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2017-01-05 Government

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-05 06:46|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Trump wants to shrink the ODNI, as he believes the agency established in 2004 as a response to the 9/11 terror attacks has become bloated and politicized.

ODNI is a powerless entity, a sham, a Klingon insulator. Unless you hold the power of the purse, you control nothing. Flynn knows this and I am certain is seeking to abolish it.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-05 07:10|| 2017-01-05 07:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Between this and asking for an audit of the Federal Reserve, Trump is sure to be assassinated in his first year in office. Private security or not.

Pence is at least a politician who can be dealt with.

Posted by Elmavish Panda1401 2017-01-05 07:31|| 2017-01-05 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 The president-elect has vehemently denied that Russian hacking of Democratic organizations before Election Day aided his White House bid.

However, the involuntary transparency of the opposition didn't hurt.

Wonder what interesting tidbits the NSA has stocked away. Hmmmmmm......

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-05 07:41|| 2017-01-05 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Pompeo (R-KS).

EP1401, I think that would be an extraordinarily bad idea.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-01-05 11:58|| 2017-01-05 11:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, why I stopped in, this talk about encouraging the intelligence agencies to give false witness - so what happens if a move is made based on intelligence sources ends up bad? Talk about tying your shoes together before kicking yourself in the ass.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-01-05 12:00|| 2017-01-05 12:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Restore the OSS?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-05 12:02|| 2017-01-05 12:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Going to disrupt 'the plan'.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-01-05 12:53|| 2017-01-05 12:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks for playing Jim! And don't forget we've got some lovely parting gifts for you back stage.

Posted by DepotGuy 2017-01-05 12:56|| 2017-01-05 12:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Going to disrupt 'the plan'.

I got as far as the President Obama quote on page 4/iii, and I had to stop. What an interesting experience that must have been thus far.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-01-05 15:21|| 2017-01-05 15:21|| Front Page Top

#10 There's a certain amount of "governmentese double-speak" that makes most of the government reports unintelligible. Trump should reorganize these intelligence agencies, otherwise he will have them nipping at his heels and biting his backside.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-01-05 16:05|| 2017-01-05 16:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Update from Ynet, taken from the Reuters feed:

Reports that Trump eyeing revamp of spy agencies are false

Donald Trump's spokesman on Thursday rejected media reports that said the Republican president-elect was planning to restructure the nation's intelligence agencies, calling the reports "100 percent false."

"There is no truth to this idea of restructuring the intelligence community infrastructure," Trump spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters in a conference call. "All transition activities are for information gathering purposes and all discussions are tentative.

Shaping expectations ahead of events, I think. The message looks like, "Do your jobs well and don't play games, or things will change unpleasantly for you."

Posted by trailing wife 2017-01-05 16:08|| 2017-01-05 16:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Long overdue if true.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-01-05 17:25|| 2017-01-05 17:25|| Front Page Top

#13 The CIA has been the bad guy in nearly every spy movie (upside of James Bond movies) for most of my lifetime. Pretty sad really when those movies are often made by Americans for American consumption.

Clearly there is a lack of trust in the CIA that audiences didn't call bullcrap long ago.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-01-05 22:38|| 2017-01-05 22:38|| Front Page Top

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