U.S. Intelligence Officials Don’t Trust Trump With Classified Briefing

[Cali_Democrat]

Source: Mediaite

U.S. intelligence officials are preparing to deliver classified briefings to both major party presidential candidates, despite top spies’ distrust of Donald Trump, according to a report in The Washington Post.

One senior intelligence official told the Post‘s Greg Miller that he would refuse to brief Trump. “He’s been so uninterested in the truth and so reckless with it when he sees it,” he said.

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The report comes days after Trump publicly encouraged the Kremlin to release hacked State Department emails. (The reality TV star later said he was being “sarcastic.”)

Intelligence officials were wary of sharing information with Trump even before he made those comments. In June, eight senior security officials told Reuters they were uneasy with delivering briefings to Trump, worried that his habit of making impulsive and erratic statements about foreign policy could imperil national security.

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[7962]

1. Has this EVER happened before? Even with Palin? Not that I've ever heard

[bekkilyn]

3. Palin is a dingbat, but

she still wouldn't have willingly shared classified information with other countries, or started a nuclear meltdown. With Trump, the intelligence agents may as well just send all their briefings directly to Russia to save a couple minutes time.

[PJMcK]

5. Do Vice Presidential candidates get security briefings?

I really don't know but I don't recall ever hearing about that before.

[4lbs]

11. Tim Kaine already gets them, because he is on two Senate committees where they

get such briefings: Armed Services and Foreign Relations.

[forgotmylogin]

20. Should a President need to explain when they are being sarcastic?

[thucythucy]

2. If they're squeamish about sharing classified materials with him,

imagine how they must feel about the prospect of handing him the nuclear codes.

I can't believe this clown is polling more than five percent. Just. can't. believe it.

[MBS]

4. + 1000 n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. Hard to believe those numbers

It's all because of Hillary's negative numbers. I was a Bernie backer but I'm amazed at how the MSM has been able to paint her as negative as they have, or at least never corrected the BS against her. The hatred against her is dumbfounding.

[Pluvious]

28. It also doesn't help that...

... The MSM want this election to be a horse race.

[louis-t]

31. If you've ever picked up a National Enquirer or Globe

at the supermarket, you'll see how anti-Clinton and pro-Drumpf they are.
"She's crazy, she calls her staff at 3 am and screams at them, she's having a nervous breakdown, Bill's cheating on her again, blah, blah..." And Drumpf is always "gaining ground".

[ToxMarz]

6. This cannot and will not help in the election

but Trump and his entire family are under Secret Service protection. An assignment I can only imagine they detest. It will be interesting to see what is revealed after he loses the election and their protection. They pretty much know everything.

[Sand Rat Expat]

9. That blade cuts both ways.

I seem to recall a Secret Service guy who served in the Clinton White House and wrote a book about it after Bill was out of office. From what I remember, he had nothing good to say about Hillary. Then again, if the RNC waved a stack of bills under the guy's nose after he retired, who knows what he'd be willing to write.

Point is, take what people say with a grain of salt, especially if they're being paid to "reveal" stuff. That being said, if someone on Trump's detail revealed that he can't achieve orgasm without a picture of Putin in the room, it wouldn't shock me.

[Skittles]

21. that picture would be of Trump himself

supposedly, when Trump is having sex with a supermodel, he is fantasizing about whacking off

[louis-t]

32. Wasn't that the guy who said there were

"sex toys on the Christmas tree"? Saw him interviewed and he could hardly keep himself from laughing when he was asked about that. He wouldn't answer the question, just kept laughing.

[Sand Rat Expat]

33. No idea.

I never read the book, just heard about it. Most of the folks on the right are ready to believe any horrible story about the Clintons, no matter how outlandish it is, because it confirms their biases and justifies their rabid hatred of the entire family.

[MichiganVote]

7. NO WAY is the Donald (dickhead) safe with intelligence releases.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Harry Reid had it right

just dumb it down and make it lite on content

Trump's not going to learn anything anyway, he knows
it all already.

[Sand Rat Expat]

10. Bring back the scheme they used for W's briefings.

Popup books, colored pencils and crayons, flash cards...

[rusty quoin]

19. That is Trump. He already knows and can fix anything.

[bucolic_frolic]

30. Makes me wonder

if Trump thinks he's Joe the Plumber

[Pluvious]

29. Better yet...

... feed some false information to Drumpf and see if it gets acted upon by Russia !

[meow2u3]

34. I wouldn't be suprised if it's already being done

The Loose-lipped Yam neither can nor will keep his mouth shut, especially if Putin asks for info.

[SheilaT]

12. The candidates getting such briefings is relatively new,

although I'm not sure exactly when it started. I'm going to guess perhaps the past thirty years or so. I'm not entirely sure the rationale behind it, probably so that whoever gets elected already has some clue about what's going on.

Perhaps the security briefings for the candidates should be reconsidered. Hillary would already know all sorts of this stuff, even though she hasn't been Secretary of State for four years.

[Massacure]

16. Classified briefings for presidential candidates started in 1952.

Harry Truman gave classified briefings to the candidates in the 1952 election. As Vice-President, Truman had no idea that the United States was developing the atom bomb until after FDR died. He didn't want future presidents to step into the role completely unprepared like was. Every president since has extended that same courtesy.

[SheilaT]

17. I knew about Truman not knowing about the bomb,

but did not realize he then gave briefings and that it continued from that long ago. Thank you for the information!

[AllyCat]

13. This really makes me feel unsafe.

He has already said he likes Putin. Kim Jon-Un likes him for Pete's sake.

[bora13]

14. they'll need a special team for trump

they will be called the "Trump Whisperers." They'll whisper in his ear some
gory sounding stuff that will thrill and delight him, and that will be that.

[63splitwindow]

15. This is a REAL problem with REAL risks. And this dangerous clown is Repug standard bearer.

[nitpicker]

22. Link to the WP article

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/candidates-poised-for-classified-briefings-despite-spy-agency-worries-over-trump/2016/07/28/865cd686-5500-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. No requirement for briefings. Hillary knows the background. Drop it for both nominees this cycle. nt

[Igel]

24. Or take the usual tack.

It's their job. If they don't like it, they can't find new jobs.

If Obama rescinds the 64-year-old practice, that's a different story. But what some are calling for will just sound like the President, who keeps saying he represents all the people, playing politics with his executive authority. I'd hope he'd be above that. Some would love it. Some would call it corruption.

[Sunlei]

26. make him pass a security background check first. Of the level where bank records are checked, friend

friends are interviewed, including all the Russians he partied with in 2013.

From what I understand he's banned? from most all American banks and has placed a lot of accounts/businesses in his kids names?

The man acts like a toddler, trust him like a toddler.

[icarusxat]

27. Oxymoron defined: Trump and intelligence...

As someone who used to get briefings on a daily basis I can say that I am not worried about him being briefed primarily because he wouldn't know what to do with the information anyway...