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applegrove

(118,600 posts)
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 08:37 PM Jan 2017

CIA Targets Its' Newest Asset: Trump

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

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That’s a vulnerability that can be exploited both inside and outside the U.S. government.

“He could get hoodwinked on the details,” if a foreign leader tells him what he wants to hear, but obscures key facts, another officer said.

Trouble ahead will come in the form of briefing the Trump White House on things that don’t match their understanding of events, like Russia’s attempts to influence U.S. voters by releasing hacked Democratic emails.

“You’re going to have to have your arguments really tight,” a third former senior official said. “When you say something they don’t think is true, you’re going to have to be standing on granite.”

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