Trump is taking a ton of flack over his recent criticism of the CIA.
It is about time there was high level criticism of the CIA. After all, they blew it on ISIS, Benghazi and Libya, Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, and 9/11.
As for Trump letting Pence take CIA daily briefings, unless something urgent surfaces, I don't see the problem. Obama missed 4 our 7 briefings. Besides, all Presidents have a huge human resource pool, from Secretary of State, to Senate committees to Pentagon to Cabinet professionals, all with far greater knowledge to handle the daily intelligence chatter. Instead of cririticism, Trump deserves kudos for smart use of his time. Does anyone seriously doubt that an important, or urgent matter won't be brought to Trump's attention if it needs to? Absurd to think otherwise!
As for Russia, one of things I've believed for a couple years now, is that we are playing Russia all wrong. And I think Trump is smart to rebuild Russian and American relations, along with encouraging Russia to rebuild its economy. I listed it as a 2017 Prediction on my blog.
A poor and desperate Russia, caused by USA sanctions is not in America's interests in my opinion. We have backed Russia into the corner long enough and as far as I am concerned Trump is doing the right thing by seeking to work with Russia. The Russian people are going to embrace Trump when he holds out his hand in peace. And when Trump pushes to ease sanctions and develop greater trade with Russia, the people of Russia are going to give him a heros welcome.
The Russian people have suffered economic hardship long enough. The best thing for USA security, let alone international security and the war against radical Islam is to foster strong and positive relations with Russia.
No, I did not forget about Crimea. I say let it go. We need to stay out of their business. America needs to meddle a lot less in other countries disputes. What happens in Crimea, let alone the Ukraine is much less in our National interests than we have made it.
Did Putin and Russia want Trump to win? Hell yes. And so what - they have every right to perceive one candidate as being preferable! Heck, look at how Israel's Netanyahu lobbied before congress against the Iran deal when he thought Israel's National security was at stake. I don't see that in and of itself as a bad thing. Plus, there is such hypocracy! For decades America has been has been actively trying to influence the politics of other nations, to the point of overt efforts at regime change. Putting an end to that practice is one of the reasons I voted for Gary Johnson.
Did Russia hack the DNC? Perhaps. But Trump has agreed that needs to be investigated. And bipartisan members of congress agree it should be too and it will be. But the problem with exposing emails and any damage it may have caused HRC rests with the fact the her close assistant, and her dick-head husband Weiner had damaging communications on his laptop which surfaced during an FBI investigation. Hillary and Democrats can blame Comey all they want, but the whole terrible mess is of Hillary's making in the first place.
It all boils down to the fact that the Democrats hate Trump have yet to do exactly what they insisted Trump needed to when he lost the election, as they all expected he would - accept the results!
