REPORT: Intel Officials Are Withholding Sensitive Information From POTUS Trump

Mediaite.com ^ | 9:21 pm, February 15th, 2017 | Josh Feldman

[drewh]

A new report in The Wall Street Journal tonight says that U.S. intelligence officials have “withheld” information from President Trump.

Why? Well…

U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter…

In some of these cases of withheld information, officials have decided not to show Mr. Trump the sources and methods that the intelligence agencies use to collect information, the current and former officials said. Those sources and methods could include, for instance, the means that an agency uses to spy on a foreign government.

There has been a lot of reported tension between Trump and many in the intel community, and the president himself has repeatedly slammed the leaks to the press this week.

One White House official told WSJ, “There is nothing that leads us to believe that this is an accurate account of what is actually happening.”

The anonymous officials who spoke to the paper made it clear Trump has been kept from “crucial information about security threats or potential plotting,” but there’s still that concern:

Intelligence officials have in the past not told a president or members of Congress about the ins and outs of how they ply their trade. At times, they have decided that secrecy is essential for protecting a source, and that all a president needs to know is what that source revealed and what the intelligence community thinks is important about it.

But in these previous cases in which information was withheld, the decision wasn’t motivated by a concern about a president’s trustworthiness or discretion, the current and former officials said.

This report comes on the heels of a report in the Observer days ago by John Schindler headlined “The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins.”

And in that report, Schindler wrote the following:

[O]ut of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president’s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets.

Since NSA provides something like 80 percent of the actionable intelligence in our government, what’s being kept from the White House may be very significant indeed. However, such concerns are widely shared across the IC, and NSA doesn’t appear to be the only agency withholding intelligence from the administration out of security fears.

What’s going on was explained lucidly by a senior Pentagon intelligence official, who stated that “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM,” meaning the White House Situation Room, the 5,500 square-foot conference room in the West Wing where the president and his top staffers get intelligence briefings. “There’s not much the Russians don’t know at this point,” the official added in wry frustration.

You can read the full WSJ report here.

[WENDLE]

Get lost.

[TheTimeOfMan]

More leftist agitprop. It is actually quite common for the Agency to not pass along fine details that reveal sources and methods to either the executive or the legislative branches. In most cases they simply don’t need it and they leak like sieves.

If the President specifically requests it he gets it. From what I heard the congressional intel committees have been told to pound sand from time to time. Any information given to them might as well be declassified and printed in the NYT. Scum.

[nopardons]

But our side has jobs, families to take care of, are law abiding, and all that "bloodshed" talk is just that....TALK!

Are we angry? YOU BET WE ARE; but calm down, take a deep breath and lets see what happens and what the president does about this crap.

[nopardons]

You first...n00b!

[af_vet_1981]

U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter…

Possibilities include:
1. James Clapper (former Director of National Intelligence; Obama appointee)
2. John Brennan (former director of CIA; Obama appointee)
3. Sally Yates (former Deputy AG at DOJ; Obama appointee)
4. Michael Rogers (current director of the National Security Agency; Obama appointee)

There are no Intelligence agencies in the United States Constitution.

[kiryandil]

I’m thinking about going long “boiled rope”.

[WENDLE]

Oh That got me,I might not sleep tonight.You are too much. Noob? Really? check that bozo.

[veracious]

USAgov at war within itself. May Trump win for all real USAians.

[Finalapproach29er]

lmao- Lindsey’s fainting couch

Best laugh I’ve had this week

[arthurus]

The deep state.

[Grimmy]

Arrest them.
Try them.
Lock them up for as long as the law allows.

Or kill them as active enemy agents.

[TonyM]

If they cannot be trusted they have no business holding a security clearance. Trump should have their clearances revoked.

[kvanbrunt2]

The left has gone nuclear. This could get ugly...>>. and we assumed the socialists were unarmed. CIA, FBI, NSA all have lots of weapons.

[dr_lew]

I wonder why the Intel community is so concerned about Trump and his administration? The intel community is leaking to the media like a sieve.

Because they're a bunch of Commies? ... Just guessing.

[tennmountainman]

Fire them all!

Trump better start draining the swamp.

[trebb]

Yep - the leakers have “concerns”....

[Bratch]

Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Publishes “Fake News” Gets Rebuked by ODNI…

Posted on February 16, 2017 by sundance

The ridiculous scope of the undermining anti-Trump media narrative is growing exponentially more stupid as the content of their “stories” never match the alarmist headlines they are attempting.

The latest example from Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is so over-the-top ridiculous, even the Office of the Director of National Intelligence rebuked it publicly.

The Wall Street Journal leads with a headline: “Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump on Leak Concerns”… (there might be a paywall, so we’ll screen grab the lead)

 

However, about half way through the article you find the part which actually rebukes the entire framework of the presentation:

 

Oh, so, um, well, wait, “Spies keep intelligence from Donald Trump on leak concerns” – isn’t actually spies keeping intelligence from Donald Trump on leak concerns.

Oh, OK, gotcha.

So why did they even write the article?

At this point, your guess is as good as anyone’s…

However, given the litany of current nonsense, the Office of The Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) responds thus:

 

“Fake News”…. what can I tell ya…

….”complicated business folks,… complicated business”…

 

[boxerblues]

John Schindler is a nut case if its the same one

http://blackbag.gawker.com/the-crazy-emails-that-took-down-nsa-spook-john-schindle-1610203101

[lodi90]

Arrest them.
Try them.
Lock them up for as long as the law allows.

Or kill them as active enemy agents.

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This is psywar. Don’t buy this garbage. Any story that quotes a tantruming child like Adam Schiff should not be taken seriously.

[ViLaLuz]

He might store classified info on a private server set up in his bathroom.