"Likely to weaponize intelligence": Experts alarmed as Trump poised to get security briefings again

[surada]

He's (Trump) shown as president that he doesn't take secret-keeping terribly seriously," Goldsmith said in an interview. "He has a known tendency to disrespect rules related to national security. And he has a known tendency to like to sell things that are valuable to him."

 

[hadit]

Trump could never get a security clearance. Do you understand? He's Putin's lapdog. He mocks US intelligence. He wants to suspend the constitution.... and he's dumb as hell. Look what he did to South Carolina soybean farmers as soon as he took office.. look what he did to Cuba and the Iran agreement.

He's a menace.

And if he's elected, he's entitled to every single briefing on every single subject. You don't get to demand they withhold anything from him. Guess you'd better not vote for him then.

 

[hadit]

He's (Trump) shown as president that he doesn't take secret-keeping terribly seriously," Goldsmith said in an interview. "He has a known tendency to disrespect rules related to national security. And he has a known tendency to like to sell things that are valuable to him."

And if he's elected, all of that is a moot point and he gets all the information, or someone's guilty of overthrowing the government.

 

[surada]

The bottom line remains, if he gets elected, he's entitled to ALL such briefings, and to do otherwise it to commit insurrection and a coup, because someone other than the president is making the decisions. They've far more effectively overthrown the government than any riot.

You know what’s interesting? Joe Biden won against Barack Hussein Obama. Has anyone ever heard of him? Every swing state, Biden beat Obama but in every other state, he got killed,” Trump said.


Actually, I think security briefings are a courtesy.

 

[hadit]

You know what’s interesting? Joe Biden won against Barack Hussein Obama. Has anyone ever heard of him? Every swing state, Biden beat Obama but in every other state, he got killed,” Trump said.


Actually, I think security briefings are a courtesy.

It's not a "courtesy" to brief the CIC of all things security related. Do you want him making national security decisions on incomplete information? I don't, nor do I want anyone other than the president making those decisions. The bottom line is, the president is entitled to that information, it is extremely vital that he gets it, and to withhold it is to subvert his authority, aka, insurrection.

 

[rampart]

It simply doesn't matter. The president gets all the information because he has to make the decisions. Basically, hiding information from him is insurrection and is someone taking that power of the presidency into their own hands, a bloodless coup if you will.

surada hadit just nailed it.

those who want putin, mbs, xi, and kim to know all of america's secrets can just vote for trump, because then the deep state will just have to tell the treasonous bastard everything..

 

[surada]

surada hadit just nailed it.

those who want putin, mbs, xi, and kim to know all of america's secrets can just vote for trump, because then the deep state will just have to tell the treasonous bastard everything..

Oh hell, Trump will tell security secrets to Kanye West.

 

[Meathead]

Why are you concerned about my behind? I still wear a size 10.

Because you pull so much out of it so it's obviously huge. Would hafta be.

 

[surada]

Because you pull so much out of it so it's obviously huge. Would hafta be.

Your ignorance is not my problem.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

. Do you want him making national security decisions on incomplete information?

Do you?

It's well known that Trump didn't even read his daily briefings or take them seriously.

Maybe you should support someone else, if this is so important to you.

 

[hadit]

Do you?

It's well known that Trump didn't even read his daily briefings or take them seriously.

Maybe you should support someone else, if this is so important to you.

I don't care if the president is as bad as Quid Pro Joe, he'd better have ALL the info at hand or we're dealing with a coup, for real. There's no other way to describe someone other than the president controlling the access the president has to info to make decisions, and by extension, be making the decisions instead.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Your Bibi Netanyahu managed to get a lot of innocent people killed.

You're an ignorant *****. You have nothing of value to add

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Israeli Jews takes more and more land while they are the minority in Palestine. Yes, there's a problem. Duh.

It's their land numbnuts

 

[bigrebnc1775]

But Natanyahu is the worst terrorist.

Why would a patriotic American put Israel first?

US Interests and Israel/Palestine

If Americans Knew is dedicated to providing Americans with everything they need to know about Israel and Palestine.

ifamericansknew.org

Even other Muslims refer the Palestinians as dogs

 

[Crepitus]

The death of 13,000 children does seem trivial. Imagine if Biden isn’t elected some transgenders might not feel sufficiently affirmed! That should be our priority. And how can Biden start WW III if he isn’t elected?

Zelensky accused of trying to start World War III over missile strike

"It's unlikely, in the minds of the trajectory, that it was fired from Russia," President Joe Biden said after reports that a "Russian-made" missile hit Poland.

www.newsweek.com

Oh give it a ******* rest!!

All you tRumplings wanna destroy the Palestinians.

Go cry your crocodile tears somewhere else.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

He will get what every president gets, because he has to have all the info in order to make decisions. Preventing him from getting all the info so someone else makes the real decisions is an admission that the deep state does indeed run things and the president is merely a figurehead. It simply doesn't matter how much you hate a guy, when he gets the office, he gets everything he's entitled to get. To do otherwise is stupid. Even Quid Pro Joe, lame as he is, had BETTER have ALL the info, because the thought of that brain making bad decisions from less than all the info is terrifying.

As already correctly noted, Trump has proven how sloppy and untrustworthy, how reckless and irresponsible he is about national security matters – one of countless reasons why Trump shouldn’t be exposed to any national security information and why Trump is unfit to be president.

 

[Thunderbird]

Oh give it a ******* rest!!

All you tRumplings wanna destroy the Palestinians.

Go cry your crocodile tears somewhere else.

I already told you I’m voting third party. Don’t be dense.

You seem out of sorts. Is this because you have finally realized you are a devoted servant to a war criminal?

 

[postman]

Bush trusted national intelligence and Iraq happened.

Actually national intelligence got it right. But then Dick Cheney (former CIA head) went to Langley (the famous midnight ride) and pressured them into changing their assessment, to say Iraq had WMD's. To use the infamous "curveball" information.

Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi let imagination run wild and became main source for Colin Powell's case for war in 2003

www.theguardian.com

Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, known to the west's intelligence services as "Curveball". Everything he had said about the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons programme was a flight of fantasy - one that, he now claims was aimed at ousting the Iraqi dictator.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/06/05/some-iraq-analysts-felt-pressure-from-cheney-visits/4afb2009-20e7-4619-b40f-669c9d94dcf3/

Some Iraq Analysts Felt Pressure From Cheney Visits

Vice President Cheney and his most senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA over the past year to question analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration's policy objectives, according to senior intelligence officials.

 

[SweetTea]

Hasn't Trump proven how sloppy and untrustworthy he is about national security matters.

The Biden Administration is an unmitigated disaster in many ways, but his foriegn policy is the absolute worst in recent history.

 

[Meathead]

Actually national intelligence got it right. But then Dick Cheney (former CIA head) went to Langley (the famous midnight ride) and pressured them into changing their assessment, to say Iraq had WMD's. To use the infamous "curveball" information.

Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi let imagination run wild and became main source for Colin Powell's case for war in 2003

www.theguardian.com

Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, known to the west's intelligence services as "Curveball". Everything he had said about the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons programme was a flight of fantasy - one that, he now claims was aimed at ousting the Iraqi dictator.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/06/05/some-iraq-analysts-felt-pressure-from-cheney-visits/4afb2009-20e7-4619-b40f-669c9d94dcf3/

Some Iraq Analysts Felt Pressure From Cheney Visits

Vice President Cheney and his most senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA over the past year to question analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration's policy objectives, according to senior intelligence officials.

Oh Puhleez.