You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: NSA Held Back China Election Intel Due to 'Deep State' Fears

“DDIR perceived that ODNI, CIA, and to an extent the FBI had been tarred as hosting or being part of the ‘deep state’...”

While the national media and intelligence establishment were consumed with allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, a newly declassified memo shows that senior officials at the National Security Agency were worried about publicizing intelligence concerning another foreign election threat: China.

And one of the reasons was extraordinary.

A senior NSA official feared the agency would be branded part of the “deep state.”