knapplc Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Trump's campaign ally, WikiLeaks, who supported Trump's election bid by releasing Clinton team emails during critical moments in the race, has just released what it says are thousands of documents from the CIA. WikiLeaks publish 1000s of what it says are CIA documentsPARIS (AP) — WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents that it says come from the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence, a dramatic release that appears to give an eye-opening look at the intimate details of the agency's cyberespionage effort.The dump could not immediately be authenticated by The Associated Press and the CIA did not return repeated messages seeking comment, but WikiLeaks has a long track record of releasing top secret government documents.One expert who examined the dump, Rendition Infosec founder Jake Williams, told the AP it appeared legitimate.If it does prove legitimate, the dump will represent yet another catastrophic breach for the U.S. intelligence community at the hands of WikiLeaks and its allies, which have repeatedly humbled Washington with the mass release of classified material. Meanwhile, Trump is busy retweeting Fox's morning show. I guess he really does love WikiLeaks. Too much to be bothered by their hacking of our intelligence community. “I love WikiLeaks,” Trump proclaimed, while bashing his opponent Hillary Clinton during the campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with nearly 10,000 people, according to Fox News, at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza. WikiLeaks has been slowly revealing controversial emails from Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. Link to comment
Enhance Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 If this is true, doesn't it become damage control for the Trump administration? I can't imagine there are many positive things to take away from this even if most of the information is from past years. Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 Most likely this fuels Trump's attacks against the Intelligence Community. Either someone inside is responsible for the leaks = they're bad, or they can't be trusted to keep themselves secure so that justifies him getting his news from Brietbart & Fox, or in some other crazy-person way this is their fault, not his. Trump is not about building bridges, he's about fracturing government so he can pit sides of it against each other. That distracts blame from him and keeps those agencies from uniting against him. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Most likely this fuels Trump's attacks against the Intelligence Community. Either someone inside is responsible for the leaks = they're bad, or they can't be trusted to keep themselves secure so that justifies him getting his news from Brietbart & Fox, or in some other crazy-person way this is their fault, not his. Trump is not about building bridges, he's about fracturing government so he can pit sides of it against each other. That distracts blame from him and keeps those agencies from uniting against him. This is what concerns me the most. He has made enemies of just about every department in the government plus the media. What now happens when something very serious happens like an actual attack on the US? He has very very few allies in either the media or the intelligence community. I really wonder about allies in the military also. Who is there to work with him to accomplish what the government is going to need to do? Infowars???? Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 Makes you wonder who he's really working for. Who would a fractured US benefit most? Certainly not the US. 3 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 What you described is shockingly similar to his MO when running his business from everything I've read, Knapp. He seems to thrive on the chaos and infighting. Surely there's some degree of interagency tension already there. I'm not sure it's exactly wise to try and crank that up, though. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Makes you wonder who he's really working for. Who would a fractured US benefit most? Certainly not the US. I honestly think he believes he is so smart he doesn't need those people. Think about what we heard in the campaign and the first couple months while in office. "I'm smarter than the Generals" Many quotes berating the intelligence community. Claiming the intelligence community doesn't know who hacked the DNC. Constant attacks on the media. He has said many times he knows more about defeating ISIS than anyone else. He claimed people will do what he tells them to do. (meaning foreign governments, military, CIA...etc.) This guy actually believes he doesn't need these people around him actually working with him. He is bigger an better than all of them. Link to comment
zoogs Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Trump is not behaving like a steward who intends to hand off a stable national infrastructure to the next guy. He's all about advancing his own supremacy against all adversaries, foreign and domestic. Link to comment
Enhance Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 This is what concerns me the most. He has made enemies of just about every department in the government plus the media. He has his allies, but you're right, the overall tenor with which he approaches leadership and ruling is fantastically disconcerting. Here's an interesting quote from Newt Gingrich about the recent wiretapping allegations, but I think it's pretty spot on. “It’s a sign of how deeply frustrated [Trump] is,” Mr. Gingrich said. “They have a much bigger assault against them than people have had in the past. And so, Mr. Gingrich added, Mr. Trump needs to figure out how to get control of his own bureaucracy. “He’s not going to survive,” he said, “unless he profoundly rethinks what they’re doing and how they’re doing it.” Link to comment
commando Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 wikileaks and donald trump are doing more damage to the united states than ISIS could ever hope to do. 5 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 But it's the best kind of damage. Using the most amazing people to become great again. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 wikileaks and donald trump are doing more damage to the united states than ISIS could ever hope to do. I'm not a fan of either one. Link to comment
Husker Red Til Dead Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 wikileaks and donald trump are doing more damage to the united states than ISIS could ever hope to do. Nice blanket statement, but wiki and trump aren't actively trying to kill those that disagree with their ideology. Link to comment
Husker Red Til Dead Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 So let me get this straight. Its not the fact the emails exist, but the people that uncovered the emails that is the problem....mmmmk 1 Link to comment
commando Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 wikileaks and donald trump are doing more damage to the united states than ISIS could ever hope to do. Nice blanket statement, but wiki and trump aren't actively trying to kill those that disagree with their ideology. who is actively trying to kill who? Link to comment
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