Harry Reid To Intel Community: Give Donald Trump Fake Briefings

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Harry Reid To Intel Community: Give Donald Trump Fake Briefings
“This man is dangerous.”


07/27/2016 05:04 pm ET | Updated 1 hour ago

Ryan Grim Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post
Sam Stein Senior Politics Editor, The Huffington Post




Harry Reid sits with Sam Stein and Ryan Grim for an interview in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016.



PHILADELPHIA - Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is advising intelligence officials that if they end up giving GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump classified briefings during the campaign, they should just fake it and make sure not to divulge anything important.

“How would the CIA and the other intelligence agencies brief this guy? How could they do that? I would suggest to the intelligence agencies, if you’re forced to brief this guy, don’t tell him anything, just fake it, because this man is dangerous,” Reid said in an interview with The Huffington Post Wednesday afternoon. “Fake it, pretend you’re doing a briefing, but you can’t give the guy any information.”

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Intelligence officials are becoming increasingly convinced that the hack of the Democratic National Committee and subsequent release of DNC emails was the work of the Russian government, with the goal of undermining Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and boosting her rival, Trump. Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to release any additional emails they have from Clinton ― actively inviting a foreign power to intervene in a U.S. election.

Reid wouldn’t call the comments “treason,” leaving the characterizations to others. But, referencing his nearly half a century in politics, he proclaimed: “I’ve never seen anything like Donald Trump.” The scale of the cybercrime and the possibility of it being done at the behest of a presidential candidate, he added, could wind up being worse than Watergate...................

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-reid-trump-fake-briefings_us_57991916e4b01180b5317f6e?cp1gwyxt8dnw5ewmi

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[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[retrowire]

2. Trump: "Count Chocula said what?!" nt

[jmowreader]

3. There's an actual term for what they need to give Trump

"Open Source Collateral."

There is absolutely no reason to give Trump anything you can't read off the AP wire.

[FSogol]

4. Give Trump an adult coloring book in lieu of the security briefing.

How would he know the difference?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. The, um, Cartoon Hillary Coloring Book?

from Faux News Bubble Company?

[unitedwethrive]

5. Love it! The fun thing is that we can watch and wait for him to

slip up and divulge the fake secrets!

[ailsagirl]

6. "fake briefings"-- that's hilarious!!

[FSogol]

8. ISIS plans on detonating volcanic weapons on the coastal towns of Paraguay....

[Demonaut]

9. hope he doesn't see the plans about sending over a brasillion troops to assist Ukraine

[wysi]

10. He's just going to say...

"I don't give a shit about that, show it to whathisname... Prince, Pence, whatever."

[keithbvadu2]

11. Or as Bush said about a briefing before 9-11: you've covered your ass....

as he led America into 9-11 with his incompetence.

[PuppyBismark]

12. Or, give him harmless real information and have the Secret Service arrest him when he discloses it.

Can't you just see it, he opens his mouth and the Secret Service comes out, puts the cuffs on him and ends the rally?