Members of the United States Intelligence Community will soon begin sharing top-secret information with the White House transition team of president-elect Donald Trump. According to a report by CBS News, Trump’s team will receive “practically the same briefings” as those given by intelligence personnel to US President Barack Obama. The briefings will be delivered by career intelligence officers who are reportedly ready to brief Trump’s transition team as soon as the latter requests it.
The 70-year-old business tycoon was
confirmed as the president-elect in the early hours of Wednesday, after
scoring one of the greatest electoral upsets in American political
history. He is scheduled to meet President Obama at the White House this
week, where he will discuss with him the pending transition of his
executive team, as well as pressing matters of national security.
According to CBS, the President has already authorized the Intelligence
Community to brief Trump and his senior aides on certain topics. Obama
will continue to authorize intelligence briefings given to the Trump
team until January 20 of next year, when the Republican president-elect
will replace President Obama at the White House. As soon as Trump’s
transition team members provide the names of his chosen cabinet
officials, the Intelligence Community will begin to brief them as well.
Meanwhile US Air Force four-star General
Michael Hayden (ret.) raised doubts on Wednesday about Trump’s ability
to understand the way intelligence works. General Hayden, who led the
National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency in under
the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, told
CBS that Trump won Tuesday’s presidential election by “showing anger
[and] being accusatory”. These are qualities that are “very alien to the
way intelligence works” and do not fit “into the intelligence picture”,
he said. General Hayden was one of 50 senior Republican
national-security officials who signed an open letter
in August, claiming that Trump “lacks the character, values and
experience” to be president and “would put at risk [America’s] national
security and well-being”. The 50 included former directors of the CIA,
the NSA, the Office of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland
Security, and others.
► Author: Joseph Fitsanakishttps://intelnews.org/2016/11/10/01-2007/|
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