# Hypothetical: Should the military overthrow Trump? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 3, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-should-the-military-overthrow-trump/778874 "2017-02-03T02:09:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-should-the-military-overthrow-trump/778874/101 "2017-02-14T02:32:16Z")
Looks like there is an ongoing coup in motion, but it does not involve the Pentagon. > [@"\[The](#): > > ([The Spy Revolt Against Donald Trump Begins | Observer](http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/))"]… Our spies have never liked Trump’s lackadaisical attitude toward the President’s Daily Brief … which the new commander-in-chief has received haphazardly. The president has frequently blown off the PDB altogether, tasking Flynn with condensing it into a one-page summary with no more than nine bullet-points… > > In light of this, and out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president’s eyes only … however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets… such concerns are widely shared across the IC, and NSA doesn’t appear to be the only agency withholding intelligence from the administration out of security fears… a senior Pentagon intelligence official … stated that “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM” … None of this has happened in Washington before. A White House with unsettling links to Moscow wasn’t something anybody in the Pentagon or the Intelligence Community even considered a possibility until a few months ago. > > … This is a risky situation, particularly since President Trump is prone to creating crises foreign and domestic with his incautious tweets. In the event of a serious international crisis of the sort which eventually befalls almost every administration, the White House will need the best intelligence possible to prevent war, possibly even nuclear war. It may not get the information it needs in that hour of crisis, and for that it has nobody to blame but itself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-should-the-military-overthrow-trump/778874.md?page=5)