Panetta: Trump Risks Blame For Any Attacks If He Skips Intel Briefings

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By ESME CRIBB Published DECEMBER 14, 2016, 9:55 AM EDT

Former CIA director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that if President-elect Donald Trump refuses to receive regular intelligence briefings, he risks being blamed in the wake of any potential attack on the United States.

Panetta told the Arab Strategy Forum that he has "never seen" a president with Trump's active aversion to intelligence briefings, according to Reuters.

"If we endure another attack and the intelligence officials had indications or information regarding that attack and the president did not want to listen to that, for whatever reason, the responsibility for that attack would fall on the president," he said.

Panetta reportedly told the forum that Trump's refusal of presidential intelligence briefings "can't last."

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[Wounded Bear]

1. IIRC, nobody blamed Bush for ignoring them...

Have we really learned anything?

Have to hope we don't find out on this one.

[Cosmocat]

5. RIGHT - it was Clinton's fault, seriously

there is reality and then there is the country we now live in.

See, 9-11 wasn't Bush's fault, it was Clinton's fault for not getting OBL by only launching missle strike (while republicans in congress were all up in has about how much he was overplaying the threat of islamic terrorists to take away from the MUCH MORE IMPORTANT issue, the scandal over his getting a blow job).

Meanwhile, in 2004, this country just HAD to reelect Bush II because he kept us safe.

But sure, Trump, not BHO, will be to blame if something happens.

THAT.

[niyad]

15. my first thought, as well.

[Jacob Boehme]

2. Trump....

.... our ignominious national Albatross.

[Sunlei]

8. trump already 'helped' kill thousands of innocents in syria because he kissed putins ass.

[ck4829]

3. There will be no "We're all Republicans today" if one were to happen under Donny Doom

[Mc Mike]

12. This needs to be a signed vow, by every elected Dem,

and every Intel and former Intel member who have already spoken out about dRumpf.

[patricia92243]

4. Panetta is assuming that Trump would care if he were blamed. Not receiving intelligence will make

it easier for Trump to blame somebody else. Flynn is getting the briefings, so he will be the scapegoat if anything goes wrong.

Trumps may not be smart - but he is sly.

[Sunlei]

9. trump will blame Pence, because Pence is doing all the transition work.

[louis-t]

6. Dum Dum Donnie will have excuses all day.

He twist it around so it's someone else's fault and the rubes will believe him.

[Sunlei]

7. Republicans will be to blame. Republican party is responsible for him and his every, word & action.

[Initech]

10. So our own president would turn against us in a 9/11 attack. Fucking great.

[TonyPDX]

11. So what? This guy is beyond feeling shame, or taking responsibility.

[zentrum]

13. We're safer with him

.....keeping out of it. He'll get a briefing and make it all worse----he'll stir any hornets nest in any way he wants. He'll figure out how to profit from the information or how to help a crony. He'll inflame any situation.

We're marginally better off, safer, by leaving it to the vile, but not floridly mentally ill, people he's gathered around him.

[cstanleytech]

14. Oh I would blame Trump all right a well as every single Republican in DC

that refused to take a stand against the man which is most of them as they cared more about gaining more power than the country and the people in it.

[Solly Mack]

16. Trump will blame those he feels should have kept him informed

and so will his ignorant followers as well as his lying staff.

[NewJeffCT]

17. Trump doesn't take the blame for anything bad

it will be blamed on Obama & Clinton first, then whoever is in charge of the NSA, then the CIA, then the FBI, etc, etc.

[ailsagirl]

18. DRUMPF is a worthless clod