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ngày 06-08-2016
Tổng thống Barack Obama và ứng viên tổng thống
của đảng Dân Chủ Mỹ, bà Hillary Clinton đã liên tục chỉ trích ứng viên tổng thống
đảng Cộng Hòa Donald Trump không đủ khả năng trở thành tổng thống Hoa Kỳ. Một
trong những lý do là ông Trump không hiểu biết các vấn đề quốc tế.
Thế
nhưng, một cựu giám đốc cơ quan tình báo Mỹ CIA, ông Michael Morell, còn đi xa
hơn, cho rằng ông Trump có thể là một mối đe dọa đối với an ninh quốc gia. Năm
2013, ông Morell nghỉ hưu, sau 33 năm làm việc tại CIA và hai lần giữ chức quyền
giám đốc cơ quan tình báo này.
Từ
Washington, thông tín viên RFI Jean Louis Pourtet tường trình :
« Trên
mục diễn đàn của báo New York Times, ông Michael Morell bày tỏ nghi ngờ ứng
viên tổng thống của đảng Cộng Hòa là một gián điệp của Nga mà không hề ý thức
được việc này.
Ông
Morell nhắc lại rằng tổng thống Nga Vladimir Putin, vốn là một nhân viên tình
báo, biết khai thác những điểm yếu của các đối tượng. Nguyên lãnh đạo CIA viết
rằng ông Trump đã bị cám dỗ bởi những phát biểu tâng bốc của tổng thống Nga.
Theo ông Morell, thì để đáp lại, ứng viên tổng thống đảng Cộng Hòa đã gọi ông
Putin là một nhà lãnh đạo lớn, bỏ qua việc tổng thống Nga sáp nhập Crimée và những
ý đồ của ông ta đối với Ukraina ; ông Trump còn khuyến khích các cơ quan tình
báo Nga do thám thư điện tử của bà Hillary Clinton, rồi đe dọa là giảm vai trò
của Hoa Kỳ trong NATO.
Nói
một cách khác, Michael Morell hàm ý rằng qua việc xu nịnh, tâng bốc, ông Putin
dường như đã biến ông Trump thành một nhân viên phục vụ một cách vô tâm các lợi
ích của Nga.
Ông
Morell cũng phê phán ông Trump kêu gọi cấm không cho vào Hoa Kỳ những người Hồi
Giáo phá hoại an ninh quốc gia bằng cách giúp tuyên truyền thánh chiến.
Ngược
lại, cựu lãnh đạo CIA không tiếc lời ca ngợi cựu ngoại trưởng, người biết cách
bảo đảm an ninh cho nước Mỹ. Ông Morell không theo đảng phái nào và kết luận
bài viết của mình với thông báo là ông sẽ bỏ phiếu cho bà Hillary Clinton ».
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By MICHAEL
J. MORELL
New
York Times - Aug. 5,
2016
During
a 33-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, I served presidents of
both parties — three Republicans and three Democrats. I was at President George
W. Bush’s side when we were attacked on Sept. 11; as deputy director of the
agency, I was with President Obama when we killed Osama bin Laden in 2011.
I am
neither a registered Democrat nor a registered Republican. In my 40 years of
voting, I have pulled the lever for candidates of both parties. As a government
official, I have always been silent about my preference for president.
No
longer. On Nov. 8, I will vote for Hillary Clinton. Between now and then, I
will do everything I can to ensure that she is elected as our 45th president.
Two
strongly held beliefs have brought me to this decision. First, Mrs. Clinton is
highly qualified to be commander in chief. I trust she will deliver on the most
important duty of a president — keeping our nation safe. Second, Donald J.
Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our
national security.
I spent
four years working with Mrs. Clinton when she was secretary of state, most
often in the White House Situation Room. In these critically important
meetings, I found her to be prepared, detail-oriented, thoughtful, inquisitive
and willing to change her mind if presented with a compelling argument.
I also
saw the secretary’s commitment to our nation’s security; her belief that
America is an exceptional nation that must lead in the world for the country to
remain secure and prosperous; her understanding that diplomacy can be effective
only if the country is perceived as willing and able to use force if necessary;
and, most important, her capacity to make the most difficult decision of all —
whether to put young American women and men in harm’s way.
Mrs.
Clinton was an early advocate of the raid that brought Bin Laden to justice, in
opposition to some of her most important colleagues on the National Security
Council. During the early debates about how we should respond to the Syrian
civil war, she was a strong proponent of a more aggressive approach, one that
might have prevented the Islamic State from gaining a foothold in Syria.
I never
saw her bring politics into the Situation Room. In fact, I saw the opposite.
When some wanted to delay the Bin Laden raid by one day because the White House
Correspondents Dinner might be disrupted, she said, “Screw the White House
Correspondents Dinner.”
In
sharp contrast to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Trump has no experience on national
security. Even more important, the character traits he has exhibited during the
primary season suggest he would be a poor, even dangerous, commander in chief.
These
traits include his obvious need for self-aggrandizement, his overreaction to
perceived slights, his tendency to make decisions based on intuition, his
refusal to change his views based on new information, his routine carelessness
with the facts, his unwillingness to listen to others and his lack of respect
for the rule of law.
The
dangers that flow from Mr. Trump’s character are not just risks that would
emerge if he became president. It is already damaging our national security.
President
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was a career intelligence officer, trained to
identify vulnerabilities in an individual and to exploit them. That is exactly
what he did early in the primaries. Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s
vulnerabilities by complimenting him. He responded just as Mr. Putin had
calculated.
Mr.
Putin is a great leader, Mr. Trump says, ignoring that he has killed and jailed
journalists and political opponents, has invaded two of his neighbors and is
driving his economy to ruin. Mr. Trump has also taken policy positions
consistent with Russian, not American, interests — endorsing Russian espionage
against the United States, supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and giving
a green light to a possible Russian invasion of the Baltic States.
In the
intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as
an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.
Mr.
Trump has also undermined security with his call for barring Muslims from
entering the country. This position, which so clearly contradicts the
foundational values of our nation, plays into the hands of the jihadist
narrative that our fight against terrorism is a war between religions.
In
fact, many Muslim Americans play critical roles in protecting our country,
including the man, whom I cannot identify, who ran the C.I.A.’s
Counterterrorism Center for nearly a decade and who I believe is most
responsible for keeping America safe since the Sept. 11 attacks.
My
training as an intelligence officer taught me to call it as I see it. This is
what I did for the C.I.A. This is what I am doing now. Our nation will be much
safer with Hillary Clinton as president.
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Michael J. Morell was the acting director and
deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2010 to 2013.
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