Major insider report released: America was aware of it; "Boys, dig the trenches"

Officials of the Biden administration have known for months that Putin is gathering tens of thousands of troops and sending tanks along the Ukrainian border, the Washington Post writes.
The newspaper listed the chronology of events that took place behind closed doors before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As the intelligence piled up, Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security adviser, became convinced that Russia was going to war in Ukraine and called an emergency meeting in the Oval Office.
Joe Biden was then told that intelligence on Putin's operational plans showed that everything was ready for a massive attack on Ukraine, and the Washington Post reported that the US intelligence community had its sources in the Russian political leadership in the form of spy apparatus and military.
According to the newspaper, Biden was then told that Putin's current plans envisage the occupation of most of the Ukrainian territory.
The report, with previously unpublished details, sheds new light on the US's struggle to restore credibility, the attempt to balance intelligence secrecy with the need to reassure allies of its veracity, and the challenge of determining how the world's most powerful military alliance will help a less-than-perfect democracy on the Russian border, without NATO firing a single bullet, the Washington Post estimates.
The newspaper states that the text was written after discussions with more than thirty high officials of the USA, Ukraine, Europe and NATO. At the first meeting in the Oval Room, which was attended by the heads of the CIA, the FBI, the first man of the Pentagon, as well as numerous other top officials of the intelligence and defense community, Biden was presented in detail with all the plans of the Russian...