Trump Moves to Slash CIA, Says Tweets Supporting Julian Assange Over US Intelligence Were to Help ‘The People’ Decide

Shameful for Trump to Lie About His Intentions, Which Are Crystal Clear

After news broke Wednesday evening revealing Donald Trump is working to slash and overhaul the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the president-elect Thursday morning again took to Twitter to put up a dishonest smokescreen.

“President-elect Donald Trump, a harsh critic of U.S. intelligence agencies, is working with top advisers on a plan that would restructure and pare back the nation’s top spy agency, people familiar with the planning said,” The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night. “The move is prompted by his belief that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has become bloated and politicized, these people said.”

The Journal added, “One of the people familiar with Mr. Trump’s planning said advisers also are working on a plan to restructure the Central Intelligence Agency, cutting back on staffing at its Virginia headquarters and pushing more people out into field posts around the world.”

“The planning comes as Mr. Trump has leveled a series of social-media attacks in recent months and the past few days against U.S. intelligence agencies, dismissing and mocking their assessment that Russia stole emails from Democratic groups and individuals and then provided them to WikiLeaks for publication in an effort to help Mr. Trump win the White House,” the Journal concludes.

Note that in its opening sentence, the conservative, right wing Wall Street Journal calls Trump “a harsh critic of U.S. intelligence agencies.” 

Trump drew harsh criticism Wednesday for posting a tweet that showed him siding with Wikileaks chief Julian Assange, in direct opposition to U.S. intelligence agencies – all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, in fact.

The president-elect, who has been nervously tweeting more frequently in the past days, Thursday morning posted tweets claiming he has only been posting statements from Julian Assange to help “the people” decide what’s the truth – a ridiculous and irresponsible excuse akin to a climate change denier or evolution denier insisting there are two sides to the already scientifically settled arguments.

Trump’s tweets are also in direct conflict with his previous statements, and with even what The Wall Street Journal labeled him, going so far as say he is a “big fan” of “Intelligence,” which he oddly placed in quotes:

Trump dangerously also took a swipe at what he repeatedly calls the “dishonest media,” which he does to diminish the media’s factual and accurate criticisms of him and his actions.

There is absolutely no reason why Trump would post what Julian Assange says unless it helps his narrative, which is that Russia is not behind the hacking of the U.S. election.

And it’s shameful for his to lie about his intentions, which are crystal clear.

UPDATE:
Perfectly stated:

 

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