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Related: About this forumTrump Says He Was Told 'A Lot More Than Democrats' About Coronavirus in January
He didn't do jack shit with that info
mucifer
(23,487 posts)Drum
(9,104 posts)riversedge
(70,094 posts)liberalla
(9,227 posts)#Trump seldom comprehends what he is told.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Skittles
(153,122 posts)I mean, seriously, who can listen to his GIBBERISH and not see how FUCKING PATHETIC he is?????
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)Hestia
(3,818 posts)he was too bored to read the Daily Briefings by Intelligence, NSA, and another agency. First alarms came out in JULY!
So, no, it wasn't January like everyone keeps repeating.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)... "And I did nothing about it! Take that, America!"
Zambero
(8,962 posts)He keeps remarking that this was "something that should have never happened". Geez, I wonder why?
Laffy Kat
(16,373 posts)riversedge
(70,094 posts)Botany
(70,449 posts)Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," a source said.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273
As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through Chinas Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.
Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the documents contents.
The report was the result of analysis of wire and computer intercepts, coupled with satellite images. It raised alarms because an out-of-control disease would pose a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia -- forces that depend on the NCMIs work. And it paints a picture of an American government that could have ramped up mitigation and containment efforts far earlier to prepare for a crisis poised to come home.
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," one of the sources said of the NCMIs report. "It was then briefed multiple times to" the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagons Joint Staff and the White House. Wednesday night, the Pentagon issued a statement denying the "product/assessment" existed.
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From that warning in November, the sources described repeated briefings through December for policy-makers and decision-makers across the federal government as well as the National Security Council at the White House. All of that culminated with a detailed explanation of the problem that appeared in the Presidents Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January, the sources said. For something to have appeared in the PDB, it would have had to go through weeks of vetting and analysis, according to people who have worked on presidential briefings in both Republican and Democratic administrations.