Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stated Thursday that President Trump is probably going unaware of the usage of unclassified electronic mail by the CIA to offer a listing of workers lately introduced on by the company to the Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM).
“Senator [Mark] Warner, I thought, perfectly addressed the issues that relate to intelligence. Asking for the names of sources …. therefore methods of our intelligence, which is there to protect our men and women in uniform and the American people, is with stiff competition, one of the worst ideas of this administration so far, with stiff competition, the worst idea,” Pelosi informed MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
“I [don’t even] think President Trump knows about it, cause it’s — doesn’t even reach the level of his lack of sophistication, [in] terms of intelligence,” she added.
An inventory that includes CIA workers’ first names and final initials was despatched by the intelligence company to the OPM. The workers on the checklist had been nonetheless on probation, which makes the method of dismissing them simpler.
“Exposing the identities of officials who do extremely sensitive work would put a direct target on their backs for China. A disastrous national security development,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) stated in a submit on the social platform X on Wednesday.
The highest Democrat on the Home Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), additionally criticized the CIA’s transfer.
“I am very concerned that the CIA shared identifying details about its officers on an unclassified system. Those details are secret for a reason — because protecting the identities of CIA employees is critical to their safety and mission, a mission that helps keep Americans safe every day,” Himes stated beforehand.
“From what I have learned, the CIA should not have transmitted these names in this fashion, nor should the White House have insisted on such a clearly irresponsible approach, one that could genuinely put people in danger,” he added.
The Hill has reached out to the White Home, CIA and OPM for remark.
