It was very quickly leaked out to different members of the media, Washington Post, New York Times, et cetera. Then it was briefed to Congress. But the key thing here is that The most classified and compartmentalized pieces of intelligence they used as the basis for this total 180 intelligence assessment... were deemed even at the time to be not acceptable. the election. They hid those sources even from the vast majority of members of Congress, because based on intelligence community tradecraft standards, they were deemed even at the time to be not acceptable. (09:33–10:06)
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Asserts that the intelligence used for the assessment was considered unacceptable by intelligence standards.
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