Trump's intelligence pick is attempt to 'neutralise' spy agencies, say ex-officials
John Ratcliffe’s nomination follows announcement Dan Coats will leave after disagreements with Trump over policy and intelligence
Donald Trump’s nomination of an inexperienced but loyal partisan to become the director of national intelligence (DNI) is an attempt to “neutralise” US spy agencies as an independent and objective voice on global affairs, former intelligence officials warned.
Oh, is that what they are? They don't have their own, Cold War II, globalist agenda?
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“Trump is consolidating his personal control over the intelligence community,” said Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA intelligence officer. He said the current directors of the CIA and FBI have found their hands tied increasingly when it comes to accurate intelligence assessment, by risk of being fired for something at odds with Trump’s views.
“I fear that there is a slow takeover of the norms and procedures of governance by this president, amassing unprecedented executive power,” Mowatt-Larssen, now at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, added.
“To do that he needs to neutralise or at least silence the intelligence community. He has been doing that for three years, but this takes it to the new level.”
The story emphasizes Ratcliffe is an ardent, Hannity-like Trumpist trumpet.
The idea is that he will corrupt the intelligence community and heap discredit upon its clear-eyed, candid, and disinterested vision.
Um.
But that isn't really the main issue, is it?
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