Only source that Trump trusts & follows to a “Trump T”
If one delves as deeply as
anyone into the area of intelligence and the various areas and parse data from their
myriad sources (e.g., satellite imagery, communications intercepts, human, and open
reports), and weave the findings of those 16 agencies into a carefully crafted
report a lot comes clear: They are true professionals who stand firm and work hard for
public safety and national security.
Sadly, Trump now as president,
and thus the #1 sole customer for intelligence products, he again denounces the
reports and agencies for putting out assessments he does not want to read or
believe. In a recent tweet he classifies their latest as: “Extremely passive, and wrong!” (The exclamation point is Trump’s).
That tweet was on the same day
that his top intelligence officials testified before Congress
about a report that disputes Trump’s opinions on Iran, North Korea,
Syria, and more.
I posted about this same
subject earlier here
– FYI.
Let’s be clear: U.S. intelligence agencies are far from infallible,
they’ve been wrong many times in the past, and one of the distortions that the
Age of Trump has spawned among the opposition is a romanticized worship of the
wisdom and goodness of America’s spies.
But Trump’s latest Twitter jabs go beyond the pale. It would be one
thing if he based his critique on conversations with outside experts, perusals
of scholarly analysis, or events from his own experience.
But of course, he
talks with no such oracles, reads nothing worthwhile, and has accumulated no
life lessons of any relevance here.
Trump, who pulled out the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear
accord last year, calling it one of the worst deals ever made, fired back
with two tweets in part:
“The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naïve when it
comes to the dangers of Iran They are wrong! When I became President Iran was
making trouble all over the Middle East, and beyond. Since ending the terrible
Iran Nuclear Deal, they are MUCH different… ….a source of potential danger and
conflict. They are testing Rockets (last week) and more, and are coming very
close to the edge. There economy is now crashing, which is the only thing
holding them back. Be careful of Iran. Perhaps Intelligence should go back to
school!”
Continue this fine article at
the main link here from Slate.com.
My 2 cents: Let’s be clear shall we? Trump is a one-man show and he has
been his whole adult life.
His tactics are a basic highly-skilled con
game on every level that he has mastered for decades (details here from The Atlantic).
Thanks for stopping by.
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