Obama Weighed Withholding Intel From Trump Transition

[mystery-ak]

By Cathy Burke    |   Monday, 12 Feb 2018 10:59 PM



President Barack Obama met in January 2017 with then-FBI Director James Comey and other top national security officials to talk about sharing information related to Russia with the incoming Trump administration — asserting the probe should be handled "by the book," according to an email made public Monday, CNN reported.

The previously undisclosed meeting was held Jan. 5, 2017 — and was recounted in an email written by then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice on President Donald Trump's inauguration day.

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[skeeter]

As documented in an email Rice wrote to herself written a month after the meeting.

Riiight.

[edpc]

"President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities 'by the book,'" Rice wrote in an email to herself. "The president stressed that he is not asking about, initiating, or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book."


She knows that would be archived.  This is the kind of thing you do when you know you're operating in gray areas and pull a CYA move.

[Sanguine]

The previously undisclosed meeting...

Uh, huh.  Sure....

[goatprairie]

Democrats do something sneaky and probably unconstitutional? Color me shocked.   

[Hoodat]

From July, 2016:

Candidates poised for classified briefings despite spy agency worries over Trump

By Greg Miller     |     July 28, 2016

.  .  .  .

Amid reports that some intelligence officials have deep reservations about sharing sensitive information with Trump, Clapper said that “it is not up to the administration and not up to me personally to decide on the suitability of presidential candidates. The American electorate is deciding on the suitability of the next commander in chief.”

But Clapper’s remarks came amid new signs of deep discomfort with Trump among the upper ranks of the intelligence community. In a measure of that growing animosity, one senior intelligence official said Wednesday that he would decline to participate in any session with Trump.

“I would refuse,” the official said, citing not only concern with Trump’s expressions of admiration for Russian President Vladi­mir Putin but seeming uninterest in acquiring a deeper or more nuanced understanding of world events.

“He’s been so uninterested in the truth and so reckless with it when he sees it,” the official said. He and others spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing a desire to speak candidly about domestic political issues that intelligence officials typically refuse to discuss.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/candidates-poised-for-classified-briefings-despite-spy-agency-worries-over-trump/2016/07/28/865cd686-5500-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html?utm_term=.9ad2c3958572



Back in 2016, there were quite a few Democrats including Harry Reid who suggested that Trump be given fake briefings:


Sen. Harry Reid: Give Trump fake CIA intel briefings

During an interview, Sen. Harry Reid told CNN's Manu Raju that the CIA should give Donald Trump fake intel briefings and that he "won't know the difference."

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/07/28/democratic-convention-harry-reid-trump-fake-intel-sot.cnn

[anubias]

Since when does Newsmax Polly parrot CNN as if it is gospel?