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Trump Receiving First Classified Briefing Today, Critics Cringe
Townhall.com ^ | August 17, 2016 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 08/17/2016 11:30:43 AM PDT by Kaslin

GOP nominee Donald Trump is poised to receive his first classified intelligence briefing

in New York City on Wednesday. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will give Trump a "fairly general" report, says Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.   Retired Gen. Michael Hayden emphasized this latter point, noting the secret meetings will be "secret-light."

Many have voiced their concerns about Trump having knowledge of important national security intel, especially after he invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails.

the words "Trump" and "classified intelligence briefing" are so hard to write in the same tweet.— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) August 17, 2016

Others pointed out that hours before Trump's intelligence briefing, he said he "doesn't' trust" U.S. intel.

He receives his first briefing today. [shudders.] | Trump: I don't trust U.S. intelligence information https://t.co/2nAsmhqm5R— Michael Hicks (@MikeH5856) August 17, 2016

As for the Democratic nominee, who as secretary of state mishandled national security intel on an unsecure private server, House Speaker Paul Ryan formally requested she be prohibited from receiving such briefings.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; clinton; donaldtrump; hillary; nationalsecurity; trump; trumpnatlsecurity
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To: Kaslin

Now they know how I’ve felt the last 8 1/2 years with Biden and Obama getting “security” briefings. Suck it up, I did.


61 posted on 08/17/2016 2:14:40 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: caww

God help us!

Don’t want to copy that picture.


62 posted on 08/17/2016 2:18:59 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for fre iedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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To: Sarah Barracuda; Kaslin

Damn, Sarah, you beat me to it...

I’ll parasite onto your comment: At least Trump UNDERSTANDS what the words “SECRET” and “TOP SECRET” mean.


63 posted on 08/17/2016 2:28:56 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: ASA Vet

Count me in as long as I don’t have to leave N California.

I’m even more boring since 1967, after I left the Navy, than I was before my TS/SCI was completed. Shouldn’t take too long to re run my clearance.

If a lie detector exam is needed, they would have to strap the administrator to his chair, in case he went to sleep due to boredom while administering my test.


64 posted on 08/17/2016 2:30:19 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for fre iedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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To: Kaslin

“after he invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails.”

Of course, he never did that, but his propagandist enemies never care about the truth. I watched that press conference live and couldn’t believe the illogical spin the propagandist commentators were putting on it afterwards (with the exception of some on Fox, who knew exactly what he was saying). In a sane world, no one in the country would think it acceptable that Hillary receive briefings after what the FBI director said about her, but we aren’t in a sane world, so they make up things about Trump instead.


65 posted on 08/17/2016 2:36:40 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: Kaslin

In the fwiw dept, I have had a higher security clearance than probably 95% of Trump’s “critics.”. Whoever they may be.

I would brief Trump before I would brief ANYONE at CNN.

5.56mm


66 posted on 08/17/2016 2:41:53 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Kaslin

“Many have voiced their concerns about Trump having knowledge of important national security intel, especially after he invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails.”

1. Trump did not invite the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, because she has been away from the government for a number of years and her email systems has been abolished for years. He was only pranking and asked the Russians to locate them in one of their file cabinets.

2. Clinton treated top secret information like it was chewing gum wrappers and these fools are concerned about Trump?


67 posted on 08/17/2016 3:07:54 PM PDT by odawg
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To: ASA Vet
How many of you on the MI ping list would consider returning to producing real intelligence for our nation, once we again have a real American President?

I'm In. It would be nice to have Intelligence Reports that weren't filtered so you wouldn't look so inept like our current President.

68 posted on 08/17/2016 3:16:40 PM PDT by rocksblues (The Obama administration the most unlawful, corrupt administration in US history.)
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To: ASA Vet

We have to have a real president to make this work. We need get off the back of the collectors of intelligence too.


69 posted on 08/17/2016 3:33:13 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Grampa Dave
If a lie detector exam is needed,

Since lie detectors are a fake, and only used as a prop by a skilled interrogator, such foolishness would be a waste of time and money.

Just do a super duper SBI or whatever it's now called.

70 posted on 08/17/2016 4:37:40 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Okay, that was funny.


71 posted on 08/17/2016 5:01:43 PM PDT by madison10 (#OnlyTrump #NeverHillary)
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To: Kaslin
...especially after he invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails...

So, they expect me to believe that Russia wouldn't hack a US government server unless they were invited.

Gee, does anyone have a bridge for sale?

72 posted on 08/17/2016 5:06:41 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

“he was given a phony briefing on going operations and a nondisclosure agreement that limited things he could say”


EXACTLY!

Obama == Hillary and Hillary == Obama
Both == Spawn of hell


73 posted on 08/17/2016 5:31:05 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10 rounds 10 meters 10 seconds 10 centimetres)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“at least Trump won’t email them to our enemies”

Correct. Because Trump has never used email because he said he doesn’t trust it. Smart man.

Even when email was first invented on the experimental educational Internet prior to it being made available to the general public sometime around 1999, the smart folk amongst us had a hard and fast rule that one should never put anything in an email unless you were willing for the whole world to see it.

Apparently, there NOTHING that Trump wants the whole world to see that it shouldn’t!


74 posted on 08/17/2016 5:37:37 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: All

>”Trump didn’t invite Russia to hack Hillary. He invited them to release what they already hacked. English is a great language, Townhall. Learn it.”
>

SLIGHT correction (but still spot on): Everyone’s still presuming the check didn’t clear to *require* ‘hacking’.

IMO, her server was a BBS of old. You gave enough, knew the right people, etc. you got the # and direct access to whatever you wanted on the box.


75 posted on 08/17/2016 5:55:59 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Kaslin

“(((Popehat))) ;@Popehat · 39m39 minutes ago

If I were Trump, the day after my first security briefing I would start ranting about UFOs and Belgian nukes just to screw with people.”

LMAO


76 posted on 08/18/2016 9:02:44 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Chgogal

“But the “critics” are fine with Hillary who can’t pass a security clearance due to her “extreme carelessness” of having an illegal private server and ignoring her position as SOS, which by definition, is at minimum CLASSIFIED when receiving and sending emails. The “critics” make me sick. They are dumber than dumb for thinking we are as dumb as they are.”

If the briefings come in paper, will the government compiler be courteous enough to make copies of the briefings for Huma Abedin to distribute to her handlers? Will they have that handy dandy “Classified” designation on top, the one that Hillary asked be removed when she was Secretary of State, according to news reports? Would they dare send them by email to these camps, given the wholesale hacking that is now possible? Flash drive? Huma has had 20 years with the Clintons and executive branch classified information and how to get it and how to pass in on. Huma already knows more than Hillary about U.S. security secrets.


77 posted on 08/19/2016 1:25:12 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: caww

What do you bet Biden’s codeword is “codeword?”


78 posted on 08/19/2016 1:38:16 AM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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