Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told the senior aide to stop providing intelligence assessments on Russia's interference in the United States, the now removed official said in a whistleblower complaint released on Wednesday. Brian Murphy also says in a whistle-blower complaint filed with the agency's inspector general that he was demoted from his position for refusing to do so. The former FBI agent and Marine Corps veteran had served as principal deputy under secretary in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. A copy of the complaint was released Wednesday by Rep. Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee. On a second occasion in July, Murphy said that Wolf told him that an intelligence notification on Russian disinformation efforts should be 'held' because 'it made the president look bad.'

Source: Daily Mail September 09, 2020 19:30 UTC