At some point today, a sober team of analysts will gather their black
satchels and secure communications gear and begin making their way
toward Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters to give the president-elect
his first unfiltered look at the nation’s intelligence secrets.
The initial presentation is likely to be a read-through of the
President’s Daily Brief, the same, highly classified summary of security
developments delivered every day to President Obama. After that, U.S.
spy officials will schedule a series of meetings to apprise Trump of
covert CIA operations against terror groups, the intercepted
communications of world leaders, and satellite photos of nuclear
installations in North Korea.
The sessions are designed to bring a new president up to speed on the
nation’s most precious secrets. But with Trump, the meetings will likely
serve as cautious and tense introductory encounters between wary
intelligence professionals and a newly minted president-elect who has
demonstrated abundant disdain for their work.
“It’s fear of the unknown,” said a senior U.S. national security
official. “We don’t know what he’s really like under all the talk. . . .
How will that play out over the next four years or even the next few
months? I don’t know if there is going to be a tidal wave of departures
of people who were going to stay around to help Hillary’s team, but are
now going to be, ‘I’m out of here.’ ”
Cont.
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