{"id":35152,"date":"2019-01-30T03:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35152"},"modified":"2019-01-30T03:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:15:47","slug":"trump-vs-intelligence-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35152","title":{"rendered":"Trump vs. Intelligence Brass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just ponder for a moment a remarkable U.S. Senate committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump says the Islamic State has been defeated; he says North Korea no longer presents a nuclear weapons threat; he stands by his decision to pull the United States out of a deal that bans Iran from obtaining nukes.<\/p>\n<p>Then we heard this from our nation&#8217;s intelligence leadership, CIA Director Gina Haspel, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ISIS has thousands of fighters and is planning guerrilla attacks against innocent victims and nations it considers to be enemies.<\/li>\n<li>North Korea is working toward developing nuclear weapons and that those weapons are likely to pose a direct threat to the United States of America.<\/li>\n<li>Iran is continuing to comply with the agreement that seeks to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am left to ask: What in the name of national security is the president of the United States thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I know the answer. He <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> thinking.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s just ponder for a moment a remarkable U.S. Senate committee hearing. Donald Trump says the Islamic State has been defeated; he says North Korea no longer presents a nuclear weapons threat; he stands by his decision to pull the United States out of a deal that bans Iran from obtaining nukes. Then we heard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump vs. Intelligence Brass<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7926],"tags":[989,6832,1424,1693,2328,2348,2362,3335],"class_list":["post-35152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security","tag-cia","tag-dni","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-iranian-nukes","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35153,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35152\/revisions\/35153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}