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2016-08-19 Home Front: Politix

Trump Will Face a Huge Challenge with U.S. Intelligence If He Wins

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Well if there's one place that's failed and needs a clearout it's "intelligence".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-08-19 07:54|| 2016-08-19 07:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Well O never paid attention to them. Big deal.

Posted by Dale 2016-08-19 08:00|| 2016-08-19 08:00|| Front Page Top

Strange the spoor, it all appears to lead back to McLean, Virginia.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-19 08:10|| 2016-08-19 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 You just go visit the actual analysts in their offices. Management by walking around. I recall a visiting IG pulling some troops aside and taking them to the day room for a 'private' talk. Amazing how rattled that made some people. Do that one or two times and the word gets out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-08-19 08:21|| 2016-08-19 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Yet he has no problem briefing Obama. A known associate of a pair of domestic terrorists.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-08-19 08:33|| 2016-08-19 08:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Unattributed sources, as usual from the Washington Post.

Posted by Glairong Sforza7574 2016-08-19 10:33|| 2016-08-19 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Find a warehouse, fill it with desks and chairs. No phone, no internet. That becomes their duty station.

They report everyday, and they sit. No talking, no cell phones and no distractions. Yank their clearances.

Make them an offer, sit here day in day out until retirement. Or, resign with some severance or other financial inducement. Rinse and repeat as often as required. Across all Federal Agencies.

Posted by Spinesing Gray3122 2016-08-19 13:17|| 2016-08-19 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Find a warehouse, fill it with desks and chairs. No phone, no internet. That becomes their duty station.

On Johnson Atoll.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-19 13:28|| 2016-08-19 13:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Nah, weather's too nice, I'm sure there's someplace lots nicer, like Barter Island at the old DEW station. Oh and they can eat MRE's daily.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-08-19 14:23|| 2016-08-19 14:23|| Front Page Top

#10 CIA needs a Northern Alaska field office and staffing should begin early next year.

If a senior intelligence official really told Miller privately that he would refuse to brief Trump because of concerns about Trump's alleged admiration of Russian president Putin than the guy was pulling Miller's leg or the guy needs to be in prison.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-08-19 14:39|| 2016-08-19 14:39|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 Nah, weather's too nice, I'm sure there's someplace lots nicer, like Barter Island at the old DEW station. Oh and they can eat MRE's daily.

Hey now, I'm sure there are still some
K-rations left over from the Big One.

Why be wasteful?

Posted by charger 2016-08-19 16:19|| 2016-08-19 16:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Nice pic Besoeker! I thought Koevoet at first, but the shorts say Selous Scouts.

Posted by bushman 2016-08-19 16:33|| 2016-08-19 16:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Good eye Bushman.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-19 18:52|| 2016-08-19 18:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Assign them to weather stations and/or forest ranger stations out in the boonies. Kind of like the old joke about assigning USAF officers as weather officer in the Aleutians when they annoy higher ranks... Customs officer for a one airplane bush airfield in Montana is also good.

Posted by magpie 2016-08-19 21:22|| 2016-08-19 21:22|| Front Page Top

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