Clinton calls Trump comment on security briefing ‘undisciplined’

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on a televised forum on September 8 that he is “pretty good with the body language” and could tell that the officials giving him his intelligence briefings don’t respect President Obama. An anonymous source told the network that officials are even trained not to allow their body language to betray their personal opinions, as Trump claimed at the forum.

Former high-ranking intelligence officials who are familiar with how such classified intelligence briefings are handled, but who were not a part of Trump’s briefing, were also skeptical of the candidate’s claim.

“What I did learn is that our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow what our experts, and our – truly, when they call it intelligence, it’s there for a reason – what our experts said to do”, Trump said Wednesday night.

George W. Bush his classified intelligence briefings during the 2000 campaign, said Trump’s comments reflect a lack of understanding of the intelligence community.

‘It’s concerning that Donald Trump was potentially sharing information that he learned in his briefing, ‘ he told ABC’s Good Morning America.

Hayden, who is not endorsing either candidate but has previously warned that Trump could create a “crisis” in the military, said telegraphing such dissatisfaction “just would not have happened”.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a news conference on the airport tarmac in front of her campaign plane in White Plains, New York, United States September 8, 2016. Intelligence officers do not make policy recommendations.

But the report revealed how as the intelligence officers went along in their briefing on August 17, Gen Flynn kept interrupting.

Sources told NBC that Christie, who is one of Trump’s closest advisers, “verbally restrained Flynn”, during the private powwow. “There is no way that they would in any way signal displeasure with the policies of the president”. “They would back off and say ‘those are policy decisions the administration is making'”.

Flynn, however, caught some controversy himself when NBC News reported on Thursday that Flynn was unruly in one of the briefings.

Requests for comment from Flynn and Christie were not immediately returned.

Speaking to reporters the morning after a NY forum on security featuring separate appearances by the two candidates, Clinton said the businessman was “inappropriate and undisciplined” in discussing his briefings from USA officials.

“This is first time that I can remember a candidate for president doing a readout from an intelligence briefing, and it’s the first time a candidate has politicized their intelligence briefing”. Both of those things are highly inappropriate. By reading the body language of those intelligence officials.

Timothy Barrett, a spokesman for the Director of National Intelligence, declined to comment Thursday on Trump’s characterization.