10-11-2016, 04:26 PM
Good points, Lauren. It's not hard for me to imagine scenarios where the National Security State loses patience with Trump and eliminates him in some way, perhaps via his connections to Russia, and uses it as a pretext to start a war.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat...story.html
Intelligence community is already feeling a sense of dread about Trump
The lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
By Greg Miller November 9 at 7:06 PM
The election results were only hours old Wednesday when a sober team of intelligence analysts carrying black satchels and secure communications gear began preparing to give President-elect Donald Trump his first unfiltered look at the nation's secrets.
The initial presentation to be delivered as early as Thursday is likely to be a read-through of the President's Daily Brief, the same highly classified summary of security developments delivered every day to President Obama. After that, U.S. intelligence officials are expected to schedule a series of meetings to apprise Trump of covert CIA operations against terrorist groups, the intercepted communications of world leaders, and satellite photos of nuclear installations in North Korea.
The sessions are designed to bring a new president up to speed on what the nation's spy agencies know and do. But with Trump, the meetings are likely to be tense encounters between wary intelligence professionals and a newly minted president-elect who has demonstrated abundant disdain for their work.
[75 retired senior diplomats sign letter opposing Trump for president]
A palpable sense of dread settled on the intelligence community Wednesday as Hillary Clinton, the candidate many expected to win, conceded the race to a GOP upstart who has dismissed U.S. spy agencies' views on Russia and Syria, and even threatened to order the CIA to resume the use of interrogation methods condemned as torture.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat...story.html
Intelligence community is already feeling a sense of dread about Trump
The lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
By Greg Miller November 9 at 7:06 PM
The election results were only hours old Wednesday when a sober team of intelligence analysts carrying black satchels and secure communications gear began preparing to give President-elect Donald Trump his first unfiltered look at the nation's secrets.
The initial presentation to be delivered as early as Thursday is likely to be a read-through of the President's Daily Brief, the same highly classified summary of security developments delivered every day to President Obama. After that, U.S. intelligence officials are expected to schedule a series of meetings to apprise Trump of covert CIA operations against terrorist groups, the intercepted communications of world leaders, and satellite photos of nuclear installations in North Korea.
The sessions are designed to bring a new president up to speed on what the nation's spy agencies know and do. But with Trump, the meetings are likely to be tense encounters between wary intelligence professionals and a newly minted president-elect who has demonstrated abundant disdain for their work.
[75 retired senior diplomats sign letter opposing Trump for president]
A palpable sense of dread settled on the intelligence community Wednesday as Hillary Clinton, the candidate many expected to win, conceded the race to a GOP upstart who has dismissed U.S. spy agencies' views on Russia and Syria, and even threatened to order the CIA to resume the use of interrogation methods condemned as torture.