Intelligence Agencies Distressed by Trump's Rejection of Findings on Russia

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President-elect Donald Trump's dismissal of U.S. intelligence findings that Russia tried to sway the presidential election is a distressing slap in the face to the intelligence community, current and former U.S. intelligence officials said Sunday.

Trump on Sunday repeated his rejection of the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia actively worked to help him win the election, calling the idea "ridiculous" in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."

The comment, like others that Trump made during the campaign, "is contrary to all that is sacred to national security professionals who work day and night to protect this country," a U.S. intelligence official told NBC News.

The official called it "concerning" that the president-elect has chosen to "impugn the integrity of U.S. intelligence officials" by disputing professional intelligence judgments as false or politically partisan.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/intelligence-agencies-distressed-trump-s-rejection-findings-russia-n694686

[shraby]

1. The headline is misleading. They are concerned about trumps choice

to impugn their findings, not distressed.

[treestar]

2. no wonder he doesn't do the briefings

no point if they don't tell him what he wants to hear.

[doc03]

4. Just a few miniutes ago I heard a Trump suragat say Trump can't waste his time in

briefings everyday, if there is anything new let him know. He can't take the time he is out producing TV
shows, doing victory tours, tweeting at 3 am and making Merika great again. He said Trump will put his own
director in the CIA, someone he can trust. Who would that be? Is Dick Cheney still alive?

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. "concerned"..."distressed" - all "keeping the power dry" type words.

Some concrete action is needed - in general we saw 8 years of this during the Bush years, then 8 more during the Obama years - the country has become a "I know what I will do...I will send a nasty email - or blog - or tweet" country. Apathy....will be our undoing.

[world wide wally]

5. He just prefers to get his briefings from Putins buddies