"Willful ignorance". Inside trump's troubled intelligence briefings

[pepperbear]

http://time.com/5518947/donald-trump-intelligence-briefings-national-security/

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the U.S. intelligence community this week, senior intelligence briefers are breaking two years of silence to warn that the President is endangering American security with what they say is a stubborn disregard for their assessments.

Citing multiple in-person episodes, these intelligence officials say Trump displays what one called “willful ignorance” when presented with analyses generated by America’s $81 billion-a-year intelligence services. The officials, who include analysts who prepare Trump’s briefs and the briefers themselves, describe futile attempts to keep his attention by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences, and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible.

What is most troubling, say these officials and others in government and on Capitol Hill who have been briefed on the episodes, are Trump’s angry reactions when he is given information that contradicts positions he has taken or beliefs he holds. Two intelligence officers even reported that they have been warned to avoid giving the President intelligence assessments that contradict stances he has taken in public.

*SNIP*

Seriously? Sock puppets might do the trick.

[duforsure]

1. HE only accepts the FSB and GRU

Intelligence Putin oks, not this country's intel. That should be more than enough to understand and realize whose side he's on.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

2. "Willful ignorance" is an interesting term, both in law and in ethics.

In both, if you deliberately keep yourself in ignorance, then you are as culpable as if you were acting in complete knowledge.

[joshdawg]

3. Agree!

In my book, "willful ignorance" is defined as stupid.

[irresistable]

4. maybe they should deliver the briefings with a Russian accent...

...or find a briefer who is a dead ringer for Vladimir Putin.

[Mr. Quackers]

5. This is what his supporters sent him there to do

and they love him for it.

[eShirl]

6. unfit

[tanyev]

7. Have they tried shaking gold keys in front of his face?