This AM the DNI denial.
"Any suggestion that the U.S. Intelligence Community is withholding information and not providing the best possible intelligence to the President and his national security team is not true,”
I think it good to understand what that means. The intel community never tells any President everything. The sheer volume of material cannot be processed daily by any individual. Instead information is condensed and prioritized largely as the Administration wishes along with things the IC deems very important. In the case of Trump he is demonstrated a lack of interest and distrust of all but a few people. Consequently the ME will be top of the list and certainly Russia will be on there, but the thing is that if it has been determined (as an example) that a President is engaging in espionage, there is no mandate to aid and abet any individual regardless of status or office. The President is not the ultimate authority, the Constitution and laws of the land are. It would be the duty of any agency to pass along criminal wrongdoing to the appropriate authorities for purposes of investigation. The idea that the President is owed information that enables him to dodge criminality is bogus. They will however pass along intel which is unrelated and hence the denial may not be exactly as it seems.
Also important to point out, and remind a bunch of toadstools here: The presidency is an office; it is not a person. whoever is sitting in that chair at any particular time is leasing the space at the request of the american people, by trust and by faith that this person is doing so in their best interest. Just as the leaser before them, and all those after. An individual president has no powers that supersede the many laws of the country and, most importantly, the laws set in place to restrict the power of that office.
That is well, one of the central and more badass pillars of the constitution.
Most of us learned these things by 4th or 5th grade civics class. I went through both a shitty and a very good public school system, and I learned these things. I wonder what is the excuse of Trumpsters and the man himself?