REPORT: Intel Officials Are Withholding Sensitive Information from Trump

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REPORT: Intel Officials Are Withholding Sensitive Information from Trump
by Josh Feldman | 9:21 pm, February 15th, 2017

A new report in The Wall Street Journal tonight says that U.S. intelligence officials have “withheld” information from President Trump.

Why? Well…

U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter…

In some of these cases of withheld information, officials have decided not to show Mr. Trump the sources and methods that the intelligence agencies use to collect information, the current and former officials said. Those sources and methods could include, for instance, the means that an agency uses to spy on a foreign government.

There has been a lot of reported tension between Trump and many in the intel community, and the president himself has repeatedly slammed the leaks to the press this week.

One White House official told WSJ, “There is nothing that leads us to believe that this is an accurate account of what is actually happening.”

The anonymous officials who spoke to the paper made it clear Trump has been kept from “crucial information about security threats or potential plotting,” but there’s still that concern:

Intelligence officials have in the past not told a president or members of Congress about the ins and outs of how they ply their trade. At times, they have decided that secrecy is essential for protecting a source, and that all a president needs to know is what that source revealed and what the intelligence community thinks is important about it.

But in these previous cases in which information was withheld, the decision wasn’t motivated by a concern about a president’s trustworthiness or discretion, the current and former officials said.

This report comes on the heels of a report in the Observer days ago by John Schindler headlined “The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins.”

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-intel-officials-are-withholding-sensitive-information-from-trump/

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Wonder if they've fed him false info

and then monitored where it gets repeated. That's what I'd do, but I've always been a sneaky little shit.

[leftstreet]

2. DURec

[D_Master81]

3. Never thought I'd see the day

that I read the intelligence agency is withholding sensitive intel from the President. I mean what kind of F'd up world are we living in when they cant trust the President? What have we done America?

[BlueSpot]

4. Is he still skipping briefings?

Is so, he has no complaint.