02-15-2017, 08:08 PM
I remember saying somewhere during the campaign that Trump had made a mistake pissing off the intelligence agencies. Sadly, I thought they'd come for him BEFORE the election. But I'll take it, albeit belatedly.
In light of this, and out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president’s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets.
Since NSA provides something like 80 percent of the actionable intelligence in our government, what’s being kept from the White House may be very significant indeed. However, such concerns are widely shared across the IC, and NSA doesn’t appear to be the only agency withholding intelligence from the administration out of security fears.
Lots more here http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump...n-embassy/
That ^^^writer’s Twitter feed is good reading, btw.
https://twitter.com/20committee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
‘He will die in jail’: Intelligence community ready to ‘go nuclear’ on Trump, senior source says
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/he-will-...urce-says/
In light of this, and out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president’s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets.
Since NSA provides something like 80 percent of the actionable intelligence in our government, what’s being kept from the White House may be very significant indeed. However, such concerns are widely shared across the IC, and NSA doesn’t appear to be the only agency withholding intelligence from the administration out of security fears.
Lots more here http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump...n-embassy/
That ^^^writer’s Twitter feed is good reading, btw.
https://twitter.com/20committee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
‘He will die in jail’: Intelligence community ready to ‘go nuclear’ on Trump, senior source says
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/he-will-...urce-says/
