Trump adm asks intel agencies to find out whether China, WHO hid info on coronavirus pandemic

[spanone]

Blame anyone but don trump....

WASHINGTON — The White House has ordered intelligence agencies to comb through communications intercepts, human source reporting, satellite imagery and other data to establish whether China and the World Health Organization initially hid what they knew about the emerging coronavirus pandemic, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the matter told NBC News.

A specific "tasking" seeking information about the outbreak's early days was sent last week to the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, which includes the National Center for Medical Intelligence, an official directly familiar with the matter said. The CIA has received similar instructions, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump appeared to refer to the request at his news conference Monday. "We're doing very serious investigations," Trump said. "We are not happy with that whole situation, because we believe it could have been stopped at the source, it could have been stopped quickly, and it wouldn't have spread all over the world."

As part of the tasking, intelligence agencies were asked to determine what the WHO knew about two research labs studying coronaviruses in the Chinese province of Wuhan, where the virus was first observed. NBC News has previously reported that the spy agencies have been investigating the possibility that the virus escaped accidentally from one of the labs, although many experts believe that is unlikely.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-asks-intelligence-agencies-find-out-whether-china-who-n1194451

[Squinch]

1. Assholes.

[orwell]

2. They "hid" the information...

...in the Presidential Daily Briefs that you failed to read.

There...I just saved the administration a lot of time and effort...

[pwb]

5. The hid it because they used words?

Trump is not good with his words yet.

[crickets]

10. +1

[kentuck]

3. He's pulling the old "OJ trick" again.

He's going to find the real murderer.

Like he did with Russia.

(Nobody doubts that China hid info. But Intel told him about what was happening in the real world and he ignored it.)

[spanone]

7. I thought he didn't trust the intel agencies?

Trump’s Politicization of U.S. Intelligence Agencies Could End in Disaster

The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred because the work of Soviet nuclear engineers—trained to analyze complex systems based on inferences drawn from objective facts—was politicized. Instead of speaking the truth as they saw it, they were intimidated by their government to conceal the true dimensions of the catastrophe unfolding before them. The result was the worst nuclear disaster in history.

Last week, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, published an op-ed in the Washington Post outlining his growing concern about the politicization of the intelligence community. Warner wrote: “Efforts by this president to intimidate … U.S. intelligence services may be politically advantageous in the short term, but over time the consequences for our country will be disastrous.”

We share Warner’s concerns.

Analytical objectivity—intelligence officials writing and saying what they believe to be the truth without consideration for policy or politics—is fundamental to U.S. national security. Simply put, good policy decisions require fact-based, objective, and rigorous analysis.

Politicized intelligence, by contrast, simply reinforces preexisting beliefs, depriving leaders of a foundation for developing sound policy. That is why intelligence analysts are trained, from the very outset of their careers, in presenting objective analysis, and why the intelligence community has institutional safeguards, including ombudsmen and inspectors general, to push back against pressure that leads to bias and politicization of intelligence analysis.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/28/trump-cia-intimidation-politicization-us-intelligence-agencies-could-end-in-disaster/

[pwb]

4. Trump shit on the whole world.

I wouldn't help us either if I was the world.

[mucifer]

6. trump kicked Obama's investigative team out of China. Obama had people monitoring for pandemics

[PSPS]

8. ... alomng with anything they might have on Hunter Biden too.

[The Magistrate]

9. With Political Cronies Installed At the Head Of these Agencies, Sir

No report emerging which aligns with the nonesense the cheap thug is spouting can be regarded as a credible assessment.


"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Trump 2016 - Only I can fix it

Trump 2020 - I'm not responsible.