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Unnerved ex-officials uncork stark analogy as Trump spy chief cleans house on 'deep state'
The Purge Is the Point, Not the Cover StoryTrump’s Hand, Pulte’s AxeThe important fact in this story is not that Bill Pulte is “clearing house.” It is that Donald Trump put him there to do it. Trump installed a housing official with no intelligence background, no prior clearance, and now an acting post that can stretch past the midterms, then used him to begin firing dozens of intelligence workers. That is not administrative housekeeping. It is political control.The Office of the Director of National Intelligence does not generate its own intelligence; it sits atop the system and receives…
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