Trump to revamp intelligence agencies

[Straw Man]

I guess if the "view of the Trump team" believes something that's all that matters.
I guess soon we'll only have intelligence that Trump personally believes with his "very good brain"


http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/intelligence/312759-trump-to-revamp-intelligence-agencies-report

President-elect Donald Trump is crafting plans to restructure at least two of the nation’s top intelligence agencies, according to a new report.  Trump is eyeing overhauls of the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday

“The view from the Trump team is the intelligence world [is] becoming completely politicized,” an individual close to Trump’s transition operation said. "They all need to be slimmed down. The focus will be on restructuring agencies and how they interact."
Trump is targeting the CIA and the ODNI as he publicly wars with the U.S. intelligence community over its conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

The president-elect has vehemently denied that Russian hacking of Democratic organizations before Election Day aided his White House bid.

Trump wants to shrink the ODNI, as he believes the agency established in 2004 as a response to the 9/11 terror attacks has become bloated and politicized.

The CIA declined Wednesday to comment on Trump’s plans, which reportedly include cutting staffing at its Virginia headquarters and assigning more people to field posts.

The Journal added  that advisers helping Trump draft the proposed alterations include retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Ky.).

Flynn has been tapped to serve as Trump’s national security adviser.

Pompeo, his pick for CIA director, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week.

Reports emerged Wednesday that Trump wants former Sen. Dan Coasts (R-Ind.) to become director of national intelligence.

Coats, who did not seek reelection in November, was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee before exiting Congress.

The director of national intelligence is charged with facilitating smoother information sharing between the 16 agencies comprising the U.S. national intelligence community.

Trump earlier Wednesday sided with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s claim his organization did not obtain stolen documents it released during the 2016 race from Russia.

The Obama administration in October formally accused Russia of trying to meddle in the presidential election.

[Las Vegas]

A man who takes the highest office in the world, doing it with his own security AND his own intel-gatherering system.  Can't beat it.

[Las Vegas]

We need a fresh pair of eyes on it IMO.  It's jumped the rails since Day 1.

[Straw Man]

A man who takes the highest office in the world, doing it with his own security AND his own intel-gatherering system.  Can't beat it.

maybe he'll just outsource our Intel to Russia

he seems to believe anything that Putin and Assange tell him

[Las Vegas]

maybe he'll just outsource our Intel to Russia

he seems to believe anything that Putin and Assange tell him

I don't trust Assange, so can't disagree with you there.  He gets way too much action from MSM to be taken a face-value, imo.

Something ain't right with that boy, and something ain't as they say.

[sync pulse]

So President Trump wants to politicize the United States Intelligence community?

[Las Vegas]

So President Trump wants to politicize the United States Intelligence community?

He hopes to depoliticize it.  It is completely full of shit ATM.  Totally Obamacized.

[Straw Man]

He hopes to depoliticize it.  It is completely full of shit ATM.  Totally Obamacized.

total nonsense

[loco]

Trump is a Dem plant.

[Las Vegas]

total nonsense

It is.  That's probably why Trump wants to rework it.

[Yamcha]

It is.  That's probably why Trump wants to rework it.

 

[Yamcha]

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/making-alberto-gonzales-look-good/?_r=1

https://theintercept.com/2014/07/31/lying/

[Dos Equis]

Trump is a Dem plant.

lol.  So much for that kooky conspiracy theory.

[loco]

lol.  So much for that kooky conspiracy theory.

So which gimmick is 240 posting with these days?

[mass243]

Most independent American leader since... the start?
Does the man have any dependencies at all? Besides the one to his voters/people, of course.
Security organisations are often no-go zone even for dictators in middle east, latin america etc.
 

[Dos Equis]

So which gimmick is 240 posting with these days?

Not sure, but it has to be one of them posting on the board. 

Still waiting for him to post the Cruz sex tape and video of his love child. 

[Skeeter]

Allegedly JFK wanted to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds”.
We all know what happened to him. 

[GigantorX]

Allegedly JFK wanted to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds”.
We all know what happened to him. 

Chucky Schumer was on some show the other day and pretty much made a out and out threat to Trump concerning his going after the the CIA.

Things are getting whacky.

[Las Vegas]

You guys who laugh at an idea of Trump as plant, I'd like to ask: Do you believe it's unlikely, at any time, that Bill Clinton figured -- along the same line which caused nearly everyone to think Trump wouldn't be able to pull it off -- he'd be an ideal candidate to go against Hillary?

Would you go so far as to say that's likely untrue?

[Straw Man]

Trump is a Dem plant.

LOL

prescient