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Director
da CIA diz a Trump para ter cuidado com o que diz
John
Brennan afirma que Trump ainda não compreendeu totalmente o
significado das acções de Moscovo.
PÚBLICO 15 de
Janeiro de 2017, 21:53
"O que eu
considero mesmo ultrajante é comparar os serviços de informações
com a Alemanha nazi. É algo que considero muito ofensivo". É
assim, sem papas na língua, que o director da CIA, John Brennan,
responde à enxurrada de críticas do Presidente eleito, Donald
Trump. E Brennan, que está de saída do cargo, não se fica por
aqui: recomenda ao futuro Presidente, que passou a última semana a
criticar as agências federais de segurança e informações por
causa da Rússia e de um polémico relatório, que tenha mais cuidado
com o que diz.
Numa entrevista ao
canal Fox News, neste domingo, Brennan alegou que Trump ainda não
compreendeu totalmente o significado das acções de Moscovo,
designadamente a ocupação da Crimeia, o apoio ao Presidente Bashar
al-Assad, na Síria, e os ciberataques russos. "O senhor Trump
tem de entender que absolver a Rússia de responsabilidade por acções
dos últimos anos é um caminho que deve ser trilhado com muito
cuidado", afirmou o director da CIA, citado pela Reuters.
Trump continua
convencido que pirataria não influenciou resultados eleitorais
Chefe dos serviços
secretos contraria Trump e mantém que Rússia interferiu nas
eleições dos EUA
Numa entrevista ao
Wall Street Journal, na última sexta-feira, Trump admitiu aliviar as
sanções à Rússia, impostas pela Administração Obama em paralelo
com medidas idênticas aprovadas pela União Europeia, se Moscovo
colaborar com os EUA, nomeadamente no combate ao terrorismo.
Brennan acrescentou
ainda que não vê com bons olhos a postura pública de Trump,
especificamente no que diz respeito a comentários. "Espontaneidade
não é algo que proteja os nossos interesses nacionais em termos de
segurança", disse o director da CIA. "Por isso, quando
[Trump] fala ou reage, convém ter a certeza de que ele compreende
que as implicações e impactos no país podem ser grandes",
disse Brennan, concluindo que o risco que daí advém "não é
apenas sobre o senhor Trump". "É sobre os Estados Unidos."
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CIA
director warns Trump to watch what he says, be careful on Russia
By Doina Chiacu |
WASHINGTON
CIA Director John
Brennan on Sunday offered a stern parting message for Donald Trump
days before the Republican U.S. president-elect takes office,
cautioning him against loosening sanctions on Russia and warning him
to watch what he says.
Brennan rebuked
Trump for comparing U.S. intelligence agencies to Nazi Germany in
comments by the outgoing CIA chief that reflected the extraordinary
friction between the incoming president and the 17 intelligence
agencies he will begin to command once he takes office on Friday.
In an interview with
"Fox News Sunday," Brennan questioned the message sent to
the world if the president-elect broadcasts that he does not have
confidence in the United States' own intelligence agencies.
"What I do find
outrageous is equating the intelligence community with Nazi Germany.
I do take great umbrage at that, and there is no basis for Mr. Trump
to point fingers at the intelligence community for leaking
information that was already available publicly," Brennan said.
Brennan's criticism
followed a tumultuous week of finger-pointing between Trump and
intelligence agency leaders over an unsubstantiated report that
Russia had collected compromising information about Trump.
The unverified
dossier was summarized in a U.S. intelligence report presented to
Trump and outgoing President Barack Obama this month that concluded
Russia tried to sway the outcome of the Nov. 8 election in Trump's
favor by hacking and other means. The report did not make an
assessment on whether Russia's attempts affected the election's
outcome.
Trump has accused
the intelligence community of leaking the dossier information, which
its leaders denied. They said it was their responsibility to inform
the president-elect that the allegations were being circulated.
Later on Sunday,
Trump took to Twitter to berate Brennan and wrote, "Was this the
leaker of Fake News?" In a separate posting, Trump scolded
"those intelligence chiefs" for presenting the dossier as
part of their briefing. "When people make mistakes, they should
APOLOGIZE," he wrote.
Brennan also sounded
an alarm on U.S. relations with Russia. Trump has vowed to improve
relations with Moscow even as he faces criticism that he is too eager
to make an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump does not yet
have a full understanding of Russia's actions, Brennan said, noting
its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, its support for President Bashar
al-Assad in Syria's civil war and Moscow's aggressive activities in
the cyber realm.
"Mr. Trump has
to understand that absolving Russia of various actions it has taken
in the past number of years is a road that he, I think, needs to be
very, very careful about moving down," Brennan said.
In an interview with
the Wall Street Journal published on Friday, Trump suggested he might
do away with sanctions imposed by the Obama administration on Russia
in late December in response to the cyber attacks if Moscow proves
helpful in battling terrorists and reaching other U.S. goals.
PROFOUND
IMPLICATIONS
Brennan also said
Trump needs to be mindful about his off-the-cuff remarks once he
assumes the presidency, alluding to Trump's penchant for making broad
pronouncements on Twitter.
