SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The country’s No. 2 intelligence official indicated Tuesday that the clandestine community would comply with congressional requests to inform lawmakers about the extent of Attorney General William Barr’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign.
House and Senate Intelligence committee leaders have expressed concerns to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats in recent weeks that Barr will seek to declassify national security secrets, and risk exposing intelligence gathering techniques.
“We spend every day being responsible both to the executive branch and to the oversight committee. I’m confident that as this unfolds, we’ll work to make sure that we can fulfill both our responsibilities,” Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, told POLITICO when asked about a letter sent last week by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
However, she stopped short of offering a firm “yes” because the review “hasn’t unfolded yet.” Barr announced his intention last month to evaluate the origins of the FBI probe into links between Moscow and the 2016 Trump campaign, which later was assumed by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“I can’t speculate on whether it’s going to be easy or hard … we know how to respond to both our oversight and to the executive branch and protect the interests and our responsibilities to each,” Gordon said during an interview on the sidelines of the 2019 GEOINT Symposium, a gathering of U.S. intelligence officials and personnel.
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