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Many security experts fear that foreign intelligence is actively seeking information about Trump’s health to “attack” the United States in the midst of the crisis.
President Donald Trump’s medical team will not reveal his latest negative test. They will also not elaborate on your lung condition, why you are using treatment for severe nCoV infections, or how high you have a fever or how low your oxygen levels are.
As the White House tries to ignore questions about the seriousness Covid-19 is inflicting on Trump, many U.S. national security officials and former national security officials are warning Washington opponents to take advantage of the lack of transparency about President Trump’s health to sow false information about the United States government.
Foreign intelligence agencies often invest heavily in their ability to collect confidential medical information on world leaders, in order to find ways to include sources they have direct or indirect access to in discussions. Comment on the matter, according to intelligence officials.
“Any foreign intelligence service wants spies and intelligence sources to provide information on the health of the US president,” said Steve Hall, a former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official in Moscow Russia, said. “This is an important requirement to achieve what we often call ‘plans and plans’ of foreign governments.”
President Donald Trump returned to the White House on October 5 at night. Image: The Times of New York City.
Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior CIA intelligence officer who retired in 2019, said he was part of a “regular mission” to gather intelligence during the intelligence services crisis.
“Gathering information on the health of rival leaders is often doable, because the target is not government employees or other intelligence services, but rather government employees or hospitals. Counterintelligence,” says Polymeropoulos.
Hall does not believe that rival countries to the United States will be able to install spies at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where President Trump treated for Covid-19 over the weekend, but he believes they are more likely to use the source. available at the White House. Trump returned to the White House on the night of October 5, after more than three days in the hospital.
“Many articles indicate that Trump was on the phone with a foreign leader. If one of those calls was with Vladimir Putin and I assume it was the president’s intelligence director, I would settle in to listen to the call,” Hall said. “Is Trump having trouble breathing? Or was he confused?”
This information can easily be exploited by the adversary, especially given the mixed information about the current state of the US president’s health, according to Mick Mulroy, an analyst at ABC News and a former official. The CIA, who served as the United States Under Secretary of Defense until 2019.
Mulroy added that the “crisis of confidence” the White House is creating will make it easier for foreign adversaries to launch false information campaigns to “undermine American confidence in the government.” and the “electoral process”.
Mulroy asked Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who has just returned from a week-long tour with other national security leaders in Washington, DC, to “ensure the continued operation of the government and the sending of messages to any adversary who wants to exploit the situation in America right now. “
Meanwhile, government officials continued to insist that the situation is under control and that they are not overly concerned about the possibility of foreign adversaries taking advantage of the crisis.
“Our opponents know that the United States government is stable and that we are protecting the American people,” national security adviser Robert O’Brien told CBS on October 4.
However, the fear of being exploited by competitors for nefarious ends is the reason why disclosure of information about the health of American leaders is often done with great care. Most presidents in the past have asked their doctors to release detailed reports on vital signs, medications they took, or past and present medical conditions.
But when Trump became the oldest person to become president of the United States in 2016, he refused to provide his complete medical records. Instead, the former US president’s physician in December 2015 stated, “I can confirm that if elected, Mr. Trump will be the healthiest person ever elected president.” He then revealed that it was President Trump who wrote the statement.
Lara Seligman and Natasha Bertrand, two Politico editors, commented that the way the White House handles information about President Trump’s health has caused confusion and confusion at the US leadership level in recent days. The administration official admitted on Oct. 4 that Trump had had a drop in blood oxygen levels after he tested positive for nCoV, but insisted that he could be released early the next day.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnamy became the latest on a list of Trump officials close to nCoV infection, after she announced a positive test result on October 5. But the administration still issued a “positive” report on Trump’s health, at the same time that neither the national security apparatus nor the world needed to know exactly about his condition.
“I don’t think we need to know the exact state of the president’s health because we are not doctors. But what is clear is that the president continues to work, is unable to work and the entire apparatus. The government is still under his leadership, “Elliott Abrams, State Department Special Representative for Iran Affairs, told CNN. US rivals” shouldn’t “take advantage of the situation, he added.
President Trump pulled out his car to greet supporters at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland on October 4. Image: AFP.
However, this was not enough to make security officials and experts less nervous. “As for foreign intelligence agencies, especially the adversaries of the United States, they do not have priority over hearing the events that happen within the presidential administration. It is reasonable to assume that they have sources somewhere seeking access to reliable information about your health “said John McLaughlin, former acting director of the CIA.
“It’s hard to say if they can find more detailed information than Americans already know, but they will definitely try to find factors that cause confusion.”
As of October 5, the US intelligence community has not provided any information on attempts to exploit and spread false information by foreign opponents related to Trump’s health, but Polymeropoulos said it should not ignore the surveillance. .
“We still believe that foreign intelligence services are actively collecting and are more likely to find more information about the health of the president than the American media and the people,” he said.
Thanh tam (Follow Political)
