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| How President Trump has come to trust his CIA...with a few big caveats |
| 2018-12-17 |
| [Wash Times] President Trump has left the tumultuous days of publicly combating his own intelligence community for a more workmanlike relationship coached by his team of loyalists, insiders say. As interactions improve at the top, however, a former CIA officer says Mr. Trump is up against a determined, embedded bureaucracy that will leak to damage him. Loyalists say the president has come to appreciate the daily flow of insights on, for example, North Korea and Iran, even if he doesn’t like everything he hears. They credit key players such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his first CIA director, and National Security Adviser John R. Bolton, a voracious intelligence consumer. Mr. Pompeo elevated Gina Haspel as his deputy at Langley, Virginia, and then recommended her to succeed him as CIA director. "Pompeo worked very hard to show the president the value of intelligence in making decisions, and Pompeo was briefing him fairly frequently when he was CIA director," said Fred Fleitz, Mr. Bolton’s former chief of staff at the National Security Council. "He brought some of the best CIA analysts to brief the president. "The situation has greatly improved from the terrible situation in 2016 and early 2017 because of political activities by current and former intelligence officers saying they would refuse to brief Trump," Mr. Fleitz told The Washington Times. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 As interactions improve at the top, however, a former CIA officer says Mr. Trump is up against a determined, embedded bureaucracy that will leak to the Washington Post and other MSM outlets to damage him(/em>. FIFY. As Trump said the MSM is the enemy of the people. I don't know but judging from what is open sources, there is still considerable reorganization and cleaning out needed. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-12-17 09:20 |