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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts)
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 02:19 PM Mar 2017

Ex-FBI agent tells Senate he doesnt trust Trump to protect him from Russia

Clinton Watts, a former FBI Special Agent who is now a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, made a startling admission about fears for his personal safety during his testimony at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday.

When talking about measures that the Russian government could take to retaliate against him for his testimony, Watts said his biggest fear was that he simply didn’t trust the Trump administration to keep him safe.

“My biggest fear isn’t being on Putin’s hit list or psychological warfare targeting, I’ve been doing that for two years,” Watts explained. “My biggest concern right now is, I don’t know what the American stance is on Russia, and who’s going to take care of me. I mean, after years in the army and the FBI… today I’m going to walk out of here and ain’t nobody going to be covering my back.”

To emphasize his point, Watts finished by saying, “I’m going to be on my own, and that’s very disconcerting.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/nobodys-covering-my-back-ex-fbi-agent-tells-senate-he-doesnt-trust-trump-to-protect-him-from-russia/

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Ex-FBI agent tells Senate he doesnt trust Trump to protect him from Russia (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2017 OP
That one comment by that one person makes every single trump supporter Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1
Mr. Watts JustAnotherGen Mar 2017 #2
That statement should shame us all, as Americans Hekate Mar 2017 #3
This is insane. bettyellen Mar 2017 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
1. That one comment by that one person makes every single trump supporter
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 02:25 PM
Mar 2017

who is a patriot, change their mind about Trump.

I mean just imagine if that was said about a Democratic administration.

Republicans no longer have any excuses, supporting trump is supporting treason.

PERIOD

JustAnotherGen

(31,879 posts)
2. Mr. Watts
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 02:27 PM
Mar 2017

I've worried about you - and I continue to worry about you.

I don't trust this guy with you, the CIA, our Green Berets, our Seals . . .no one OR their families - who have been in the past or currently are on the front lines.

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