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GOP operative with ties to election conspiracy theorists installed at Trump spy agency
Intelligence as a Patronage Dumping GroundThe Power Is Not HiddenBill Pulte sits in a post meant to guard the intelligence system from foreign threats. That is actual institutional power: the authority to staff, steer, and politicize an office that should be walled off from campaign machinery and election paranoia. The reporting says he has now installed Christina Norton, a former R.N.C. official who worked on election-related schemes and poll-watcher operations, as his chief of staff.The Decision Was the PointThis does not read like accidental hiring or administrative drift. Former officials…
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