Sue Gordon: Cut off his intelligence

[Tanuki]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sue-gordon-trump-intelligence-briefings-former-president/2021/01/15/94b15c72-5747-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html#click=https://t.co/Oa6TrjyBom

(Susan M. Gordon was the principal deputy director of national intelligence from 2017 to 2019.)

"Every former president in the modern era has benefited from a unique national security perk after leaving the White House: routine intelligence briefings and access to classified information to support his continued involvement in advancing America’s interests. These briefings have been a matter of respectful convention and were granted by the new president to the old.
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My recommendation, as a 30-plus year veteran of the intelligence community, is not to provide him any briefings after Jan. 20. With this simple act — which is solely the new president’s prerogative — Joe Biden can mitigate one aspect of the potential national security risk posed by Donald Trump, private citizen.
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His post-White House “security profile,” as the professionals like to call it, is daunting. Any former president is by definition a target and presents some risks. But a former president Trump, even before the events of last week, might be unusually vulnerable to bad actors with ill intent. He leaves, unlike his predecessors who embraced the muted responsibilities of being a “former,” with a stated agenda to stay engaged in politics and policy. No departing president in the modern era has hinted at or planned on becoming a political actor immediately after leaving office.

In addition, Trump has significant business entanglements that involve foreign entities. Many of these current business relationships are in parts of the world that are vulnerable to intelligence services from other nation-states. And it is not clear that he understands the tradecraft to which he has been exposed, the reasons the knowledge he has acquired must be protected from disclosure, or the intentions and capabilities of adversaries and competitors who will use any means to advance their interests at the expense of ours.

I do not make this recommendation casually. It is based on my deep understanding of threats to national security, on decades protecting our people and interests overseas, and my experience deploying technical means to counter our adversaries.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Absolutely!

He never should have received those clearances in the first thing.

[Raven123]

2. Trump and everyone who served under him

[MLAA]

3. I'd like more than his intelligence cut off

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Yeah, that would be an awfully thin slice.

[MLAA]

11. 😬

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Better yet, put traitortrump in a dungeon with no outside contact.

[burrowowl]

10. Yes. away from Putin et al

[crickets]

6. This should be a given.

The man has clearly and repeatedly demonstrated that he is a national security risk.

[mgardener]

7. Another reason for the Senate to impeach him

[Grokenstein]

8. He never paid attention. He couldn't understand them if he wanted to.

Just gotta stop him passing 'em off to Vladimir.

[Ilsa]

9. Better yet, feed him disinformation putin will act on.

Something nonmilitary, perhaps regarding commodities, rare metals, etc.Prove he is a traitor and we can lock him up along with other spies like Robert Hansen.

[wendyb-NC]

12. Definitely, cut him off.

[ecstatic]

13. Hell, cut off his briefings now! Why let him hear info that he can share

with putin and/or his terrorists before inauguration day?

[Tanuki]

20. I got a sick feeling when I read that he and Pence had both been briefed

on Inauguration security plans.

[yonder]

14. Excellent idea, especially for someone who could not bother himself

to understand and act on the Presidential Daily Briefing to begin with.

[MyMission]

15. I say feed him false intelligence

And watch him try to sell it or leverage it, then arrest him or just let the buyers take care of him when the information proves to be false!

[Cozmo]

16. He probably wouldn't even read the intelligence if he got 'em

But, I'd rather keep this out of his tiny little hands

[judesedit]

17. No matter what. As of 2d Impeachment, this man should be banned

from getting intelligence. He blew his chance. He's dangerous.

[orangecrush]

18. DO IT!

[Ford_Prefect]

19. Trump has been a Russian asset since he accepted their money in the 1980's.

They have been grooming him and his family ever since. It becomes publicly observable when rich Russian Elites began buying into Trump properties in New York , Miami and elsewhere.

He ought to be put under lock and key with very limited access to phone or internet. The same for Don Jr., Kushner, Eric and Ivanka. They all know things they should never have been able to see or hear.

[Marie Marie]

21. Didn't Trump cut off some former Intelligence Officers from getting

briefings after they pissed him off by criticizing him?

[dalton99a]

22. Absolutely.

[Blue Owl]

23. Take away Donny Diaper's flash cards

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. Yeah, you could write it in long paragraphs with no pictures

and the lack of mention of "Trump" would guarantee he'd never read it.