The Spy Revolt

[David Morris]

http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/

The Spy Revolt

out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our
spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why
risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway?
A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was
systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House,
in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for
the president’s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In
the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and
his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets.

Since NSA provides something like 80 percent
<http://observer.com/2016/09/were-losing-the-war-against-terrorism/> of the
actionable intelligence in our government, what’s being kept from the White
House may be very significant indeed. However, such concerns are widely
shared across the IC, and NSA doesn’t appear to be the only agency
withholding intelligence from the administration out of security fears.

What’s going on was explained lucidly by a senior Pentagon intelligence
official, who stated that “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin
has ears inside the SITROOM,” meaning the White House Situation Room, the
5,500 square-foot conference room in the West Wing where the president and
his top staffers get intelligence briefings. “There’s not much the Russians
don’t know at this point,” the official added in wry frustration.
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