A new undercover report by the O’Keefe Media Group claims that leaders of the intelligence community, including former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former CIA Director Gina Haspel, withheld information from former President Donald Trump throughout his administration.
On Wednesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) publicly called for the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to investigate the allegations raised by the O’Keefe Media Group regarding federal agencies withholding information from a sitting president.
Gaetz shared an undercover video posted by James O’Keefe of a Deloitte contractor who allegedly has worked as a program manager in Cyber Operations at the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA).
“This footage contains evidence that American intelligence agencies withheld intelligence from President Donald Trump before and during his presidency and used Foreign Intelligence Act (FISA) authorities to spy on President Trump and may be doing so today,” Gaetz wrote Wednesday in a letter to Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
The video, which included recordings of various meetings between the alleged government contractor and an undercover reporter, shows a man named Amjad Fseisi admitting that multiple intelligence agencies intentionally withheld information from Trump over concerns that Trump would “disclose it.”
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In the video, Fseisi said that the intelligence agencies “all got together and said, ‘We’re not gonna tell Trump.'” The contractor claimed that the effort to withhold information from Trump included the leaders of the various intelligence agencies.
“The executive staff,” Fseisi said. “We’re talking about the director and his subordinates,” which he claimed included Haspel and Pompeo, who both served as CIA directors under the Trump administration.
Fseisi claimed that the intelligence agencies “kept information from him [Trump] because we knew he’d f-cking disclose it.” He added, “There are certain people that would…give him a high-level overview but never give him any details. You know why? Because he’ll leak those details…He’s a Russian asset. He’s owned by the f-cking Russians.”
Despite being recorded on camera, Fseisi denied his statements when he was later confronted by O’Keefe. While he admitted he worked for Deloitte, Fseisi refused to tell O’Keefe whether he works for the CIA.
Responding to the allegations that intelligence agencies withheld information from the former president, a CIA spokesperson told the O’Keefe Media Group, “These claims about CIA are absolutely false and ridiculous. CIA is a resolutely apolitical institution that provides intelligence support to policymakers including the President of the United States, irrespective of who occupies the office.”
The CIA spokesperson added, “We are a foreign intelligence focused Agency and do not monitor the former President. The individual making these allegations is a former contractor who does not represent CIA.”
