That the IC has ample grounds for concern is demonstrated by almost daily revelations of major problems inside the White House, a mere three weeks after the inauguration. The president has repeatedly gone out of his way to antagonize our spies, mocking them and demeaning their work, and Trump’s personal national security guru can’t seem to keep his story straight on vital issues.
That’s Mike Flynn, the retired Army three-star general who now heads the National Security Council. Widely disliked in Washington for his brash personality and preference for conspiracy-theorizing over intelligence facts, Flynn was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for managerial incompetence and poor judgment—flaws he has brought to the far more powerful and political NSC.
Worst of all, the intelligence community is scared shitless about how little the president cares about the President's daily briefing and how much the White House leaks. The spy agencies are beginning to think: "Why give the president critical secret information if he just ignores it and it is likely to leak out?" The idea of the NSA, which provides most of the information, holding back information from the president because it doesn't trust him is unprecedented and potentially harmful to the country if the president then makes decisions without knowing the facts.
Schindler ends by saying sooner or later there will be an international crisis and "the White House will need the best intelligence possible to prevent war, possibly even nuclear war. It may not get the information it needs in that hour of crisis, and for that it has nobody to blame but itself."
.....anytime soon, not with the current crop of GOP spineless baboons now running the asylum.
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If the GOP does not do anything.
They will be blamed for a cover up too!
..it's Party FIRST before Country for these folks. My ass has a greater chance of turning bright red, just like this Babboons ass, than House Republicans impeaching Trump.
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and that right there is the problem with americas low information and low intelligence voters. Its so sad.
after 8 years of fucking it it up by
including but certainly not limited to: 1. having a pussy President2. gutting our armed forces
3. crushing the morale of our armed forces
4. badmouthing our own country overseas and
5. having a pussy President spare us guys, you know that you can't wait to see your friends kill 'mericans cuz, to libs, we deserve it
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...........however he is losing support among Independents, so his overall approval is around a historical low 40%. If Trump's overall approval dips even lower, he will be politically powerless and this Republican Congress will desert him.
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You didn't mean this, did you?
his approval rating among republican politicians.
They are all waiting for the right opportunity to stab him in the back.