Posted on 10/26/2018 12:08:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Trump administration is drastically cutting back on who on Capitol Hill gets to see intelligence reports on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, according to multiple congressional sources.
Under the new rules, only each party's House and Senate leaders, along with chairs and ranking members of foreign relations and intelligence committees, get direct access to the reports. It is a drastic change from previous distribution of North Korea related intelligence reports which, for the most part, gave access to the entire committees and the staffers on those committees.
The fear on Capitol Hill is that the limited distribution, which has been implemented over the past few weeks, will leave Congress largely in the dark when it comes to what U.S. intelligence has collected about North Korea's motivations and nuclear developments. Some on the Hill, citing President Trump's outreach to North Korea, worry that the White House is limiting the flow of information because the reports might indicate Pyongyang is accelerating its nuclear program.
"It is not a good look. It is very telling that they are doing this. We can't prove it, but it is an indication that there could be a significant problem," explained one senior Senate staffer. "The reports could give alarming details that they don't want out there in the public theater."
There are North Korea briefings made available to members of Congress in small groups, particularly Republican members who have a close relationship with the White House. Yet Republicans and Democrats alike are frustrated by the move, which they say will inhibit Congress' role in the high-stakes diplomacy being orchestrated by the White House and the State Department....
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Considering 80+ Congressmen have dual US-Israeli citizenship, I see it as a good thing that they don’t have access to TS information. Dual nationality means divided loyalties, which should be a big no-no, especially on Capital Hill. AFAIK, the Founding Fathers made it illegal to hold high office and have dual nationality.
KJU will absolutely lovvvvvve this. He wants to obfuscate and doesn’t want anyone to provide transparent intel that he’s screwing the US once again, as did father and grandfather.
Private satellite companies contracted with their earth orbit sat intel and photo interp will put an end to that, though! LOL!! :-)
So you sort of side with Adam Schiff versus the Trump White House?
Do you have a list of those members of congress?
“Considering 80+ Congressmen have dual US-Israeli citizenship”
That number does not look right to me. I don’t think there are even half that many Jewish members of Congress. Of those, I’d be interested to know if any actually applied for Israel citizenship or were born there. In any case, I think you’d find more dual citizens of Mexico, India or Germany in Congress.
Keep Diane Feinstein out of the loop. She’s a known leaker.
My memory on the issue has faded over the years, and these lists are old and out of date. So direct numbers in Congress seems to be off. Regardless, even ONE is too many, IMO. There is certainly a massive over-representation by Israeli citizens in US government and Congress (a whole other topic), but even if they were Canadian or British, it still doesn’t change my point.
List Israeli Dual Citizens in the US. 114th Congress . . . and Bernie Sanders is on it
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=32823
This seems to be the most complete list (but old):
https://michaelruark.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/members-of-the-us-government-with-dual-citizenship-to-the-us-and-israel/
http://american3rdposition.com/us-politics-hold-ual-usisraeli-citizenship/
Members in US politics who hold dual US/Israeli citizenship: http://investmentwatchblog.com/members-in-us-politics-who-hold-dual-usisraeli-citizenship/
https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/tag/american-israel-public-affairs-committee-aipac/
http://eyeswideopen5.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/dual-citizen-israelis-jews-in-us.html
http://molon-lave.com/jews_at_the_steering_wheel.html
So that would be about 40 Jews in the House and Senate, not 80, and not accounting for ones on the lists that are no longer there. I think few if any of these are actually Israeli citizens. The authors probably asserts that they *could become* ones if they applied for it, based on jus sanguinis. Not at all the same thing. I’m not a citizen of Chile, but I *could become* one if I just made a habit of staying there for a few years, and applied for it.
So the limiting of access to sensitive North Korea negotiations is really all about those dastardly Jews? Who knew? Early morning obsession. Thanks for the chuckle. Now I'm going back to sleep.
Considering only 30 members of Congress are identified as Jewish (and several of them do not qualify as Jewish), I wonder who the 50+ Christian Congressmen citizens of Israel are.
I don’t know. It doesn’t really matter. Let’s not let this thread be hijacked by someone who is obviously somewhat unhinged when it comes to Israel/Jews.
That being said, just how many members of congress whether it be US/Israeli, US/Canadian, US/Mexican or US/???, have dual citizenship/divided loyalties?
“Do you have a list of those members of congress?”
I think his issue is that they’re Jewish, and therefore could move to Israel, if they wanted to.
I doubt he understands that non-Jewish Democrats hate this country just as much as the Jewish ones.
and you have the nerve to bring these ancient, anti-Semitic excuse of blogs as your source??
with video headlines like this”Treasonous Dual Israeli Citizens Control US - Author John Kaminski “
please don’t post your inks to drivel blogs on a credible site like this.....
oh man I remember this stage of internet innocence. Have you made it to FEMA death camps yet? Pics of black plastic caskets for mass burial of US. FEMA trains. UN vehicles everywhere. Who runs the world at this stage? Bilderberg, CFR or Illuminati?
And you have the nerve to twist my words? I clearly stated this has nothing to do with Israel. I said it has to do with DUAL-nationality and divided loyalties, regardless of who the other nationality is. The fact that so many Congressmen and those in high office happen to have Israeli citizenship is THEIR coincidence. If they had been Canadian, I would have said the same thing.
Stop seeking antisemitic bogeymen where there are none.
If I told you I am part Jewish, would that get you to calm down? Spare me your virtue signalling.
I want the information and Intel shared with the relavant Congressional committees and security cleared staff professionals, both sides of the aisle. There are Republicans also upset with that, if your question is such, yes, I side with the GOP members of the House/Senate who want access and updates as to what NK is really doing, if our assessments are that they are cheating. Why should that be controlled? You word it as a red herring, which is rather disingenuous. You know precisely where I come from (my thinking) and why. At least you should know by now for at least 10 years on FR. Both me and (the long gone from FR) TigerLikesRooster and others.
What in god’s name are you talking about?
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