Defense News: CIA director: Trump tweets help us
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweetstorm in the wake of the guilty plea by his former national security adviser Michael Flynn again raised concerns about the commander in chief’s frequent use of the social media platform.
But on Saturday, CIA Director Mike Pompeo insisted Trump’s prolific use of Twitter is actually helping his agency gather valuable intelligence.
“I have actually seen it help us,” Pompeo said, when asked at the Reagan National Security Forum on Saturday whether Trump’s social media activity was making his job harder.
“I have seen things the president has put on his Twitter account actually have a real-world impact on our ability to understand things that are happening in other places in the world,” Pompeo said.
“That is, our adversaries responding to those tweets in ways that were helpful to us, to understand command and control issues, who’s listening to what messages, how those messages are resonating around the world,” Pompeo said.
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Update: CIA Director Pompeo: Trump's Tweeting Has Actually Helped Us (Debra Heine, PJ Media)
WNU Editor: I do not know how it helps the CIA .... but as a consumer of news and one who follows what the U.S. government does, I do enjoy having this type of access.
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