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8. Trump and his intel community

Sat Jan 7, 2017, 06:25 PM

Jan 2017

"... retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis said in May 2015 that among world threats “in the near term, I think the most dangerous might be Russia.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trump-james-mattis-differ-on-vladimir-putin/

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Trump supporters celebrate their victory.

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03

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Our intel agencies are speaking out against the Donald's Russian pals so he
plans to "pare" them back.

(It's not the Russians he wants to pare back.)

Donald Trump Plans to Pare Back Top U.S. Spy Agency

http://tinyurl.com/gqz458q

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Security analyst: Trump is going to gut the intelligence community to cover up Russia hacks [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 OP

This will end badly. Dawson Leery Jan 2017 #2

I hope it ends worse for him Horse with no Name Jan 2017 #3

Oh yes! machoneman Jan 2017 #9

tRump would install robots who only told him what he likes to hear RiverStone Jan 2017 #18

I think he would need Congress to do that still_one Jan 2017 #5

Seems to me that many of them have already signed on to that one. Ford_Prefect Jan 2017 #6

Marx was correct. rickford66 Jan 2017 #7

I think you mean Lenin who is alleged to have KingCharlemagne Jan 2017 #10

My internets says Marx. Yours may differ. rickford66 Jan 2017 #12

Trump and his intel community keithbvadu2 Jan 2017 #8

Mattis should withdraw his nomination. Eyeball_Kid Jan 2017 #15

Trump only wants Mattis as a name brand trophy. keithbvadu2 Jan 2017 #16

he'll fire a few at least, so that everybody gets the message. nt TheFrenchRazor Jan 2017 #11

Putin wants our intelligence agencies gutted Martin Eden Jan 2017 #13

Putin's lackey won keithbvadu2 Jan 2017 #17

From CIA to Gestapo. Amimnoch Jan 2017 #14