Thursday, February 16, 2017

Wall Street Journal: Spies Keep Intelligence From President Trump


From the WSJ:
In some of these cases of withheld information, officials have decided not to show Mr. Trump the sources and methods that the intelligence agencies use to collect information, the current and former officials said. Those sources and methods could include, for instance, the means that an agency uses to spy on a foreign government. 
A White House official said: “There is nothing that leads us to believe that this is an accurate account of what is actually happening.”… …It wasn’t clear Wednesday how many times officials have held back information from Mr. Trump. 
The officials emphasized that they know of no instance in which crucial information about security threats or potential plotting has been omitted. Still, the misgivings that have emerged among intelligence officials point to the fissures spreading between the White House and the U.S. spy agencies.

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