Washington – The CIA director says the agency is providing President Donald Trump with the best intelligence it can, disputing reports that the spy community is withholding information from the commander in chief.
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In a statement Thursday, CIA Director Mike Pompeo says the CIA does not, has not and will never hide intelligence from the president.
He says the agency is not aware of any instance where this has occurred.
Pompeo is dismissing news reports claiming intelligence officials were keeping information from Trump, and notes the reports did not cite any examples. Pompeo says the claims damage the integrity of thousands of professional U.S. intelligence officers.
There are over 70,000 members of the intelligence community in the Federal government. They’ve screwed up many times, but presidents rely on them for factual real time information of world events and foreign actions. For some bizarre reason the deranged orange carrot has declared war on his own employees. They control the information. They can withhold information, or twist it, or leak it. Our allies have already said that they fear giving us intelligence information because Trumpf’s dwarfs may give it to Russia, or the disgruntled CIA-NSA employees may give it to the media. So the great business manager has already led us into a crisis he created, starting with flim flam Flynn being FIRED by Herr Carrot. But it’s running like a well oiled makina…
Stop with the ranting hashomer
Who said he needs anyone’s help avoiding contact with intelligence?