Harry Reid To Intel Community: Give Donald Trump Fake Briefings
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Harry Reid To Intel Community: Give Donald Trump Fake Briefings
This man is dangerous.
07/27/2016 05:04 pm ET | Updated 1 hour ago
Ryan Grim Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post
Sam Stein Senior Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Harry Reid sits with Sam Stein and Ryan Grim for an interview in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016.
PHILADELPHIA - Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is advising intelligence officials that if they end up giving GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump classified briefings during the campaign, they should just fake it and make sure not to divulge anything important.
How would the CIA and the other intelligence agencies brief this guy? How could they do that? I would suggest to the intelligence agencies, if youre forced to brief this guy, dont tell him anything, just fake it, because this man is dangerous, Reid said in an interview with The Huffington Post Wednesday afternoon. Fake it, pretend youre doing a briefing, but you cant give the guy any information.
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Intelligence officials are becoming increasingly convinced that the hack of the Democratic National Committee and subsequent release of DNC emails was the work of the Russian government, with the goal of undermining Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and boosting her rival, Trump. Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to release any additional emails they have from Clinton ― actively inviting a foreign power to intervene in a U.S. election.
Reid wouldnt call the comments treason, leaving the characterizations to others. But, referencing his nearly half a century in politics, he proclaimed: Ive never seen anything like Donald Trump. The scale of the cybercrime and the possibility of it being done at the behest of a presidential candidate, he added, could wind up being worse than Watergate...................
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stonecutter357
(12,699 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)jmowreader
(50,604 posts)"Open Source Collateral."
There is absolutely no reason to give Trump anything you can't read off the AP wire.
FSogol
(45,599 posts)How would he know the difference?
bucolic_frolic
(43,569 posts)from Faux News Bubble Company?
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)slip up and divulge the fake secrets!
ailsagirl
(22,912 posts)FSogol
(45,599 posts)Demonaut
(8,939 posts)wysi
(1,512 posts)"I don't give a shit about that, show it to whathisname... Prince, Pence, whatever."
keithbvadu2
(37,066 posts)as he led America into 9-11 with his incompetence.
PuppyBismark
(595 posts)Can't you just see it, he opens his mouth and the Secret Service comes out, puts the cuffs on him and ends the rally?