The Spy Revolt

[Paul Mackin]

Used to be New York Observer. Kushner paid ten mil for it, dropped the
print edition and renamed. Acording to Wikipedia.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:12 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering "who" was Observer.com.  This article is being received in
> most circles that I've read as credible.  These days Jared's WH profile is
> pretty obscure.  I haven't seen anything written about him in quite a while.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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