You're in a meeting and your direct superior the attorney general was in there as well, yet the president asked everyone to leave, including the attorney general to leave, before he brought up the matter of General Flynn.
Warner raises concerns about the implications of Trump asking everyone, including the Attorney General, to leave the meeting before discussing Flynn.
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a nakedly political decision that undermines the dedicated, nonpartisan staff at NGA and threatens the principle of civilian oversight that protects our national security.
That kind of honest, fact-based analysis is exactly what we should want from our intelligence agencies, regardless of whether it flatters the White House narrative.
General Kruse is a career military officer with decades of distinguished, non-partisan service to our nation, making this ouster all the more troubling.
The firing of yet another senior national security official underscores the Trump administration’s dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than a safeguard for our country.
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