So that’s why the DNI was so abruptly replaced!
Courtesy of NYT:
Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, in a disclosure that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.
The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, Mr. Trump berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the exchange said. Mr. Trump cited the presence in the briefing of Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant.
During the briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Trump’s allies challenged the conclusions, arguing that Mr. Trump has been tough on Russia and strengthened European security. Some intelligence officials viewed the briefing as a tactical error, saying that had the official who delivered the conclusion spoken less pointedly or left it out, they would have avoided angering the Republicans.
That intelligence official, Shelby Pierson, is an aide to Mr. Maguire who has a reputation of delivering intelligence in somewhat blunt terms. The president announced on Wednesday that he was replacing Mr. Maguire with Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany and long an aggressively vocal Trump supporter.
Another article from NYT had more:
Mr. Trump has long accused the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s 2016 interference as the work of a “deep-state” conspiracy intent on undermining the validity of his election. Intelligence officials feel burned by their experience after the last election, where their work became subject of intense political debate and is now a focus of a Justice Department investigation.
Part of the president’s anger over the intelligence briefing stemmed from the administration’s reluctance to provide sensitive information to Mr. Schiff. He has been a leading critic of Mr. Trump since 2016, doggedly investigating Russian election interference and later leading the impeachment inquiry into the president’s dealings with Ukraine.
After asking about the briefing that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies gave to the House, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Schiff would “weaponize” the intelligence about Russia’s support for him, according to a person familiar with the briefing. And he was angry that no one had told him sooner about the briefing, the person said.
It should be noted that Maguire believed his job was secure up until he gave this briefing which challenges the assertions by the administration officials claiming that he was already on his way out.
Based on recent events I have no doubt that Maguire was fired for daring to tell Congress that Russia was still working to keep Trump in office.
So this is just another example of Trump trying to keep information about Russia’s interference away from House Democrats.
Not that the Democrats in Congress can do anything about it since every single one of their bills for improving cyber security and protecting election integrity are currently stuck in the purgatory which is Mitch McConnell’s desk.
And he was replaced with a trump ass kisser, so good by to the intelligence agencies and hello putin you can do what you want.
I want to know what putin promised trump besides the presidency, that isn’t enough for the dictator, there must be more and I am sure it has some monetary value because that is all trump understands.
We need to get all anti trump people out to vote and over whelm the system so they can cheat, I don’t think our country can take another 4 years of trump, we also need to take the senate so if putin does win, we can impeach trump again, this time for treason.
AGAIN, republicans also too blocking election security bills. Are citizens in this country that effing stupid? Rhetorical question.
Most assuredly.
He told the truth, and his job was “killed”.
Who else do we know who told the truth, and was killed?
Jesus Christ
There’s a lot of people here that have no use for it, told off about it on occasion, but end times descriptions in The Bible.
I don’t know….who ARE these people. I do know that I wouldn’t cross the street to see any of them, politicians and celebrity types alike.
I’m trying to make it through a day with the real people that make this world what it is.
Hillary won.
2nd place.
In case it wasn’t already apparent, this move by trump shows that we are very close to, if not already in, an autocracy. Thanks to republicans, congress is incapable of controlling trump, and the SCOTUS so far has refused to take any action, not that it would mean anything to trump. I fear that this will only get worse, and that the November elections will be so compromised by the Russians that even if trump is defeated by millions of votes and loses the electoral college, he will somehow still “win.” At that point, our republic and our constitution will be dead.
You should look up, the sky hasn’t fallen despite all the dire predictions since 2016 Paul.
In fact the Country and economy are doing quite well. Quite well.
Luckily it seems we are likely to continue moving the Country in a positive direction for another term.
Hopefully by then all these newly minted brainwashed lazy communists will have taken showers and gotten real jobs in the real world, and realize self reliance and responsibility isn’t hard or scary.
What the fuck do you think Putin was/is under Gorbachov, fool? A COMMUNIST!
Can’t you taste it?
My best guess is Congressional Intel committee is required to be briefed about important intel news. Now our intel will be decided by the dumbest son of a bitch to infest the former White house., ever.