Frankly, it isn’t especially logical that former presidents get intelligence briefings, and the only reason they would get them in the first place is as part of a racket, where these people are invited to advise private companies based on secret information.

However, using this to attack Donald Trump, claiming that he is some kind of an intelligence threat, that he is going to use the intelligence to organize some kind of terrorist movement, or to otherwise hurt the precious Jews, is actually insane.

Business Insider:

Moves by President Joe Biden to restrict Donald Trump’s access to intelligence has reassured European allies that they can share freely with the US again, sources told Insider.

Officials in three different intelligence services in Europe responded warmly to comments by Biden in his first TV interview as president, where he said he didn’t want Trump to keep getting intelligence briefings.

Previous presidents have been given the briefings as a courtesy, which the current president can cancel at any time.

Though Biden said he saw no need for Trump to keep getting briefed, he stopped short of saying definitively that he would cut him off.

Nonetheless, the move reassured the intelligence officials Insider spoke to, all of whom requested anonymity because of the nature of their work.

One, a senior official for a European country that’s also a member of NATO, said: “This was expected and is a bit of a symbolic move – but it puts an end into the extraordinary situation where services like ours became reluctant to share key intelligence details because of fears these details would filter up from the national security community to the president, who would then tell them to the Russian ambassador.”

He was referring to an incident in the first month of the Trump administration where Trump shared critical intelligence with the Russian ambassador that could have revealed an Israeli intelligence source related to ISIS.

The incident shocked US allies, whose officials suggested that they became reluctant to share information which could end up with Trump. Biden in his interview seemed to have similar scenarios in mind when he cited the risk that Trump “might slip and say something” as a reason to restrict his access.

Although this has come up, you might have noticed that there have been very few news bits on Donald Trump.

Instead, they appear to be focusing all of their energy on transforming the war against Trump into a war against normal white Americans. That is to say: Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting a lot more mentions than Donald Trump.

The goal is to turn the weapon – the Jewish space laser, if you will – that was built for Trump on you.

Marjorie is such a “normal nice lady from the neighborhood” that she’s a perfect target. She’s like the really popular mom that is super extroverted and fun. When you go home to play with her son, you’re just as excited about hanging out with her as you are with her son, because she’s so high energy and brings positivity and confidence into your life.

I still remember the mom like that at my school when I was 7 years old.

That’s what she is: she is a good thing from your memory, something that you associate with the America of your youth, being dragged out and pilloried, demonized as the root of all evil.

She is the leader of a terrorist organization – and every single person who voted for Trump is a de facto member of that terrorist organization.

Talking too much about Trump right now interferes with that agenda.

Appendix

With regards to the nature of these briefings, there is an interesting and informative post on StackExchange, which follows in full. 

In Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham, published in 2015, there is a statement,

Bush inhaled the daily CIA briefings sent to former presidents, …

There is reason to accept that former presidents have received daily CIA briefings, at least as a courtesy.

However George H. W. Bush left office on January 20, 1993. On April 22, 2005, the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was created. The CIA reports to the DNI and the “daily CIA briefing” became the President’s Daily Brief (PDB).

The PDB contains intelligence analysis on key national security issues for the President and other senior policymakers. Only the President, the Vice President, and a select group of officials designated by the President receive the briefing, which represents the Intelligence Community’s best insights on issues the President must confront when dealing with threats as well as opportunities related to our national security. — CIA

Currently, whether any briefings, for former presidents, occur, or are daily or as needed, is subject to the approval of the president. As mentioned below, briefings concerning activities with which the former president was aware could be significant.

WHY DOES OBAMA GET INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS? TRUMP DENIES TRYING TO HALT ACCESS: ‘FAKE NEWS’, 8/21/18.

Why do former presidents and officials continue to receive intelligence?

In addition to meeting with foreign leaders, former presidents and intelligence officials are expected to receive intelligence briefings for a number of other reasons.

One of the most obvious reasons is so that they can continue to advise the sitting administration and officials on incidents that may either be ongoing or reflect those of the past.

“Having former senior officials hold active security clearances can be critically important for those currently charged with defending our nation,” Jamil N. Jaffer, who was associate counsel to President George W. Bush and founder of George Mason University’s National Security Institute, told The Washington Post in a recent interview.

“It allows them to turn rapidly to people with significant experience, context and contacts to help interpret the activity of our opponents and to provide wise counsel and guidance, whether that’s in the terrorism, foreign policy or any national security context,” he said.

The current authority for former presidents to access CIA information is given as:

32 CFR § 1909.1 – Authority and purpose.

(b) Purpose. This part prescribes procedures for waiving the need-to-know requirement for access to classified information with respect to persons:

(3) Requesting access to classified CIA information as a former President or Vice President.

32 CFR § 1909.5 – Requirements as to who may apply.

(c) Former Presidents and Vice Presidents. Any former President or Vice President may submit a request for access to classified CIA information. Requests from former Presidents or Vice Presidents shall be in writing to the Coordinator and shall identify the records containing the classified information of interest. A former President or Vice President may also request approval for a research associate, but there is no entitlement to such enlargement of access and the decision in this regard shall be in the sole discretion of the Senior Agency Official.

CFR refers to Code of Federal Regulations. These authorities are derived “pursuant to Sec. 4.4 of Executive Order 13526“.

Concerning “daily CIA briefings” for former presidents:

During December 2006, the term “daily CIA briefings” was added to the Wikipedia page, President of the United States, then marked as “[citation needed]”, and subsequently removed. Other fora have been asked a similar question, but none of the responses cited any authority.

