Nikki Floris, a former senior FBI counterintelligence official who helped oversee election security in 2020, wrote that she was “basically running a shadow government across the FBI” as the bureau recalled a report alleging China was manufacturing fraudulent driver’s licenses for a mail-in ballot scheme.

President Donald Trump invoked the same “shadow government” language during his primetime address on Thursday, when he accused federal officials of concealing intelligence about Chinese election interference from his administration. Trump did not name Floris, but newly declassified FBI messages identify her as the author of the remark.