Posts
It is truly insane how President-Elect Donald Trump has been bucking the intelligence community, refusing to listen to intelligence briefings and going so far as to accuse the CIA of lying when it comes to their high confidence that Russia actively interfered in the most recent election.
It’s also scary that Trump named Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his national security adviser. Flynn has infamously also taken cheap shots at our intelligence agencies.
Said Flynn, “They’ve lost sight of who they actually work for. They work for the American people. They don’t work for the president of the United States. Frankly, it’s become a very political organization. They’ve really been lying to the American public. The Department of Defense and those of us that have allowed this sort of a happy talk — ‘We’re moving in the right direction, things are working.’ It’s not. The Taliban are going to come back into power, or ISIS is going to come back into power.”
Joe Scarborough took Trump and Flynn to task, saying, “The CIA can cut the new administration to shreds every week with selective leaks, and they will if this relationship is not cleaned up. And to have somebody as your national security advisor, who is accusing the C.I.A., who I said yesterday, is the organization that is on the tip of the spear in the fight against terrorism every day, accuse them of lying. It’s just, it’s mind boggling.” He added, “The CIA bends over backward to protect us. Their life is dedicated to protecting the United States from terror attacks. They get no credit when they do it because they can’t put out press releases, they can’t reveal all that they’re doing. And yet, they get attacked when certain things go wrong and for somebody, like Lt. Gen. Flynn, to make that cheap shot against the CIA, it’s just unfathomable.” Do you agree with Joe Scarborough?
No comments:
Post a Comment