CIA Refuses to Release Information on Tinubu Alleged Drug Trafficking, Says ‘He is an active source’
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has refused to release information on the President Bola Tinubu alleged drug trafficking saga.
CIA cryptically said the President is an “Human source” and revealing such information may endanger the national security.
This was revealed in a U.S. District Court filing where the CIA, FBI, and DEA opposed a civil lawsuit seeking Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disclosure on Tinubu’s alleged drug trafficking investigation records.
According to a report from a West Africa Weekly, the CIA, FBI, and DEA filed a memorandum opposing motion for summary judgment in the FOIA disclosure case about Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s drug trafficking investigation records, seeking to have the redactions removed from the (partially released) files.
In the filing, the CIA effectively confirmed that Nigeria’s Tinubu is an active CIA asset.
An excerpt from the CIA filing reads, “Human sources can be expected to furnish information to the CIA only when they are confident the CIA can and will do everything in its power to prevent the public disclosure of their cooperation. In the case of a person who has been cooperating with the CIA, official confirmation of that cooperation could cause the targets to take retaliatory action against that person or against their family or friends.
“It also places in jeopardy every individual with whom the cooperating individual has had contact.
“Thus, the indiscretion of one source in a chain of intelligence sources can damage an entire spectrum of sources. As such, confirming or denying the existence of records on a particular foreign national, like Tinubu, reasonably could be expected to cause damage to U.S. national security by indicating whether or not the CIA maintained any human intelligence sources related to Tinubu, and identifying any access or lack of access any such sources had to intelligence concerning him.”
The filing in a paragraph added: “We oppose full, unredacted disclosure of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu heroin trafficking investigation records because we believe that while Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to.”
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