What should the intelligence community respond to a Pres. who believe and trust Putin

[btthegreat]

Imagine you are a high level operative responsible for gathering, analyzing and reporting on the most sensitive intelligence on Putin and Russia, including either the military, diplomatic, and intelligence activities throughout Europe, the Middle East, developing world and yes even espionage and computer hacking activity here at home and what you do is supposed to land on the desk of Putin's puppy. You know that
1. if Trump hears or bothers to read about what you find, he will likely marginalize, minimize, disparage the content regardless of what is in there.
2. Trump does not listen to advisors either in the West Wing, in the pentagon, in his cabinet, his intelligence chiefs, or on Capital hill.
3. Former KGB agent and current thug Putin is well trained in methods to gain the trust, compromise, and manipulate the most hardened of political activists, counter-intelligence agents/ opponents.
4. Credible Russian sources very early on, reported to the FBI that they had embarrassing information on Trump and wanted to use it to compromise him. We know it is a tactic they are interested in.
5. Putin has direct, private and immediate lines of communication to Trump.
6. Trump has refused to confront or condemn Putin publicly on any major issues including Crimea, Ukraine, election meddling, Syria, the assassination/murder of political opponents etc.
7. Trump has a serious and untreated 'impulse control' problem.

Isn't the best case scenario, that Trump not read what you write or know sensitive intelligence that Putin would be interest in at all? How do you get the information to the right people in a position to effectively counter Russian efforts, and ensure that the Trump/ Putin bromance won't be exploited by Putin? You censure what you send up the normal chain that gets to Trump or his lackeys in the White House, and instead leak it only to trusted allies in the Pentagon, and Congress.

You have to treat the President as a potential double agent regardless if his intentions are merely naïve or ignorant rather than treasonous per se, if the likely results of his behavior are essentially the same.


Donald Trump is the ' Jane Fonda' celebrity of the Post Vietnam/cold war and this was his trip to Hanoi, except that he is not young , foolish and trying way too hard to piss on the values of Poppa Henry Fonda and he also happens to be commander and chief.

 

[chuckiechan]

I would assume that since the couldn't stop his campaign, and the Mueller head hunting crew is coming up empty, and he's still president, I guess their is only one last resort for any self respecting deep state to do - have him fall down a flight of stairs or get hit by a meteorite or something.

That is surely where this is headed since all other efforts have failed.

 

[btthegreat]

I would assume that since the couldn't stop his campaign, and the Mueller head hunting crew is coming up empty, and he's still president, I guess their is only one last resort for any self respecting deep state to do - have him fall down a flight of stairs or get hit by a meteorite or something.

That is surely where this is headed since all other efforts have failed.

None of this has anything to do with the OP. It does not propose or discuss any solution postulating a removal of Trump from office either through impeachment, resignation, the 25th amendment, or the election of a someone else in two more years.. I don't even hint at such a conversation. The OP discusses what the intelligence community should do with Putin sensitive intelligence while he is in the office.