Seeming proof of Obama’s meddling: CIA does not want to share intelligence with President Trump
Why would intelligence operatives answerable to President Trump refuse to provide information to the President? As reported by the Wall Street Journal, that situation currently exists and the only reason I can determine for its existence is that these operatives must be beholden to the former officeholder.
“U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
The officials’ decision to keep information from Mr. Trump underscores the deep mistrust that has developed between the intelligence community and the president over his team’s contacts with the Russian government, as well as the enmity he has shown toward U.S. spy agencies. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump accused the agencies of leaking information to undermine him.
In some of these cases of withheld information, officials have decided not to show Mr. Trump the sources and methods that the intelligence agencies use to collect information, the current and former officials said. Those sources and methods could include, for instance, the means that an agency uses to spy on a foreign government.
A White House official said: ‘There is nothing that leads us to believe that this is an accurate account of what is actually happening.’
A spokesman for the Office of Director of National Intelligence said: ‘Any suggestion that the U.S. intelligence community is withholding information and not providing the best possible intelligence to the president and his national security team is not true.’
Intelligence officials have in the past not told a president or members of Congress about the ins and outs of how they ply their trade. At times, they have decided that secrecy is essential for protecting a source, and that all a president needs to know is what that source revealed and what the intelligence community thinks is important about it.
But in these previous cases in which information was withheld, the decision wasn’t motivated by a concern about a president’s trustworthiness or discretion, the current and former officials said.
It wasn’t clear Wednesday how many times officials have held back information from Mr. Trump.
The officials emphasized that they know of no instance in which crucial information about security threats or potential plotting has been omitted. Still, the misgivings that have emerged among intelligence officials point to the fissures spreading between the White House and the U.S. spy agencies.
Mr. Trump, a Republican, asked Monday night for the resignation of Mike Flynn, his national security adviser, after the White House said the president lost trust in him, in part, because he misstated the nature of his conversations with the Russian ambassador.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump castigated the intelligence agencies and the news media, blaming them for Mr. Flynn’s downfall.
‘The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by intelligence like candy. Very un-American!’ Mr. Trump tweeted.”
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(Read more at Wall Street Journal)
We should consider that the events that resulted in Mr. Flynn’s ouster came as a result of spying on:
- An American (which makes Flynn an illegal target for intelligence agencies)
- A member of an incoming administration
- A former member of the Obama administration who Obama forced out due to Flynn’s stance against our Islamic foes (which makes Flynn an enemy of a president who had no trouble with changing law without going though Congress)
Therefore, is it unreasonable to think that Obama might have ordered one more illegal act?
Former CIA analyst Schaffer provides names
Tony Shaffer, a former CIA analyst who openly stated his opinion on the events surrounding Michael Flynn spoke with The Washington Free Beacon.
“Former CIA analyst and retired U.S. Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer during a Wednesday appearance on Fox Business Network named several Obama administration officials he suspected were behind the leaks prompting former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s resignation.
‘Risk and Reward’ host Deirdre Bolton asked Shaffer whether he thought leaks from the Obama administration were ‘the problem.’
‘Absolutely,’ Shaffer answered, saying the Obama administration was ‘directly involved’ with the leak.
Shaffer said the blame lay ‘squarely at the feet of’ the former CIA director John Brennan, former director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper, and former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes.
The Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday reported that Rhodes and others constructed a ‘behind-the-scenes effort’ to ‘plant a series of damaging stories about Flynn in the national media.’
Shaffer cited NBC reporting it had received its information from six officials who saw the transcript of Flynn’s call with a Russian official.”
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(Read more at The Washington Free Beacon)
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