Dominick Reuter / Reuters
Take a conspiracy-minded, shoot-from-the-hip GOP candidate. Add classified briefings. Watch current and former intelligence officials squirm.
After Donald Trump is formally chosen as the Republican presidential nominee, he’ll be able to receive classified U.S. intelligence briefings, which could include some of the same sensitive information that President Obama is given in the Oval Office.
And that prospect has some spies sweating. Trump, who can’t seem to dam his stream of consciousness on Twitter, and who has lately taken to spreading rumors and conspiracy theories on national television, has never been privy to national secrets. Nor has he ever demonstrated that he’s capable of keeping them.
“My concern with Trump will be that he inadvertently leaks, because as he speaks extemporaneously, he’ll pull something out of his hat that he heard in a briefing and say it,” said a former senior U.S. intelligence official who has participated in the process of briefing presidential candidates.
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WNU Editor: Shane Harris (the author of the above post) is clearly not a Trump supporter.
3 comments:
Well he certainly won't be using his own server.
Well he certainly won't be using his own server.
What is good with media: we don't need a brain to understand the message. Trump is all wrong and even more. We can predict his presidency with all the cataclysms: volcano in every town, hyper global warming with frozen summer, WW3 + WW4...and so on.
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