Posted on 11/19/2024 8:51:21 PM PST by bitt
President-elect Donald Trump is now privy to intelligence briefings at his Mar-a-Lago estate as he waits to officially come back to the White House — after promising to clean house at some of the executive branch agencies that dogged him during his first term.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) began to provide Trump, 78, with briefings after his decisive victory earlier this month against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Washington Post first reported.
A spokesperson declined to tell The Post specifically whether Trump has received briefings, but confirmed, “ODNI is acting consistent with the tradition, in place since 1952, of providing intelligence briefings to the President-elect.”
The Trump team did not immediately confirm or deny the report.
The soon-to-be 47th president has already announced some picks to fill key intelligence posts in his second administration, making good on his post-election pledge to “clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.”
Trump nominated former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — a Democrat-turned-Republican over her opposition to Democrats’ “pro-war” stance — for director of national intelligence, praising her “fearless spirit” and belief in “championing our Constitutional Rights, and securing Peace through Strength.”
Other disruptor nominees could include former Pentagon official Kash Patel to head up the FBI, who wrote in his 2023 book “Government Gangsters” that the bureau “has become so thoroughly compromised that it will remain a threat to the people unless drastic measures are taken.”
The sensitive briefings by Biden administration intelligence officials are also the first of their kind that Trump has received since the FBI raided his Florida home in August 2022 — and he was accused by the Justice Department of unlawfully retaining classified documents.
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As well he should. The briefings, however, should not be passed to Obama and the Clintons.
Maybe the IC is going there to check out Melenia’s underwear again?
I'm sure they are, but not by PDJT.
They never dreamed he'd be elected again.
Is this even a good idea? The intelligence community is no friend to Trump. They could easily end up accusing him of leaking top secret information again.
I wonder if he is getting accurate briefings?
They can accuse all day long. They know better, and he is the president-elect. He NEEDS that information.
I hope that means 'at' his home 'at' Mar-a-Lago. Intel briefings have consistently been shallow and inadequate. The intel community even bragged about that in the Bitem years.
Scuttlebutt is that Trump is also receiving briefings from his own sources - although that is also unconfirmed.
I wonder if he is getting accurate briefings?
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Hey, brother, good to see you. I was wondering the same thing.
I also wonder if he has secure communications or are they listening in to all his calls.
I wonder if he is getting accurate briefings?
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That very thought occurred to me.
He’s already working harder than biden and harris.
Combined.
I also wonder how much of this will be leaked by the media.
Let's hope so.
It must be a tough place to be in where you can't trust your sources, but have to listen to them anyways.
That's another aspect of his presidency I never thought we need to pray for.
Testing comments.
Can you see any comments?
Me, too.
Here is how that world works.
Sources will provide a report. The sources are typically friendly intelligence services from other countries.
There is at least a pro forma requirement that there be confirmation and it is at this step that the system falls apart. Agenda overwhelms everything. If the report follows a desired narrative it will absolutely be briefed higher as being of high quality and supported by other sources of intel.
This is what Tulsi will be thrown into. She won’t be aligned with the narrative. When a report arrives of some Russian atrocity on prisoners (arriving from Ukraine sources), she will want confirmation from something largely immune to agenda — and that is satellite recon. If satellites cannot confirm it, then it didn’t happen.
Ditto Israel and Gaza. If satellites cannot confirm massacres by either the IDF or Hamas, then it didn’t happen.
And MOST OF ALL, no more reports briefed upwards saying things like Kim Jong Un wants such and such. Or Kim Jong Un thinks that blah blah blah. NO MORE TELEPATHY. No reading minds. If there are recordings of someone saying something, there will have to be a strong conclusion that the recording could not have been manufactured.
Stop the believing crap just because the Swamp wants you to.
Tulsi Gabbard may be targeted for assassination even before Trump.
I can see your responses.
Intelligence should have quotation marks around it.
There’s hardly a surfeit of it lately.
And getting tyrants to bend the knee beforehand.
Excellent.
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