New Delhi, July 17 -- The Trump administration's decision to declassify hundreds of pages of intelligence records related to the alleged discrepancies related to 2020 US presidential election has thrust Christopher Porter, a relatively little-known intelligence analyst, into the spotlight.

Porter, a former National Intelligence Council (NIC) officer and senior cyber intelligence analyst within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), authored a series of classified dissenting memos in 2020 that challenged the broader US intelligence community's assessment of China's role in the presidential election.

While most intelligence agencies concluded that China did not conduct an influence campaign aimed at affecting the outc...