"You don't just roll a grenade in the room, have things blow up, then not have a strategy for how the hell you deal with it," Panetta later added.Ī former Republican Congressman from Kansas, Pompeo is reportedly close to Trump, and delivers his daily intelligence briefings.Īccording to reports in T he New York Times and CNN last week, Trump is considering sacking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replacing him with Pompeo in the next two months. "And the problem is that lives can be jeopardized," he added. "The problem of tweeting an anti-Muslim video like that is once it goes out, what it does is it inflames the people that are out there," Panetta said.
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Trump has also drawn accusations for stoking tensions with North Korea, after tweeting that he would never call North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "short and fat" in a seemingly sarcastic tweet in November, and taunting the leader as "Rocket Man" after a series of ballistic missile tests by the rogue state.ĭuring the panel discussion Saturday, former defense secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta compared the videos Trump tweeted on Wednesday to videos of the Koran being burnt that sparked riots in Middle East and mass protests outside U.S. The retweets drew the condemnation of British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose office said "it is wrong for the president to have done this." Last week, Trump retweeted videos allegedly showing violence committed by Muslims, posted originally by far-right British political party Britain First. The president's use of his Twitter account to lambast enemies and proclaim his achievements has been a source of consistent controversy since he took office in January. "That is, our adversaries responded to those tweets in ways that were helpful to us to understand command and control issues, who's listening to what messages, how those messages are resonating around the world." "I have seen things the president has put on his Twitter account actually have a real-world impact on our capacity to understand what's going on in other places in the world." "I've actually seen it help us," he said, as cited by The LA Times. Mike Turner, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Trump needs to be. The same Senate Intelligence Committee report documented the Trump campaigns willingness to assist the Russian attack on our election, amplifying the leaks of Democratic materials stolen by. Speaking at a panel discussion at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, Pompeo said Trump's tweets allowed intelligence agencies to gather important information. Trump in a Fox News interview offered a new defense for his alleged mishandling of classified material. CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Saturday that President Donald Trump's tweets help his agency gather and understand intelligence.
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