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A career CIA officer explained in rare public remarks on Monday what shes learned about adapting intelligence briefings to the unique style of a particular customer in her case, President Donald Trump.
Beth Sanner, a senior official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence who also serves as Trumps primary intelligence briefer, never mentioned the president by name during an event hosted by the non-profit Intelligence & National Security Alliance on Monday.
But the unusual core challenge of her job delivering intelligence to Donald J. Trump was unavoidable as she discussed her own briefing techniques in detail, explaining that while she strives to be competent and fearless, she also tries not to be off-putting and aims to tailor briefings to a customers particular style.
Is this someone who reads? Someone who likes a story? Operates on visuals? Sanner said. You figure out before you go in what that person needs from you.
Sanners comments offered a window into how she approaches briefings with the president, as questions swirl about why Trumpwho is not known to read Presidential Daily Brief, a classified document outlining key national security threatswas apparently never orally briefed on intelligence showing that Russia was paying bounties to Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan as early as 2018.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-intel-briefer-breaks-her-silence/ar-BB16p9yR?li=BBnb7Kz
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,927 posts)tanyev
(42,646 posts)captain queeg
(10,274 posts)And he didnt read his briefing that does not relieve him of responsibility. Hes the frigging president (supposedly). That this would be used as a defense is truly appalling.
pandr32
(11,636 posts)If he cannot be briefed he has no business being POTUS
central scrutinizer
(11,665 posts)Shouldnt this be labeled NSFW?
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Actually, that is not true. We have someone who cant read.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,437 posts)about the bounties as far back as early 2019. Hes an adult. He doesnt get to use the I dont read defense. Hes committed to pleasing Putin. Some call him Putins puppet. He could say that the dog ate the bounty documents, but he doesnt have a dog.
peggysue2
(10,847 posts)The Trump team is blowing smoke hoping (like Corona-19) the questions, criticisms and any investigation magically disappear. Trump called Putin three or four times during the same timeline. For what? Because Trump was panicked? Needed instructions from the Boss? Wanted Putin to hold his hand?
Donald Trump is a traitor to all things American. He should move to Moscow.
Never forget, never forgive.
Cha
(297,896 posts)peggysue2
(10,847 posts)This should be on every newspaper's front page, day-after-day-after-day. Instead, Trump's craziness du jour is highlighted muting an unspeakable dereliction of duty.
Never forget, never forgive.
Cha
(297,896 posts)part on Social media.. I'm determined!
This does not go down the ******* rabbit hole.
Chainfire
(17,687 posts)How much action have you seen because of it. Putin has Trump's balls in a Mason jar on his desk.
"A man hears what he wants to hear and he disregards the rest"
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)Cha
(297,896 posts)Boomerproud
(7,975 posts)returning to the Oval Office at 7pm and staying till the wee hours reading up on classified material. Evidently they were good at cognitive thinking and multitasking.
ProfessorGAC
(65,322 posts)She's a terrible judge of priorities. She should be canned.
She's rotten at her job.
fierywoman
(7,700 posts)reading briefs?
handmade34
(22,759 posts)now we know the problem... It is a WOMAN that briefs him... he has no respect for women and does not think they are capable...!! it must be assumed that he disregards everything coming from a woman
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)of I'll-ask-ya. Because Sarah Putin said she could see it from her house"
PufPuf23
(8,844 posts)found when he bites into a Big Mac?