Donald Trump has begun receiving intelligence briefings as president-elect, just months after a federal judge dismissed criminal charges against him for allegedly mishandling classified information.

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    I’m just amazed that the alphabet boys are going along with this shit show. Like at what point do you go “Man, dying because our great leader soled my location to our enemy sounds amazing”? Like wtf are even their values? Are they even human? I know SS people are inhuman, but to go even past the most basic self preservation???

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      In order to stay very long in any alphabet agency you basically have to be loyal above all else. They’re not looking for the best people, the folks take of he FBI hiring the best hackers or the CIA the best cryptographers is mostly just that; they do go for the best, but would rather have someone unwaveringly loyal even if they’re mediocre.

      If you even seem like you’re going partially Snowden, you’ll be isolated, your work triple checked, followed and stalked, etc until you’re either in solitary or you quit.

      Also, Trump aligns with a shocking amount of alphabet goals. But that’s a theory for another time in a different instance.

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      lots of them have likely had the order of command thing drilled deep into their heads, and the president is the ultimate commander