{"id":23404,"date":"2016-08-06T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23404"},"modified":"2016-08-06T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:19:51","slug":"career-spook-fears-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/06\/career-spook-fears-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Spook Fears Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michel J. Morell used to run the CIA, where he worked for over thirty years,  From what I know of him, he’s so far right, that I would do not agree with most of his views, but on this subject, he is in a better position to know than almost anyone else, and I think his points about Trump are completely valid.<\/font><\/p>\n

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During a 33-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, I served presidents of both parties \u2014 three Republicans and three Democrats. I was at President George W. Bush\u2019s side when we were attacked on Sept. 11; as deputy director of the agency, I was with President Obama when we killed Osama bin Laden in 2011.<\/p>\n

I am neither a registered Democrat nor a registered Republican. In my 40 years of voting, I have pulled the lever for candidates of both parties. As a government official, I have always been silent about my preference for president.<\/p>\n

No longer. On Nov. 8, I will vote for Hillary Clinton. Between now and then, I will do everything I can to ensure that she is elected as our 45th president.<\/p>\n

Two strongly held beliefs have brought me to this decision. First, Mrs. Clinton is highly qualified to be commander in chief. I trust she will deliver on the most important duty of a president \u2014 keeping our nation safe. Second, Donald J. Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026The dangers that flow from Mr. Trump\u2019s character are not just risks that would emerge if he became president. It is already damaging our national security<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was a career intelligence officer, trained to identify vulnerabilities in an individual and to exploit them. That is exactly what he did early in the primaries. Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump\u2019s vulnerabilities by complimenting him. He responded just as Mr. Putin had calculated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Putin is a great leader, Mr. Trump says, ignoring that he has killed and jailed journalists and political opponents, has invaded two of his neighbors and is driving his economy to ruin. Mr. Trump has also taken policy positions consistent with Russian, not American, interests \u2014 endorsing Russian espionage against the United States, supporting Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea and giving a green light to a possible Russian invasion of the Baltic States<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Who Hijacked Our Country<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

Sadly, Putin is also using another US politician to help him put Trump in the White House.  RT News (formerly Russia Today) is under Putin’s complete control, and has focused their coverage for several days on attacking Clinton, while giving positive coverage to Jill Stein, including many interviews.  As much as a like Jill, I can’t see how she could be accepting this help from a Russian propaganda outlet, without knowing she’s working with Putin.  Perhaps her opportunism ha Rump Dump Trumped her idealism.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michel J. Morell used to run the CIA, where he worked for over thirty years,  From what I know of him, he’s so far right, that I would do not agree with most of his views, but on this subject, he is in a better position to know than almost anyone else, and I think […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}