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Schumer: Trump "dumb" for crossing CIA - "they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you"
SOTT ^ | 1/5/2016 | James Henry

Posted on 01/05/2017 12:00:14 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) let slip a terrifying reality when it comes to the power of our nation's president over "executive branch" agencies like the CIA. In an interview Tuesday with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Schumer said President-elect Donald Trump is "being really dumb" by taking on the intelligence community because if he does "they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

Just let that soak in for a minute.

One of the most powerful senators just admitted that it is "stupid" for a president to oppose the intelligence community, which he is in charge of, because it will "[get] back at you."

Maddow, perhaps realizing the gravity of what he just said, questioned Schumer further asking skeptically: "what do you think the intelligence community would do, if they were motivated to?"

"I don't know... but from what I am told, they are VERY upset with how he has treated them and talked about them...," Schumer said.

(Excerpt) Read more at sott.net ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brennan; chuckschumer; cia; clown; impliedthreats; intelligence; revenge; roguestates; schumer; threats; trumpcia
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Apparently Sen. Schumer doesn’t realize that making the Director of the CIA look bad is different than making the CIA look bad, which is what Brennan is already doing...


121 posted on 01/05/2017 1:46:55 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

We just have one - budget cutting.

Who cares what Putin did or didn’t do - he’s never going to see the inside of a US courtroom as a defendant.

If Democrats don’t want their dirty secrets exposed, they should clean up their acts - not blame the Russians for finding even more easy pickings after Hillary’s stint at the State Department.


122 posted on 01/05/2017 1:49:45 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

One thing about a POTUS Trump: Since NOBODY expected him to win it is unlikely anybody has built a dossier on him to use as leverage.


123 posted on 01/05/2017 1:50:46 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

This tells us just how political the CIA has become, how in bed with the Dems and GOP Elites the CIA has become. Chuck Schumer just spelled it out for us.


124 posted on 01/05/2017 1:55:08 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Imagine that!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

CIA has two major contingents: the ex-military operators who all voted for President Trump and love him, and the blend-with-the-State-Department liberal metrosexuals who have a globalist view and voted for Hillary. I doubt that President Trump alienated anyone who matters when he rejected the politicized accusations from members of that second group.


125 posted on 01/05/2017 1:57:41 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: drypowder

I wonder how long it will take for the director of the CIA to angrily resent Shmuckies implication...


126 posted on 01/05/2017 2:07:22 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I suspect there will be a leadership change and attitude change at the CIA.


127 posted on 01/05/2017 2:17:25 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

On January 20 Trump will have a pen and a phone.


128 posted on 01/05/2017 2:20:28 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: Uncle Miltie

I suggest Control take over. They have the cone of silence.


129 posted on 01/05/2017 2:25:10 PM PST by xp38
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump has ways to stop the CIA as well—People can be investigated, put in Jail, The CIA could be defunded and a new organization put in its Place—OSS?


130 posted on 01/05/2017 2:29:48 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Yeah, Obama’s CIA (the Democrat one) is such a problem. Obama used it as a weapon. (Benghazi video anyone?). But the Trump CIA will be working for him ... there are going to be some heads rolling over there after the 20th. We are going to make the CIA great again too!


131 posted on 01/05/2017 2:33:57 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Drain the swamp. Kill the clowns.


132 posted on 01/05/2017 2:35:07 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Yes, but soon Trump can unleash the IRS on them.

Never mind.


133 posted on 01/05/2017 2:35:39 PM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Full quote:

“If you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you”

Schumer should resign or be removed for such a statement.


134 posted on 01/05/2017 2:37:00 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Truman founded the CIA!

Shortly, after JFK was killed, he wanted to limit the CIA to Intel collection.

HST founded the CIA, and he realized his creation had become something he didn’t want and became what/why he ended the OSS after WWII was over.

HST wrote this shortly after JFK was killed:

Harry Truman Writes:
Limit CIA Role (To Intelligence collection)

By Harry S Truman, INDEPENDENCE, MO., Dec. 21 1963

http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/Harry%20Truman’s%20CIA%20article.html


135 posted on 01/05/2017 2:39:56 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama shut your lying mouth and leave America! You are past your use by date! You stink!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Dear Chuckie the Clown,

As we have learned during the campaign, six ways from Sunday, is not enough ways to actually get Trump.

136 posted on 01/05/2017 2:41:22 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
We are going to make the CIA great again too!

Or make it gone.

We don't need the CIA.

We have the AIA, the BIA, the CIA, the DIA, the EIA, the FIA, the FBI, the NSA, Doris Day, and all them other letters.

137 posted on 01/05/2017 2:42:13 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

xlnt


138 posted on 01/05/2017 2:44:16 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: From The Deer Stand

Have one of our guys post Chucky's files and email on Free Republic and WikiLeaks. Tell the mediots that the Chinese and Mexicans did the release.

139 posted on 01/05/2017 2:49:44 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama shut your lying mouth and leave America! You are past your use by date! You stink!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

140 posted on 01/05/2017 2:52:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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