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Intel experts worry Trump will go rogue
thehill.com ^ | 1/7/17 | Katie Bo Williams

Posted on 01/07/2017 11:50:15 AM PST by ColdOne

Intel experts worry Trump will go rogue © Getty President-elect Donald Trump’s skepticism of the Intelligence Community’s findings on Russian election interference has raised fears among experts that Trump will bypass intel analysts and demand that his personal team conduct its own analyses of raw data.

Tossing aside career analysts can create false conclusions, critics warn — like the George W. Bush administration’s incorrect assessment that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

“The risk is that you request raw data to support a conclusion and you avoid seeing anything that contradicts it,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told The Hill. “We can already see we have a president-elect who has difficulty with facts that are at odds with the narrative that he wants to tell or diminish his achievements.”

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1 posted on 01/07/2017 11:50:15 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

You mean he won’t listen to the folks who explained Benghazi was because of a video? Works for me.


2 posted on 01/07/2017 11:52:05 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: ColdOne

“The risk is that you request raw data to support a conclusion and you avoid seeing anything that contradicts it,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)”

Like global warming?


3 posted on 01/07/2017 11:52:54 AM PST by Lent
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To: ColdOne

I think the Left is starting to finally get it.


4 posted on 01/07/2017 11:53:22 AM PST by txhurl (Break's over, kids, back to WAR.)
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To: ColdOne

Russia is our natural ally - white, Christian, heterosexual.

We should team up with Russia to create a safe zone in Syria and repatriate the invading ‘refugees’ in Europe and in the in U.S.

This is Obama trying to divide and conquer and lock Trump into an anti-Russian stance we don’t need to adopt.

Need to purge the various agency hacks who participated in this political lie that the Russians “hacked” anything.


5 posted on 01/07/2017 11:53:31 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: ColdOne

Oh, well. Too bad for them that he’s the best candidate that ran for President of the US in the last 40 years.


6 posted on 01/07/2017 11:53:35 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: ColdOne

The “professionals” have made so many mistakes that it is not much of a worry to me if Trump feels he needs to get other opinions.


7 posted on 01/07/2017 11:53:44 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: ColdOne

“We can already see we have a president-elect who has difficulty with facts that are at odds with the narrative that we want to tell...”


8 posted on 01/07/2017 11:53:48 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ColdOne

Who would name their kid “Katie Bo?”


9 posted on 01/07/2017 11:54:33 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: ColdOne

Which “experts”?


10 posted on 01/07/2017 11:55:03 AM PST by sport
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Tossing aside career analysts...

ANYTHING with the word “career” in it in regards to govt and its agencies is a red flag.


11 posted on 01/07/2017 11:56:41 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: ColdOne

The Dems brought their problems on themselves. Just admit it.


12 posted on 01/07/2017 11:57:17 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptismpolitics,rush" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: ColdOne

Wait a minute. GWB listened to the same official intelligence that convinced Bill Clinton about Sadam’s WMDs. Maybe if he had been a little more skeptical about the extent of WMDs that Sadam claimed to have, and a lot more skeptical about the kind of people we are dealing with in the Arab world, he might have acted differently.


13 posted on 01/07/2017 11:57:42 AM PST by csn vinnie
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To: ColdOne

The civilian intel agencies need to be cleaned out with an old school Inquisition.

Bastinado, breaking on the wheel, the iron maiden, the works.

It might also help to just ban any future employment of ivy leaguers in any intel agency. Hell, drop the college requirement altogether and just go after people with actual common sense.


14 posted on 01/07/2017 11:58:35 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Lent

lol. Got 6 inches of the stuff that our children were only supposed to “hear of in stories” because it would cease to exist years ago.

Could have fooled the #### out of me today.


15 posted on 01/07/2017 11:59:11 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: ColdOne

I *so* hope his SS code name is “Rogue”.

:D


16 posted on 01/07/2017 12:00:24 PM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: ColdOne

He might fire them, if that’s what they mean. He has been known to do that.


17 posted on 01/07/2017 12:00:59 PM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: ColdOne

If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black . . .


18 posted on 01/07/2017 12:01:31 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ColdOne

The Hill practicing for a Hegelian Dialectic


19 posted on 01/07/2017 12:01:34 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: Grimmy

Iron Maiden,
The Rack then
Drawn and Quartered!

Beat Election EVER!


20 posted on 01/07/2017 12:03:17 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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