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struggle4progress

(118,273 posts)
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 07:41 PM Feb 2017

Spy Revolt Begins

By John R. Schindler • 02/12/17 10:00am

... the still-forming Trump administration is already doing serious harm to America’s longstanding global intelligence partnerships. In particular, fears that the White House is too friendly to Moscow are causing close allies to curtail some of their espionage relationships with Washington—a development with grave implications for international security, particularly in the all-important realm of counterterrorism.

Now those concerns are causing problems much closer to home—in fact, inside the Beltway itself. Our Intelligence Community is so worried by the unprecedented problems of the Trump administration—not only do senior officials possess troubling ties to the Kremlin, there are nagging questions about basic competence regarding Team Trump—that it is beginning to withhold intelligence from a White House which our spies do not trust ...


http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/

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Spy Revolt Begins (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP
For anybody out there who has been a professional in their expertise............ nolabels Feb 2017 #1
Duplicate of this thread w 87 recs and 39 posts Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2017 #2
Hmmmm...you are subtle. notdarkyet Feb 2017 #3
Why does life feel we are in the middle of a le Carre and Stephen King novel? gordianot Feb 2017 #4

nolabels

(13,133 posts)
1. For anybody out there who has been a professional in their expertise............
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 08:07 PM
Feb 2017

You know this is not going to go well. When you decide you can do it better than anyone else and really never have done professionally then failure is near.

The old adage goes: nothing to fear but just keep track of the things overhead

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