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Trump now has access to nation's most valuable intelligence
Fox News ^ | November 12, 2016 | Catherine Herridge

Posted on 11/12/2016 4:59:02 AM PST by NYer

President-elect Donald Trump will now have access to the most authoritative and highly classified intelligence produced by the U.S. government, Fox News has learned.

Two intelligence sources confirmed that the President’s Daily Brief, or PDB, is now available to Trump – after the White House, before Tuesday’s election, had directed that the winner have full access to the material, to ensure a smooth transition.

The sources told Fox News they do not anticipate the briefings will begin until next week at the earliest.

While Trump prepares to be read in on top U.S. intelligence, he and his transition team are busy assembling potential candidates for key roles in the Trump administration. He tweeted Friday that he had a “busy day” planned in New York and would soon “be making some very important decisions on the people who will be running our government.”

The PDB is like a highly classified newspaper for the president, and now the president-elect. It is significantly different than the information provided in briefings for candidates; those briefings act as primers to help bring candidates up to speed on topics like China, Iran and the Islamic State.

Candidates have been free to request additional briefs on topics of personal interest, and those supplemental briefings were made available to the other candidate.

The PDB is a focused intelligence product, and has a very high threshold for intelligence to be included.

If Trump were to receive the brief in New York City, the president-elect would need to travel to a secure federal facility, such as the FBI office.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhodoj; fbi; herridge; intelligence; pdb; trump; trump2016; trumptransition
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To: Democrat_media

Changing it would allow more Europeans in and less South Americans, or just less immigration over all? Just wondering because Europeans are big socialist to


41 posted on 11/12/2016 6:30:28 AM PST by WhatNot (The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
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To: NYer; Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; arthurus; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; ...
secure federal facility, such as the FBI office.

A SCIF is much more secure than a typical FBI office.

We need to raise the level back up to what it's supposed to be, and send to prison those CommiecRATs who have ignored it for the last 8 years.

42 posted on 11/12/2016 6:44:40 AM PST by ASA Vet (There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
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To: BwanaNdege

Should he set up an unsecured server now?

Pray America woke


43 posted on 11/12/2016 6:47:12 AM PST by bray (The Silent Majority ROARED)
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To: mewzilla

Just remember his current advisor on National Security is Mike Flynn former director of DIA. Flynn’s former command produces a lot of what goes into that briefing [DIA is actually bigger than CIA BTW]. Flynn will know if Trump is getting the real stuff or not.


44 posted on 11/12/2016 6:49:16 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: NYer

I think what he finds will blow him mind, it’s going to be shocking to him the depths of corruption that’s been going on. I really believe that what we’ve been hearing is only one mere atom on the very tip of the iceberg and hopefully it will convince him to start perusing justice against the Clinton criminal cabal and the Obama treason regime.


45 posted on 11/12/2016 6:51:40 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon.)
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To: NYer

So now he’s on Broom Hillary’s email list.


46 posted on 11/12/2016 6:51:40 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Broom Hillary was stopped.)
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To: MNDude

And half the intelligence agencies around the world thanks to Hillary’s homebrew email server.


47 posted on 11/12/2016 6:51:50 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: ASA Vet

“A SCIF is much more secure than a typical FBI office.”

The lovely SCIF. My windowless home for 4 years when I wasn’t flying. How I don’t miss the freezing temperatures, the threat of halon fire extinguishers, or the armed over-eager E-1 SP/MP waiting for something to happen.


48 posted on 11/12/2016 6:54:41 AM PST by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: NYer
Step 1 Mr. President: Get rid of this guy as fast as you can.


49 posted on 11/12/2016 6:55:11 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: NYer

The companion story should be how Bobo regularly disdains the threat matrix update.


50 posted on 11/12/2016 6:56:00 AM PST by StAnDeliver (PS - "May you live in interesting times." The interesting times have just arrived.)
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To: kabar
I would not lump Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge into the MSM. She is one of the real (and few) Straight Arrows on Fox News and cable in general. I generally take what she has to say at somewhere very close to face value.

There are a few good people in the media. We need to hang on to them and support them. They are vastly outnumbered.

51 posted on 11/12/2016 6:59:53 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: NYer

At least he isn’t paying Huma Abedin for it?


52 posted on 11/12/2016 7:03:24 AM PST by blackdog
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To: InterceptPoint

Yep. He needs to “clap off” the Clapper.


53 posted on 11/12/2016 7:14:32 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: InterceptPoint
I am not disputing the factual reporting. The issue is why is this a story worth reporting in such detail. It is routine that President-elects receive detailed security briefings like he will receive when he is sworn in. It is a non-story, but in the case of Trump, it seems to take on added significance.

Would we see a similar report if Hillary had won the election? I think not. After all, she is the most qualified person ever to run for President.

54 posted on 11/12/2016 7:20:41 AM PST by kabar
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To: Azeem
armed over-eager E-1 SP/MP

Our MP slots were E-4 except for the shift Sgts, and one SSG NCOIC.

It was one of our spec 4's who put a Brig. General up against the wall with a cocked .45 to his head. The silly ass 1 star thought that because he was a General he could enter the compound without being on our access list.

When the 1 star complained to his boss a 2 Star, the 2 star told him that he too had no access to the ASA compound, and that he's lucky he wasn't shot.

After that incident they were given a sanitized briefing by our Commander.

Many years later I witnessed a similar incident at a tactical field SCIF we'd set up to work a live mission.

55 posted on 11/12/2016 7:22:59 AM PST by ASA Vet (There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

[secure federal facility, such as the FBI office.]

Ha I imagine Trump being brought into a sparsely furnished room in a dilapidated FBI office with an old 386 PC with a giant core of wires leading down into the floor. From behind the closed door you can hear Trump yelling, WHAT IS THIS JUNK? You’re fired... and you’re FIRED...


56 posted on 11/12/2016 7:35:48 AM PST by infool7 (The ugly Truth is just a big lie.)
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To: NYer

So what? A good many folk around the world have all that top secret stuff and then some thanks to Hellary.


57 posted on 11/12/2016 7:38:04 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: NYer

At least he isn’t paying Huma Abedin for it?


58 posted on 11/12/2016 7:38:40 AM PST by blackdog
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To: ASA Vet

“A SCIF is much more secure than a typical FBI office.”

The FBI handles National Security cases/investigations, so they would have some form of SCIF to accommodate that mission. Might not be the White House Briefing Room, but adequate.


59 posted on 11/12/2016 7:40:14 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: ASA Vet
A SCIF is much more secure than a typical FBI office. We need to raise the level back up to what it's supposed to be, and send to prison those CommiecRATs who have ignored it for the last 8 years.

Yepper - I worked in a number of SCIFs in my career and ran a 22 man shop (Army/Navy/AF/Civ employees) developing courses for NSA's secure networks.

We got a new General Base Commander and we actually held him up at the door the first time he tried to come in for a tour because his paperwork wasn't yet in order. Also worked as a SSO, SSA and ISSO along with being unit Security Manager for a number of years - what has occurred over the last 8 years would have put a lot of us in jail for a loooong time if we had been so lax with security measures. It's disgusting that high risk folks get blanket access simply because "the People elected them" when they otherwise couldn't have gotten a Secret clearance much less a TS/SCI/NATO/Nuke set of credentials.

60 posted on 11/12/2016 7:46:15 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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