https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...d-useless-speak-out-against-donal/5803115002/ Meetings with Trump often left him with a spinning head and Coats concluded the greatest threat to the national security apparatus was Trump’s practice of bypassing the experts. Woodward writes that Coats believed Trump has no moral compass, couldn’t shake the suspicion that Trump must be beholden to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that he – along with former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – thought Trump was an “unstable threat to their country.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/pentagon-leadership-self-isolating-coronavirus/index.html Senior Pentagon leadership quarantining after exposure to coronavirus (CNN)The top US general, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, and several members of the Pentagon's senior leadership are quarantining after a top Coast Guard official tested positive for coronavirus, several US defense officials tell CNN. The Pentagon is "conducting additional contact tracing and taking appropriate precautions to protect the force and the mission," after vice commandant of the US Coast Guard, Adm. Charles Ray, tested positive on Monday, according to Jonathan Hoffman, assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs. Despite efforts by the Pentagon to stress that military leaders can carry on business as usual from quarantine, the prospect of the virus spreading among senior officials who work in one of the world's largest office buildings will likely raise major national security questions, particularly as it follows a major outbreak in the White House that hospitalized President Donald Trump and after three Republican senators tested positive in recent days. "Out of an abundance of caution, all potential close contacts from these meetings are self-quarantining and have been tested this morning. No Pentagon contacts have exhibited symptoms and we have no additional positive tests to report at this time," he added. The Coast Guard is also taking precautions after Ray tested positive, "following established policies for COVID, per CDC guidelines, to include quarantine and contact tracing," the service announced Tuesday. "According to CDC guidelines, any Coast Guard personnel that were in close contact will also quarantine. In accordance with established Coast Guard COVID policies, Admiral Ray will be quarantining from home," the statement said. Ray was at the White House on September 27 for the Gold Star Mothers Event, the Coast Guard confirmed to CNN. Milley also attended . Additionally, Ray was at the Pentagon on Friday and recently attended several meetings in secure areas with other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who are the military's most senior generals. Multiple defense officials tell CNN that senior Pentagon leadership who had been in proximity to Ray have been tested and are awaiting results. The self-quarantining by senior leadership goes beyond the Joints Chiefs staff due to exposure at multiple meetings in recent days, including a meeting in the Pentagon's secure meeting space for classified information known as "the tank," the defense official said. All but one member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is now self-quarantining and they have tested negative as of Tuesday afternoon with none currently having symptoms, the official added. The commandant of the Marine Corps was not in the meetings with Ray; his deputy was in attendance. As a precaution, Milley is working from home, a defense official says. As Trump's top military adviser, he maintains a full classified communications suite in his house, the official said. The chief of staff of the US Air Force, Charles Brown, the chief of naval operations, Adm. Michael Gilday, and the chief of space operations, Gen. John Raymond, also are all working from home, according to several officials. Additional officials working from alternate locations or from home include: Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. James McConville, chief of staff of the Army; Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard; Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of US Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency; Gen. Gary Thomas, assistant commandant of the US Marine Corps,
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/na...eports-because-trump-officials-won-t-n1247294 Biden not getting intelligence reports because Trump officials won't recognize him as president-elect Biden transition officials confirmed the president-elect is not receiving the President's Daily Brief, the intel report that goes to senior U.S. officials. WASHINGTON —The Trump administration's unwillingness to acknowledge that former Vice President Joe Biden won the election has led to an unusual restriction on the flow of national security information to the president-elect. In a statement to NBC News, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it will not interface with the Biden transition until the General Services Administration decides it's clear who won, a process known as "ascertainment." "ODNI follows the statutory direction provided in the Presidential Transition Act, which requires ascertainment of the candidate by the administrator of GSA prior to supporting a potential presidential transition," the statement said. "ODNI would not have contact with any transition team until notified by the GSA administrator."
As to point #1: True. MAGAtard population seems to support Putin, and view him as friendly. As to point #2: Don't think the US is that stupid ... to leave Europe. Miscalculation by Putin. As to point #3: Correct. At some point, even school kids learn to stop waiting to get hit, before hitting back. They learn it's best to hit first, if a fight is imminent.