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US facing dangerous intel crisis — and it’s getting worse: security expert
Trump Is Not “Managing” Intelligence. He Is Hollowing It Out.The Decision MakersThe source material is blunt about where power sits: Donald Trump is using personnel and statutory leverage to bend the intelligence system to his own political calendar. Senate Majority Leader John Thune can complain about being asked to “slow a nomination down,” but complaint is not control. Trump paused Jay Clayton’s nomination, kept Bill Pulte in place despite his lack of intelligence experience, and tied renewal of a critical surveillance authority to an unrelated voter-ID demand. That is not drift. It is…
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