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applegrove

(118,011 posts)
Fri May 24, 2019, 08:43 PM May 2019

Trump puts DOJ on crash course with intelligence agencies

Trump puts DOJ on crash course with intelligence agencies

National security veterans fear a declassification order could trigger resignations and threaten the CIA’s ability to conduct its core business — managing secret intelligence and sources.

By NATASHA BERTRAND at Politico

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/24/trump-justice-department-intelligence-1344958

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President Donald Trump’s declassification order Thursday night has set up a showdown between his own Justice Department and the intelligence community that could trigger resignations and threaten the CIA’s ability to conduct its core business — managing secret intelligence and sources.

Trump’s order directed intelligence agencies to fully comply with Attorney General William Barr’s look at “surveillance activities” during the 2016 election — a probe that Trump’s allies see as a necessary check on government overreach but that critics lambaste as an attempt to create the impression of scandal. Numerous former intelligence officials called the move “unprecedented,” saying it grants the attorney general sweeping powers over the nation’s secrets, subverts the intelligence community and raises troubling legal questions.

“There’s nothing CIA or NSA, for example, guards more jealously than sources and methods,” said Larry Pfeiffer, a 32-year intelligence veteran who served as the chief of staff to CIA Director Michael Hayden. “It is not hyperbole to say that lives are at stake.”

“I doubt any of the [CIA directors] or [directors of national intelligence] that I worked with would have sat by silently if their president contemplated or made such a decision,” added Pfeiffer, who also served as senior director of the White House Situation Room.


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Trump puts DOJ on crash course with intelligence agencies (Original Post) applegrove May 2019 OP
IC will be ok . . . Iliyah May 2019 #1
GOP work for putin now so dont be so sure Eliot Rosewater May 2019 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music May 2019 #3
I hope they hold fast Phoenix61 May 2019 #4
Would Be Dictator Donnie colsohlibgal May 2019 #5

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Phoenix61

(16,950 posts)
4. I hope they hold fast
Fri May 24, 2019, 09:48 PM
May 2019

and stay the course. The absolute worst thing would for any of them to resign. They are who is going to keep the rest of us safe.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
5. Would Be Dictator Donnie
Fri May 24, 2019, 10:18 PM
May 2019

He is a horrible disgusting semi human being who is trying his best to turn us into an Autocracy.

We mean, investigating the investigators? Buddying Up with dictators. And virtually all republicans in Congress follow him like meek sheep. Republicans who used to loath dictators.

Our long National Nightmare continues.

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