Panetta: Report Intel Community Is Withholding Material from Trump Is Not Credible

‘Your first responsibility is to provide the truth to the president’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
TODD: "I spoke with Mr. Panetta last night and began by asking him whether he finds believable that report this week in the “Wall Street journal” which you heard referred to earlier in the show that people in the intelligence community are withholding critical information from President Trump because they don’t trust him."
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PANETTA: "No, it’s not. In my experience, I have never had intelligence officers who have a responsibility to provide full information to the president and to other leaders in the country ever withhold a piece of intelligence. So it’s something that certainly hasn’t occurred when I was there and I doubt whether it’s happened this time.""

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