{"id":1276818,"date":"2022-02-06T20:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1276818"},"modified":"2022-02-06T20:37:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:37:35","slug":"exclusive-fred-fleitz-timing-of-u-s-intel-accusing-russia-of-false-flag-attack-too-convenient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-fred-fleitz-timing-of-u-s-intel-accusing-russia-of-false-flag-attack-too-convenient\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Fred Fleitz: Timing of U.S. Intel Accusing Russia of \u2018False Flag\u2019 Attack \u2018Too Convenient\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-fred-fleitz-timing-of-u-s-intel-accusing-russia-of-false-flag-attack-too-convenient%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1276818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Recently declassified intelligence claiming Russia is preparing an elaborate \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, just as the Biden administration dispatched thousands of U.S. troops to Eastern Europe while warning Ukraine faces an \u201cimminent threat\u201d seems \u201cjust a little too convenient,\u201d according to former National Security Council (NSC) chief of staff and CIA official Fred Fleitz, who called for the release of the intelligence report for further analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Friday, Fred Fleitz, who served as deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and the chief of staff of the NSC, discussed the Biden administration\u2019s claim that Moscow is planning to fabricate a pretext to invade Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_11144027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fred-Fleitz-file16-SecureFreedom-screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11144027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fred-Fleitz-file16-SecureFreedom-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Fleitz\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Fred Fleitz (securefreedom\/YouTube)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Asked about the intelligence indicating an upcoming operation as well as the unusual manner it was declassified at a State Department briefing on Thursday, Fleitz cast doubt on its reliability.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19738946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/joe-biden-prayer-breakfast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19738946 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/joe-biden-prayer-breakfast-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"US President Joe Biden speaks at the 70th National Prayer Breakfast at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB \/ AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the 70th National Prayer Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2022. (SAUL LOEB\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cI was in the intelligence community at the CIA for 19 years and I was with the House Intelligence Committee for five years, so I know a lot about intelligence and I know that intelligence reports are sometimes wrong [and] sometimes politicized,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17119706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233447259.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17119706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233447259.png\" alt=\"Volodymyr Zelensky\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talks to journalists in his office in Kiev on June 14, 2021. (SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Fleitz, who currently serves as vice chair of the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security, also stressed the importance of allowing access to declassified information.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19639706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/russia-putin-russian-president-vladimir-putin-moscow-russia-tuesday-jan-25-2022-sputnik-kremlin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19639706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/russia-putin-russian-president-vladimir-putin-moscow-russia-tuesday-jan-25-2022-sputnik-kremlin.png\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. (, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThere are many instances when CIA sources will tell the agency what it wants to hear because the sources want to be paid, so it\u2019s important that when you have intelligence like this and if it\u2019s declassified, you let people see it,\u201d he said, adding if the administration is going to make a statement that we\u2019ve declassified intelligence on this important development, \u201cthey need to show it to us [now that] it\u2019s declassified.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When that doesn\u2019t happen, Fleitz argued, it signals something is amiss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen this administration says \u2018we\u2019ve declassified this intelligence but we won\u2019t let you see it, [just] take our word on it\u2019 \u2014 alarm bells go off for me,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s not the way things operate,\u201d he added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also addressed a recent heated exchange between Associated Press reporter Matt Lee and State Department spokesperson Ned Price regarding the nature of how the Biden administration chose to declassify the information through a verbal statement, without providing any documented evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Heated exchange between <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APDiploWriter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@APDiploWriter<\/a> Matt Lee and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDeptSpox?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StateDeptSpox<\/a> Ned Price on declassified information. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8TFJdSW4M6\">pic.twitter.com\/8TFJdSW4M6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1489329356644229132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cNed Price kept saying \u2018I\u2019ll give you a transcript of this press conference, then you\u2019ll have a record of the declassified intelligence\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s essentially what he said,\u201d Fleitz said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd the reporter [Matt Lee] was angry at him and he said \u2018no, it doesn\u2019t work that way; if it\u2019s declassified, that means the document has been released,\u2019\u201d he added, \u201c\u2018and if that\u2019s not the case it hasn\u2019t been declassified.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf it\u2019s sensitive, it\u2019s not declassified,\u201d Fleitz elaborated. \u201cIf there\u2019s some reason you can\u2019t release it, it hasn\u2019t been declassified; it\u2019s an either-or, black or white.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Asked why the declassified information wasn\u2019t simply released in a report, Fleitz suggested it demonstrated that matters were likely being concealed from the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWell, it suggests that there\u2019s something wrong with this information,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey\u2019re obviously hiding something,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fleitz then explained how releasing the report could help assess its credibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBasically we could read the specifics of these actors who are supposedly being hired to pretend to be Ukrainians starting a false flag operation,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Noting that \u201csensitive names\u201d of people and sources could be \u201cblacked out,\u201d Fleitz saw no justification in withholding the remaining information from the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut they aren\u2019t releasing anything,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re just saying, \u2018take our word on it; we have this.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s not good enough,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a result of the administration\u2019s decision not to release relevant information to the public, Fleitz gathered that the intel was likely weak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo my guess is that there\u2019s something they\u2019re hiding \u2014 that this information isn\u2019t as good as what they\u2019re saying it is,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fleitz also claimed that an intelligence agency\u2019s possession of such a cable says nothing of its reliability.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere are intelligence reports alleging all kinds of wild stuff all the time,\u201d he said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean this is true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLet me put it to you this way, and we know this from hard experience: the fact that the CIA says something is true, doesn\u2019t mean it is,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe know better than that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fleitz described the timing of the intelligence as \u201ctoo convenient.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s awfully convenient this shows up when Biden is talking about an \u2018imminent threat\u2019 and they\u2019re sending U.S. soldiers to the region,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s just a little too convenient that this shows up at this moment,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fleitz spent 25 years in various national security positions at the CIA, DIA, the Department of State, and the House Intelligence Committee staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He currently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/americafirstpolicy.com\/team\"><span>serves<\/span><\/a><span> as vice chair of AFPI\u2019s Center for American Security.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The remarks come as President Joe Biden continues to spar with Russia over Ukraine, announcing plans to send U.S. troops to Eastern Europe \u201cin the near term\u201d amid increasing tensions between the two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a>.<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently declassified intelligence claiming Russia is preparing an elaborate \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, just as the Biden administration dispatched thousands of U.S. troops to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}