Wall Street Journal: Donald Trump Plans Revamp of Top U.S. Spy Agency
President-elect works on restructuring Office of the Director of National Intelligence, tweets again his doubts that Russia hacked Democrats
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump, a harsh critic of U.S. intelligence agencies, is working with top advisers on a plan that would restructure and pare back the nation’s top spy agency, people familiar with the planning said.
The move is prompted by his belief that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has become bloated and politicized, these people said.
The planning comes as Mr. Trump has leveled a series of social-media attacks in recent months and the past few days against U.S. intelligence agencies, dismissing and mocking their assessment that Russia stole emails from Democratic groups and individuals and then provided them to WikiLeaks for publication in an effort to help Mr. Trump win the White House.
One of the people familiar with Mr. Trump’s planning said advisers also are working on a plan to restructure the Central Intelligence Agency, cutting back on staffing at its Virginia headquarters and pushing more people out into field posts around the world. The CIA declined to comment.
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WNU Editor: If this report is only 50% true .... a lot of people are now freaking-out in the U.S. intel community. The timing of this leak to the Wall Street Journal is also interesting .... happening a day after the intel community decided on its own to cancel/ignore President-elect Trumps request for an intel briefing on Russian hacking .... and deciding on their own to delay it until Friday because that is what the original arrangement was. Who is the boss .... the President-elect or the intelligence community? If I was in the President-elect's shoes .... I would be pissed off and looking to replace some people ... which according to the Wall Street Journal appears to be exactly what is going to happen.
More News On Reports That President-Elect Trump Is About To Completely Restructure The U.S. Intelligence Community
Trump team looking at ways to limit the power of DNI, sources say -- CNN
Trump to revamp intelligence agencies: report -- The Hill
Report: Trump plans to shrink top intelligence agencies, including CIA -- Business Insider
Donald Trump plans to restructure top intelligence agencies -- International Business Times
Trump Reportedly Now Wants to Cut Back the CIA Because He Thinks Intelligence Is Too Politicized -- Slate
Trump wants to shake up the CIA -- New York Post
12 comments:
LMAO,
Kennedy.
I've updated my comment. But unlike Kennedy .... if the WSJ report is true .... Trump is about to fire/demote/purge a lot of people.
Thinking of Kennedy .... Trump better upgrade/increase his security detail.
WNU Editor,
Presidential/Alphabet Agencies wars tend not to go well, for the President, since Eisenhower.
That's why Hoover lasted, and that was against much "cleaner" Presidents than Trump.
Nixon was much smarter. He coopted the Alphabet Agencies into his scams.
There's a lot of Trumph "talk", seems to be his MO.
What he will actually do is just a guessing game.
He's got Private, as well as Secret Service, still, might not want to visit Dallas.
Reagan brought in a "horde" of Ukie Facists into the Intellegence Agencies and the RNC, many are still there.
Messing around with the U.S. intelligence community is an incredibly dangerous game for anyone .... even for a U.S. President. There is going to be blow-back from this WSJ report .... whether it is true or not.
I've suspected since at least 1983 after the Grenada-US War that the CIA is incomptent when it comes to foreign "Intelligence," Essentially many of our forces were operating off of bad Intel which included bad maps and misjudgements on tbe type of resistance our people faced. Fortunately our people were able to survive. During Gulf War 1 there were numerous failures in this area again. Fortunately we weren't seriously harmed as a bation here either.. This was confirmed by men who served in both conflucts. Then we had 9/11, Gulf War 2 and I could go on. Also, one could Google "US Intelligence failures."
Combine with this the tendency of Government agencies to overstate their effectiveness in order to increase funding, prestige etc and the entity may appear more capable than it is. Finally someone in a position to actually do something about it recognizes this agency needs to be radically altered if it is to play a constructive role in America's national security.
Perhaps they are better at bumping off US leaders than they are at analyzing and detecting threats to US national security. Surely they would work with POTUS to make the neccessary changes to aerve the interests of the American people. If the rank and file really are patriots, it would be exoected that while taking a cautious wait and see approach they'd support the leader that is pushing for change. Unfortunately I have my doubts that there are such people in US Intelligence. POTUS Elect probably does need to veef up his security.
I think the above comments about how dangerous it is for Trump to mess around with the intelligence community along with echoing what happened to Kennedy is awfully outdated and an old way of thinking. Perhaps because they're coming from 'oldies' :P
That was a very different time. A volatile period in politics. It was cowboy politics and guns at dawn.
A lot has change since then. You don't have figures like Hoover, nor do we have the anti-communistic feel that was so rich and prevalent during those times.
Sure, the anti-Russian vibe is and ain't going away. But as the WNUE likes to say a lot comparing two cold wars together... Nothing compares to the hysteria that communism brought in that bygone era compared to the vibes that are now present. And that's important because communism had a big part to play in JFK's assassination. There were a lot of feelings that JFK wanted to 'play' nice with the Soviets and that rubbed up the CIA the wrong way, along with his anti-intelligence speech.
I think Trump is safe enough to go to Dallas without some complex plot working against him. If Trump should worry about anyone trying to have a go at him, it's not the intelligence community... It's the psycho's who want to take a potshot at Trump cause he's Trump.
Crap bureaucrats rise to the surface forming Hqs pukes.
Crap bureaucrats rise to the surface forming Hqs pukes.
D. Plowman.
I am an "oldie"!!!! Sighhh .... I use to call others that ... albeit a few decades ago. :(
But seriously .... yes .... we need some perspective .... Cold War II is nowhere near what the First Cold War was like .... not even close.
"they" don't need to assassinate people anymore.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/exclusive-high-level-nsa-whistleblower-says-blackmail-huge-unreported-part-mass-surveillance.html
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