This is all a campaign to make sure that if and when that information emerges, that the institutions that would out that information, the FBI and the DOJ, have been sufficiently slandered, sufficiently called into question that Americans just throw up their hands and say, I don't know what is true.
Himes warns about the dangers of undermining trust in the FBI and DOJ in relation to potential damaging information about the president.
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Look, the Cuban regime is an appalling regime, but it is no more a national security threat than Nicaragua is. It’s just insane to say that it is, and especially if it’s done in the service of military action.
What you have is somebody who is so demented that they are either wittingly or unwittingly participating in a coup d’état.
The president has now assured through this appointment that the single most important intelligence collection tool... is probably the worst appointment into the intelligence community I have ever seen.
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