That the CIA does brief former presidents is established:

• DCI BRIEFING FOR EX-PRESIDENT EISENHOWER given 14 July 1966.
• Former President Bush Visits CIA, Addresses Employees, June 27, 1995, “In addition to addressing employees, the former President met with senior Agency officials and received several intelligence briefings during his 2-hour visit.”
• Former President Clinton Visits CIA, July 27, 2009, “Prior to meeting with employees, President Clinton received briefings from senior analysts on counterterrorism and regional hotspots.”

That former presidents have the “right” to receive “daily CIA briefings” (or Presidential Daily Briefings) has not been verified.

The endless funeral of George H.W. Bush appears to be finally winding down.

They talked a lot about a “Willie Horton Ad” being the man’s one mistake.

Queen Ann has accurately taken the opposite view: it was the one thing the dirty dead bastard did right.

Ann Coulter:

The press in America is even worse than we imagine. We sense that they’re biased and stunningly incompetent. They are those things, but so much more. Our media’s version of the news is mathematically and precisely the opposite of the truth.

The death and burial of George H.W. Bush is only the latest example.

In the puffery and revisionism that accompany funerals, the man who gave us David Souter, an unnecessary war, tax hikes he promised not to impose and the Americans With Disabilities Act (aka The Destruction of Small Libraries Throughout New England Act) has been elevated to saintlike status.

But the one incident the media decided to excoriate Bush for was, in fact, his finest moment: the Willie Horton ad.

If we let the media get away with this, they will have once again redefined what constitutes acceptable discourse in America and cemented the notion that our political process should never be soiled by such a campaign ad — the one thing Bush got right in his entire public career.

Far from representing the “low road,” the Willie Horton ad was the greatest campaign commercial in political history. The ad was the reason we have political campaigns: It clearly and forcefully highlighted the two presidential candidates’ diametrically opposed views on an issue of vital national importance.

Bush’s opponent, Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, had championed a self-evidently insane criminal justice program that provided prison furloughs to first-degree murderers.

One of the murderers let out under Dukakis’ program was a career violent criminal, Willie Horton. In 1974, Horton sliced up a 17-year-old convenience store clerk, Joey Fournier, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, after Fournier had already handed over all the money. He then stuffed the boy’s corpse in a garbage can. That wasn’t Horton’s first offense: Years earlier, he’d been convicted of attempted murder for stabbing a man in South Carolina.

No sane person would have allowed Horton to take a breath of free air again.

Horton was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, which was the maximum possible penalty, inasmuch as Gov. Dukakis had vetoed the death penalty. The whole idea of sentencing first-degree murderers to life without parole is that they are never supposed to be let out of prison. But under the weekend furlough program lustily promoted by Dukakis, Horton was released.

On April 3, 1987, months after running away from his most recent furlough, Horton broke into the Maryland home of Cliff Barnes and his fiancee, Angela Miller, and waited for them to return. When Barnes got home, Horton lunged at him, dragged him to the basement, tied him up, and spent hours torturing him, slashing him and jamming a pistol butt in his mouth and eyes. He told Barnes he planned to hang him and watch him die.

Five hours later, Barnes’ fiancee came home. Horton left Barnes bound and gagged in the basement, went upstairs and repeatedly raped and beat Miller, as Barnes listened helplessly from the basement.

Twelve hours after he had first encountered Horton, Barnes managed to escape. When Horton realized Barnes was gone, he stole the couple’s car and led police on a high-speed chase before finally being captured — again.

The Maryland judge who sentenced Horton refused to send him back to Massachusetts, saying: “I’m not prepared to take the chance that Mr. Horton might again be furloughed or otherwise released.”

The following year, Michael Dukakis offered himself up to be president of the United States.

Dukakis was directly responsible for Horton’s release — as well as the release of hundreds of other murderers, many of whom went on to commit similarly heinous crimes. Even Dukakis’ own Democratic legislature in liberal Massachusetts had tried to reverse a state Supreme Court decision granting furloughs to first-degree murderers.

But the Greek homunculus vetoed the bill.

When Horton’s survivors Barnes and Miller tried to meet with Dukakis after their ordeal to ask him to rescind the furlough policy, he refused to see them, arrogantly announcing, “I don’t see any particular value in meeting with people.” This marked the first time the media supported a politician’s refusal to meet with victims of one of his policies.

What could be more central to a presidential campaign than an ad highlighting how Bush would handle criminal justice issues versus how the elected governor of Massachusetts was at that moment handling them?

Liberals’ response was to accuse Republicans of racism because Horton was black, knowing full well that the GOP would have given everything it owned for him to have been white. But it was too important an issue to ignore just because the poster-boy for Dukakis’ insane crime policies happened to be black.

People nowadays don’t really understand the kind of crazy that was going on with black crime in the 80s, and the way the Democrats encouraged it by doing things like letting black murderers out of prison for the weekend.

That was a really insane period, with the highest murder rates in the country’s history.

Funnily enough, it was Bill Clinton – not George H.W. Bush – who started putting laws in place to protect the people from the black menace. He did this in the form of mandatory sentencing for crack cocaine possession. Because the blacks have a very strict “don’t talk to the cops” policy, and because gangs were killing people randomly, murders were virtually impossible to solve. So the solution was to accurately assume that anyone caught with crack cocaine was also a violent criminal.

Hillary called these blacks “super-predators.”

It was only after Barack Obama began his campaign of war against the police following the event of George Zimmerman killing the black attacker Trayvon Martin that murder numbers began to trend back towards 80s levels.

Bill Clinton also had pretty great immigration policies.

Those policies were – interestingly enough – attacked and removed by George W. Bush.

It was very funny to have Hillary out there running on the exact opposite platform that made her husband popular. I mean, it’s one thing for a policy to shift in a party, but for the wife of a guy to spearhead the opposite policies – very strange and ridiculous.

The entire way in which all politics have shifted within my lifetime is strange and ridiculous.

Bush getting all into trannies in his old age – wow.