Monday, January 23, 2017

Trump's bungling cripples his national security team right out of the gate

Remember when counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke described "hair on fire" moments at the beginning of W's presidency as his CIA director tried to get the president focused on a potential terrorist attack in the lead up to 9/11? Yeah, well, Obama's national security officials have been diligently prepping for the transition to the next national security team since last summer, producing some 275 briefing documents and 1,000 pages of classified material and, writes Mark Landler:

Nobody in the current administration knows whether anyone in the next has read any of it.

Really, Trump has made such a big show of whom he was going to pick for certain cabinet posts that he just hasn't had time to get the national security team in place—...
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1621858


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