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originally posted by: loam
a reply to: Indigo5
Absent any substance or cause?
I guess you didn't read the comments made by Collin Powell and his experience with that community.
Thirteen years ago, the intelligence community concluded in a 93-page classified document used to justify the invasion of Iraq that it lacked "specific information" on "many key aspects" of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs.
But that's not what top Bush administration officials said during their campaign to sell the war to the American public.
Those officials, citing the same classified document, asserted with no uncertainty that Iraq was actively pursuing nuclear weapons, concealing a vast chemical and biological weapons arsenal, and posing an immediate and grave threat to US national security.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: Olivine
I Hope SOME of these Government Agencies Realize that Trump Represents an Opinion of Respectability among Americans , and that could also Reflect on their Perceptions of those who Serve in Particular Federal Agencies that at the Moment , have a Mostly Negative Reputation if Mr. Trumps happens to become our Next President .
The briefing team will go into the room with the goal of providing the same analytic judgments to both candidates, but I would expect the two briefings to be very different. I would expect the briefing for Secretary Hillary Clinton (the presumptive Democratic nominee) to delve into issues more deeply and to be more of a dialogue than the briefing for Donald Trump (the presumptive Republican nominee), which I would expect to be more of a tutorial, more of a first cut at the issues, with the need to provide the history and background on issues. This is simply because the Secretary is starting at much greater level of understanding based on her experience working these issues, her experience working with the IC, and her knowledge of the IC judgments (she was a daily and engaged consumer of both IC collection and analysis). Trump, most likely, will be starting at square one. No value judgments here; just the reality of the situation.
When I asked Donald Trump in 2014 about his temperament, he readily volunteered this: "When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different."
There is a great deal of confusion about these briefings in the media. After a candidate has been formally nominated by her/his national convention, she/he is offered a one-time intelligence briefing (sometimes over multiple days if there are time constraints or if a candidate wants to go deeper on a particular topic). They do not receive a daily briefing. They do not receive regular update briefings during the campaign. They do not receive the President’s Daily Briefing. Those only come for the president-elect, after the election in November.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: Olivine
Is it going to be a Real Intelligence Briefing , or a Made Up one ? I Hope SOME of these Government Agencies Realize that Trump Represents an Opinion of Respectability among Americans , and that could also Reflect on their Perceptions of those who Serve in Particular Federal Agencies that at the Moment , have a Mostly Negative Reputation if Mr. Trumps happens to become our Next President .