{"id":8076,"date":"2017-02-13T20:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2017-02-13T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T02:22:21","slug":"we-didnt-put-the-meat-in-the-burger-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/13\/we-didnt-put-the-meat-in-the-burger-master\/","title":{"rendered":"We Didn’t Put the Meat In The Burger, Master"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a fascinating – if true – article in The Observer<\/strong><\/em>, John Schindler, reportedly a former NSA analyst, discusses<\/a> a trend within the Intelligence Community (IC): withholding information<\/em> from President Trump:<\/p>\n

There is more consequential IC pushback happening, too. Our spies have never liked Trump\u2019s lackadaisical attitude toward the President\u2019s Daily Brief, the most sensitive of all IC documents, which the new commander-in-chief has received haphazardly. The president has frequently blown off the PDB altogether, tasking Flynn with condensing it into a one-page summary with no more than nine bullet-points. Some in the IC are relieved by this, but there are pervasive concerns that the president simply isn\u2019t paying attention to intelligence.<\/p>\n

In light of this, and out of worries about the White House\u2019s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the \u201cgood stuff\u201d from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president\u2019s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets.<\/p>\n

Since NSA provides something like 80 percent<\/a> of the actionable intelligence in our government, what\u2019s being kept from the White House may be very significant indeed. However, such concerns are widely shared across the IC, and NSA doesn\u2019t appear to be the only agency withholding intelligence from the administration out of security fears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kevin Drum<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Inside” reporting about the intelligence community is notoriously unreliable, so take this with a grain of salt. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. But just the fact that stuff like this is getting a respectful public hearing is damning all by itself. For any other recent president, a report like this would be dismissed as nonsense without a second thought. But for Trump, it seems plausible enough to take seriously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Schindler writes an interesting and, if accurate, somewhat chilling piece. But how will we ever know? All you can do is stipulate it and then draw conclusions, and, frankly, with something like this, it’s hard to draw conclusions without one’s mind returning to “but…” every ten seconds or so.<\/p>\n

Put it in the “gee, maybe” category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a fascinating – if true – article in The Observer, John Schindler, reportedly a former NSA analyst, discusses a trend within the Intelligence Community (IC): withholding information from President Trump: There is more consequential IC pushback happening, too. Our spies have never liked Trump\u2019s lackadaisical attitude toward the President\u2019s \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8077,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/8077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}