I think this is completely paranoid in thinking. The likely leaker actually is not an intelligence head who actually take their job seriously because people die in this business all the time. The likely leader who actually leaked this information is likely instead a member of Congress or a staff member of a Republican that really hates what Trump has done to the traditional Republican Party. Conservative Republicans hate Trump more than anyone in the U.S. because they see how he destroyed completely their party as of now. He is the Scariest Republican president likely since Nixon had this level of paranoia which always costs lives too. IN other words when a president is as obviously paranoid as Trump is people die like under Nixon.
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an extraordinary escalation of tensions between the president-elect and
his intelligence agencies, Donald Trump suggested in a tweet Sunday
that outgoing CIA Director John …
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Trump Accuses CIA Director Of Leaking ‘Fake News’ About Russian Dossier
The president-elect went on the attack after John Brennan warned that Trump’s unconsidered comments could threaten national security.
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In an extraordinary
escalation of tensions between the president-elect and his intelligence
agencies, Donald Trump suggested in a tweet Sunday that outgoing CIA
Director John Brennan may have leaked information about the existence of
an unsubstantiated report that Russia allegedly has compromising information on Trump.
“Was this the leaker of fake news?” Trump asked following a Fox News interview with Brennan.
Trump attacked Brennan after
the outgoing CIA boss sharply criticized the president-elect for not
respecting the findings of the intelligence community, and described the
threats to national security that Trump’s off-the-cuff comments could
trigger.
He’s
got to realize this is “more than being about him ― it’s about the
United States and national security,” Brennan said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“Now
he’s going to have an opportunity to do something for our national
security as opposed to talking and tweeting,” added Brennan, who warned
that the president-elect’s impulsiveness could be dangerous. “He’s going
to have tremendous responsibility to make sure that U.S. and national
security interests are protected.”
“Spontaneity
is not something that protects national security interests,” he said.
“When he speaks, when he reacts, [he has] to make sure he understands
that the implications and impact on the United States could be
profound.”
He
also warned: “I think Mr. Trump has to be very disciplined in terms of
what it is that he says publicly. He is going to be, in a few days’
time, the most powerful person in the world in terms of sitting on top
of the United States government, and I think he has to recognize that
his words do have impact.”
Brennan
accused Trump of being naive about the threat Russia poses to the U.S.,
and said that the president-elect’s apparent lack of confidence in his
own intelligence community could embolden the nation’s enemies.
“If
he doesn’t have confidence in the intelligence community, what signal
does that send to our partners and allies, as well as our adversaries?”
Brennan asked.
Trump’s tweets on Sunday marked the first time he’s called out a member of the intelligence community by name.
Trump
had earlier accused “intelligence agencies” of leaking the 35-page
dossier on alleged Trump-Russia relations, and compared their actions to
those of Nazi Germany.
“What I do find outrageous
is equating the intelligence community with Nazi Germany,” Brennan said
Sunday. “I do take great umbrage at that, and there is no basis for Mr.
Trump to point fingers at the intelligence community for leaking
information that was already available publicly.”
The unsubstantiated report concerning Russia and Trump, prepared by a former British spy, contains unverified embarrassing allegations about the president-elect.
Trump learned of the report from intelligence leaders last week when he
and President Barack Obama were presented with information on Russian
hacking during the 2016 presidential campaign. The report on Trump’s
alleged activities in Russia had already been circulated among
politicians and members of the media.
Trump also took the opportunity on Sunday to again blast one of his favorite targets: NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Alec Baldwin reprised his Trump impersonation Saturday
in a spoof “recreation” of the president-elect’s press conference last
week. The bit included several jokes about the “pee pee party,” a
reference to a particularly salacious allegation that appears in the
unverified report.
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