Donald Trump wanted nothing to do with the agaencies in the community including the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc….
The intelligence business IS imprecise …
And a boss, The President, who is its prime customer does it no good….
Among the things Joe B iden had to clean up after Donald Trump’s time in office WAS the Intelligence operation….
With the Afghanistan debacle?
Things was no better….
But Biden…
An old hand from his US Senate Foreign Relations Committee had experience with the “spy’ community….
In dealing with the Ukraine conflict he decided to go public with the community’s info as a way to deal with the Russians without getting into ‘direct’ confrontation….
Biden’s move cemented stronger ties with the American allies, NATO ans particularly the British who do infact have a special relationship with Washington….
The Washington Post series about the warning given to Ukraine President Zelensky and the follow-up piece about misque’s by the Russian FSB and GRU intelligence agencies provides an even more detailed look at the American and Western intelligence comunities abilities to obtain information, data, military imagery and combine those ‘source ‘s and method’s’ to provide policy options for the leader of the Western World and the target of the Russian’s actions….
This bring me back to Donald Trump….
I have said here before and I will repeat….
I do NOT KNOW of any of this but I will guess at a few things….
Somebody in American Intel KNOWS what Trump’s connection IS with Putin…
The community KNOWS things Donald Trump HAS done that are NOT in the best interest’s of his country…
One hopes that in the end?
The ‘System’ will prevail and Donald J. Trump will NEVER return to the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America….
Amen…..
President Joe Biden praised the Central Intelligence Agency’s efforts to expose Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine, telling the staff that they had “punched a gigantic hole” in President Vladimir Putin’s objectives.
“It was thanks to the incredible work of our intelligence professionals that we were able to forewarn the world what Vladimir Putin was planning in Ukraine,” Biden said during his first visit as president to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. “We saw what he was doing. You saw it, the forces he was amassing, the plans he was making.”
Biden has sought to restore ties with the CIA and the intelligence community that were damaged under President Donald Trump, who routinely cast doubt on the agencies’ findings and accused them of being part of a “deep state” determined to undermine him.
The president said when he was out of office he “missed waking up every morning and seeing the PDB,” referring to the high-level national security briefing materials produced by the intelligence community for the president and other top US officials.
In the prelude to Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Biden and administration officials publicized the typically secretive work of the CIA, in an effort to warn Kyiv and the rest of the world of Putin’s intentions….