Breaking: DNI Coats - the nation's senior-most Intelligence official - was NOT consulted on Trump...

[demmiblue]

Breaking: DNI Coats - the nation’s senior-most Intelligence official - was NOT consulted on Trump decision to revoke Fmr CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance - a source with knowledge tells me.

Link to tweet

Par for the course (pun intended).

[DURHAM D]

1. Coats will lose his next. nt

[JI7]

2. of course he wasn't

nothing he does is about security

[RockRaven]

3. That consultation is relevant beyond mere form b/c the reason these guys retain their clearances

is to be able to be consulted by their successors about matters which pre-date the new person's tenure. Coats just might have an opinion about whether or not the current CIA director would reasonably need to consult with Brennan from time to time.

Trump is not just behaving in a petty, vindictive manner, he's doing it without any regard to it's impact on national security. [maybe the impact is tiny, maybe it is huge, but the point is that Trump isn't considering the question at all]

[lunasun]

14. ++++THIS !!

[dalton99a]

4. We are ruled by a stupid corrupt debt-ridden so-called real-estate developer who works for Russia.

[Grasswire2]

8. yeah, five of the properties are in tax default

Including trump tower chicago

[deminks]

5. I don't think Coats has been consulted on much of anything from day 1

Pootey tells the orange menace everything he needs to know.

[Grasswire2]

6. what Abramson is saying...

[link:https://screenshots.firefox.com/Bir82UFieLizTIq1/twitter.com|

[C_U_L8R]

7. It's another Trump tantrum

of course no adults were consulted.

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The administration will have no intelligence veterans on its bench.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. "no intelligence veterans..."

It is not a tantrum

If you are a traitor who doesn't want people to know what you are doing with another country, you get rid of the people who will find out.
Clean out the top of agencies, then put in your loyalists who promptly figure out how to steal the agency blind.

He's been doing this for months now.
. It is a methodical way to take over a country. First thing a dictator does is hollow out the government.

and if enough people don't realize what is happening in front of their eyes, we're doomed.

[C_U_L8R]

15. Putinesque

[Satch59]

9. If Coats had guts, he should resign and take his staff with him...

But also: doesn't Brennnan now lots of stuff about Trump/Russia? Start leaking maybe...

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I'm not surprised. He learned about Trump's invitation to Putin from Andrea Mitchell.

[GusBob]

11. Hillary was right

You can't have a man in charge who gets offended by a tweet

This is such bullshit our democracy is based on twitter

[Takket]

12. Does this surprise anyone?

Does anyone actually think this ever went any farther than drumpf’s desk? Except for Miller writing a memo to sound better than “that poopoo head hurt my feelings”?