Posted on 07/02/2020 5:24:10 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
President Donald Trump was briefed less and less with warnings about Russia's behavior toward the US because he would get angry when presented with intelligence about it, CNN reported on Wednesday.
Early in Trump's presidency, officials learned to limit their verbal briefings on the topic and would often see their written materials ignored, former administration officials told CNN's Jim Sciutto.
"The president has created an environment that dissuades, if not prohibits, the mentioning of any intelligence that isn't favorable to Russia," a former senior national security staffer told CNN.
John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, who started in May, and Robert O'Brien, the national security adviser, denied the accounts.
The claims have nonetheless have renewed the relevance of a New York Times report, published last week, that said Taliban-linked bounty killings sponsored by Russia targeted US troops.
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Jeez...your title is insulting rags.
How embarrassing. For BI that is.
Based on the record of journalistic excellence that the establishment media has won in their hard fought battle for truth, and the American Way, not one syllable in this article should be believed, not even the punctuation! Period.
.... Take away all of the bluster in that headline and it states that the Officials refused to do their jobs ..... They should all be fired
Notice how much pure fiction the left writes. Bolton, NYT, CNN, all could be midlist novelists if there was still any money in it.
They haven’t been doing very well...9 American troops killed in Afghanistan in the year 2020...
BI and NYT need to find something else...
Riiiiiight! And this is just now coming out.
Fake news.
OMG! Proof positive of Trump/Russian collusion. He’ll have to resign long before the election. /s/
OR there are staff people in our intelligence agencies who would withhold, distort, or even fabricate intelligence to harm the president, even at the expense of national security. There is a precedent you know.
Fake Fake Fake
BS
As hard as I try I can’t imagine our President DJT flying into a rage over anything. This is just another left wing publication fantasy to attempt to scar our President’s demeanor, our President’s character.
I think they do this way too much. Something about the “Little Boy who Cried Wolf” comes to mind.
OMG....we simply are not that stupid....though we are deplorable.
No way. Members of intel would give report regardless, or risk reprimand for not doing their job.
More lies renew the relevance of previous lies. Got it.
With all the garbage headlines proclaiming that “Trump flew into a rage about xyz”, you’d think he’d lose his cool in public and on camera just once, wouldn’t you? Still waiting.
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