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First is a detailed look at technical and human intelligence sources and methods that provide critical information on Special Access Programs — the most sensitive top secret undertakings — for drone strikes and other intelligence operations. This would include the disclosure, if Trump wants the names, of the dozens of officials abroad paid by the CIA, to the tune of millions of dollars. Though entitled presidents normally have not asked for names unless the secret relationship involves a particularly important CIA asset.
Other methods include the most sensitive technical capabilities of the National Security Agency to intercept communications abroad, store them and make them instantly available to analysts and operators.
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In 2008, after then-President-elect Obama was given one sensitive intelligence briefing at a secure facility in Chicago, he joked, “It’s good that there are bars on the windows here because if there weren’t, I might be jumping out.”
Col. Prouty was one of 52 men out of 35,000 in the Pentagon cleared for this Prebrief. The CIA can control the government if they 'color' the information presented each day.
www.prouty.org...
Prouty: Every single day, intelligence is collected from all around the world by all of our intelligence capacity...During the night that is carefully boiled down to the essence of the intelligence of the day...You've seen nothing until you've seen this secret intelligence report that is delivered every morning to the president. It's beyond anybody's belief...Now, I went to these briefings for years and I must tell you, they charge you up something awful. You come out of that thing after hearing everything that's going on, everything from satellite photos. You get the global weather conditions, you get everything that's going on during the day, in that Prebrief. And, ah, that's powerful stuff. And you're so busy during the day catching up with the things that this Prebrief tells you to do, then all of the sudden it's tomorrow and you hear another Prebrief...
Interviewer: Did you attend these Prebriefs?
Prouty: Everyday, everyday. I was one of, I think, fifty-two people as I remember that had the clearance to go. And, in my work, there were many times when I was one of the briefers, so that I was involved both ways.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: rickymouse
It will finally fall off.
originally posted by: marg6043
I will never forget the way Obama looked like after his first official top secret meeting, he was never the same again.
I can not wait to see Trumps face after his, because it will tell me a lot of how his next 4 years will be.
If something about that meeting that change the presidents demeanor, whatever it is, is not good.
originally posted by: carewemust
What do you all think is so mentally stressful and surprising about the intelligence briefing's contents???
It's probably when they realise how many people they'll have to kill.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: marg6043
I will never forget the way Obama looked like after his first official top secret meeting, he was never the same again.
I can not wait to see Trumps face after his, because it will tell me a lot of how his next 4 years will be.
If something about that meeting that change the presidents demeanor, whatever it is, is not good.
That being said, Hillary Clinton lived in the White House with Bill for 8 years, and still wants to get back there as President, so the content of the daily briefing can't be too horrific.