Trump receives first classified FBI intelligence briefing

Donald Trump is not the kind of human being who should ever be allowed to have his hands on classified intelligence.

“He wants to make sure the right people are coming into our country, not the people that we’re probably taking in right now”, Trump said.

The real-estate magnate specifically cited faulty CIA intelligence claiming that Iraq possessed so-called “weapons of mass destruction”, which spurred Bush administration officials and United States lawmakers to support an invasion of the country in 2003.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is set to get his first classified security briefing Tuesday in NY.

The briefing will take place in NY at a secure FBI facility, a federal official told NBC.

According to a report from ABC News, Trump will be accompanied by two top advisers to the briefing: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Defense IntelligenceAgencychief General Michael Flynn.

Trump’s comments come after a multitude of high-ranking intelligence officials, security experts and political figures expressed serious reservations over letting Trump have access to such sensititve information.

The former New York City mayor, a top Trump supporter, disputes the suggestion it reflects negatively on campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

General election presidential candidates have traditionally received briefings for decades.

The intelligence community’s discretion to withhold especially sensitive information from nominees and their advisers ends November 8, when the next commander in chief is chosen.

“It’s not up to the administration and certainly not up to me personally to decide on the suitability of a presidential candidate”, Clapper said at a security forum in Colorado last month. Many suggested it would only be a matter of time before Mr Trump started to blurt out details of what he had been told.

Intelligence officials brief presidential nominees because one will end up serving in the White House. Trump has never before had access to classified national security information. “Briefings for the candidates will be provided on an even-handed non-partisan basis”.