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US intelligence chiefs reveal gulf with Trump on North Korea, Iran and ISIS
President Donald Trump has previously declared that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, touted the defeat of ISIS, doubted the effects of climate change and railed against the Iran nuclear deal as "defective at its core."
But the most senior intelligence officials in the Trump administration suggested Tuesday that many of the President's sweeping assertions related to national security are inconsistent with their own assessments.
When pressed by Senate lawmakers during a hearing about the most urgent global threats facing the US, Trump's intelligence chiefs, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA director Gina Haspel, appeared to contradict several claims made by the President to justify core tenets of his foreign policy.
The apparent gap between Trump and his own intelligence agencies has been a persistent theme over the last two years, and Tuesday's testimony illustrates just how stark the divide is between what the President says and the information he is being presented.
ISIS
What Trump has said: On December 19, the President announced that US troops would withdraw from Syria. In making his announcement, Trump declared in a video released on Twitter: "We have won against ISIS. We've beaten them and we've beaten them badly. We've taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home."
Since then, members of the Trump administration have repeatedly sought to downplay ISIS' reach and impact in Syria.
Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touted the gains the US and its partners have made in the fight against the terrorist organization.
"It should not go unnoticed that we've also defeated the ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq alongside more than six dozen nations in the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS," Pompeo said in remarks to the World Economic Forum delivered via satellite.
Pompeo noted "there's a lot more work to do," but told those at the Davos, Switzerland, forum that "with your help I know we'll achieve it."
What intelligence officials said on Tuesday: "ISIS is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria," Coats testified.
Despite repeated claims by the Trump administration, and the President himself, that ISIS has been defeated, US intelligence assesses that the terror group "very likely will continue to pursue external attacks from Iraq and Syria against regional and Western adversaries, including the United States," Coats added.
The Worldwide Threat Assessment, released by Coats on Tuesday, also says that with the recent loss of territory, "ISIS will seek to exploit Sunni grievances, societal instability, and stretched security forces to regain territory in Iraq and Syria in the long term."
Coats told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that ISIS "has returned to its guerrilla warfare roots while continuing to plot attacks and direct its supporters worldwide."
But he also clearly stated that the group maintains a presence in Iraq and Syria.
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Trump pushes back against US spy chiefs over North Korea and Isis
Donald Trump has pushed back against the nation’s top intelligence officials after they offered international threat assessments to Congress that contrasted sharply with the US president’s own views.

On Tuesday the head of US intelligence said that North Korea is “unlikely to give up” its nuclear weapons because its leadership sees them as “critical to regime survival”.


Intelligence chief contradicts Trump on North Korea and Iran
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Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, made his assessment in a written statement on “worldwide threats” to the Senate, which was noteworthy for the many ways it differed from the rhetoric favoured by the president and his top aides.

The gaps were not only evident on North Korea, but also on Iran’s nuclear programme, the continuing threat of the Islamic State in Syria and on the importance of climate change. The distance between the White House and its intelligence agencies was highlighted further in verbal testimony to the Senate intelligence committee by Coats, alongside the heads of the CIA, DIA and NSA who also testified.

In a series of early morning posts on Twitter on Wednesday, Trump said Isis “will soon be destroyed,” and that there “decent chance of denuclearization” with Pyongyang.

Coats’s assessment on North Korean intentions had particular impact as it comes in the run-up to a planned second summit at the end of February between Trump and Kim Jong-un.

Trump has rejected repeated reports that although Pyongyang regime halted nuclear and missile tests since the first summit in Singapore last June it has not paused its production of nuclear weapons and may have stepped it up.

In his written testimony, however, Coats said: “We continue to assess that North Korea is unlikely to give up all of its nuclear weapons and production capabilities, even as it seeks to negotiate partial denuclearization steps to obtain key US and international concessions.”

He said: “North Korean leaders view nuclear arms as critical to regime survival.”

Coats pointed out that Kim Jong-un’s pledge in Singapore to pursue the “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” – which Trump and Pompeo portrayed as a historic breakthrough – was no more than “a formulation linked to past demands that include an end to US military deployments and exercises involving advanced US capabilities”.

That assessment of North Korea was echoed by the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency, Lt Gen Robert Ashley. He told the Senate committee: “The capability and threat that existed a year ago are still there.”
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Trump blasts intel chiefs as 'passive and naive'
President Trump on Wednesday blasted top intelligence leaders for being "wrong" about their new assessment on Iran's nuclear developments.

"The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran. They are wrong!" Trump tweeted Wednesday morning in a pair of tweets.

The president, who claimed Iran has recently tested rockets, also mocked the intelligence leaders in his administration, suggesting they "should go back to school."
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View: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090608298343190528


View: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090609577006112769
 
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Pitbull9 said:
I will say this, we do need barriers at the border, why, because borders in general should have a fences etc. people should not be able to just come in illegally. So if congress wants to play partisan games then let Trump.
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I asked if you felt America was facing a national emergency.
 
Freeloading Rusty

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Pitbull9 said:
I will say this, we do need barriers at the border, why, because borders in general should have a fences etc. people should not be able to just come in illegally. So if congress wants to play partisan games then let Trump.
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So do you think America should build a physical boarder or 'fence' with Canada?

If so, what costs would be acceptable?
 
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Pitbull9 said:
I will say this, we do need barriers at the border, why, because borders in general should have a fences etc. people should not be able to just come in illegally. So if congress wants to play partisan games then let Trump.
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everybody has always wanted to build a wall or fence at the boarder but somehow trump is a cunt for actually trying to do it. the govt types just want to talk about shit for 30 years and do studies and consult experts while burning thru tax dollars but never actually doing anything. they want to milk the problems forever and now they are mad because someone might end their gravy train
 
Freeloading Rusty

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jason73 said:




everybody has always wanted to build a wall or fence at the boarder but somehow trump is a cunt for actually trying to do it. the govt types just want to talk about shit for 30 years and do studies and consult experts while burning thru tax dollars but never actually doing anything. they want to milk the problems forever and now they are mad because someone might end their gravy train
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So national emergency or not?
 
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MC Gusto said:
So do you think America should build a physical boarder or 'fence' with Canada?

If so, what costs would be acceptable?
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Yeah I do even though I love Canada to death. There should be a border around our country. What it really does is separate a properly line of sorts, just like our houses. My and all my neighbors have fences around our property lines.
 
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MC Gusto said:
I asked if you felt America was facing a national emergency.
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The reason I don’t feel I can answer these questions is because I don’t know the real truth about what’s going on. According to BP agents yeah we are pretty much facing an emergency with all the caravans forming and coming.
 
Freeloading Rusty

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Pitbull9 said:
Yeah I do even though I love Canada to death. There should be a border around our country. What it really does is separate a properly line of sorts, just like our houses. My and all my neighbors have fences around our property lines.
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Lol you want a wall on all 9,000km of it?

What a waste of a $ hundred billion.

How about the Canada Alaska border? You should start a petition to keep America safe again by building a wall between Alaska, BC and the Yukon.
 
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Pitbull9 said:
The reason I don’t feel I can answer these questions is because I don’t know the real truth about what’s going on. According to BP agents yeah we are pretty much facing an emergency with all the caravans forming and coming.
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A couple hundred Central Americans puts America into a state of emergency?

And just for clarity, you do or you dont think America is in a state of emergency?
 
Pitbull9

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MC Gusto said:
Lol you want a wall on all 9,000km of it?

What a waste of a $ hundred billion.

How about the Canada Alaska border? You should start a petition to keep America safe again by building a wall between Alaska, BC and the Yukon.
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57 dollars out of 47000 is far from a waste of money. Petition has begun.
 
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