Michael Moore begs Trump: Attend security briefings or the next terror attack is all your fault

[kpete]

“You have to pay attention, you have to attend these briefings,” Moore said. “This is our country, this is our security, this is our safety. You’re horsing around with all this nonsense, and you’re not doing your No. 1 job. And the No. 1 job of the president is to make sure the country is safe.”

Moore recounted how former President George W. Bush was repeatedly warned about the dangers that Osama bin Laden an al-Qaeda posed to American security, and yet was unable to stop them from launching the deadliest terrorist attack ever on American soil.

Moore said that we simply cannot afford to have another president who is “unengaged” and is “not reading his briefs” about terror threats.

“I’m asking you to do your job,” Moore said. “For the sake of the people who may end up dead.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/michael-moore-begs-trump-attend-security-briefings-or-the-next-terror-attack-is-all-your-fault/

[exboyfil]

1. This is how it is going to play out

Trump will spend most of his time in New York, and, except for some photo ops like Carrier, will delegate everything to those remaining in the White House. He thinks Pence will do this, but Pence is not in any authorized reporting structure. The Department Secretaries and Trump's staff (including Chief of Staff and NSA) do not take orders from Pence. The Department Secretaries do not take orders from the Chief of Staff or NSA.

Actually I guess it won't be a lot different than George W. Bush except Bush actually had some understanding of how government functions.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. It's really a sad, sad state of affairs

that George W. Bush has become the benchmark for minimally competent national governance.


Goddess save us all.

[FarCenter]

4. The brief is produced by the Director of National Intelligence, a bureaucracy to be eliminated

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/18/donald-trump-hopes-to-abolish-intelligence-chief-position-reverse-cia-reforms/

Exactly how it will all shake out will depend on the new team.

Probably the remit of the National Security Council should be enlarged to include the intelligence and operational capabilities of DHS, Justice, and Treasury as well as Defense and State.

[exboyfil]

6. I tend to agree with the sentiment

that you shouldn't have budget control decoupled from personnel control. I have not studied the DNI much (actually my knowledge of the intelligent portion of the government kind of predates 9/11 when I actually studied it for school).

I need to read some books. I am starting with Flynn's Field of Fight. I did read a good discussion of the NSA put together in honor of Brent Scowcroft.

http://defense360.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Scowcroft-Paper-1_Hadley_The-Roll-and-Importance-of-the-NSA.pdf

[FarCenter]

10. "If you've got them by the budget, their hearts and minds will follow"

The current intelligence setup seems pretty unwieldy, with the DNI fusing intel from 16 agencies in 6 departments and the CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community

[madokie]

15. At least bush the lessor stumbled around

some, tRump is all about playing with himself

[sdfernando]

3. Nope....Trump wants an attack

That is how he'll consolidate power.

[hedda_foil]

5. Absolutely. The next terror attack will be his Reichstag Fire moment.

[sdfernando]

8. Pretty friggin scary and depressing isn't it?

[hedda_foil]

9. Yep. To say the least.

[uponit7771]

11. +1, exactly what the last one like him did

[Yavin4]

7. No, it won't be Trump's fault. He'll blame Obama for it, and the media

will parrot his narrative and push us into another war in the ME.

[LenaBaby61]

26. No, it won't be Trump's fault. He'll blame Obama for it, and the media.

Totally agree unfortunately.

The so-called, Liberal Media which doesn't exist will parrot all of what tRump says, and he's BEEN blaming Pres. Obama for ISIS, blames Hillary too. Yet, he was FOR the Iraq war, and the so-called, Liberal media which doesn't exist has not really held him accountable for what he said on tape during that Stern Interview. All that lying sac says is that people are lying on him and that he wasn't for the Iraq war

I know there WILL be a war under tRump--he and his buddies have to replenish their coffers. Been a long while since the last war. They're thirsty for that war money.

[Vinca]

12. I know one thing. I sure wouldn't want to be a resident of any building with TRUMP on it.

[LuckyLib]

19. Wouldn't it be great if tenants fled the Trump buildings around the world due to concerns

about security? And they can't give away space in his buildings?

[Ford_Prefect]

13. George et al knew something was in the works and expected it to happen.

They were waiting for it to empower the Security State so they could bypass the Constitution, and enable the invasion of Iraq.

The new kids on the block want to invade or at least attack Iran and will do ANYTHING to make that a reality. Pence has been to all the meetings and seems to be taking a very serious interest, rather like his idol Cheney. Bibi and the Saudis have plans for disabling Iran and they'll have little trouble persuading Dumbass the Don it's the next big holy war for 'Murican Honor.

[lonestarnot]

14. Really Michael Moore. You think Hair Twitler could figure out what to do after he's briefed? He'll

just be phoning it in to Putin. He has the TV show to attend to and then there's all those NAZI rallies.

[lark]

16. Assface hasn't worked a day in his life and has no intention of starting now.

He'll just call Putin and do whatever that dictator suggests, since they are totally birds of a feather. He doesn't give a shit about this country, or about us. It's all about him and his ego and his ability to siphon money out of anything. Other than that, he has exactly zero interest.

[gratuitous]

17. With all due respect, Michael: NO!

The president's number 1 job is to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. George W. Bush kept parroting that line about pertectin' the Murrikan people, but that doesn't make it true. Sadly, Barack Obama slipped up from time to time as well. It was in the name of national security that most of the transgressions against the Constitution happened: Indefinite detention, torture, indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets, all to the country's shame.

Without the Constitution, there is no United States of America.

[caraher]

18. Thank you

I am so sick of the "bipartisan" line about "protection" being job #1. Doesn't anyone listen to the oath of office?

[Dan]

20. I guess Michael

Hasn't figured out yet - that dTrump is the next terror attack.

[AgadorSparticus]

21. That's what generals are for...he is going to delegate his entire job to a team of people

[NNadir]

22. I wish Michael Moore had given a damn in 2000, but he didn't. Hundreds of thousands of human...

...beings died because he ran around with a fucking flake saying Bush was the same as Gore.

Fuck Moore. That fat guy is too little too late for the dead in Iraq.

[hughee99]

23. Does anyone actually believe that the difference between

Being attacked and stopping that attack is trumps attendance at those meetings? Does anyone believe trump will add something of value to those meetings or take something of value from those meetings that will prevent an attack?

[Fiendish Thingy]

24. I disagree with Moore on the President's #1 job

It's not safety of America, it's defending the Constitution- it's right there in the oath of office. The focus on safety over civil liberties is how we got in the mess we're in with the surveillance state, militarized police, etc.

[etherealtruth]

25. tRump is a buffoon ... the fool is unlikely to understand the intricacies involved ....

... much less contribute to a coherent plan

[bucolic_frolic]

27. Do your job?

Didn't Michael Moore get the memo?

Upending everything for Trump, just like McConnell and the Constitution
over SCOTUS nominees, is how they do things. They don't care about
doing their job.

[lagomorph777]

30. That IS Little Donnie's job. He won't be taking a Federal salary, so officially he will not

be working for the American people.

[heaven05]

28. well michael

he just doesn't give a damn about anything you mentioned or the safety of our citizenry. Nice sentiment, though......

[lagomorph777]

29. I hope the intel community wouldn't tell Agent Orange anything they wouldn't want

Putin to hear.