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.
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.
God help us!
Don’t want to copy that picture.
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.
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.
“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.
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
“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?
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.
We have to have a real president to make this work. We need get off the back of the collectors of intelligence too.
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.
Okay, that was funny.
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?
“he was given a phony briefing on going operations and a nondisclosure agreement that limited things he could say”
Obama == Hillary and Hillary == Obama
Both == Spawn of hell
“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!
>”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.”
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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.
“(((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
“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.
What do you bet Biden’s codeword is “codeword?”
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