
Soon after the appearance of reports on the existence of a certain document, which contains information about the allegedly available compromise on Donald Trump, the elected president of the United States discussed the current situation with the head of the US National Intelligence James Clapper. In his statement, after a telephone conversation, Trump called the report "false and false."
"James Clapper called me yesterday to condemn a false and inaccurate report that was illegally distributed. Invented, linden facts. Very bad!" - wrote the elected president of the United States, whose inauguration will be held on January 20, on his official page on Twitter .
Earlier, the media wrote that Clapper was discussing on Wednesday in the evening, January 11, with Donald Trump, the press in the press about the document, which contains information about the alleged compromise for the future head of state.
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As stated in the widespread statement of Clapper, in an interview with Trump, he emphasized that this document is not related to American intelligence.
According to the head of intelligence, with the elected president they talked about the closed briefings held last Friday, which were dedicated to cyber attacks committed during the election campaign and attributed to Russia.
“We also discussed a document of a private security company, which in recent months has been widely dispersed in the media, among the members of the Congress, the employees of its apparatus, even before the intelligence community has become known about it. I emphasized that this document was not compiled by American intelligence, and I do not think that the leak came from intelligence services,” Clapper emphasized.
According to The Wall Street Journal and Forbes, intelligence is understood as Orbis Business Intelligence under a private security organization, which was founded by the former British intelligence officer Christopher Stil .
The head of the exploration noted that the US intelligence services do not confirm the reliability of these documents and do not draw any conclusions on their basis. According to Clapper, in an interview with Trump, he expressed “deep concern” in connection with publications and they both agreed that such leaks harm the US national security.
However, Clapper emphasized, "part of our obligations is to provide politicians with the most complete picture on any issues regarding our national security."
This week, the American CNN television channel with reference to people who have access to secret information, reported the possible presence of compromising evidence for Trump for Russian special services. It was noted that the American side became known about this from a former British intelligence officer Mi6, who received data from Russian sources.
Trump at a press conference on Wednesday stated that Russia could not have any compromise on it, and sharply criticized the media that publish unverified data.