Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump
Source: WSJ
Decision to withhold information underscores deep mistrust between intelligence community and president
Feb. 15, 2017 8:42 p.m. ET
U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
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And he's the President?
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)The Story is behind a pay wall.
Rhiannon12866
(205,253 posts)SouthernIrish
(512 posts)He has no integrity or vote of confidence from the Intelligence Community. He's going down
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msongs
(67,400 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Giving the useful idiot any information is like a direct link to Moscow.
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)Ptah
(33,026 posts)elleng
(130,878 posts)Clearly HE wouldn't know, as he's never HAD any intelligence!
bdamomma
(63,842 posts)let him sweat
herding cats
(19,564 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)won't tell tRump anything besides the weather.
Trumpmerica has become the enemy to be watched and spied on, not trusted.
Complete republican rule will isolate us. Mexico may build that wall to keep us out!
Rhiannon12866
(205,253 posts)He has proven himself to be clueless, uninterested and untrustworthy! The first president who is not here to serve the American people - unless there is some benefit to him personally. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch order.
murielm99
(30,736 posts)to Dubya. They would have been true. But this is much, much worse.
Rhiannon12866
(205,253 posts)The level of treasonous behavior committed on a daily basis by this shitgibbon and his minions make me long for the bumbling cluelessness of Bush*...
Doodley
(9,088 posts)fountainofyouth
(409 posts)He thought going to the CIA fallen officers' memorial and talking about crowd sizes would smooth things over.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The intel community have devoted their lives to preserving America. They are not going to let it go down the toilet now.
C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)Can't blame em. Seems smart.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)meadowlander
(4,394 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)He's been dissing the intelligence community for the entire time he's been either running for president, or holding that office. His supporters will take this as evidence that the intelligence community's leaders cannot be trusted, and when he replaces them with his lackeys, they will shout hallelujah.
Frankly, I fear that the so-called intelligence community leaders are and have been the real rulers of this country, no matter who has been president. Something that shakes that up may not be entirely bad.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Of the f***ing IDIOTS who voted for 45.
The fact that this unqualified asshole won is pretty much de-facto proof that this 'electoral college' system we have in the US has utterly outgrown it's usefulness.
Thankfully, despite the rampant voter suppression, the population can still be trusted to come up with the correct result, but the system as a whole appears to be no longer viable.
For my part, I'm fairly glad there's still 'career' professionals in some semblance of a position to offset the FUCKING STUPIDITY ... of the Drumpf voters.
Way it looks now, we'd be a world of shit without these professionals, and I'm not sure we want to see Drumpf 'shake it up' too much.
Of course, back when they 86'd Kennedy, did the whole MKUltra stuff ... things looked a bit different ... but at this particular moment ... I have to admit, I may be starting to 'see the wisdom'. These entrenched, secretive bureaus, having the power that they do ... might just be our saving grace ... ironically enough ...
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)These guys have been honing their regime-change skills for decades. They just never thought they'd need to do it at home.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)But exactly what is their profession? Keeping us out of wars that we should never be involved in, or settling scores with leaders who have offed their operatives?
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)and know what the mission is. It is ingrained in them upon on-boarding and reinforced for however many decades they remain there.
IMHO, much of this "withholding" is probably not so much due to Drumpf (because he doesn't care about "details" anyway) but to keep it out of the hands of truly dangerous people like Bannon, who do NOT belong on the NSC. Even the likes of Bolton kept Karl Rove off the NSC and Bannon is essentially a Rove on LSD.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Presidents and Congresses do not run this country, the heads of the intelligence agencies do. They could selectively withhold information and supply enough false information to get this country to go to war with any nation on the planet, no matter how little of a threat that country would be to us. The Iraq war is a perfect example of this, what with all the weapons of mass destruction crap that the CIA, etc. manufactured to persuade even Kerry and Hillary to go along with their plan.
They tell the elected leaders of this country whatever they want them to hear.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)They know the conflicts of interest with foreign governments to make this decision. Wonder were Comey stands on this, since he helped him get elected?
Cha
(297,180 posts)itcfish
(1,828 posts)Kept intelligence from Donald Trump
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The people protecting us from him are Officers.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)Israeli Intelligence, British Intelligence and German Intelligence don't want to share anything with the US because they are certain t will be forwarded by Hair Douchengroper straight to his bff