Ex-CIA officer: Trumps horrifying incompetence poses worst threat to US since the Civil War

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Veteran CIA officer Glenn Carle said in an interview with Radio Boston that the widening rift between the intelligence agency and President-elect Donald Trump is a historic crisis.

Host Meghna Chakrabarti asked Carle — who served with the CIA from the presidencies of Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush — about whether reports of a contentious relationship between Trump and the CIA are true.

Carle said that yes, in fact, Trump’s feud with the agency is real, but that it pales in comparison to the question of Trump’s complete incompetence with regards to the knowledge needed to be the nation’s chief executive.

“There’s a rift flowing all across the headlines, the page and everyone’s consciousness. It’s tremendous. But it actually is only a secondary issue compared to the larger issue of the competence, or lack thereof, of the President-elect with regard to national security and international affairs,” Carle said. “It’s stunning, and an existential moment for the United States, much less the C.I.A., absolutely.”

We are currently unprecedented territory, Carle said.

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The CIA’s job, Carle said, is to “present objective reality as best as we can find it.” Sometimes they must tell powerful officials things they don’t want to hear. Intelligence personnel expect to be met with some resistance from time to time, but for Trump to shut them out completely — as he has done since Election Day — is unheard-of.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/ex-cia-officer-trumps-horrifying-incompetence-poses-worst-threat-to-us-since-the-civil-war/

[pangaia]

1. That was my take as well.. about the Civil War...

Several days ago, as a matter of fact, right here...

[pangaia]

2. To add excerpts

Trump, he said, is “almost clinically incapable of dealing with the world that we all live in,” which makes him wildly dangerous as a commander-in-chief.

“It’s a horrifying moment,” Carle said. “Others have said that the U.S. is facing — and I completely agree and I myself have said separately — that the U.S. is facing the greatest crisis to its institution since 1861.”

[Maven]

3. I think we're in a civil war of sorts right now. nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Yes. We really are.

It's terrible here in Missouri. People are just so divided.

And to make it worse all the crazies have been let out if the box.

I just keep my head down and mind my own business.

[blue neen]

5. It's terrifying.

Putin will play him like a fiddle.

[world wide wally]

6. Will the former USA be known as a satellite state or as colony after Jan 20?

[colsohlibgal]

7. Agree Totally

It's hard to see a good end to this. It is entirely possible, thanks to malfeasance and the staggering stupidity of way too many voters, that we have jumped the shark.

Eisenhower is spinning in his grave. He would have had no use for this crowd.

[Generator]

8. Ha!

The Republicons and all their shitty pants followers think it's ISIS when it's actually a reality star conman that brings America to its knees. How fitting really.