Intelligence figures fear Trump reprisals over assessment of Russia election role

[deminks]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/11/intelligence-agencies-cia-donald-trump-russia

Legislators overseeing the CIA and other intelligence agencies have told the Guardian they will be vigilant about reprisals from Donald Trump over an internal assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to ensure Trump’s victory.

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Former intelligence officers told the Guardian they considered retaliation by Trump to be all but a certainty after he is sworn into office next month. Trump still has several appointments to make at the highest levels of the intelligence apparatus, picks which are likely to be bellwethers for the new president’s attitudes toward the agencies.

“There is not just smoke here. There is a blazing 10-alarm fire, the sirens are wailing, the Russians provided the lighter fluid, and Trump is standing half-burnt and holding a match,” said Glenn Carle, a retired CIA officer and interrogator.

“The facts hurt, Trump won’t like the truth, and he will without question seek to destroy those individuals or organizations that say or do anything that he thinks harm his precious grandiosity.”

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Overcompensation for tiny hands

[WhiteTara]

1. K&R for exposure

[Horse with no Name]

2. I can see him "outing" agents in sensitive assignments

I imagine that the CIA is doing an assessment of the situation.

[Horse with no Name]

5. I can also see the CIA pulling their agents back from Russian interests

for this same fear.

[0rganism]

3. whatever they want to do, they'd better do it in the next month or so

after Jan. 20 the carriage turns back into a pumpkin and all us cinderellas gotta walk home from the ball

[etherealtruth]

4. Thanks for posting

[flamingdem]

6. Once Trump defangs the CIA

There's nothing left in his way

[Fast Walker 52]

9. I'm not sure he can do that, even if he wanted to

and I'm not so sure he is even that calculating in that way. If the CIA could be gotten rid of, it would have been done before, and not by a lazy doofus like Trump.

[paleotn]

10. Easier said than done...

...even by a President.

[Volaris]

14. Agreed.

The Deep State has designed itself to survive the occasional but inevitable supreme will of the Executive.
This time, that might work out in our favor.

What these people do for a living and for Country is what Trump only plays at on TV. He wont fuck with them and get away with it for very long.

Sorry been gone for a bit. Work, class, etc.

[jalan48]

7. Great statement. This guy has a backbone.

“The facts hurt, Trump won’t like the truth, and he will without question seek to destroy those individuals or organizations that say or do anything that he thinks harm his precious grandiosity.”

[gordianot]

8. I wonder if the spirit of John Foster Dulles haunts a corner of the CIA?

In essence a bigger megalomaniac prick than Trump that will rise out from under his rock and smite him hard. On the other hand it may have already happened or in the process.

[FarCenter]

11. Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick for Director of CIA, has generally been supportive of the CiA

[annabanana]

12. I choose to believe that Agent Mike

works for us.

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

13. Where is the shadow government when you need them?

Can't a secret service guy plant some coke on him?