{"id":262327,"date":"2016-08-17T21:23:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T21:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-undermines-us-intelligence-agencies-ahead-of-briefing\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T21:23:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T21:23:54","slug":"trump-undermines-us-intelligence-agencies-ahead-of-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-undermines-us-intelligence-agencies-ahead-of-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump undermines US intelligence agencies ahead of briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US presidential candidate Donald Trump says he does not trust the intelligence produced by the American spy agencies, citing the situation in the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In response to a question on whether he \u201ctrust[s] intelligence,\u201d the Republican nominee replied \u201cNot so much from the people that have been doing it for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments in an interview aired on \u201cFox and Friends\u201d Wednesday morning, hours before he was set to receive his first classified intelligence briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, look what\u2019s happened over the last 10 years. \u2026 It\u2019s been catastrophic,\u201d he said. \u201cVery easy to use them, but I won&#8217;t use them, because they\u2019ve made such bad decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The real estate mogul was apparently referring to apparent intelligence failures preceding the 2001 war on Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>His comments undermine the American spy network, consisting of 16 federal intelligence agencies and tens of thousands of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/08\/17\/480512\/Trump-says-has-no-trust-in-US-intel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US presidential candidate Donald Trump says he does not trust the intelligence produced by the American spy agencies, citing the situation in the Middle East. In response to a question on whether he \u201ctrust[s] intelligence,\u201d the Republican nominee replied \u201cNot so much from the people that have been doing it for our country.\u201d He made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-262327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}