The Spy Revolt
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 08:44:34 CST 2017
An interesting thing is that observer.com is now owned by Jared Kushner,
although a brother in law runs it while Jared is in the White House,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:05 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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