to withdraw their support for the perception of CCP interference in the election.
The report by Intelligence Analyst Ombudsman Zulauf was presented to Congress on Jan. 7. And the intelligence community’s assessment of the 2020 election interference was sent to Congress on the same day.
In his report, Zulauf said that many intelligence analysts deliberately downplayed the extent of Chinese Communist interference in the U.S. 2020 election on the grounds that they disapproved of Trump‘s (Trump’s) administration policies. They even deliberately delayed the release of their assessment until Jan. 6, after the joint session certified the Electoral College votes, in order to prevent the findings from being used by the Trump administration. This shows the politicization of U.S. intelligence investigations.
Zulauf noted that intelligence analysts applied different criteria to their analysis of Russian and Chinese Communist Party interference in the election. They labeled Russia’s activities as clear election interference, but analysts were reluctant to make the same assessment of the Chinese Communist Party.
Such behavior by intelligence analysts, he stressed, violates analytical standards that call for independence from politics.
Zulauf said he was “concerned” that the polarized views of the left and right in the United States had infiltrated the intelligence system and could undermine the foundations of the United States. He stressed the importance of “ensuring the impartiality of intelligence analysis, reaffirming the objectivity of analysis and preventing the politicization of policies and measures.
In a December 3 article in the Wall Street Journal, Ratcliffe emphasized that “the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest security threat to the United States and the greatest threat to democratic freedoms around the world since World War II” and that “resisting Beijing’s attempts to reshape and dominate the world is the challenge of our generation.
Last December 6, Lin Wood, a prominent U.S. barrister, tweeted that the Chinese Communist Party is the black hand behind the current chaos in the United States, stating that it has been infiltrating U.S. government, media, academia and business from the local, state and federal levels for the past several decades to an extent and on a scale beyond imagination.
Recent Comments