Trump skeptical of using foreign spies to collect intel on hostile countries, sources say
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Source: CNN
President Donald Trump has privately and repeatedly expressed opposition to the use of foreign intelligence from covert sources, including overseas spies who provide the US government with crucial information about hostile countries, according to multiple senior officials who served under Trump.
Trump has privately said that foreign spies can damage relations with their host countries and undermine his personal relationships with their leaders, the sources said. The President "believes we shouldn't be doing that to each other," one former Trump administration official told CNN.
In addition to his fear such foreign intelligence sources will damage his relationship with foreign leaders, Trump has expressed doubts about the credibility of the information they provide. Another former senior intelligence official told CNN that Trump "believes they're people who are selling out their country."
Even in public, Trump has looked down on these foreign assets, as they are known in the intelligence community. Responding to reports that the CIA recruited Kim Jong Un's brother as a spy, Trump said he "wouldn't let that happen under my auspices."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/politics/donald-trump-foreign-spies-skeptical/index.html
Siwsan
(26,250 posts)True Blue American
(17,981 posts)Russian traitor. Take your pick.
iluvtennis
(19,833 posts)underpants
(182,613 posts)Not that he has a lot of those
keithbvadu2
(36,660 posts)Putin firmly believes in foreign spies... He has the big one inside the White House.
cstanleytech
(26,236 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,265 posts)in the New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/are-spies-more-trouble-than-theyre-worth
bucolic_frolic
(43,051 posts)on display. This is his whole approach to world view, decision making. He is the ONLY one who can fix it. His word is law. A legend in his own mind.
cstanleytech
(26,236 posts)Trump would out the person to Putin.
RKP5637
(67,086 posts)JudyM
(29,192 posts)This post is a dupe.
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