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By Nada Bakos June 23
Nada Bakos was formerly a CIA analyst and targeting officer. She is the author of the forthcoming book The Targeter: My Life in the CIA.
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Every time President Trump tweets, journalists and Twitter followers attempt to analyze what he means. Intelligence agencies around the world do, too: Theyre trying to determine what vulnerabilities the president of the United States may have. And hes giving them a lot to work with.
Trumps Twitter feed is a gold mine for every foreign intelligence agency. Usually, intelligence officers efforts to collect information on world leaders are methodical, painstaking and often covert. CIA operatives have risked their lives to learn about foreign leaders so the United States could devise strategies to counter our adversaries. With Trump, though, secret operations are not necessary to understand whats on his mind: The presidents unfiltered thoughts are available night and day, broadcast to his 32.7 million Twitter followers immediately and without much obvious mediation by diplomats, strategists or handlers.
Intelligence agencies try to answer these main questions when looking at a rival head of state: Who is he as a person? What type of leader is he? How does that compare to what he strives to be or presents himself as? What can we expect from him? And how can we use this insight to our advantage?
At the CIA, I tracked and analyzed terrorists and other U.S. enemies, including North Korea. But we never had such a rich source of raw intelligence about a world leader, and we certainly never had the opportunity that our adversaries (and our allies) have now to get a real-time glimpse of a major world leaders preoccupations, personality quirks and habits of mind. If we had, it would have given us significant advantages in our dealings with them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/president-trumps-twitter-feed-is-a-gold-mine-for-foreign-spies/2017/06/23/e3e3b0b0-5764-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?tid=ss_fb-bottom&utm_term=.7d4e29e8da5a
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