Define Irony: NSA Held Back China Election Intel to Avoid Being Branded Part of the 'Deep State'
By Kyle Becker | 12:25 PM on August 18, 2026
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The Russia Hoax exploded into the national media during the 2016 election campaign.
The likes of Rachel Maddow, CNN, and BuzzFeed relentlessly pushed the "fever dream" that Donald Trump was a Manchurian candidate in cahoots with Russia. "Journalists" even won Pulitzers for the highly flawed, and sometimes bogus, reporting.
At the same time as Russia Hoaxers were exaggerating or lying about the support Russia was giving to the Trump campaign, the national media, the Obama administration, and the intelligence community itself were either ignoring or even downplaying the threat posed to America's elections coming from China.
A striking new report on the lengths one highly prestigious intelligence community member, the National Security Agency (NSA), went to in order to downplay China's election interference is especially damning in relief to this sensationalistic media backdrop.
That is because China was trying to stop Donald Trump from being reelected President of the United States (in 2020).
A newly declassified memo from the White House Government Transparency Task Force was released on Tuesday. It states:
“DDIR explained that he was concerned that releasing the [report] at this time – in the current political climate, with an acting ODNI who had been tasked (according to DDIR) to ‘clean house’ in the intelligence community, and with an administration that is suspicious of the IC and aggressive in removing anyone who stands in their way – would damage NSA’s credibility. He believed that questions would be asked as to why the NSA was choosing to release this information, most obviously pertinent to the 2016 election, now, more than a year after the election, and that NSA would be accused of releasing it for political purposes."
"DDIR perceived that ODNI, CIA, and to an extent the FBI had been tarred as hosting or being part of the ‘deep state’, but that NSA thus far had not been associated with the deep state and was trusted; he felt that publishing this report would destroy that trust. He felt that the questioning of NSA that would ensue would have ramifications on the credibility of NSA reporting overall and would result in morale problems among the broader NSA workforce. He repeatedly said that he wanted to protect our ability to be who we are at NSA: nonpartisan, objective, speaking truth to power."
"DDIR perceived that ODNI, CIA, and to an extent the FBI had been tarred as hosting or being part of the ‘deep state’, but that NSA thus far had not been associated with the deep state and was trusted; he felt that publishing this report would destroy that trust. He felt that the questioning of NSA that would ensue would have ramifications on the credibility of NSA reporting overall and would result in morale problems among the broader NSA workforce. He repeatedly said that he wanted to protect our ability to be who we are at NSA: nonpartisan, objective, speaking truth to power."
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READ MORE: https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/08/18/nsa-downplayed-2016-chinese-election-interference-over-deep-state-label-fears-n2205747
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