Challenge30: Government Secrets Unchained

So, "The Donald," takes the poisoned chalice away from Barry.

Well I suppose it was better than the Shit Sandwich, Barry was handed by Bush Jnr.

So what's the first thing he's going to do.

Head for Area 51 to check out the Aliens?
Then find out who really shot JFK.
Or where Merkel buys her underwear.
Get the IRS checking up on Meryl Streep and the rest of those Hollywood traitors.

The President of the USA knows all the dirt.

Including what the market price's are going to be before the Stock Exchange.

"The Donald," will lap that up.

He will also be the first President of the USA who markets the fuck out of the office.

We are looking at an avalanche of shitty merchandising, stamped with the Seal of the US President, getting flogged from Shanghai to Uruguay.

But in the end it was the little people who voted him in. People just like him.
So they will get to reap the whirlwind it brings.

In my opinion he will not last the full 4yrs.

He will walk when he finds out what dirt he needs to humiliate, all the people who called him names.
And when he realizes, just what a boring job it is, for a Billionaire wheeler dealer,
who has to spend whole nano-secs, not thinking about himself.
He was always a narcissist and never a diplomat. And he will never become one.

Read On:
The Government Secrets Trump Is About to Discover

From spy planes to cyberattacks to the private lives of foreign leaders, the president gets access to more confidential material than anyone else on the planet. Now, it’s all in Donald Trump’s hands.

When Dwight Eisenhower was elected president in 1952, outgoing president Harry Truman informed him of an important secret: Days before the election the United States had tested the world’s first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific. The nation now possessed a weapon roughly a hundred times as powerful as any before—and almost nobody else knew.

Eight years later, when Eisenhower handed the keys to John F. Kennedy, his administration passed along its own secret: America had a covert plan underway to invade Cuba. Kennedy let the Bay of Pigs mission proceed, and the result was a fiasco that would take the world to the brink of nuclear war.

The president of the United States has more access to official secrets than any other human being in the country—and the potential to know more about the world than anyone else on the planet. And on January 20, the person being handed access to all of those secrets will be Donald J. Trump.

While much attention has been focused on Trump’s access to the nuclear launch codes and the President’s Daily Brief—the classified intelligence report delivered inside a locked briefcase each morning to the Oval Office—those represent only a tiny sliver of the massive top-secret universe that Trump personally will suddenly be privy to. He will have the ability to see inside the most sensitive and covert programs run by the United States and its allies around the world; he will have access to surveillance tools, covert payrolls and personal secrets about foreign leaders. He will know about blacked-out special forces raids and UFO-like spy planes, the next-generation cyberattacks that would come in the opening minutes of a new war, and the dozens of secret classified procedures and laws written down by his presidential predecessors. He’ll even be first in line for some mundane but important things: As president, Trump will be one of just four senior officials to learn sensitive market-moving economic data from the Labor Department up to 12 hours before it is released publicly.

The United States has invested trillions of dollars to ensure that its president can know more than anyone else on Earth—knowledge meant to be deployed to the country’s advantage in trade negotiations, military posturing and a thousand other ways big and small. Given Trump’s behavior so far, it seems almost assured that he will deploy and weaponize those same secrets in “unpresidented” ways, to win personal fights and minor PR battles. Already, before taking office, he has tweeted out claims about his meetings with intel agencies, asserted that he knows information the rest of the government doesn’t and tried to embarrass and undermine rivals or critics through insinuation. And that’s all before he has learned any of what President George W. Bush once called “the good stuff.”

What is the good stuff, and how might Trump use it? Many of the specifics are cloaked in deep shadow—that’s obviously the point—but thanks to decades of dogged reporting, lawsuits and historical archives, we do know a significant amount about the types of secrets a president learns. It’s anyone’s guess what Trump might do to embarrass intransigent foreign leaders, or what late-night or early-morning tweetstorms might erupt from the White House if he senses hypocrisy from an ally—or what will happen when a president whose family will still control his complex business empire has access to important geopolitical developments or early market data.

Read the whole Article:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/top-secret-government-documents-confidential-intelligence-214665

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