The Spy Revolt

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Ooh, a Soviet - uh, Russian - ship in international waters! The horror! Thank you, Fox news, for the thoughtful warning.

LK

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Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/14/russian-spy-ship-off-east-coast-us-officials-say.html
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>On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:12 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>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.
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>David Morris
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>On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
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>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,
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>On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:05 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/
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>The Spy Revolt
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>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.
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>Since NSA provides something like 80 percent 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.
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>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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