Joe Scarborough warns Trump: CIA can cut your administration to shreds with leaks and they will [View all]
SARAH K. BURRIS
13 DEC 2016 AT 09:40 ET
The last thing that the president-elect should do is attack and ignore the intelligence agencies, according to “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough. The result will be an administration shredded “with leaks.”
The segment began with a New York Times article that revisits a 2015 interview from Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump’s new national security advisor.
“They’ve lost sight of who they actually work for,” Flynn said in the interview. “They work for the American people. They don’t work for the president of the United States.” He continued, speaking of the CIA’s leadership: “Frankly, it’s become a very political organization.” They also cited him in another 2015 interview in which he explained, “It’s all political with” the CIA leadership. Flynn also claimed that the CIA was a pawn in helping President Obama’s reelection campaign.
“They’ve really been lying to the American public,” he said in the interview, referring to the Obama administration and much of the national security and intelligence establishment. “The Department of Defense and those of us that have allowed this sort of a happy talk — ‘We’re moving in the right direction, things are working.’ It’s not. The Taliban are going to come back into power, or ISIS is going to come back into power.”
Joe Scarborough anticipates an unprecedented investigation that will ultimately result from this. “The CIA can cut the new administration to shreds every week with selective leaks, and they will if this relationship is not cleaned up. And to have somebody as your national security advisor, who is accusing the C.I.A., who I said yesterday, is the organization that is on the tip of the spear in the fight against terrorism every day, accuse them of lying. It’s just, it’s mind boggling.”
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