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Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:26 PM Aug 2018

Are the intelligence agencies withholding info from Trump?

All I can do is guess. Having said that, I believe that intelligence leaders withhold specific facts from Trump because they believe he'll pass it on to Putin.

Let's face it. "The Manchurian Candidate", so to speak, is now the president of the United States..

The heads of the various intelligence agencies, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and others, are not stupid people. But the do know that the president is one of the stupidest people in the world. And they strongly suspect that Putin owns him. (Pick your reason -- pee whores and/or goat fucking on tape -- money laundering -- massive income tax fraud -- who knows?) And they fear that whatever sensitive information they pass on to him will end up in the Kremlin in an hour.

Perhaps, someday in the future, the American people will be informed of what actually took place during this insane reign of Trump. But for right now, all we can do is speculate. And that speculation seems to indicate that Trump is Putin owned and a despicable American traitor.

Disagree? Let's hear it.

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Are the intelligence agencies withholding info from Trump? (Original Post) Cyrano Aug 2018 OP
dear god I hope so... lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #1
That's what I was about to say.. radical noodle Aug 2018 #3
"Are the intelligence agencies withholding info from Trump"? Hayduke Bomgarte Aug 2018 #2
CIA "We're canceling the PDB." Trump "Thank god, it was so boring. More time for tweeting now" TeamPooka Aug 2018 #4
What goes to Trump goes to Russia dalton99a Aug 2018 #5
No one knows that for sure. Cyrano Aug 2018 #7
One would hope they are being very selective in what they brief him on Freethinker65 Aug 2018 #6
I hope they are giving him false data. fleur-de-lisa Aug 2018 #8
Praying there is a Deep State. Sneederbunk Aug 2018 #9

lapfog_1

(29,204 posts)
1. dear god I hope so...
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:28 PM
Aug 2018

I'm sure that some of our assets inside the Kremlin have been assassinated because of their identities being make known to Putin by Trump

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
2. "Are the intelligence agencies withholding info from Trump"?
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:31 PM
Aug 2018

Gawd I hope so. He can't be trusted with knowing the correct time, much less any info with potential for gloal damage.

Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
7. No one knows that for sure.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:42 PM
Aug 2018

But my belief is that the heads of American intelligence agencies, very carefully pick and choose what they tell him.

This is both wise and dangerous. An uninformed American president is a danger to America.

In the case of Trump, a fully informed president may be a bigger danger to America.

Freethinker65

(10,021 posts)
6. One would hope they are being very selective in what they brief him on
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:41 PM
Aug 2018

Honestly, Trump has no attention span for reading so handing him pages of text to review and then return while in their presence (so none of the information can be copied) is probably safer than we think. Trump's memory seems pretty bad and he easily gets distracted when the conversation is not about himself.

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