In last night's national address, Donald Trump declassified documents that show intelligence officials —the so-called "deep state"— actively worked to conceal that information about Chinese interference in the 2020 elections reached the knowledge of the American people and the president himself.
In particular, Trump denounced that a group of intelligence agents attempted to cover up that Xi Jinping's regime sought to collect data from the US voter rolls to interfere in those federal elections in favor of Joe Biden.
"At this moment, I am basically managing a government in the shadows within the FBI", wrote Nikki Floris, then Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, in a declassified text message. Floris was the spy who led efforts to suppress an intelligence report accusing Biden and the Chinese Communist Party of colluding to produce fake driver's licenses to facilitate fraudulent mail-in votes.
According to the files, the FBI feared that the content of the report censored by Floris contradicted the statements of its then-director, Christopher Wray, before Congress, who had testified that foreign interference did not pose a significant threat to the presidential election. For this reason, the agency began to alter and withhold information from Trump in the daily intelligence reports received by the head of state.
The CIA and FBI knew about Chinese interference since April 2020
"We have deliberately modified the only pending PDB to avoid any direct link to the election", wrote a Strategic Intelligence analyst specializing in China, whose name remains hidden, at the end of November 2020. The cover-up reached the ears of spies belonging to the National Intelligence Council, who expressed their opposition.
"This is a very good example, although far from the only one, of what I have been pointing out since the summer: the Intelligence Community is deliberately avoiding mentioning any connection to the elections for reasons that are not substantive", noted a cybersecurity expert working for the intelligence community.
"By April 2020, we knew that Chinese intelligence had data from voter registrations from several states and was analyzing it with an eye on the 2020 elections", former spy Christopher Porter assured the portal Just the News in March. "But the CIA blocked attempts to inform President Trump and then prevented many of those reports from reaching Congress."
