President-elect Trump has started receiving intelligence briefings

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Nov. 19, 2024, 2:02 PM EST


President-elect Donald Trump is now receiving intelligence briefings after having declined them during his campaign, according to a source with knowledge of the matter and a former U.S. official. The briefings from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) began shortly after the election, in keeping with a custom launched by President Harry Truman at the end of his tenure, the sources said.

“ODNI is acting consistent with the tradition, in place since 1952, of providing intelligence briefings to the President-elect,” an ODNI spokesperson said. The office would not comment specifically on whether Trump was actually accepting the offer of the briefings. The Washington Post first reported on the briefings.

A Trump transition team representative was not able to confirm that Trump had begun receiving the briefings. Before the election, Trump had said he did not want to get the intelligence briefings to avoid any chance he would be accused of leaking information.

In 1952, Truman ordered that intelligence briefings be made available to presidential nominees and presidents-elect to ensure a smooth transition of power and to prepare a prospective commander in chief for office. The briefings are not required by law.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/president-elect-trump-started-receiving-intelligence-briefings-rcna180834

[calguy]

1. That means Putin's also getting our intelligence

[MLAA]

2. Thanks for the update, BumRushDaShow, I edited your title.

Putin has started receiving intelligence briefings.
Sad but true.

[NJCher]

30. Trump has him

On speaker phone.

[MLAA]

35. You nailed it.

[canuckledragger]

3. Expect a lot more intelligence agents to be murdered or go missing.

If other countries are smart, they should share nothing with Trump's regime.

[NJCher]

31. A story just appeared

On that. Five nations saying they are not sharing intel with us.

[raccoon]

33. Link, please?

[BumRushDaShow]

42. Here

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/real-concern-foreign-officials-sending-warnings-to-trump-about-boycott-on-intel-sharing/ar-AA1ur3oo

That is the "Raw Story" version but I actually saw it mentioned on a different site this morning that I was trying to find (I was not on Raw Story). I think the sites with this info were quoting Jonathan Lemire from MSNBC this morning. He actually hosts the show before Mourning Schmoe so not sure if it came from his show or Schmoe's show.

[surfered]

4. To save time and effort, they should just put Putin in on a conference call.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. This was, like so many, my greatest fear after learning that the convicted felon/insurrectionist would assume office

[bucolic_frolic]

6. What good will that do?

[Irish_Dem]

12. Trump can start paying off his debt to Putin.

So it will do good for Trump.

[FBaggins]

14. You rarely see it reported - but incoming and outgoing administrations will often work together

Play a little good cop - bad cop.

[elleng]

7. DAMN!

The good part, he won't remember; the bad part, he won't UNDERSTAND!

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. Trump and "intelligence" in the same sentence is laughable.

[Phoenix61]

9. Wouldn't it be nice if they fed him like the mole he is? nt

[JohnSJ]

10. F**K this country. They deserve everything bad that happens to it. They choose hate and division, over love and working

together to make things better.

[JohnSJ]

19. No. There was no ambiguity where the sociopath stood on the issues. It was at

his rallies and the Madison Square Garden hate fest.

This had nothing to do with digital attacks.

The country has revealed exactly what it is, and it isn’t a pretty picture.

[groundloop]

20. _I_ sure as hell didn't vote for this, am I getting what I deserve?

Nor did darned near half of the US.

[tonekat]

40. After the Shrub got a second term, Hunter Thompson wrote:

"Maybe Americans like fascism?"

[uppityperson]

11. I could do so much with that head line. Too bad for the real meaning

[ancianita]

15. Maybe the ODNI is doing a test run so that other agencies, including the DoD, can track what he does with that intel.

He's proven he's a danger to national security, so he might just slip up and provide the evidence the Defense Department needs -- and commander-in-chief Biden, for that matter -- to legally justify withholding anything but lowest level classified intel from him for the duration of his administration.

[House of Roberts]

16. So they broke out the crayons and coloring books?

[kacekwl]

17. So he signed

the ethics pledge ?

[LymphocyteLover]

24. that's what i was wondering-- and I doubt it. Also they aren't following the normal background check procedure

what could possibly go wrong?

[24601]

34. Members of Congress, Article III Justices and Judges, POTOS and VPOTUS do not submit the security clearance paperwork

(Standard Form 86). Their access to classified information is based on their positions. Their non-elected or non-senate conformed judicial staff positions are subject to the normal federal government security clearance process.

The Federal Government also extends some classified access to state, tribal and local officials.

[LymphocyteLover]

36. Sure, but I'm referring to his appointees who aren't elected

[24601]

39. Executive Branch Appointees who aren't elected go through a two stage process. First, some agency conducts an

investigation. For Presidential appointees, it usually has been the FBI.

Following the investigation, an authorized official adjudicates the investigation and grants or denies a level of clearance (Confidential/Secret/Top Secret), or denies a clearance. In addition to a clearance being granted, the individual may or may not be granted access to additional categories of information, such as Restricted Data, Sensitive Compartmented Information, and/or non-SCI Special Access Programs.

The Executive Branch has great latitude in granting clearances and accesses, including to Congressional and Judicial Staff personnel (but not to members and Article III Justices/Judges). Unless overruled by the DNI or President, NSA, CIA, and NGA can deny access to agency sub-compartmented programs.

NSA and CIA also require successful polygraphs for access to some of their information. Everyone takes a full lifestyle (personal conduct) test and counterintelligence (CI) tests except military personnel assigned to NSA, who take only the CI poly.

[FBaggins]

29. I doubt it

But if he was willing to forgo the carrot (office space, funding, etc.) - then there was never much of a "stick" in the Presidential Transition Act. And the incoming president receiving briefings predates the law anyway. It was always unlikely that this would change

[Baitball Blogger]

18. He's probably trying to get information to help Putin with Ukraine.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

21. What are the odds that although he may be receiving intelligence briefings, he's not receiving everything especially

since he's known as an OUTRIGHT security threat, considering that he's STOLE our country's FUCKING SECRETS, (and STILL has them, BTW)?

[Botany]

22. Save time just have Lavrov get the information

[Oopsie Daisy]

23. Feed him FALSE INTELLIGENCE as a test. If it "leaks" publicly then we'll know how it got out *

* or if a foreign adversary acts on the "leaked" info, then we'll know how it got out.

[yaesu]

25. Should be titled russia, china and saudi arabia have started receiving intelligence briefings nt

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Are the Docs up for auction?

[doc03]

27. The word intelligence shouldn't be in the same sentence as the word Trump. nt

[Old Crank]

28. Are they making a copy for Putin?

Or will he have to pay out of pocket.

[Doodley]

32. Based on past behavior, you can be sure that Trump's first instinct is to know if any leaders in

other nations have said anything bad about him, and then he will seek retribution.

[Karadeniz]

37. They need to feed him fake intel and follow its dispersal....

[Marthe48]

38. They should just put putin on the phone to listen in

save traitor time passing the nation's security secrets along to our enemies. 'I report, you decide.'

[peregrinus]

41. You mean the picture books?

Not kidding