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US intelligence officials concerned about briefing Trump, Clinton
The Hill ^ | June 2, 2016 | Kristina Wong

Posted on 06/02/2016 6:07:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have them read this article;
Hillary Clinton Posted Names of Hidden Intelligence Officials On Her Email
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/02/hillary-clinton-exchanged-cia-officers-names-private-server/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3436349/posts


41 posted on 06/02/2016 7:03:54 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: combat_boots

IIRC, the survivors were given polygraphs and threatened not to speak out.


42 posted on 06/02/2016 7:06:18 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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I see no good reason either has to receive these briefings.


43 posted on 06/02/2016 7:10:24 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet they weren’t concerned at all about giving top secret info to Obama. And they’re never concerned about giving top secret info to members of congress who became members by getting a few hundred thousand people to vote for them. It’s simply the way things work.


44 posted on 06/02/2016 7:30:33 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump's big advisors: George Papadopoulos Oil & Gas Consultant, Energy Stream U.S. From March 2011 to September 2015, George Papadopoulos worked as an analyst and researcher at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. His research predominantly focused on the geopolitics and energy security changes of both the Caspian and Eastern Mediterranean and their impact on U.S. strategy. George designed the first ever project in Washington, D.C. think tank history on U.S., Greece, Cyprus and Israel relations at a symposium: “Power Shifts in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Emerging Strategic Relationship of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus.” The event was widely covered and has provided U.S. policymakers with an alternative approach to responding to the changes in the region. George has consulted for energy companies operating in the Eastern Mediterranean and Caspian and has written reports on both Israel’s and Cyprus’ upstream natural gas market structure that have been briefed to regulatory authorities. George’s work on the topics has been published and cited in the Washington Times, Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Hurriyet, Arutz Sheva and Phileleftheros. In addition to his work in Washington D.C. and the Eastern Mediterranean, he has spoken at numerous policy and energy conferences in the Middle East: including Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. He has been awarded by the U.S. State Department as a finalist to represent the United States at UNESCO in 2011. 
He holds degrees from University College London, DePaul University, and l’ Universite Catholique de Louvain. He is currently an independent energy analyst based in London. --
45 posted on 06/02/2016 7:39:09 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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Trump’s Advisors:

Joseph Schmitz - Biography

Joseph E. Schmitz served as the fifth Senate-confirmed inspector general of the Department of Defense from April 2002 to September 2005.

As such, he was agency head of the most expansive inspector general organization in the world, with statutory policy oversight responsibility for roughly 60,000 auditors, investigators, inspectors, law enforcement officers, and oversight professionals throughout the Department of Defense. For his service, he was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the highest honorary award presented by the secretary of defense to noncareer federal employees.

Prior to this service, he was a partner in the international law firm of Patton Boggs LLP, and at the same time a captain in the United States Naval Reserves, serving as inspector general of the Naval Reserve Intelligence Command.

Schmitz has extensive experience in overseeing compliance with various international and security-related laws, including but not limited to the Inspector General Act, intelligence oversight laws, the Posse Comitatus Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and laws administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Schmitz co-founded the law firm of Schmitz & Socarras LLP, in October 2014. Before that, he served as CEO of Joseph E. Schmitz, PLLC, a veteran-owned small business law firm that he founded in 2008.

From September 2005 through 2008, he served as chief operating officer and general counsel of the Prince Group in McLean, Va. From January 2009 through April 2010 he served as managing director in the Washington D.C., office of Freeh Group International. His pre-inspector general public service included 27 years of naval service, first on active duty and then as a reserve officer; law clerk to the Honorable James L. Buckley, circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; and special assistant to the attorney general of the United States, the Honorable Edwin Meese III.

Schmitz has published numerous articles and has testified as a constitutional expert before U.S. Senate committees, and before various state legislature committees. From 1995 until 2002, he was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he developed and taught a seminar on advanced constitutional law. He is an alumnus of the American Council on Germany Young Leaders Program, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, and the International Association of Independent Private Sector Inspectors General.

In May 2013, the Center for Security Policy Press published Schmitz’s latest book, “The Inspector General Handbook: Fraud, Waste, Abuse, and Other Constitutional ‘Enemies, Foreign And Domestic’,” as the first-ever practical handbook that answers the questions, “by what authority?” and “for what purpose?” American inspectors general do what they do.

Schmitz graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978, and received his doctor of jurisprudence from Stanford University in 1986. He is a senior fellow for the Center for Security Policy, and a regular Newsmax “Insider” on constitutional issues under the banner, “Support and Defend.”

In 2010, he was awarded a community leadership award by the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition; and in 2013 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (Virginia Chapter) as an “Outstanding American.”


46 posted on 06/02/2016 7:39:54 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump’s Advisors:

Carter W. Page is the Founder and Managing Partner of Global Energy Capital LLC, a New York-based financial institution and investment fund focused on energy investments worldwide.

In his work as both an advisor and a direct investor, he has participated in over $25 billion in strategic mergers & acquisitions and financing transactions across diverse segments of the energy and power sector. He is the former Chief Operating Officer of the Energy & Power Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch. Until 2007, he was Deputy Branch Manager of Merrill Lynch’s representative office in Moscow which he opened in 2004.

