Fmr. CIA Official to Trump: ‘Take Your Damn Intelligence Briefings’

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PRIESS: "There’s a misunderstanding about the briefings, and it’s not to make up for a lack of intelligence in the policy maker himself. It’s to bring that policy maker, in this case, the president-elect up to speed on various issues around the world from classified and unclassified sources to reducing the uncertainty out there, and some of the smartest people I have worked with at the agencies and elsewhere are the people who realize they don’t know everything and will do better if they get information, and my advice to trump, take the damn intelligence briefings. There are no better allies than intelligence analysts trying to give you the intelligence around the world."