"Spontaneity is
not something that protects national security interests,"
Brennan said. "So therefore when he speaks or when he reacts,
just make sure he understands that the implications and impact on the
United States could be profound."
"It's more than
just about Mr. Trump. It's about the United States of America,"
Brennan said.
Trump has picked
Mike Pompeo, a Republican member of the House of Representatives and
a former U.S. Army officer, to replace Brennan.
Trump's comments
about Putin and his reluctance to assign blame to Moscow for the
hacking of Democratic political groups has opened him up to criticism
that he will be too soft on Russia.
For months, Trump
had publicly expressed doubt about U.S. intelligence conclusions on
the cyber attacks before acknowledging at a news conference on
Wednesday that he thought Russia was behind the hacking.
Vice President-elect
Mike Pence told "Fox News Sunday,"
"What the
president-elect is determined to do is to explore the possibility of
better relations."
Pence did not say
whether Trump would undo some of the sanctions and diplomatic
expulsions Obama had slapped on Moscow.
Pence confirmed that
Trump's incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, held
conversations with the Russian ambassador to Washington around the
time the sanctions were imposed, but said the talks "were not in
any way related to the new U.S. sanctions against Russia or the
expulsion of diplomats."
However, Pence
denied that Trump's team had any contact with Russian officials
during the presidential campaign. "Of course not," he told
Fox.
Leaders of the
Senate Intelligence Committee said on Friday they will investigate
alleged Russian attempts to influence the election and links between
Russia and the political campaigns.
(Reporting by Doina
Chiacu; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli and Will Dunham)
Donald
Trump: I’ll start off trusting Putin
President-elect
says he plans to strengthen travel restrictions on Europeans visiting
the US.
By ZOYA
SHEFTALOVICH 1/16/17, 12:16 AM CET Updated 1/16/17, 12:38 AM CET
U.S. President-elect
Donald Trump will invite British Prime Minister Theresa May to visit
him “right after” his inauguration and will strike a “fair”
trade agreement with the U.K. “very quickly,” he told the Times
in an interview published Sunday.
Brexit “is going
to end up being a great thing” and other countries will follow the
U.K.’s lead out of the EU, largely as a result of the migration
crisis, Trump said.
The interview will
boost campaigners pushing May to agree to a hard Brexit with Britain
outside the European single market and will worry many among the
Continent’s Establishment. Trump’s desire to strike a deal with
President Vladimir Putin is likely to be welcomed by Russia but his
comments will provoke concern in Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic
countries.
“I do believe
this, if they [EU countries] hadn’t been forced to take in all of
the refugees, so many, with all the problems that it …
entails, I think that you wouldn’t have a Brexit,” Trump said.
“It probably could have worked out but this was the final straw,
this was the final straw that broke the camel’s back … I believe
others will leave.”
The interview, the
first extensive comments to European press since Trump became
president-elect, was conducted by Michael Gove, a columnist for the
Times and former U.K. justice secretary, and Kai Diekmann, publisher
and former editor of Bild newspaper. Gove, who worked for the Times
before being elected to the U.K. parliament, was a prominent Brexit
campaigner during Britain’s referendum in June and was sacked by
May after he failed in a bid to become prime minister following the
Brexit vote.
Trump said that
while he had “great respect” for Germany’s Chancellor Angela
Merkel, “she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking
all of these illegals, you know, taking all of the people from
wherever they come from.”
He added that the EU
was pandering to Germany, at others’ expense.
“You look at the
European Union and it’s Germany. Basically a vehicle for Germany.
That’s why I thought the U.K. was so smart in getting out.”
While Russia’s
actions in Syria were “a very bad thing” and had led to a
“terrible humanitarian situation,” the U.S. president-elect
said he intended to start his presidency trusting Putin and Merkel.
“Well, I start off
trusting both — but let’s see how long that lasts. It may not
last long at all,” he said.
Trump, who will be
inaugurated Friday, said he hoped to strike a deal with Russia to
reduce its nuclear capability in exchange for sanctions relief.
“They have
sanctions on Russia — let’s see if we can make some good deals
with Russia. For one thing, I think nuclear weapons should be way
down and reduced very substantially, that’s part of it.”
Trump has previously
said it might not be bad if countries such as South Korea, Japan and
Saudi Arabia developed nuclear weapons for self defense.
On NATO, Trump said
he was committed to the alliance, but added that the U.S. paid more
than its fair share and the organization had not adapted to today’s
threats.
“I said a long
time ago that NATO had problems. No. 1 it was obsolete, because it
was designed many, many years ago. No. 2 the countries aren’t
paying what they’re supposed to pay. I took such heat, when I said
NATO was obsolete. It’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of
terror… With that being said, NATO is very important to me.”
The incoming
president also said he planned to sign orders next Monday to
strengthen U.S. border control, which would include travel
restrictions on Europeans visiting the country and “extreme
vetting” of those entering the U.S. from parts of the world known
for Islamic terrorism.
Trump said he
intended to appoint his son-in-law Jared Kushner to forge a Middle
East peace deal, and called on the U.K. to veto any U.N. Security
Council resolutions critical of Israel.
Authors:
Zoya Sheftalovich
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