2019: Trump's White House issues an ominous request for a list of top U.S. spies

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2019: Trump's White House issues an ominous request for a list of top U.S. spies

The request is coming at a time when Donald Trump is looking to install a loyalist as his new intelligence chief.

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Trump's White House issues an ominous request for a list of top U.S. spies
The request is coming at a time when Donald Trump is looking to install a loyalist as his new intelligence chief.
9:46 PM · Aug 26, 2022

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/03/trumps-white-house-issues-an-ominous-request-for-a-list-of-top-u-s-spies_partner/

The Trump White House has asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to provide it with a list of top American spies at a time when President Donald Trump is looking to install a loyalist as his new intelligence chief.

The Daily Beast reports that the administration wants the ODNI to deliver an inventory of “all its employees at the federal government’s top pay scale who have worked there for 90 days or more,” although it has not offered an official justification for why it wants the office to do this.

The Daily Beast’s sources believe that the most likely explanation for the request is that the White House wants to remove Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon from her post. Gordon, who is widely respected on Capitol Hill, is viewed warily by the White House because she’s not seen as part of “Team MAGA,” the report claims.

“This disquiet is the latest episode of the president’s long-simmering feud with the Intelligence Community,” the Daily Beast adds. “During Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, he often fumed on Twitter about the so-called “Deep State.” And he even singled out his own officials.”

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[dalton99a]

1. The worst traitor in American history

[rubbersole]

3. And putin's best spy.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. I think Trump is entering a new phase of his post Presidency.

Given what we know now, there is going to be a lot more analysis of what Trump was actually doing to knee-cap US intelligence during his tenure.

Special thanks to the Republican Senators who made sure this traitor would survive 2 impeachments. Trump couldn't have done it without your help.

[onetexan]

7. K&R!!

[mackdaddy]

4. OCT 2021 CIA admits to losing dozens of informants around the world: NYT

So maybe he kept the files as he had already blabbed this...

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/

[Saboburns]

5. Curiouser and Curiouser!

Shit's gettin' real now!

[elleng]

6. Our national nightmare . . .

[Hassler]

8. Donald J. Treason doing what traitors do.

[PortTack]

9. It's one thing for his ignorant cult to continue to support him..but gqp elected officials?

At this point they surely understand justice is coming for tfg. Seriously..do they think there status as an elected official will protect them?

The depravity is mind blowing

[Rhiannon12866]

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[COL Mustard]

11. I eagerly await the day

When we don’t have to ever hear from this person ever again. I don’t really care if it’s because he’s in prison or because he’s in the grave.

[calimary]

13. I'll take either one.

This just grows worse and worse, and more and more horrifying…

[COL Mustard]

16. And yet there are millions of people out there

Who think this was all staged, is all fake, and he has done nothing wrong. They'll vote for him no matter what. That's frightening. Also sad.

[Hekate]

12. His children will pick his bones like vultures, just as he & his siblings did their father...

I hope that as he lies there in his golden bed, unable to speak coherently, that he retains enough awareness to know that is what they are doing. That they talk over his pallid form, fighting over who gets what. That not one word of comfort will any of them offer to this evil, murderous man.

[COL Mustard]

17. He can't speak coherently now!

And he thinks he's a

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

14. Benedict Donald.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. Every Republican should be voted out of office for backing the traitor.

[Mr. Ected]

18. Follow the evidence, Mr. Garland

We don't give a shit what a bunch of conspiracy theory cultists think of your investigation. If the proof is there and Trump sold state secrets to our enemies, we need to repurpose Mikey Pence's scaffold for a true traitor.

[crickets]

19. Unforgiveable. nt