text:  senior cia leadership had an opportunity at that time to slow down the cia's process for reviewing publication submissions ensure that such an extraordinary statement was properly vetted but they didn't they wanted it fed to the media just like they did the pictures with the classified covers that the fbi brought to mar-a-lago so they could put it in a photograph and they could send it to the media and the media would cover their water and in this case joe biden could say during the debate