text:  who then informed the then director of the CIA, Haspel, or then deputy director, Vaughn Frederick Bishop, that the statement would soon be published. The CIA leadership, the active CIA leadership at the very top, had the opportunity to slow this down because it was fake news and it was obviously agency interference in the political process, but they didn't do that. They didn't do that at all. And by not doing that, the CIA, the active CIA, co-signed it.