The Spy Revolt

[Paul Mackin]

They're In like Flynn.  Doesn't make sense but it had to be said.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:45 PM, kelber at mindspring.com <
kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Ooh, a Soviet - uh, Russian - ship in international waters! The horror!
> Thank you, Fox news, for the thoughtful warning.
>
> LK
>
> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>
>
> 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
>
> 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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