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President-elect Donald Trump, a harsh critic of U.S. intelligence agencies, is working with top advisers on a plan that would restructure and pare back the nation’s top spy agency, people familiar with the planning said.
The move is prompted by his belief that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has become bloated and politicized, these people said.
The planning comes as Mr. Trump has leveled a series of social-media attacks in recent months and the past few days against U.S. intelligence agencies, dismissing and mocking their assessment that Russia stole emails from Democratic groups and individuals and then provided them to WikiLeaks for publication in an effort to help Mr. Trump win the White House.
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: xuenchen
If he wanted to flush it all I'd be for it.
Sounds to me like he just wants to flush out the people who he doesn't agree with and keep the ones he does or that will be loyal to him.
More filling the swamp then draining yet again.
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: nwtrucker
Yeah, but I don't know how fun it will be.
All of this could result in some really big problems for us on the world stage. We may be a super power and all but we have powerful enemies and with too much internal chaos happening we put ourselves at major risk from any one of them wanting to take advantage of our weak state of affairs.
Already it seems most countries are looking and laughing at the US and how disorganized and incompetent we look right now. A lot of them are justifiably scared too at what we might do in the near future to compensate for how we look now. Best case is that we don't do anything and just continue falling apart and that is hardly a best case for anyone either.
We really need to get our sh*t together or we're ripe for the picking.
originally posted by: MALBOSIA
And the world is not laughing at the US right now. 1 year ago. The world was spitting mad at the US and fed up with their arrogance and overstepping.
Trust me, as far as the world's view of the US, Trump is the best thing that could have happened to it. We actually believe you still have a chance again. I'm personally not mad at you anymore.
Good job America. I'm so proud of you. I hope this works out cause it is the only last chance your ever going to get.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: xuenchen
I agree that he needs to clean up the intelligence agencies from the big pockets that have taken over them.
Clean it up from the top to the bottom.