<div dir="auto">Or maybe we don't trust a guy like Clapper who lied under oath about spying on the citizens he pledged to protect.    Maybe the US intelligence community is one of those symptoms...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 25, 2017 1:42 PM, "John Clark" <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="quoted-text"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:36 AM, BillK </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="quoted-text"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Trump is a symptom. Treating the symptom is pointless.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​Doctors can't cure many </div>disease<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​s so they treat the symptoms, ​and that id far from pointless.</div></font></div><div class="quoted-text"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>You have to fix<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>the disease.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​<font size="4">Yeah yeah I know I've heard it all before, we've got to totally ​change civilization from top to bottom; but guess what, that's not going to happen in the next 3 1/2 years. But a nuclear war might. </font></div><font size="4"> </font></div><div><br></div><font size="4">James Clapper<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ has worked under all presidents from ​</div>John F. Kennedy through Barack Obama<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ and for almost 8 years was head of all the 17 intelligence ​agencies of the USA, and he worries about Trump's access to the nuclear codes: </div></font><div><br></div><font size="4"><i>“I really question his ability to be — his fitness to be — in this office. In a fit of pique he decides to do something about Kim Jong Un, there’s actually very little to stop him<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​.​ </div>The whole system is built to ensure rapid response if necessary. So there’s very little in the way of controls over exercising a nuclear option, which is pretty damn scary.”</i></font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">​And if you're not as scared as James Clapper then you just don't understand the situation.​</font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/23/james-clapper-questions-trumps-fitness-worries-about-his-access-to-nuclear-codes/?utm_term=.ce5479594030" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr>com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/<wbr>08/23/james-clapper-questions-<wbr>trumps-fitness-worries-about-<wbr>his-access-to-nuclear-codes/?<wbr>utm_term=.ce5479594030</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">​ John K Clark​</font></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><div> </div></div></div></div>
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