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DonViejo

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Tue Feb 21, 2017, 11:24 AM Feb 2017

Valerie Plame is terrified 'reckless' Trump and his 'low-quality' advisers will blunder into...

Valerie Plame is terrified ‘reckless’ Trump and his ‘low-quality’ advisers will blunder into nuclear war

TRAVIS GETTYS
21 FEB 2017 AT 09:32 ET

Valerie Plame Wilson, who was outed as a CIA agent by members of the Bush administration, is worried about nuclear war now that President Donald Trump has access to the world’s most fearsome weapons.

“He is so casual and reckless — impulsive, to say the least,” Plame told the San Francisco Chronicle. “This is a man who gets riled up by a tweet. Is this the guy you want to make nuclear decisions?”

The 53-year-old Plame, whose intelligence specialty was weapons of mass destruction, said she was shaken by Trump’s bizarre news conference Thursday — and she’s concerned about the “low-quality people he surrounds himself with.”

“So, this is the president to whom we have entrusted our nuclear codes?” she told the newspaper. “The incompetence we’ve seen is — and I know this is a widely overused word right now — unprecedented, and it’s more than just Trump.”

“The fact that Steve Bannon is on the National Security Council is horrifying, and what’s happened with Michael Flynn is fascinating — he is dangerous,” Plame added.

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