Adam Schiff expressed his hope that the intelligence community would 'dumb down' intelligence briefings for Donald Trump.
In an interview with NBC News, Schiff was asked about plans from the intelligence community to begin providing Trump with briefings once he officially secures thenomination. Schiff said that though the plans are standard practice, Trump represents an extraordinary circumstance and should not receive the briefings.
Adam Schiff hopes intelligence officials “dumb down” any briefings Trump receives because he’s “so criminally negligent when it comes to handling…classified information”“Well, that is the practice,” Schiff said. “But we’ve never had a situation where one of the candidates for president has been so criminally negligent when it comes to handling, if not worse, when it comes to handling classified information.
“So I have to hope, and knowing the intelligence community as I do, that they will dumb down the briefing for Donald Trump,” he continued. “That is, they will give him no more information than absolutely necessary. Nothing that would reveal sources or methods. Because we can’t trust that he will do the right thing with that information, he’s been so reckless. So yes, it does concern me; it is part of a long tradition. They will be wary of what they share with him, and they should.
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