Carter is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was previously an International Affairs Fellow and Co-Director of the Council’s study group on energy development in the Caspian Sea region. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. He has been a Fellow at the Center for National Policy since 2010 where his work has focused on energy policy and strategic trends across the sector.

Carter is a Distinguished Graduate of the US Naval Academy where he was a Trident Scholar. He holds an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a PhD from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.


47 posted on 06/02/2016 7:40:30 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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Trumps Advisors: George Papadopoulos Oil & Gas Consultant, Energy Stream U.S. From March 2011 to September 2015, George Papadopoulos worked as an analyst and researcher at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. His research predominantly focused on the geopolitics and energy security changes of both the Caspian and Eastern Mediterranean and their impact on U.S. strategy. George designed the first ever project in Washington, D.C. think tank history on U.S., Greece, Cyprus and Israel relations at a symposium: “Power Shifts in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Emerging Strategic Relationship of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus.” The event was widely covered and has provided U.S. policymakers with an alternative approach to responding to the changes in the region. George has consulted for energy companies operating in the Eastern Mediterranean and Caspian and has written reports on both Israel’s and Cyprus’ upstream natural gas market structure that have been briefed to regulatory authorities. George’s work on the topics has been published and cited in the Washington Times, Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Hurriyet, Arutz Sheva and Phileleftheros. In addition to his work in Washington D.C. and the Eastern Mediterranean, he has spoken at numerous policy and energy conferences in the Middle East: including Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. He has been awarded by the U.S. State Department as a finalist to represent the United States at UNESCO in 2011. 
He holds degrees from University College London, DePaul University, and l’ Universite Catholique de Louvain. He is currently an independent energy analyst based in London.
48 posted on 06/02/2016 7:41:06 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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Are they aware of who is currently President? If he gets it Trump can get it.


49 posted on 06/02/2016 7:54:41 PM PDT by Jenny217
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What idiots! Here they are worrying about giving briefings YET THEY ARE OUT RUNNING THEIR MOUTHS TO THE PRESS. They should all lose their clearances and be fired.


50 posted on 06/02/2016 8:07:01 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Like herpes, Cruz can always flare up again. Treat with Trump.)
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These arrogant, useless “public servants” should be identified sand fired immediately. What pathetic cretins.


51 posted on 06/02/2016 10:16:33 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump has, presumably, signed hundreds of NDAs during the course of his business career which carry significant legal weight and jeopardy. He’s likely well trained in keeping secrets more than, say, an average junior senator hack from Chicago.


52 posted on 06/02/2016 10:19:10 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

I used to love them making you sign one before you could interview for a position.


53 posted on 06/02/2016 10:37:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Both the Dulles brothers were globalists of the highest order - the stench goes back much further than is commonly acknowledged.


54 posted on 06/02/2016 11:33:18 PM PDT by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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They created the United Nations.


55 posted on 06/02/2016 11:41:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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"I would be very concerned with Mr. Trump's ability to know what he can and can't discuss" publicly about the contents of an intelligence briefing, said Schiff, who supports Clinton for president.

Yeah - like Trump has a history for allowing bad things to happen because of loose lips.

I guess Hillary's folks are getting so ggo at ignoring things that they could have their families raped by Bill and decide he was just teaching them the ways of the world and making them better for it.

56 posted on 06/03/2016 3:50:03 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Eight senior security officials told Reuters...

Why in hell are these 'senior security officials' talking to Reuters about this 'concern'???

57 posted on 06/03/2016 3:59:59 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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Eight senior security officials told Reuters they were concerned that Trump's "shoot from the hip" style could pose national security risks, as they prepare to give him a routine pre-election briefing for presidential nominees.

They also cited his lack of foreign policy experience, and his little known team of foreign policy advisers. "People are very nervous," one senior U.S. security official said.

However, the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss a political domestic issue, said they would not deviate from the usual "Top Secret" briefing format, to avoid any appearance of bias.

Knowing this, bigdaddy45 writes: I’m sure some of them had the same thoughts about Obama. And still do.

I'm sure those same Intelligence and Security Officials publicly voiced those "concerns" about the Kenyan Negro Progressive Liberal descended from two generations of American Communists and Mau Mau "rebels", like they publicly voiced them about Trump, and that you can point me to those pronouncements with a link.

Is your opinion the same?

That would depend on the link.

Lack of one would indicate Security Officials selective silence as shilling for the Kenyan Commie Muslim, which explains why they still have their jobs, and should lose them.

58 posted on 06/03/2016 9:09:05 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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Just how gullible are you? If said officials HAD expressed reservations about Obama being briefed, do you think the media would have actually reported it? Of course not.

Notice, in the current kerfuffle, there are no names attached. Just a bunch of “unnamed” officials whispering to reporters, who then breathlessly report it. Think they would have reported on that when they said the same thing about Obama? HA! Yeah, right.


59 posted on 06/03/2016 10:45:18 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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Interesting! You’re way ahead of me on that experience! I’m a TV Producer and there is a Colorado company who is frequently looking for EXACTLY my skillset. However, they require a TS/SCI clearance (which I’m sure I could pass) but costs $3000 to $5000, upfront. Ugh.


60 posted on 06/03/2016 10:25:28 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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