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Home Front: Politix
Former Klingon Official Suggests Trump Is a Threat on Par With ISIS, North Korea
2017-05-16
[Free Beacon] Ned Price, a former Obama-administration CIA official, said on MSNBC Tuesday that the Trump administration could be a national security threat on par with the Islamic State and North Korea.

Price has previously drawn attention for a February Washington Post op-ed saying he chose to leave the CIA because of President Donald Trump. Price suggested while appearing on "Morning Joe" that the White House should be considered a threat because America's enemies could potentially take advantage of it.

MSNBC's Willie Geist asked Price about the relationship between the President and the intelligence community, especially in light of Trump's reported recent disclosure of classified information to Russian officials.

"This is not a president who has ever had a good relationship with the intelligence community, and in fact, even before he was president as the Republican nominee, he just casually dismissed the high-confidence findings of all 17 intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the election," Price said.

Price went on to emphasize how he felt the President had misstepped in relation to the intelligence community before implying that the President might represent a national security threat.

"Last week we had this hearing of all of our national security officials on worldwide threats, and of course they covered ISIL, they covered Syria, North Korea," Price said, referring to the hearing which featured the first public inquiry on the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

"I think we have to start asking ourselves, at what point does this administration itself become a threat we have to be concerned about?" Price continued.

Detailed from the CIA to "Onward Together" ?
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  *ouch*
Posted by: Frank G   2017-05-16 19:52  

#8  Hey, the Mets were very good at helping the Royals get their floor clean.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-05-16 18:30  

#7  Free Mets tickets? NYDN sure hates its readers...
Posted by: Raj   2017-05-16 18:06  

#6  Where were these people when the Obama administration ran interference for Russia&Iran by exposing Israel's collaboration with Azerbaijan?

Where were these people when the Obama administration supported a pro-Russian coup in Honduras?

etc etc
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2017-05-16 12:29  

#5  So to sum up what Ned Price is saying:

"we have met the enemy and he is us"

I seriously doubt Thump is the problem here.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-05-16 12:12  

#4  Since Obama created ISIS, is Price saying that Trump is as bad as Champ was? Scary.
Posted by: Iblis   2017-05-16 11:28  

#3  Ned Price, a former Obama-administration CIA official

"Former CIA"....a clear oxymoron.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-16 10:18  

#2  Ned Price, a former Obama-administration CIA official

This is the guy who just resigned from the CIA very publicly on the grounds that Trump was too icky. I give him credit for acting on his convictions, but it doesn't give him much credibility.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-05-16 10:10  

#1  Later in his CIA career, he was loaned to the National Security Council, serving as its spokesperson and as a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama.

Which likely indicates he analytic skills were no longer worth a shit in demand and he [like Marie Harf] was moved off to the pursue his real love, partisan politics.
Price Wiki link
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-16 09:19  

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