Former intelligence official says information came from multiple colleagues but couldn’t ‘go into specifics’ at Congressional hearing into cover-up claims
I don’t think it’s a collective or organized ‘they’, probably just a few guys that didn’t appreciate Grusch nosing in on their legitimate classified operations- reverse engineering downed Chinese balloons and whatnot, so they fed him a big fish that had enough truth to sell it but also crazy enough to ‘decommission’ Grusch when he started repeating the crazy parts.
I don’t think it’s a collective or organized ‘they’, probably just a few guys that didn’t appreciate Grusch nosing in on their legitimate classified operations- reverse engineering downed Chinese balloons and whatnot, so they fed him a big fish that had enough truth to sell it but also crazy enough to ‘decommission’ Grusch when he started repeating the crazy parts.