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Ex-CIA official warns Trump risking 'mass casualty event' by playing 'very dangerous game’
U.S. President Donald Trump looks at media members after returning to the White House from Scotland, Britain, in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 29, 2025. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
What happened
RawStory reports that former senior CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos warned that the Trump administration’s reassignment of federal law-enforcement resources from counterterrorism to immigration enforcement could increase the risk of a mass-casualty attack. His warning responded to ProPublica’s finding that the Justice Department dropped 23,000 criminal cases during the first six months of Trump’s second term…
The skinny
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