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Spy Agencies Are Now Reportedly Withholding Intelligence From the White House

By Jack Moore
2 days ago



“Since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM.”

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When I was a teenager, all of my friends—along with the totality of America's dads—were obsessed with Tom Clancy novels. I was never a fan of the conspiracy-driven military and spy-novel genre, mostly because it all seemed a little farfetched. The plots seemed more like fantasies rather than anything resembling the actual geopolitical landscape.

But BOY WAS I WRONG. We've now dealt with more than three weeks of harrowing headlines thanks to the Trump regime, the worst being this one from the Observer [ http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/ ] this weekend. This is really bad. Bad, as in "the time Gary Busey gave a long and incoherent speech at the Omaha Steaks presentation on Celebrity Apprentice" bad.

According to former NSA analyst and counterintelligence officer John R. Schindler's piece in the Observer, the U.S.'s intelligence community is so convinced that Donald Trump and his administration have been compromised by Russia that it are no longer briefing the White House on all of its most sensitive information, lest the information end up in Putin's cold, tiger-blood-soaked hands.

In light of this, and out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president’s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT [Signals Intelligence] secrets.

Worse, our nation's intelligence experts aren't solely worried that Team Trump might accidentally reveal secrets to the enemy. There's concern that even the Situation Room (not the Wolf Blitzer one, but the real and important one) has been compromised by Russia.

What’s going on was explained lucidly by a senior Pentagon intelligence official, who stated that “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM,” meaning the White House Situation Room, the 5,500 square-foot conference room in the West Wing where the president and his top staffers get intelligence briefings. “There’s not much the Russians don’t know at this point,” the official added in wry frustration.

Credit to the Observer for publishing this piece, since Jared Kushner, Trump's senior aide/son-in-law/lead puppeteer, is the paper's owner and publisher. Also: Tom Clancy was more prescient than I thought—and that's terrifying, as I'm pretty sure most of those books are about terrible things happening at foreign hands. It turns out that's already happening! Russian propaganda has seemingly made its way into Trump foreign-policy inquiries. Specifically, Trump's senior national-security aides have been asking about "Polish incursions into Belarus." This threw up a red flag because no reports of such incursions appear to exist...except from a Russian propaganda outlet called Sputnik. So maybe it does make sense that the U.S. intelligence community holds a little something back.


http://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-white-house-spy-agencies

they're on to him too!

HAHAHAHA! thank GOD for NASA and listening in on peoples phone conversations! ..