Sunday, December 11, 2016

Intel world struggles to crack the code of an untrusting Trump

How do you brief a president who refuses to believe what you tell him?
Donald Trump's insult-laced dismissal of reports that the CIA believes Russia hacked the 2016 election to help him is rattling a spy community already puzzled over how to gain the ear and trust of the incoming president.
Some fear that Trump's highly public rebukes of the U.S. intelligence apparatus will undermine morale in the spy agencies, politicize their work, and damage their standing in a world filled with adversaries. After all, if the U.S. president doesn't believe his own intelligence officials, why should anyone else?
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The Russians hacked the Republicans as well. Leaving questions about blackmail and since Trump never released his taxes we can't be sure of his or his swamp dwellers financial lies to Russia.

NYT: Russians Hacked The RNC Too, U.S. Officials Say

 How Russian Hackers Can Blackmail Donald Trump—and the GOP