Stora tråden om amerikansk inrikespolitik

Caputo blasting Rep Speirer, on House Russia investigation
-- says her questions could get his family shot

Does he know Rep Speirer was shot in Guyana and watched Rep Leo Ryan die?

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Vad har du nu drömmt ihop i foliemössan? Shep är i exakt samma liga som Tapper, Kelly, Mika etc etc. Vilken sten har du vaknat under? Krauthammer är lika handikappad i huvet som i övrigt och hatar Trump lika mycket som McCain. Ungefär urtypen av en etablissemangs NeoFuck. Har ni socialister inte hajjat något än? Tror ni på allvar att Trumps enda motstånd är Dems. Sorgligt, men inte förvånande dock, då ni verkar ha lite svårt att få hjärncellerna att jobba.

Fourth, to be an effective intelligence service in today’s world, we need a Commander in Chief who appreciates our work—and we certainly have that in President Trump. I brief the President nearly every day, and he’s always very engaged in the discussion, pressing for more information and asking tough questions. The briefing is typically scheduled for a half hour or so, but we rarely leave at the thirty-minute mark.

The President is a demanding customer. And we like it that way, because it shows that he depends on us and values what we do. Let me give you an example to illustrate the point.

I got a call from the President one afternoon back in April. He wanted to talk about some disturbing images that were coming in from Syria. I’m sure you saw many of them yourselves—scenes of innocent civilians writhing in agony, the apparent victims of a chemical weapons attack.

The President had a very direct message for me: Find out what happened. So we immediately assembled a crack team of Agency experts. They began piecing together the evidence, working closely with some outstanding partners from across the Intelligence Community.

The next day the President called his cabinet together. As we sat down, he turned to me and asked what we had learned. I told him that the IC had concluded that a chemical weapon had indeed been used in the attack, and that it had been launched by the Syrian regime.

The President paused a moment and said: Pompeo, are you sure? I’ll admit that the question took my breath away. But I knew how solid the evidence was, and I was able to look him in the eye and say, Mr. President, we have high confidence in our assessment.

The President never looked back. Based on the Intelligence Community’s judgment, he made one of the most consequential decisions of his young administration, launching a strike against the very airfield where the attack originated.

So I can assure you that when it comes to having the confidence of the Commander in Chief, CIA and the Intelligence Community are in great shape.