CIA book on Trump briefings more interesting for what it omits

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A CIA book claiming to present the definitive history on the intelligence community’s briefings of former President Donald Trump fails to mention that the FBI used briefings as a pretext to glean information for the Trump-Russia investigation.

The fourth edition of the book Getting to Know the President, written by retired CIA officer John Helgerson, was released over the weekend with a new ninth chapter on Trump.

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