Following President Trump’s exclamations today with regard “un-American” leaks of classified intel, it appears he has a bigger, more serious problem on his hands. WSJ reports that US intel officials have withheld information from President Trump due to concerns it could be leaked or compromised.
The Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified current and former officials familiar with the matter, reports that officials’ decision to keep information from Mr. Trump underscores the deep mistrust that has developed between the intelligence community and the president over his team’s contacts with the Russian government, as well as the enmity he has shown toward U.S. spy agencies. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump accused the agencies of leaking information to undermine him.
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In some of these cases of withheld information, officials have decided not to show Mr. Trump the sources and methods that the intelligence agencies use to collect information, the current and former officials said. Those sources and methods could include, for instance, the means that an agency uses to spy on a foreign government.
In some ways Trump may not care: according to the WSK, “Trump doesn’t immerse himself in intelligence information, and it isn’t clear that he has expressed a desire to know sources and methods. The intelligence agencies have been told to dramatically pare down the president’s daily intelligence briefing, both the number of topics and how much information is described under each topic, an official said. Compared with his immediate predecessors, Mr. Trump so far has chosen to rely less on the daily briefing than they did.”
However, now that the WSJ brought up this topic, one can be absolutely sure the first demand Trump will make during his next intel briefing: “show me all the information.” That’s when things could get rough.
The officials quoted by the WSJ emphasized they know of no instance in which crucial information about security threats or potential plotting has been omitted, although if indeed “some” information is withheld, it is the functional equivalent of Trump making decisions blind.
While a White House official said: “There is nothing that leads us to believe that this is an accurate account of what is actually happening”, Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said he has heard concerns from officials about sharing especially sensitive information with Mr. Trump.
“I’ve talked with people in the intelligence community that do have concerns about the White House, about the president, and I think those concerns take a number of forms,” Mr. Schiff said, without confirming any specific incidents.
“What the intelligence community considers their most sacred obligation is to protect the very best intelligence and to protect the people that are producing it.”
So, why are they worried?
The current and former officials said the decision to avoid revealing sources and methods with Mr. Trump stems in large part from the president’s repeated expressions of admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his call, during the presidential campaign for Russia to continue hacking the emails of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
As the long-running tensions between the pro-Hillary intelligence community and President Trump rise, it is becoming increasingly clear that this escalating distrust between the top US spies on one hand and the White House on the other, will lead to a vicious circle of less information-sharing and implicitly more distrust until Trump moves from tweet-castigation to treason charges, or alternatively the spooks dig deep into the NSA server’s bag of goodies, and unleash full out mutiny (see John Schindler’s narrative for big details how this may play out).
Let’s be clear. This isn’t an entire agency, its a few rogue Obamaistas. This is sedition and those responsible need to be identified and removed for betraying their trust.
But no one in that agency is turning those “few rogue Obamaistas” in.
There’s no way they -the middle to higher ranking members of it- don’t know who they are.
The agency unofficially supports it, the leakage, through lack of opposition to it and failure to expose those responsible.
Obama did a great job. Did what he sat out to do. There is no way to know how much and where he struck. The Republicans helped him along.
I’d think twice about anything reported in the WSJ. Anyway they can twist something to put Trump in a bad light, they will do. The article is packed with innuendo, allusions and implications but what do they actually report? A dem Congressman, that hates Trump, cites “current and former offcials”
Bullshit.
They’re #neverTrumpers and worse then the likes of CNN because we know CNN are liars. The WSJ is much more insidious.
Epic days we live in, do we trust the withholding of info from the President (lack of trust seems to agree with the MSM), or do we Support the President as he weeds out and brings to justice possible moles distributed about by the last holder of the office? The fight is on, but with some of his party siding with the Dems/MSM, its not looking so good for MAGA.
If someone isn’t found, charged, prosecuted and put in prison soon, Trump’s finished.
He has almost everyone in the world establishment, Democrat, Republican and foreign, against him and these leaks are giving them the ammunition they need to shoot him down and remove him from office.
That will be the end of the “populist” movement worldwide, there will be no other opportunity for it to rise again.
Fergus is absolutely right. I am a former career intelligence operations officer (the Agency) and I can tell you that the vast majority of the people in the intel community are loyal, patriotic Americans who would never dream of pulling these stunts. The problem rests entirely with a mixed bag of Neo-Con’s (the unspeakable Egg McMuffin, absurd “presidential candidate”), Jewish dual loyalists (make no mistake, they hate Trump more than you can imagine), and vicious liberal assholes, who are concentrated in the analytical branches (wide-bottomed desk jockeys who love to call themselves CIA “operatives” or “counterterrorism experts” – the real guys NEVER use such terms). Trump needs to purge these bastards immediately. It can be done with a snap of his fingers as far as the CIA is concerned. CIA employees have no Civil Service protections.
How can he tell who’s who?
These traitors need to be dug out like a tick in these agencies. Trump needs to bring hell fire upon these people. No mercy, just hell fire. I wonder if Trump knows how much power he has to bring these people down? Indictments NOW!
We cannot spend this much time fighting, because while these asshats are gobbling up all of the airtime and resources, the REAL threats to this nation can use it as a distraction.
What is this leaking called under the law & what is the penalty?
CIA = Criminals In America
“Trump needs to bring hell fire upon these people. No mercy, just hell fire. “I think most citizens know Trump is their only hope from Soros, Obama ,NWO, crashing the US making the US third world country.BTW IMO India went cashless people are starving, Venezuela starving too.
I think it’s time for The Trump Putsch.
Putsch: Word is German in origin … meaning; violent blow, clash, shock; introduced in sense “coup” in standard German through Swiss popular uprisings of the 1830s.
Clean house, Donald. Stop looking at polls. Some trying to be fair. Never ever reach across the aisle. Settle on being a one-term POTUS … that way you won’t be distracted by all the bullshit. Be a benevolent dictator. Fuck compromising with the enemy … they want you dead so kill them instead …. figuratively, but literally is good also, if you can get away with it.
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Here’s what I would do next if I were Donald. Spend lavishly on the military. Not necessarily talking about armaments. I’m talking pay raises. Big ones. The VA hospital system … make it the best hospital system in the country. In other words, get them firmly on your side. Trump is THEIR BOSS …. so, when the fuckers try to impeach him, he can roll the Army into D.C. and shoot the fuckers, dead on sight.
Like the sentiment. No much chance with an Army 20 percent Black and 17 percent Hispanic.
He could reassign all of the likely problems to Afghanistan or Somalia or even Europe, tomorrow. All in one place, all at the same time.
I’ve heard rumors ISIS is persistently trying to get their hands on special weapons. Who could say that haven’t. After the fact, nobody would be asking if it was actually them.