cia operations officer. now, with georgetown university center for security studies. now, earlier, i asked him about the u.s.' strategy of releasing apparently classified intel in an effort to head off possible russian plans. have a listen. >> it's really unprecedent -- precedented, the amount of information that was declassified from apparently real intel jennings. we have seen the khashoggi report. we have seen the information on russian meddling. those are finished products that had gone through analytic review and a good deal of scrubbing before it was made declassified. here, we have the president secretary of defense releasing almost daily information that seems to be coming in a stream of information. we haven't seen that since at least december of 1980 when we tried to hold off the then soviets who were planning to invade poland. i don't necessarily think it was done with the belief it was going to preempt putin's invasion. i think we were pretty confident he was going to do it. i would like to think it was