Trump's tweets yielding useful info for CIA

PJ Media:

The mainstream media's usual hand-wringing about President Trump's Twitter habit morphed into hyperventilation last week after he shared several "unverified" tweets about terrorism, but the director of the Central Intelligence Agency surprisingly doesn't have a problem with it.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said at a national security event in Simi Valley, California, over the weekend that Trump's tweeting has actually yielded helpful intelligence.

The current CIA director sat down with former CIA director Leon Panetta and Fox News host Brett Baier for an hour of discussion on world events from a security perspective at The Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday.

Baier brought up Trump's tweets about the Muslim videos and asked Panetta why he thought "it was like playing with fire."

"When you tweet something like that out there you don't know what the consequences are going to be, and the consequences could be lives," Panetta replied solemnly. Baier turned to Pompeo: "One account on Twitter makes your job harder?" he asked. The CIA director's answer was almost certainly not what the host expected. "No, I don't know that that's the case," he replied. "I've actually seen it help us."
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Pompeo, as congenially as he could, went in for the kill.

Noting that the world is a dangerous place with more flash-points than ever, he calmly noted that "those all existed before January 20 of this year. So 'message discipline' -- as you referred to it -- got us to those places." The CIA director paused to let the slow burn hit those in the audience, who reacted with nervous laughter and a smattering of applause. He added, "What I mean is, we shouldn't over-attribute the place we find ourselves in the world today to things that may or may not have as much impact as folks like to suggest sometimes." Panetta flailed wildly in response: "You don't just roll a grenade in the room, have things blow up, then not have a strategy for how the hell you deal with it!"
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Sometimes rolling a grenade in a nest of terrorists is an effective way to deal with them.  Since Trump has been in office he took the gloves off in dealing with ISIS the military and our allies have been able to destroy their caliphate.  Operations in Afghanistan are no longer limited by Obama's ridiculous rules of engagement and micromanaged by amateurs in the White House.

Trump's tweets have a way of discombobulating his enemies both domestic and foreign.  It may not be the conventional political style, but as Pompeo notes it can be helpful by forcing the end of an adversary.