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2020-11-27 Home Front: Politix

When he leaves office, can ex-President Trump be trusted with America's national security secrets?

[NBC] WASHINGTON — When David Priess was a CIA officer, he traveled to Houston, he recalls, to brief former President George H.W. Bush on classified developments in the Middle East.

It was part of a long tradition of former presidents being consulted about, and granted access to, some of the nation's secrets.

Priess and other former intelligence officials say Joe Biden would be wise not to let that tradition continue in the case of Donald Trump.

Mr. Trump is already getting 4:1 odds on the betting markets for a presidential run in 2024, and he is a firm believer in strategic sunshine moving the Overton Window...

They argue soon-to-be-former President Trump already poses a danger because of the secrets he currently possesses, and they say it would be foolish to trust him with more sensitive information. With Trump's real estate empire under financial pressure and his brand suffering, they worry he will see American secrets as a profit center.

"This is not something that one could have ever imagined with other presidents, but it's easy to imagine with this one," said Jack Goldsmith, who worked as a senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration.

"He's shown as president that he doesn't take secret-keeping terribly seriously," Goldsmith said in an interview. "He has a known tendency to disrespect rules related to national security. And he has a known tendency to like to sell things that are valuable to him."

Goldsmith and other experts noted that Trump has a history of carelessly revealing classified information. He told the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in 2017 about extremely sensitive terrorism threat information the U.S. had received from an ally. Last year he tweeted what experts said was a secret satellite photo of an Iranian nuclear installation.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-27 09:27|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Solution: Leave him in office where he belongs.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-27 09:31|| 2020-11-27 09:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Like these douchenozzles had the same concern about Obama four years ago.

Posted by Raj 2020-11-27 09:47|| 2020-11-27 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 It's General Flynn who knows where all the bodies are buried.

Posted by Bobby 2020-11-27 10:19|| 2020-11-27 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Flynn knows about the Iran deal's intricacies and money flows

Posted by Vortigern Gling9653 2020-11-27 10:36|| 2020-11-27 10:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Watch'em lose their collective bowels if the Orange Man replaces Gina Haspel with Mike Flynn in the next few weeks.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-27 10:55|| 2020-11-27 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 But it's OK for a guy who mind is failing and who is up to his neck in a Chinese bribery scandal to have total access? Personally I think "trunalimunumaprzure" was a coded message to the CCP.

They're really just worried that Trump will release Obama's college transcripts and the Khalidi video.

Posted by Matt 2020-11-27 11:19|| 2020-11-27 11:19|| Front Page Top

#7 "This is not something that one could have ever imagined with other presidents, but it's easy to imagine with this one," said Jack Goldsmith, who worked as a senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration.

Love these former government officials' oh so serious tone denigrating the only President since Reagan who hasn't sold out to foreign governments or interests. Mr Goldsmith is not above selling his expertise to foreigners. Wiki: He worked at the Washington, D.C. law firm Covington & Burling.

Covington & Burling LLP is an international law firm with offices in Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Dubai, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and Washington, DC. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the firm advises clients on significant transactional, litigation, regulatory, and public policy matters.

Posted by Ulavirong Omeager2818 2020-11-27 11:58|| 2020-11-27 11:58|| Front Page Top

#8 These people said nothing when President Historic First Whatever gave the OPM Database to the Chinese.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-11-27 13:15|| 2020-11-27 13:15|| Front Page Top

#9 The real secrets or the fake ones the deep state feed him for the last 4 year years

Posted by Airandee 2020-11-27 13:16|| 2020-11-27 13:16|| Front Page Top

#10 So I guess Trump needs to be locked up incommunicado for the remainder of his life, for the good of the people...

Posted by Glenmore 2020-11-27 15:34|| 2020-11-27 15:34|| Front Page Top

#11 $$$

Posted by Angeater Omick2705 2020-11-27 17:38|| 2020-11-27 17:38|| Front Page Top

#12 ^Under the table for the left while pining the Intel sales on Trump.

Posted by Angeater Omick2705 2020-11-27 17:39|| 2020-11-27 17:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Last year he tweeted what experts said was a secret satellite photo of an Iranian nuclear installation.

You know who decides what's secret and what's not? The President.

he has a known tendency to like to sell things that are valuable to him

You mean like real estate? The way he's made his money? Or do you mean he's sold access, like Biden? Or senate seats, like Obama?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-11-27 18:39|| 2020-11-27 18:39|| Front Page Top

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