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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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To: ColdOne

Professional Intelligence Experts don’t wring hands and blather to Lame Stream Media.


81 posted on 01/07/2017 3:00:30 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

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

Exactly. The “professionals” allowed Obama, Rice, and Hillary to lie and claim Benghazi was started by a video.


82 posted on 01/07/2017 3:01:59 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: hal ogen

I don’t know. Do you know more about it?


83 posted on 01/07/2017 4:41:53 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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To: ColdOne

President Trump respects the patriotic-operator wing of the CIA and questions the lace-panty State Department wing of the CIA. Both Trump positions makes sense.


84 posted on 01/07/2017 5:56:01 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Gator113

It’s “Mogul”.

Dammit.

:-/


85 posted on 01/07/2017 5:58:28 PM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Am I to assume NBC is part of the intelligence community since they received the “hacking” brief before anyone on the President Elect’s team did just two days ago?


86 posted on 01/07/2017 6:44:20 PM PST by Garden Island
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To: ColdOne

Yeah, Obama was so good at handling intel on Isis and other Muslim radicals/enemies of US.


87 posted on 01/07/2017 8:35:16 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: ColdOne

LOL! The real rogues worrying he may uncover them....


88 posted on 01/08/2017 3:24:10 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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You mean he won’t listen to the folks who explained Benghazi was because of a video? Works for me.

That says it all.

89 posted on 01/08/2017 10:24:33 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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