Biden will wait for recommendation on sharing secrets with Trump

[dalton99a]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-intelligence/biden-will-wait-for-recommendation-on-sharing-secrets-with-trump-idUSKBN29M0IJ

January 17, 2021 11:22 AM
Biden will wait for recommendation on sharing secrets with Trump
By Reuters Staff

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will wait for a recommendation from his intelligence advisers on whether to share classified information with President Donald Trump after the Republican leaves office, Biden’s top aide said on Sunday.

Ron Klain, the incoming White House chief of staff, made the comment after former principal deputy director of national intelligence, Sue Gordon, wrote an op-ed arguing against sharing such information with Trump once he has left the presidency.

“With this simple act — which is solely the new president’s prerogative — Joe Biden can mitigate one aspect of the potential national security risk posed by Donald Trump, private citizen,” Gordon said in a Washington Post piece headlined “A former president Trump won’t ‘need to know.’ Cut off his intelligence.”

Gordon, who resigned in 2019, said any former president was a foreign intelligence target but Trump “might be unusually vulnerable to bad actors with ill intent,” citing, among other things, his business interests abroad.

“It is not clear that he understands the tradecraft to which he has been exposed, the reasons the knowledge he has acquired must be protected from disclosure, or the intentions and capabilities of adversaries,” she added.

Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff was more blunt, telling CBS’ “Face The Nation” program, “I don’t think he can be trusted with it.”

[bearsfootball516]

1. I can't imagine why, in any way, shape or form, Biden would need to do this.

There's no chance in hell his advisors tell him to do anything except cut Trump off from the classified information.

[Mme. Defarge]

2. My recommendation would be

NON!!! ABSOLUMENT PAS!!!

[Dave in VA]

7. Je suis d'accord !

[mercuryblues]

3. IOW

Biden is telling our intelligence agencies, I want it on day 1.

[SoonerPride]

4. trump never paid attention to his briefings anyway

So he won’t miss much except the chance to sell info for money.

Cut him off immediately.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. I read that column yesterday.....

I'm thrilled that it caught the eye of inside people who are in a position to act on it.

I wouldn't even tell BunkerBoy what was on the breakfast menu at Waffle House - and he probably couldn't figure it out himself.......

[mucifer]

6. No way is he sharing ANYTHING. Saying he is waiting for advice is a political move

to sound more bipartisan.

My opinion anyway.

[Talitha]

8. Wait a minute - hold the phone...

Is Biden expected to share classified info with Pissolini?

This is mind boggling to me. Is this an established norm? If so, I've never been aware of it.

[NYC Liberal]

11. Yes it's the norm that former presidents receive intelligence briefings.

However, it’s at the discretion of the current president and Trump absolutely should not.

[Baked Potato]

9. I don't think the "worst president in history" should have access to anything.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. Feed him fake intelligence and then watch where it goes

Set him up.

[Bleacher Creature]

14. This.

[Wounded Bear]

12. A diplomatic way to put it, I guess...

I figure that the Intel Community will be happy as hell to see Trump's ass out of the loop.

Will be nice to see a President who actually cares.

[Bleacher Creature]

13. I will eat both of my shoes if they come back with any recommendation other than "hell no!"

[Cha]

15. Why would trump the Seditionist Killer

get any briefings from Pres Biden?!!!

Exactly! Hell No.. Big Fucking ASSFACE Can't "be trusted" Remember the Deadly Storming of the Capitol Building.

Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff was more blunt, telling CBS’ “Face The Nation” program, “I don’t think he can be trusted with it.”

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. I'm under the impression that

the intelligence community wasn't giving him much in the way of real intelligence briefings in the past two or so years.

[keithbvadu2]

17. Jared considers a security clearance to be a license to sell our country's secrets.

Keep it away from Donald to keep it from Jared.

[Hekate]

18. That would be a big fat "No" then